When Clifford Clinton Wobbrock was born on 30 September 1905, in Medford, Steele, Minnesota, United States, his father, Lewis August Wobbrock, was 25 and his mother, Wilhelmine Henriette Wicklow, was 23. He married Winifred June Pewters on 12 February 1930, in Los Angeles, California, United States. He lived in Blooming Grove Township, Waseca, Minnesota, United States in 1920 and Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States for about 10 years. He died on 15 December 1978, in Santa Ana, Orange, California, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Roosevelt Memorial Park, Gardena, Los Angeles, California, United States.
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The first of many consumer protection laws which ban foreign and interstate traffic in mislabeled food and drugs. It requires that ingredients be placed on the label.
Between the state's entry into the Union and 1906, 27 people were executed by hanging in Minnesota. Public opinion soon shifted against the death penalty in the state and was formally abolished in 1911. Since its abolishment, there have been 23 attempts to reinstate the death penalty, but none of these bills passed the state legislature.
Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo nonstop transatlantic flight in his plane The Spirit of St. Louis.
Transferred use of the surname, recorded as a given name from the 17th century. There are several places (e.g. in Glos., Herefords., and Yorks.) so named, from Old English clif ‘cliff, slope, riverbank’ + ford ‘ford’.
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