- 1902 — Henry Bourne Joy transforms the Ohio Automobile Company into the Packard Motor Car Company.
- 1930 — Henry Ford kicks off construction of Ford Motor Company's massive Cologne, Germany factory.
- 1939 — The production Lincoln Continental is unveiled at the Ford Rotunda in Dearborn, Michigan.
- 1957 — An economic recession made American Motors (AMC) revive the Nash Rambler, a compact model that went out of production in 1955, as the Rambler American.
- 1988 — Alec Issigonis dies
