11-Dec
Walter Knott (Farmer who created the Knott’s Berry Farm amusement farm)
Walter Knott (Farmer who created the Knott’s Berry Farm amusement farm)
Edwin Powell Hubble (Astronomer)
Jawaharlal Nehru (India’s 1st prime minister after its independence)
Otto Frank (Father of Anne Frank)
Adolf Hitler (Leader of the third Reich)
Charlie Chaplin (Actor, director)
Victor Fleming (American film director)
The first jukebox made its debut in San Francisco, at the Polais Royale Saloon. The contraption, devised by Louis Glass, consisted of an Edison tinfoil
The Union Pacific Railroad Co. began direct, daily railroad service between Chicago, Illinois and Portland, Oregon, as well as Chicago, Illinois and San Francisco, California.
Inspired by the Jules Verne novel “Around the World in Eighty Days,” New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) set out to make the