Brabham was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four Drivers' and two Constructors' World Championships in its 30-year Formula One history. Jack Brabham's 1966 Drivers' Championship remains the only such achievement using a car bearing the driver's own name. In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, building more than 500 cars by 1970. During this period, teams using Brabham cars won championships in Formula Two and Formula Three. Brabham cars also competed in the Indianapolis 500 and in Formula 5000 racing. The team won two more Formula One Drivers' Championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet. Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s. Its last owner was the Middlebridge Group, a Japanese engineering firm. Midway through the 1992 season, the team collapsed financially, and was investigated by the Serious Fraud Office.

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878:

Arab–Byzantine wars: The city of Syracuse was captured by the Aghlabids, completing the Muslim conquest of Sicily. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Syracuse_(877%E2%80%93878)

1674:

John III Sobieski, elected by the szlachta, became the monarch of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_Sobieski

1917:

The Imperial War Graves Commission was established through royal charter to mark, record and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of Commonwealth of Nations military forces. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_War_Graves_Commission

1927:

Aboard the Spirit of St. Louis, American aviator Charles Lindbergh completed the first solo non-stop transatlantic flight, flying from Roosevelt Field near New York City to Paris–Le Bourget Airport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Lindbergh

1996:

Algerian Civil War: The remains of seven French Trappist monks who had been kidnapped in Algeria nearly two months earlier were found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_the_monks_of_Tibhirine

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smudge attack: (computing) A method used to crack the password of a touchscreen device by analysing the oily smears left on the device's screen by the user's fingers. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/smudge_attack

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