This Day in Auto History: 19 OCTOBER

10.19.1897 - John Melancthon Hickerson, the biographer of Ernest R. Breech, is born in Hatfield, MO 10.19.1927 - Frank Raymond Faraone of General Motors is born in San Francisco, CA 10.19.1945 - Packard introduces its first post-World War II cars, the Clipper Eight Standard and Clipper Eight Deluxe 10.19.1958 - Mike Hawthorn driving a Ferrari Dino 246 is his final race finishes second in the Moroccan Grand Prix at the Ain-Diab circuit in Casablanca behind the Vanwall driven by Stirling Moss, but clinches the World Champion Driver title to become the first Briton to win this honor 10.19.1971 - Tire manufacturer Alberto Pirelli dies in Casciano, Italy at age 89

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