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1955Aug, 13

Keith Ahlers

Keith Ahlers, English race car driver
Keith Ahlers (born 13 August 1955) is a British race car driver. He was born in Cambridge, England, and was educated at the Perse School for Boys, Cambridge.

He is associated with Morgan Motor Company, driving a privately owned car (not the Morgan Aero 8 as in the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans) in the 24 Hours Nürburgring each year.

In 2004 he drove one race of the American Le Mans Series. He is frequenting the New Forest Morgan sports car club. He is also one of the drivers featured in the video game TOCA Race Driver 3.

More recently he won the FiA Historic Sports Car Championship in 2016, 2017 & 2018 in a Cooper Monaco King Cobra.

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Events on 1955

  • 7Jan

    Metropolitan Opera

    Contralto Marian Anderson becomes the first person of color to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in Giuseppe Verdi's Un ballo in maschera.
  • 13Feb

    Dead Sea Scrolls

    Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
  • 18Feb

    Nevada Test Site

    Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots in the Teapot series.
  • 14May

    Warsaw Pact

    Cold War: Eight Communist bloc countries, including the Soviet Union, sign a mutual defense treaty called the Warsaw Pact.
  • 23Oct

    State of Vietnam referendum, 1955

    Prime Minister Ngô Đình Diệm defeats former emperor Bảo Đại in a referendum and founds the Republic of Vietnam.