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On This Day in Automotive History: November 12

On This Day in Automotive History
November 12

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Birthdays: Robert Greer (1871), Wally Mitchell (1905), Gus Stanfield (1914), Peter Whitehead (1914), Paul Emery (1916), John Rostek (1925), Allen Crowe (1928), Eddie Bond (1930), Norman Mineta (1931), Larry Richardson (1941), Bjorn Waldegaard (1943), Xavier Mathiot (1944), George Eaton (1945), Tommy Robbs (1946), Michael Lewis (1959), Joe Kelly (1960), Barry Ellis (1961), Jeff Hensley (1962), Andrew Howard (1963), Karen Schulz (1965), Wade Lee (1966), Brian Weber (1966), Steve Schaefer (1967), Mike Haggenbottom (1969), Donnie Wilson (1970), Paul Beregszaszy (1975), Brad Furr (1976), Barry Maessen (1976), Eric Giguere (1977), Chad Pendleton (1980), Daniel Pope (1986), Simon Evans (1990), Julia Landauer (1991), Austin Thaxton (1992), Codie Rohrbaugh (1993), Jett Noland (2003)

1892: In New York City, John Gilmer Speed interviews General Roy Stone for a newspaper article about the Good Roads Movement. Stone says, “We have the worst roads in the civilized world; their condition is a crushing tax on the whole people.” Speed describes Stone as a Civil War hero, an inventor, and an engineer. “I met a handsome man of about 50--somewhat grizzled by his half century but as alert and energetic as a boy.”

1910: Under direction of OPR's bridge engineer, three reinforced concrete culverts are built in Bennettsville, South Carolina (through December 16) at a cost of $332.50 for labor alone.

1915: In a letter to The Road-Maker magazine, Director Logan Page replies to complaints by D. Ward King, inventor of the King split-log drag, regarding a new OPR bulletin on road drags: "This office strongly advocates the use of the drag on earth roads, and is using every means it has for extending its use, but when people like Mr. King advertise that they can show the public how to build roads without money, and that roads do not need drainage, merely for the purpose of [making] money out of the people, it is simply absurd."

1936: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened.

2004: The song “Crash” by Gwen Stefani was released on her album Love. Angel. Music. Baby.