July 1-Blondie, B-52's, Village People, Dan Aykroyd, Keith Whitley, Pamela Anderson, Missy Elliott, Liv Tyler

0:19 He Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history and fact Toys about today. Today is the first of July. Now July. It's named for Julius Caesar. It's birth flowers are the water lily and the larkspur. Seems kind of art the luxpur doesn't blow him into a fall, but okay. Now the burst stones for July is the ruby. The lifeful moon is called the buck moon. So are we starting off July? Oh yes, lady, hey, hey, hey, whoa.

1:00 Day is National Postal Workers Day. We are celebrating all the hard work that postal employees put in, you know, ensuring that our mail gets delivered it smoothly as possible. Now, if you still have a postal worker who actually delivers to your own house, yeah, you really need to show some appreciation. Yeah, most of us just have those community mailboxes. Hey, but postal workers. They're still out there though, So thank you postal workers. All right, this is going on entertainment on July. First, let's go back here. In nineteen eighty five, number one album was Around the World in a Day by Prints in the Revolution. Bryan Adams have the number one song with Heaven Exile have the number one country song with She's a miracle.

1:54 She's ascle sid to the sea. When I see tounchaws, wait to help in myself. Something's got a hold, It won't die. Got fastball. She's waiting around the catchpace. The number one bookst Skeleton Crew by Stephen King. Top movie was Back to the Future Michael J. Fox goes thirty years into the past in a time machine made by Christopher Lloyd. All right, let's see it happened on July the first. Now, the reason we are celebrating post workers today day in eighteen forty seven in the United States Post Office and she did its first stamps, YEP went on sale. Benjamin Franklin stamp was five cents, the George Washington stamp ten cents. Now before today, the people receiving the meal actually had to pay the postage. We're going to talk about this in a couple of days.

2:48 But it was in eighteen sixty three the Battle of Gettysburg began. All right, to all my friends up north, Happy Canada day. Canada became a country today. Now it was part of the British Empire, but it was self governing. It was called the Dominion of the Dominion of Canada made up of four providences, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. Now they'll celebrate today like we will in a couple of days on July fourth. So I have fun.

3:33 Are you canuckts out there? Now? That national anthem I played today? It became their official anthem today. In nineteen eighty eighteen seventy four, the first public zoo opened up the United States. It was in Philadelphia. It cost twenty five cents. You can go see a thousand animals, reptiles and birds. Eighteen ninety eight, in the Spanish American War, it was over in Cuba that Teddy Roosevelt and his rough Riders they made their historic charge up San Juan Hill took out the Spanish biggest battle the war in Spain. They really couldn't ever recover from it. Now this might sound weird, but there was a time when people did not They weren't afraid of sharks. No, they weren't aware that sharks could actually attack human beings. Say yeah, I mean, granted, it was before scuba diving and surfing and all that kind of stuff. People really didn't go in the ocean much except to splash around.

4:18 That'll change today though. In nineteen sixteen, when twenty five year old Charles van Zendt, he was swimming in beach Haven, New Jersey, he was attacked by a shark. Yeah, they ended up bleeding to death. Then over the next couple days, three other people were attacking killed by sharks all across all off of New Jersey. Well, word quickly spread that, hey, sharks kill people now on the other side of the Atlantic. In nineteen sixteen, the bloodiest battle World War One began. It was in France. It's called the Battle of Somme, Britain. They had over nineteen thousand men killed in that first day. That's one man every five seconds. That battle. It's going to last until November. After the whole thing they're going to have one point one million casualties on all sides. Ended up just a draw. He has a stalemate. Finally a general said, hey, this is stupid. This is color quips nineteen forty one. Bolva watches. They paid nine dollars to New York TV station to air the first ever TV commercial. You know. It was during a Brooklyn Dodgers Philadelphia Phillies baseball game nineteen sixty three. The United States Post Office started using zip codes nineteen sixty six. Medicare.

5:16 Medicare began nineteen seventy one in North Carolina. They ratified the twenty sixth Amendment. They voted it to pass, so that's all it took. They were the thirty eight stints to ratify that twenty six amendment, so it was law. What it did is at lower the voting age from twenty one to eighteen. Nineteen eighty two, Kyle Ripkin Junior, he made his first start for the Baltimore Orioles. He was playing shortstop. He went on to make twenty and sixteen more consecutive starts. Of course that's the record. Now for someone to break his record, they're going to have to start every game for sixteen seasons. Joke joked, joke show just Shimerday, we're gonna pu he left this Shimerday.

5:57 We got simple targe. He like this shit. Birthday changing, You. Don't hard right. It was born on July. The first actor, Jamie Farr. He's ninety one. He's born in Toledo, Ohio. He played gross dressing Corporal Clinger on the TV show Mash before that. He is a regular on the Red Skelton Show. So it's nineteen eighty four, Jamie, He's hosted a professional women's golf tournament. Yes, the LPGA's Jamie Farr Toledo opened. That's actually one of the top one of their biggest money making tournaments they put on. Now, he was drafted in the army and he did go to Koreb but it was well after the war was over. He got married nineteen sixty three and they have a son and a daughter. One way, I'm on mine, Yes, I'm on take it your one way.

6:44 I'm lea, I'm ning one way. I'm gonna see mejor major, major, major one day, maybe next. Teacher Debbie Harry is eighty years old. She was born in Miami, Florida, girl in New Jersey. She started working as a go go dancer. Then she's a playboy bunny. Now. When her and the guys formed the band Blondie, they were originally call themselves Angel and the Snake. Yeah. A year later they changed it to Blondie. So there were forty million records. Heart of Glass one Way or another, call me ted his Eye. Yeah, but some of their big hits now that song and there's Rapture. It is actually considered the first rap song to go to number one, which is funny because the number two song a rap song ever to go number one. I Size Baby. I just find it kind of humorous that if Beyonce can be a Best Country Artist in the Grammys, why can't Vanilla Ice and Blondie be the O G for Rep Blondie.

7:37 They're taking this summer touring off Debbie Shan's released five albums over the years by herself. Fred Schneider, he sings lead for the B fifty twos. B fifty twos. They've had five farewell tours this year they're calling at a farewell maybe tour. This one should be fun though. The B fifty twos they're playing with Diva Freddy's seventy four he's won in Newark, New Jersey, nineteen seventy six, and a Chinese restaurant Nathan's George Is the B fifty twos are formed. Yeah, they're all just sitting around drinking and said, hey, let's start a band now. B fifty two. That's the beehive hairstyle the girls used to wear at the beginning.

8:25 Hey first with us on rob Rock Lobster and Love Shack Rome, Dead Beats Club, Meet the Flintstones. Now, when Fred went just decided to tell his mom that he was gay, she just looked at him and said, I know. He went back to vacuuming, go ahead, come back. And showing fun may wait, fun stay. Willis He is also seventy four. He was born in Dallas, Texas. Now he is the lead singer for the Village People.

9:07 Say he dresses as a police officer or a Navy admiral. Now, Victor and this French disco producer, they just put out an album called The Village People in nineteen seventy seven. They were shocked as hell when the thing blew up, Yeah, became a big hit. Dick Clark called him up and he wanted to put the Village People on an American bandstand. So now they had to scramble. They had to come up with a band. So they placed an ad in the New York City Trade paper saying, hey, they wanted macho singers who could dance and add mustaches. So that's the other Village People formed. Now they've sold there one hundred million records. Now, Victor did leave You Go solo in nineteen eighty two, but that was kind of a pretty big mistake. He had a lot of trouble after that. Finally got back in the band in twenty seventeen and their lead singer ever since. Now they're actually on a world tour yep, and they are going to be in the United States off and on throughout that tour. So if you go see the Village People, I'm sure you'll hear Ymca Macho man in the Navy Go West. Victor's first wife was actress Felicia Rashad for four years. Married his second wife in two thousand and seven, actor Dan Aykroyd.

10:04 He was born in Ottawa, Canada. Happy Canadian dated Dan He's seventy three. He was originally hired to be a writer for Saturday Night Live well before the first show. Yeah, they put him on the actual cast. I was back in nineteen seventy five. Stayed for four years, and then he went into movies. Let's talk about some movies that he actually wrote. The Blues Brothers, Ghostbusters, Spies Like Us Conheads. He didn't write it, but he was nominated for an Oscar for driving him his Daisy. He married actress Donna Dixon in nineteen eighty three. They met while they were filming the movie Doctor Detroit. They have two daughters. They did separate in twenty twenty two, but they said they have no plans at all ever divorce. But darning this time and your man rest when you hold me too, don't.

10:57 Close Country singer Keith Whitley. He was born in Ashland, Kentucky. In nineteen fifty four, started singing in bars and he's sixteen years old now. He's only released two albums while he was alive. Two more were released after he died. Seventeen hit songs off those four albums, some of his number ones are don't close your eyes when you say nothing at all, I'm no stranger of the Rain. I wonder do you think about me? He married country singer Lorie Morgan. They had a son. They after three years they were married. Yeah, it was nineteen eighty nine. Keith. He drank himself to death. Yeah. He died from alcohol poisoning thirty four years old. After Alan ruck is sixty nine. He's born in Cleveland, Ohio. He's best known for playing Ferris Bueller's best friend Cameron in the Fairies Bueller's Day off movie. He was also in three Fugitives, Speed did a couple of Star Trek movies on TV is on Spin City for six years now. Alan had a son and a daughter from his first wife. Married a second wife in two thousand and eight and they have a son and a daughter, Christs Diana. She would have been sixty four today. She was born in nineteen sixty one at the Sandringham Estate in the UK. She was born Diana Spencer, thirty six sho old thirty six years old, and she died in nineteen ninety seven. Pamela Anderson, She's fifty eight. She's born a Lady Smith Canada. Another Happy Canada Day, Pamada. Now. She got discovered on the jumbo tron at a BC Lions football game. Yeah turned that into being a Playboy Playmate of the Month for February of nineteen ninety Then she's Playmate of the Year in nineteen ninety one, and she was the Tooltime girl on

12:29 Home Improvement with Yeah with Tim Allen the first two seasons was on. Then she went hit big on Baywatch. She's in a lot of music videos somewhere, Cinderella, Aerosmith, jay Z, Kid, Rock, Kanye with Johnny Cash Now. Her first husband was the drummer for Motley Crue, Tommy Lay. They had two sons. They divorced after three years of marriage. That was her longest marriage. After that, she married Kid Rock for two years. Then she married another guy. She married him twice for one year each time. Then she married another guy for two years. Let me work it ain't down, sure, yes, yes, let me search it.

13:10 I gotta work sure. Yes, yes, I like to get the rapper. Missy yelled. And she's fifty four. She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia. Started rapping in Sista, then she went to Swing Mob and then she went solo in nineteen ninety seven. Soldo are forty million records. Now that is huge for rap, especially a female wrapper. Some of her hits here socket to me get your freak one, work it hot boys. She's not touring this summer either. Now she had you know what, She had a really bad fight with Graves's hease less than five years. Forty eight year old actress Live Tyler was born in New York City. She was born or she was born lived run Gren. See her mom was dating Todd run Gren. That she had a little fair with Stephen Tayler Aerosmith on the side, took to live with ten and they figured out that, yeah, Stephen Tyler was actually her dad, right though. It was actually kind of cool about it. I mean, he actually took care of Live like she was his own. Live started modeling at fourteen. First got known in the Aerosmith video for the song Crazy. Then her first head is an actress for the movie called The Things You Do, then Armageddon. She did three Lord of the Rings movies and Gretable Hulk. She married once for five years and has a son from it. And she was with a boyfriend for seven years and they had two children. All Right, Today's quote of the day is gonna come from actor Marlon Brandaw. He died today in two thousand and four to eighty years old. Marlon says, never confused the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. That's pretty good. All right, Thank you all for listening. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on comes here, just a cool media dot com. You

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