The modern 3-point seat belt was created by Swedish inventor Nils Bohlin, who was a safety engineer for car manufacturer Volvo.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The DeLorean DMC-12 sports car was later used as the time machine in Back to the Future.
Thomas Midgeley Jr. discovered that adding tetraethyl lead to gasoline reduced knocking in automobile engines.
The Model T was enormously successful, and at one point half of all automobiles on the road were not just Ford cars but Model Ts.
The first NASCAR race took place at the Charlotte Speedway in North Carolina.
The first Formula One World Championship Grand Prix race took place at the Silverstone circuit in England.
The Type 2 finally debuted on 12 November and by the end of its first year over nine and a half thousand vehicles had rolled off the production line.
French aristocrat Count Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat set the world’s first officially recognised land speed record.
Frenchman Georges Claude’s neon lighting at the Paris Motor Show was used to light the front of the large exhibition space at the Grand Palais with red lighting.
Alice Huyler Ramsey became the first woman to drive an automobile across a continent when she completed a 59-day road trip from New York to San Francisco.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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