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On This Day in Automotive History: June 12
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On This Day in Automotive History
June 12
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Birthdays: Otto Merz (1889), Julius Slade (1895), Elbert Booker (1903), Phil Cade (1916), Ewell Weddle (1916), Dick Eagan (1919), Edward Ray Justice Sr. (1921), Dennis Taylor (1921), Bobby Green (1925), Herbert Scott (1926), Bill Cheesbourg (1927), Innes Ireland (1930),
Joan B. Claybrook (1937), Ron Strmiska (1941), David Weir (1944), Hans Binder (1948), Antonio De Castro (1950), Len Gough (1952), Rick McCray (1956), Joel Jennett (1960), Brad Leighton (1962), Sammy Pegram (1963), Lee Sherwood (1963), Pat Flanagan (1964), Derek Higgins (1964), Randy Hawkins (1966), Terry Cline (1969), Chris Miller (1969), Rene Villeneuve (1969), Richie Beasley (1970), Free Pennington (1970), Scott Henderson (1972), Jason McDougall (1972), Angel Burgueno (1973), Jennifer Jo Cobb (1973), Harold Primat (1975), Jason York (1975), Curtis Fielding (1978), Eduardo Troconis (1979),
Loïc Duval (1982), Kendra Wilkinson (1985), Max Snegirev (1987), Nick Salva (1992), Zihara Esteban (1994), Mat Vainner (1994)
1924: Governor Len Small of Illinois breakfasts with 38 representatives of Latin American countries. The visitors began their tour in Washington, DC, on June 2, where they met with the sponsoring Highway Education Board and President Calvin Coolidge ("We desire to profit by your experience and I hope that you may profit by ours"). On June 3, Bureau of Public Roads officials conducted the visitors on a tour of the experimental farm in Arlington, VA. That evening, they embarked on a tour of the States arranged by Chief Thomas MacDonald and S. T. Henry, Director of the Pan-American Highway Commission. In Illinois, the visitors see Abraham Lincoln's tomb in Springfield and inspect the Bates Test road, on which the Illinois Division of Highways and Bureau of Public Roads conducted pavement tests (1920-1923).
1972:
ASE founded.
1979: At the Four Seasons Motor Hotel in Albuquerque, New Mexico, during the 58th Annual Meeting of the Western Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials, FHWA demonstrates a new low-cost, durable pavement marking material, known as epoxy thermoplastic, developed as an alternative to conventional traffic paints. Associate Administrator for Research and Development Gerald Love says it is "non-polluting, extremely durable, and available as a generic formulation."
1995: In a case growing out of a Federal Lands highway project in Colorado, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that Federal affirmative action programs are constitutional only if they serve a compelling governmental interest and must be narrowly tailored to address identifiable past discrimination (Adarand Constructors vs Pea).
1996: The final
Ford Bronco rolls off the assembly line.
2006:
Monster Garage ended.
2007: The
Ford Motor Company announced that it plans to sell Land Rover and Jaguar Cars.
2013:
Jason Leffler died.
2016: The first episode of
Ride with Norman Reedus aired.
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