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On This Day in Automotive History: January 7
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On This Day in Automotive History
January 7
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Birthdays: Jean Lucienbonnet (1923), Pablo Birger (1924), Dudley Stacy (1927), Ben Eyerly (1931), Billy Taylor (1936), Brausch Niemann (1939), Val Musetti (1943), Jean-Claude Lefebvre (1945), Gerald Satterfield (1945), Mike Wilds (1946), Massimo Sigala (1951), Barry Ruble (1952), Patrick Trucco (1955), Robbie Brand (1958), Harald Huysman (1959), Dave Davis (1960), Jimmy Lawson (1960), Shelton McNair (1962), Emmanuel Anassis (1963), Paolo Carcasci (1964), Terry McCarthy (1964), Jimmy Britts (1967), Marty Houston (1968), Rodney Cook (1969), James Banfield (1970), Ricardo Mauricio (1979), Tyler Cahoon (1981), Rick Kelly (1983), Caleb Holman (1984),
Lewis Hamilton (1985), Coulter Mulligan (1987), Daniel Suarez (1992)
1907: In deciding Wilson v. Shaw, a case involving Federal authority to construct the Panama Canal, Supreme Court Justice David Brewer writes that based on Supreme Court precedents, "These authorities recognize the power of Congress to construct interstate highways" under the constitutional right to regulate interstate commerce. This decision effectively ends the debate over whether the Federal Government can fund road projects.
1957: Administrator John Volpe's Washington Headquarters reorganization goes into effect to match needs of the Interstate Highway Program. In addition, consistent with terminology used in other Federal Agencies, Bureau of Public Roads Division Offices became Region Offices and District Offices in each State became Division Offices.
1958: The first post-1956 Interstate Cost Estimate is transmitted to Congress--total cost is estimated as $37.6 billion (Federal share: $33.9 billion).
1972: FHWA releases the first annual report to Congress on the Special Bridge Replacement Program. It reveals that of the approximately 563,500 highway bridges in the U.S., about 88,900 are considered critically deficient. An estimated 24,000 of these deficient bridges are on the Federal-aid highway system. More that 400,000 of the Nation's bridges were built before 1935.
1985:
General Motors registered the
Saturn trademark.
2007:
Bobby Hamilton died.
2010: Volkswagen revealed the first generation
Amarok to the public.
2020: The film Uppity: The Willy T. Ribbs Story was released.
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