2002 - Rubens Barrichello led Michael Schumacher in a one-two win in Hungary and triggered Ferrari celebrations with the team’s fourth successive Formula One constructors’ crown. The Brazilian started on pole position alongside Schumacher and, with the German’s fifth title already secured in record time in France last month, stayed ahead for the third win of his career and second in this year. The two cars crossed the line close together, Schumacher 0.4 of a second behind. The result lifted Barrichello to second in the championship and put on hold Schumacher’s dream of becoming the first driver to win 10 grand prix in a season, having triumphed in nine of the previous 12. It was still Ferrari’s day as the team repeated last year’s one-two in Hungary.
Other important events
1812 - Russian forces are defeated at Smolensk, which is occupied by the French.
1825 - Scottish explorer Alexander Gordon Laing becomes the first European to reach Timbuktu, now in Mali.
1866 - The North German Confederation Treaty is signed in Berlin.
1868 - French astronomer Pierre Janssen discovers helium.
1870 - Western Australia is granted representative government.
1914 - Germany declares war on Russia.
1932 - Jim Mollison, a Scottish aviator, makes the first westbound transatlantic solo flight.
1968 - More than 100 women and children are killed when a landslide sweeps two buses into a river on Japan’s Honshu Island.
1986 - Sudanese rebel group claims responsibility for shooting down Sudan Airways passenger plane in which all 60 people aboard were killed.
1987 - Sri Lankan President Junius Jayewardene escapes an assassination bid.
1993 - Bosnia’s warring factions agree to put their capital under UN control for up to two years.
1994 - A powerful earthquake rips through northwest Algeria, killing at least 150 people.
1995 - Flash floods in the Marrakesh region of Morocco kill at least 73 people.
1999 - Shaikh Ahmad Bin Hasher Al Maktoum wins first gold medal in the ninth Pan Arab Games.
2001 - At least 78 people are killed and 41 others injured in a pre-dawn fire at a Philippines hotel.
2005 - Russia and China launch their first-ever joint military exercises.
2008 - Pervez Musharraf resigns as President of Pakistan.
2009 - Emirati sprinter Omar Juma Bilal Al Salfa becomes the first Arab to enter the quarterfinals at the World Athletics Championships.
2010 - A packed passenger bus plunges off a Philippines mountain highway into a 100-foot ravine, killing 40 people.
2011 - A roadside bomb kills at least 21 passengers travelling in a minibus in western Afghanistan.
2013 - Former rebel leader Michel Djotodia is sworn in as President of the Central African Republic.
