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On This Day in Automotive History: March 16

On This Day in Automotive History
March 16

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Birthdays: Adolph Monsen (1880), William Bushnell Stout (1880), Art Klein (1889), Louis Unser (1896), Chet Gardner (1898), Georges d'Arnoux (1907), Hughie Dunn (1917), Oswald Karch (1917), Dick Carter (1925), Gene Tapia (1925), Peter Lindner (1930), Berndt Jansson (1931), Peter de Klerk (1935), Jim Reynard (1941), Gijs van Lennep (1942), Hans Heyer (1943), Rene Herzog (1946), Billy Stavola (1947), Dick Ferguson (1950), Kiichi Takahashi (1950), Jerry Cranmer (1951), Ed Ferree (1952), Kees Nierop (1958), Paul Marconi (1959), Sherry Blakley (1962), Franck Fréon (1962), Richard Berry (1963), Joe Federico (1963), Franck Freon (1964), Kevin Cywinski (1965), Mark Kortz (1965), Eddie Massengill (1965), Jeff Barry (1967), Xavier West (1968), Julien Penaruiz (1977), Boris Derichebourg (1978), Nelson Canache (1978), Freddie Taylor Jr. (1982), Rory Butcher (1987), Bubba Pollard (1987), Ginny Quinones (1988), Matt Frahm (1990), Brett Davern (1992), Kevin Gilardoni (1992), Scotty Hubler (1992), Brandon Hermiller (1993), James Bickford (1998)

1946: At the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago, Illinois, Deputy Commissioner of Public Roads H.E. Hilts addresses the Mississippi Valley Conference on "Activating the Postwar Federal-Aid Highway Program." He also looks back, "Now that the war is over we find it easy to forget the real concern that was felt . . . over a possibility of bombings and even invasions. [The PRA studied] the effectiveness of the strategic network of highways to accommodate 55-ton tanks in our coastal States . . . . At the same time as these studies were in progress, selections were being made of alternate routes paralleling each side of each route of the strategic network to facilitate potential heavy military movements. Fortunately we were not called upon to use these routes for these purposes except for maneuvers."

1966: The last ever Studebaker was manufactured in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1989: The film Ah Long dik goo si (All About Ah-Long) was released in Hong Kong.

2009: The 5th Generation Chevrolet Camaro began production.