On August 11, 1973, the nostalgic teenage coming-of-age
movie American Graffiti, directed and co-written by George
Lucas, opened in theaters across the U.S.

Set in California in the summer of 1962, American Graffiti
was nominated for five Academy Awards, including Best
Director and Best Picture, and helped well as the former
child actor and future Oscar-winning filmmaker Ron
Howard.

The film’s success enabled Lucas to get his next movie
made, the mega-hit Star Wars (1977).

George Lucas during the filming of the movie.  

Richard Dreyfuss (77)

Harrison Ford (83)

Ron Howard (71)

Football player and broadcaster Tom Brady won seven Super
Bowl titles and some consider the best quarterback of all        
time and one of the greatest athletes in sports history.

1968

The Love Bug (also known as Herbie the Love Bug) is a 1968 
sports adventure comedy film directed by Robert Stevenson
from a screenplay by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, based on
the story "Car, Boy, Girl" by Gordon Buford. The film is the
first installment in the Herbie film series.

The Love Bug was the second highest-grossing film of 1969,
earning over $51.2 million at the domestic box office and it 
received mostly positive reviews from critics.

PHOTO TAKEN AT A LOCAL AUTO SHOW.

On July 25, 1978, Louise Joy Brown, the world’s first baby to
be conceived via in-vitro fertilization (IVF)was born at Oldham
and District General Hospital in Manchester, England, to parents
Lesley and Peter Brown.

Today, IVF is considered a mainstream medical treatment for
infertility. Hundreds of thousands of children around the world
have been conceived through the procedure, in some cases
with donor eggs and sperm.

MIKE GRACIA

Ringo Starr (Sir Richard Starkey) achieved international
fame as the drummer for the Beatles. He is 85 years old
today.