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On the date
Sunday, March 27, 1927
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The Headlines
CAMBRIDGE ROUTS OXFORD ATHLETES; Wins 9 of 11 Events, With Lord Burghley First in Both Hurdles for Third Time. HYATT SCORES FOR LOSERS Former Harvard Star Takes Pole Vault for 3d Straight Year -- 4 Seconds for Americans. CAMBRIDGE ROUTS OXFORD ATHLETES
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
- Wilhelm Röntgen (1845)
- James Callaghan (1912)
- Gloria Swanson (1899)
- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886)
- Eisaku Satō (1901)
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
36,230 days ago
(99 years, 95 days)