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On This Day in Automotive History: December 1
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On This Day in Automotive History
December 1
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December 2
Rosa Parks Day: In some states (including Alabama, Ohio, Oregon, and Tennessee) Rosa Parks Day is commemorated on the day of her famous protest & arrest in 1955. In other states it is held on her birthday, February 4.
Birthdays: Conrad Hanson (1884), Kurt Hitke (1889), Jim Fitzgerald (1921), Charles Muscatell (1923), Dick Good (1927), Dick Guldstrand (1927), Roy Pruett (1927), Andy Hampton (1928), Jimmy Massey (1928), Bob Holden (1932), Peter Sutcliffe (1936), Guy Tunmer (1948), Joe Harrison (1949), Bert Kever (1950), Gene Thonesen (1953), Ricky Woodward (1953), Bill Nason (1954), Graham Duxbury (1955), Jim Norman (1958), Larry Gunselman (1960), Dave Salzarulo (1960), Marco Greco (1963), Jeff Way (1964), Andy McElrea (1965), Ed Wettlaufer (1969), Paul McMahan (1970), Jason Krohn (1971), Stanton Barrett (1972), Jeremy Gerstner (1972), Andrea Bertolini (1973), Mario Dominguez (1975), Luis Diaz (1977), Ronnie Hults (1978), Robert Dahlgren (1979), Brent Strelka (1979),
Chris Fontaine (1981), Jeremy Rice (1981), Dean Fiore (1983),
Brett Hudson (1987), Guillaume Deflandre (1995), Tyler Matthews (1996), Sophia Floersch (2000)
1902: Representative Walter P. Brownlow of Tennessee introduces a bill in the House of Representatives to create a "Bureau of Public Roads" and provide for a system of national, State, and local cooperation in a $20-million program for the permanent improvement of the public highways. The bill resulted from a chance meeting between Brownlow and an acquaintance, OPRI's M. O. Eldridge, on a train trip to Washington, DC. Inspired by the view outside the train window, they began discussing the deplorable condition of the Nation's roads. When Brownlow asked Eldridge to draft a bill based on New Jersey's State-aid law, Eldridge did so with the approval of Director Martin Dodge. The bill sparks controversy, but is not approved. Eldridge worked behind the scenes to support the bill (at one point sending out a million copies of Brownlow's floor speech, printed at government expense and mailed under the government frank of supportive congressmen) but when he is found to be the source of the lobbying campaign, he is dismissed from service. He was later reinstated at lower pay and loss of his rank as second in command of the OPRI.
1913:
Ford finished installation of the first moving assembly line at the Highland Park plant to build the
Model T from start-to-finish in one continuous process.
1914:
Maserati was founded.
1920:
Mahle was founded.
1955: Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a bus to a white person in Montgomery, Alabama. She was arrested, and a yearlong boycott followed. The Montgomery Bus Boycott would be one of the first major battles of the Civil Rights Era in the United States, and Martin Luther King Jr.'s leadership in the campaign propelled him into the national spotlight.
1984: The final episode of Turbo Teen aired.
1992:
Federal Highway Administration sponsors the first meeting of the Scenic Byways Advisory Committee required by ISTEA. The committee's functions include developing recommendations regarding minimum criteria for use by State and Federal agencies in designating highways as National Scenic Byways and All-American Roads as part of a National Scenic Byways Program. Kevin E. Heanue, Director of the Office of Environment and Planning, serves as Chairman while Scenic Byways Program Manager Eugene Johnson assists the committee in its work.
2016:
NASCAR announces that it has reached a deal with Monster Energy for sponsorship of the Cup Series.
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