Kool-Aid is a brand of flavored drink mix owned by Kraft
Foods. The powder form was created by Edwin Perkins in
1927 based upon a liquid concentrate called Fruit Smack.     
    
     
      
     
  Edwin Elijah Perkins        
  (January 8, 1889 – July 3, 1961)

The building in Hastings, Nebraska, where Kool-Aid was invented.

Todays Kool-Aid look.

 
   
Racing legend Richard Petty made the 1,000th start of his National Association for Stock Car Racing (NASCAR)
career, in the Miller American 400 in Brooklyn, Michigan.

He became the first driver in NASCAR history to log 1,000
career starts.

Richard Lee Petty (The King) will turn 82 July 2nd.

An American flag flies on Omaha Beach in Normandy on Thursday,
the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion.

ROSS SIMPSON

Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman)

Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan revolutionized
folk music in the 1960’s with albums such as The
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, and
Blonde on Blonde and songs such as "The Times
They Are a-Changin’," "Like a Rolling Stone," and
"Positively 4th Street."

Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.

ROSS SIMPSON

Country singer Willie Hugh Nelson is 86 today.