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On This Day in Automotive History: August 20

On This Day in Automotive History
August 20

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International Day of Medical Transporters

Birthdays: Bob Swanson (1912), Randall Beinke (1914), Jay Frank (1918), Neal Carter (1923), Reino Tulonen (1924), Bill Bennett (1926), Bob Ruppert (1926), Lloyd Casner (1928), George Rudinas (1933), Bobby Brack (1938), Bob Hurt (1939), Patrick Bedard (1941), Denis Dayan (1942), Terry Finnigan (1947), Dave Kuhlman (1954), Earl Bergeron (1958), Jimmy Dolan (1960), Kenny Martin (1960), Gary Laton (1962), Jeff Smith (1963), Doug Kalitta (1964), Laurent Lecuyer (1965), Phil Andrews (1966), Donnie Lacks (1968), John Lesniak (1973), Scotty Crockett (1979), Casey Dean (1983), Chase Pistone (1983), Cedric Sbirrazzuoli (1987), Gavin Harlien (1999)

1915: ZF Friedrichshafen founded.

1949: Under President Harry Truman's Reorganization Plan No. 7, Bureau of Public Roads is transferred from the General Services Administration (GSA) to the Department of Commerce. The Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 had abolished the Federal Works Agency, the PRA's former home. On July 1, 1949, the PRA had been renamed the Bureau of Public Roads and shifted to the newly created GSA. Bureau of Public Roads' 6-week stay in GSA was the Agency's shortest period as part of any Agency.

1973: Administrator Norbert Tiemann announces that the National Park Service and FHWA have reached an agreement under which all traffic control devices on roads traversing National Parks will be in substantial conformance with national standards for all other public highways.