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On This Day in Automotive History: December 4
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On This Day in Automotive History
December 4
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Birthdays: Felice Nazzaro (1881), Harry Bell (1884), Willi Krakau (1911), Russell Armentrout (1921), Dave Strickland (1937), Christine Beckers (1943), Francois Migault (1944), Warren Cullen (1947),
Mary E. Peters (1948), Rit McGowan (1954), Alistair Oag (1954),
Raul Boesel (1957), Blair Bessett (1960), Jerry Reary (1961), Roger Blackstock (1962), Emilio Di Guida (1963), Thomas Danielsson (1964), Shaun Hollamby (1965), Lee Davis (1966), Drew White (1966), Robert Pergl (1968), Mike Sanchez (1968), Micky Gilbert (1970), Jeff Williams (1970), Doug Keller (1972), Leonardo Maia (1980), Dan O'Donnell (1980), Ho-Pin Tung (1982), T.J. Watson (1986), Sebastian Asch (1986), Alejandro Portillo (1987), Joey Tanner (1989), Ross Chastain (1992), Jesse Switser (1994), Grant Quinlan (1998), Jan Evans (2000), Daniel Dye (2003)
1894: ORI issues Bulletin No. 1, State Laws Relating to the Management of Roads, Enacted in 1888-91, compiled by General Roy Stone. He reports that 14 States have passed road laws "more or less radical in their character," but they are so recent that no record of results is available. "In New Jersey, however, the new laws date from 1888 to 1892, and have proved so satisfactory in practice that no effort to amend them was made in 1893." The other 13 States covered are California, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin.
1915:
Henry Ford and a group of pacifists & reporters set sail for Europe on a mission to end the first World War. They did not succeed.
1954: Bureau of Public Roads' L.E. Knight and Paul Potts join C.F. Hotler of the State Highway Department of Indiana to perform the first road roughness test on the Indiana Test Road along U.S. 31 north of Columbus. The resulting report shows roughness in units per mile for each half-mile, for any remaining lesser portion of each test section, and for each lane. The road test was required by State law, but the test pavements were constructed as part of regularly programmed Federal-aid projects.
1963: The song “Dead Man's Curve” by Jan and Dean was released.
2015: The song “Fast Car” by Jonas Blue was released.
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