Reeves Dutton... Born ... AAA driver from 1919 & 1920
1939
Jack LeCain... Died ... AAA driver from 1912 to 1917
1948
Jim Crawford... Born ... USAC/CART driver 1984 to 1995. Ran the Indy 500 eight times with a best finish of 6th in 1988.
1955
Lee Petty won the 100 mile NASCAR Grand National race on the 1/2 mile dirt Speedway Park oval in Jacksonville Florida. Petty's Chrysler took the lead when leader Dick Rathmann pitted his Hudson for fuel with 10 laps to go. Until then it appeared Rathmann was headed for his first win of the season. Rathmann still finished second with fellow Hudson pilot Herb Thomas third and the Olds 88s of Buck Baker and Junior Johnson rounding out the top five. It was Petty's second win in three 1955 season races.
1966
Jim Clark, defending series champion, drove his Lotus-Climax to his first win of the season in the Tasman Cup series race held on the Warwick Farm circuit in Sydney, Australia.
1969
Ronnie Johncox... Born ... A former driver in the Indy Racing League. He raced in the 1999-2000 seasons with 8 career starts.
1972
Louis Durant... Died ... AAA driver 1939 to 1948
1975
Bobby Allison and David Pearson won the twin 125 mile NASCAR GN qualifying races at Daytona International Speedway. Driving the Penske AMC Matador, Allison pulled away from Dick Brooks' Ford on a restart to win the first race by 1.6 seconds. Buddy Baker led the first 27 laps before blowing a tire and spinning to set up the restart. In the second race, Pearson squeezed the Wood Brothers' Mercury by Richard Petty on the last lap to win by a car length.
1976
Benny Parsons won the IROC race at Daytona, Florida.
Paul Russo... Died ... AAA / USAC driver from 1934 to 1965. He started racing midget cars in 1934. He went with a contigent of midget car drivers to Hawaii in the winter of 1934-35. He was the 1938 AAA Eastern Midget Champion. Russo won the first race held at the Nutley Velodrome in New Jersey in 1938. He drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1940-1941, 1946-1954, 1956-1959 and 1962 seasons with 85 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in each year but 1951 and 1952. He finished in the top ten 49 times, with 3 victories, at Springfield (1950), Detroit (1951), and Williams Grove (1952). His best finish at Indy was fourth in 1957, although he co-drove with Tony Bettenhausen to a second place finish in 1955. His brother Joe and nephew Eddie have also raced at the Indianapolis 500. Russo was inducted in the National Midget Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 1992.
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