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On the date
Monday, April 25, 1927
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The Headlines
CONVICT ESCAPES IN DIVE OFF TRAIN; Leaps Through Window After Removing Manacle on Way From Sing Sing. ANOTHER FUGITIVE GIVES UP Joseph Pioli, Who Mysteriously Fled With George Walmale, Is Held in San Diego. CONVICT ESCAPES IN DIVE OFF TRAIN
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
- Guglielmo Marconi (1874)
- Oliver Cromwell (1599)
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900)
- Ella Fitzgerald (1917)
- Louis IX of France (1214)
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
36,202 days ago
(99 years, 67 days)