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On This Day in Automotive History: July 5

On This Day in Automotive History
July 5

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Birthdays: Pierre de Vizcaya (1894), Claude Burton (1903), George Kalen (1904), Woody Woodford (1905), Roscoe Thompson (1922), Ian Stewart (1929), Dave Hirschfield (1930), Jean Sage (1940), Gary Rush (1944), Jeff Berry (1953), Jean-Claude Police (1954), Peter Oberndofer (1956), Don Uhlir (1957), Dwight Laird (1958), Jeff Clinton (1963), Stefano Buttiero (1966), Kevin Hampton (1967), Jay Drake (1969), Henri Zogaib (1973), Yuji Tachikawa (1975), Allan Simonsen (1978), Joey Foster (1982), Arthur Heino Jr. (1983), Isaac Tutumlu (1985), Dany Poulin (1986), Daniel Brown (1991), Kenton Koch (1994), Roman Mavlanov (1994), Ezequiel Perez Companc (1994), Julien Andlauer (1999), Phil Hanson (1999), Cole Glasson (2000), Raphael Lessard (2001), Corey Heim (2002)

1892: Senator Charles B. Manderson of Nebraska introduces General Roy Stone's proposal for a National Highway Commission. Representative Philip S. Post of Illinois had introduced the same measure in the House on June 29. The measure passed the Senate July 27, but failed in the House.

1959: Three Bureau of Public Roads engineers (H.A. Radzikowski, R.S. Anderson, and S.E. Farin) complete a study tour, begun June 15, of highways in Poland. They found that good use is made of local materials while good laboratory facilities and practices were observed and highway maintenance was well performed. On the other hand, highway surfaces are not always smooth, city bypasses are congested, trees are sometimes planted on shoulders, and mechanization of highway work is limited.