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On This Day in Automotive History: January 13

On This Day in Automotive History
January 13

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Birthdays: Wesley Crawford (1900), Helm Glockler (1909), Pepper Cunningham (1918), Harry Stockman (1919), Bob Barron (1921), Shorty York (1924), Ron Hornaday (1931), Bill Ervin (1932), Dick Greer (1932), Guillermo Rojas (1942), Buddy Young (1943), Kiyoshi Misaki (1946), Paolo Bozzetto (1948), Bob Earl (1950), Kurt Konig (1954), Tim Williamson (1956), Larry Carroll (1959), Ernie Irvan (1959), Reno Gervais (1960), Joel Garner (1962), Tony Warren (1962), Patrice Roussel (1963), Dwayne Buggay (1964), Tim Nooner (1965), Patrick Dempsey (1966), Howie Scannell Jr. (1966), Jeff Chalmers (1968), Gianni Morbidelli (1968), Todd Bates (1969), Brian Winters (1969), Scotty Sands (1971), Alexey Vasilyev (1972), Eric Sartin (1978), Maria de Villota (1980), Markus Lungstrass (1983), Caleb Roark (1993), Nicki Petersen (1995), Frederik Vesti (2002)

1939: The film Burn 'Em Up O'Connor was released.

1960: Under the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1959, a BPR report is transmitted to Congress on extending the Interstate System to Alaska and Hawaii. The report recommends 50 miles in Hawaii, but states that Interstate mileage is not warranted in Alaska.

1961: Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller transmits BPR's first Highway Cost Allocation study to Congress, pursuant to Section 210 of the Highway Revenue Act of 1956. The objective is to provide Congress with information it might use in developing legislation to make a more equitable allocation of Federal taxes for the support of the Federal-aid highway program.

1999: The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers was founded.

2001: The film Initial D: Third Stage was released in Japan.

2015: The film Night Fare was released in France.

2017: The film Monster Truck was released in the U.S.

2017: The United States charges Takata executives Shinichi Tanaka, Hideo Nakajima, and Tsueno Chikaraishi for the company's exploding airbags.