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On This Day in Automotive History: November 3
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On This Day in Automotive History
November 3
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Birthdays:
William D. Packard (1861), Jean Porporato (1879), Fred Betz (1880), Jean-Francois Jaeger (1923), Dexter Gainey (1930), Louis Weathersbee (1934), Frog Fagan (1940), Corky Cookman (1943), Gary Irvin (1943), Charles Coker (1945), Christian Mons (1945), Helmuth Koinigg (1948), Peter McKay (1948),
Greg Sacks (1952), Hoyt Choate (1953), Trevor Boys (1957), Akihiko Nakaya (1957),
Derrike Cope (1958), Peter Hills (1958), Shigeaki Hattori (1963), Joe Foster (1965), Anthony Tratt (1965), Fabio Babini (1969), Diego Alessi (1971), Revere Greist (1973), Allen Milton (1974), Aaron Newport (1977), Anthony Kumpen (1978), Alex Davison (1979), Scott Turlington (1980), Gerard McLeod (1983), Christian Bakkerud (1984), Jonathan Smith (1986), Casey Berenbrock (1987), Andrew Thompson (1987), Gil Linster (1993), Logan Bearden (1995), Kyle Benjamin (1997), Cayden Lapcevich (1999)
1911:
Chevrolet founded.
1949: At the Statler Hotel in Washington, DC, Commissioner Thomas MacDonald addresses the American Society of Civil Engineers on "The National System of Interstate Highways." He notes that, "Public dissatisfaction over highway inadequacies, traffic congestion, and accidents has prompted a marked increase in the planning and construction of major highway facilities, both rural and urban, that will form links in the Interstate System. During the past 2 years, progress in initiating and planning wide and safe rural highways and urban expressways has been at a greater rate than ever before."
