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On This Day in Automotive History: April 15
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On This Day in Automotive History
April 15
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Birthdays: Wallace Reid (1891), Ray Erickson (1918), Al Neves (1921), Graham Whitehead (1922), Ernesto Prinoth (1923), Sherman Utsman (1932), Mel Kenyon (1933),
Betty Jane France (1938), Raymond Williams (1939), Toine Hezemans (1943), Hugh Pearson (1947), Bill Canty (1948), Bud Wilmot (1948), Don Waterman (1950), Tom Free (1953), Katsunori Iketani (1953), Bob Blount (1958), Bobby Hutchens (1960), Aldo Bertuzzi (1961),
Michael Greenfield (1963), Steve Mahannah (1964), Jim Maguire (1965), Mike Naake (1965), David Schardt (1966), Dara Torres (1967), Leo Smith (1969), Carl Miskotten III (1970), Danny Way (1974), Paul Dana (1975), Jarrad Whissell (1975), Jamie Wall (1977), Kevin Conway (1979), Jason Rudd (1979), Scott Edwards (1985), Marco Frezza (1987), Jon McKennedy (1987), Robert Hackwood (1987), Jeremy Burns (1989), Nico Bastian (1990), Jordan Anderson (1991),
Jack Harvey (1993),
Jesse Little (1997), Tanner Gray (1999)
1909: Office of Public Road's P.M. Speicher attends a good roads meeting of businessmen in Dennison, Texas, to explain his tests of roadbuilding materials in Sherman County. He thinks it is possible to build excellent roads for about $3,500 a mile.
1970: Testifying before the Senate Public Works Committee, Administrator Frank Turner says that since the start of the Interstate Program in 1956, "we have provided more than 11 trillion vehicle miles of transportation over America's highways" (roughly 23 million round trips to the moon).
1997: The song and album “Six Days on the Road” by Sawyer Brown's is released by Curb Records.
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