on October 8 at Talladega Superspeedway, the 188-lap race was the 30th
in the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the fourth in the ten-race,
season-ending Chase for the Nextel Cup. Brian Vickers (pictured) of
Hendrick Motorsports won the first race of his career; Kasey Kahne
finished second, and Kurt Busch came in third. David Gilliland, who had
the pole position, was passed immediately by teammate Dale Jarrett. The
race lead changed 63 times, with Dale Earnhardt Jr. leading for the most
laps (37). On the final lap, Jimmie Johnson and Vickers made a move to
pass Earnhardt, but Vickers clipped Johnson. Then Johnson clipped
Earnhardt, and both were knocked into the infield. The race was halted,
giving Vickers the win, although the crowd booed, and he was later
criticized for hurting his teammate Johnson in the points standings.
After the race Jeff Burton maintained his Drivers' Championship points
lead, while Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers'
Championship, 51 points ahead of Dodge and 52 ahead of Ford with six
races remaining in the season.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_UAW-Ford_500>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
451:
The Council of Chalcedon, a Christian ecumenical council,
opened, and went on to repudiate the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism
and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon>
1076:
Demetrius Zvonimir, the last native king who exerted any real
power over the entire Croatian state, was crowned.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demetrius_Zvonimir_of_Croatia>
1897:
Composer Gustav Mahler was appointed the director of the Vienna
Court Opera.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Mahler>
1952:
Three trains collided (wreckage pictured) at Harrow &
Wealdstone station in London killing 112 people and injuring 340.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrow_and_Wealdstone_rail_crash>
2001:
In response to the September 11 attacks, U.S. President George
W. Bush announced the creation of the Office of Homeland Security, with
former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge as its director.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Homeland_Security>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
John Hancock:
(idiomatic) One's signature.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/John_Hancock>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted,
every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry
to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we
are weakening our genius for life.
--John Cowper Powys
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Cowper_Powys>
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