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On This Day in Automotive History: September 16

On This Day in Automotive History
September 16

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Birthdays: Tom Pepperday (1886), Paul Phipps (1906), Karl Kling (1910), Josef Peters (1914), Tony Bettenhausen (1916), Stewart Joyce (1917), W.H. Atkinson (1934), Andrew Hedges (1935), Jerry Russell (1936), Bob Brunell (1938), Lloyd Hawkins (1944), Chuck Pittenger (1944), Gary Balough (1947), Alain Gadal (1947), Takashi Suzuki (1948), Doug Taylor (1953), Patrick Bourdais (1954), Michael DeFontes (1954), Robin Yount (1955), Lamar Groves (1959), Scott Neuman (1959), Darin Brassfield (1960), Steve McEachern (1960), Mike Hawley (1961), Eric Van Cleef (1961), Bryan Collyer (1962), Nicolaus Springer (1962), Gunther Deutsch (1964), Kent Strickland (1964), Earl Paules (1965), Jun Harada (1966), Tim Zock (1968), Tommy Cloce (1969), Stan Boyd (1970), Cam Binder (1971), John Baucom (1972), Kerry Wade (1974), Jason Leffler (1975), Carlos Pardo (1975), Tommy Regan (1977), Beccy Gordon (1978), Robert Jones (1978), Humaid Al Masaood (1980), Ed Vecchiarelli Jr. (1982), Henry Clarke (1989), Scott Dollahite (1989), Robert Shwartzman (1999)

1921: While on a 2-week Northeast tour, State Highway Engineer A.R. Hirst of Wisconsin is joined in New York City by Chief Thomas MacDonald and Dr. L.I. Hewes, Chief of Bureau of Public Roads' Western Headquarters. They take Riverside Drive through Yonkers to Danville, CT. Over the next week, they travel to Massachusetts, up the Ocean Road to Maine, then west to New Hampshire and Vermont, before turning south to Albany, NY, observing road conditions and meeting with highway officials along the way.

1956: Bureau of Public Roads Commissioner Cap Curtiss establishes a Division Office in Juneau, Alaska. (PRA/Bureau of Public Roads formerly had a Division Office in Juneau from 1948-1954.)

1958: Bureau of Public Roads' Dan O'Flaherty returns from a 3-month assignment in Istanbul, Turkey, where he helped launch the first home interview type of traffic study in Asia or Europe (Istanbul is part of both).

1980: The film Silver Dream Racer was released.

1987: Administrator Ray A. Barnhart and UMTA Administrator Alfred A. Dellibovi announce revised environmental regulations designed to streamline requirements and related legal procedures for highway and mass transit projects. In a joint statement, the two Administrators say, "Under the new rule, the federal government will be able to eliminate some of the red-tape and time-consuming legal processes that often added years to the construction time of much-needed transportation projects."

2002: Tim McGraw released a cover of the song “Red Rag Top” as a single.

2003: The song “I Am the Highway” by Audioslave was released.

2011: The film Drive was released in the U.S. & Canada.