Trivia Of The Day July 1

Nike's first "Just Do It" advertisement debuted on July 1, 1988. Nike ad agency executive Dan Wieden credits the inspiration for the slogan as being the last words spoken by convicted murderer Gary Gilmore before being shot to death by a firing squad in Utah in 1977.

The 1789 discovery of uranium in the mineral pitchblende is credited to German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth. Uranium was named by Klaporth after the newly discovered planet Uranus.

The actress Pamela Anderson was the first baby born on July 1, 1967, Canada’s 100th birthday. She was referred to in the press as Canada’s “Centennial Baby.”

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