This week!

Disney’s A Goofy Movie arrived on the silver screen in 1995. Walt Disney films are known for inserting tributes to the popular culture of their times, and this movie was no exception: Powerline—the film’s mega pop star—was modeled after two of the decade’s most successful musicians, Prince and Michael Jackson!

The first modern Olympic Games were held in Athens, Greece in 1896— 1,500 years after the Roman Empire abolished the competition. Anyone was allowed to sign up, including 10-year-old Dimitrios Loundras, who competed on the parallel bars, won a bronze medal and remains the youngest competitor in Olympic history!

Those iconic creamfilled snack cakes, Twinkies, were invented in 1930 and originally filled with banana cream. Dissatisfied with the cakes’ original name, “Little Shortbread Fingers,” their inventor, James Dewar, was on his way to a marketing meeting when he spotted a billboard advertising “Twinkle-toes Shoes”—and the rest is sweet history!

The Apollo 13 spacecraft launched from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center in 1970. When the miraculous return of the space module after an oxygen tank exploded was portrayed in the film Apollo 13 (starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon and Bill Paxton), it was criticized by some for being too unrealistic—they didn’t know the movie was based on a true story.

Children’s author Beverly Cleary— who has sold more than 90 million copies of her books about Beezus (played by Selena Gomez, right, in the TV version), Ramona and other girls and boys— was born in Oregon in 1916. Among her many honors: being declared a living legend by the Library of Congress, an elite group of changemakers that includes everyone from Dolly Parton to Colin Powell to Muhammad Ali!