• Today is National Lemonade Day. Also a great day for lemonade cake and lemonade pie, not to mention lemonade sherbet.

     • Today is National Sunglasses Day.

     • Today is National HIV Testing Day (napwa.org/hivtestinfo/).

     • Today is Captain Video Day, marking the TV debut in 1949 of "Captain Video and His Video Rangers." Richard Coogan starred. Guest villains included Jack Klugman and Tony Randall.

     • Today is Decide to Be Married Day, sponsored by Barbara Gaughen-Muller of Santa Barbara, California.

     • Today is PG-13 Day. The PG-13 movie rating as introduced on this date in 1984.

     • Today is Independence Day in Djibouti, a nation of a half million people on the east coast of Africa.

    • The 19h annual World Championship Rotary Tiller Race and Purple Hull Pea Festival begins today in Emerson, Arkansas.

On this date in . . .

1833: Prudence Crandall was arrested in Canterbury, Connecticut, for operating an academy for black women. Prudence was white.

1859: Schoolteacher Mildred Hill of Louisville, Kentucky, composed the melody to the song "Good Morning to You." Her sister Patty wrote the lyrics. The stanza "Happy Birthday to You" was added in 1924, eight years after Mildred’s death.

1950: An 8-pound bear cub that had been seriously burned three weeks earlier in a New Mexico forest fire left for the National Zoo in Washington where he lived to the ripe old bear age of 26. Originally named Hot Foot Teddy by the firemen who saved his life, he became better known as Smokey the Bear.

1962: Former IBM salesman H. Ross Perot took $1,000 and founded Electronic Data Systems in Dallas.

1963: Vice-President Lyndon Johnson's beagles, Him and Her, were born.

1977: In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that lawyers could advertise.

1984: Doug Domokos did a non-stop wheelie for 145 miles on the Alabama Speedway at Talladega on his Honda XR 500 motorcycle. He stopped when he ran out of gas.

1988: At age 35, singer Cyndi Lauper received her high school diploma from Richmond High in New York City.

1993: New York Met pitcher Anthony Young lost his 24th straight game, a major league record.

1995: Controversial bullfighter Jesulin de Ubrique was recovering after being gored twice in Burgos, Spain. Ubrique had created an uproar among serious bullfight fans by fighting on his knees before all-female audiences. He apparently was gored while trying to kiss a bull’s horns.

1999: A 29-year-old woman was arrested for computer hacking in Grafton, Ohio. After her husband allegedly stayed online several nights until 4:00 a.m. chatting with other women, she hacked his computer to pieces with a meat clever. She pleaded no contest to charges of domestic violence and resisting arrest and was fined $200.

2001: A man confessed to robbing a motel in Fargo, North Dakota, because his internet research said it had the safest jail in America. The man had traveled from Florida to claim he had a bomb in his Winnie the Pooh backpack. The robber told police he was a habitual criminal and wanted to go to prison for life.

2005: A 27-year-old man was charged with disorderly conduct in Devils Lake, North Dakota, after driving an electric-powered shopping cart around a grocery store while drunk, driving into people and nearly knocking them down. Witnesses told police the man was actually driving after people. No one was hurt.

2005: Who is the oldest baseball player to hit a grand slam home run in the major leagues? Julio Franco of the Atlanta Braves hit his eighth grand slam on this date  to help the Braves knock off the Florida Marlins. He was 46 years old, already the oldest player in major league history to have a two-homer game, and the oldest in the last 96 years to steal a base.

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