Canadian race car driver and sportscaster

Paul Tracy

Paul Anthony Tracy is a Canadian-American professional auto racing driver who participated in Champ Car World Series, the IndyCar Series, and the Championship Auto Racing Teams (CART). He started kart racing at age five and quickly became successful and began car racing at sixteen, finishing third in the 1985 Formula Ford 1600 championship with one win and Rookie of the Year honors. Tracy became the youngest Canadian Formula Ford champion in the 1985 CASC Formula 1600 Challenge Series and was the youngest Can-Am race winner the following year. He raced in the American Racing Series for three years between 1988 and 1990, winning the series title with nine wins from fourteen races in 1990.

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1968

December 17

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1960s

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-497 The first Saturnalia festival is celebrated in ancient Rome.
546 Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoths under king Totila plunder the city, by bribing the Eastern Roman garrison.
920 Romanos I Lekapenos is crowned co-emperor of the underage Constantine VII.
942 Assassination of William I of Normandy.

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The world in 1968

When Paul arrived

april 10 The TEV Wahine, a New Zealand ferry, sinks in Wellington harbour due to a fierce storm – the strongest winds ever in Wellington. Out of the 734 people on board, fifty-three died.
april 11 US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1968, prohibiting discrimination in the sale, rental, and financing of housing.
april 11 A failed assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke, leader of the German student movement, leaves Dutschke suffering from brain damage.
april 20 English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial "Rivers of Blood" speech.

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Arthur Fiedler 1894–1979 American conductor (died 1979) Chelsea Manning 1987– American soldier and intelligence analyst Chuck Liddell 1969– American mixed martial artist and kick-boxer Humphry Davy 1778–1829 English chemist and physicist (died 1829) John Kennedy Toole 1937–1969 American novelist (died 1969) Kerry Packer 1937–2005 Australian businessman, founded World Series Cricket (died 2005) Roger L'Estrange 1616– English pamphleteer and author (died 1704) Ryan Hunter-Reay 1980– American race car driver Susanthika Jayasinghe 1975– Sri Lankan sprinter

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Alejandra Ávalos 1968– Mexican artist Andy Flower 1968– South-African-Zimbabwean cricketer and coach Barry Kooser 1968– American painter and animator Brandi Chastain 1968– American soccer player and sportscaster Carlos Baerga 1968– Puerto Rican baseball player and coach Christopher Brookmyre 1968– Scottish author Didier Deschamps 1968– French footballer and manager Dwayne Schintzius 1968–2012 American basketball player (born 1968) Elisabeth Murdoch 1968–2012 Australian businesswoman

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