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On This Day in Automotive History: September 21

On This Day in Automotive History
September 21

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Birthdays: Len Ormsby (1890), Preston Tucker (1903), Kenneth McAlpine (1920), Leon Harrell (1921), Hassell Reid (1921), George Rogge (1921), Dick Freeman (1931), Dick Simon (1933), Jack Ziegler (1940), Richard Childress (1945), Kaoru Hoshino (1947), Arie Luyendyk (1953), Dave Grueneberg (1957), Steve Hoddick (1957), Vince Whitmire (1957), Curtis Markham (1959), Shari Minter (1959), Eddy McKean (1960), Mark Day (1961), Brad Dubil (1961), K.C. Spurlock (1961), Steve Hillard (1966), Jeff Roark (1966), Wes Griffith Jr. (1967), Maurizio Mediani (1968), Jarrett Boon (1969), Mike Boat (1970), Alfonso Ribeiro (1971), Jim Hollenbeck (1974), Katrina Childers (1976), Tomas Scheckter (1980), Francesco Dracone (1983), Kasper Jensen (1983), Antonin Borga (1987), Lyn-Z Pastrana (1989), Casey Johnson (1990), Hugo Bec (1991), Trevor Berry (1992), T.J. Duke (1993), Hayden Woods (1995), Russ Lane (1996)

1901: The International Good Roads Congress at Buffalo, New York, which began on September 16, concludes. Director Martin Dodge addressed the conference on opening day while on September 18, General Roy Stone spoke on "Good Roads Work for the New Century." He said that if all the forces that have worked for good roads and their "powerful automobile allies" join rank, "the early days of the century will mark the inception of the greatest peaceful work the great Republic has ever undertaken or the world has ever witnessed." The proceedings are published as OPRI Bulletin No. 21. The first edition of 10,000 was soon distributed and a second edition of 10,000 needed before the end of FY 1902.

1948: In Salt Lake City, Utah, at AASHO's 34th Annual Meeting, Commissioner Thomas MacDonald speaks on "State-Federal Relations in Highway Development": "Highway development for the nation is no over-night job. It is a continuing undertaking with mammoth dimensions, and its importance is rapidly accelerating. The only guidance the highway official has under present-day conditions to determine current administrative policies [is] the back sights that are fixed by yesterday's experience, and the collection and analysis of factual data to determine the future course that appears to offer great promise."

1960: The Ford Econoline debuted.

2009: The first episode of Australia's Highway Patrol premiered on Seven Network.