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On This Day in Automotive History: July 26

On This Day in Automotive History
July 26

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Birthdays: Jean Chassagne (1881), Harry Lord (1885), Tim Birkin (1896), Dick Jerrett (1917), Ansel Rakestraw (1927), Harold Wilcox (1927), Don Beauman (1928), Nicolas Koob (1930), Larry Isley (1935), Chris Spender (1936), Buddy Arrington (1938), Teddy Pilette (1942), Emilio de Villota (1946), Mark Wilson (1947), Bill Baird (1949), Rich Vogler (1950), Doug Wolfgang (1952), Rick Crawford (1958), Brian Ongais (1961), Wally Pettengill Jr. (1961), Randy MacDonald (1962), Larry Mason (1962), Weng Sun Mok (1967), Jose Fernandez (1968), Bryce Miller (1982), Miguel Paludo (1983), Maxime Soulet (1983), Marcos Gomes (1984), Nathan Swartzbaugh (1985), Davey Heskin (1988), Nik Romano (1990), Nicolas Hammann (1993), Zach Telford (2004)

1973: At the Holiday Inn in Bellevue, Washington, Administrator Norbert Tiemann addresses the 18th Joint State Right-of-Way Seminar. He states his theme by noting that some 2,500 years ago, the philosopher Heraclitus wrote, "All is flux, nothing stays still . . . nothing endures but change." Tiemann explains that, "The old days of roadbuilding, when the main concern of the engineers was to build a highway between two points in as straight a line as possible, are gone, and they will not return." After outlining changes in the program, he concludes by quoting Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear, and with a manly heart."

1993: A state-of-the-art automatic weather station is installed at FHWA's Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. Weather data will be used with other pavement-related data to develop improved pavement design and performance prediction models.

1994: The song “Pickup Man” was released by Joe Diffie.

2002: The final 9th Generation Lincoln Continental was produced.

2010: The Audi A7 was unveiled at the Pinakothek der Moderne art museum in Munich.

In the News...

Date	Article	Details
26 July 1900	AUTOS SPED ON RACE TRACK. The first automobile race meet ever held on a race track in this country began to-day at the Branford Park track. There were some 150 entries, but twenty vehicles only took part in the tournament.	News Article (text) Publication: The New York Times