August 26, 2016

A Big Mac cost $3.99 that summer of 2016, and the Dow Jones sat at 19,763 — the nation was processing a summer of racial tension and political turbulence, with President Obama publicly addressing police shootings of Black Americans as a national crisis and formally endorsing Hillary Clinton as the Democratic presidential nominee. On movie screens, "The Secret Life of Pets" was drawing families to theaters, while on the page, Paula Hawkins's "The Girl on the Train" held the top spot on the fiction bestseller list. That same summer, the United States sent athletes to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for the Summer Olympic Games — the first Olympics ever held in South America — where Team USA finished with 46 gold, 37 silver, and 38 bronze medals, for a total of 121.