Good morning. It's August 5th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — August 5
🚦 (It's also International Traffic Light Day.)
1957 — American Bandstand made its national debut with a young host named Dick Clark, and after-school TV was never the same.
1962 — Screen icon Marilyn Monroe was found dead at her Los Angeles home at 36.
1963 — The U.S., U.K. and U.S.S.R. signed the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow, ending open-air atomic tests.
1984 — At the Los Angeles Games, Joan Benoit won the first-ever women's Olympic marathon.
2011 — NASA launched the Juno probe on its five-year journey to Jupiter.
Now, let's set the dial back to 2010…
⏪ REWIND: 2010 Barack Obama is president, a first-class stamp is 44 cents — the iPhone 4 just landed, and the vuvuzelas from the summer's World Cup are still ringing in everyone's ears.
📰 The Headlines Today, deep in Chile's Atacama Desert, a gold-and-copper mine caves in near Copiapó, trapping 33 miners half a mile underground. For 17 days no one will know if they're alive — until a drill bit comes back up with a note taped to it: "Estamos bien en el refugio, los 33." All 33 will be pulled out alive 69 days later, watched by a billion people.
🎬 At the Movies Still at the top and still the only thing anyone wants to argue about: Inception (opened July 16). Christopher Nolan's dream-heist puzzle folds Paris in half — and leaves a spinning top to fuel debate for years.
🎵 On the Charts At #1 on the Hot 100 is "Love the Way You Lie" by Eminem featuring Rihanna, opening what will become a seven-week run at the top.
🏆 In Sports Yesterday at Yankee Stadium, Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player ever to hit 600 home runs (Aug 4) — exactly three years to the day after his 500th — though the milestone arrives under the steroid-era questions that shadow the number.
🏰 The Disney Vault Still in theaters and making history: Toy Story 3 (released June 18). Pixar and Disney's threequel has just crossed $1 billion worldwide — the first animated film ever to do it — and somehow made grown adults cry over a box of old toys.
— 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 good intentions tend to slip — a two-minute walk to reset counts for more than the guilt of skipping the long one.
🎉 Born on an August 5th — 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: August 5 babies include first man on the Moon Neil Armstrong (1930), Loni Anderson (1945), Maureen McCormick (1956), basketball great Patrick Ewing (1962), and LinkedIn's Reid Hoffman (1967).
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