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On This Day in Automotive History: November 28

On This Day in Automotive History
November 28

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Birthdays: Howard Taylor (1901), Joe Raymond (1923), John French (1930), Claude Laurent (1935), Georges Schafer (1937), Les Delano (1938), Claude Haldi (1942), Rod Spalding (1946), Maurice Randall (1952), Steve Hyde (1957), Hideki Okada (1958), Robert Nimkoff (1960), Mike Oliver (1961), Ken Johnson (1962), Jeff Purner (1962), Paul Bamburak (1964), Terry McCarl (1964), Dominic Chappell (1966), Shawn Fitzpatrick (1966), Vittorio Bagnasco (1967), Julian Westwood (1967), Rob Smedley (1973), Damien Digby (1975), Donny Travaglin (1977), Lance Gatlin (1984), Adam Pecorari (1984), Bradley Smith (1990), Dylan Jones (1993), Andrew Porter (1993), Mason Mingus (1994), Chase Elliott (1995), Cameron Hill (1996), Albert Francis (2001), Gio Scelzi (2001)

1895: Frank Duryea wins the first known automobile race in the United States on a route from Chicago to Waukegan and back.

1975: The film Death Race 2000 was released in West Germany.

1993: Joint FHWA/FTA final rules on statewide and metropolitan planning go into effect, implementing major planning changes required by ISTEA. The regulations were developed by an interagency task force of the FHWA and FTA with input from FRA, the FAA, the Maritime Administration, the Office of the Secretary, and the EPA, as well as public comments, and the results of public meetings held in San Francisco, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Kansas City in 1993. Administrator Rodney Slater and Federal Transit Administrator Gordon J. Linton approved the regulations on October 22. Each State must carry out a continuing, comprehensive, and intermodal statewide transportation planning process. Metropolitan planning organizations must carry out a continuing, cooperative, and comprehensive transportation planning process to develop an integrated, intermodal transportation system that facilitates the efficient, economic movement of people and goods.

2000: Smuggler's Run was released on the PlayStation 2 in Japan.

2003: Project Gotham Racing 2 released in the European Union.

2017: The Subaru Ascent is debuted at the L.A. Auto Show.