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On the date
Wednesday, April 27, 1927
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The Headlines
HARDING REVEALED AS AN IMPERIALIST; Late President Wanted Our Flag Over Central America, Washington Authority Says.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
On This Day
Carabineros de Chile (Chilean national police force and gendarmerie) are created.
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You Share a Birthday With
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891)
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
36,200 days ago
(99 years, 65 days)