1998 Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium and Netherlands, 6 die
1997 Innis Cosby, son of Bill Cosby, murdered on LA highway at 29
1992 Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76
1992 John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90
1989 Victor French, actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54
1988 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win
1986 [William] Broderick Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74
1975 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway
1973 Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1972 Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd
1970 Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College
1969 Nikki Nelson, Topaz Lake Nev, country singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry
1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
1957 Cactus Moser, Montrose, Colorado, country singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry
1956 Federal interstate highway system act signed
1954 Sam J Jones, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Chris-Code Red, The Highway Man
1954 President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1950 Curtis Stone, born in Hollywood, California, singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry
1949 Jack Daniels, Choctaw Oklahoma, country singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry
1945 Burma highway reopens
1942 Alaska highway completed
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1941 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA
1937 Michael Landon, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, Bonanza, Highway to Heaven
1934 Victor French, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Highway to Heaven
1934 U.S. Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized
1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1929 Bayshore Highway opens (SF)
1913 1st U.S. paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens
1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway
1911 Broderick Crawford, Philadelphia, actor, All the King's Men, Highway Patrol
1907 Gunter Eich, German literary, Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo
1901 John Bleifer, born in Zawiercie, Poland, actor, Highway to Heaven
1866 Work begins on 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, Chicago
1714 A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
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