Saturday Morning Post
June 20, 2026
In 1840, Samuel Morse patented the telegraph.
In 1877, Alexander Graham Bell installed the world’s first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario.
In 1895, Caroline Willard Baldwin became the first woman to earn a PhD in Physics from an American university (Cornell).
In 1942, Kazimierz Piechowski and three others dressed as members of the SS, stole an SS staff car and escaped from Auschwitz.
In 1969, 200,000 attended the Newport Pop Festival for which Jimi Hendrix was paid $120,000.
In 1972, an 18 ½-minute gap appeared in the recordings of conversations between Nixon and his advisers regarding the whole Watergate scandal.
Happy Birthday, Lillian Hellman,
Eric Dolphy,
Brian Wilson,
Anne Murray.
It’s World Refugee Day, World Productivity Day, and American Eagle Day. Mission: Be welcoming and efficient. Then, soar.
And two Netflix recommendations that I loved recently:
Enjoy the lightest day of the year.