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On This Day in Automotive History: March 29
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On This Day in Automotive History
March 29
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Birthdays: Bill Aston (1900), Ernst von Delius (1912), Ben Lalomia (1919), Bud Burdick (1923), Norman Schihl (1926), Allen Adkins (1929), Peter Sadler (1941), Billy Vukovich Jr. (1944), Oma Kimbrough (1951), Vic Rice (1951), Chip Robinson (1954), Mike Norman (1958), Dick Doheny (1959), David MacNeil (1959), Gary Brabham (1961), Doug Heveron (1961), Neil Hanneman (1962), Bobby Oglesby (1962), Chris Hines (1963), Craig Harris (1965), Jeff Cole (1966), Matt Mullins (1966), Michael Merry (1973), Marc Gene (1974), Rodney Melvin (1974), Charlie Hanna (1975), Mike Held (1981), Craig Slaunwhite (1981), Mike Mason (1987), Martin Ragginger (1988), Justin Carroll (1996), Connor James (1997)
1920: In a letter to General Inspector L.I. Hewes in Portland, Oregon, Chief Thomas MacDonald discusses Bureau of Public Roads' responsibilities. Given the 50-50 matching shares, he says, "we have equal responsibility with the States for securing adequate returns to the public. [In fact,] I feel that we should take at least 50 percent of the responsibility . . . because we will get the full one hundred per cent of responsibility for failures." MacDonald also recommends that "our district engineers should work with the State highway departments toward the completion of a program which will include the roads in their order of importance, and in so far as possible place the projects in the order which will complete the main State systems before side roads are undertaken."
1974: The first production
Volkswagen Golf rolls off of the assembly line in Wolfsburg, Germany.
2020: Joe Diffie, singer of
Pickup Man, died at age 61 from complications of
COVID-19 two days after announcing that he had contracted the virus.
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