This Day in Auto History:

6.2.1875 Charles Stewart Mott of General Motors is born in Newark, NJ 6.2.1908 The Everitt-Metzger-Flanders Company, makers of the E-M-F, is founded by Barney Everitt, William E. Metzger, and Walter E. Flanders with William E. Kelly as Chief Engineer 6.2.1920 Racer Don Branson is born in Rantoul, IL 6.2.1935 The 2,000,000th Ford V-8 is produced 6.2.1944 GMC receives the Army-Navy “E” award for production efficiency and achievement in supplying war equipment

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