Skip to content

This Day in Automotive History

  • Home
  • This Day
  • Features
  • Motorsports
  • News
  • Classic Cars for Sale
  • Biographies
  • Newsletter
  • Home
  • This Day
  • Features
  • Motorsports
  • News
  • Classic Cars for Sale
  • Biographies
  • Newsletter
Facebook Instagram Youtube
Newsletter
  • Home
  • This Day
  • Features
  • Motorsports
  • News
  • Classic Cars for Sale
  • Biographies
  • Newsletter

This Day in
Automotive History

Picture of Brian Corey

Brian Corey

June 12, 1973 – Jennifer Jo Cobb is born

June 12, 2016

June 7, 2013 – Xiamen bus fire

June 7, 2016

June 5 – The first race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway

June 5, 2016

June 4 – 1896- Ford tests the Quadricycle

June 4, 2016

The founding of Nissan

June 1, 2016

Ford signs USSR deal

May 31, 2016

The first Indy 500

May 30, 2016

Hello, Frazer Automobiles

May 29, 2016

The first 24 Hours at Le Mans

May 27, 2016

The 15 millionth Ford Model T (and end of production)

May 26, 2016

Green Hornet disaster

May 25, 2016

The end of Hummer

May 24, 2016

The deaths of Bonnie & Clyde

May 23, 2016

Wright brothers’ patent

May 22, 2016

Slow down you crazy kids! (First speed limit in the US)

May 21, 2016

The first speeding ticket in the USA

May 20, 2016

Waco shootout!

May 17, 2016

Dick Trickle passes away

May 16, 2016
« Previous Page1 … Page39 Page40 Page41 Page42 Next »

This Day in Automotive History is a transportation history, car history and general automotive history website dedicated to providing informative and entertaining content.

Our goal is to enlighten our readers by producing and publishing automotive content on a wide range of topics, including famous cars, important automotive inventors and engineers and other historic automobile related events, places and people.

Facebook-f Instagram Youtube
Make a Donation

©2026 Cars & Copy Media Co. All rights Reserved.

This Day in Automotive History is publication of Spare Change Multimedia LLC, DBA Cars & Copy Media Co.

This site contains product affiliate links. We may receive a commission if you make a purchase after clicking on one of these links. This includes links to sites including those owned by companies such as eBay, Amazon and Goodyear.

As an Amazon Associate this site may earn from qualifying purchases when you click on certain links.

As a bookshop.org affiliate, this site may earn from qualifying purchases when you click on certain links.

  • Terms
  • Privacy

Proud Member of the Port Gardner Vintage Auto Club

  • contact@carsandcopymedia.com

If you have any questions about this automotive history content, including our car videos and car history pictures and text and the use of them, please don’t hesitate to contact us.

On occasion we post classic cars for sale from Craigslist, Facebook and other online marketplaces. We utilize imagery from those ads in a fair use fashion. This includes barn finds for sale, muscle cars for sale, vans for sale, station wagons for sale, trucks for sale and other affordable old cars for sale. If you’d like your car featured, reach out to us!