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On the date
Monday, September 5, 1927
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The Headlines
SCHLEE TELLS OF DAY OF PERILOUS FLYING; Gasoline Leak Alarms Pilots of Pride of Detroit on Way to Karachi. DESERT FLIGHT DESCRIBED Brock Praises Single Motor of Plane for Its Unfailing Efficiency From Start. SCHLEE TELLS OF DAY OF PERILOUS FLYING
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
- Louis XIV (1638)
- Caspar David Friedrich (1774)
- Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (1888)
- Tommaso Campanella (1568)
- John Cage (1912)
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
36,068 days ago
(98 years, 298 days)