Tuesday, April 12, 1927

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The Headlines

Tunnel to Pierce Mont Blanc; Italy and France Share Cost

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• Rocksprings, Texas is hit by an F5 tornado that destroys 235 of the 247 buildings in the town, kills 72 townspeople, and injures 205; third deadliest tornado in Texas history.

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• Shanghai massacre of 1927: Chiang Kai-shek orders the Chinese Communist Party members executed in Shanghai, ending the First United Front.[citation needed]

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You Share a Birthday With

• Jan Tinbergen (1903)
• Alexander Ostrovsky (1823)
• Christian IV of Denmark (1577)
• Otto Fritz Meyerhof (1884)
• Nikolay Przhevalsky (1839)

Slang

Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)