Aug 1-Colorado B-Day, Grateful Dead, BTO, Def Leppard, Public Enemy, Coolio, Counting Crows, Jason Momoa

0:18 Well, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Meeting Days. August the first today is National Girlfriend Day. But guys, you're off the hook. It's not for boyfriends. Nope, ladies, this is just and your girlfriends now. You might have made your girlfriends growing up together, might have met in college, work, or church, sisters and mothers. They can be girlfriends now girlfriends.

1:01 They enjoy spending time together, supporting each other, giving advice, celebrating success, laughing at secrets that they only know about, and of course talking about guys. Ladies, you just have a great day celebrating with your girlfriend's day, and you all know each other well enough to know how you want to celebrate. Now, guys, just don't ask any questions. Let's just see what was happening in entertainment in nineteen sixty one. On August, the first and one album was Stars for a Summer Night by various artists. Bobby Lewis said then in one song with tossing and turning, I couldn't sleep at all light. Patsy Klein had the number one country song with I Fall to pieces, fall.

2:03 Pe each time one again, Fall. To piece, Irving Stone had the number one selling book. What the Agony in the Ecstasy? Top move was two road together a crooked Marshall. He negotiates three of whites being held by comanches. Stars James Stewart, Richard Windmark, Shirley Jones. Nineteen eighty MTV. They went on the air and they actually played music videos and he guesses what the first video was that they played. Lady Start Start video Killed the Radio Star by the Bugles Uless. It had happened on August the Firth seventeen seventy four, oxygen was discovered. Yeah, it's right into their noses the whole time. English chemist Joseph Priestley, he was able to isolate the element oxygen. Yeah, oxygen is an element, has a symbol. Oh and it is number eight on your periodic table. Oxygen. It makes up one fifth of all rare. Seventeen ninety three, France became the first country to use the metric system. Well, they're the ones who actually created it. Now today only three countries do not use the metric system, the United States, Liberia and Myanmar that used to be Burma. Eighteen thirty four.

3:36 In Britain, they ended slavery. Well kind of see, they in his slavery in all their colonies and territories. But they only freed the slaves who are six years old or younger. Yeah, if you were over six, you had to be an apprentice until eighteen thirty eight. Happy birthday, Colorado. It is today. In eighteen seventy six, Colorado became the thirty eighth state. That's why it's called the centennial state.

4:19 Colorado means color red. There's pretty much name for the red sandstone along the Colorado River. Capital is Denver. Highest point is Mount Elbert at fourteen four and forty feet. State bird is a lark, bunting fish, green back, cutthroat, trout, flour, the Columbine mammo, big ORMs, sheet trey, Colorado blue spruce, dinosaurs, the stegosaurus. In the Colorado State sport beckburrow racing. And you guys thought Broncos were big, all right. Some people born in Colorado Tim Allen, Jack Dempsey, Kristin Davis, Supreme Courts, Neil Gorsich, Mikayla Schiffrind, Christian McCaffrey, Douglas Fairbanks, Trey Parker Dog, the bounty hunter me and pretty much airby there at Cole Media just some of the people born in Colorful, Colorado.

5:04 Nineteen sixty six, twenty five year old child of Whitman. He went to the top of the University Tower on the campus of the University of Texas in Austin, barricaded himself up there and started shooting. Over the next ninety minutes, he shot and killed sixteen people and injured another thirty one more. Please were able to break through that barricade and kill him. Now. The night before he had actually stabbed his wife and mother to death. And they don't know if this is the reason for it or not. But when they did the autops on him, yeah, they found out that he had a brain tumor. Kurt Russell played him in the movie Francis Gary Powers. He was that CIA pilot who flew the U two spy plane over the Soviet Union and got shot down in nineteen sixty cost all kinds of international trouble. Today. In nineteen seventy seven, he was flying a new helicopter out there in Los Angeles. Yeah, crashed it and killed himself and the cameraman. In twenty twenty, the government of Egypt, they public announced the world and to Elon Musk specifically. They said, Elon, the pyramids that were built in Egypt were not built by Aliens, as you had tweeted. Well, Musk said, well, what kind of proof do you have that weren't built by aliens? Egypt said well, we don't have any, but still.

6:13 Got coat goat shage this shibf day. Were gonna pause. He left this shiverfday. We don't simple tage. He left this shiverbirth day. And you know we don't get up because that's. Birthday, all right. It was born on August the first half of Wilson Clark. William Clark was born in Lady Smith, Virginia, in seventeen seventy. Now he was a lieutenant in the United States Militia fighting up in the Northern Indian Wars. Retired at twenty six years old in seventeen ninety six. Yeah, I need to health issues. Eighteen oh three, Merriweather Lewis recruited him to co lead the expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Now Clark he was mainly responsible for drawing the maps, and he was in charge of all the supplies, so he had to lead all the hunting parties and that kind of stuff. When he got back, they made him governor of the Missouri Territory. From that they put him in charge of all Indian affairs. He had five children from his first wife. Then after she died, he married her first cousin and they had three children. Then she died.

7:07 Then Clark died himself from eighteen thirty eight, at sixty eight years old from natural causes. Was so good a right? The United States National anthem or the Star Spangled Banner, who was sung by Linda Ronstadt. It was written by Francis Scott Key. He was born at Frederick County, Maryland, in seventeen seventy nine. During the War of eighteen twelve and eighteen fourteen, Key he watched from a distance. He asked the brilliant British shell, the hell out of Fort McHenry.

7:51 Now they did it all night long, and when the sun came up. Key was so stunned that he saw the American flag so flying. He was so inspired that he wrote that poem, the Defense of Fort McHenry. Now it became a very popular poem. People all across the country knew it. Then someone added a British drinking songs music to it. That's how you got your national anthem. Now it was actually did take a while. In nineteen sixteen, it became the national anthem for the US Armed Forces. Nineteen thirty one, then it became the nation's national anthem. Kay. He became a lawyer after the war. He married, had eleven kids. He died in eighteen forty three and sixty three years old from plercy. That's a thing to do with your lungs writer Herman Melville. He was born in New York City in eighteen nineteen. He's most known for writing Moby Dick.

8:34 Now. The book is based on a real story about the sinking of the Way ship to Essex, and call me Ishmael is considered the most famous opening line in the history of literature. Melville he had had some success as a writer. Then he released the book Moby Dick in eighteen fifty one and his career went to pot. Yeah, that book just bombed. He was a huge failure. It only sold thirty two hundred copies while he was alive. Then after he died, Yeah, it became an all time classic. It was married at fortschiel Than when he died in eighteen ninety one at seventy two years old from heart failure.

9:26 Founding member, lead guitarist, lead singer, main songwriter for The Grateful Dead was Jerry Garcia. He's born in San Francisco in nineteen forty two. And yes, Jerry Garcia, I scream his name for him. The Dead they formed in nineteen sixty five. Now they're pretty much a jam band. You know, they'd play each song for like thirty and forty minutes. They put on a two and a half hour concert and only played like five or six songs. So yeah, they really weren't on the radio very much. I mean that song we played, Touch to Gray, that's pretty rare to hear a dead song they could play on the radio. So there were thirty five million albums, had a very loyal following all those deadheads. Now, Jerry, he had a daughter from his first wife, then he had another daughter, Then he had two children from his second wife, and he married his third wife in nineteen or nineteen ninety four.

10:09 Then he died nineteen ninety five at fifty three years old. He had a heart attackle he's in a drug rehab center. Now they're Grateful Dead. It means the soul of a dead person showing gratitude to a person who arranged their burial. You were fine, nursed Stasha Stephen chuckin Ginte Bays. He's ever annoying himself to work. Is nothing at all. Day I've been taking care. That was Tim Bachman singing for Bachman Turner Overdrive or bt O. Tim. He was born and Winnipeg, Cannon in nineteen fifty one. BTO They formed in nineteen seventy three. The Bachman was Tim and his two brothers, Fred Turner. He was the Turner sold over thirty million albums. Some of their heads were taking care of big business. Let it ride. You ain't seen nothing yet down on the highway now. Tim left the band in nineteen ninety one. Yep, just retired. Didn't want anything to do with music anymore. Became a sold real estate.

11:10 He died of cancer in twenty twenty three, at seventy one years old. No surday. The lead singer for def Lepperd is Joe Elliott. He's sixty seven, born in Sheffield, England in nineteen fifty nine. Helped form def Lepperd in nineteen seventy seven. This sold over one hundred million records. Joe. He just loves music. Then he will play and sing with anybody he will let him. He even does cover bands with guys just to have fun. Joe. He is married to a second wife since two thousand and four and they have three daughters. Problem I'm singing, Hey, Drivin, what's the kidney? Know them without knowing? Walk up Black fans in the river of Man rowing the dim. We want y'all have kim us one with me.

12:10 May I'll freedom freedom up step. We got to fighting the piles that be fighting the power of that was Chuck d rapping for Public Enemy. He was born Carlton Ritten Hour in Long Island, New York, in nineteen sixty sixty six. Today he and Flavor Flave formed Public Enemy in nineteen eighty five. Some there, It's sorry, my Oozi weighs a lot revel without a pause, fight the power. Yeah. Had two children from his first wife and he has one child with his current wife. To bv tread like a problems Your no best son heard up ship at a white child. You're talking man, Well you're walking? Are you and your homies? My man lied chalk? I really hate the trip, but I kind of low.

12:51 As they call him. I see myself been the pistol, smoking pool on the kind. Of tea, little homies wann up like on my knees in the night. And ten's the lop Rapper Culio. He was born in Manessa, Pennsylvania, in nineteen sixty three. He is born artists Iave. He is a junior. Grew up in Compton, California. He had the big It's Fantastic voyage gangs to Paradise one, two, three, four something new See you when I get there, Kilell. They married for four years once and they had a daughter. Then he had nine other children from nine other women. He died in fifth and fifty nine years old in twenty twenty two from an accidental fetanose overduals. Yes tis the fair County Smile the County Crows. They're out on tour right now until the end of September.

13:53 They just played Red Rocks up here the last two nights. Adam Durretz is their lead singer. He's sixty two, born in Baltimore, Maryland, and nineteen sixty four. Counting Crows formed in nineteen ninety one. They've had they It's mister Jones round here hanging around American Girl yellow or big Yellow Taxi. Now Nope, he hasn't married yet and he's still single. Actress Tempest played so Is fifty three. She was born in Chicago in seventy three. First got famous playing Vanessa on The Cosby Show. When the show ended, she went and got her degree in finance from New York University, but she still does some acting. She's been with an actor dare Liam Ball since nineteen ninety three. Actor Jason Momoa is forty seven. He's born in Honolulu in nineteen seventy nine. First got known on the TV show Baywatch Why. But of course he's better known for movies.

14:39 Played Conanne the Barbarian when they remade the movie Beggest Role, though he's played Aquaman and what at least five Aquaman movies. He had a daughter and a son from actress Lisa bonet See. They got together in two thousand and five, had the kids, then they got married in twenty seventeen. Now their divorce was final just earlier this year. That's end with actor Wilfrid Brimley. He died to day in twenty twenty and eighty five. Years old. He said, I have a lot of admiration for anyone who can start with absolutely nothing and make something out of it. Thank you all for listening today. We sure appreciate you being here. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to. His aunts were easy to find our country and a ground radio artists today because from Luke out Fort Lauderdale. You know I was here the Chris good the Chris Goodwin band, and there's song shot at Jack Daniels. You know it's Saturday. I'm just gonna let her go.

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