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On the date
Friday, April 15, 1927
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The Headlines
MARY LEWIS BRIDE OF OPERA BARITONE; Metropolitan Soprano Married to Michel Bohnen by Mayor in City Hall. ROMANCE NOT SUSPECTED Engagements to Part Them on Monday, He Going Abroad -Both Wed Previously. MARY LEWIS BRIDE OF OPERA BARITONE
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
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452)
- Leonhard Euler (1707)
- Nikita Khrushchev (1894)
- Kim Il Sung (1912)
- Émile Durkheim (1858)
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
36,212 days ago
(99 years, 77 days)