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On This Day in Automotive History: April 25

On This Day in Automotive History
April 25

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Birthdays: Arthur Chevrolet (1884), Herb Ardinger (1910), Jean Lucas (1917), John Roxburgh (1932), Johnny Brazil (1933), Junior Tinney (1935), James Oppenheimer (1942), Bill Green (1945), Marc Frischknecht (1947), Rick Aukland (1956), Ken Wilson (1957), Chuck Weber (1958), Christopher Campbell (1963), Don Trapp (1967), Mitch Thieman (1968), Ricky Brooks (1969), Marcel Visconde (1969), Troy Williams (1972), Guillermo Ortelli (1973), Jonathan Bouvrette (1981), Felipe Massa (1981), Jesse Mason (1984), Giedo van der Garde (1985), Derek Thorn (1986), Paul Pedroncelli Jr. (1990), Jean-Eric Vergne (1990), Olivier Lombard (1991), Alex Bowman (1993), Ryan Stiltner (1993), Alex Guenette (1996), Kyle Soper (1996), Jacob Wallace (1996), Gracin Raz (1997)

1939: President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits Reorganization Plan No. 1 to Congress. The plan transfers Bureau of Public Roads (renamed PRA) to the new Federal Works Agency and changes the title of the head of PRA to Commissioner of Public Roads. The Federal Works Agency also includes the Public Buildings Administration, the U.S. Housing Authority, the Public Works Administration, and the Work Projects Administration. Approved by Congress, via Joint Resolution, on June 7, the plan goes into effect on July 1, 1939.

1979: FHWA Division Office staffers in Oklahoma participate in an emergency preparedness exercise to test the State's highway emergency plans, with a mock nuclear attack on April 26 as the focus.

1993: A fire destroyed the vacant former Stewart-Warner offices and factory in Chicago, Illinois.

2001: Michele Alboreto died.

2016: Production of the Volvo V70 ended.