Good morning. It's July 6th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 6
🍗 (It's also National Fried Chicken Day — a fine excuse for a picnic.)
1957 — At a church fête in Liverpool, a teenage John Lennon met Paul McCartney for the first time — the spark that would become the Beatles.
1964 — The Beatles' first film, A Hard Day's Night, premiered in London to a sea of screaming fans.
1971 — Jazz's founding genius, Louis Armstrong, died at 69, his gravelly voice and golden trumpet already immortal.
1994 — Forrest Gump ran into theaters, on its way to a box-office fortune and a Best Picture Oscar.
2005 — London was awarded the 2012 Summer Olympics, edging out Paris in the final round of voting.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1980…
⏪ REWIND: 1980
Jimmy Carter is in the White House in an election year, a first-class stamp runs 15 cents, gas is about $1.20 a gallon, Rubik's Cubes and a new arcade game called Pac-Man are eating up spare change, and disco is quietly giving way to new wave.
📰 The Headlines The Summer Olympics open in Moscow in under two weeks — but Team USA won't be there. President Carter's boycott, in protest of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, will keep American athletes home, and dozens of nations are following suit.
🎬 At the Movies Still packing theaters all summer: The Empire Strikes Back. Han and Leia are on the run, Luke is training with a little green master named Yoda, and audiences are reeling from five words — "I am your father."
🎵 On the Charts Back on top is a Beatle: Paul McCartney's "Coming Up," the bouncy live-from-Glasgow version DJs couldn't stop playing, giving him his first #1 of the new decade.
🏆 In Sports Just yesterday on Centre Court, Björn Borg outlasted John McEnroe for his fifth straight Wimbledon title — surviving an epic 18–16 fourth-set tiebreak now remembered as the greatest ever played.
— 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: Back to the grind today? A two-minute stretch break every hour or so does more for your focus and your back than powering straight through.
🎉 Born on a July 6th — 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 6 babies include painter Frida Kahlo (1907), the Dalai Lama (1935), action icon Sylvester Stallone (1946), rapper 50 Cent (1975), and comedian Kevin Hart (1979).
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