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On This Day in Automotive History: April 14

On This Day in Automotive History
April 14

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Birthdays: Walter Morris (1878), Joie Chitwood (1912), Hully Bunn (1920), Whitey Norman (1926), Vic Wilson (1931), Paddy Hopkirk (1933), Jack Anderson (1939), Dick Brooks (1942), Paulo Gomes (1948), Steve Spencer (1948), Phil Ward (1950), Paul Debban (1951), Chuck Egner (1952), Kerry Baily (1954), Peter Kuhn (1955), Johnny Rumley (1957), Dan Drinan (1960), Mike Newton (1960), Marty Borden (1961), Jeff Andretti (1964), Tony Raines (1964), Johnny Mackison, Jr. (1965), Shane Cruikshank (1967), Mike Conte (1969), Jean-Philippe Dayraut (1970), Michael Loccisano (1970), Chad Barker (1972), Adrien Brody (1973), Johannes van Overbeek (1973), Tim Leahey (1976), Donald Chisholm (1976), Craig Goess (1981), Kevin Konopka (1981), Roger Turbush (1981), Daren Scherer (1983), Freddie Hemborg (1986), Sam Power (1989), Jake Rosenzweig (1989), Kyle McCallum (1991), Axcil Jefferies (1994), Dennis Olsen (1996), Armani Williams (2000)

1921: AASHO's Executive Committee confers with President Warren Harding and Secretary of Agriculture Henry C. Wallace. The President states he is averse to funding road construction unless the highways will receive proper maintenance.

1927: Volvo was founded.

1941: President Franklin D. Roosevelt appoints the National Interregional Highway Committee, headed by Commissioner Thomas MacDonald, to refine the "Interregional Highways" concept described in the 1939 report to Congress titled Toll Roads and Free Roads. The seven-member committee is directed "to investigate the need for a limited system of national highways to improve the facilities now available for interregional transportation, and to advise the Federal Works Administrator as to the desirable character of such improvements, and the possibility of utilizing some of the manpower and industrial capacity expected to be available at the end of [World War II]." The committee's Interregional Highways report, transmitted to Congress on January 12, 1944, provides the basis for the "National System of Interstate Highways."

1960: The Reporter, dated today, contains an article by future Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan on "New Roads and Urban Chaos." It plays an important part, 31 years later, in debate on the landmark ISTEA. "The crisis has come," Moynihan says. "It has been impossible for the cities to resist the offer of unprecedented amounts of money, however futile they might know it will be to spend it on highways alone. In one metropolis after another the plans have been thrown together and the bulldozers set to work."

1978: The soundtrack to the film Grease was released, including the song “Greased Lightnin'” by John Travolta.

1990: The song “Drive South” by The Forester Sisters was released.

2014: The first episode of Azeroth Choppers aired.

2015: Grand Theft Auto V released for Microsoft Windows (supplemental release date).

2017: The film The Fate of the Furious was released in the U.S.

2022: Road 96 is released for PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series S/X (supplemental release date).