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FEBRUARY 22
The first Daytona 500 took place on February 22, 1959. Forty-one thousand fans watched as fifty-nine cars competed for a total purse of $67,760. It was a photo-finish, but Johnny Beauchamp was the “unofficial” winner. Three days later, Lee Arnold Petty was declared the winner of the first Daytona 500.
QUIZ
Who placed third in the first Daytona 500?
Yesterday’s Quiz
Q. Who was young man who invented the Cherokee alphabet?
A. Sequoyah
Another correct answer from blogposter01 along with the added information that Sequoyah was from the Tsalagi people.
Historically Yours, originally a weekly column about the American Civil War, will now cover anything American from 1492 to present day, through this blog.
