Good morning. It's July 18th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 18
🍬 (It's also National Sour Candy Day.)
1968 — Intel was founded in Santa Clara, California — a small chip company that would go on to reshape the entire computer industry.
1976 — At the Montreal Olympics, 14-year-old Romanian gymnast Nadia Comăneci scored a perfect 10 — the first in Olympic history, on a scoreboard that wasn't even designed to display it.
2013 — The city of Detroit filed for the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1992…
⏪ REWIND: 1992 George H.W. Bush is in the White House, a first-class stamp costs 29 cents, gas runs about $1.13 a gallon — and two days ago, a young governor from Arkansas just accepted his party's nomination for president.
📰 The Headlines Just two days ago in New York, Governor Bill Clinton accepted the Democratic nomination for president at Madison Square Garden, with Tennessee Senator Al Gore as his running mate — the ticket's "new covenant" message capping a raucous convention and setting up the fall campaign.
🎬 At the Movies In its third week is A League of Their Own — Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, and Madonna in Penny Marshall's wartime women's-baseball comedy-drama, home to the now-immortal line "there's no crying in baseball."
🎵 On the Charts Topping the Hot 100 is "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot — the summer's most inescapable (and most parodied) hit, deep into a five-week run at #1.
🏆 In Sports In a week, the Barcelona Olympics open, and for the first time ever, NBA stars are heading to the Games — Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, Larry Bird, and the rest of basketball's "Dream Team" are the most anticipated story of the Games before they've even played a minute.
🏰 The Disney Vault Just opened, and already the country's #1 movie: Honey, I Blew Up the Kid — the sequel to Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, sending a two-year-old on a very different kind of growth spurt through the streets of Las Vegas.
— 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: Weekend mornings are a good time to reset — a real breakfast and a slower start tend to carry you better than sleeping in and skipping straight to coffee.
🎉 Born on a July 18th — 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 18 babies include Nelson Mandela (1918), actor Vin Diesel (1967), entrepreneur Richard Branson (1950), actress Kristen Bell (1980), and actress Priyanka Chopra (1982).
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