This Day in Auto History: 10.23.1889 Stylist Amos E. Northup is born in Bellevue, OH 10.23.1918 Automotive historian James Potvin Barry is born in Alton, IL 10.23.1938 The Marmon-Herrington Company, Inc. purchases the Indianapolis, IN factory used since 1921 for the manufacture of the Duesenberg 10.23.1952 The 1953 Dodges are introduced, featuring the marque’s first V-8 engines 10.23.1970 Gary Gabelich, driving the Blue Flame, raises the land speed record to 622.407 mph at the Bonneville Salt Flats, UT

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