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On This Day in Automotive History: January 5
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On This Day in Automotive History
January 5
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Birthdays: Ernest Delaney (1889), Al Theisen (1906), Andre Simon (1920), Doug Yates (1925), Ed Spencer (1929), Keith Greene (1938), Ed Baugess (1947), Simon Harrex (1947),
Dennis Connor (1951),
Troy Beebe (1962), Dan Shirley (1964), Vinnie Jones (1965), John Ferrier (1966), Todd Snyder (1968), Vincent Vosse (1972), Josh Baltes (1975), Franck Montagny (1978), Jason Basham (1979), Daniel DiGiacomo (1979), Kyle Logue (1980), Nevin George (1982), Ben Anderson (1985), Dexter Bean (1987), Jean-Charles Battut (1988), Stefan Rzadzinski (1993), Renee Gracie (1995), Tal Davidson (1999), Tony Mrakovich (1999)
1977: Secretary of Transportation William T. Coleman, Jr., approves Federal-aid for construction of controversial I-66 from the Capital Beltway to the District of Columbia. As approved, I-66 will be a four-lane, limited access highway with Metrorail's Vienna line in its median. Heavy duty trucks will be excluded, and during peak hours, traffic in the peak direction will be limited to buses, automobiles with four occupants, emergency vehicles, and Dulles Airport traffic.
1987: Production of the
Chevrolet Corsica began.
1989: Administrator Robert Farris approves a revised "Pavement Policy for Highways," which covers selecting, designing, and managing Federal-aid highway pavements in a cost-effective manner. Each State highway agency is to have a pavement management system based on concepts described in AASHTO's Guidelines on Pavement Management (1985).
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