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On This Day in Automotive History: May 6
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On This Day in Automotive History
May 6
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Birthdays: Walter Christie (1865), George Mason (1890), Buddy Marr (1896), Rene Dreyfus (1905), Al Putnam (1910), Bill Snowden (1910), Ray Throckmorton (1918), Andre Guelfi (1919), Edgar Berney (1937), Michel Weber (1938), Roger Schramm (1941), Jackie Rogers (1943), Peter McLeod (1948), Albert Vanierschot (1949), Terry Baldry (1953), Mark Walbridge (1953), Kevin Gundaker (1955), Jan Thoelke (1956), Tim Bryant (1957), Tommy Byrne (1958), Jonathan Lee Edwards (1958), Steve Romak (1961), Terry Wyhoon (1961), Mike Cope (1962), Derek Johnston (1962), Tammy Jo Kirk (1962), Jerry Hildebrand (1963), Andrea Chiesa (1964), Steve Knowlton (1964), Philippe Steveny (1966), Christophe Pillon (1967), Brett Rowe (1967), Eric Smith (1967), Jason Schneider (1969), Mike Borkowski (1975), J.F. Dumoulin (1976), Todd Szegedy (1976), Eugenio Amos (1985), Salvador Duran (1985), Valentin Simonet (1990), Patricio O'Ward (1999), Kyle Donahue (2000)
1954: In a signing ceremony attended by Commissioner F.V. du Pont, President Dwight D. Eisenhower uses seven pens to sign the Federal-Aid Highway Act authorizing $175 million a year for Interstate construction (FYs 1956-1957) at a Federal-State matching share of 60-40. The act also authorizes the Secondary Road Plan to reduce Federal reviews on FAS projects.
1971: At the Pan American Union in Washington, DC, the U.S. and Colombia sign an agreement covering the responsibility of each party in carrying out the $100 million Darien Gap Highway Program for closing the gap between the Inter-American Highway and the Pan American Highway System of South America.
1998: Production ended on the
Saab 9000.
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