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On This Day in Automotive History: August 18
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On This Day in Automotive History
August 18
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Birthdays: Leigh Lynch (1882), Clemente Biondetti (1898), John Rhodes (1927), Michael May (1934), Larry McCoy (1942), Ian Bracey (1943), Brack Maggard (1946), Duncan Bain (1948), Rick DeLorto (1949), Greg Heller (1949), Leland Kangas (1951), Billy Kourafas (1953), Rick Clifton (1954), Gerard Dillmann (1954), Chip Graves (1955),
Andy Pilgrim (1956), Gary Becker (1958), Tim Cowen (1958), Glenn Sears (1958), Mitchell Calhoun (1960), Doug Didero (1960), Brandon Sperling (1961), Richard Hay (1964), Shawn Hendricks (1964), Mike Hood (1964), Richard King (1964), Uwe Alzen (1967), Troy Conrad (1969), Gary Lewis (1969), Christian Slater (1969), Ben Keating (1971), Beto Monteiro (1974), Tim Taylor (1974), Dominik Schwager (1976), Doug Coby (1979), Joey Gattina (1979), Nicolas Prost (1981), Memo Rojas (1981), Amber Cope (1983), Patricio Jourdain (1983), Angela Ruch (1983), Fredric Aasbo (1985), Brandon Dean (1987),
Steve Wallace (1987), Brandon Clements (1990), Michael Bilderback (1991), Paul Geniole, Jr. (1993), Ty Majeski (1994)
1900: Civil and mining engineer James W. Abbott of Denver, Colorado, is appointed Special Agent and Road Expert to head the Western Division in the OPRI's first field structure. He joins Logan W. Page (Eastern Division and head of the road-material laboratory) and Professor J. A. Holmes of North Carolina (Southern Division, appointed August 7). Also in August, Horatio S. Earle of Michigan receives a temporary appointment to head the Middle Division and is replaced when J. H. Stout of Wisconsin is appointed to head the Middle Division in September 1900.
2008: Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters administers the oath of office to
Thomas J. Madison, Jr., as the 17th Federal Highway Administrator. His most recent public service had been as Commissioner of the New York State Department of Transportation. The new Administrator would serve until the end of the Bush Administration on January 20, 2009.
2017: The film
Logan Lucky was released in the U.S. & Canada.
Deaths:
Walter Chrysler (1940),
Al Miller (1967)
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