Ralph Dale Earnhardt (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001)
Dale Earnhardt is widely regarded as one of the greatest drivers in NASCAR history and was named as one of the NASCAR’s 50
Greatest Drivers class in 1998.
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18
Feb
THE RACING WORLD LOST A LEGENED IN 2001
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15
Feb
IT WAS HIS FIRST 500 WIN ON THIS DAY
On February 15, 1998, after 20 years of trying, racing great
Dale Earnhardt Sr. finally wins his first Daytona 500, the
National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing season
opener and an event dubbed the “Super Bowl of stock
car racing.”
Driving his black No. 3 Chevrolet, Earnhardt recorded an
average speed of 172.712 m.p.h. and took home a then-
record more than $1 million in prize money.
Following his victory, crews from competing teams lined
the pit road at the Daytona International Speedway in
Daytona Beach, Florida, to congratulate Earnhardt, who
drove his car onto the grass and did several celebratory
doughnuts, or circles.
Earnhardt’s win that February in 1998 represented his sole Daytona
victory. Tragically, on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt died at the
age of 49 during a crash at that year’s 43rd Daytona 500.
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21
Dec
AN OUTSTANDING FIELD COMMANDER DIED
General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army,
died in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart
failure from injuries suffered, not in battle, but in a freak car
accident at the age of 60.
While some have mourned what was a tragic loss at the time,
others over the decades have theorized Patton’s death was
anything but an accident.
Fueling speculation that the accident involving a U.S. Army
truck was not an accident but a coordinated assassination.
A soldier inspects the damage to the car General Patton was riding in when the accident that would prove fatal occurred.
The damage to the front end of the vehicle was substantial.
On the beach at Gela, Sicily, in 1943.
14
Sep
PRINCESS GRACE DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1982
On September 14, 1982, Princess Grace of Monaco—the
American-born former film star Grace Kelly, whose movie
credits include The Country Girl and Rear Window—dies
at the age of 52 from injuries suffered after her car plunged
off a mountain road near Monte Carlo.
During the height of her Hollywood career in the 1950s,
Kelly became an international icon of beauty and glamour.
18
Jul
SEN. TED KENNEDY AND CHAPPAQUIDDICK
Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator
Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile
off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped
the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo
Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car
accident for 10 hours.
Edward Moore Kennedy
(February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)
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