Birthdays: Ed Schillo (1888), Al Aspen (1893), Herschel Buchanan (1907), Franco Rol (1908), Raymond Parks (1914), Jorge Daponte (1923), Umberto Maglioli (1928), Larry Mann (1930), Don Monaco (1934), Frank Douglas (1939), Sonny Easley (1939), Bubby Jones (1941), Jerry Hansen (1946), Jack Simpson (1948), Kent Schenkel (1950), Butch Miller (1952), Scott Eggman (1957), Mike Christopher (1958), Ted Christopher (1958), Ken Losch (1960), Darrell Midgley (1960), Ronnie Hoover (1961), Rusty Morgan (1963), Bobby Hillin Jr. (1964), Mark Meunier (1964), Danny Edwards Jr. (1967), Gianluca Roda (1969), Miguel Angel de Castro (1970), Phillipp Sager (1970), Nicolas Leboissetier (1971), Michel Monteiro (1971), Kevin Poitras (1973), Egidio Perfetti (1975), Brent Harris (1978), Jason White (1979), Antonio Garcia (1980), Steven Kane (1980), Kenny Richards (1980), Justin Shipley (1980), Leanne Tander (1980), Jameson Riley (1985), Kiel Spaulding (1996), Will Brown (1998), Clayton Weatherman (1999), Chase Dixon (2003)

1912: W. Rees Jeffreys of the British Road Board attends an American Road Builders Association dinner at the Hotel Astor in New York City. After Jeffreys compares English and United States roads, Director Logan Page speaks of his embarrassment that the United States is not a member of PIARC. He also mentions that American automobiles are now built on European lines, and he hopes that American roads would also be made to resemble those of Europe.

1984: Federal Highway Administration issues a final rule designating a National Network for commercial vehicle use, as required by the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982. Administrator Ray Barnhart says the National Network, which includes the Interstate System and approximately 139,000 miles of non-Interstate primary routes, “provides a safe and efficient highway environment for the commercial transportation of materials and manufactured products between the nation's market centers.”