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On This Day in Automotive History: March 17

On This Day in Automotive History
March 17

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Birthdays: Ralph Pratt (1910), Bill Poor (1911), Herb Hill (1912), Charles Kleber (1922), Earl Mosbach (1925), Tom Pistone (1929), Fred Gamble (1932), Dee Jones (1933), Mike Cooke (1946), Darrell Basham (1949), Carl Miskotten Jr. (1949), Chip Mead (1950), David Kicak (1951), Nigel Smith (1951), Graeme Hooley (1954), Buck Catalano (1956), Bryon Baker (1958), Doug Bielefeld (1960), Mark Miner (1960), Clint Kidd (1965), Preston Tutt (1965), Clark Ninneman (1966), Wendell Wallace (1966), Yvan Lebon (1968), Steffen Gorig (1969), Steve Rubeck (1970), Ray Shaffer (1970), Paige Hemmis (1972), Gary LaMonte (1972), Robbie MacLean (1972), Tonis Kasemets (1974), Chapman Ducote (1976), Dustin Jones (1977), Giuliano Losacco (1977), Todd Aldrich (1978), Thomas Flohr (1980), Josh Collins (1986), Jay Verdnik (1986), Travis Dassow (1987), Stephane Richelmi (1990), Jacob Wilson (1990), Chad Finley (1992), Brandon Hightower (1998)

1914: Office of Public Roads joins with the American Highway Association in an object lesson in road maintenance, cooperating with the States and 49 counties to maintain the 893-mile Washington-to-Atlanta Highway. In OPR's FY 1914 annual report, Director Logan Page says the goal is to demonstrate "road maintenance on a sufficient scale to attract general attention, and at the same time render the largest amount of assistance at the least relative cost to the Office of Public Roads." The demonstration, supervised by OPR's Division of Maintenance, continues until 1917.

1948: The Hells Angels were started by the Bishop family in Fontana, California.

1982: The first episode of Herbie, the Love Bug aired.

1992: White Zombie released their album La Sexorcisto: Devil Music Volume One, which included the song “Black Sunshine.”

2009: Static-X released their album Cult of Static, which included the song “Z28.”