Shortly after leaving a party on Chappaquiddick Island, Senator
Edward “Ted” Kennedy of Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile
off a wooden bridge into a tide-swept pond. Kennedy escaped
the submerged car, but his passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo
Kopechne, did not. The senator did not report the fatal car
accident for 10 hours.

Edward Moore Kennedy
(February 22, 1932 – August 25, 2009)

Kool-Aid was invented by Edwin Perkins in Hastings, Nebraska
in his mother’s kitchen. Its predecessor was a liquid concentrate
called Fruit Smack.

To reduce shipping costs, in 1927, Perkins discovered a way to
remove the liquid from Fruit Smack, leaving only a powder; this
powder was named Kool-Aid. Perkins moved his production to
Chicago in 1931 and Kool-Aid was sold to General Foods in 1953.

Hastings still celebrates a yearly summer festival called Kool-Aid
Days on the second weekend in August in honor of their city’s
claim to fame. Kool-Aid is known as Nebraska‘s official soft drink.
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Star Trek III The Search For Spock 1984.

(Associated Press) – James Sikking, who starred as a hardened
police lieutenant on the 1980s “Hill Street Blues” on NBC and
the titular character’s kindhearted dad on “Doogie Howser, M.D.”,
has died.

His publicist said Sikking died of complications from dementia
Saturday.

Sikking as as Lt. Howard Hunter.

At 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11, the first U.S. lunar landing mission, 
was launched on a historic journey to the surface of the moon.

After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into
a lunar orbit on July 19.

The crew of Apollo 11, from left, Neil Armstrong, Michael
Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin in 1969. NASA/AP.

On July 15, 1978, the “Longest Walk”—a 2,800-mile trek for
Native American justice that had started with several hundred
marchers in California in California—ended in Washington,
D.C., accompanied by thousands of supporters.