“Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby,” an
irreverent comedy based in the outlandish (fictionalized)
world of American stock car racing, premiered in movie
theaters around the United States on August 4, 2006.

Comedian Will Ferrell (who also co-wrote the screenplay
with director Adam McKay and served as an executive
producer) starred as Ricky Bobby, a leading driver on
the National Association for Stock Auto Car Racing
(NASCAR) circuit.

On August 3, 1949, after a damaging three-year battle to win
both players and fans, the rival Basketball Association of
America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL) 
merged to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).

Track-and-field star Jesse Owens, one of 18 Black athletes
on the US team at the Berlin Olympics, won his first of four
gold medals—the most of any American at the Games.

Back home, only white Olympians were invited to the White
House.

James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens
(September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980)

PT-109 was a US Navy patrol torpedo boat commanded by
Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy during World War
II in the Solomon Islands.

His actions in rescuing his crew after the sinking earned him
a Navy and  Marine Corps Medal and contributed to his later
political career.             
         
        
   
     
       
         
     
       
        
       

PT-109, a film dramatizing this story, starring Cliff
Robertson as Kennedy, opened in 1963.