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On This Day in Automotive History: August 24
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On This Day in Automotive History
August 24
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Birthdays: Paul Zuccarelli (1886), Guy Ball (1890), Sam Swank (1893), Frank Brisko (1900), Sam Tingle (1921), Roger McCluskey (1930), Carl Williams (1930), Joe Hines (1937), Art Roth (1939), Skip Scott (1941),
George Bradshaw (1946), Kevin Waldock (1947), Dave Pasant (1951), John Faulkner (1952), Ian Grob (1952), Terry Stineman (1953), Rod Randall (1954), Roy Aitchison (1956), Dale Delozier (1957), Cor Euser (1957), Don Thomson Jr. (1962), Mike Wieczoreck (1963), Eric Bernard (1964), David Bonnett (1964), Steve Kenseth (1966), Brian Cunningham (1970), Marc Miller (1975), Dale Brackett (1978), Heath Hindman (1979), Adam Dean (1981), Veronica McCann (1983), Jonny Cocker (1986), Steve Apel (1988), Brandon Sweet (1990), Robert Johnson (1993)
1912: President William Howard Taft signs the Post Office Appropriations Act for 1913, launching an experimental Federal-aid post road program. The bill appropriates $500,000, divided equally among the States, to improve roads that are or may be designated for rural free delivery of mail. The Federal share is one-third and funds can be made available to State or county governments. The program was not successful if measured by mileage (17 post road projects totalling 457 miles in 13 States), but it provided experience that helped mold the 1916 Federal Aid Road Act (e.g., restricting Federal-aid to States and requiring them to have a highway agency) and prepared OPR engineers for the Federal-aid highway program.
1926: In California, the new highway over Donner Summit is dedicated. The State Highway Commission built part of the road, and Bureau of Public Roads built the rest, including the Donner Summit Bridge, in cooperation with the Forest Service. The bridge spans a chasm to maintain a 7-percent grade.
1967: Comptroller General Elmer B. Staats transmits a General Accounting Office report to Congress on problems with metropolitan area Interstate segments. The report covers projects in San Francisco (various), Chicago (I-494, Crosstown Expressway), Baltimore (I-95), Detroit (I-696), and New York City (I-78, Lower Manhattan Expressway).
1967:
Henry J. Kaiser died.
1998: The song “Dragula” by Rob Zombie was released.
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