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National Drive-Thru Day: Created by America's first drive-thru burger chain, Jack in the Box.
Birthdays: C. Glenn Howard (1897), Franco Comotti (1906), Ray Hill (1922), Dave Humphrey (1925), Dick Passwater (1926), Jean-Pierre Adatte (1939), Simon Emmerling (1940), Johnny Anderson (1942), Ed Carroll (1943), Charlie Ford (1944), Bobby Jacks (1945), Richard Hubbard (1946), Pat Phinny (1948), Jim Hamblin (1958), Jeff Seifert (1961), Stan Wattles (1961), Troy Backlund (1962),
Johnny O'Connell (1962), Karl Malone (1963), Lawrence Tomlinson (1964), Scott Bryden (1966), Larry Gelinas (1966), LeAnne Tanner (1967), Michael Covington (1968), Amanda Stretton (1973), Jake Hobgood (1975), Tiago Monteiro (1976), Blake Bainbridge (1979), Jaco Correia (1980), Scott MacMichael (1981), Thiago Medeiros (1982), Ian Madsen (1984), Jon Miller (1985), Shannon McIntosh (1989), Dean Stoneman (1990)
1701: The city of Detroit, Michigan was founded.
1911: In connection with the American Association for Highway Improvement, the Touring Club of America begins a road inspection tour of Virginia to secure data as to highway conditions and especially the improvement of the notoriously bad highway between Richmond and Washington, DC, in time for the American Road Congress in November. OPR's Paul Sargent and J.E. Pennybacker, Jr., join the party, which is officially started by Vice President J.S. Sherman. (President William H. Taft agrees to attend the American Road Congress but only on condition that he not have to motor to Richmond over Virginia's roads.)
1981: The film Car Crash was released in Italy.
1982: The song “Driving in My Car” by Madness was released.
2004:
Nikolai Smolensky becomes the owner of
TVR.
