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On This Day in Automotive History: January 14

On This Day in Automotive History
January 14

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Birthdays: Harold Stone (1887), Attilio Marinoni (1892), Sam Grecco (1905), Dick Allwine (1917), Russ Truelove (1925), Christian Poirot (1930), Jacques Cheinisse (1934), Alberto Rodriguez Larreta (1934), Jim McCallum (1944), Donovan Haider (1947), Ian Harrower (1947), Peter Beck (1948), Eric Vuagnat (1952), Mark Dimitroff (1954), Mark Hillestad (1954), Stuart McColl (1957), Dudley Fleck (1961), Scott Deware (1962), Brian Ross (1962), Costa Bertuzzi (1968), Ralph Gilles (1970), Greg Hendrix (1970), Jens Moller (1971), Tony Schmidt (1971), Steve Dumas (1972), Dude Teate (1972), Giancarlo Fisichella (1973), Christian Glasel (1973), Narain Karthikeyan (1977), Jason Gilbert (1982), J.D. Frey (1984), Bradley Riethmeyer (1984), Josh Krug (1986), Adam Cranston (1987), Katrina Canney (1990), Jerrod Foley (1992), Matt Parry (1994), Jesse Love (2005)

1896: H.J. Lawson incorporates the The Daimler Motor Company Limited.

1909: Director Logan Page addresses a good roads convention in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the roads of different sections of the country, compared with roads in other countries. "Suffice it to say," he explains, "that the principle of state aid and supervision constitutes the germ of the only road administration which has proven successful in other countries."

1920: John Francis Dodge died.

1954: Nash & Hudson merge to form AMC.

1956: BPR Commissioner F.V. du Pont resigns to work as a consultant to Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks in furthering President Dwight D. Eisenhower's road program. Secretary Weeks announces that Charles D. “Cap” Curtiss, Deputy Commissioner in charge of the Division of Finance and Management, will assume the administrative duties of Commissioner.

1977: David Bowie released his album Low, which included the song “Always Crashing in the Same Car.”

2003: Everclear released the song “Volvo Driving Soccer Mom.”

2018: Dan Gurney died.