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On the date
Wednesday, December 28, 1927
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The Headlines
DIRIGIBLE AND SHIPS FAIL TO SIGHT DAWN; Los Angeles Scans the Atlantic From Cape Cod to Emerald Bank in Clear Day. RETURNS TO LAKEHURST Coast Guard Vessels Join Destroyers Mahan and Sturtevant Off Sable Island. DIRIGIBLE AND SHIPS FAIL TO SIGHT DAWN
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
- Woodrow Wilson (1856)
- John von Neumann (1903)
- Stan Lee (1922)
- Arthur Eddington (1882)
- Milton Obote (1925)
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
35,954 days ago
(98 years, 184 days)