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Friday, May 7, 1915
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The Headlines
Interview Roosevelt Deniers.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier
Al Piantadosi
The must-have
Raggedy Ann Doll
On This Day
World War I: German submarine U-20 sinks RMS Lusitania, killing 1,199 people, including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many former pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
Wikipedia →The Republic of China accedes to 13 of the 21 Demands, extending the Empire of Japan's control over Manchuria and the Chinese economy.
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Rabindranath Tagore (1861)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840)
- David Hume (1711)
- Johannes Brahms (1833)
- Josip Broz Tito (1892)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Pyrex Glass, Transcontinental Telephone Call & Sonar (Active).
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
40,572 days ago
(111 years, 57 days)