(FOXNEWS) – Ricky Stenhouse Jr. won the Daytona 500 on
Sunday to start the 2023 NASCAR season.

Stenhouse held off Joey Logano on the final lap of overtime.

Lee Petty, driver of the No. 42 Oldsmobile, poses in front
of his car after winning the first 1959 Daytona 500 race at
the Daytona International Speedway on Feb. 25, 1959.

Sunday afternoon’s Daytona 500 will be the 65th running of
what NASCAR self-proclaims as “The Great American Race.”

(FOXNEWS) – Tom Sizemore, the actor known for portraying
Mike Horvath in "Saving Private Ryan," has been hospitalized
and is in critical condition. 

A representative for the actor confirmed that the actor had
suffered a brain aneurysm at his home and is in the intensive
care unit.

"He is in the hospital," Charles Lago told Fox News Digital.
"His family is aware of the situation and are hoping for the
best. It is too early to know about [a] recovery situation as
he is in critical condition and under observation."

On February 19, 1847, the first rescuers reach surviving members
of the Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants
stranded by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

In the summer of 1846, in the midst of a Western-bound fever
sweeping the United States, 89 people—including 31 members
of the Donner and Reed families—set out in a wagon train from Springfield, Illinois. After arriving at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, the emigrants decided to avoid the usual route and try a new trail
recently blazed by California promoter Lansford Hastings, the
so-called “Hastings Cutoff.” After electing George Donner
(below) as  their captain, the party departed Fort Bridger in
mid-July.

The shortcut was nothing of the sort: It set the Donner Party back
nearly three weeks and cost them much-needed supplies. After
suffering great hardships in the Wasatch Mountains, the Great
Salt Lake Desert and along the Humboldt River, they finally
reached the Sierra Nevada Mountains in early October.

Overnight,  an early winter storm blanketed the ground with
snow, blocking the mountain pass and trapping the Donner
Party.     
       

George Donner (1836 – 1874)
        

James F. Reed and his wife, Margret W. Keyes Reed, seen
in this file photo taken in the 1850s, were survivors of the
tragic Donner Party.

Map of the route taken by the Donner Party, showing the Hastings Cutoff—which added 150 miles (240 km) to
their travels—in orange.

Cracker Jack started its "prize in every box" promotion on this
day in history, Feb. 19, 1912.

German immigrant F.W. Rueckheim (below) first invented the
now-ubiquitous ballpark treat in the late 19th century. 

It was initially sold at his small candy and popcorn shop,
F. W. Rueckheim & Bro. (SnackHistory.com.) 

Frederich William Rueckheim (1846-1934)