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Gone but not forgotten
From NASCAR.com:
Daytona Countdown: '95
Marlin gets second consecutive victory; Million Man March held
By Mark Aumann, NASCAR.COM
February 9, 2005
10:44 AM EST (15:44 GMT)
Sterling Marlin's No. 4 Chevrolet turned out to be one position better than Dale Earnhardt's No. 3 Chevy in the 37th Daytona 500 on Feb. 19, 1995. With Earnhardt looming in his mirrors, Marlin used sheer horsepower to become the first driver with back-to-back Daytona 500 victories since Cale Yarborough.
Marlin's payday was $300,460, a record amount and enough money to purchase four new 1995 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 two-door coupes at a list price of $68,043.
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from space on March 22, after setting a record of 438 days in orbit, meaning he was aboard the Mir space station for both of Marlin's Daytona 500 victories.
Polyakov, who spent a total of 678 days in space during his two missions, retired in August. Marlin has spent a total of 640 days competing in NASCAR races and hasn't announced plans to retire any time soon.
It was a good year for aviation and aeronautics. In February, Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. became the first African-American astronaut to walk in space. One month later, astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into space on a Russian launch vehicle.
On Feb. 21, Steve Fossett became the first balloonist to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. In June, Lisa Clayton completed a 10-month solo circumnavigation of the northern hemisphere.
In October, the Million Man March was held in Washington, D.C.
In August, Microsoft finally launched Windows '95 and sold more than a million copies of the operating system in the first four days. At $209 for the full program or $109 for the upgrade, Marlin could have bought 1,437 new copies of Windows '95 with his winnings.
On June 8, six days after his plane was shot down over Bosnia, U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines. If Marlin had wanted to drive one of his new Chevy Corvettes from his hometown of Columbia, Tenn. to O'Grady's hometown of Spokane, Wash., the 2,220-mile trip would have taken 37 hours at freeway speeds -- or 15 hours and 40 minutes at Marlin's race-winning average of 141.710 mph.
On Nov. 28, President Bill Clinton signed a highway bill that ended the mandatory federal 55 mph speed limit.
On July 17, the NASDAQ stock index closed above 1,000 for the first time. On Nov. 21, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 5,000 for the first time. If Marlin had invested his winnings in the NASDAQ in 1995, his $300,460 worth be worth about 625,000 in 2005. If Marlin had invested his winnings in the Dow Jones in 1995, the same $300,460 would be worth about $640,000 today.
Wild weather was a topic of conversation in 1995. It was the most active hurricane season since 1933, with 19 named storms and 11 hurricanes. In July, temperatures exceeded 100 degrees for five straight days in many midwestern cities, killing at least 3,000, including 750 in Chicago.
In January, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,000 people. In May, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed at least 2,000 people in Neftegorsk, Russia. In November, a 6.2 quake struck much of the Mediterranean, including Israel and Eygpt. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in Cleveland on Sept. 2.
British soldiers left Belfast, Northern Ireland in March, but violence flared in other parts of the world in 1995. In addition to the war in Bosnia, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on Nov. 4 by a right-wing Israeli gunman.
On April 19, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history occured in Oklahoma City, when a homemade fertilizer bomb planted inside a rented truck exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. About 90 minutes after the explosion, Timothy McVeigh was stopped by an Oklahoma state trooper who arrested him on a firearms charge. Two days later, McVeigh was charged in the bombing. His friend Terry Nichols was arrested in Kansas, and formally charged with the bombing on May 10.
McVeigh was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. on June 11, 2001. Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.
Daytona Countdown: '95
Marlin gets second consecutive victory; Million Man March held
By Mark Aumann, NASCAR.COM
February 9, 2005
10:44 AM EST (15:44 GMT)
Sterling Marlin's No. 4 Chevrolet turned out to be one position better than Dale Earnhardt's No. 3 Chevy in the 37th Daytona 500 on Feb. 19, 1995. With Earnhardt looming in his mirrors, Marlin used sheer horsepower to become the first driver with back-to-back Daytona 500 victories since Cale Yarborough.
Marlin's payday was $300,460, a record amount and enough money to purchase four new 1995 Chevrolet Corvette ZR-1 two-door coupes at a list price of $68,043.
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returned from space on March 22, after setting a record of 438 days in orbit, meaning he was aboard the Mir space station for both of Marlin's Daytona 500 victories.
Polyakov, who spent a total of 678 days in space during his two missions, retired in August. Marlin has spent a total of 640 days competing in NASCAR races and hasn't announced plans to retire any time soon.
It was a good year for aviation and aeronautics. In February, Dr. Bernard A. Harris Jr. became the first African-American astronaut to walk in space. One month later, astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to ride into space on a Russian launch vehicle.
On Feb. 21, Steve Fossett became the first balloonist to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean. In June, Lisa Clayton completed a 10-month solo circumnavigation of the northern hemisphere.
In October, the Million Man March was held in Washington, D.C.
In August, Microsoft finally launched Windows '95 and sold more than a million copies of the operating system in the first four days. At $209 for the full program or $109 for the upgrade, Marlin could have bought 1,437 new copies of Windows '95 with his winnings.
On June 8, six days after his plane was shot down over Bosnia, U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady was rescued by U.S. Marines. If Marlin had wanted to drive one of his new Chevy Corvettes from his hometown of Columbia, Tenn. to O'Grady's hometown of Spokane, Wash., the 2,220-mile trip would have taken 37 hours at freeway speeds -- or 15 hours and 40 minutes at Marlin's race-winning average of 141.710 mph.
On Nov. 28, President Bill Clinton signed a highway bill that ended the mandatory federal 55 mph speed limit.
On July 17, the NASDAQ stock index closed above 1,000 for the first time. On Nov. 21, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 5,000 for the first time. If Marlin had invested his winnings in the NASDAQ in 1995, his $300,460 worth be worth about 625,000 in 2005. If Marlin had invested his winnings in the Dow Jones in 1995, the same $300,460 would be worth about $640,000 today.
Wild weather was a topic of conversation in 1995. It was the most active hurricane season since 1933, with 19 named storms and 11 hurricanes. In July, temperatures exceeded 100 degrees for five straight days in many midwestern cities, killing at least 3,000, including 750 in Chicago.
In January, a 7.3 magnitude earthquake rocked Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,000 people. In May, a 7.6 magnitude earthquake killed at least 2,000 people in Neftegorsk, Russia. In November, a 6.2 quake struck much of the Mediterranean, including Israel and Eygpt. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame opened in Cleveland on Sept. 2.
British soldiers left Belfast, Northern Ireland in March, but violence flared in other parts of the world in 1995. In addition to the war in Bosnia, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on Nov. 4 by a right-wing Israeli gunman.
On April 19, the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history occured in Oklahoma City, when a homemade fertilizer bomb planted inside a rented truck exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people. About 90 minutes after the explosion, Timothy McVeigh was stopped by an Oklahoma state trooper who arrested him on a firearms charge. Two days later, McVeigh was charged in the bombing. His friend Terry Nichols was arrested in Kansas, and formally charged with the bombing on May 10.
McVeigh was executed by lethal injection at the Federal Penitentiary at Terre Haute, Ind. on June 11, 2001. Nichols was sentenced to life in prison.
