August 21, 2013

A Big Mac cost $4.56 that summer of 2013, and the Dow Jones sat at 16,577 — the Egyptian military had just ousted President Mohamed Morsi, plunging Cairo into a crisis that dominated international headlines and drew a sharp rebuke from the White House. On American screens and airwaves, "Breaking Bad" was building toward its celebrated final episodes while Robin Thicke's "Blurred Lines" sat at the top of the charts for weeks, becoming the unavoidable song of the season. On July 1, Croatia formally joined the European Union as its 28th member state, a landmark expansion that marked the bloc's first enlargement in nearly a decade.