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On This Day in Automotive History: September 4

On This Day in Automotive History
September 4

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Birthdays: George Wingerter (1904), Rocky DiNatale (1912), Arthur Hyde (1915), Clemar Bucci (1920), Jackie Holmes (1920), Julian Buesink (1921), Bobby Grim (1924), Don Dahle (1927), Skip Lowis (1927), Charley Griffith (1929), Bill Moss (1933), Max Ledbetter (1935), Jerry Norris (1935), Mario Casoni (1939), Bobby Wawak (1939), James Byrd (1940), Earl Ross (1941), Brian Ross (1944), Joe Bubbico (1948), Christian Blanc (1949), Randy Morrison (1952), Chris Hall (1954), Tom Eriksen (1955), John Hewitt (1957), Billy Simmons (1959), Gaston Kearby (1960), Matt McBride (1960), Terry English (1962), Luigino Pagotto (1963), Dave Darland (1966), Chris Smith (1966), David Romines (1967), Steven Christian (1969), Gerald Davis (1969), Anthony Robson (1969), David Pook (1971), Brandon Butler (1972), Todd Burns (1973), Stephane Lemeret (1973), Mike Osgar (1973), Alex Gurney (1974), Chad Blount (1979), Kosuke Matsuura (1979), Dave Avery (1980), Josh Richeson (1981), Jeremy Zullo (1982), Jonny Adam (1984), Andy Meyrick (1985), Matias Russo (1985), Will Gallaher (1989), Skylar Holzhausen (1989), Hunter Robbins (1991)

1925: President Thomas P. Henry and writer Ernest N. Smith drive their Cadillac into Oakland, California, after a cross-country trip that began at the Zero Milestone in Washington, DC, on August 30. After breakfast, they drive to Sacramento to present a letter from President Calvin Coolidge to Governor F. W. Richardson. Henry and Smith also carry letters of greeting from Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover, Secretary of War General J. H. Hines, and Secretary of Agriculture William M. Jardine, who tells Chairman Harvey M. Toy of the California Highway Commission that, "In expressing these greetings to you on this occasion, it is with the wish that the contacts between the California Highway Department and the other highway organizations of the West Coast and . . . the Bureau of Public Roads will be as cordial and profitable in the future as I have found from my western trip this summer they have been in the past."

1959: Members of the Blatnik Committee, chaired by Representative John A. Blatnik, are selected "to obtain solid facts about every phase of the Federal Highway program and after preliminary investigation hold open hearings" regarding allegations of fraud and corruption in the development of the Interstate Highway Program.

1997: The final tenth-generation Ford Thunderbird was produced, the final original Thunderbird before the retro version was introduced.

1997: The final seventh-generation Mercury Cougar was produced, the final rear wheel drive Cougar before the FWD version was introduced.

1968: FHWA announces publication of the Handbook of Highway Safety Design and Operating Practices. It presents the latest safety techniques for bridge design, signing, barriers and guardrail, drainage, and railroad crossings.

2009: Catlin Martin and the Common Thread released their self-titled album, which included the song “Black Pontiac.”

2012: The first episode of Highway Thru Hell aired.

2016: The Grand Prix of Boston was scheduled to run.

2018: The first episode of Mayans M.C. aired.