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On the date
Monday, August 26, 1907
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The Headlines
Victim of Cat's Bite Dies of Rabies.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
School Days
Will Cobb & Gus Edwards
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Antoine Lavoisier (1743)
- Guillaume Apollinaire (1880)
- Robert Walpole (1676)
- James Franck (1882)
- Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1819)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Electric Washing Machine, Color Photography (Autochrome) & Bakelite (Plastic).
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
43,384 days ago
(118 years, 314 days)