This Day in Auto History: 11.13.1893 Charles Tell Lawson of American Motors is born in White Stone, VA 11.13.1909 Automotive historian Albert Robert Bochroch is born in Philadelphia, PA 11.13.1928 Capt. George White of the Army Air Corps stages the first Untied States test of rocket-powered vehicles at the Velodrome in New York City, but his unmanned motorcycle reaches just 17 mph 11.13.1945 Racer Masahiro Hasemi is born in Tokyo, Japan 11.13.1956 Robert W. Lea of the Stephens Motor Car Company dies at age 70

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