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Birthdays: Wallace Reid (1891), Ray Erickson (1918), Al Neves (1921), Graham Whitehead (1922), Ernesto Prinoth (1923), Sherman Utsman (1932), Mel Kenyon (1933), Betty Jane France (1938), Raymond Williams (1939), Toine Hezemans (1943), Hugh Pearson (1947), Bill Canty (1948), Bud Wilmot (1948), Don Waterman (1950), Tom Free (1953), Katsunori Iketani (1953), Bob Blount (1958), Bobby Hutchens (1960), Aldo Bertuzzi (1961), Michael Greenfield (1963), Steve Mahannah (1964), Jim Maguire (1965), Mike Naake (1965), David Schardt (1966), Dara Torres (1967), Leo Smith (1969), Carl Miskotten III (1970), Danny Way (1974), Paul Dana (1975), Jarrad Whissell (1975), Jamie Wall (1977), Kevin Conway (1979), Jason Rudd (1979), Scott Edwards (1985), Marco Frezza (1987), Jon McKennedy (1987), Robert Hackwood (1987), Jeremy Burns (1989), Nico Bastian (1990), Jordan Anderson (1991), Jack Harvey (1993), Jesse Little (1997), Tanner Gray (1999)
1909: Office of Public Road's P.M. Speicher attends a good roads meeting of businessmen in Dennison, Texas, to explain his tests of roadbuilding materials in Sherman County. He thinks it is possible to build excellent roads for about $3,500 a mile.
1970: Testifying before the Senate Public Works Committee, Administrator Frank Turner says that since the start of the Interstate Program in 1956, “we have provided more than 11 trillion vehicle miles of transportation over America's highways” (roughly 23 million round trips to the moon).
1997: Sawyer Brown released the album with title track “Six Days on the Road.”
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15 April 2005 | Last British volume car manufacturer closes down The last British-owned volume car manufacturer, MG Rover, has closed down, with the loss of 5,000 jobs. International accounting firm PriceWaterhouseCooper was brought in last week to put the company into administration. | News Article (text) Publisher: Wikinews Topics: MG Rover, SAIC |