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1987 Henry Ford II, president Ford Motor Co, dies at 70

1987 Federal judge throws out Bette Midler's $10 million suit against Ford Motor Co, who used a sound alike voice for their TV commercials

1987 4th full-duration test firing of redesigned SRB motor

1986 Protesters try to stop Land Rover motor company being sold to U.S.

1984 Niki Lauda becomes 3rd time motor racing world champ

1982 Bert Oosterhuis, Dutch motor racer (Paris-Dakar), dies in race crash

1980 Ford Motor Company found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto

1978 Lee Iacocca fired as Ford Motor President by chairman Henry Ford II

1975 Worst motor vehicle disaster in U.K.; bus full of elderly women plunges Dibble's Bridge Yorkshire, killing 38

1966 Don Castle, actor (Motor Patrol, Born to Speed), dies at 47

1964 Al Parker glides 644 miles without any motor

1964 Iranian motor launch catches fire and sinks killing 113 (Persian Gulf)

1963 William Richard Morris, 1st viscount Nuffield motor manufacturer, dies

1957 Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel

1943 Edsel Ford, owner (Ford Motor Company), dies at 49

1943 Nikola Tesla, Yugoslavian physicist (tesla motor), dies at 86

1941 Lord Herbert Austin, motor manufacturer, dies

1927 Ford Motor Company produces last "Tin Lizzie" (begins Model A)

1927 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 15 millionth Model T automobile

1924 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 10 millionth Model T automobile

1918 Don Castle, Texas, actor, Born to Speed, Tombstone, Motor Patrol

1917 Henry Ford II, automaker, Ford Motor Co

1915 Ford Motor Company manufactures its 1 millionth Model T automobile

1914 Donald Stokes, born in Plymouth, England, born Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes, Lord Stokes, industrialist, life peer in the House of Lords, managing director of British Leyland Motor Corporation

1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hour day to $5.00/8-hour day

1913 Rudolph C K Diesel, German constructer (Diesel Motor), dies at 55

1906 Soichiro Honda, Japan, founder/CEO, Honda Motor Co

1903 Ford Motor sells 1st Model A car

1899 George Morgan, 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies

1895 1st auto manufacturer opens-Duryea Motor Wagon Company

1893 Henry Ford completes his 1st useful gas motor

1888 Bertha, wife of inventor Karl Benz, makes 1st motor tour

1886 Karl Benz patents 1st auto with burning motor

1879 Sydney Australia inaugurates steam motor tram route

1858 Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, Diesel motor

1855 Isaac Singer patents sewing machine motor

1832 Nikolaus A. Otto, German technician, gas motor, otto motor

1826 Zenobe Theophile Gramme, inventor, electric motor

1802 Thomas Davenport, invented 1st coml electric motor

1791 Michael Faraday, discovered principle of electric motor


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