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Tuesday, July 21, 1925
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The Headlines
However Our Men Evolved, Women Are Divine, Says Prince
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
Yes Sir, That's My Baby
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
On This Day
Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, high school biology teacher John T. Scopes is found guilty of teaching human evolution in class and fined $100.
Wikipedia →Malcolm Campbell becomes the first man to exceed 150 mph (241 km/h) on land. At Pendine Sands in Wales, he drives Sunbeam 350HP built by Sunbeam at a two-way average speed of 150.33 mph (242 km/h).
Wikipedia →
You Share a Birthday With
- Rudolph A. Marcus (1923)
- Don Knotts (1924)
- Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920)
- Kay Starr (1922)
- James Cooke Brown (1921)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
Flapper
Gangster
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
36,844 days ago
(100 years, 344 days)