The 2007 AT&T; 250 was a NASCAR Busch Series stock car race that took
place on June 23, 2007. Held at the Milwaukee Mile in West Allis,
Wisconsin, the race was the 17th of 35 in the 2007 season of the Busch
Series. Aric Almirola (pictured) of Joe Gibbs Racing was the listed
winner of the race. Gibbs intended for NASCAR Nextel Cup Series regular
Denny Hamlin to run the race, but the Cup Series was racing that weekend
at Sonoma Raceway in Sonoma, California, and Hamlin did not arrive in
time to start the race. Almirola started instead and ran the first 59
laps before he was pulled out of the car under caution; Hamlin finished
the race and came from behind to win after losing a lap to the leaders
during the driver change. NASCAR rules state that the driver who starts
the race gets credit for the result, making Almirola the official race
winner. The driver change frustrated Almirola, who proceeded to leave
the track before the race ended.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_AT%26T_250>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1594:
Anglo-Spanish War: During the Action of Faial, an English
attempt to capture a Portuguese carrack, reputedly one of the richest
ever to set sail from the Indies, caused it to explode with all the
treasure lost.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Action_of_Faial>
1972:
President Richard Nixon signed Title IX (co-author Patsy Mink
pictured) into law as part of the Education Amendments, prohibiting
gender discrimination in any educational program receiving U.S. federal
funds.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_IX>
1982:
Chinese American Vincent Chin died after being beaten into a
coma in Highland Park, Michigan, U.S., by two automotive workers who
were angry about the success of Japanese auto companies.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Vincent_Chin>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
prepossess:
1. Chiefly followed by by or with: to preoccupy (someone) in an
emotional or mental way, so as to preclude other things.
2. (by extension) To cause (someone) to have a previous inclination
against, for, or to something; to bias or prejudice; specifically, to
induce in (someone) a favourable opinion beforehand, or at the outset.
3. (obsolete)
4. To cause (someone) to think a certain way.
5. To occupy or possess (something) beforehand.
6. (reflexive, chiefly passive) Chiefly followed by of or with: to cause
(oneself) to obtain possession of something beforehand, or ahead of
someone else.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/prepossess>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
--Martin Rees
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Rees>