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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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