Good morning. It's August 10th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — August 10
🔥 (It's also National S'mores Day.)
1846 — Congress founded the Smithsonian Institution with a surprise bequest from a British scientist who'd never set foot in America.
1966 — NASA launched Lunar Orbiter 1, the first U.S. spacecraft to circle the Moon and map future landing sites.
1988 — President Reagan signed the Civil Liberties Act, formally apologizing and paying redress for the wartime internment of Japanese Americans.
1990 — The Magellan probe reached Venus and began radar-mapping the cloud-shrouded planet.
1993 — Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as a Supreme Court justice.
Now, let's set the dial back to 2005…
⏪ REWIND: 2005 George W. Bush is president, a first-class stamp is 37 cents, gas is climbing past $2.30 a gallon — a website called YouTube is a few months old, and everyone has an iPod.
📰 The Headlines Yesterday, the shuttle Discovery glided home, ending the first mission since the Columbia disaster two and a half years ago. Commander Eileen Collins and her crew — and a nervous nation — got their "return to flight," a reminder that spaceflight is never routine.
🎬 At the Movies The comedy everyone's quoting: Wedding Crashers, with Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson talking their way into strangers' receptions — the R-rated smash of the summer.
🎵 On the Charts Ruling the summer at #1 is "We Belong Together" by Mariah Carey — the emotional center of a comeback nobody saw coming, on its way to 14 weeks on top.
🏆 In Sports On the South Side, the Chicago White Sox are running away with their division — headed, though no one's saying it out loud yet, toward the franchise's first World Series title since 1917.
🏰 The Disney Vault In theaters now: Sky High (released July 29), Disney's affectionate superhero-high-school comedy — a modest hit that quietly became a lot of kids' favorite movie of the summer.
— 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: Monday is a fine day to move your walk to the morning — getting it done early means the day can't crowd it out. More easy wellness reading is at ourfreehealthreport.com.
🎉 Born on an August 10th — 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 10 babies include Antonio Banderas (1960), Rosanna Arquette (1959), Justin Theroux (1971), Angie Harmon (1972), and Kylie Jenner (1997).
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