The 2014 Japanese Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 5 October 2014 at the Suzuka Circuit in Suzuka, Mie. It was the 15th race of the 2014 FIA Formula One World Championship, and the 30th Japanese Grand Prix of the Formula One era. The 44-lap race was won by Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, increasing his lead in the World Drivers' Championship to ten points over his teammate, Nico Rosberg, who finished second. Red Bull Racing driver Sebastian Vettel came in third. Heavy rain from Typhoon Phanfone soaked the track surface and reduced visibility. Jules Bianchi lost control of his Marussia on the 43rd lap and collided with a tractor crane that was tending to Adrian Sutil's car, which had spun off on the previous lap. Bianchi sustained severe head injuries and died nine months later, the first death caused by a Formula One race since Ayrton Senna's in 1994. Formula One's governing body, the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, investigated and found that the crash had no single cause.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1859:

Bryant's Minstrels premiered the popular American song "Dixie" in New York City as part of their blackface minstrel show. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dixie_(song)

1968:

American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr.

1988:

Governor of Arizona Evan Mecham was removed from office after being convicted in his impeachment trial. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evan_Mecham

1990:

The current flag of Hong Kong was adopted for post-colonial use during the Third Session of the Seventh National People's Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Hong_Kong

2013:

A building collapsed on tribal land in Mumbra, a suburb of Thane in Maharashtra, India, causing 74 deaths. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Thane_building_collapse

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disemvowel: (transitive, sometimes humorous) To remove the vowels from, for example, for the purpose of expurgating offensive words. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disemvowel

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Our aim is to persuade. We adopt the means of non-violence because our end is a community at peace with itself. We will try to persuade with our words, but if our words fail, we will try to persuade with our acts. We will always be willing to talk and seek fair compromise, but we are ready to suffer when necessary and even risk our lives to become witnesses to the truth as we see it. … But if physical death is the price that a man must pay to free his children and his white brethren from a permanent death of the spirit, then nothing could be more redemptive. This is the type of soul force that I am convinced will triumph over the physical force of the oppressor.   --Martin Luther King, Jr. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr.