Good morning. It's July 10th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 10
🍍 (It's also National Piña Colada Day — no beach required, but no judgment if you go find one.)
1962 — Telstar 1 launched, relaying the first live television pictures across the Atlantic and opening the satellite age.
1973 — The Bahamas gained independence after three centuries under British rule.
1989 — Thomas the Tank Engine chugged onto American TV for the first time, via PBS's Shining Time Station.
1999 — The U.S. women's national soccer team won the World Cup on home soil, Brandi Chastain's clinching penalty sealing it before more than 90,000 fans at the Rose Bowl.
2011 — Britain's News of the World printed its final edition, shuttered amid a phone-hacking scandal after 168 years.
Now, let's set the dial way back to 1964…
⏪ REWIND: 1964
Lyndon B. Johnson is in the White House and has just signed the landmark Civil Rights Act, a first-class stamp costs 5 cents, gas is about 30 cents a gallon, and a shiny new Ford Mustang can be yours for around $2,300. Beatlemania is at full boil, the New York World's Fair is packing them in out in Queens — and the soundtrack of the summer is a transatlantic tug-of-war.
📰 The Headlines Just days ago, on July 2, President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, outlawing segregation in public accommodations and banning employment discrimination — the most sweeping civil-rights law since Reconstruction, and the defining American story of the year.
🎬 At the Movies The Beatles are conquering the screen too: their first film, A Hard Day's Night, opens wide today — and tonight the four fly home to Liverpool for the northern premiere, thousands lining the streets of the city they grew up in. One critic will soon dub the black-and-white romp "the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals."
🎵 On the Charts Fighting back for the home team are the Beach Boys, whose "I Get Around" is riding high at No. 1 — their very first chart-topper, a sun-soaked burst of harmony that plants America's flag right in the middle of the British Invasion.
🏆 In Sports Baseball just threw a party in Queens: at the All-Star Game on July 7 — the first ever at brand-new Shea Stadium — the Phillies' Johnny Callison launched a three-run walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth to give the National League a 7–4 win and send the home crowd into the night grinning.
🏰 The Disney Vault Out at the New York World's Fair, Walt Disney is quietly running the show. Four attractions his team built are among the Fair's biggest draws this summer — "it's a small world," Great Moments with Mr. Lincoln, the Carousel of Progress, and Ford's Magic Skyway — proving out the audio-animatronics and crowd-pleasing magic that will soon give Walt the confidence to dream up Walt Disney World.
— 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: A few minutes of morning sunlight helps set your body clock for the day — step outside with your coffee and let the light do its quiet work.
🎉 Born on a July 10th — 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 10 babies include folk singer Arlo Guthrie (1947), actor Sofía Vergara (1972), actor Adrian Grenier (1976), actor Chiwetel Ejiofor (1977), and singer Jessica Simpson (1980).
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