* Simplest ' universal computer ' wins student $ 25, 000 by Jim Giles, New Scientist, October 24, 2007.

* May 25 – Indianapolis 500: Johnny Rutherford wins for a third time in car owner Jim Hall's revolutionary ground effect Chaparral car ; the victory is Hall's second as an owner.

* May 31 – Racing driver Jim Clark wins the Indianapolis 500, and later wins the Formula One world driving championship in the same year.

* May 28 – Indianapolis 500: Al Unser wins his third race, and the first for car owner Jim Hall.

Sampras did not advance past the quarterfinals in his next three tournaments, although he did record wins over world number 79 Jim Courier in their first career match-up, and world number 8 Tim Mayotte.

Battling Jim, who died during Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918, ended with a career record of 30 wins against 31 losses and six draws when his newspaper decisions are factored in.

His parents are often fighting ; his father ( Jim Backus ) often tries to defend Jim, but Jim's mother always wins the arguments.

Jim reluctantly takes part in the fight and wins, subduing Buzz by holding his switchblade up to his neck.

Pitchers Jim Hughey ( 4 – 30 ) and Charlie Knepper ( 4 – 22 ) tied for the team lead in wins.

** May 28 – Jim Paschal wins his second World 600 in a Plymouth

** 30 May – Jim Clark ( Great Britain ) wins the 50th running of the Indianapolis 500 in Lotus 38-Cosworth, with a winning margin of one lap.

* Formula One – Jim Clark ( Great Britain ) wins World Drivers ' Champion, driving a Lotus 25-Climax.

** 30 May – Jim Rathmann wins the 44th running of the Indianapolis 500 in the Ken-Paul Special Watson-Offenhauser

If Jim wins, Wu will be able to keep the prize money but has to sell Herbie back for a dollar.

Close wins over Alain Robidoux and Jim Wych followed before White met Alan McManus in the semi-finals, where he pulled away from 4 – 4 to win 16 – 7.

Brooks Robinson has the most wins as a third baseman, with 16 Gold Gloves, and is tied for the second-highest total overall with pitcher Jim Kaat, who won his 16 awards consecutively.

* NASCAR Grand National Series – American race car driver Lee Petty wins the 1958 Jim Mideon 500.

Edberg's final two Grand Slam singles triumphs came at the US Open, with wins over Jim Courier in the 1991 final and Pete Sampras in the 1992 final, who was just months away from being ranked No. 1 in the world.

The two struggle and Jim wins because he is stronger.

On week 15 against the Jacksonville Jaguars Manning won his 23rd consecutive regular season game breaking Jim McMahon's NFL record of 22 straight wins with the Chicago Bears from 1984 – 87.

Jim Smith was retained as manager for the following season, and it started positively for Oxford, with 14 wins and 8 draws from the opening 25 games.

In March 2012, with Dunfermline bottom of the SPL with 19 points, eight games without a victory and no wins at home all season, manager Jim McIntyre was sacked by the club and replaced with Jim Jefferies.

* 1968 – Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver ( b. 1936 )

* 1910 – African-American boxer Jack Johnson knocks out white boxer Jim Jeffries in a heavyweight boxing match sparking race riots across the United States.

* 1935 – Jim Hall, American race car driver

A new group of Ringmeister arose to dominate the race – Alberto Ascari, Juan Manuel Fangio, Stirling Moss, Jim Clark, John Surtees, Jackie Stewart and Jacky Ickx.

The sport entered the ' modern ' era in the 1960s, with notable names like Jim Wynn, Don Aronow, and Dick Bertram competing in mammoth events such as the Bahamas race.

* 1947 – Jim Richards, New Zealand race car driver

* 1963 – Jim Pocklington, English race car driver

The standard " Olympic Distance " of 1. 5 / 40 / 10 km (. 93 / 24. 8 / 6. 2 miles ) was created by long time triathlon race director Jim Curl in the mid-1980s, after he and partner Carl Thomas produced the U. S. Triathlon Series ( USTS ) between 1982 and 1997.

* April 7 – Racing driver Jim Clark is killed in a Formula 2 race at Hockenheim.

* April 7 – Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver ( b. 1936 )

** Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver ( d. 1968 )

* In Jim Butcher's Codex Alera the leader of the Canim, a race of large anthropomorphic wolves, is named Varg.

When Forster ’ s cousin, Philip Whichelo, donated a portrait of Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association ( GLHA ), Jim Herrick, the founder, quoted Forster's words: " The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

The shocking fiery crash of Lorenzo Bandini at the Monaco chicane in 1967 and, in particular, the hugely talented Jim Clark's death at Hockenheim in a F2 race in 1968 that got Formula One as a whole to start thinking on the topic of safety more seriously.

The state's senior member of the United States Senate is Democrat Jim Webb, elected in 2006, who announced his intention to retire and not to run in the 2012 race for his Senate seat.

The Permian Basin Petroleum Museum houses a collection of race cars designed by Jim Hall, a long time Midland resident who pioneered the use of aerodynamic downforce in the design of Formula One cars.

Racing a mid-engined car, Scotsman Jim Clark was second in his first attempt in 1963, dominating in 1964 until suffering suspension failure on lap 47, and completely dominating the race in 1965, a victory which also interrupted the success of the Offy, and offering the 4. 2 litre Ford V8 its first success at the race.

Jim Norton addressed the program's demise on his blog, where he mentioned that Comedy Central would send down notes to the show discouraging the predominant focus on political topics and discussions about race and ethnic issues.

When the two fastest Lotus-Fords, driven by Jim Clark and Bobby Marshman, fell out of the race with mechanical problems, and Parnelli Jones was knocked out when his fuel tank exploded during a pit stop, Foyt was left alone at the front of the field, and cruised home to win his second Indianapolis 500.

Eventually, with legendary driver Jim Clark at the wheel of his race cars, Team Lotus appeared as though they could win whenever they pleased.

He bested teammate Jim Bottomley in the batting title race by nearly 40 points.

After yet another race ends in a crash ( and Tennessee turns his Edsel into a sculpture ), Jim finds himself without a car and heads into town in search of some cheap wheels.