Good morning. It's August 29th — let's begin where we always do: on this very date in history.
📅 On This Day — August 29
🍋 (It's also National Lemon Juice Day.)
1966 — The Beatles played their final concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park — the last time the four of them would ever perform live for a paying crowd.
1970 — The Isle of Wight Festival drew a crowd estimated at 600,000 — even bigger than Woodstock — for its final, legendary weekend.
1982 — The Raiders played their first home game in Los Angeles, a homecoming for hometown Heisman winner Marcus Allen.
1997 — Two entrepreneurs founded a scrappy DVD-by-mail company called Netflix — a name that would one day mean "movie night."
2005 — Hurricane Katrina made landfall on the Gulf Coast, one of the most devastating natural disasters in American history.
Now, let's set the dial back to 1974…
⏪ REWIND: 1974 Gerald Ford is the brand-new president, a first-class stamp is 10 cents, gas is about 55 cents a gallon — and the country is catching its breath.
📰 The Headlines Three weeks ago, Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president ever to resign, brought down by Watergate. Gerald Ford — never elected to the job — is now president, telling a weary nation that "our long national nightmare is over." The whole country is watching to see what comes next.
🎬 At the Movies The comedy everyone's quoting: Blazing Saddles. Mel Brooks's rowdy, boundary-smashing Western spoof is the sensation of 1974 — and proof that no target was safe.
🎵 On the Charts At #1 is "(You're) Having My Baby" by Paul Anka with Odia Coates — the soft-pop ballad that's inescapable on the radio this summer.
🏆 In Sports In Oakland, the mustachioed A's — Reggie Jackson, Catfish Hunter, Rollie Fingers — are chasing a third straight World Series title, a dynasty as brash as it is brilliant.
🏰 The Disney Vault In theaters from Disney: Herbie Rides Again — the little Volkswagen with a mind of his own is back, this time helping a sweet old lady outfox a greedy developer.
— a couple of quick things before you go —
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💡 Health Snap: a squeeze of lemon in a glass of water is a nice way to make hydration feel like a treat — and it's a good excuse to drink a little more of it.
🎉 Born on an August 29th — 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 29 babies include Ingrid Bergman (1915), jazz genius Charlie Parker (1920), Elliott Gould (1938), the King of Pop Michael Jackson (1958), and Lea Michele (1986).
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