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On This Day in Automotive History: January 23

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Birthdays: Will Jones (1889), Art Scovell (1910), Art Dugan (1912), Major Melton (1930), Emanuel Zervakis (1930), Georges Gachnang (1931), Jerry Grant (1935), Ken Madren (1941), Don Whittington (1946), Tom Harrington (1949), Terry Byers (1950), John Wood (1952), Wayne Pickering (1953), Brad Hietala (1954), James McElreath (1954), Christophe Dechavanne (1958), Joe Masessa (1960), Marty Asher (1963), Richard Hauck (1963), Tony Potts (1963), Steve Hatley (1967), Bob Michaelian (1969), Stephen Voight (1969), Brent Kirchner (1971), Oren Remick (1971), Joshua Pitt (1973), Herb Drugg (1974), Tito Ortiz (1975), Jimmy Mann Jr. (1978), Jonathan Bomarito (1982), Mike Wirth (1984), Jason Agugliaro (1985), Brian Cranmer (1985), Leslie Law (1985), Andrew Palmer (1985), Scott Dennis (1987), Austin Theriault (1994), Austin Nason (1996), Cole Custer (1998), Ernie Francis Jr. (1998), Camden Gullie (2000)

1904: The annual dinner of the Automobile Club of America turns into a Good Roads Dinner, with guests such as Representative W.P. Brownlow, Colonel Albert A. Pope, General Nelson A. Miles, and Office of Public Road's Director Martin Dodge, M.O. Eldridge, and James W. Abbott. For introducing good roads legislation, Brownlow is given three rousing cheers when he rises to speak.

1911: Arthur N. Jervis died.

1922: President Warren Harding's 5-day National Agricultural Conference opens in Washington, DC. The Highway Transportation Committee's report calls for continued aid to improve interstate, postal, and farm-to-market roads; increased safety; the putting aside of all partisan or political considerations; and coordination of railways, highways, and waterways so that each may carry the kind of traffic it can most economically, expeditiously, and efficiently serve.

1965: A.F. Chiglione represents BRP as U.S. and Canadian officials meet in Ottawa to discuss engineering factors involved in reconstructing or paving the Alaska Highway. Also in attendance are Burke Riley of the Interior Department's Juneau office and representatives of Canada's Public Works and Northern Affairs Departments.

2006: Roseanne Cash released the album Black Cadillac, which included a title track.

2006: The film Who Killed the Electric Car? was first shown, at the Sundance Film Festival.