The 2006 Subway 500 was the 32nd stock car race of the 2006 NASCAR Nextel Cup Series and the sixth in the ten-race Chase for the Nextel Cup. It was held on October 22, 2006, before a crowd of 65,000, at Martinsville Speedway (pictured) in Martinsville, Virginia, one of five short tracks to hold NASCAR races. The 500-lap race was won by Jimmie Johnson of Hendrick Motorsports; Denny Hamlin finished second, and Bobby Labonte came in third. Kurt Busch won the pole position with the fastest time in qualifying; Johnson started from ninth position. There were 18 cautions and 16 lead changes by five different drivers during the race. Johnson's win was his fifth of the 2006 season, and the 23rd of his career. The result advanced him to third in the Drivers' Championship, 41 points behind Matt Kenseth, who took over the championship lead after Jeff Burton retired from the race. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship with four races left in the season.
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1816:
HMS Whiting ran aground on the Doom Bar on the coast of Cornwall, England. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_Bar
1935:
Nazi Germany enacted the Nuremberg Laws, which deprived Jews of their citizenship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws
1944:
World War II: The Greek People's Liberation Army won the Battle of Meligalas and began the execution of many prisoners of war and civilians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Meligalas
1963:
The Ku Klux Klan bombed the 16th Street Baptist Church, an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls and injuring at least 14 other people (memorial march pictured). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing
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orphrey: 1. (obsolete) Any elaborate embroidery, especially when made of gold thread; an object (such as clothing or fabric) adorned with such embroidery. 2. (Christianity) An embroidered ornamental band or border on an ecclesiastical vestment, altar frontal, etc. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orphrey
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It is not a great misfortune to be of service to ingrates, but it is an intolerable one to be obliged to a dishonest man. --François de La Rochefoucauld https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_de_La_Rochefoucauld