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On This Day in Automotive History: February 8

On This Day in Automotive History
February 8

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Birthdays: Raph Bethenod (1910), Skimp Hersey (1913), Mike Magill (1920), Gifford Wood (1924), Cliff Allison (1932), Jim Bray (1933), Randel Lee Ramage (1938), Woody Wodzewoda (1941), Alan West (1944), Jeff Hooker (1949), Squeak Kennedy (1955), Brad Sorenson (1957), Al Ermmarino (1959), Steve Kempton (1960), Vince Neil (1961), Gary Camelet (1963), Ron Lamell (1965), Wayne Cerbo (1968), Mike Olsen (1968), Tim Rowse (1972), Joshua Morrow (1974), Brent Moore (1978), David Perisset (1979), Jeremy Treadway (1979), Andrew Myers (1980), James Bruncati (1982), Blake Feese (1982), Lauren Edgerton (1990), Tommy O'Leary IV (1991), Cory Joyce (1992), Dennis Trebing (1992), Joey Gase (1993), Dalton Hopkins (1994)

1912: OPR assigns R.E. Toms to help the Memphis-to-Bristol Highway Commission in Tennessee with surveys, general plans, and administration. The commission guarantees Toms' expenses under OPR's customary rules. He will organize surveys under county supervision and draw up general plans for uniform methods of construction for the entire road.

1979: The first 5-day pilot workshop is underway in Olympia, WA, on seismic design of highway bridges. The workshop consists of intensified training in structural dynamics, seismology, seismic design methodologies, retrofitting concepts, and advanced topics. The course, with Bill Allen of FHWA's Washington Division Office serving as coordinator, reflects heightened interest in seismic design during the 1970's following the San Fernando Earthquake (February 9, 1971), in California.

1996: With one of the pens President Dwight D. Eisenhower used to sign the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, President Bill Clinton signs the Telecommunications Act Conference Report. The pen was provided by one of the authors of the 1956 Act, former Senator Albert Gore, Sr., whose son, Vice President Al Gore, was one of the chief backers of the Telecommunications Act.

2019: The film Cold Pursuit was released in the U.S. & Canada.

In the News...

Date	Article	Author/Source
8 February 1909	INDIANA'S AUTO SPEEDWAY (construction of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway)	The New York Times