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On This Day in Automotive History: April 18
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On This Day in Automotive History
April 18
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Birthdays: Bill Milliken (1911), Harry Firth (1918), Dick Frazier (1918), Whitey Brainerd (1924), Howard Elder (1926), Hap Jones (1927), Cliff Yiskis (1929), Buddy Ragsdale (1933), Bobby Lee (1934), Gordon Spice (1940),
Jochen Rindt (1942), Mark Alderson (1945), Francois Birbeau (1946),
Geoffrey Bodine (1949), Enzo Calderari (1952), Glen Morgan (1953), Dirk Piz (1955), Tim Greaves (1956), Butch Brickell (1957), Marc Duez (1957), John Hartshorne (1957), Ray Hislop (1964), Mark Schroeder (1964), Stefano Gabellini (1965), Thomas Merrill (1966), Chris Pennington (1968), Ken Baker (1970), John Zaretzke (1972), Luca Pirri-Ardizzone (1973), Lorenzo Case (1974), Scott Hall (1974), Anthony Davidson (1979), Luke Sieders (1979), John Denniston (1983), Sean Gartner (1983), Richard Boswell (1984), Karl Reindler (1985), Matt Erickson (1986), Sean Guthrie (1988), Colin Nickolai (1990), Andrew Gordon (1990), Dylan Slepian (1995), Brady Boswell (1997), Juan Garcia (1997)
1927: In
Morris et al v. Duby et al, the U.S. Supreme Court upholds the right of the State to regulate maximum loads to be carried by motor vehicles within the State over roads constructed with both State and Federal funds. The case stemmed from an Oregon Highway Commission decision lowering weight limits for trucks to 16,500 lbs (from 22,000 lbs) because heavier loads damaged the roads.
1957: Administrator Bert Tallamy joins Senator Prescott Bush in an interview taped as a "Report from Washington" for use on radio and television stations in the Senator's State, Connecticut. Tallamy reports that the Interstate Highway Program is on schedule and that State laws will permit the States "to adequately compensate all people that they must acquire right-of-way from."
1972: At a meeting of Federal and State highway officials in Albany, New York, FHWA unveils the "Federally Coordinated Program of Research and Development in Highway Transportation," aimed at creating a safer, more efficient highway system that is better integrated with other transportation modes.
1998: The first episode of Initial D aired.
2011: The eighth generation
Chevrolet Malibu was unveiled.
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