3.4.1889
Luis de Florez, a mechanical and chemical engineer who is credited with many inventions in the oil refining industry, is born in New York City
3.4.1900
The Automobile Club of America (ACA) stages its first race, a round trip between Springfield, Long Island, NY and Babylon, NY - the winner is Andrew L. Riker driving a Riker of his own design, the only electric car in the field
3.4.1921
Warren Gamaliel Harding becomes the first President of the United States to ride to his inauguration in an automobile (a Packard Twin Six)
3.4.1936
Racer James “Jim” Clark Jr. is born in Kilmany, Fifeshire, Scotland
3.4.1966
L. Irving Woolson of DeSoto dies at age 61
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