From the day
On the date
Saturday, April 27, 1946
Memories from that day
No memories yet. Add yours if you remember this day.
The Headlines
8,000-Horsepower Rocket Engine For Aircraft Revealed by Navy; ROCKET AIR ENGINE REVEALED BY NAVY Parallels German Model
Read in The New York Times →#1 on Your Hit Parade
I'm a Big Girl Now
Swing and Sway with Sammy Kaye with Betty Barclay
#1 at the box office
Ziegfeld Follies
The must-have
Tonka Trucks
You Share a Birthday With
- Ulysses S. Grant (1822)
- Mary Wollstonecraft (1759)
- Herbert Spencer (1820)
- Samuel Morse (1791)
- Sergei Prokofiev (1891)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
gobbledygooksnafufubar
Gi
ack-ackdear johnfatiguesroger that
Bobby Soxer
neatodreamydreamboat
Tech Check
Mobile Car Phones, Tupperware & Bikini.
Cost of Living (1940)
Loaf of Bread
$0.08
Gallon of Gas
$0.18
Average Home
$2,938
New Car
$850
Meanwhile
- Post-WWII Expansion — The 'Golden Age' of capitalism begins.
Time Elapsed
29,259 days ago
(80 years, 59 days)