This Day, That Year – January 16

André Jules Michelin was a French industrialist born on this day in 1853. He, with his brother, Édouard, founded the Michelin Tyre Company.

Did you know that:

• Spanish, the first grammar of a modern language, was presented to Queen Isabella on this day in 1492
• The refrigerator car was patented by William Davis in Detroit on this day in 1868
• Wilhelm Normann, a German chemist who introduced the hydrogenation of fats, was born on this day in 1870