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Friday, August 30, 1918
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The Headlines
HINTZE GOING ON MISSION TO VIENNA; Believed German Foreign Minister's Purpose Is to ContinuePeace Discussion There.MAY AGAIN SOUND ALLIESGerman People Being Preparedby Laudation of Speeches ofSolf and Prince Max. HINTZE GOING ON MISSION TO VIENNA
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Till We Meet Again
Richard A. Whiting
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On This Day
Fanni Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, which along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Ernest Rutherford (1871)
- Mary Shelley (1797)
- Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff (1852)
- Jacques-Louis David (1748)
- Edward Mills Purcell (1912)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
lousysnapshotmovies
Soldiers
over the topblightyno man's landcooties
Suffragette
deeds not wordsvotes for women
Tech Check
Superheterodyne Radio Receiver, Enigma Machine (Early Version) & Hydraulic Brakes.
Cost of Living (1910)
Loaf of Bread
$0.06
Gallon of Gas
$0.15
Average Home
$3,600
New Car
$950
Time Elapsed
39,362 days ago
(107 years, 307 days)