This Day in Auto History:

4.14.1899 Herr Beissbarth of Munich, Germany is issued a license plate for his Wartburg - this plate survives today and is believed to be the oldest such artifact in existence 4.14.1919 Frank Timothy Malumphy, a New Milford, CT Volkswagen dealer and restorer of classic Packards, is born 4.14.1931 The 20,000,000th Ford is produced, a Model A Fordor Town Sedan 4.14.1946 The first post-World War II automobile race in the United States is a stock car event held in Daytona Beach, FL, and won by Red Byron in a Ford 4.14.1954 The Fiat experimental gas-turbine car is given its first road test

Source: Automobile History Day By Day, by Douglas A. Wick