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On the date
Tuesday, December 20, 1927
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The Headlines
600 PUT TO DEATH AT ONCE IN CANTON; Nationalists Execute Them as Reds in Reign of Terror Suppressing Revolt. 200,000 FLEE IN FEAR Rumblings of New Warfare Are Heard -- Soviet Trade Mission Is Raided in Shanghai. 600 PUT TO DEATH AT ONCE IN CANTON
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
- Kim Young-sam (1927)
- Jaroslav Heyrovský (1890)
- John III of Sweden (1537)
- Ferdinand Buisson (1841)
- Irene Dunne (1898)
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
35,962 days ago
(98 years, 192 days)