Good morning. It's June 14th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — June 14
🇺🇸 (It's also Flag Day — and the U.S. Army's birthday. Fly it proud.)
1963 — The Soviets launch Vostok 5 — and two days later send up Vostok 6 carrying Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman ever to fly in space.
1982 — After 74 days, the Falklands War ends as Argentine forces surrender at Port Stanley — "they are reported to be flying white flags," Margaret Thatcher tells the Commons.
1985 — TWA Flight 847 is hijacked after takeoff from Athens, beginning a tense 17-day ordeal that grips the world.
1994 — At Madison Square Garden, the New York Rangers finally win the Stanley Cup, ending a 54-year drought — the very dream we watched them chasing back in our 1994 issue, now come true.
Now, let's set the dial back to…
⏪ REWIND: 1978
Jimmy Carter is in the White House, gas runs about 70 cents a gallon, disco is at full blast, CB radios crackle in every other car, and the whole country is about to fall in love with a high-school musical. Here's the world that year.
📰 The Headlines Out in California, voters have just passed Proposition 13, slashing property taxes and capping future increases — a full-blown taxpayer revolt that's about to ripple across the country and reshape how America argues about taxes for a generation.
🎬 At the Movies The countdown is on: in two days, Grease roars into theaters, with John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, Pink Ladies, T-Birds, and a soundtrack that won't leave the radio for a year. It'll become the highest-grossing musical ever made — and summer 1978 will forever sound like "Summer Nights."
🎵 On the Charts It's a Grease-soaked summer: "You're the One That I Want" by Travolta and Newton-John has just had its turn at the top, and right behind it, 20-year-old Andy Gibb's "Shadow Dancing" is surging to #1, where it'll camp out for seven weeks and finish as the single biggest hit of all of 1978.
🏆 In Sports The talk of the sports world: just four days ago at Belmont, the colt Affirmed, ridden by 18-year-old Steve Cauthen, held off his great rival Alydar by a head to sweep the Triple Crown — capping one of the fiercest rivalries the sport has ever seen (Alydar ran second in all three legs). No one knows it yet, but Affirmed will be the last Triple Crown winner for 37 years.
— a couple of quick things before you go —
👟 Step Challenge: the Summer 2026 Step Challenge is rolling — grab the free Pacer app and walk with us: Join the challenge (already have Pacer? Club code E42727228). Every step counts.
💡 Health Snap: 1978 was disco's golden hour — and dancing is still one of the most joyful ways to move there is. Put on one song that makes you happy and dance straight through it, kitchen-style. Nobody's watching, and your body won't care that it isn't a "workout."
🎉 Born on a June 14th — or know someone who was?
Forward this to them right now — there's no better "this is the day you were born" gift than a little time travel.
🎂 In good company: other June 14 babies include Boy George, tennis great Steffi Graf, Yasmine Bleeth, screenwriter Diablo Cody, and Lucy Hale.
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