This Day in Auto History:

8.26.1905 The Smith Automobile Company, a Kansas corporation, reorganizes as a Missouri corporation 8.26.1925 Racer Bobby Ball is born in Phoenix, AZ 8.26.1929 The first Rolls-Royce Phantom II Continental is completed 8.26.1935 John North Willys dies in Riverdale, NY at age 61 8.26.1943 George W. Christ, develop of steel-backed bearings and a design engineer with E-M-F and Studebaker, dies at age 59

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