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On the date
Friday, December 18, 1908
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The Headlines
Taft Joins Mrs. Taft at Danville.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Shine On, Harvest Moon
Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth
The must-have
Rook (Card Game)
You Share a Birthday With
- Joseph Stalin (1878)
- J. J. Thomson (1856)
- Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (1863)
- Paul Klee (1879)
- Christina, Queen of Sweden (1626)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
bullyfit as a fiddleblockhead
Aristocrat
capitalmy wordbally
Working Class
gadzooksblimeychump
Tech Check
Ford Model T (Assembly Line), Geiger Counter & Cellophane.
Cost of Living (1900)
Loaf of Bread
$0.05
Gallon of Gas
$0.10
Average Home
$3,200
New Car
$1,000
Time Elapsed
42,903 days ago
(117 years, 198 days)