The 2015 Formula One World Championship was the 69th season of FIA
Formula One motor racing. It featured the 2015 Formula One World
Championship as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing
cars. Twenty-two drivers representing ten teams contested nineteen
Grands Prix, starting in Australia on 15 March and ending in Abu Dhabi
on 29 November as they competed for the World Drivers' and World
Constructors' championships. The calendar featured two changes from the
2014 season: the return of the Mexican Grand Prix for the first time
since 1992 and the cancellation of the German Grand Prix, leaving
Germany without a World Championship event for the first time in fifty-
five years. Lewis Hamilton secured his third Drivers' Championship, and
the runner-up was his teammate Nico Rosberg, with Ferrari's Sebastian
Vettel third. The Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team (car pictured) clinched
the Constructors' Championship ahead of Ferrari and Williams, and ended
the season with a record 703 points. Hamilton also won the FIA Pole
Trophy, with a total of 11 pole positions in the season, and the DHL
Fastest Lap Award. Ferrari won the inaugural DHL Fastest Pit Stop Award.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Formula_One_World_Championship>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1862:
American Civil War: The Confederate Army began an attempt to
gain control of the Southwest with a major victory in the Battle of
Valverde.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Valverde>
1929:
In the first battle of the Warlord Rebellion in northeastern
Shandong against the Nationalist government of China, a 24,000-strong
rebel force led by Zhang Zongchang was defeated at Zhifu by 7,000 NRA
troops.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Rebellion_in_northeastern_Shandong>
1958:
British artist Gerald Holtom unveiled a logo for the Campaign
for Nuclear Disarmament that later became internationally recognised as
the peace sign (pictured).
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_symbols>
1973:
After accidentally straying into Israeli-occupied airspace,
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 was shot down by two fighter aircraft,
killing 108 of the 113 people on board.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Arab_Airlines_Flight_114>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
matrilingual:
(rare) Pertaining to one's mother tongue.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/matrilingual>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
The intolerant can be viewed as free-riders, as persons who seek
the advantages of just institutions while not doing their share to
uphold them.
--John Rawls
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Rawls>