The Studebaker Brothers wagon company, a precursor of the automobile manufacturer, was established on this day in 1852.
Did you know that:
• Giambattista Bodoni, an Italian printer who invented typeface designs, was born on this day in 1740
• Howard Carter opened the inner burial chamber of the Egyptian Pharaoh, Tutankhamun, on this day in 1923
• James Markham obtained the first fruit tree patent for a peach tree on this day in 1932
