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On This Day in Automotive History: September 25

On This Day in Automotive History
September 25

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Birthdays: George Bailey (1900), Ernie Triplett (1906), Louis Durant (1910), Jimmy Florian (1923), Richard DeMark (1931), LaMarr Marshall (1937), Neville Lederle (1938), Henri Pescarolo (1942), Tom Berte (1943), John Cloud (1943), Jack Donohue (1944), Davy Lee Liniger (1945), Kenny Smith (1946), Mike McCurry (1949), Joe Sahlen (1952), Bill Tunzelmann (1952), Joe Ellis (1953), Jean-Philippe Grand (1953), Gene Christensen (1954), Mark Wallace (1955), Gary Stockman (1958), Robin Caldwell (1959), John Gill (1959), Steve Melnick (1962), Clay Brown (1963), Mick Donaher (1963), Gary Ayles (1964), Maciej Stanco (1964), Mike Arnold (1965), Dan Lawler (1967), Bill Bray (1968), Darwin Greene (1970), Darren Rupinski (1972), Jamie Passmore (1975), Billy Shotko (1975), Dave Ely (1977), Dominic Cicero II (1979), J.P. Dyar (1981), Josh Oakley (1985), Will Riley (1985), Xavier Coupal (1990), Alex Ellis (1991), Alexander Rossi (1991), Jake Crum (1991), Corey LaJoie (1991), Zoel Amberg (1992), Todd Hazelwood (1995)

1900: The State Good Roads Convention gets underway at Topeka, Kansas (through September 28). The goal is to awaken and promote a general interest in improvement of public roads and discuss ways of securing funds for this purpose as well as the best methods of constructing and maintaining good roads. The citizens of Shawnee County had raised funds for 1.5 miles of macadamized road, a section of which is constructed under the supervision of OPRI's E. G. Harrison. He and Director Martin Dodge explain the details of practical and theoretical road building. Two carloads of machinery for this work, on loan from the Port of Huron Engine and Thresher Company, were carried to Topeka by the railroads without cost to OPRI.

1926: The Detroit Cougars hockey team was founded. In 1930 they would become the Falcons, and in 1932 new ownership renamed the team yet again to the Detroit Red Wings. With only minor changes, the logo created for the team in 1932 honoring Detroit's auto industry is still in use today.

1951: District Engineer J. Clarke Williams completes an initial assignment as advisor to the American Ambassador in Liberia under an agreement reached on December 22, 1950, with the Liberian government. During the assignment, which began in June, Williams surveyed the country's transportation problems and laid the groundwork for highway construction work by organizing a survey party instructed in United States methods. Williams will return in January 1952 to begin organizing the country's first national highway organization, called the Division of Highways.

1958: QuikTrip was founded. Their first store was a convenience store in a strip mall, other convenience stores followed, they wouldn't become the gas stations they are familiar with today until states legalized self service fueling in 1971.

1964: The Dodge Monaco was introduced.

1978: Community Planner Mary Beard and Planning Engineer Don Ashcroft both of the California Division Office are among 142 people who lose their lives in a mid-air collision of the Pacific Southwest Airlines plane they were traveling in and a small craft over San Diego.

1998: The film Ronin was released.

2002: Smuggler's Run was released on the Game Boy Advance in North America.