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On This Day in Automotive History: September 20
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On This Day in Automotive History
September 20
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Birthdays: Red Hodges (1907), Overton Phillips (1908), Bob Ross (1914), Horace Gould (1921), Les Snow (1925), Ray Hill (1931), Tim Biggers (1940), Francois Servanin (1941), Roger Moser (1947), Mike Love (1953), Greg Caver (1955), Gary Drummond (1956), Eddie Amador (1958), Rolf Helland (1959), Mark Orth (1959), Ed Lashkoff (1964), Duwayne Middlebrooks (1965), Carl Long (1967), Marc Bunting (1968), Lance Norick (1968), Brad Payne (1968), Cory Kruseman (1970), David Littleton (1970), Jerry Smith (1971), Bryan Wall (1971), Loic Depailler (1973), Jason Fensler (1975), Juan Pablo Montoya (1975), Josh Nelms (1975), Sebastian Stahl (1978),
Vaughn Gittin Jr. (1980), Drew Staveley (1985), Caitlin Johnston (1988), Stefan Wilson (1989),
Brett Sandberg (1989), Trent Hindman (1995)
1909: Farmers and good roads advocates from Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas, on a tour to learn about road building in the East, visit Secretary of Agriculture James Wilson and are entertained at lunch by OPR officials. The tour, which covered the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern States, had been suggested by B. F. Yoakum of the Rock Island-Frisco Railway because "no work [is] more important than to build public roads in such a manner that they will be permanent and economical in maintenance." The group travels in his private rail car, the "Signet."
1922: M.O. Eldridgew, ORI's third employee, is named Executive Chairman of AAA by a special committee, meeting in Cleveland, Ohio. Eldridge had been Director of Roads for AAA since leaving ORI 3 years ago.
1971: Administrator Frank Turner administers the oath of office to Emmett H. Karrer, first Director of FHWA's National Highway Institute, authorized by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1970.
