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On This Day in Automotive History: August 12

On This Day in Automotive History
August 12

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Birthdays: Bill Boyd (1915), J.C. Van Landingham (1917), Shorty Templeman (1919), Bill Greever (1922), Joe Bossard (1926), Dick Bown (1928), Pete Stewart (1931), Parnelli Jones (1933), Arthur Pilla (1935), Pee Wee Ellwanger (1935), Piero Frescobaldi (1935), Tom Nundy (1938), Jerry Jolly (1941), John Winter (1949), Mark Stahl (1951), John Smith (1952), Ronnie Kittle (1954), Richie Gallup (1955), Dennis Metdepenningen (1955), Jimmy Morales (1957), Scott Gaylord (1958), Chuck Buchanan Jr. (1961), Bret Arsenault (1962), Sean Calway (1963), Dan Kurzejewski (1964), John Thompson (1964), Eddie Sharp (1964), Dean Grant (1966), Dominic Vara (1967), Constantino Junior (1968), David Calvert-Jones (1969), Israel Jaitovich (1969), Rick Craig (1972), Lynton Jeffrey (1973), Jerry Allec Jr. (1975), Adriene Pattie (1975), Fredy Lienhard, Jr. (1979), Jason Miles (1980), Luke Hinkley (1982), Billy Osta (1985), Jesse Iwuji (1987), Sebastien Martinez (1989), Ryan Reed (1993), Ethan Ringel (1994), Alberto Panebianco (1996), Bryce Napier (1999), Zachary Dabbs (2000), Tristan Charpantier (2000)

1905: The first Shelsley Walsh Speed Hill Climb was held.

1908: Production began on the Ford Model T, and the first car would roll off of the assembly line on September 27.

1971: FHWA releases the initial list of obsolete bridges to be replaced under the Special Bridge Replacement Program created by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970. The program provides a total of $250 million to pay the 75-percent Federal share to replace bridges on the Federal-aid systems.

1984: The Summer Olympiad in Los Angeles ends, with widespread predictions of gridlock proven false. FHWA cooperated with the California DOT and other State and local officials as they developed and implemented an integrated plan of traffic management. The Olympic bus system was used extensively, with total ridership of 1,145,350. In fact, the only major congestion of the Olympics occurred on August 8 at the Rose Bowl when bus patronage was unusually low.

1988: The film Tucker: The Man and His Dream was released.

2013: The Saab plant in Trollhättan reopens in preparation for resuming production under NEVS.