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On This Day in Automotive History: September 6
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On This Day in Automotive History
September 6
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Birthdays: Frank Elliott (1890), Karl Kling (1910), Lou Webb (1911), Wimpy Sipple (1920), Elgin Holmes (1923), Smokey Boutwell (1931), Norman McGriff (1933), Bill Hollar (1938), Bob Moore (1941),
Kenny Bernstein (1944), Charlie Nearburg (1950), Max Welti (1952), Rob Wilson (1952), Tommie Crozier (1954), Denis Morin (1956), Steve Carlson (1957), Ray Neveau (1957), Charles Putman (1957), Rick Lambert (1958), John Todd (1959),
Jeff Green (1962), Shawn Price (1963), Richard Landreth (1964), Erik Johnson (1968), Ted Mickelson (1968), Angie Everhart (1969), Morty Buckles (1971), Rhys Millen (1972), Wes Miller (1972), Mike Rittenhouse (1973), Steven Johnson (1974), Chris Moore (1982), Kuno Wittmer (1982), Brad Foy (1985), Cody Cambensy (1989), Marco Sorensen (1990), Justin Mondeik (1996), Tim Zimmermann (1996)
1910: In a letter to Bureau of Public Roads, Thomas H. MacDonald of the Iowa State Highway Commission complains that after being appointed a Bureau of Public Roads Special Agent to collect and provide information on State roads, at a salary of $1 a year, his appointment had been unexpectedly revoked. On September 9, Director Logan Page replies, "I regret very much that this has happened, but am today having you reappointed as Special Agent at $1.00 per annum."
1926: Ceremonies mark the opening of the Cameron Pass Highway westerly out of Fort Collins, Colorado, over the Continental Divide. The central 6-mile link was a Bureau of Public Roads project for the Forest Service. The survey had been carried out during the summer of 1922, with S. A. Wallace of Bureau of Public Roads' Denver office as chief of party.
1949: Extension of the Shirley Memorial Highway--a 17-mile, four-lane expressway--opens from a point south of the Pentagon highway network to Woodbridge, VA. The highway is named for the Virginia Highway Commissioner Henry G. Shirley, who died on July 16, 1941, just a few weeks after giving the "go ahead" for work on the expressway.
1956: The
Texas Ceegar, a streamlined
Triumph motorcycle, set a Bonneville speed record of 214.4 mph
1960: Bureau of Public Roads' new transistorized card-sorter machine, the first of its type to be made available to the Federal Government, goes into operation. With it, the Data Processing Division will maintain financial and statistical data on more than 15,000 active Federal-aid highway projects in about 3,000 counties, DC, and PR.
2013: The film Snake & Mongoose was released.
2019: The film Blink of an Eye was released.
2019: The film Rapid Response was released.
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