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July 5 national bikini day
Wa R R e n M c v e a
meaning as it marks the 75th anniver-
was a high school football phenom—arguably the best running back in the country—at San Antonio’s Brackenridge High School in 1964, when he turned down more than 70 other scholarship offers and elected to play for the University of Houston. The decision was historic, making McVea, who turns 75 this month, the first Black player to receive a scholarship to play football at any of the major college programs in Texas. He was a two-time All-American for the Cougars and later played six seasons in the NFL. McVea was born July 30, 1946.
This year’s celebration takes on special sary of the skimpy swimsuit.
Dancer Micheline bernardini debuted
the bikini, designed by louis réard, at
a poolside photo shoot July 5, 1946, in
paris. A world just emerging from World War II considered the suit scandalous because it showed a woman’s navel. réard named the swimsuit, which
used about a napkin’s worth of fabric,
after the bikini Atoll, the pacific Ocean coral island where the U.S. tested nu-
clear weapons for more than a decade starting in 1946.
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