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On This Day in Automotive History: November 16

On This Day in Automotive History
November 16

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National Check Your Wipers Day: Founded by Michelin in 2021.

Birthdays: George Armstrong (1877), Tazio Nuvolari (1892), Marvin Heinis (1919), Bill Amick (1925), Mike Batinich (1925), Ray Penfold (1927), Regis Fraissinet (1931), Skip Barber (1936), John Mahler (1936), Chuck Amati (1940), Mike Weinberg (1941), Bruce Busby (1943), Tim Dykman (1946), Pasquale Barberio (1947), Patrick Latimer (1950), David Ratcliff (1950), Tommy Archer (1954), Mike Follmer (1955), Terry Labonte (1956), Bo Gunning (1957), Dean Hall (1957), Jerry McCart (1957), Roberto Guerrero (1958), Andrea Robertson (1959), Tom Pinkowsky (1960), Mike Groff (1961), Luigi Moccia (1961), Sean Graham (1966), Michael Miller (1967), Robbie Stanley (1967), Tovia Grynewicz (1971), Rob Barff (1974), Stuart Moseley (1977), Korbin Forrister (1992), Dylan Hutchison (1994), Tanner Tallarico (1996), Jake Griffin (1998)

1909: President William Howard Taft writes to Kansas Governor Stubbs about the planned national good roads convention in Topeka. Although the President thinks the good roads question is "chiefly a state function," he adds that, "The truth is, I think, that the good roads have much to do with the use of waterways and also with the question of railway transportation, because the difficulties of getting to waterways and railways are the great burdens that the farmers have to bear."

1948: Commissioner Thomas MacDonald presents the second David Beecroft Memorial Lecture at a meeting of the Society of Automotive Engineers in Washington, DC. His subject is "Driver Behavior--Key to Safe Highway Design." He says, "For too long, and in too great degree, highway design has been distorted by the tyranny of wrong concepts. Most important of these in its adverse impacts is the error of thinking of the motor vehicle as static in relation to the highway. In use, the vehicle is dynamic and takes on very different qualities."

1974: Due to recent congressional limitations on Federal Highway Administration travel funds, an FHWA Family Dinner at the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel in Detroit, site of AASHTO's Annual Meeting, is canceled.

1977: The film Bobby Deerfield was released in France.

1987: The song “Mercedes Boy” by Pebbles was released on her self-titled album.

1998: DaimlerChrysler began trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DCX.

2018: The film Green Book was released. The film The Last Race was released.