Good morning. It's July 11th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 11
🍹 (It's also National Mojito Day — mint, lime, and absolutely nothing on the agenda. Sounds like a plan.)
1804 — Vice President Aaron Burr fatally wounded Alexander Hamilton in their infamous duel at Weehawken, New Jersey; Hamilton died the next day.
1914 — A 19-year-old Babe Ruth made his major-league pitching debut, working seven strong innings to lead the Red Sox past Cleveland.
1960 — Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" hit bookstores, on its way to a Pulitzer Prize and a permanent spot on America's bookshelf.
1987 — The United Nations marked the world's population officially crossing 5 billion people.
2010 — Spain won its first-ever World Cup, beating the Netherlands 1–0 in extra time.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1975…
⏪ REWIND: 1975
Gerald Ford is in the White House, a first-class stamp still costs a dime, gas runs around 57 cents a gallon, disco is just starting to simmer under the radio dial — and a mechanical shark named Bruce has an entire country afraid to go back in the water.
📰 The Headlines In four days, the Cold War gets its warmest moment yet: on July 15, an American Apollo capsule and a Soviet Soyuz capsule will launch hours apart and dock together two days later — the first-ever joint U.S.–Soviet spaceflight, with astronauts and cosmonauts shaking hands 140 miles up.
🎬 At the Movies Still packing theaters three weeks in is Jaws — Spielberg's tale of a great white terrorizing a New England beach town just became the first film ever to cross $100 million, and it's nowhere near done; it'll spend 14 straight weeks as the No. 1 movie in the country.
🎵 On the Charts Ruling the airwaves is "Love Will Keep Us Together" by Captain & Tennille — the honeymoon-sweet single is in the middle of a four-week run at No. 1, on its way to being crowned the biggest song of the entire year.
🏆 In Sports Down in Cincinnati, the Big Red Machine isn't just winning, it's lapping the field: with Pete Rose, Johnny Bench, and Joe Morgan leading the way, the Reds carry a 12½-game lead into the All-Star break — a juggernaut on its way to a World Series for the ages this October.
🏰 The Disney Vault Freshly opened this month at the Magic Kingdom is the WEDway PeopleMover — a quiet, pollution-free glide through Tomorrowland on magnetic rails, giving guests a bird's-eye tour of "tomorrow" without ever leaving 1975.
— a couple of quick things before you go —
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🎉 Born on a July 11th — 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 11 babies include fashion icon Giorgio Armani (1934), actress Sela Ward (1956), musician Suzanne Vega (1959), actor Justin Chambers (1970), and rapper Lil' Kim (1975).
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