Good morning. It's June 22nd — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — June 22 🧅 (It's also National Onion Rings Day — a perfectly good excuse, if you needed one.)
1955 — Disney's Lady and the Tramp premiered — the first animated feature ever filmed in widescreen CinemaScope, and the source of one very famous spaghetti dinner.
1969 — Ohio's Cuyahoga River caught fire in Cleveland, an oily blaze that shocked the country and helped spark the modern environmental movement.
1970 — President Nixon signed the law that lowered the U.S. voting age to 18, giving millions of young Americans a say at the ballot box.
1986 — In a World Cup quarterfinal against England, Diego Maradona scored twice in four minutes: the infamous "Hand of God," then the "Goal of the Century."
1990 — Checkpoint Charlie, the most famous crossing of divided Berlin, was lifted away by crane as the Cold War wound down.
Now, let's set the dial back to 2006…
⏪ REWIND: 2006
George W. Bush is in the White House, gas hovers near $2.90 a gallon, everyone's flipping open a Motorola RAZR, and for a few glorious weeks in June the whole planet is tuned to Germany.
📰 The Headlines The 2006 FIFA World Cup has the world in its grip. Across the U.S., fans pack into bars at odd morning hours to catch matches from Germany — a quiet sign of just how far soccer's profile had climbed stateside.
🎬 At the Movies Disney·Pixar's Cars is parked firmly at #1, holding the top spot a second straight weekend and fending off newcomers Nacho Libre and The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.
🎵 On the Charts "Hips Don't Lie," Shakira's collaboration with Wyclef Jean, sits at #1 — her first and only Billboard Hot 100 chart-topper, and one of the defining sounds of that summer.
🏆 In Sports Heartbreak in Nuremberg: the U.S. men fell to Ghana 2–1 and were knocked out of the World Cup group stage — a result that stung all the more after a controversial late penalty call.
— a couple of quick things before you go —
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🎉 Born on a June 22nd — 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: June 22 babies include Meryl Streep (1949), Cyndi Lauper (1953), Kris Kristofferson (1936), sci-fi visionary Octavia Butler (1947), and NBA Hall of Famer Clyde Drexler (1962).
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