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On This Day in Automotive History: May 5

On This Day in Automotive History
May 5

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Birthdays: Glover Ruckstell (1891), Robert Senechal (1892), Ronney Householder (1908), Bub King (1908), Duane Carter (1913), Art Pollard (1927), Bob Welborn (1928), Bob Said (1932), Luigi Taramazzo (1932), Layman Utsman (1933), Donald Tucker (1937), Les Covey (1939), Claude Bourgoignie (1945), Klaus Ludwig (1949), Larry Park (1949), Larry Walker (1950), Gabriele Matteuzzi (1951), Keith Kassulke (1952), Dieter Zetsche (1953), Larry Pollard (1954), Mike Weeden (1955), Antoine Gosse (1957), Doug Klein (1959), Scott Tucker (1962), Mark Kinser (1964), Michel Orts (1964), George Kurtz (1965), Glenn Seton (1965), Chris McMurry (1965), M.G. Gajewski (1965), Billy Alger (1968), John Batten (1968), Michele Merendino (1970), Stephan Sadler (1971), Seiji Ara (1974), Chris Buncombe (1979), Mark Bullitt (1979), Dyrk Van Zanten Jr. (1981), Daryl Harr (1982), Gunnar Jeannette (1982), Jessica Friesen (1986), Drew Herring (1987), Ant Pedersen (1988), Rich DeLong III (1988), Chris Miller (1989), Nikita Lastochkin (1990), Stephen Nasse (1995), Gianmarco Ercoli (1995), Bret Holmes (1997), Dillon Mackesy (1999)

1899: Electric Automobile Company founded

1942: Hino Motors founded.

1976: President Gerald Ford signs the Federal-Aid Highway Act, establishing the Interstate 3R program for resurfacing, restoring, and rehabilitating Interstate highways, the first Federal program to confront the problems of an aging Interstate System. The Act also establishes a "Transition Quarter" as part of the shift of the start of the fiscal year from July 1 to October 1, revises the Interstate withdrawal provisions to allow substitute highway projects as well as substitute public transportation projects, and calls for a study to determine the factors in planning, selecting, programming, and implementing Federal-aid urban system routes.

1983: Former Administrator Frank Turner is the guest of honor at the dedication of the $6.5-million Francis C. Turner Building as part of the renamed Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center. Construction of the Turner Building began in the fall of 1980. Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole comments, "This research center will enable us to learn more about highways, how to build them to greater life expectancies, how to make them more resistant to heavy loads, and, above all, how to make them safer."

1995: The film Metal Skin was released in Australia (initial wide release).

2020: Ray Lee Wood died.