Piggly-wiggly[?] - Claims to be the first supermarket. Motto: "Piggly-Wiggly All Over the World". One rival entrepreneur opened a store: "Hoggly-Woggly Only One in the World".
... second Summer Olympic Games are held in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
Births:
January 5 - Jeane Dixon[?], astrologer (+ 1997)
January 10 - Ray Bolger, actor, singer, ...