by Eric Florack, PJ Media:
Hello, and welcome to Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026 — a day for wiggling your toes, floating some root beer, and remembering the weight of what happened on this date in 1945.
My calendar says it’s Wiggle Your Toes Day, Root Beer Float Day, Fresh Breath Day, Balloons to Heaven Day, Farmworker Appreciation Day, and Family Day. Wiggle your toes, pour a root beer float, brush your teeth, and call your family — the balloons can wait until evening.
Today In History:
1819: Norwich University is founded in Vermont, becoming the first private military school in the United States.
1901: Kiowa reservation lands in Oklahoma are opened to white settlement, effectively dissolving tribal lands in favor of individual allotments.
1914: German U-boats leave their base at Heligoland to attack Royal Navy warships in the North Sea, days after Britain declares war on Germany.
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1926: American swimmer Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel, beating the existing men’s record by nearly two hours.
1930: New York judge Joseph Crater steps into a taxi in Manhattan and is never seen again, becoming one of the most famous unsolved disappearances in American history.
1942: Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands becomes the first reigning queen to address a joint session of Congress, rallying support for Allied forces while her own country lives under Nazi occupation.
1945: The United States drops the atomic bomb “Little Boy” on Hiroshima, Japan, killing roughly 70,000 people instantly, with tens of thousands more dying in the following years from burns and radiation sickness.
1960: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property across the island, including oil refineries, sugar mills, and mines, prompting the U.S. to sever diplomatic ties and impose sanctions.
1962: Jamaica gains full independence from Britain, the very reason for today’s Jamaica Independence Day.
1965: President Lyndon Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act into law, banning discriminatory voting practices nationwide.
1991: Tim Berners-Lee makes the World Wide Web publicly available for the first time, quietly launching the internet age as we know it.
1997: Apple announces a $150 million investment from rival Microsoft, a lifeline that helps keep the struggling company afloat.
Birthdays Today include: Lucille Ball, actor, comedian (I Love Lucy); Andy Warhol, pop artist; Robert Mitchum, actor (Cape Fear, Out of the Past); M. Night Shyamalan, director (The Sixth Sense, Signs); Geri Halliwell, singer from the Spice Girls; Vera Farmiga, actor (Bates Motel, The Conjuring); and Soleil Moon Frye, actor (Punky Brewster).
If today’s your birthday, too, happy birthday — enjoy your day.
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There’s a story making the rounds in the European press right now, and it’s starting to gain real traction among YouTubers here in the States, too. It’s worth your attention — not because it’s fake, but because of what’s conspicuously missing from it.
The headline version goes like this: Educated, professional French Muslims — not new immigrants, mind you, but the French-born children of immigrants, people who grew up speaking French, attended French schools, built French careers — are quietly packing up and leaving for London, Dubai, Montreal, and yes, New York.
So who’s actually telling this story? A researcher named Julien Talpin has spent years documenting it, surveying over a thousand French Muslims living abroad and conducting 140 in-depth interviews for a book with the on-the-nose title France, You Love It But You Leave. Outlets from France24 to TRT World to Arab News have covered the phenomenon since at least 2024, calling it a “silent exodus” and a “brain drain.”
Some of the individual stories genuinely land. One business-school graduate, rejected from fifty consulting interviews despite solid qualifications, finally gave up and moved to Dubai. “I feel much better here,” he told AFP. “We’re all equal. You can have a boss who’s Indian, Arab, or French.” Another interviewee, a tech worker pulling a five-figure monthly salary, described still getting stopped by neighbors after two years living in the same Paris apartment building, and asked what exactly he was doing inside it.
