This Day in Auto History:

This Day in Auto History: 3.6.1900 Gottlieb Daimler dies in Canstatt, Germany at age 65 3.6.1915 The tenth Vanderbilt Cup is held at the Pan-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, CA and won by Dario Resta in a Peugeot 3.6.1928 William Francis Nolan, biographer of Barney Oldfield, is born in Kansas City, MO 3.6.1934 The Auto Union Type C Grand Prix car makes its public debut at the Avus track in Berlin, Germany with Hans Stuck setting a world record by covering 134.90 miles in one hour 3.6.1941 Pontiac’s World War II effort begins with a government order for Oerlikon anti-aircraft cannons

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