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On This Day in Automotive History: March 5
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On This Day in Automotive History
March 5
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Birthdays: Bill Sockwell (1913), Jim Mayes (1920), Dick Klank (1922), Armand Boller (1924), Jimmy Roland (1926), Dick Dixon (1929), Graham McRae (1940), Graeme Ibbotson (1943), Daryl Habich (1944), Gilles Lussier (1945), Rick Scarf (1945), Michel Gabriel (1952), Tracy Potter (1954), Brad Holman (1955), Paul Drayson (1960), Len Krautheim III (1964), David Moyer (1964), David Cottrill (1966), Jeff Taylor (1967), Derrick Tiemersma (1967), Dany Gagnon (1968), Eric Corbett (1971), Arianna Casoli (1974), Luciano Burti (1975), Katsumi Yamamoto (1975), Phil Giebler (1979), Chris Johnson (1983), Jason Young (1983), Cale Gale (1985),
Sage Karam (1995), Kyle Kaiser (1996), Austin Wayne Self (1996), Robert Megennis (2000)
1918: OPRRE assigns an engineer to help the U.S. Shipping Board Housing Corporation in working out highway and street problems in connection with housing projects during World War I. A similar arrangement was made with the U.S. Housing Corporation of the Department of Labor.
1927: The first
LaSalle, the
Series 303, is introduced.
1929:
David Dunbar Buick died.
1990: Administrator Thomas Larson is in Turkey to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Directorate of Turkish Highways, which Bureau of Public Roads helped establish. With his Turkish counterpart, Atalay Coskunoglu, Dr. Larson signs a technical cooperation agreement.
1995: Phyllis Etheridge Young reports for her new assignment as Division Administrator in Jackson, Mississippi. She is the first African-American woman appointed an FHWA Division Administrator. Thirty years earlier, she had joined Bureau of Public Roads (effective date: July 4, 1965) as the first African-American woman to be a mathematical statistician in the Office of Research.
2018: The first episode of Shifting Gears with Aaron Kaufman aired.
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