Wednesday, February 23, 1927

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The Headlines

DE PINEDO FLIES ACROSS ATLANTIC; Italian Airmail in 1,432-Mile Hop Reaches Fernando Noronha Off Brazilian Coast. NOT YET AT THE MAINLAND Italy Has Outburst of Joy Over His Flight From the Cape Verde Islands.

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My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

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Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill by Congress establishing the Federal Radio Commission (later replaced by the Federal Communications Commission) which was to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the United States.

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• German theoretical physicist Werner Heisenberg writes a letter to fellow physicist Wolfgang Pauli, in which he describes his uncertainty principle for the first time.

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You Share a Birthday With

• George Frideric Handel (1685)
• Karl Jaspers (1883)
• Kazimir Malevich (1878)
• Pope Paul II (1417)
• W. E. B. Du Bois (1868)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)