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On This Day in Automotive History: August 13
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On This Day in Automotive History
August 13
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Birthdays: Eddie Noyes (1873), David Bruce-Brown (1887), Jim Roper (1916), Roy Graham (1925), Herb Tillman (1929), Pete Vail (1930), Lee Brayton (1933), Rick Muther (1935), Bernie Griffith (1935), Jean-Claude Andruet (1940), Divina Galica (1944), Terry Link (1952), Sleepy Tripp (1953), Monte English (1954), Alan Markovitz (1954), Keith Ahlers (1955), Hideo Fukuyama (1955), Tim Roberts (1960), Mike Burg (1961), Hal Goodson (1964), Brian Butler (1964), Dan Koonmen (1965), Justin Martz (1969), Michael Caine (1970), Patrick Carpentier (1971), Chad Beahr (1971), Peter Shepherd III (1986), Tayler Riddle (1990), Enrique Baca (1991), Braeden Havens (1993), Spencer Morse (1993), Bill Kann (1993), Luis Tyrrell (1996), Jaren Crabtree (1999)
1962: Maine Division Engineer R.D. Hunter, District Engineer W.P. Mitton, and Bridge Engineer R.W. Hove represent Bureau of Public Roads at the ribbon-cutting ceremony for the Franklin D. Roosevelt Bridge between Lubec, Maine, and Campobello, New Brunswick. Construction was financed by the Federal Government, the State, the Dominion of Canada, and the Province of New Brunswick. The Maine State Highway Commission designed the bridge, with Bureau of Public Roads headquarters review.
1964: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Federal-Aid Highway Act in the White House. Authorizations include $1 billion a year for the FAP and FAS systems and extensions of these systems in urban areas (FYs 1966 and 1967).
1973: The Federal-Aid Highway Act, signed today, authorizes withdrawal of Interstate segments and substitution of urban mass transportation projects (expanded to allow substitute highway projects by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1976). "The law," President Richard Nixon says, "will enable [localities] at last to relieve congestion and pollution problems by developing more balanced transportation systems where it is appropriate rather than locking them into further highway expenditures which can sometimes make such problems worse." An editorial in the Beacon Journal (Afron, OH, August 15) is headlined, "At Last Comes the Vital Step Toward Transportation Sanity."
1991: The soundtrack to the film The Commitments was released with Andrew Strong's version of the song “Mustang Sally.”
1993: Administrator Rodney Slater delivers a symbolic check for $28.5 million to Governor Mel Carnahan and Chief Engineer Wayne Muri of the Missouri Highway and Transportation Department for emergency relief work as a result of the Great Flood of 1993. During the trip, Slater and Deputy Administrator Jane Garvey inspect a washed out section of I-635 in Riverside, MO, that has forced 42,000 cars to take a detour each day.
2003: Production began on the
Nissan Pathfinder Armada.
2013: Luke Bryan released his album Crash My Party, which included the songs “Beer in the Headlights” and “Dirt Road Diary.”
2021: The fifth season of Fast & Furious Spy Racers was released on Netflix.
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