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On This Day in Automotive History: March 8

On This Day in Automotive History
March 8

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Birthdays: Henry Kohlert (1892), Jules Ellingboe (1892), Curt Stockwell (1904), Mike Klapak (1913), Ethel Mobley (1914), Chauncey Crist (1916), Bob Gregg (1920), Gawaine Baillie (1934), Bobby Marvin (1939), Joe Dean Huss (1939), John Giddings (1943), Jeff Klem (1945), Doug McGriff (1946), Jim Osgar (1946), Richard Noda (1949), Sandy Satullo (1954), Mark Smith (1954), Ronnie Thomas (1955), Bertrand Balas (1956), Kirk Shelmerdine (1958), Max Prestwood (1959), Richard Stanton (1962), Tom Moriarity (1962), Andreas Baenziger (1962), Tony Pedregon (1965), Paul Paine (1966), Michael Bartels (1968), Jeff Lapcevich (1970), Ken Dobson (1970), Paul Stokell (1970), Andrea Parker (1970), Steve Ablondi (1970), Denis Lian (1972), Nicolas Armindo (1982), Guillaume Moreau (1983), Henrique Cisneros (1983), Chris van der Drift (1986), Shae Davies (1990), Kyle Plott (1996), Ryan Heavner (1996), Keyvan Andres Soori (2000), Tate Fogleman (2000)

1973: The 1.7-mile, $112-million Eisenhower Memorial Tunnel on I-70 in Colorado, bypassing Loveland Pass, opens after a brief ceremony conducted about 500 feet inside the tunnel's entrance west of Denver. The ceremony is moved inside because the weather includes a temperature of 34 degrees and snow flurries. Governor John Love says, "This tunnel, as part of the interstate system, represents the most recent, and possibly the most effective, answer to tying east and west Colorado together and opening the way west."

1990: In the Old Executive Office Building, President George Bush and Secretary of Transportation Samuel Skinner unveil the National Transportation Policy (NTP), developed by a USDOT team under Deputy Secretary Elaine Chao and Administrator Thomas Larson after an extensive public/private sector outreach. The policy will, in the Secretary's words, "set a course that will ensure we have a transportation system that supports our national goals for the future." The USDOT's legislative proposals for the post-Interstate era-unveiled in this same room on February 13, 1991-are based on the NTP and lead directly to ISTEA.

2019: The first season of Formula 1: Drive to Survive (about the 2018 F1 season) aired.