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On This Day in Automotive History: June 9

On This Day in Automotive History
June 9

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Birthdays: Burt Shaw (1886), Fred Lecklider (1895), Luigi Fagioli (1898), Gordon Condon (1901), Felice Bonetto (1903), Bill Spence (1906), Paul Pettit (1919), Len Brown (1922), Ken Fisher (1922), Pierre Greub (1931), John Burton (1937), David Hobbs (1939), Florian Vetsch (1941), Merle Bettenhausen (1943), John Fitzpatrick (1943), Bob Shreeves (1945), Clay Young (1947), Keith Kauffman (1950), Rick Jeffrey (1951), Jimbo Mann (1952), Tony Bartone (1956), Jeff MacPherson (1956), Ed Zabinski (1960), Pascal Gibon (1961), Mike Affarano (1962), Billy Bigley Jr. (1962), Eric Chase (1963), Phil Fogg (1964), Rob Kauffman (1964), Kenny Shepherd (1964), Joe Manning (1968), Rob Thomson (1968), Armand Fumal (1969), Jimmy Nowell Jr. (1969), Travis Cram (1976), Dale Wood (1983), Glen Reen (1985), Andreas Laskaratos (1986), Matt Pritiko (1988), Mackena Bell (1990), Dylan Smith (1992), Quinnton Bear (1996), Logan Seavey (1997), Arthur Lehouck (1999), Zane Smith (1999)

1967: Frank Turner, Director of FHWA's Bureau of Public Roads, says the last slab of concrete has been poured on a 63-mile stretch of the Inter-American Highway in Panama, bypassing a primitive, dangerous road between Guabala and Santiago, cutting the 3-hour driving time in half. The project, which included the first use of slip-form paving in Latin America, ends the United States' 30-year participation in Panama highway construction.

1976: FHWA announces Demonstration Project No. 39, "Recycling Asphalt Pavement." The announcement notes that the energy crisis following an oil embargo had created new concerns about our energy supply. "This crisis, coupled with rising costs, material scarcities, and the diminishing proximity of quality aggregates, has seriously affected the highway industry." Demonstration Project No. 47, "Recycling Portland Cement Concrete Pavements," will be announced on May 5, 1978.

1998: In a ceremony in the Old Executive Office Building, President Bill Clinton signs the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), which reauthorizes Federal-aid highway, transit, and safety programs through FY 2003. He says that TEA-21 "will strengthen America by modernizing and building roads, bridges, transit systems, and railways to link our people and our country together and to permit a freer flow of goods."

2000: The film Gone in 60 Seconds was released.

2003: Scion was founded.

2005: The film The World's Fastest Indian was released in New Zealand (home of Burt Munro).

2006: The film Cars was released.