1913 Event Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper 1913 Event Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper 1912 Birthday Jura Soyfer, born in Kharkov, Ukraine, writer, political journalist, imprisoned at Dachau concentration camp, wrote the Dachau song with composer Herbert Zipper 1896 Event Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also known as the zipper
