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On the date
Friday, January 14, 1927
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The Headlines
BRONX POLICE TRAP ARMED GANG AT BANK; Five With Shotguns Foiled Payroll Hold-Up by Swift Attack Without a Shot. THREE SEIZED, TWO ESCAPE One Admits art in the Fatal Reid Robbery -- McLaughlin Quickly Promotes Captors. BRONX POLICE TRAP ARMED GANG AT BANK
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
You Share a Birthday With
- 1949 (1849)
- Albert Schweitzer (1875)
- Yukio Mishima (1925)
- Giulio Andreotti (1919)
- Mehmed VI (1861)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
applesaucebaloneycheaterscrush
Flapper
bee's kneescat's pajamasgiggle watershebahotsy-totsy
Gangster
big cheesebump offstool pigeongatfall guy
Tech Check
Electronic TV (Philo Farnsworth), Jukebox (Automatic) & Iron Lung.
Cost of Living (1920)
Loaf of Bread
$0.11
Gallon of Gas
$0.30
Average Home
$6,296
New Car
$575
Time Elapsed
36,302 days ago
(99 years, 167 days)