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On This Day in Automotive History: March 9

On This Day in Automotive History
March 9

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Birthdays: Elmer Knox (1889), Tony Genove (1903), Wally Zale (1906), Floyd Davis (1909), Robert Arbuthnot (1914), Al Watkins (1922), Brian Redman (1937), Jim Thirkettle (1945), Les Ferris (1948), John Walczak (1949), Danny Sullivan (1950), Wade Cole (1953), Mark Whitaker (1953), Carlos Ghosn (1954), Teo Fabi (1955), Tim Porter (1958), Bernhard Muller (1960), Jerry Bowman (1962), Ronnie Hopkins (1962), Harold Raczynski (1962), John Stradtman (1962), Jay Truelove (1964), Fred Bickford (1965), Brian McCoughan (1965), Gary Ziegler (1968), Jorg Muller (1969), Liam Griffin (1973), Lucas Lasserre (1978), Ben Walsh (1978), Mike Walker (1979), Jeff Anton (1981), Dustin Hapka (1983), Pastor Maldonado (1985), Katie Hagar (1986), Fabio Onidi (1988), Ricardo Flores (1990), Erica Thiering (1990)

1964: Production began on the Ford Mustang.

1965: President Lyndon Johnson signs the $1.1 billion Appalachian Regional Development Act, creating the Appalachian Regional Commission and authorizing construction of the Appalachian Development Highway System and local access roads.

1974: The Governing Board of the National Research Council approves a replacement for the Highway Research Board: the Transportation Research Board.

1992: A 3-day U.S./Mexico Roundtable on Concessionary Transportation Infrastructure gets underway in Manzanillo, Mexico, to encourage cooperative enterprise. Administrator Thomas Larson heads a U.S. delegation of nearly 100 public and private sector officials.

2014: William Clay Ford Sr. died.