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On This Day in Automotive History: November 2

On This Day in Automotive History
November 2

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Birthdays: Frank Davidson (1886), Bill Albertson (1889), Lou Volk (1910), John Hamby (1924), Dutch Hoag (1926), Tony Schiller (1926), Harry Jefferson (1946), Alan Jones (1946), Howard Mark (1946), Stan Greger (1949), Greg Davidson (1951), Larry Pearson (1953), Kazuo Shimizu (1954), John Zavisza (1955), Andy Pardoe (1958), Wes Banks (1960), Nicolas Leutwiler (1960), Johnny Smith (1964), Bruno Miot (1965), Rodrigo Sales (1973), Paul Jasper (1974), Stephane Sarrazin (1974), Andrew Davis (1977), Kari Maenpaa (1978), Mike Andrews (1984), Christina Orr (1987)

1895: Autocar was first published.

1915: The Southern National Highway Association, sponsor of a highway from Washington, DC, to San Diego, California, dispatches a group for the first official trip over its entire route. Engineer B. H. Burrell represents OPRRE on the 26-day trip.

1959: The first Joint BPR-State Right-of-Way Seminar is opened by C.W. Phillips, Chief of the Right-of-Way Division. All BPR region and division right-of-way personnel and utility engineers from Regions 4 and 5, as well as members of the Headquarters Right-of-Way Division attend. The goal is to achieve a better understanding of the many right-of-way acquisition problems being experienced.

1962: A 5-mile section of the Jones Falls Expressway, part of I-83 in Baltimore City and County, Maryland, opens, enabling motorists to drive nonstop from the center of Baltimore to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. BPR Division Engineer E.F. Gleason joins State and local officials who wield mammoth shears to snip the ribbon opening the highway. U.S. Representative George Fallon of Maryland, one of the sponsors of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, attends the ceremony.

1971: Secretary of Transportation John Volpe announces approval of the first 34 economic growth centers (in 16 States) under a program created by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970. The program provides additional funds for improvement of FAP roads to serve selected growth centers.

1983: Production began on the Dodge Caravan.

2010: The song “Dirt Road Anthem” by Jason Aldean was released on his album My Kinda Party.

2012: The film Wreck-It Ralph was released in the U.S. & Canada.