From the day
On the date
Tuesday, January 27, 1953
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The Headlines
U.S. Ace Taken in Manchuria As Sabre Crashed, Reds Say; Colonel Heller Is Identified as Captive -- Patrols Active in Korea FOE REPORTS SABRE CRASHED IN CHINA
Read in The New York Times →#1 at the box office
The Bad and the Beautiful
The must-have
Matchbox Cars
You Share a Birthday With
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756)
- Lewis Carroll (1832)
- Wilhelm II (1859)
- Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling (1775)
- Abbas the Great (1571)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
blastflickkiboshshades
Greaser
cruisin'daddy-odibsknuckle sandwichpad
Beatnik
cooldigfar outhipsquare
Tech Check
Color TV Standards (NTSC), Black Box Flight Recorder & WD-40.
Cost of Living (1950)
Loaf of Bread
$0.14
Gallon of Gas
$0.27
Average Home
$7,354
New Car
$1,510
Time Elapsed
26,793 days ago
(73 years, 148 days)