Good morning. It's August 25th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — August 25
🍨 (It's also National Banana Split Day.)
1960 — The Rome Summer Olympics opened — the Games where a young Cassius Clay won boxing gold and Ethiopia's Abebe Bikila ran the marathon barefoot to victory.
1975 — Bruce Springsteen released "Born to Run," the breakthrough album that made him a legend and put the Jersey Shore on the map.
1989 — Voyager 2 swept past Neptune, completing its grand tour of the outer planets — the arrival our August 14th issue promised, twelve years after the launch we marked on the 20th.
1991 — A 21-year-old student named Linus Torvalds quietly announced a little hobby project — an operating system he'd call Linux, now running much of the internet.
2012 — Neil Armstrong, the first human to walk on the Moon, died at 82 — a quiet man who took one giant leap for all of us.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1990…
⏪ REWIND: 1990 George H.W. Bush is president, a first-class stamp is 25 cents, gas is about $1.15 a gallon — and a spiky-haired ten-year-old is everywhere you look.
📰 The Headlines It's peak Bartmania. The Simpsons has become a full-blown phenomenon — Bart's face on a million T-shirts, "Eat my shorts" on every playground, and a few schools even banning the shirts. Cartoons, it turns out, aren't just for kids.
🎬 At the Movies The year's biggest hit is still packing houses: Ghost — Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, that pottery wheel, and Whoopi Goldberg stealing every scene she's in.
🎵 On the Charts At #1 is "Vision of Love" by Mariah Carey — the debut single, all those soaring high notes, announcing a once-in-a-generation voice.
🏆 In Sports In Detroit, Cecil Fielder is swinging for history — chasing 50 home runs, a mark no big-leaguer has reached since 1977. He'll get there, and then some, finishing with 51.
🏰 The Disney Vault In theaters from Disney: DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp — Scrooge McDuck, the nephews, and a genie, bringing the beloved afternoon cartoon to the big screen.
— 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 banana really is a great little snack — easy on the stomach, good before a walk, and no wrapper to fuss with.
🎉 Born on an August 25th — 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 25 babies include Sean Connery (1930), TV host Regis Philbin (1931), KISS's Gene Simmons (1949), director Tim Burton (1958), and actress Blake Lively (1987).
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