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On This Day in Automotive History: February 1

On This Day in Automotive History
February 1

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Birthdays: Ray Pixley (1907), Crash Bond (1933), Melvin Bradley (1933), Max Berrier (1936), Doc Faustina (1939), Ed Sczech (1944), Michel Pignard (1945), Gaston Rahier (1947), Tony DeTommaso (1951), Dan Avery (1955), Randy Smith (1955), Jeff Morgan (1956), Perry Tripp (1956), Darrell Holman (1958), Daniel Hubert (1960), Jim Pace (1961), Dave Trevors (1961), Jeff Kendall (1962), Marc Sluszny (1962), David Warnock (1962), Mike Dillon (1965), Paul Dalla Lana (1966), Brian Richards (1966), Ange Barde (1969), Eric Jensen (1970), John Luecht (1971), D.J. Richardson (1972), Ted Minor (1974), Martin Roy (1974), Charlie Vest (1974), Matt Mylin (1977), Mark McFarland (1978), Phil Bozell (1983), Matt Lofton (1985), Scott Hargrove (1995), Dylan Hall (1999), Jake Ruggles (2001)

1893: The House Committee on Agriculture votes to insert a provision appropriating $10,000 for an office within the Department of Agriculture to conduct a road inquiry.

1906: OPR, presently using offices on the fourth floor of the Agriculture Department's main building, leases a new four-story building at 237 14th Street SW, built in accordance with its plans, for $2,000 a year.

1920: The film Double Speed was released.

1941: PRA's Highways for National Defense discloses an urgent need for improvement or construction of 1,500 miles of roads in military reservations and 2,830 miles of access roads to serve 192 military establishments. In requesting the report on June 21, 1940, President Franklin Roosevelt had asked PRA to focus on "the strength of bridges, the width of strategic roads, adequacy of ingress and egress from urban centers, and the servicing of existing and proposed Army, Navy, and Air bases."

1989: The song “M.B.” by Orup was released.

2017: Guardian Industries was acquired by Koch Industries.