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Cedrino in Fiat (LOC)

  • swanq said:
    See
    motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=1029
    "Complete name: Emanuele L. Cedrino
    Birth date: 07.Apr.1879
    Birth Place: Sanfrè (CN), Italy
    Death date: 29.May.1908
    Death Place: Baltimore, MD, United States
    Nationality: Italy
    Gender: male
    Age at death: 29"

    "Emanuele Cedrino was killed on Friday, 29 May 1908. That day he took his Fiat Cyclone to the Pimlico horse race track in Baltimore, Maryland. Pimlico is one of three locations at which the United States "Triple Crown" of Thoroughbred Horse Racing is contested. At Pimlico it is called the Preakness Stakes. The other two events are the Kentucky Derby, at Churchill Downs, in Louisville, Kentucky, and the Belmont Stakes at the Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.

    While practicing for a 100-mile race to be held the following day on the one-mile dirt track at Pimlico, Cedrino turned in a 51.0-second lap. On the next lap the spokes of the right front wheel collapsed, and his car flipped three times in Turn 1. Cedrino was thrown from the car, receiving fatal injuries when his head struck the fence.

    Dr. Herbert Schoenrich who was watching the practice runs, reached Cedrino's side in a matter of seconds. He found that the driver's occipital bone had been horribly broken. Death was instantaneous."
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks swanq, we'll update his catalog record.
  • jessamyn west said:
    Came in first in the First American International Road Race a month earlier

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_American_International_Road_Race

Archbishop Farley [at Bonner funeral, New York] (LOC)

  • swanq said:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Murphy_Farley
    John Murphy Farley (April 20, 1842 – September 17, 1918) was an Irish-American cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of New York from 1902 until his death in 1918, and became a cardinal in 1911.
  • swanq said:
    See
    Archbishop Farley [at Bonner funeral, New York] (LOC)
  • Jon (LOC P&P) said:
    Thanks swanq, we'll add his full name to the catalog record.

Castro & cabinet (LOC)

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