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On the date
Sunday, October 16, 1927
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The Headlines
GIRL ADMITS HOAX IN CHANNEL SWIM; Arranged It to Put End to Fakes, Says Miss Dorothy Logan, London Doctor. RETURNS NEWSPAPER PRIZE Tells in Confession of Letter, Which Is Then Found, Announcing Her Intention. GIRL ADMITS HOAX IN CHANNEL SWIM
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
- Oscar Wilde (1854)
- Günter Grass (1927)
- David Ben-Gurion (1886)
- Eugene O'Neill (1888)
- Enver Hoxha (1908)
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
36,028 days ago
(98 years, 258 days)