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On This Day in Automotive History: February 4

On This Day in Automotive History
February 4

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Rosa Parks Day: In some states (including California & Missouri) Rosa Parks Day is commemorated on her birthday. In other states it is held on the day of her famous protest & arrest in 1955, December 1.

Birthdays: William Weightman (1895), Wally Butler (1898), Eddie Gray (1920), Buck Brigance (1921), Van Johnson (1927), Bay Darnell (1931), Lee Gordon (1936), Jimmy Insolo (1943), Charles Morgan (1943), Rollie MacDonald (1944), Gene Morgan (1947), Walt Bohren (1948), Dominique Lacaud (1952), Freddie Query (1952), Tim Brewer (1955), Jack Cook (1957), Chris Smerdon (1957), Pierre Perret (1958), David Thexton (1958), Randy Laskowsky (1959), Alan Pruitt (1959), Kenny Bumbera (1960), Tom Bolles (1961), Jim Locke (1961), Billy Kann (1962), John Barber (1964), David Smadja (1967), Carl McCormick (1968), Brian Rievley (1970), Charles Morgan Jr. (1973), Mark Krogh (1975), Vincent Capillaire (1976), Giorgio Pantano (1979), Sam Fullone (1981), Steven Howard (1982), Bobby Parsley (1983), Jordan Williams (1983), Abraham Zimroth (1983), Maximilian Götz (1986), Edoardo Piscopo (1988), Ryley Seibert (1992), Hannah Newhouse (1997), Dylan O'Keefe (1998), Enaam Ahmed (2000)

1903: Director Martin Dodge delivers a speech to a good roads convention in Concord, New Hampshire, noting that while the cost of transportation over roads in this country is 25 cents a ton per mile, the cost is only 8 cents in France, owing to the fine condition of its roads.

1922: The Lincoln Motor Company was purchased by the Ford Motor Company for $8M.

1974: Wesley M. Baker of the Construction and Maintenance Division presents the first FHWA "show-and-tell" on the metric system during the "Materials Course for Area Engineers." Legislation on the metric system is pending in Congress.

1981: John DeLorean filed for a U.S. patent for "Mounting for a Vehicle Door" for the DeLorean's famed gullwing doors.

1991: Administrator Thomas Larson selects John C. Fegan as FHWA's Bicycle Program Manager. Fegan has been with FHWA since 1972 and had been responsible for research on bicycle and pedestrian safety since 1974.

2004: Toyota unveiled the second generation Tacoma at the Chicago Auto Show.