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On This Day in Automotive History: July 9

On This Day in Automotive History
July 9

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Birthdays: Herbert Lytle (1874), Jack Curtner (1888), Herbert Berg (1910), Leo Breithaupt (1914), Arden Mounts (1917), Dick Thompson (1920), Van Van Wey (1924), Harry Dust (1925), G.C. Spencer (1925), Norm Beechey (1932), Joe Labani (1934), Peter Kitchak (1941), Rodger Patterson (1941), Tom Frantz (1943), Guy Kuster (1946), Dudley Wood (1946), Bruce Hill (1949), Mark Thompson (1951), Scott Autrey (1953), Carleton Robie (1954), Mark Cole (1956), Steve Holzhausen (1957), David Sala (1957), Brian Schofield (1959), Donnie Richeson (1960), Raymond Cruz (1961), Peter Gibbons (1962), Donnie Lashua (1967), Javier Fernandez (1968), Rick Groetsch (1970), Tommy Pistone (1974), Lucas Downs (1979), Charlie Wahl (1979), Olivier Pernaut (1981), Ryan Unzicker (1981), Sakon Yamamoto (1982), Jesse Hockett (1983), Matthew Wragg (1985), Earl Bamber (1990), Kuba Giermaziak (1990), Tyler Tanner (1991), Richard Muscat (1992), Cole Powell (1992), Max Hanratty (1993), Sena Sakaguchi (1999), Jack Smith (1999)

1900: Dowlais Iron Company and Arthur Keen's Patent Nut and Bolt Company merged to form Guest, Keen & Co. Ltd., a precursor to GKN.

1951: In Detroit, Michigan, the first section of the Edsel Ford Expressway opens, financed by Bureau of Public Roads, the State, Wayne County, and the city. The expressway is depressed below ground level, with all principal intersecting streets carried over the six expressway lanes. Frontage roads are provided at ground level for local traffic. Bureau of Public Roads' annual report for FY 1951 says the opening "was the beginning of a new era of automobile transportation in Detroit."

1964: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Urban Mass Transportation Act to provide additional assistance for the development of comprehensive and coordinated mass transportation systems, both public and private, in metropolitan and other urban areas. The Act vests urban mass transportation functions in the Administrator of the Housing and Home Finance Agency. The authority is shifted to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development before being transferred to the Secretary of Transportation. In 1991 the Urban Mass Transportation Administration would go on to become the Federal Transit Administration.

2008: The Reluctantz released their album Committed, which included the song “Chevy Belair.”

2020: Ford originally scheduled the reveal of the 2021 Bronco for July 9th, but it was rescheduled to July 13th after it was pointed out that July 9 is O.J. Simpson's birthday.