2014 Event AT&T adds an unnamed automaker to its list of car manufacturers using the company's wireless service for mobile connectivity on the road; current customers include Volvo, Tesla and General Motors 2013 Event In Japan, the Nissan Leaf self-driving car completes its very first road test on the Sagami Expressway; it is the first self-driving car ever to be tested in Japan 2013 Event In Belize, a construction company requiring road fill gravel destroys a 2,300 year-old Mayan pyramid 2011 Event Snow on New Zealand's North and South Islands disrupts power supplies, causes road closures and closure of the Wellington International Airport 2011 Event In Riyadh, Saudia Arabia, six women were arrested for practicing driving in an empty car lot; women are banned from driving on the road 2003 Death Bob Hope, comedian, road movies, dies at 100 2003 Death Barry Sheene, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix, dies of esophagus and stomach cancer 2002 Death Chuck Jones, animator, Wyle E. Coyote and the Road Runner, dies at 90 2000 Death Joan Marsh, actress, Road to Zanzibar, dies at 86 1997 Death Helene Hanff, author, 84 Charing Cross Road, dies at 80 1996 Event Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yankees win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses) 1996 Event New York Yankees set record by coming back from 6-0 in World Series game to beat Atlanta Braves 8-6, also set record of 7th straight road win 1996 Event New York Yankee Bernie Williams hits record tying 7th post season home run, as Yankees tie record of 6th straight post season road win (en route to 8) 1996 Death Dorothy Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio), dies at 81 1995 Event Greg Maddux of Braves sets record of 17 consecutive road victory 1995 Death Fabio Casartelli, raced with Ariostea team in 1993, won Olympic gold medal in 1992 Summer Olympics road race, died during 15th stage of the 1995 Tour de France, in a crash occurring on the descent of the Col de Portet d'Aspet in the Pyrenees 1993 Event Ottawa Senators win 1st road game (Islanders) after 38 straight loses 1992 Death Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road), dies at 56 1992 Event Astros begins 26-game road trip to make room for Rep National Convention 1992 Death Friedrich A von Hayek, British economist (Road to Serfdom), dies at 92 1992 Death Yvonne Bryceland, actress (Road to Mecca), dies of cancer at 66 1991 Death Jacques Aubuchon, actor (Hoax, Thunder Road), dies of heart failure 1991 Event Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games 1991 Event Sacramento Kings set NBA record, losing 35th consecutive game on road 1991 Event Sacramento Kings set NBA record of 29 consecutive road loses 1990 Event Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year 1990 Death Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54 1989 Death Bert Oosterbosch, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer, dies at age 32, of acute cardiac arrest 1989 Event NBA New Jersey Nets begin a 32+ game road losing streak 1989 Death Sterling A Brown, U.S. poet/critic (Southern Road), dies at 87 1987 Death Erskine Caldwell, novelist (Tobacco Road), dies at 83 1985 Death Ian Stewart, keyboardist/road manager (Rolling Stones), dies at 47 1985 Event Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hours, 30 minutes 1984 Death Percy Mayfield, U.S. singer (Hit the Road Jack), dies at 63 1984 Event Detroit Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game 1984 Event Detroit Tigers win AL record tying 16th straight road game 1984 Death Ann Little, actress (Roaring Road), dies 1984 Event Buffalo Sabres win NHL record 10th straight road game 1983 Event NBA Indiana Pacers end a 28 game road losing streak 1983 Event NBA San Diego Clippers ends 29 game road losing streak 1983 Event Greg LeMond becomes only American to win cycling's Road Championship 1983 Event NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak 1983 Event NBA Indiana Pacers begin a 28 game road losing streak 1982 Event Devils 1st road victory 6-5 over Penguins 1982 Event New Orleans Saints 1st road shutout victory beating Chicago Bears 10-0 1981 Event IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail 1978 Death Claire Adams, actress (Legally Dead, End of the Road), dies at 80 1978 Death Enoch Light, orchestra leader (Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith), dies at 70 1976 Event NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28 game road losing streak 1976 Death Murvyn Vye, actor (Road to Bali, Escape to Burma), dies at 63 1976 Birthday Amy Smart, born in Topanga, California, actress, appeared in films, 'Road Trip', 'Just Friends' 1976 Event NBA Atlanta Hawks begin a 28 game road losing streak 1975 Event Washington Caps win 1st game on road after 37 straight road loses also 1975 Event Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win and NHL record of 17 straight loses 1975 Event NBA New Orleans Jazz end a 28 game road losing streak 1974 Event NBA New Orleans Jazz begin a 28 game road losing streak 1974 Event Washington Capitals 1st NHL game, losing 6-3 to New York Rangers at MSG Washington Caps begin a 37 game road losing streak 1973 Birthday Susannah Kate Pryde, Auckland New Zealand, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics 1973 Birthday George Hincapie, born in Queens, New York, road cyclist, Olympics-76th-92, 96 1973 Event Islanders break 12 game losing streak, 20 game road winless streak 1972 Birthday Greg Randolph, born in Denver, Colorado, road cyclist, Olympics-74th-96 1972 Birthday Glen Anthony Mitchell, Hamilton New Zealand, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics 1971 Birthday Lance Armstrong, born in Plano, Texas, road cyclist, Olympics-6th-92, 96 1970 Birthday Fabio Casartelli, born in Como, Italy, raced with Ariostea team in 1993, won Olympic gold medal in 1992 Summer Olympics road race 1970 Event Beatles' "Long and Winding Road," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks 1970 Death John Gunther, author/host (John Gunther's High Road), dies at 68 1970 Event "Long and Winding Road" becomes Beatles' last American release 1969 Birthday Richard Dickson Reid, New Zealand, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics 1969 Event Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks 1969 Death Jack Kerouac, U.S. writer (Doctor Sax, On the Road), dies at 47 1969 Event Beatles release "Abbey Road" album 1969 Event Beatles record a video for "Long and Winding Road" 1969 Event Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album 1968 Birthday Gord Fraser, Ottawa Ontario, road race cyclist 1996 Olympics 1968 Event Beatles open 2nd Apple Boutique at 161 New Kings Road, London 1967 Event Sweden begins driving on right-hand side of road 1967 Death Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China), dies at 76 1967 Birthday Dwayne "Road Grader" White, NFLer, New York Jets, St. Louis 1967 Event 2 homemade buses collided on a mountain road in Terpate, Philippines plunging off a cliff, killing 84, injuring 140 1966 Birthday Francisco Andreu, Dearborn, Michigan, road cyclist, Olympics-4th-88, 96 1966 Event "(I'm A) Road Runner" by, Jr. Walker and The All-Stars peaks at #20 1965 Death Shirley Hardie Jackson, U.S. author (Road Through the Wall), dies at 45 1965 Event Mount Blanc Road tunnel between France and Italy opens 1964 Event Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish 4th Road Bridge) 1963 Birthday Steve Hegg, Dana Point California, road cyclist, Olympics-16th-84, 96 1962 Death Vladimir Sokoloff, actor (Road to Morocco, Cloak and Dagger), dies at 72 1961 Birthday Leif Garrett, Hollywood Cal, singer and actor, Devil x 5, 3 for the Road 1960 Event White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number 1959 Birthday Ben Okri, born in London, of Nigerian descent, poet, author, won Booker Prize 1991, for book 'The Famished Road', described as a magic realist 1957 Birthday Vincent Van Patten, Belrose, New York, actor, Apple's Way, 3 for the Road 1957 Birthday Bert Oosterbosch, born in Eindhoven, Netherlands, racing cyclist, won World amateur team time trial championship, won World Professional individual pursuit title, successful track and road racer 1955 Birthday Cynthia Sykes, Coffeyville, Kentucky, actress, Flamingo Road, St. Elsewhere 1954 Event 80th Preakness: Johnny Adams aboard Hasty Road wins in 1:57.4 1954 Event NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak 1953 Birthday Lucinda Williams, born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, singer, songwriter, wrote Grammy-Award-winning song, 'Passionate Kisses', recorded by Mary Chapin Carpenter, successful album, 'Car Wheels on a Gravel Road', combined country, blues, rock, Americana genres 1953 Event NBA Baltimore Bullets begin a 32 game road losing streak 1952 Birthday Karen Wyman, born in Bronx, New York, singer, Long and Winding Road 1951 Birthday Suze Orman, born in Chicago, Illinois, television host, financial advisor, author, host of 'The Suzie Orman Show' on CNBC, books include, 'The Road to Wealth' 1950 Birthday Barry Sheene, born in London, England, motorcycle road racer, winner, Formula 750 World Championship and 1976 British Grand Prix 1948 Event U.S.S.R. blocks access road to West Berlin 1947 Birthday Rex Allen, Jr., Chicago, country singer, Nashville on the Road 1946 Event 4th "Road" film, "Road to Utopia" premieres (New York City) 1945 Birthday Mimsy Farmer, born in Chicago, Illinois, actress, Devil's Angel, Road to Salina 1945 Event General "Vinegar Joe" Stillwell and truck convoy reopen Burma Road to China 1944 Birthday Henry Vestine, rock guitarist, Canned Heat-On the Road Again 1943 Birthday John Beck, Chic, actor, Mark-Dallas, Flamingo Road, Santa Barbara 1942 Birthday Larry Taylor, born in Brooklyn, rocker, Canned Heat-On the Road Again 1942 Event Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road 1941 Birthday Helen Cornelius, Hannibal, Missouri, country singer, Nashville on the Road 1941 Birthday Sven Hamrin, born in Sweden, road race cycler, 1964 Olympics bronze 1941 Birthday David Selby, born in Morgantown, West Virginia, actor, 'Falcon Crest' and 'Flamingo Road' 1940 Event 1st radio broadcast of "Road to Happiness" on CBS 1938 Birthday Paul Evans, singer and pedal guitarist, Damascus Road 1937 Birthday Brian Blessed, English actor, King Arthur, High Road to China 1936 Event RCA shows 1st real TV program (dancing, film on locomotives, Bonwit Teller fashion show and monologue from Tobacco Road and comedy) 1936 Birthday Roger Miller, born in Ft. Worth, Texas, country singer, King of the Road, Dang Me 1935 Birthday Elizabeth Drew, journalist, Politics and Money: The Road to Corruption 1935 Event Pennsylvania Rail Road begins passenger service on new electric locomotive 1934 Birthday David Warrilow, actor, Simon, Radio Days, Dakota Road, Barton Fink 1934 Birthday Charles Kuralt, born in Wilmington, North Carolina, newscaster, On the Road 1934 Birthday Wole Soyinka, born in Nigeria, dramatist, Road, Kongi's Harvest-Nobel 1986 1934 Birthday Jim "Ed" Brown, born in Sparkman, Arkansas, country singer, Nashville on the Road 1933 Event Jack Kirkland's "Tobacco Road," premieres in New York City 1933 Birthday Willie Nelson, born in Abbott, Texas, country singer, On the Road Again 1928 Death Theodore Roberts, actor (Roaring Road, 10 Commandments), dies at 77 1928 Birthday Dave Dudley, singer, Six Days on the Road 1928 Birthday Peter Donat, Kentville Nova Scotia, Flamingo Road, Different Story 1927 Birthday Barbara Rush, born in Denver, Colorado, actress, Marsha-Peyton Place, Flamingo Road 1926 Birthday Jerry Clower, Amite County Mississippi, country comedian, Nashville on Road 1925 Event 1st road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic 1925 Event Nationwide road numbering system and U.S. shield marker adopted 1924 Birthday Paolo Volponi, Italian communist/author, Road to Rome 1922 Event "On the Road to Moscow" is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize 1922 Birthday Jack Kerouac, Beat writer, On the Road, Mexico Blues 1922 Event Vancouver, BC starts driving on the right side of road 1919 Birthday Shirley Jackson, U.S., writer, Road Through the Wall 1918 Birthday Stafford Repp, born in California, actor, Chief O'Hara-Batman, Plunder Road 1917 Birthday Howard Duff, Bremerton Wash, actor, Flamingo Road, Knots Landing 1916 Event A's set AL record with 19th consecutive loss on road 1916 Event Congress passes Federal Aid Road Act 1916 Event New York Giants win 17th consecutive road game 1915 Birthday Leo Gorcey, born in New York City, actor, Mannequin, Road to Zanzibar 1915 Event Old Fordham Road in Bronx renamed Landing Road 1914 Birthday Dorothy Lamour, born in New Orleans, Louisiana, actress 'Road to Bali' 1909 Birthday Mauritz Hugo, Sweden, actor, Atomic Blonde, Road Agent 1908 Birthday Robert Morley, England, actor, High Road to China, African Queen 1907 Birthday Enoch Light, Canton Ohio, orchestra leader, Gulf Road Show with Bob Smith 1904 Birthday Jerry Colonna, born in Boston, Massachusetts, actor, Road to Morocco, Road to Singapore 1903 Birthday Erskine P Caldwell, author, Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre 1901 Birthday John Gunther, born in Chicago, Illinois, author/host, John Gunther's High Road 1899 Birthday [Friedrich] August von Hayek, Australia/British economist, Road to Serfdom 1899 Birthday Gale Sondergard, Litchfield, Minnesota, actress, Cat and Canary, Road to Rio 1896 Event 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!) 1893 Event Congress authorizes 1st federal road agency, in Department of Agriculture 1890 Birthday Frank Butler, Oxford England, actor/sreenwriter, Road to Bali, China 1890 Birthday James Barton, New Jersey, Broadway actor, Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh 1889 Birthday Vladimir Sokoloff, born in Moscow, Russia, actor, Road to Morocco 1889 Birthday Thomas Hart Benton, born in Missouri, painter/muralist, Lonesome Road 1887 Birthday Hank Mann, New York City, actor, City Lights, Smoky, Dawn Trail, Fugitive Road 1884 Birthday Eli S Jones, U.S., evangelist, Christ of Indian road 1883 Birthday Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist, Road Through Dark Night 1874 Birthday Robert Frost, born in San Francisco, poet, Mending Wall, Road Not Taken 1868 Birthday Harvey S Firestone, Industrialist, where the rubber meets the road 1865 Event Battle of Quaker Road, VA 1864 Event Battle of Boydton Plank Road, Virginia (Burgess' Mill, Southside Railroad) 1864 Event Battle at Darbytown Road Virginia (337 casualties) 1864 Event Battle of Darbytown, Virginia (Deep Bottom, Newmarket Road) (Strawberry Plains) 1864 Event Skirmish at Mcafee's Cross Road Georgia, about 57 dies in battle 1861 Birthday Theodore Roberts, born in San Francisco, California, actor, Roaring Road, 10 Commandments 1795 Event 1st state appropriation of money for road building, Kentucky 1793 Event 1st state road authorized, Frankfort, Kentucky to Cincinnati 1776 Event British Brigade begins guarding Throgg Necks Road in Bronx 1775 Event Americans drag cannon up hill to fight British (Gun Hill Road, Bronx) 1756 Birthday John Loudon McAdam, created macadam road surface, asphalt
