This Day in Auto History:

6.16.1895 Leonidas Theodore Barrow of the Humble Oil and Refining Company is born in Manor, TX 6.16.1913 Race promoter Joshua James “J.C.” Agajanian is born 6.16.1923 Walter E. Flanders dies at age 52 from injuries suffered in an automobile accident three weeks earlier 6.16.1937 The Long Island Motor Parkway Company dissolves after 31-years and deeds its pioneering toll highway to the public 6.16.1947 Henry Ford II announces that the 1948 Ford will be as different from the 1947 as the Model A was from the Model T

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