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On This Day in Automotive History: November 4

On This Day in Automotive History
November 4

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Birthdays: Marcel Basle (1888), Coleman Lawrence (1904), Banks Simpson (1916), Eric Thompson (1919), Clarence Benton (1922), Pete Frazee (1926), Egon Evertz (1936), James Wood (1937), Markey James (1941), Bob Wollek (1943), James Cogdill (1951), John McFadden (1951), Eric Emhoff (1953), Gary Nufer (1953), Jacques Villeneuve (1953), Herve Regout (1954), Kevin Simmons (1955), Ross Bentley (1956), Francisco Castillo (1957), Jeff Hall (1959), Rusty Schmidt (1959), Mike Ramsey (1963), Jeff Dawkins (1965), Niek Hommerson (1966), James Brown (1969), Jim Froling (1969), Shanta Rhodes (1975), Bruno Junqueira (1976), Wes Burton (1980), Adrian Zaugg (1986), Anders Fjordbach (1990), Alon Day (1991), Trenton Moriarity (1992)

1918: Having in mind the return of soldiers from World War I, Director Logan Page writes to the State highway departments on the Secretary of Agriculture's behalf, to ask for the number of returned soldiers who may be employed on road repair, construction, and maintenance as carpenters, masons, stationary engineers, roller-men, and quarry bosses, among other positions.

1949: The film The Big Wheel was released.

1959: Administrator Bertram Tallamy is a speaker at the dedication of a 7-mile segment of I-93 from Concord, New Hampshire, to the Vermont line (named the Senator Styles Bridges Highway). New Hampshire State Highway Commissioner John O. Morton, US Senators Styles Bridges and Norris Cotton, and Governor Wesley Powell also speak. A motorcade of 300 cars drives over the new highway after the ribbon cutting by Mrs. Styles Bridges. (During Tallamy's address, he mentions that one of the pleasures of coming to New England is Indian pudding. The next day the hostess congratulates him on his honesty--because he had indeed ordered Indian pudding.

1968: The Board of Directors of the American Concrete Institute approves presentation of the Charles S. Whitney Award to BPR's Bridge Division and its former Chief, Eric L. Erickson, "for distinguished contributions to development of concrete bridge design and construction."

2015: Genesis was spun off of Hyundai as a separate brand.