This Day in Auto History: 12 JUNE

7.12.1895 Inventor Richard Buckminster Fuller is born in Milton, MA

7.12.1909 The sixth Glidden Tour begins in Detroit, MI with a planned route to Kansas City, MO

7.12.1923 Jacques Lombard of Citroen is born in Auxerre, France

7.12.1930 Racer Guy Ligier is born in Vichy, France

7.12.1951 Hon. Nicholas Geoffrey Rootes, heir to the Rootes automotive empire, is born

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

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