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On This Day in Automotive History: August 9

On This Day in Automotive History
August 9

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Birthdays: Billy Knipper (1882), Lloyd Dane (1925), Joe Eubanks (1925), Len Sutton (1925), Harry Leake (1935), Billy Scott (1935), Patrick Depailler (1944), Ed Ash (1948), Ricardo Londono (1949), David Hart (1957), Mike Grady (1959), Kevin Riniker (1960), Alain Menu (1963), Philippe Thirion (1963), Sylvain Tremblay (1965), Roger Reuse (1966), Matt Dewey (1967), Andrew Fisher (1967), Eric Bana (1968), Basil Demeroutis (1968), Kyle Shoemaker (1968), Tracie Bellerose (1969), Peter Hernandez (1969), Mitch Pagerey (1970), Clemens Sparowitz (1974), Sebastiaan Bleekemolen (1978), Matt Hummel (1980), Jay Middleton (1984), Luca Filippi (1985), Justin Johnson (1985), David Polenz (1991), Giovanni Bromante (2003)

1954: Commissioner F.V. du Pont issues the first “Cherry Memorandum.” It indicates that to ensure uniform interpretations nationwide, whenever a ruling or interpretation of general importance is made in Washington, DC, copies will be sent to all field offices on cherry-colored paper. “I trust,” du Pont says, “that every effort will be made in the Divisions to see that they use Bureau policies, as distinguished from Division policies.” Cherry Memorandum No. 2 (August 16) concerns Section 17 of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1954, which requires that projects “shall be performed by contract awarded by competitive bidding . . . unless the Secretary of Commerce shall affirmatively find that, under the circumstances relating to a given project, some other method is in the public interest.”

1993: Lee Roy Parnell released the song “On The Road.”

2011: Luke Bryan released his album Tailgates & Tanlines, which included the song “I Don't Want This Night to End.”

2017: The film Logan Lucky is released on a limited basis in Knoxville, Tennessee.

2017: The first episode of Mr. Mercedes aired.

2019: The film The Art of Racing in the Rain was released in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.

2021: Dylan Scott released the song “New Truck.”