The 2010 Sylvania 300 was an American stock car racing competition held at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon on September 19. The 300-lap race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ended the season. Clint Bowyer (pictured) of the Richard Childress Racing team won the race; Denny Hamlin finished second and Jamie McMurray came in third. Brad Keselowski started at the pole position, but was quickly passed by Tony Stewart. Many participants in the Chase for the Sprint Cup, including Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, and Hamlin, were in the top ten for most of the race, although some encountered problems in the closing laps. Stewart was leading the race with two laps remaining but ran out of fuel, giving the lead, and the win, to Bowyer. There were twenty-one lead changes and eight cautions during the race. It was Bowyer's first win in the 2010 season, and the third of his career. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, ahead of Toyota and Ford. Attendance was 95,000, and the television audience was 3.68 million.
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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:
1571:
Elizabeth I of England issued a royal charter establishing Jesus College, the first Protestant college at the University of Oxford. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_College,_Oxford
1743:
War of the Austrian Succession: In the last time that a British monarch personally led his troops into battle, George II and his forces defeated the French in Dettingen, Bavaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dettingen
1927:
Prime Minister of Japan Tanaka Giichi led a conference to discuss Japan's plans for China, out of which came the Tanaka Memorial, a strategic document detailing these plans (now believed to be a forgery). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanaka_Memorial
1986:
In Nicaragua v. United States, the International Court of Justice ruled that the United States had violated international law by supporting the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaragua_v._United_States
2008:
President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe was overwhelmingly re- elected after his opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdrew a week earlier, citing violence against his party's supporters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbabwean_general_election,_2008
_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:
from pillar to post: (idiomatic) From one place (or person, or task) to another; hither and thither. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/from_pillar_to_post
___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:
Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill. The consequence of pessimism in the life of a nation is the same as in the life of the individual. Pessimism kills the instinct that urges men to struggle against poverty, ignorance and crime, and dries up all the fountains of joy in the world. --Helen Keller https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Helen_Keller