2011 Event The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports 32,788 traffic deaths; the lowest number of deaths since 1949 1998 Event Thick Fog causes highway carnage in Belgium and Netherlands, 6 die 1997 Death Innis Cosby, son of Bill Cosby, murdered on LA highway at 29 1992 Death Brenda Marshall, actress (Highway West, Smiling Ghost), dies at 76 1992 Death John Bleifer, actor (Highway to Heaven), dies at 90 1989 Death Victor French, actor (#44-Get Smart, Highway to Heaven), dies at 54 1988 Event 22nd Country Music Association Award: Highway 101, K T Oslin win 1986 Death [William] Broderick Crawford, actor (Highway Patrol), dies at 74 1975 Event 3 truck pile up kills 10, injures 26 on French highway 1973 Event Insurance industry announces auto racers get into more highway accidents 1972 Event Section of Memphis' Highway 51 South renamed Elvis Presley Blvd 1970 Event Mississippi Highway Patrol kills 2 at Jackson State College 1969 Birthday Nikki Nelson, Topaz Lake Nev, country singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry 1958 Event 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia 1957 Birthday Cactus Moser, Montrose, Colorado, country singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry 1956 Event Federal interstate highway system act signed 1954 Birthday Sam J Jones, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor, Chris-Code Red, The Highway Man 1954 Event President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system 1950 Birthday Curtis Stone, born in Hollywood, California, singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry 1949 Birthday Jack Daniels, Choctaw Oklahoma, country singer, Highway 101-Cry Cry Cry 1945 Event Burma highway reopens 1942 Event Alaska highway completed 1942 Event Construction of the Alaska Highway began 1941 Event 1st highway post office makes 1st trip, Wash, DC-Harrisonburg, VA 1937 Birthday Michael Landon, born in Forest Hills, New York, actor, Bonanza, Highway to Heaven 1934 Birthday Victor French, born in Santa Barbara, California, actor, Highway to Heaven 1934 Event U.S. Highway planning surveys nationwide authorized 1930 Event Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway 1929 Event Bayshore Highway opens (SF) 1913 Event 1st U.S. paved coast-to-coast highway, the Lincoln Highway, opens 1913 Event Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway 1911 Birthday Broderick Crawford, Philadelphia, actor, All the King's Men, Highway Patrol 1907 Birthday Gunter Eich, German literary, Underground Highway, Girls of Viterbo 1901 Birthday John Bleifer, born in Zawiercie, Poland, actor, Highway to Heaven 1866 Event Work begins on 1st U.S. underwater highway tunnel, Chicago 1714 Event A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
