this Day in Auto History: 31 AUGUST

8.31.1904 - James W. Packard marries Elizabeth Achsah Gillmer

8.31.1922 - The Marmon Model 34C is introduced

8.31.1948 - Racer Harald Ertl is born in Mannheim, Germany

8.31.1955 - The world’s first solar-powered automobile, designed by William G. Cobb, is demonstrated at the General Motors Powerama in Chicago, IL

8.31.1958 - Chairman Albert Bradley and President Harlow H. Curtice retire from General Motors

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