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On the date

Wednesday, March 27, 1912

From the day

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Best-selling Sheet Music

It's a Long Way to Tipperary

Jack Judge & Harry Williams

The must-have

Rook (Card Game)

On This Day

  • First Lady Helen Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, plant two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., the origin of the National Cherry Blossom Festival.

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Slang

Slang of the decade

General

lousysnapshotmovies

Soldiers

over the topblightyno man's landcooties

Suffragette

deeds not wordsvotes for women

Catchphrases of 1912

  • Unsinkable
  • Women and children first

Tech Check

Motorized Movie Cameras, Stainless Steel & Traffic Control Towers.

Cost of Living (1910)

Loaf of Bread

$0.06

Gallon of Gas

$0.15

Average Home

$3,600

New Car

$950

Time Elapsed

41,708 days ago

(114 years, 98 days)