A Brief History On May 4, 2019, the W Series conducted their first and inaugural motor race at Hockenheimring Baden-Württemberg, Germany, an all-Female auto racing event. Digging Deeper That initial race was won by Jamie Chadwick, a British race car driver, who went on to win that first season W Series Championship.  Chadwick still drives competitively in the Indy NXT series for the Andretti Autosport team and is a major female example of top-notch drivers such as Danica Patrick, Shirley Muldowney, Janet Guthrie, Simona de Silvestro, Michèle Mouton, and Maria Teresa de Filippis.  Apologies to the many great female drivers…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on May 3rd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On May 3, 752, the Mayan King Bird Jaguar IV began his reign. On May 3, 1921, the state legislature of West Virginia enacted the first Sales Tax in the United States, although problems in creating the mechanism to administer the tax precluded enforcement for several years. On May 3, 1945, five squadrons of Hawker Typhoon fighter aircraft attacked three ships in…

A Brief History On May 3, 1999, the state of Oklahoma experienced a catastrophic weather event known as the “1999 Oklahoma Tornado Outbreak.”  A series of tornadoes that lasted from May 2nd to May 8th, the highest wind speed recorded during the twisters was an incredible 301 mph, plus or minus 20 mph. Digging Deeper But of course, that is tornadic wind speed.  Wind as measured as normal high-speed wind along the surface of the Earth has a lower record velocity.  A candidate for the highest wind speed on Earth occurred at Barrow Island, Australia in 1996, an umbrella shattering…

A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on May 2nd.  For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On May 2, 1945, an American Artillery Battalion intercepted a death march of concentration camp inmates being taken from the Dachau concentration camp to the Austrian border, in turn saving the lives of hundreds of the starving inmates. On May 2, 1918, General Motors Corporation acquired the Delaware based Chevrolet Motor Company, its last major car company acquisition for decades. On May…

A Brief History On May 2, 2011, American military Special Forces carried out a surprise raid on the Abbottabad, Pakistan compound where Al Qaeda leader and mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks in the United States, Saudi Arabian Osama bin Laden, had been hiding. Digging Deeper At the time of the terrible crimes committed on September 11, 2001, the President George Bush vowed that Osama bin Laden and others responsible for the attacks would be found, “Dead or Alive” and brought to justice.  President Bush never did “get his man,” but President Barack Obama authorized the raid into the third-party…