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On This Day in Automotive History: February 11

On This Day in Automotive History
February 11

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Birthdays: Bruce McPhee (1927), Conrad Janis (1928), Bill Scott (1931), John Surtees (1934), Jim Michaelian (1943), Ralph Morris (1947), Marc Menant (1949), Giuseppe Chiminelli (1955), Ernst Gschwender (1956), Allan McCarthy (1959), Roberto Moreno (1959), Buster Graham (1966), Rejean Blanchet (1967), Howard Switser (1974), Andy Lally (1975), Ian McKellar, Jr. (1978), Josh Fanopoulos (1985), Taz Douglas (1985), Remo Ruscitti (1994), Liam Lawson (2002),

1942: President Franklin Roosevelt approves the Alaska Highway project to furnish a supply route linking the airfields established by Canada and the U.S. and to provide an overland route to Alaska. During 1942, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, including several units of African-American troops, and contractors under PRA open a pioneer route.

1942: Marshall Teague died.

1975: To stimulate the economy and relieve unemployment, President Gerald Ford releases $2 billion in Federal-aid highway funds, which had been impounded by various Administrations, to combat inflationary trends and for other economic reasons. By May, more than half the funds were obligated.