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On This Day in Automotive History: January 28

On This Day in Automotive History
January 28

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Birthdays: Fred Ellis (1881), Brian Shawe-Taylor (1915), R.L. Combs (1924), Jimmy Bryan (1926), Gene Hartley (1926), Kuzie Kuzmanich (1927), Robbie Robinson (1930), Juan Manuel Bordeu (1934), Jim Adams (1937), Harald Grohs (1944), Pierre Lachapelle (1946), Jim Robinson (1946), Barry Robinson (1949), Dave Jensen (1954), Tim Morgan (1954), Jim Partipilo (1954), Terry Cannon (1956), Billy Hicks (1956), Marshall Hurley (1957), David Green (1958), Randy Renfrow (1958), Remy Pochauvin (1961), Russell Landrum (1962), Ron Polodna (1963), Tony Walls (1963), Kevin Kromer (1965), Cort Wagner (1965), Michael Burton (1966), Jonathan Fay (1966), Ryan Jones (1967), Kathryn Morris (1969), Scott Reeves (1969), John Mickel (1971), Philippe Siffert (1971), J.F. Laberge (1974), Eric Schmidt (1975), Chad Wood (1976), Takuma Sato (1977), Luke Youlden (1978), Ben Clucas (1984), Taylor Barton (1985), Tommy Milner (1986), Chase Miller (1987), Jeff Oleen (1990), Derek Copeland (1991), Carson Hocevar (2003)

1896: The world's first known speeding ticket is issued to Walter Arnold in Kent, England. He was traveling at 8 miles per hour, four times the posted speed limit of 2 miles per hour. He was fined one shilling.

1920: Commissioner P.P. Claxton of the Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, convenes a committee to assess the need for college-educated men able to cope with the many problems of highway and highway transportation engineering. T. Warren Allen and A. T. Goldbeck represent BPR.

2000: Gran Turismo 2 released in Europe.