1926 Taggart Baking Company registered "Wonder" trademark for bread and cake. 

1977 A power blackout hit New York. Power was out for about 25 hours.  There was widespread looting, unlike the calm of the 1965 blackout.

1921 Christian K. Nelson and chocolate maker Russell C. Stover entered into an agreement in Des Moines, Iowa to produce and market Nelson's 'I-Scream Bar', the name was changed to Eskimo Pie (ice cream coated with chocolate).

1937 Vernon Rudolph sold the first Krispy Kreme doughnuts in what is now the 'Old Salem' area of Winston-Salem, North Carolina.  (That is the area of the original 1766 Moravian settlement of Salem.)

John Jacob Astor IV (July 13, 1864 – April 15, 1912) was an American business magnate, real estate developer, investor, writer, lieutenant colonel in the Spanish–American War, and a prominent member of the Astor family. He was among the most prominent American passengers aboard RMS  and perished along with 1,510 others when the ship sank on her maiden voyage.

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