Saturday, April 30, 1927

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The Headlines

Lightning Hits Plane, Killing 4 Navy Fliers; Upset Craft Plunges Into Chesapeake Bay

Best-selling Sheet Music

My Blue Heaven

Walter Donaldson

The must-have

Radio Flyer Wagon

On This Day

• The Federal Industrial Institute for Women opens in Alderson, West Virginia, as the first women's federal prison in the United States.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777)
• Jaroslav Hašek (1883)
• Joachim von Ribbentrop (1893)
• Mary II (1662)
• Claude Shannon (1916)

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Tech Check

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

Cost of Living (1920)