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On the date
Sunday, October 16, 1904
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The Headlines
BLOW UP NON-UNION MEN.; Dynamite Explosion in Hotel Where They Slept -- Several Hurt.
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
- Oscar Wilde (1854)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888)
- Itō Hirobumi (1841)
- Michael Collins (Irish leader) (1890)
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
44,427 days ago
(121 years, 262 days)