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On This Day in Automotive History: June 16

On This Day in Automotive History
June 16

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Birthdays: Harry Endicott (1881), Josef Christiaens (1882), Art Johnson (1884), Ron Flockhart (1923), Ray Johnstone (1928), Mike Sparken (1930), Henry Shaw (1933), Rico Steinemann (1939), Larry Smith (1942), Buzz Gregory (1943), Mario Luini (1951), Joe Herold (1954), Nikolas Konstant (1955), Michel Maisonneuve (1955), Danny Willis (1956), Mike Barrett (1959), John Blanchard (1960), Hoshiri Wada (1962), Victor Mibelli (1963), Akira Ishikawa (1965), Robert Powell (1965), Toby Tobias Jr. (1966), Bart Hayden (1970), Derek Lynch (1971), Eddie Cibrian (1973), Mike Swaim Jr. (1976), Jason Workman (1977), Tom Rogers Jr. (1978), Gary Terry (1978), A.J. Rhoads II (1979), Kelly Kovski (1981), Skip McCord (1981), Clint Field (1983), Lloyd Mack (1983), Alessandro Ciompi (1985), Andrew Aquilante (1987), Benjamin Lariche (1987), Billy Pauch Jr. (1987), Jorge Cevallos (1994), Jake Dennis (1995), Enzo Guibbert (1995), Jake Finch (2005)

1903: The Ford Motor Company was incorporated.

1933: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the National Industrial Recovery Act, providing $400 million for road projects without a matching requirement. For the first time, funds can be used on urban extensions of the Federal-aid system or on "secondary and feeder roads" off system.

1934: The film Burn 'Em Up Barnes was released.

1940: Ceremonies mark the opening of the 13.6-mile East Side Highway just inside the eastern boundary of Mount Rainer National Park, WA. Bureau of Public Roads administered 11 contracts over 9 years, with a final cost of $1,381,788. To everyone's surprise, over 5,000 people travel over the road the first day. Continued heavy use of the highway during June overtaxes park campgrounds and other facilities in the southeastern section of the park.

1999: The American Coalition for Traffic Safety changed its name to the Automotive Coalition for Traffic Safety.

2006: The film The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift was released in the U.S. & UK.

2017: The film Cars 3 was released in the U.S. & Canada.