The German automobile manufacturer, Volkswagen, was founded.
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Illinois became the first US state to make it compulsory by law to wear a seatbelt.
New York state became the first to require license plates on automobiles.
Future Pope John Paul II was almost killed by a Nazi truck in Krakow, Poland.
Porsche was officially added to the commercial register in Germany.
Walden W. Shaw and John D. Hertz founded the Shaw Livery Company and introduced the yellow cabs to attract passengers.
