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On This Day in Automotive History: December 8

On This Day in Automotive History
December 8

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Birthdays: William C. Durant (1861), Edward Leipert (1907), Leon Lilley (1923), Nelson Applegate (1925), John Meggers (1928), Ray Lipper (1933), Brian Reed (1939), George Snider (1940), Ralph Arnold (1942), Budd Hagelin (1944), Bob Schader (1944), Brian Walden (1952), Jesse Harris (1955), Ed Lynch Jr. (1955), David Sosebee (1955), Michel Ferte (1958), John Farano (1959), Ralph Hubbert (1961), Joe Safina (1962), Howie Brode (1963), Paul Pedersen (1963), Kim Crosby (1964), Jay Hill (1964), Jean-Paul Cyr (1965), Dennis Hannel (1965), Jurgen Krebs (1965), Kim Jane (1966), Tim Rothe (1968), Kerry Earnhardt (1969), Kevin Harvick (1975), Shogo Mitsuyama (1976), Derek Hayes (1977), Ryan Newman (1977), Sarah McCune (1979), Elivan Goulart (1980), David Martinez (1981), Neel Jani (1983), Johnny Sutton (1987), Philip Major (1988), Jono Lester (1989), Justin S. Carroll (1995), Katlynn Leer (1998)

1921: In Omaha, Nebraska, during a speech to AASHO's Annual Meeting, W.K. Hatt, Director of the Advisory Board on Highway Research, begins, "Above the entrance door to the office of the chief of the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads is the saying of the eminent scientist [Thomas] Huxley: Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense."

1942: Albert Kahn died.

1964: Administrator Rex Whitton addresses AASHO's 50th Annual Meeting on "Full Partners: Federal-State Cooperation in the Federal-Aid Highway Program." In his conclusion, Whitton says, "I view the Bureau of Public Roads and the States as partners, neither one greater nor lesser than the other. Each partner has rights and responsibilities, but these cannot be so precisely and rigidly defined as to avoid altogether some questions about the location of the boundary lines. Through the years such questions have almost always been resolved in an informal and friendly way. They still are. I hope they always will be."

2000: Colin McRae Rally 2.0 was released for Windows in Europe.

2014: Holley acquired DiabloSport Inc.