Good morning. It's August 24th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — August 24
🧇 (It's also National Waffle Day.)
1963 — At just 13, Little Stevie Wonder became the first artist to top Billboard's pop singles and album charts in the same week, with "Fingertips (Pt. 2)."
1975 — At a studio in Wales, Queen began recording "Bohemian Rhapsody" — six minutes of opera-rock that everyone said would never fit on the radio.
1995 — Windows 95 hit stores at midnight in the biggest software launch ever — the very rollout our August 20th issue was counting down to.
1998 — A British professor became the first human implanted with a microchip, an early, eyebrow-raising step toward wearable tech.
2001 — Out of fuel over the Atlantic, Air Transat's "Azores Glider" glided nearly 65 miles with dead engines to a safe landing — all 306 aboard survived.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1979…
⏪ REWIND: 1979 Jimmy Carter is president, a first-class stamp is 15 cents, gas is pushing 90 cents a gallon amid long station lines — and a scrappy new cable channel is about to launch.
📰 The Headlines Coming September 7: a 24-hour channel that shows nothing but sports. They're calling it ESPN, and plenty of people think an all-sports network is a crazy idea. (It will not turn out to be a crazy idea.)
🎬 At the Movies Filling theaters: The Muppet Movie — Kermit on his banjo singing "Rainbow Connection," Fozzie at the wheel, and cameos galore. Proof the Muppets could carry the big screen.
🎵 On the Charts Brand-new at #1 is "My Sharona" by The Knack — the snapping, insistent power-pop smash that just knocked Chic's "Good Times" off the top and owns the rest of the summer.
🏆 In Sports In Anaheim, Gene Autry's California Angels are chasing the first division title in the franchise's 19-year history — with MVP-bound Don Baylor, Rod Carew, and Nolan Ryan leading the way.
🏰 The Disney Vault In theaters from Disney: The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again — Tim Conway and Don Knotts back as the world's most bumbling outlaws, all pratfalls and good-natured chaos.
— 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: starting the week, try "habit stacking" — clip a five-minute walk onto something you already do, like right after you pour your morning coffee. More easy wellness reading is at ourfreehealthreport.com.
🎉 Born on an August 24th — 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 24 babies include writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899), baseball's Iron Man Cal Ripken Jr. (1960), Oscar winner Marlee Matlin (1965), comedian Dave Chappelle (1973), and Rupert Grint (1988).
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