Timeline: It's been a while between wins for Burton

It's been a while -- 175 races -- since Jeff Burton last won a Cup Series race. In the meantime, do you remember when ...

2001

• Oct. 28 -- Jeff Burton wins the Checker Auto Parts 500 at Phoenix International Raceway by 2.645 seconds over Mike Wallace.

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• Nov. 29 -- The British musician George Harrison, best remembered for being a member of The Beatles, dies of cancer at age 58.

• Dec. 4 -- Lisa Beamer, wife of Todd Beamer, registers the trademark "Let's Roll" with the United States Patent and Trademark Office less than three months after his death in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States.

2002

• Jan. 13 -- U.S. President George W. Bush faints after choking on a pretzel.

• Feb. 12 -- The trial of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic begins at the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague.

• March 30 -- Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother dies.

• April 18 -- A new insect order, Mantophasmatodea, is announced.

• May 3-5 -- Spider-Man is the first film to open with more than $100 million on the first weekend in theatres.

• June 5 -- Elizabeth Smart, 14, is kidnapped from her home in Salt Lake City, Utah.

• July 21 -- Telecommunications giant WorldCom files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, the largest such filing in U.S. history.

• Aug. -- The Last Toyota Supra is made at the Tahara plant in Japan.

• Sept. 22 -- The last game is played at Cinergy Field, where the Philadelphia Phillies beat the Cincinnati Reds 4-3.

• Oct. 25 -- U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone, his family and staff, are killed by a plane accident at Eveleth, Minn.

• Nov. 25 -- U.S. President George W. Bush signs the Homeland Security Act into law, establishing the Department of Homeland Security, in the largest U.S. government reorganization since the creation of the Department of Defense in 1947.

• Dec. 24 -- In Modesto, California, Scott Peterson, an agricultural chemical salesman, reports that his pregnant wife, Laci Peterson, is missing. On Nov. 12, 2004, a jury finds Scott Peterson guilty of the murders.

2003

• Jan. 3 -- Ohio State defeats Miami 31-24 in double overtime in the Fiesta Bowl for the national BCS title.

• Feb. 1 -- The Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates over Texas upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts onboard.

• March 12 -- Police find Elizabeth Smart in Sandy, Utah, in the company of Brian David Mitchell and Wanda Ileen Barzee, whom they arrest for kidnapping her.

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• April 9 -- U.S. forces seize control of Baghdad, apparently ending the regime of Saddam Hussein.

• May 31 -- Eric Rudolph, suspected in the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in 1996, is captured in North Carolina behind a Save-A-Lot store.

• June 4 -- Martha Stewart and her broker are indicted for using privileged investment information and then obstructing a federal investigation. Stewart also resigns as chairperson and chief executive officer of Martha Stewart Living.

• July 27 -- Bob Hope, legendary English-born American comedian whose career spanned over seven decades, dies in Toluca Lake, Calif., at age 100.

• Aug. 14 -- A widespread power outage affects the northeast United States and Canada.

• Sept. 5 -- A roller coaster accident at Disneyland injures 10 and kills 1.

• Oct. 7 -- 2003 California recall: Voters recall Governor Gray Davis from office and elect actor Arnold Schwarzenegger to succeed him.

• Nov. 20 -- Michael Jackson is arrested by police on charges of child molestation, a charge that can carry an eight-year jail term.

• Dec. 13 -- Saddam Hussein, former President of Iraq, is captured in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division.

2004

• Jan. 8 -- Queen Elizabeth II christens the RMS Queen Mary 2 cruise liner, currently the largest ocean liner in the world.

• Feb. 12 -- Mattel announced the split of Barbie and Ken.

• March 14 -- World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) marks the 20th anniversary of its flagship pay per view event WrestleMania.

• April 29 -- The last Oldsmobile rolls off of the assembly line.

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• May 6 -- The final episode of Friends airs on NBC, drawing an estimated 52 million viewers in North America.

• June 5 -- Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan dies at age 93.

• July 12 -- I Love the '90s premieres on VH1.

• Aug. 29 -- Michael Schumacher wins a record seventh world championship title by finishing second in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.

• Sept. 21 -- Green Day releases the blockbuster smash American Idiot.

• Oct. 27 -- The Boston Red Sox win the World Series for the first time since 1918, breaking the Curse of the Bambino.

• Nov. 30 -- Ken Jennings' 74 game reign as Jeopardy! champion ends, as Nancy Zerg defeats him. His final wins total more than $2 million.

• Dec. 26 -- One of the worst natural disasters in recorded history hits southeastern Asia when the strongest earthquake in 40 years hits the entire Indian Ocean region.

The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, generates enormous tsunami waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand, India, Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Malaysia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Burma and Indonesia.

The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.

2005

• Jan. 20 -- George W. Bush is inaugurated in Washington, D.C., for his second term as the 43rd President of the United States.

• Feb. 16 -- The National Hockey League cancels its 2004-2005 season, becoming the first North American professional league to cancel a season due to a labor dispute.

• March 10 -- Garry Kasparov announces his retirement from professional chess.

Credit: New York Times

• April 2 -- Pope John Paul II dies; more than 4 million people travel to the Vatican to mourn him.

• May 31 -- W. Mark Felt is confirmed to be Deep Throat.

• June 13 -- Singer Michael Jackson is acquitted of all charges in his child molestation trial.

• July 24 -- Lance Armstrong wins a record seventh consecutive Tour de France before his scheduled retirement.

• Aug. 29 -- At least 1,836 are killed, and severe damage is caused along the U.S. Gulf Coast, as Hurricane Katrina strikes the Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama coastal areas.

• Sept. 3 -- William Rehnquist, Chief Justice of the United States, dies.

• Oct. 24 -- Civil rights icon Rosa Parks dies at age 92.

• Nov. 22 -- Ted Koppel steps down as host of Nightline after 25 years with the program.

• Dec. 18 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is hospitalized after suffering a minor stroke.

2006

• Jan. 27 -- Celebrations are held in Salzburg, Austria, and around the world for the 250th anniversary of the birth of Wolfgang Mozart.

• Feb. 11 -- U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shoots his friend and lawyer Harry Whittington, on a south Texas ranch.

• March 17 -- The United States, the last nation in the world to have battleships in a reserve fleet, strikes its two remaining Iowa-class battleships from the Naval Vessel Register, ending the age of the battleship.

• April 11 -- Proof, member of the Eminem-fronted rap group D12, is shot and killed in a Detroit nightclub.

• May 28 -- President Alvaro Uribe Velez is re-elected in Colombia for a second term. He becomes the first president in over a century to serve consecutive terms.

• June 25 -- Warren Buffett donates more than $30 billion to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

• July 31 -- Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, temporarily relinquishes power to his brother Raul before surgery.

• Aug. 31 -- Edvard Munch paintings The Scream and Madonna are recovered in a police raid. Armed robbers had stolen the paintings from the Munch Museum in Oslo, Norway, on Aug. 22, 2004.

• Sept. 24 -- Jeff Burton wins the Dover 400 at Dover International Speedway by 7.955 seconds over Carl Edwards, who now drives the No. 99 Ford that Burton drove from 1996 to mid-2004.