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INAUGURAL 500 RACE ON THIS DATE IN 1959

DAYTONA 500 TICKET 

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Driver Lee Petty in the #42 race car battles with Johnny Beauchamp during the 
final lap of the inaugural Daytona
500 held at the International Speedway in 
Daytona Beach, Florida.


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Lee Petty, father of NASCAR’s all-time race winner Richard Petty.

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TODAY’S NEWS IN HISTORY

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TODAY IN HISTORY

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Michael Jeffrey Jordan

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Michael Jordan is 50 today

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YOUNGEST WINNER ON THIS DAY IN 1997

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A 25 year old Jeff Gordon

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Jeff Gordon won his first Daytona 500 in 1997, becoming the youngest
driver in history to win the race, a record that would stand until
Trevor
Bayne
‘s Daytona win in 2011.

 

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Trevor Bayne’s 2011 Daytona win. He will turn 22 on February 19.

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NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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Bob Dylan
(Robert Allen Zimmerman) will be 72 on May 24

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