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On This Day in Automotive History: April 3


On This Day in Automotive History
April 3

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Birthdays: Marcel Lehoux (1888), Edgar Elder (1923), Chuck Weyant (1923), Marvin Porter (1924), Jack Holloway (1924), Speedy Thompson (1926), Mason Bright (1929), Shorty Rollins (1929), J.L. Justice (1929), Fernando de Baviera (1937), Gerard Cuynet (1939), Jimmy Jennings (1940), Eric Braeden (1941), John Dineen (1946), Daniel Laurent (1950), Joe Varde (1950), Mike Hurlbert (1959), Fermin Velez (1959), Danny Barrett (1962), Thomas Stinson (1962), Doug Graham (1963), John de Vries (1966), Mark Skaife (1967), Picabo Street (1971), Craig Stallard (1972), Shannon Harding (1974), Josh Rehm (1978), A.J. Russell (1983), Lino Curti (1987), Gary Hirsch (1987), Tom Sutherland (1989), Manolin Gutierrez (1990), Gabriel Aubry (1998)

1902: A passenger train from Washington, DC, arrives in Charlottesville, Virginia, for the Jefferson Memorial and Inter-State Good Roads Convention (April 2-4), the final stop for the Southern Railway Good Roads Train (see November 24, 1901). The train carries OPRI's M. O. Eldridge, Assistant Secretary of Agriculture J. H. Brigham, General Nelson A. Miles, and several Congressmen. On April 2, General Roy Stone had addressed the convention ("The Necessity of Congressional Action in Road Improvement"), as had Director Martin Dodge ("Removing the Burdens of Bad Roads"). The primary purpose of the convention, sponsored in part by OPR, is to back a memorial road from Charlottesville to Thomas Jefferson's Monticello, an idea attributed to Dodge. Today's afternoon session is called to order by Dr. W. C. N. Randolph, grandson of Thomas Jefferson.

2008: The film Evolusi: KL Drift was released in Malaysia.

2009: The film Fast & Furious was released in the U.S. & Canada.

2012: The song “Mercy” by Kanye West was released.

2015: The film Furious 7 was released nationally in the U.S. & Canada.




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