Birthdays: Christian Lautenschlager (1877), Alton Soules (1893), Tom Lupo (1921), Al Funderburk (1922), John Coundley (1924), Frank Matthews (1924), Andre Testut (1926), Dan Gurney (1931), Leroy Van Conett (1935), Jose Rosinski (1936), Larry Thomas (1936), Larry Cannon (1937), Cliff Garner (1937), Bob Studdard (1938), Mike Beuttler (1940), David Frazer (1940), Xavier Lapeyre (1942), Eldon Dotson (1945), Ricardo Zunino (1949), Keith White (1950), Jeff Halverson (1952), Chris Aman (1960), Bill Meacham (1960), Russ Hersey (1968), Pat Schwartzkopf (1968), Kevin Mundy (1969), Darryl Carl (1970), Ricky Schroder (1970), Adam Burrows (1971), Frank Kapfhammer (1971), Darren Turner (1974), Larry Barford, Jr. (1975), Chris Blawat (1979), Tony Bruncati (1980), Bela Szilagyi (1982), Will Bratt (1988), Travis Miller (1988), Simon Escallier (1989), Jeremy Davis (1990), Simone Monforte (1992), Brett Robinson (1993), Konstantins Calko (1994), Ryan Huff (2001)

1971: Under instructions issued by the Federal Highway Administration today, each urbanized area must be certified annually by the FHWA regional office as having an areawide policy board, an acceptable organizational arrangement to carry on the work, and an acceptable planning process. The FHWA Division Engineer can approve proposed projects only in certified areas and only if the project is part of a program that implements a plan held currently valid by the policy board.

2001: Honda introduced the Integra DC5.

2008: Jeffrey F. Paniati takes the oath of office as Executive Director, FHWA's highest career post. After joining FHWA in 1983 as a Highway Engineer Trainee, he served in a variety of posts, most recently as Associate Administrator for Operations. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters recommended him for the post and he was approved by President George W. Bush.

2009: President Barack Obama visits the U.S. Department of Transportation to announce funding for the 2,000th transportation project under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, only 6 weeks after the first project was approved under the recession relief legislation. The President, who is joined by Vice President Biden and Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in the West Atrium, says, “I am proud to utter the two rarest phrases in the English language - projects are being approved ahead of schedule, and they are coming in under budget.”

2015: Production began on the Jaguar XE.