Supercheap backs TCR Australia Series
Supercheap backs TCR Australia Series
January 14, 2021
Australian automotive retail chain announced as naming rights sponsor of hot hatch series
Supercheap Auto will be the naming rights partner of the TCR Australia Series for the next five years.
The Australian-owned automotive parts and accessories retailer replaces carsales, which has backed Australia’s hot hatch race series since its inception in 2019, as the primary sponsor of the TCR Australia Series.
The new long-term partnership between TCR and Supercheap, announced today by Australian Racing Group (ARG), extends Supercheap’s 25-year history of supporting local motorsport until at least 2025.
The Covid-19 pandemic had a profound impact on the lives and rights of people across the European Union, Human Rights Watch said today in its World Report 2021.
1999 – The U.S. government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos–Carter Treaties.
2019 – The World Health Organization was informed of cases of pneumonia with an unknown cause, detected in Wuhan.[7] This later turned out to be COVID-19, the cause of the COVID-19 pandemic
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1869 – Henri Matisse, French painter and sculptor (d. 1954)
1899 – Silvestre Revueltas, Mexican violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 1940)
Lawrence Byrne, Former Lawyer for New York Police, Dies at 61
His younger brother, a police officer, was assassinated by a drug gang at 22, a key moment in the city’s crack epidemic of the 1980s.
Lawrence M. Byrne in 2016, when the was the New York Police Department’s deputy commissioner for legal affairs. He served for four years in that post, managing roughly 100 lawyers who handled all legal issues involving the department and its 56,000 employees.Credit.Jake Naughton for The New York Times
Dec. 12, 2020
Lawrence M. Byrne, who as the top lawyer for the New York City Police Department defended several hotly disputed police policies and who also kept alive the legacy of his brother, a rookie police officer who was executed by a drug gang, died on Dec. 6 in Manhattan. He was 61.