1877 To his amazement, Thomas Edison records himself reciting "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on his newly completed cylinder phonograph, a device that records sound onto tinfoil cylinders
1908 Ford Motor Company builds its first Model T car, which Henry Ford himself tests on a hunting trip to Wisconsin and Northern Michigan
1944 Pipeline under the ocean (Pluto) begins operating
1955 US President Eisenhower raises minimum wage from 75 cents to $1 an hour
1964 Mickey Mantle switch-hits a home run for the record 10th and final time in a game, with one going 502 feet
1966 The last Beatles concert tour of North America begins with two shows at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois
1978 NFL New England Patriots wide receiver Darryl Stingley suffers a spinal cord injury, leaving him with incomplete quadriplegia after a hit by Oakland Raiders' Jack Tatum in a preseason exhibition game
1981 Don Estridge unveils the company's first personal computer, the IBM PC, at New York’s Waldorf Astoria Hotel, priced at USD 1,565 with 16 kilobytes of RAM, helping bring computing to the masses
1992 Canada, Mexico, and the United States announce completion of negotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
2004 New Jersey Governor James McGreevey comes out publicly as gay
2005 An F1 tornado strikes Glen Cove, New York, a rare event on Long Island
2017 US President Donald Trump, at a press conference at Trump Tower, says “there is blame on both sides” in reference to violence in Charlottesville, provoking widespread condemnation
2021 195 million Americans across 34 states are under heat advisory warnings from the Pacific Northwest to the Northeast as the summer of intense heat continues in the Northern Hemisphere
☀️ Happy Tuesday ☀️
🦋 Meet and Greet 🦋
If you carry one thing with you today,
Let it be this:
You are amazing, strong, brave, wonderful, kind, loved, worthy, and there is no one like you.
Be too much. Be extra. Live loud. Smile big.
Laugh hard. Celebrate yourself.
We will be okay
Love
Foxy