Good morning. It's June 29th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — June 29
📸 (It's also National Camera Day — fitting, given what went on sale this very date in 2007.)
1956 — Marilyn Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller, a union the press dubbed "the Hourglass and the Egghead."
1972 — In Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court struck down the death penalty as then applied, halting executions nationwide for years.
1995 — Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with Russia's Mir station — the first U.S.–Russian shuttle linkup in orbit, a handshake 245 miles above Earth.
2003 — Hollywood legend Katharine Hepburn, winner of a record four acting Oscars, died at 96.
2007 — Apple's first iPhone went on sale, with fans camping outside stores overnight — the moment the smartphone era truly began.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1963…
⏪ REWIND: 1963
John F. Kennedy is in the White House, gas is about 30 cents a gallon, a first-class stamp costs a nickel, the Beatles haven't yet crossed the Atlantic — and a summer of hope and tension is building toward August's March on Washington.
📰 The Headlines President Kennedy is wrapping up an emotional four-day visit to Ireland, the land his great-grandfather left during the Famine. Greeted by rapturous crowds at every stop, he calls it among the happiest times of his life.
🎬 At the Movies Cleopatra is the spectacle of the year — the most expensive film ever made to that point, with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton's offscreen romance setting tabloids ablaze. It would top the box office yet still lose a fortune.
🎵 On the Charts In an astonishing first, "Sukiyaki" by Japan's Kyu Sakamoto sits at #1 — the only Japanese-language song ever to top the American chart, and the first by an Asian artist.
🏆 In Sports Days earlier at Brookline, 43-year-old Julius Boros outlasted Arnold Palmer and Jacky Cupit in an 18-hole playoff to win the U.S. Open — at the time the second-oldest champion in the tournament's history.
— a couple of quick things before you go —
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🎉 Born on a June 29th — 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 29 babies include The Little Prince author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900), baseball Hall of Famer Harmon Killebrew (1936), actor Gary Busey (1944), Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice (1948), and actress Camila Mendes (1994).
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