Tuesday, January 11, 1927

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The Headlines

Elevated Train Conductor Is Shot to Death By Passenger He Rebukes; Assassin Escapes

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Louis B. Mayer, head of film studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), announces the creation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, at a banquet in Los Angeles, California.

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You Share a Birthday With

• William James (1842)
• Alexander Hamilton (1755)
• Theodosius I (347)
• Albert Hofmann (1906)
• George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston (1859)

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Tech Check

Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.

Cost of Living (1920)