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On This Day in Automotive History: March 20

On This Day in Automotive History
March 20

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Birthdays: George DeWitt (1886), Robert Benoist (1895), Charles Moran (1909), Bert Brooks (1920), Chuck Engle (1928), Bob Ashbrook (1929), John Martin (1939), Giampiero Moretti (1940), Bobby Fleming (1941), Billy Engelhart (1942), Jimmy Vaughn (1942), Geoff Brabham (1952), Martin Short (1959), Robert Hixon (1965), Gregg Lessard (1965), Julio Tadeo (1966), Martin Shuster (1968), Liza Snyder (1968), Jim Traver (1969), Pedro Lamy (1972), Ralph Meichtry (1972), Jeff Flesher (1973), Gus Wasson (1974), Daniel Sasnett (1978), Bryan Kruczek (1983), Markus Niemela (1984), Maxime Martin (1986), Antonio Perez (1986), Oliver Webb (1991), Paige Decker (1993), Andrew Gipson (1994), Harrison Halder (2002)

1914: OPR Superintendent of Road Construction D.H. Winslow addresses the New Hampshire Road Convention on "Special Problems in the New England States." He begins, "It has been said that 'you can always tell a New Englander, but you cannot tell him much' . . . . He is 'willing to be convinced, but would like to see the man that can convince him.'"

1943: PRA contractors complete the south river pier for the Peace River Bridge on the Alaska Highway. PRA's Raymond Archibald is in charge of design and construction. (The bridge collapsed on October 16, 1957, following a landslide. A replacement structure opened in January 1960).

1953: The film The Hitch-Hiker was released in Boston. It would be released across the United States the next day.

1956: William Bushnell Stout died.