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On This Day in Automotive History: October 6


On This Day in Automotive History
October 6

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Birthdays: John Borden (1917), Max de Terra (1918), Andre Pilette (1918), Jake Jacobs (1923), Peter Riley (1930), Henry Morrogh (1931), Bobby Brown (1939), Darrell Bryant (1940), Daniel Warlick (1940), Edgar Doren (1941), John Nicholson (1941), Carlos Pace (1944), Patrick Dal Bo (1945), Dick McCabe (1947), Vivian Candy (1948), Steve Reed (1950), John Piccinini (1951), Manfred Winkelhock (1951), Daniel Herregods (1953), Greg Crick (1954), Mike McLaughlin (1956), Mark Mountanos (1956), Steve Kunz (1963), Robert Mitten (1963), Lance Dewease (1965), Larry Fisher (1965), Richard Lasater (1965), Fredrik Ekblom (1970), Phil Bennett (1971), Jeremy Sisto (1974), Dale Nottestad (1977), Phillip McGilton (1978), Bobby Grigas III (1981), Bobby Wilson (1981), Justin Funkhouser (1983), Benjamin Reynolds (1984), Kristen Yeley (1985), A.J. Moyer (1987), Joe Mueller (1988), Charles Evans Jr. (1989), Chase Mattioli (1989), Matt Waltz (1989), Patrick Gallagher (1992), Devin Steele (1992), T.J. Zacharias (1992), Macauley Jones (1994), Grant Griesbach (2001)

1910: Office of Public Roads' Maurice O. Eldridge addresses the Second Annual Convention of the Southern Appalachian Good Roads Association in Knoxville, Tennessee, on "Road Laws and Road Building." As a Tennessee native, he recalls his boyhood days when, under the "statute labor" system, citizens paid their road tax by working on the roads. "We used to turn out in the fall of the year, in September or October, when the roads were hard and dry, and pile up clods, sods and vegetable mold in the middle of the road. If there were any mudholes we would usually haul large stones from adjacent fields and fill them, and that would usually make two mudholes, which were filled in the same way the following year."

1926: Chief Thomas MacDonald presents a paper to the Annual Convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers on “The History and Development of Road Building in the United States” (written with H.S. Fairbank) that becomes a standard reference for historians.

1970: Administrator Frank Turner speaks on “Urban Growth and Mobility in the United States,” at the Sixth World Highway Conference in Montreal. He says that deciding the role of each transportation mode is an issue of public policy. "The question is not so much one of choosing between competing modes as it is one of providing an effective mix of complementary modes."

1977: In Portland, Oregon, Administrator William Cox tells the Northwest Bridge Engineers Seminar that highway transportation would predominate over all other transportation modes for the foreseeable future. "Consequently, we have to correct problems with highway bridges immediately." He adds, however, that the size of the bridge program "must be based on a realistic assessment of what can actually be accomplished."

1981: At AASHTO's annual meeting in Chicago, Executive Director Les P. Lamm receives the annual Thomas H. MacDonald Award for continuous outstanding service.

1986: The song “Geronimo's Cadillac” by Modern Talking was released.

1992: The song “Drive South” by Suzy Boguss was released on her album Voices in the Wind. The song “Mercury Blues” by Alan Jackson was released on his album A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love). The song “Locked in the Trunk of a Car” by The Tragically Hip was released on their album Fully Completely.

1993: The last precast segment of the Double Arch Bridge of the Natchez Trace Parkway is placed, completing the 1,572-foot long superstructure. The bridge, designed by Figg Engineering Group for FHWA's Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division, is the first segmental precast concrete arch bridge in this country.

2000: The film Taxi 2 was released in the U.S.

2004: The American version of the film Taxi was released.

2005: Production ended on the Chevrolet Cavalier.

2005: Bud Ekins died.

In the News...

DateArticleAuthor/Source
6 October 1913CANADIAN JURIST HOLDS COURT IN AUTOMOBILEThe Washington Herald
6 October 1913WOMAN CAPITALIZES POVERTY AND AUTOThe Washington Herald




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