Tuesday, January 9, 1923

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The Headlines

Four German Specialists Summoned to Save Lenin

Best-selling Sheet Music

Yes! We Have No Bananas

Frank Silver & Irving Cohn

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Lithuanian residents of the Memel Territory rebel against the League of Nations' decision to leave the area as a mandated region under French control.

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• Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Richard Nixon (1913)
• Simone de Beauvoir (1908)
• AD 727 (727)
• Karel Čapek (1890)
• Pope Gregory XV (1554)

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Tech Check

Bulldozer, 16mm Film & Hearing Aid (Vacuum Tube).

Cost of Living (1920)