This Day in Auto History:

	8.22.1901 Hugh Chalmers marries Frances Lucretia Houser 8.22.1922 Diadema Argentina SA de Petroleo is incorporated 8.22.1938 Perry L. Tenney of General Motors, a principal developer of the automatic transmission, dies in East Lansing, MI at age 54 8.22.1959 The last 1959 Ford Thunderbird is produced

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