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ACCOMPLISHED SPORTS ICON IS 48 TODAY

Tom Brady Throwback Photos

Tom Brady's high school coach tells how he would NEVER cheat | Daily Mail  Online

Sunday Paper Exclusive: Tom Brady on the Mind of a Champion

Tom Brady on Dak Prescott's contract extension with the Cowboys | FOX NFL  Sunday

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.

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“THE LOVE BUG”…THEN AND NOW

Why I Love The Love Bug | DrivingLine
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.

The Love Bug - Apple TV

The Love Bug (1968) | Qwipster | Movie Reviews The Love Bug (1968) %

Dean Jones, Affable Star in 'Love Bug' and a Disney Fixture, Dies at 84 -  The New York Times

lovebug
PHOTO TAKEN AT A LOCAL AUTO SHOW.

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WORLD’S FIRST ‘’TEST-TUBE’’ BABY IS BORN

AMANDINE-TEST-TUBE

The first test-tube baby turns 40 | CBC News

Louise Brown: My Life As The World's First Test-Tube Baby: Brown, Louise,  Powell, Martin: 9781909446083: Amazon.com: Books

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.

The healthy baby was delivered shortly before midnight by
caesarean section and weighed in at five pounds, 12 ounces.

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.

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NEWS THAT MADE HISTORY ON THIS DAY

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Hudson Music on X: "A young Ringo Starr - looking ready to revolutionize  the world of music and drumming #ringostarr https://t.co/mrphxieyui" / X

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr: We never thought the Beatles would last

Ringo Starr forces The Beatles movie change and says 'that's not how we  were'

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

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THE GANG WAS BACK TOGETHER AGAIN

The cast of Leave It to Beaver posing together and smiling against a blue backdrop.
From left: Stephen Talbot, Jeri Weil, Jerry Mathers, Luke
Tiger Fafara, and Veronica Cartwright of ‘Leave It to
Beaver’ at the June 2025 Hollywood Show.

(FOX NEWS) – Jerry Mathers (77), who starred as Theodore
"Beaver" Cleaver in the hit ‘50s sitcom "Leave It to Beaver,"
recently reunited with the surviving cast members at The
Hollywood Show in Burbank, California.

"It was so wonderful to be with my friends from ‘Leave It to
Beaver’ – Stephen Talbot (Gilbert Bates), Jeri Weil (Judy
Hensler), Luke Tiger Farfara (Tooey Brown) and Veronica
Cartwright (Violet Rutherford) for a reunion," the former
child star told Fox News Digital in a statement.

Returning to Mayfield: Remembering “Leave it to Beaver” on its 60th  Anniversary
Series aired on ABC from October 2, 1958 to June 20, 1963.

A split side-by-side image of Jerry Mathers then and now.


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