Today is August 23.

On this day in 1963 the Beatles released a song called "She Loves You."

Also, on this day in 1949, in Sydney, Australia, a young man named Richard Lewis Springthorpe was born. We now know him as Rick Springfield.

A bit closer to home, it was on this date in the year 1917 that 2 blacks and 11 whites were killed right here in Houston in a racially motivated riot.

Also, on this date in 1966, the folks over at NASA were trying their hand at some out of this world photography. The Lunar Orbiter 1 took the very first photograph of Earth as seen from the Moon.

And finally. . . . . . A victory in an automobile race on this day in 1922 at the inaugural Southsea Speed Carnival in England would later lead to an all-time classic children’s movie. A car driven by a wealthy son of a Polish Count and an American mother won the race. The drivers name was Count Louis Zborowski. This vehicle had a 23-litre engine. By comparison, a typical engine in today vehicles is less than one-fifth that size. This was one of four aero-engine race cars built and raced by Zborowski and his engineer. Although the first three cars shared the same name, the last of the four was known as the Higham Special.

All four of the cars had unprecedented success at various races throughout England and elsewhere. Zborowski and his friends even took one of them on a joy ride across the Sahara Desert in January 1922.

Zborowski was wealthy enough to race many different kinds of cars in many different races throughout Europe and America. He even ventured to the famed Indianapolis Motor Speedway to drive a straight-eight, 2-litre Bugatti in the 1923 running of the Indianapolis 500.

Louis Zborowski would die the following year after crashing into a tree during the 1924 Italian Grand Prix.

After his death, the first of the four cars was sold to the sons of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes. The Conan Doyle brothers raced the vehicle for a few years, after which it was abandoned and cut up for spare parts.

The author Ian Fleming was inspired by the mystique of the cars and of the driving skills of Louis Zborowski. He wrote a children’s novel that shares the name of the first three cars that Zborowski built. The book was called.. ... Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

Of course, the story was told once again in the 1968 Dick Van Dyke film by the same name.

And so it was on this day 82 years ago, that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang won a car race in England and inspired a classic children's story.

For those of you out there who have seen the movie, you may THINK that you know how the name "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" came about, but I doubt that you really do! You see, in the movie version of the story, the name comes about due to the sound that the vehicle makes. However, the real origin of the name of the four cars is not so.. . . how should I say? . . not so innocent.

The name for the original cars was inspired by the lyrics of a World War I soldier's song. English Officers based in France during the war would get a weekend pass, called a "chit" so that they could go to Paris to .. . hmmm .. "enjoy the favors of the ladies". Hence, the term Chitty Bang Bang.

And that's just a little bit of what has happened on this day in history!