Damon Hill is a retired British racing driver and the 1996 Formula One
World Champion. The son of the late, two time Formula One world
champion Graham Hill, he is the only son of a world champion to win
the title himself. Hill started his Formula One career with the
Brabham team in 1992. He went on to take his first win at the 1993
Hungarian Grand Prix for the Williams team, the first of 22 victories,
of which 21 were for Williams. In 1994 he won the British Grand Prix,
a race his father had never won during his own career. In the mid
1990s, Hill was Michael Schumacher's main rival for the Formula One
Driver's Championship, finishing runner-up in the German's 1994 and
1995 title seasons. The two had a series of controversial clashes on
and off track, including the famous collision at Adelaide in 1994 that
gave Schumacher his first title by a single point. Hill was dropped by
Williams for 1997 despite taking eight victories and winning his world
championship in 1996. He went on to record the Jordan team's first
ever win at the 1998 Belgian Grand Prix, and came within a few miles
of being the only driver to win a Grand Prix for the Arrows team and
their Yamaha engine supplier at the 1997 Hungarian Grand Prix.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
435:
Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine
Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorius)
1916:
Sir Roger Casement was hanged for his role in the Easter Rising in
Ireland.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Casement)
1923:
Calvin Coolidge (pictured) was inaugurated as the 30th President of
the United States, succeeding Warren G. Harding.
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Coolidge)
1940:
World War II: Approximately 175,000 Italian troops invaded British
Somaliland, beginning the East African Campaign.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_African_Campaign_%28World_War_II%29)
1948:
Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of being a communist and a
Soviet spy.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittaker_Chambers)
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Wikiquote of the day:
"Somewhere, he thought, on the long backtrack of history, the human
race had accepted an insanity for a principle and had persisted in it
until today that insanity-turned-principle stood ready to wipe out, if
not the race itself, at least all of those things, both material and
immaterial, that had been fashioned as symbols of humanity through
many hard-won centuries." -- Clifford D. Simak
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http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clifford_D._Simak)