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On This Day in Automotive History: December 10

On This Day in Automotive History
December 10

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Birthdays: Ralph Beardsley (1891), E.H. Sherwood (1894), Willard Prentiss (1897), Bob Grossman (1922), Gerhard Holup (1928), Bentley Warren (1940), Hughes de Fierlandt (1942), Jurgen Barth (1947), Louis Descartes (1951), Tommy Ruff (1953), Price Cobb (1954), Mark Gerke (1956), Keith Nowicki (1956), Dan Lewis (1958), Mike Nish (1959), Charles Poalillo (1959), Jeff Altenburg (1962), Mitch Gibbons (1962), Robin Buck (1963), Bobby Newling (1963), Don Crnkovich (1968), T.J. Potrzebowski (1970), Marc Easton (1983), Jonathon Webb (1983), Raven Symone (1985), Jon Lancaster (1988), Alessio Deledda (1994), Arjun Maini (1997), Jacob Heafner (1999)

1905: Work, begun September 27, is completed on a limestone macadam object lesson road in Macon, Missouri. The road is 3,700 feet long, 14 feet wide, and 8 inches deep. It cost $3,229.16, of which $1,478.39 was for 2,217 tons of stone at 66 2/3 cents per ton. The cost of labor was $1.50 per day and of teams, $3.

1920: Horace Elgin Dodge died.

1936: Workers at Kelsey-Hayes in Detroit began a sit-down strike. The strike would grow to include 2 plants and nearly 5,000 workers.

1976: Administrator Norbert Tiemann releases A Statement of National Highway Transportation Policy, which discusses the role of the Federal Government in meeting America's future transportation needs. The policy reflects seven principles: individual mobility and accessibility; intergovernmental cooperation and maximum flexibility; continuing economic development and prosperity; greater safety; increased energy efficiency; protection, preservation, and enhancement of the human environment, including natural and cultural resources; and affirmative action to ensure opportunities and benefits of Federal-aid are distributed equitably.

2011: The film Charge, Zero Emissions was released.