Good morning. It's July 30th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — July 30
🍰 (It's also National Cheesecake Day.)
1956 — President Eisenhower signed the law making "In God We Trust" the national motto.
1965 — At the Truman Library in Missouri, LBJ signed Medicare and Medicaid into law, with Harry Truman looking on.
1966 — England won the World Cup, beating West Germany 4–2 after extra time at Wembley — still their only title.
1975 — Former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa vanished from a restaurant parking lot outside Detroit, never to be seen again.
2003 — The last original Volkswagen Beetle rolled off the line in Puebla, Mexico, after 65 years.
Now, let's set the dial back to 2004…
⏪ REWIND: 2004 George W. Bush is in the White House, a first-class stamp is 37 cents, gas is about $1.90 a gallon — and everyone's thumbs are sore from a flip phone.
📰 The Headlines Two weeks out, the Olympics are coming home. The 2004 Summer Games open August 13 in Athens, back where the modern Olympics began — and Greece is racing to finish venues as the world starts booking flights.
🎬 At the Movies New at #1 today: The Village. M. Night Shyamalan's hushed period thriller — Disney's summer gamble — opens to a $50.7 million weekend, the biggest of his career so far.
🎵 On the Charts Sitting at #1 on the Hot 100 is Usher's "Confessions Part II," the third straight chart-topper off the year's inescapable album.
🏆 In Sports Last Sunday in Paris, Lance Armstrong won a record sixth straight Tour de France — a feat celebrated as historic at the time, and one the sport would later strip from the record books in the doping reckoning that followed.
🏰 The Disney Vault Coming in a week and a half: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (Aug 11), Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews back in Genovia — Disney's family counterweight to that other movie it's releasing this weekend.
— 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: a short walk after dinner does more for you than the same walk earlier in the day — it helps steady things while you digest. No app required, just shoes.
🎉 Born on a July 30th — 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 30 babies include Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947), Laurence Fishburne (1961), Lisa Kudrow (1963), director Christopher Nolan (1970), and Hilary Swank (1974).
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