Good morning. It's July 25th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 25
🍨 (It's also National Hot Fudge Sundae Day.)
1956 — In heavy fog 45 miles off Nantucket, the Italian liner Andrea Doria collided with the Swedish liner Stockholm; she went down the next morning, though most aboard were rescued.
1965 — Bob Dylan went electric at the Newport Folk Festival, plugging in for a rock-and-roll set that split the crowd and changed popular music.
1978 — Louise Brown was born in England — the first baby conceived through in vitro fertilization.
1984 — Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya stepped outside the Salyut 7 station to become the first woman to walk in space.
1994 — Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan signed the Washington Declaration at the White House, ending a 46-year formal state of war between their countries.
Now, let's set the dial back to 2009…
⏪ REWIND: 2009 Barack Obama is six months into his first term, a first-class stamp costs 44 cents, gas is running about $2.50 a gallon — and everybody is either on Facebook already or just signed up for something called Twitter.
📰 The Headlines Five days ago the country marked the 40th anniversary of Apollo 11, and the surviving crew — Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins — were welcomed to the White House together, three men in their late seventies who once walked away from the most audacious trip anyone has ever taken.
🎬 At the Movies Ten days into its run is Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, the sixth film in the series and the darkest one yet — it opened to the biggest single day the franchise had ever had.
🎵 On the Charts Sitting at #1 on the Hot 100 is "I Gotta Feeling" by the Black Eyed Peas — a song that is on its way to a fourteen-week run at the top and will be playing at every wedding reception for the next decade.
🏆 In Sports Two days ago on Chicago's South Side, Mark Buehrle threw a perfect game against the Rays — 27 up, 27 down — saved in the ninth by DeWayne Wise's leaping, juggling catch at the wall. President Obama, a South Side man himself, called to say congratulations.
🏰 The Disney Vault Opening yesterday: G-Force — Disney's live-action romp about a squad of highly trained guinea pig secret agents. It knocked Harry Potter out of the top spot with a $31.7 million weekend, which tells you everything about how 2009 felt.
— 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: Saturdays are the easiest day of the week to move without planning it — a wander through a farmers market counts as much as a workout. Want more simple, no-nonsense wellness reading? Grab the free report at ourfreehealthreport.com.
🎉 Born on a July 25th — 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 25 babies include Bears legend Walter Payton (1953), Friends' Matt LeBlanc (1967), supermodel Iman (1955), Golden Girl Estelle Getty (1923), and DNA pioneer Rosalind Franklin (1920).
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