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On This Day in Automotive History: April 12

On This Day in Automotive History
April 12

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Birthdays: Eugene Chaboud (1907), Tommy Coates (1908), Robert Manzon (1917), Walt Hartman (1920), Curtis Turner (1924), Bill Bade (1926), Jon Shirley (1938), Dwayne Belt (1939), Jimmy Hailey (1939), Wayne Smith (1939), Carlos Reutemann (1942), Gerard Dantan-Merlin (1946), Jerry Vento (1947), Tim Dwiggins (1949), Bob Strait (1949), Ray Mallock (1951), Tom Fox (1953), Phil Threshie (1953), Scott Monroe (1960), Corrado Fabi (1961), Bernd Netzeband (1961), Ross Cheever (1964), Ellen Lohr (1965), Rodney Crick (1966), Rich Lowrey (1966), T.J. Schaefer (1967), Roger Williams (1967), Larry Riendeau (1969), Matt Kocourek (1971), John Swanson (1971), Tim McCreadie (1974), Ryan Thigpen (1975), Ricky Hendrick (1980), Ryan Dalziel (1982), Johnathan Hale (1990), Hanna Zellers (1997)

1965: Director of Planning E.H. “Ted” Holmes delivers the Sixth Rees Jeffreys Triennial Lecture at the Town Planning Institute in London, England. In "Looking 25 Years Ahead in Highway Development in the United States," Holmes says, "The highways and freeways being built today will be in use 25 years hence, and those yet to be built will not differ greatly from those we know today. Probably designed for higher speeds, certainly with more attention to aesthetics and their attractiveness both to the road user and others, major urban freeways will have special purpose lanes, perhaps for buses or trucks, perhaps reversible in peak hours, and with controls to insure that their potential capacity is more nearly approached."

1979: Mad Max released.

2017: The film The Fate of the Furious was released in Australia, the UK, and 15 other countries (initial public release).

2020: Stirling Moss died.