Good morning. It's July 16th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 16
🍒 (It's also National Cherry Day.)
1969 — Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy, sending Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins on their way toward the first Moon landing.
1994 — Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 began slamming into Jupiter — the first time astronomers had ever observed a collision between two solar-system bodies.
1999 — John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister died when the small plane he was piloting crashed near Martha's Vineyard.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1970…
⏪ REWIND: 1970 Richard Nixon is in the White House, a first-class stamp costs 6 cents, gas runs about 36 cents a gallon — and halfway around the world, a World's Fair in Japan is smashing every attendance record in the book.
📰 The Headlines Halfway through its run, Expo '70 in Osaka is the story of the year abroad — 77 nations, futuristic pavilions, and a crowd that will end up topping 64 million visitors by the time it closes in September, the largest World's Fair ever held.
🎬 At the Movies Still filling theaters five months in is Airport — Burt Lancaster and Dean Martin's all-star disaster thriller, which keeps returning to #1 and will finish the year as the country's highest-grossing film.
🎵 On the Charts Topping the Hot 100 is "Mama Told Me (Not to Come)" by Three Dog Night — the band's first #1, a woozy tale of a wild party gone sideways.
🏆 In Sports Today, the Pittsburgh Pirates play their first-ever game at brand-new Three Rivers Stadium — a 3-2 loss to Cincinnati, though Willie Stargell hits the ballpark's first Pirates home run.
🏰 The Disney Vault Two weeks in is The Boatniks — Walt Disney's breezy Coast Guard comedy starring Robert Morse and Stefanie Powers, a lighthearted summer programmer about a bumbling ensign, a sailing instructor, and a trio of jewel thieves loose in the harbor.
— a couple of quick things before you go —
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💡 Health Snap: A five-minute stretch before bed does more for tomorrow's energy than most people give it credit for.
🎉 Born on a July 16th — 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 16 babies include screen legend Ginger Rogers (1911), Police drummer Stewart Copeland (1952), actor-comedian Will Ferrell (1967), actor Corey Feldman (1971), and actress Katrina Kaif (1983).
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