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On This Day in Automotive History: September 26

On This Day in Automotive History
September 26

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Birthdays: Frank Farmer (1900), Marty Robbins (1925), Henri Cachia (1926), Al Weber (1927), Thomas Aiken (1929), Bob Brown (1936), Werner Frank (1936), Tim Schenken (1943), Jean-Daniel Grandjean (1944), Dick Poling (1946), Christine Todd Whitman (1946), Clive Benson-Brown (1947), John Bourke (1948), Tom Meinberg (1948), Dave Rosenblum (1948), Helmut Henzler (1950), James Burke (1953), Steve Butler (1956), Paul Durant (1959), Andrew Fawcet (1960), John Wyman (1961), Terry Dease (1963), Joe Nemechek (1963), Darren Young (1964), Jim McCann (1965), Jillian Barberie Reynolds (1966), Rob Moroso (1968), Michael Funke (1969), Bob Varney (1969), Darryl Beattie (1970), Joe Fox (1971), Miguel Ramos (1971), Benjamin Roy (1971), Emerson Newton-John (1974), Marco Cioci (1977), Haruki Kurosawa (1977), Deac McCaskill (1977), Bruno Besson (1979), Robbie Kerr (1979), Patrick Friesacher (1980), Kevin Goodale (1980), Dominik Farnbacher (1984), Gary Chalandon (1986), John Sarppraicone (1986), Christopher Haase (1987), Nelson Panciatici (1988), Derek Ramstrom (1991), Grant Winchester (1993), Chandler Hull (1994)

1956: Paving begins on an 8-mile section of U.S. 40 (I-70) between Valencia and Maple Hill Roads west of Topeka, Kansas. When the section opens on November 14, the State Highway Commission of Kansas posts a sign identifying the project as the first to be completed under provisions of the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956. At the start of paving, Bureau of Public Roads' O. P. Shallenberger joins representatives of the State and Koss Construction Company in writing the historic date in the pavement.

1957: O.K. Normann, recently appointed Deputy Assistant Commissioner for Research, is the first recipient of the Theodore M. Matson Memorial Award, named for the late director of Yale University's Bureau of Highway Traffic. The award is presented "in recognition of . . . the advancement of the Science . . . of Traffic Engineering."

1967: The 1968 AMC Javelin went on sale.

1973: Speaking during National Highway Week before the Chicago Association of Commerce, Administrator Norbert Tiemann discusses "The Quiet Revolution" in the highway program. After discussing changes in environmental review to make the highway program a good neighbor, Tiemann summarizes by quoting Mark Twain: "Always do the right thing. This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest."

1997: The last Ford Aspire was produced.