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On This Day in Automotive History: February 20

On This Day in Automotive History
February 20

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Birthdays: Charles Lund (1869), Bruce Aurandt (1881), Louis Zborowski (1895), Howdy Wilcox II (1905), Tony Willman (1907), Stewart McDonald (1925), Peter Lumsden (1929), Bobby Unser (1934), Roger Penske (1937), George Murray (1938), Gloria Taylor (1939), Gary Myers (1940), Ken Davison (1942), Pierre Destic (1943), Glenn McIntyre (1944), Ralph Bruning (1945), David Eshleman (1947), Barry Bostick (1953), Jim Zullo II (1954), Tim Lee-Davey (1955), Tim Horvath (1957), Carl Hedin Jr. (1958), Scott Brayton (1959), Scott Lagasse (1959), Mark Kvamme (1961), Mike Halpin (1967), Jay Mauney (1967), Randy Dunham (1970), Steve Thompson (1972), Isabelle Tremblay (1972), Greg Ritter (1973), Jason Hedlesky (1974), Alex Whitman (1974), Adam Clarke (1975), Lonnie Sommerville (1975), Adam Clarke (1975), Jason Hart (1976), Jacob McGrath (1976), Auggie Vidovich (1981), Andy Brumbaugh (1984), Charlie Kimball (1985), Austin Dyne (1992), Colin Reffner (1994), Gabriel Casagrande (1995), Jonathon Venter (1996)

1903: At a national good roads convention in Chicago, Illinois, Director Martin Dodge says the burden of improving highways should rest on all the people, not on the agriculturist alone. He favors State and national aid.

1914: OPR's M.O. Eldridge lectures on "Sand Clay Roads" at the West Virginia Road School at West Virginia University. In previous days, he had lectured on uniform culvert and bridge plans, model roads and road models, and bituminous binders. The course is free and participants were assured that the total expense of the course, not counting railroad fare, need not exceed $12.00.

1947: The film The Devil Thumbs a Ride was released.

1986: After the sale of the agricultural division, the truck and engine divisions of International Harvester reorganize and become Navistar.

2006: Production of the Mazda CX-7 begins.