• Indian Test cricketer Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was previously a national break dancing champion of India?

Facts on topics related to Break dancing

Short film

• Graham Linehan, co-creator of Father Ted, made his directorial debut with the comedy horror short film Hello Friend?
• Superman stops a mad scientist and his army of robots in the 1941 animated short film The Mechanical Monsters?
• Ryan Fleck produced his short film Gowanus, Brooklyn as a sample feature to attract potential financiers to its extended feature film screenplay, Half Nelson?
• Wong Fu Productions does not make a profit from the short films it produces?
• Dirty Diaries is a collection of Swedish pornographic feminist short films that sparked controversy because it was financed with tax money?
• Jack-Jack Attack is the first Pixar short not to be given a theatrical release?
• Graceland, a 2006 short film directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong, was the first Thai short film to be selected for the Cannes Film Festival?
• the 1928 movie Gang War was overshadowed by the short film attached to it, Steamboat Willie, which marked the début of Mickey Mouse?
• the Swedish government canceled a short film about AIDS that they commissioned from film director Roy Andersson because he had made it "too dark in its message"?

African American

• African American economist Abram Lincoln Harris was a four-time recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship in economics?
• African American actor Lorenzo Tucker, the star of the 1932 race film Veiled Aristocrats, was dubbed the "black Valentino" because of his striking good looks?
• African American artist James W. Washington, Jr. first gained visibility in 1938 working with the WPA in his native Mississippi, but was later associated with the Northwest School?
• African American civil rights activist Mel Boozer was the first openly gay person nominated for the office of Vice President of the United States?
• African American singer Cora Green performed the Yiddish tune Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen in the 1938 race film Swing!?
• black Baptist minister and former slave R. H. Boyd had so much success in religious publishing that it caused a split in his denomination?
• center George Gregory led the Columbia Lions in 1930–31 to its first title in what was to become the Ivy League, and was later named as the first African American All-American basketball player?
• Louisiana Judge Kernan "Skip" Hand was overruled in 2008 by the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the exclusion of two blacks as jurors in a high-profile murder case?
• Rear Admiral Evelyn J. Fields is the first woman and first African American to be the director of the Office of NOAA Corps Operations and the NOAA Commissioned Corps?
• 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, site of the 1963 church bombing, was designed in 1911 by noted African American architect Wallace Rayfield?