CalendarZ

  1. Home
  2. On This Day
  3. May
  4. 27
  5. Marcel Fässler (racing driver)

Births on May 27

Marcel Fässler (racing driver)
1976May, 27

Marcel Fässler (racing driver)

Marcel Fässler, Swiss race car driver
Marcel Fässler (born 27 May 1976) is a Swiss retired racing driver. From 2010 to 2016 he competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship as part of Audi Sport Team Joest with co-drivers André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer, winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans three times (2011, 2012, and 2014) and capturing the World Endurance Drivers' Championship in 2012.

References

Choose Another Date

Events on 1976

  • 5Jan

    Democratic Kampuchea

    The Khmer Rouge proclaim the Constitution of Democratic Kampuchea.
  • 13Apr

    Thomas Jefferson

    The United States Treasury Department reintroduces the two-dollar bill as a Federal Reserve Note on Thomas Jefferson's 233rd birthday as part of the United States Bicentennial celebration.
  • 8May

    Six Flags Magic Mountain

    The rollercoaster The New Revolution, the first steel coaster with a vertical loop, opens at Six Flags Magic Mountain.
  • 11Oct

    Gerald R. Ford

    George Washington's appointment, posthumously, to the grade of General of the Armies by congressional joint resolution Public Law 94-479 is approved by President Gerald R. Ford.
  • 13Oct

    Ebola

    The first electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle is obtained by Dr. F. A. Murphy, now at U.C. Davis, who was then working at the C.D.C.