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On This Day in Automotive History: March 10

On This Day in Automotive History
March 10

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Birthdays: Mark Billman (1905), Jimmy Snyder (1909), Chuck Stimus (1910), Rene Carriere (1911), Rex Mays (1913), Jim Metzler (1913), George Cavanna (1916), James Jones (1929), Jean-Jacques Thuner (1933), Al Hill (1937), Carson Baird (1938), Heinz Schulthess (1939), Earl Whiting (1943), Hiroshi Fushida (1946), Gianni Giudici (1946), John Livingston (1948), Bruce Trenery (1948), Don Thompson (1954), Tomiko Yoshikawa (1954), Greg Court (1954), Toshio Suzuki (1955), Mike Wallace (1959), Dean Chrystal (1960), Roger Williams (1961), Peter Pizzagalli (1964), Ricky Rolfe (1964), Randy Briggs (1965), Dave Kudrave (1966), Ronald van de Laar (1965), John Flemming (1967), Chris Goodwin (1967), Mart Nesbitt (1967), Mike Bruno (1971), Matt Kenseth (1972), Kelly Denton (1973), John McIntyre (1977), Shannon Miller (1977), Bob Sibila (1977), Andy Jankowiak (1988), Ryan Gifford (1989), Jace Meier (1989), Victor Garcia (1990), Tatiana Calderon (1993), Nicolaij Moller-Madsen (1993), Jared Fryar (1994), Jo Lawrence (1995), Sean Rayhall (1995), Beitske Visser (1995), Jackson Boone (2000), Florian Venturi (2001)

1919: The Indiana State Highway Commission becomes the last State highway agency to qualify for funding under the 1916 Federal Aid Road Act. The original commission had suspended operations when the 1917 legislation establishing it was challenged as unconstitutional. After the Indiana Supreme Court ruled in the State's favor, the General Assembly passed an act, effective this date, creating the commission.

1953: At the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, Wilbur H. Simonson, Chief of Bureau of Public Roads' Roadside Branch, delivers the First Lecture in the Horace Brown Lecture Series sponsored by the New Jersey Roadside Council. In "Evolution of the Parkway to the Complete Highway," he says that studying earlier examples "will give you a clearer vision of complete highway design as a way of life-the American way, bright with the promise of opportunity to serve your fellow man in the years to come."

2009: Fleetwood filed for bankruptcy.

2017: Samsung Electronics completed the acquisition of Harman International Industries, which includes the Harman Kardon, Infinity, and Mark Levinson brands.