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On This Day in Automotive History: November 15

On This Day in Automotive History
November 15

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Birthdays: Ben Brandfon (1888), Lloyd Chick (1912), Sherman Clark (1920), George Green (1927), Jerry Unser (1932), Louie Unser (1932), H.B. Bailey (1936), Bernie Hentges (1936), Jan Lundgardh (1941), Keith McAdoo (1941), Maurizio Micangeli (1944), Romain Feitler (1946), George Kent Jr. (1949), Alistair Fenwick (1951), Emmett Groves (1954), Jimmy Garmon (1958), Tim Mangus (1958), Tom Soriano (1960), Joe Ross (1966), Mike Molleur (1967), Pat Kelly (1968), Beaux Barfield (1971), Cecil Chunn (1971), John Beatty Jr. (1975), Philip Andersen (1980), Kevin Clark (1981), Billy Tanner (1981), Justin Koch (1984), Oliver Bryant (1985), Anders Krohn (1987), Troy Castaneda (1989), Nicole Behar (1997), Chris Hacker (1999), Jonathan Hoggard (2000)

1886: Bosch founded.

1921: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover's Conference on Unemployment takes place in Washington, DC, with special emphasis on how funds authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1921 can help relieve post-World War I unemployment. Colonel James B. McCord of Bureau of Public Roads tells the conference, "Directly and indirectly, probably 200,000 workers will be employed in state highway construction."

1932: In northern Virginia, the Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (now part of the George Washington Memorial Parkway), designed and constructed under Bureau of Public Roads' direction, is dedicated in a ceremony held in conjunction with AASHO's Annual Meeting. Authorized by a law enacted on May 23, 1928, the memorial highway is part of the celebration in 1932 of the 200th anniversary of George Washington's birth. The road links his home, Mount Vernon, to the south end of the Arlington Memorial Bridge, which crosses the Potomac River at Washington, DC. Bureau of Public Roads began surveying to determine the memorial highway's location on June 15, 1928, and construction began on September 12, 1929. The highway had opened in segments, from January 1932 through May.

1945: The film Detour was released in Boston.

2005: Carrie Underwood released her album Some Hearts, which included the song “Before He Cheats.”

2019: The film Ford v Ferrari was released in the U.S., Canada, and the UK.