Mario Andretti, the defending United States Auto Club champion in open-wheel car racing, won the crown jewel of stock car racing, the Daytona 500.
Mohammad Natsir, a former Prime Minister of Indonesia and former leader of the banned Masyumi Party, founded the Dewan Dakwah Islamiyah Indonesia (DDII), the Islamic Preaching Council of Indonesia, in response to the growth of the Christian missionary movement on the nation's islands [REF].