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The American space probe Ranger 7 transmitted pictures of the
moon’s surface on this day in 1964. It was the first space probe 
of the United States to successfully transmit close images of
the lunar surface back to Earth. It was also the first completely
successful flight of the Ranger program.

The Campbell Soup Company was started in 1869 by Joseph A. Campbell,
a fruit merchant from Bridgeton, New Jersey, and Abraham Anderson, an
icebox manufacturer from South Jersey. They produced canned tomatoes, vegetables, jellies, soups, condiments, and minced meats.

In 1876, Anderson left the partnership and the company became known
as the Joseph A. Campbell Preserve Company".

Canned soups and related products are sold by Campbell’s in 120
countries around the world.

Joseph Albert Campbell
(May 15, 1817 – March 27, 1900)

Entrance to Campbell’s headquarters in Camden, New Jersey.

President Lyndon B. Johnson (left) signed Medicare, a health insurance
program for elderly Americans, into law. At the bill-signing ceremony,
which took place at the Truman Library in Independence, Missouri,
former President Harry Truman (seated right) was enrolled as Medicare’s
first beneficiary receiving the first Medicare card.         

Johnson wanted to recognize Truman, who, in 1945, had become the first
president to propose national health insurance, an initiative that was
opposed at the time by Congress.

President Lyndon Johnson (left) and President Harry S. Truman
shake hands at the Medicare Bill Signing.

President Eisenhower (center) commissioned Dr. T. Keith Glennan, (right), as the first administrator for NASA and Dr. Hugh L. Dryden
(left) as deputy administrator.

On this day in 1958, the U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America’s activities in space. NASA has
since sponsored space expeditions, both human and mechanical, that
have yielded vital information about the solar system and universe. It has
also launched numerous earth-orbiting communications satellites. The
agency was created in response to the Soviet Union’s October 4, 1957
launch of its first satellite, Sputnik I.

The movie "Animal House" made John Belushi a movie star,
inspired countless other comedies like it and made toga parties
cool.

John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)