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On This Day in Automotive History: December 6

On This Day in Automotive History
December 6

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Birthdays: Cliff Bergere (1896), Harold Bailey (1907), Billy Cantrell (1914), Jim Jeffords (1926), Don Odell (1929), Blackie Watt (1933), Jimmy Watson (1941), Frank Butler (1943), Lars Lindberg (1943), Ray LaHood (1945), Marc Ducquet (1946), Keke Rosberg (1948), Chris Hodgetts (1950), Billy Smith (1953), Marco Spinelli (1958), Manuel Reuter (1961), Charles Finelli (1963), Rudi Penders (1963), Jim Tafel (1963), Stephen Sawyer (1964), Christian Elder (1968), Shane Kennedy (1971), L.B. Skaggs (1976), Jorg Hardt (1980), Garth Walden (1981), Reinhard Kofler (1984), Sean Edwards (1986), Harald Schlegelmilch (1987), Jon Beach (1989), Alex Baron (1994)

1909: J.E. Pennybacker, Jr., OPR's Chief of Road Management, addresses the Southern Commercial Congress in Washington, DC, on "The Road Situation in the South."

1923: President Calvin Coolidge addresses the building of good roads in a message to Congress.

1974: Administrator Norbert Tiemann and UMTA Administrator Frank C. Herringer sign an agreement providing for an interagency program to meet evolving training needs in urban transportation. The program is designed to develop programs tailored to changing and expanding roles in the transportation field. During the first phase of the new program, needed training will be identified for transportation professionals who are responsible for those phases of systems planning and development that encompass transit as well as auto and truck transportation. The second phase provides for developing priority training and education programs to meet those needs.