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On the date
Sunday, October 9, 1927
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The Headlines
FLOUTED PERSHING, BUT WON A BATTLE; Bell Revealed as the General Who Violated Order Not to Join British in Attack. INCIDENT RECALLED BY HAIG Major Tells How Illinois Troops, Under First Fire, Showed English We Could Fight. FLOUTED PERSHING, BUT WON A BATTLE
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
- Ivo Andrić (1892)
- Max von Laue (1879)
- Emil Fischer (1852)
- Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906)
- Charles X of France (1757)
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
36,034 days ago
(98 years, 264 days)