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On This Day in Automotive History: April 30

On This Day in Automotive History
April 30

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Birthdays: Norman Batten (1893), Leon Duray (1894), Kurt Kuhnke (1910), Duncan Hamilton (1920), Keith Hamner (1923), Peter Nocker (1928), Bill Lutz (1929), Greg Cusack (1930), Harold Painter (1930), Bruce Brantley (1939), Max Cohen-Olivar (1945), John Cooper (1948), Jean-Louis Bousquet (1949), Jack Lewis (1950), Joe Millikan (1950), Tony Hunter (1951), Jacques Tropenat (1952), Scott Baker (1957), Craig Barto (1957), Mike Imrie (1957), Ben McCrackin (1957), Nikolai Fomenko (1962), Frank Kimmel (1962), Philippe Salini (1962), Rhett Vandiver (1962), Andy Hillenburg (1963), Peter Klutt (1963), Rick Romig (1963), Rick Skelton (1963), Michael Waltrip (1963), Chris Turner (1965), Hubert Haupt (1969), Mark Setzer (1969), Jason Manafort (1970), Anthony Foxx (1971), Donald Mahaffey Jr. (1971), Hennie Groenewald (1972), Darren Manning (1975), Elliott Sadler (1975), Wayne Nonnamaker (1978), Rob Bell (1979), Marc-Antoine Camirand (1979), Jordan Tresson (1988), Taylor Cuzick (1991), Megan Reitenour (1991), Max Gresham (1993)

1935: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Davis-Bacon Act applying prevailing wages to Federal projects. For Bureau of Public Roads, because the States are the contracting Agency on Federal-aid projects, the act applies only to projects administered by Bureau of Public Roads on Federal lands until the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 applies the requirement to initial construction of the Interstate System (extended to other Federal-aid projects in 1968).

1964: Acting Deputy Administrator Lowell Bridwell, Chief Engineer Frank Turner, and 8 other Bureau of Public Roads officials explain the Federal-aid program to 11 visiting Japanese Prefecture Governors. For the occasion, the Administrator's conference room is equipped with simultaneous translation equipment. Bridwell explains that he is standing in for Administrator Rex Whitton, who had arrived in Tokyo for an IRF meeting the day the Governors left their country.

1995: Arthur E. Hamilton's promotion to Regional Federal Administrator in Region 7 (Kansas City, MO) is effective today. He becomes the first African-American to become an FHWA Regional Administrator.

2000: Excitebike 64 was released for the Nintendo 64.

2015: Production ended on the Škoda Roomster.