Birthdays: Patrick O'Connor (1915), Johnny Thomson (1922), Hooker Hood (1926), Armand Schafer (1935), Richard D. Brown (1940), Alan Johnson (1941), Amos Johnson (1941), Roger Hill (1947), Larry Hollenbeck (1949), Michael Korten (1953), Pete Moore (1957), Bobby Russ Wood (1959), Dennis Southerlin (1961), Dave Skeen (1963), Paul White (1963), Dale Shaw (1964), Luis Monzon (1966), Jacques Villeneuve (1971), Tim Hollis (1973), Frank Stippler (1975), Jamie Little (1978), Ryan Lawler (1987), Jesse McCartney (1987), Anthony Imperato (1991), Christian PaHud (1993), Garett Grist (1995), Brenton Grove (1997), Kason Plott (1998)

1943: The Secretary of War authorizes PRA to construct the Haines Cut-Off to connect the Alaska Highway with Haines in the Alaska Panhandle. Ken Coates' 1992 book, North to Alaska: Fifty Years on the World's Most Remarkable Highway (University of Alaska Press), describes the Haines Highway in the early 1970's as "twisting, rocky, and rather terrifying."

1985: FHWA officially adopts AASHTO's A Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets. Because of the color of its cover, the policy is nicknamed "The Green Book."

1987: The third generation Honda Prelude was released in the Japanese market.

2003: The film Flywheel was released in the U.S.

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