Fans began honoring Earnhardt by holding three fingers aloft on the third lap of every NASCAR Cup race, and the television coverage of NASCAR on Fox and NASCAR on NBC went silent for each third lap from Rockingham to the following year's race there in honor of Earnhardt For the first three weeks after Earnhardt's death, on-track incidents brought out the caution flag on lap three.

It was suggested that it should be called the Rockingham Stakes in honour of the host, the Marquess of Rockingham, but the Marquess proposed that it should be named instead after Anthony St. Leger.

Lord Rockingham died only three months after coming to power ; he was succeeded by another Whig, William Petty, 2nd Earl of Shelburne.

The British government also made overtures to the Dutch to come to a speedy conclusion of hostilities, especially after the Cabinet of Lord North had been replaced by that of Rockingham and Fox in March, 1782.

Rockingham is a city in Richmond County, North Carolina, United States named after the Marquis of Rockingham.

The town of Dayton is one of the oldest settled communities in Rockingham County, and is the county's second oldest incorporated town, after Bridgewater.

Murray wanted Rockingham to take after Sir Walter Raleigh.

In April 1746, two months after succeeding in the barony of Rockingham, he was created Marquess of Rockingham, in the County of Northampton, in the Peerage of Great Britain.

The Rockingham was blown ashore and eventually abandoned after failed attempts to refloat her.

Wentworth was responsible for naming them, choosing names of current British leaders ( including Rockingham ), but also name Strafford County after one of his distant relatives, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford.

The codename hit the headlines after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, over allegations that Operation Rockingham was a propaganda effort within the British intelligence world.

It countered Ritter's claims by stating authoritatively that after its creation in 1991 within the DIS, " Rockingham was responsible for briefing some of the personnel who formed part of UNSCOM and International Atomic Energy Agency inspection teams.

The mall has over 120 stores as well as a large food court and is, making it the third largest mall in New Hampshire after the Mall at Rockingham Park in Salem, and the Pheasant Lane Mall in Nashua, which opened in 1991 and 1986, respectively.

The board carried on this work but also had long periods of inactivity, devolving into chaos after 1761 and abolished in 1782 by an act of Parliament by the Rockingham Whigs.

Two years after leaving the Commons, and with the assistance of Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, he established a two-mile race for 3-year-old horses, on the Cantley Common in Doncaster.

Though the spring date was not directly transferred to California, NASCAR moved up the first California race to the traditional spring Rockingham date the week after Daytona.

The draw for Rockingham was that teams got to stay close to home right after Daytona before traveling for the next race.

The exciting finish proved to be NASCAR's last stand at Rockingham, as the race ( and the track, for that matter ), were removed from the schedule permanently after that.

Rockingham House was suspiciously destroyed by fire in 1957, after which it was taken over by the Irish Land Commission.

In 1987 An Phoblacht put him on a blacklist of British sympathisers after the airing of The Rockingham Shoot.

Many race scenes were shot at Rockingham Speedway, after the track had lost its races and was used mostly as a test track and driving school.

When North finally resigned under the strains of office and the disastrous American war in March 1782 and was gingerly replaced with the new ministry of the Marquess of Rockingham, Fox was appointed Foreign Secretary.

Born near Rockingham in Richmond County, North Carolina, Steele attended common schools near his home and then Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, Wake Forest College, and finally the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating in 1844.

It was extended past Cumberland to the Virginia state line by 1930, through Virginia to the North Carolina state line by 1935, and finally to US 1 in Rockingham, North Carolina, by 1941.

The North administration left power in March 1782 following the American Revolution, and a coalition of the Rockingham Whigs and the former Chathamites, now led by the Earl of Shelburne, took its place.

Fluger claimed to have been a Yankee native of Rockingham County, New Hampshire and was a former militia colonel.

* Court Manor, c. 1812, Rockingham County-early Greek-Revival manor house, former home of Willis Sharpe Kilmer

** Rockingham Speedway, AKA " The Rock ", a former NASCAR track located outside of Rockingham, NC

The former includes several fast-food outlets, a petrol station, the Rockingham City shopping mall, medical practices, restaurants and two multi-screen cinema complexes.

November 2003: The very secret service Michael Meacher, former member of the Blair government, discusses the role of Operation Rockingham

The Bruins meanwhile announced plans to move to a proposed $ 50 million sports complex located on the former site of Rockingham Park in Salem, New Hampshire.

The most living former Prime Ministers at any one time has been 5, which has happened several times: the first time was between Jan and Nov 1770, while Lord North was in office, and The Earl of Bute, George Grenville, the 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Pitt the Elder, and the 3rd Duke of Grafton were still alive ( Grenville died in Nov 1770 ); the most recent was between Nov 1990 and May 1995, while John Major was in office, and Douglas-Home, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan and Thatcher were still alive ( Wilson died in May 1995 ).

Rockingham Forest is a former royal hunting forest in the in the county of Northamptonshire, England.

Rockingham Castle is a former royal castle and hunting lodge in Rockingham Forest a mile to the north of Corby, Northamptonshire.

Its role has been replaced by bus facilities at the Rockingham railway station and the former bus station was demolished in 2008.

Mike Skinner finished 31st at Rockingham in February, Kirk Shelmerdine ( former crew chief for Dale Earnhardt ) was 26th at Talladega in May, Bob Keselowski was 41st at Pocono in June, and Gary Bradberry came home 30th in the season ending Hooters 500 at Atlanta.

* Spray, North Carolina, a former mill town in Rockingham County, North Carolina, now part of Eden, North Carolina

However, this term was short-lived, for Lord Rockingham died fourteen weeks later at the beginning of July from an Influenza epidemic.

Rockingham died in July 1782, but Thurlow remained Lord Chancellor also when Lord Shelburne became Prime Minister.

The day before he died, Kelly had told the parliamentary Intelligence and Security Committee ( ISC ): " Within the defence intelligence services I liaise with the Rockingham cell.

* Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, Prime Minister ( 1782, died in office )

Walter L. Steele died in Baltimore, Maryland in 1891 and is buried in Leak Cemetery near Rockingham, North Carolina.

* Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham, who died on 1 July 1782.