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On This Day in Automotive History: August 22

On This Day in Automotive History
August 22

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Birthdays: Bill Hunt (1890), Jimmie Lewallen (1919), Bob Nagel (1924), Kirby Miller (1926), Pauli Toivonen (1929), Leroy Neumayer (1930), Bob Denny (1931), Steve Froines (1932), Mike McKee (1933), Larry Miller (1934), Bob Burcham (1935), Tom Kordus (1943), Dave Barrow (1944), Bill Cooper (1946), Ian Scheckter (1947), Tony Strupp (1948), Johnny West (1948), Tony Burgess (1955), Charles Slater (1956), Gary Tootle (1957), Clemente Lunardi (1958), John Brolick (1959), Mark Wolocatiuk (1959), Soames Langston (1967), Max Twigg (1971), Max Wilson (1972), Davey Manthei (1973), Giorgio Vinella (1973), Steven Ellery (1974), Jonathan Allard (1976), Shawn Negangard (1976), Salih Yoluc (1985), Jack Perkins (1986), Niall Quinn (1988), Tristan Vautier (1989), Russell Ward (1989), Aaren Russell (1991), Raoul Owens (1994), Max Tullman (1997), Quinlan Lall (1999)

1902: The Cadillac Automobile Company was established.

1967: The 1968 AMC Javelin debuted.

1986: The film Dead End Drive-In was released.

1986: Engineering News-Record, in its issue dated 29 July 1965, said, “The motorist who zips across the country on I-80 will be able to sample a hefty slice of Americana.” A complete “zip” was not possible until now. Today, Regional Administrator Morris Reinhardt and Division Administrator Daniel Dake join Utah officials for a 1-hour dedication ceremony near Salt Lake City for a 5-mile section of I-80, the last segment of the 2,907-mile highway. It is the first transcontinental Interstate highway to be completed, at a cost of $3.2 billion, linking two great suspension bridges, the George Washington Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Lt. Governor W. Val Oveson says the fact that I-80 was completed in Utah does not mean Utahns are slow “but just the most important and right in the middle.” The ceremony--the segment actually opened following its completion last Sunday, August 17--takes place about 50 miles from Promontory Point, where a Golden Spike was pounded into the track, on May 10, 1869, symbolizing completion of the Nation's first transcontinental railroad.

2007: Atieva was founded. In 2016 the company would become Lucid Motors.

2008: The film Death Race was first released in the U.S. and Canada.

2012: The film Hit and Run was released.

2016: A truck carrying Takata airbag inflators crashes and explodes, killing a woman in a house near the scene.