From the day
On the date
Saturday, July 4, 1925
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The Headlines
FOUR NEW SHOCKS JAR SANTA BARBARA; Wreckers Scatter as Cracks Widen, and Populace Again Seeks the Open Spaces. PROPERTY DAMAGE SLIGHT $1,000,000 Court House Is Planned -- Supervisors Report Reconstruction Advancing. FOUR NEW TREMORS JAR SANTA BARBARA
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
- Calvin Coolidge (1872)
- Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807)
- Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804)
- Murad III (1546)
- Gloria Stuart (1910)
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
36,861 days ago
(100 years, 361 days)