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On the date
Monday, June 13, 1927
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The Headlines
CHAMBERLIN CABLES PROPOSAL TO BYRD; Would Fly Columbia Back Home in Company With Commander's America.
Read in The New York Times →Best-selling Sheet Music
My Blue Heaven
Walter Donaldson
The must-have
Radio Flyer Wagon
On This Day
Aviator Charles Lindbergh receives a ticker tape parade up 5th Avenue in New York City.
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You Share a Birthday With
- James Clerk Maxwell (1831)
- W. B. Yeats (1865)
- Fernando Pessoa (1888)
- Thomas Young (scientist) (1773)
- Charles the Bald (823)
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
36,153 days ago
(99 years, 18 days)