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On the date
Tuesday, August 9, 1927
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The Headlines
CLUE TO BOMBINGS LEADS TO BOSTON; Detective Goes There to Find Owner of Auto Seen Near Subway Explosions Here. MORE SUSPECTS ARRESTED Water Supply Gets Additional Protection -- Anarchist Threats Sent Out in Mails. CLUE TO BOMBINGS LEADS TO BOSTON
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
- Jean Piaget (1896)
- Amedeo Avogadro (1776)
- Tove Jansson (1914)
- William Alfred Fowler (1911)
- P. L. Travers (1899)
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
36,095 days ago
(98 years, 325 days)