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On This Day in Automotive History: May 23

On This Day in Automotive History
May 23

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Birthdays: Alfred P. Sloan (1875), Harry Thicksten (1884), Rick Decker (1903), Ernst Klodwig (1903), Joe Jernigan (1915), Pete Pusede (1915), Felix Wilkes (1915), Joe James (1925), Jim Malloy (1932), Serge Lelong (1939), Gerard Larrousse (1940), Ken Hamilton (1941), Hank Mountain (1946), Paul Richardson (1947), Jerry Sneva (1949), Jean-Francois Veroux (1949), Ricky Knotts (1951), Patrick Gonin (1957), Frank Jelinski (1958), Dale Trevathan (1960), Wally Dallenbach Jr. (1963), Lara Tallman (1964), Pat Jaehne (1966), Didier Cottaz (1967), Michael Crawford (1967), Laurent Aiello (1969), Rob Russell (1969), Olivier Couvreur (1970), Bryan Herta (1970), Rubens Barrichello (1972), Ricky Marshall (1972), Jason Dietsch (1973), Jon Fogarty (1975), Toby Grahovec (1979), Michael Simko (1981), Bobby Grewohl (1986), Shantel Kalika (1990), Hongli Ye (1992), J. C. Newell (1996), Sergio Sette Camara (1998), Olivier Hart (1999), Felipe Drugovich (2000)

1919: Chief Thomas MacDonald sends his first memo to District Engineers outlining his vision of highways: "There is no work more worthwhile. I have yet to know any man who has devoted a considerable period of his life to the building of roads who is not conscious of having accomplished results whose returns to the public in service can scarcely be measured."

1938: Bureau of Public Roads engineers E. R. Shepard and A. E. Ryan complete subsurface exploration tests in New Hampshire. The tests, begun May 10, were conducted at the request of Commissioner F. E. Everett of the State Highway Department to demonstrate the possibilities of the electrical resistivity and the seismic methods of exploration in connection with highway construction problems. The tests showed that NH soils were not well adapted to the electrical resistivity method of subsurface exploration, but the seismic testing was well adapted to detecting and locating the approximate position of solid ledge, profiling with respect to density and rigidity, and locating rock formations in connection with grading operations.

1974: Controversial portions of I-95 and I-695 in Boston, Massachusetts, are the first to be withdrawn from the Interstate System under Title 23, United States Code, Section 103(e)(4), which was added to Title 23 by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1973.

2012: The film Holy Motors was first shown, at the Cannes Film Festival.

2015: The film Shingekijouban Inisharu D: Legend 2: Tousou was released in Japan.