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On the date
Wednesday, May 11, 1927
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The Headlines
FLIERS NOW OUT 77 HOURS; Hunt of Seas Is Speeded in the Hope They Are Still Alive. OCEAN LINERS ON LOOKOUT But None Report Seeing the Two French Airmen -- Great Interest in Fate Here. IRELAND SAW THE PLANE Belated Messages Confirm the Crossing of the Southern Coast Before Noon on Sunday.
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
- Salvador Dalí (1904)
- Richard Feynman (1918)
- Camilo José Cela (1916)
- Antony Hewish (1924)
- Irving Berlin (1888)
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
36,185 days ago
(99 years, 50 days)