Birthdays: John Borden (1917), Max de Terra (1918), Andre Pilette (1918), Jake Jacobs (1923), Peter Riley (1930), Henry Morrogh (1931), Bobby Brown (1939), Darrell Bryant (1940), Daniel Warlick (1940), Edgar Doren (1941), John Nicholson (1941), Carlos Pace (1944), Patrick Dal Bo (1945), Dick McCabe (1947), Vivian Candy (1948), Steve Reed (1950), John Piccinini (1951), Manfred Winkelhock (1951), Daniel Herregods (1953), Greg Crick (1954), Mike McLaughlin (1956), Mark Mountanos (1956), Steve Kunz (1963), Robert Mitten (1963), Lance Dewease (1965), Larry Fisher (1965), Richard Lasater (1965), Fredrik Ekblom (1970), Phil Bennett (1971), Jeremy Sisto (1974), Dale Nottestad (1977), Phillip McGilton (1978), Bobby Grigas III (1981), Bobby Wilson (1981), Justin Funkhouser (1983), Benjamin Reynolds (1984), Kristen Yeley (1985), A.J. Moyer (1987), Joe Mueller (1988), Charles Evans Jr. (1989), Chase Mattioli (1989), Matt Waltz (1989), Patrick Gallagher (1992), Devin Steele (1992), T.J. Zacharias (1992), Macauley Jones (1994), Grant Griesbach (2001)

1910: Office of Public Roads' Maurice O. Eldridge addresses the Second Annual Convention of the Southern Appalachian Good Roads Association in Knoxville, Tennessee, on “Road Laws and Road Building.” As a Tennessee native, he recalls his boyhood days when, under the “statute labor” system, citizens paid their road tax by working on the roads. “We used to turn out in the fall of the year, in September or October, when the roads were hard and dry, and pile up clods, sods and vegetable mold in the middle of the road. If there were any mudholes we would usually haul large stones from adjacent fields and fill them, and that would usually make two mudholes, which were filled in the same way the following year.”

1926: Chief Thomas MacDonald presents a paper to the Annual Convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers on “The History and Development of Road Building in the United States” (written with H.S. Fairbank) that becomes a standard reference for historians.

1970: Administrator Frank Turner speaks on “Urban Growth and Mobility in the United States,” at the Sixth World Highway Conference in Montreal. He says that deciding the role of each transportation mode is an issue of public policy. “The question is not so much one of choosing between competing modes as it is one of providing an effective mix of complementary modes.”

1977: In Portland, Oregon, Administrator William Cox tells the Northwest Bridge Engineers Seminar that highway transportation would predominate over all other transportation modes for the foreseeable future. “Consequently, we have to correct problems with highway bridges immediately." He adds, however, that the size of the bridge program "must be based on a realistic assessment of what can actually be accomplished.”

1981: At American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials' annual meeting in Chicago, Executive Director Les P. Lamm receives the annual Thomas H. MacDonald Award for continuous outstanding service.

1986: Modern Talking released the song “Geronimo's Cadillac.”

1992: Suzy Boguss released her album Voices in the Wind, which included the song “Drive South.” Alan Jackson released his album A Lot About Livin' (And a Little 'bout Love), which included his version of the song “Mercury Blues.” The Tragically Hip released their album Fully Completely, which included the song “Locked in the Trunk of a Car.”

1993: The last precast segment of the Double Arch Bridge of the Natchez Trace Parkway is placed, completing the 1,572-foot long superstructure. The bridge, designed by Figg Engineering Group for FHWA's Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division, is the first segmental precast concrete arch bridge in this country.

2000: The film Taxi 2 was released in the U.S.

2004: The American version of the film Taxi was released.

2005: Production ended on the Chevrolet Cavalier.

2005: Bud Ekins died.

In the News...

Date	Article	Details
6 October 1913	CANADIAN JURIST HOLDS COURT IN AUTOMOBILE Automobiles have been used for all sorts of purposes, from operating a printing press to furnishing power for driving farm machinery, but it is believed that Judge Taylor, presiding officer in the Edmonton District Court, established a precedent when he converted his big touring car into a courtroom.	News Article (text) Publication: The Washington Herald Dateline: Edmonton, Alberta
6 October 1913	WOMAN CAPITALIZES POVERTY AND AUTO The newsest means of livelihood has been happily hit upon by a bright New York woman who terms herself a “chaperone-chaffeuse.” According to her story, when the necessity of choosing an occupation arose, she had no capital save her clothes and her auto.	News Article (text) Publication: The Washington Herald Dateline: New York, New York