From the day
On the date
Wednesday, May 11, 1904
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The Headlines
ARMY LANDED AT TAKUSHAN?; Japanese Occupy a Town 50 Miles Northeast of Feng-Wang-Cheng.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Meet Me in St. Louis, Louis
Kerry Mills
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
You Share a Birthday With
- Salvador Dalí (1904)
- Irving Berlin (1888)
- Martha Graham (1894)
- Charles W. Fairbanks (1852)
- Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Offset Printing Press, Vacuum Diode Tube & Teabags.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
44,586 days ago
(122 years, 56 days)