Birthdays: Harris Insinger (1909), Len Fanelli (1917), Bill Norton (1924), John Weibel (1936), Ken Mathews (1940), Bobby Boggero (1946), Kazuyoshi Hoshino (1947), Gary McCoy (1948), Lee Dailey (1949), Joe Nonnamaker (1949), Larry Connor (1950), Bill Dollahite (1953), Antonin Charouz (1954), Robert Ingram (1954), Jack Helget (1956), Nancy Lieberman (1958), Kennie Compton (1959), Len Nowosel (1960), Les Vallarano (1961), Peter Cunningham (1962), Curt Piercy (1962), Bill Gratton (1963), Rich Rutherford (1964), Mike Urciuoli (1964), Skip Jackson (1968), Mike Leffingwell (1970), Robb Touchette (1973), Ryan Posocco (1976), Ryan Mathews (1980), Greg Van Alst (1981), Nathanael Berthon (1989), Daniel Ricciardo (1989), Joey Hanssen (1991), C.J. McLaughlin (1992), Ricardo Vera (1993), Tyler Everingham (2001)

1905: Office of Public Road Inquiries becomes the Office of Public Roads under the Agriculture Appropriation Act of March 3, 1905. For the first time, the Agency is permanent, with an annual budget of $50,000. Director Martin Dodge had worked hard to achieve these goals. However, as a lawyer, he was prohibited by the new law from heading OPR. The Director must “be a scientist and have charge of all scientific and technical work.” Logan Page becomes Director at a salary of $2,500. His staff includes a Chief of Records (M.O. Eldridge), a Chief Clerk (J.E. Pennybacker, Jr.), a Chief of the Division of Tests (Dr. A.S. Cushman) and a Chief of Construction (A.N. Johnson), an Instrument Maker, and six clerks.

1915: Office of Public Roads becomes the Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering.

1918: Office of Public Roads and Rural Engineering becomes the Bureau of Public Roads.

1924: Bureau of Public Roads discontinues the practice of testing samples of road materials for any U.S. citizen. Samples will be tested only if submitted by or at the request of government officials and then only if the request is accompanied by a statement that the sampling was done by a disinterested party. The statement should be made on Bureau of Public Roads Form T-206.

1926: Hudson finishes a $10M body plant where they could build all-steel closed bodies for Hudson and Essex.

1939: Bureau of Public Roads becomes the Public Roads Administration and is shifted from the Department of Agriculture to the Federal Works Agency.

1942: In Panama, after working day and night, PRA completes the 52-mile Chorrera-Rio Hato Road to an important military airfield at Rio Hato. About half the mileage had been completed in cooperation with Panama when the U.S. entered World War II and the U.S. Army demanded that work be completed by June. PRA completed the road without cost to Panama.

1949: The Public Roads Administration becomes the Bureau of Public Roads, briefly part of the General Services Administration before moving to the Department of Commerce on August 20.

1951: Juan Manuel Fangio wins the XXXVIII Grand Prix de l'A.C.F. after swapping his failing car with Luigi Fagioli's car on orders of the team. The veteran Fagioli was so infuriated by this that he quit Grand Prix racing on the spot.

1955: Yamaha Motor Company was founded.

1991: Buddy Guy released his album Damn Right, I've Got the Blues, which included his version of the song “Mustang Sally.”

2005: The final Ford Thunderbird was produced.

2014: Mark Fields succeeds Alan Mulally as CEO of the Ford Motor Company.

2016: Blink-182 released their album California, which included the song “Parking Lot.”

2018: Kyle Busch wins the Overton's 400 (Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series: Chicagoland Speedway) in a controversial finish. The race was Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s Cup Series debut as a broadcaster.

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