From the day
On the date
Saturday, January 31, 1925
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The Headlines
AUTHORIZES FLIER TO MAKE NOME DASH; Washington Requests Aviator in Fairbanks to Carry Antitoxin to the Stricken City.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- Franz Schubert (1797)
- Norman Mailer (1923)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Alva Myrdal (1902)
- Irving Langmuir (1881)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Mechanical Television, The Leica I & Masking Tape.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
37,015 days ago
(101 years, 150 days)