Now is the 217th day of 2022 and the 46th working day of summer.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Neil Armstrong (1930-2012), astronaut Herb Brooks (1937-2003), hockey coach Loni Anderson (1945- ), actress David Baldacci (1960- ), novelist Patrick Ewing (1962- ), basketball participant Adam Yauch (1964-2012), rapper James Gunn (1970- ), filmmaker Travie McCoy (1981- ), rapper Lolo Jones (1982- ), Olympic athlete.

TODAY’S Point: Norma Jeane Baker began working with the name Marilyn Monroe in 1946 but did not change her title lawfully until eventually 1956.

TODAY’S Sporting activities: In 1979, Pete Rose of the Philadelphia Phillies hit his 2,427th vocation single, breaking Honus Wagner’s Nationwide League document. Rose would end his profession with 3,215 singles, a main-league document that even now stands.

TODAY’S Estimate: “Love suggests the human body, the soul, the life, the total becoming. We truly feel adore as we experience the heat of our blood, we breathe love as we breathe air, we maintain it in ourselves as we keep our ideas. Absolutely nothing additional exists for us.” — Guy de Maupassant

TODAY’S Variety: 91 — minutes famous magician Harry Houdini invested underwater in a sealed coffin before emerging unharmed on this working day in 1926. The celebration was Houdini’s previous community escape.

TODAY’S MOON: To start with quarter moon (Aug. 5).