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Friday, June 30, 1905
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The Headlines
BUYS TWO AMERICAN SHIPS.; Canal Board Finds Them Best -- To Save Four Days on Round Trip.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
In My Merry Oldsmobile
Gus Edwards
The must-have
Land's Lord (Precursor to Monopoly)
On This Day
Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Walter Ulbricht (1893)
- Charles VIII of France (1470)
- Georges Duhamel (author) (1884)
- Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817)
- John Gay (1685)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Jukebox, Silencers & Novocain.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
44,170 days ago
(121 years, 5 days)