Good morning. It's July 5th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 5
👙 (It's also National Bikini Day — the two-piece made its scandalous debut on this date back in 1946.)
1975 — Arthur Ashe outdueled Jimmy Connors to win Wimbledon, becoming the first Black man to lift the trophy.
1989 — A quirky little pilot called The Seinfeld Chronicles aired on NBC — the start of the "show about nothing" that became everything.
1994 — In a Bellevue garage, Jeff Bezos founded an online bookstore he'd soon rename Amazon.
1996 — Scientists near Edinburgh welcomed Dolly the sheep, the first mammal ever cloned from an adult cell.
2013 — Pope Francis cleared the way to sainthood for two of the 20th century's most beloved popes, John XXIII and John Paul II.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1969…
⏪ REWIND: 1969
Richard Nixon is six months into his presidency, a first-class stamp costs 6 cents, gas is about 35 cents a gallon, tie-dye and bell-bottoms are everywhere, and the whole country is holding its breath for something that's never been done before.
📰 The Headlines All eyes are on Cape Kennedy. In a matter of days, Apollo 11 will thunder off the pad — Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins bound for the Moon, and a shot at the first lunar landing before the month is out.
🎬 At the Movies Filling theaters this summer is True Grit, with John Wayne as the ornery, eye-patched Marshal Rooster Cogburn — the role that would finally win the Duke his Oscar.
🎵 On the Charts Sitting at #1 is Henry Mancini's lush instrumental "Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet," somehow holding off the Beatles and the Stones — though a strange little future-shock tune called "In the Year 2525" is climbing fast.
🏆 In Sports History on the grass at Wimbledon: Rod Laver captured the men's title today, the third leg of what would become the only calendar-year Grand Slam in the Open era — all four majors in a single season.
— a couple of quick things before you go —
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🎉 Born on a July 5th — 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: July 5 babies include showman P.T. Barnum (1810), rocker Huey Lewis (1950), "Calvin and Hobbes" creator Bill Watterson (1958), actor Edie Falco (1963), and soccer star Megan Rapinoe (1985).
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