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On the date
Sunday, February 12, 1922
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The Headlines
FOUR ULSTER POLICE KILLED ON BORDER; Republicans Turn Machine Gun on a Party of Twenty at Clones Station. KIDNAPPED MEN STILL HELD Craig Announces Britain Will Send Four More Battalions-- Freeing Irish in England.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Buddy
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Raggedy Andy
You Share a Birthday With
- Abraham Lincoln (1809)
- Charles Darwin (1809)
- Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor (1768)
- Anna Pavlova (1881)
- Julian Schwinger (1918)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Technicolor Films, Water Skiing & Audiometer.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
38,099 days ago
(104 years, 139 days)