Good morning. It's July 29th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 29
🍝 (It's also National Lasagna Day.)
1958 — President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, creating NASA.
1981 — Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral before an estimated 750 million television viewers worldwide.
1987 — Margaret Thatcher and François Mitterrand completed ratification of the treaty authorizing the Channel Tunnel, clearing the way for construction to begin.
2005 — Astronomers announced the discovery of Eris, a distant world roughly Pluto's size — the finding that would soon cost Pluto its planet status.
2015 — Microsoft released Windows 10, offered as a free upgrade and pushed out to more than a billion machines over the following years.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1993…
⏪ REWIND: 1993 Bill Clinton is six months into his first term, a first-class stamp costs 29 cents, gas is about $1.11 a gallon — and the modem sound is becoming a familiar noise in American houses.
📰 The Headlines Across nine states, the Great Flood of 1993 has taken over the summer. Weeks of rain have swollen the Mississippi and Missouri, and every day brings another town's worth of volunteers to the levees — high schoolers, church groups, National Guard units, all passing sandbags in ninety-degree heat. At St. Louis the river is heading for the highest crest ever recorded.
🎬 At the Movies Seven weeks in and still the biggest thing going: Jurassic Park. Spielberg's dinosaurs — part animatronic, part computer — have people going back a second and third time just for the water-glass ripple.
🎵 On the Charts At #1 on the Hot 100 is UB40's "(I Can't Help) Falling in Love with You" — the Birmingham band's reggae read of the Elvis standard, and their first American chart-topper, at the start of a seven-week run.
🏆 In Sports Back in June, the Montreal Canadiens won their 24th Stanley Cup, beating the Kings in five games behind Patrick Roy — who set a record with ten straight playoff overtime wins. Nobody knew it at the time, but no Canadian club has lifted the Cup since.
🏰 The Disney Vault In theaters, and not doing well: Hocus Pocus, released two weeks ago. A Halloween movie dropped in the middle of July, it's headed for a losing run — and then a second life on cable every October that will make it a permanent family tradition.
— 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: midweek is when water intake usually slips — keeping a glass in sight tends to work better than remembering to refill one. Want more straightforward wellness reading? The free report is at ourfreehealthreport.com.
🎉 Born on a July 29th — 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 29 babies include documentarian Ken Burns (1953), country singer Martina McBride (1966), Wil Wheaton (1972), Tim Gunn (1953), and anchorman Peter Jennings (1938).
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