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On This Day in Automotive History: June 24

On This Day in Automotive History
June 24

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Birthdays: Howdy Wilcox (1889), Erwin Bergdoll (1890), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Robin Carnegie (1926), Tom Dickson (1928), Don White (1928), Tom Bridger (1934), Frank Deiny (1936), Didier Ortion (1950), Takao Wada (1953), Dennis Chapman (1954), Bruce Sons (1955), Peter Daniels (1958), Richard Hein (1958), Paul Peeples (1958), Jim Bown (1960), Jeff Simunaci (1960), Hut Stricklin (1961), Dilantha Malagamuwa (1963), Claude Bourbonnais (1965), Ken Murillo (1965), Eric Desrosiers (1966), Sean Monroe (1968), Pierre Goulet (1969), Michael Vergers (1969), Shawn Bayliff (1970), C.T. Hellmund (1970), Michael McNeese (1972), Chris Finocchario (1979), Andrew Jones (1980), Shawn Pierce (1980), Felix Serralles (1992), Mitch Evans (1994)

1909: In New York, during the annual meeting of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, Director Logan Page makes an earnest plea for the teaching of highway engineering in the engineering schools.

1910: Alfa Romeo was founded.

1938: The 3-day celebration for the opening of South Dakota's first trans-State paved highway ends at Chamberlain, South Dakota. On June 22, Governor Leslie Jensen said, "U.S. Highway No. 16 could be likened to the goose laying the golden egg because completion of hard surfacing will bring a vast increase in traffic, increase in revenue, and wonderful advertising to the State." S. L. Taylor represents Bureau of Public Roads during the ceremonies.

1941: The initial meeting of the National Interregional Highway Committee, appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt, convenes at PRA headquarters (the Federal Works Building) to begin identifying a limited system of national highways designed to provide a basis for improved interregional transportation. Commissioner Thomas MacDonald is Chairman and Herbert Fairbank is secretary.

1964: Bureau of Public Roads' highway research facility in McLean, Virginia, is named the Herbert S. Fairbank Research Station. A plaque is unveiled at 2:30 by Mrs. Francis Fairbank, wife of his cousin, when his sister, Miss Grace C. Fairbank of Baltimore, MD, is unable to attend due to illness. A tribute says, "His monument, still being built, is an efficient highway system, planned for the future and soundly financed."

1977: FHWA drops the proposal to change road signs to the metric system. Following publication of an advance notice of proposed rulemaking in April inviting public comment, FHWA received more than 5,000 comments and, says Administrator William Cox, "about 98 percent of them were negative. There simply was too much opposition to the proposal from the general public."

1977: The film Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo was released in the U.S.

2005: Production of the Chevrolet Venture ended.

2011: The film Cars 2 released in the U.S.