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On This Day in Automotive History: January 19
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On This Day in Automotive History
January 19
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Birthdays: Hugh Harding (1880), Marion Trexler (1891), Joe Caccia (1899), Peter Kreis (1900), Briggs Cunningham (1907), George Hufford (1907), Bob Gerard (1914), Walter Milczarski (1915), Dorothy Shull (1925), Walt Sprague (1926), Red Amick (1929), Don Nordhorn (1934), Don Tilley (1936), Jim Whitman (1937), Rick Jock (1946), Ian Skailes (1947), Yves Hervalet (1949), Tom Glaser (1950), Joe Blacker (1954), Gian Luigi Buitoni (1954), Garrett Evans (1956), Steve Walker (1957), Phillip Martien (1959), Jon Gooding (1961), Erik van der Steur (1961), Greg Williams (1961), Jay Cochran (1963), Axel Rohr (1963), Joe Heath (1965), Christophe Lapierre (1965), Warren Hughes (1969), Daniel Johnson (1973), Tarso Marques (1976), Trevor Morrical (1976), Jenson Button (1980),
Pete Buttigieg (1982), Laurent Groppi (1983), Karun Chandhok (1984), Esteban Guerrieri (1985), Andrew Lewis (1987), Agustin Canapino (1990), James Golding (1996), Jack Dossey III (1999), Kody Vanderwal (2001)
1893: Representatives of the National League for Good Roads appear before the House Agriculture Committee in support of a National Highway Commission. General Roy Stone testifies that the group unanimously voted against Federal funds for road building.
1912: Director Logan Page addresses a meeting of the American Society of Civil Engineers at Society House in New York City. His subject is the need for different road standards in different parts of the country.
1962: The first of 13 Uniform Traffic Control Conferences, sponsored by Bureau of Public Roads, AASHO, the National Association of County Officials, and the American Municipal Association, gets underway in Washington to encourage effective action in implementing 1961 MUTCD traffic standards.
1968:
Ray Harroun died in Anderson, Indiana at age 89.
1973: The Monte Carlo Rally begins, the first race of the inaugural season of the
World Rally Championship.
2016: Maren Morris released the song “My Church.”
In the News...
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| 19 January 1900 | AN AUTOMOBILE RUNS WILD
An electric automobile, driverless, dashing down Fourth Avenue, around the curve of Union Square into Fourteenth Street, finally brought to a standstill against the equestrian statue of Washington, where it continued the harsh grinding of its wheels as though in rage at having its course checked, furnished a spectacle that first alarmed and then amused a throng of people late yesterday afternoon, when the streets were most densely crowded. | News Article (text)
Publication: The New York Times |
| 19 January 2006 | Dog falls on car and kills driver in Michigan | Wikinews |
