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On the date
Sunday, September 16, 1923
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The Headlines
MILLIONS POUR IN ON LAST TAX DAY; Revenue Offices Here Busy Until Midnight Receiving Third Instalments.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes! We Have No Bananas
Frank Silver & Irving Cohn
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Lee Kuan Yew (1923)
- Karl Dönitz (1891)
- Henry V of England (1386)
- Frans Eemil Sillanpää (1888)
- Albert Szent-Györgyi (1893)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Bulldozer, 16mm Film & Hearing Aid (Vacuum Tube).
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
37,518 days ago
(102 years, 288 days)