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

0:10 Hi, oh, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Facto. It's about today, about cool meani. It is July first. Now, July is name for Julius Caesar. The birth flowers are the water lily and the lux bur It seems kind of odd because the luxpur doesn't bloom until fall, but okay, birth stone is the ruby, and July's full moon is called the buck moon. I guess we're gonna start off July getting crazy. Oh yes, hey, hey, it is National Postal Workers' Day. We are celebrating postal workers for the hard work they put in ensuring that our mail is delivered smoothly as possible. Now, if you still have a postal worker delivers directly to your house, you really need to show some appreciation today.

1:04 Yeah, most of us we just have those community mailboxes. But they're still out there, aren't they. So thank you postal workers. All right, this is going on and entertained mina July first, let's go back to your nineteen ninety three. Janet Jackson had the number one album with Janet. Janet Jackson had the number one song, but That's the way Love goes. Garth Brooks had the number one country song with that summer feel, the Jason from the Sky, what's storming in all this wan? The number one book was The Client by John Grisham. Top movie was The Firm. A young lawyer joins a really prestigious law fer and then he finds out as really corrupt an evil stars Tom Cruise, Jeanie triple Horn, and Gene Heckman. All right, what happened on July the first? The reason we are celebrating postal workers today. Eighteen forty seven in the United States Post Office started issuing the first stamps. Yeah, they went on sale. Benjamin Franklin stamp five cents,

2:35 the George Washington stamp ten cents. Now before today, the people receiving the meal actually had to pay for the postage. Eighteen sixty three, the Dutch they abolished slavery and all their territories that included Saint Martin, Surnam and the British antilities. All right, we'll talk about this in a couple of days, but its eighteen sixty three in the Battle of Gettysburg started to all our friends to the north, Happy Canada day whoa eighteen sixty seven Canada became a self governing Dominion of Great Britain Canada. It was made up four provinces, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, and Quebec. Now they're going to celebrate today pretty much the way we will in a couple of days on July fourth. So how fun are you Canucks? Eighteen seventy four, the first public zoo in the United States opened up in Philadelphia. Cost you twenty five cents to see a thousand animals, reptiles, and bird. In the Spanish American War in eighteen ninety eight, over in Cuba, Teddy Roosevelt and his rough Riders made their historic and famous charge up San Juan Hill took out their Spanish enemy. Yeah, it was one of the biggest battles of the war end, one of the last one in Spain. They really couldn't recover from it. Nineteen oh four, the third Olympic Games opened up in Saint Louis.

3:46 Yeah, the first time the Games were held in the United States. This is kind of weird, but at one time people were not afraid of sharks. No, they weren't where the sharks could actually attack human bangs. But you have to remember that was before like scuba diving, and surfing and stuff like that. Yeah, people, they didn't really spend any time in the oceans. That maybe going out there and splashing around. That all changed. On nineteen sixteen, twenty five year old Charles Vancent he was swimming in New Jersey on Beach Haven. He was attacked by a shark and ended up bleeding to death. Then over the next couple of days, three more people were attacked and killed by sharks. Yeah, all off of the Jersey shore. Now everybody knew about shark attacks and the fear of sharks by human began. Nineteen sixteen, the bloody ist battle of World War One began over in France. It's called the Battle of the Somme Britain. They had nineteen thousand men killed that very first day. That's like one man every five seconds.

4:35 That battle lasted all the way until November. There were one point one million casualties on all sides ended up fighting to a draw or a stalemate. Nineteen forty one, Bova watches. They paid a New York TV station nine bucks. They were the first ever TV commercial. Yeah, the lasted ten seconds. Nineteen sixty three, the United States Postal Service started using ZIP codes for the first time nineteen sixty six. The government health insurance program Medicare began nineteen seventy one, and the twenty sixth Amendment of the US Constitution was ratified and went to effect. It's what Lord. The voting ad is down from twenty one to eighteen. Nineteen eighty two, Kyle Repkin Junr. He made his first start at shortstop for the Baltimore Oriols. He went had made twenty two hundred and sixteen consecutive starts. Yeah, that's the record. Straight ended almost sixteen years later. On September twentieth and nineteen ninety eight, Coke Coke Coke co Coach shows This shib day, were gonna pause. He left this shiverfday.

5:35 We don't simple caage he left this shibirthday, and you know we don't do because that's the birthday. It was born on July. The first actor Jamie Farr, he was born. Yeah, probably know. Jamie is a cross dressing corporal claner on the TV show Mash. Before that, he is a regular on The Red Skelton Show and then Danny Kay Show. I like Klanger Far. He was actually born in Toledo, Ohio or nineteen thirty four, he's ninety today, it's nineteen eighty four. He's hosted a professional women's golf tournament. It is the LPGA's Jamie Faris to lead to Open. He was drafted in the army and did go to crib, but it was after the war was over. Jamie he married nineteen sixty three and they have two children. One Way, I'm on a mine, Yes, I'm on take it your one way, I'm gonna I'm learning. One way, I'm gonna see you hard Meja Major Major, Make your one day maybe next to Debbie Harry. She's been the singer for the band Bonnie since they were formed in nineteen seventy four. Debbie she was born in Miami, Florida in nineteen forty five seventy nine, started out working as a go go dancer and then she was a playboy bunny. Then when she helped form the band, they originally called the band Angel in the Snake, they chased it to Blondie, sold over forty million records. Some of their biggest HiT's Our Heart of Glass, One Way or Another Call Me tied as high song Rapture. It is considered the first rap song to go to number one. Ever, so I did think the og feels about a little white girl getting that on her. Now

7:08 that Bonnie, they're actually going out and doing some shows this August our Debbie Harry. She has at least five solo albums over the years. Doney Fred Schneider. He is a front man for the B fifty twos seventy three. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty one. In nineteen seventy six, at a Chinese restaurant in Athens, Georgia, the B fifty twos were formed. Yeah, they're all sitting around there drinking and decide, hey, let's start a band. Now. The B fifty two is that's the B Hive. Their styles of girls were in the early days. They get ranking as one of the top party bands of all time. First Dead with the song rock Lobster than Love, Shack Rome, Dead Beats Club, Meet the Flintstone. They've been extending their farewell tire for the last couple of years.

8:03 Now that they're doing a residency in Las Vegas in November, and they say that's that will see now. When Fred and he told his mom that he was gay, she just looked at him said I know and went back to vacuuming. Ahead, come back, and I'm showing you way. Victor Willis he's also seventy three. He was born in Dallas, Texas. He is the lead singer for The Village People. He addresses as a police officer or a naval admiral. Victor and a French disco producer. They put out an album called The Village People in nineteen seventy seven. Shocked the hell out of them that the album was such a big d It's so big that Dick Clark wanted the Village People to come on American Bandstand. So now they had to come with the band. So they placed an ad in one of the trade papers in New York City and read that they wanted macho singers who could dance, and then they must have a mustache. That's how the Village People were for himed sold over one hundred million records. Victory did leave the band in nineteen eighty two to go sell Oh that was a disaster. He came back to the band in twenty seventeen to take over as the lead singer again.

9:18 That worked out really well. Now they're actually really huge. They're two in the world right now. So if you go Samuel here Ymca and then Navy go with. Victor's first wife was actress Felicia Rashad for six years, been married to a second wife since two thousand and seven. Actor Dan akro And. He was born in Ottawa, Canada, in nineteen fifty two. He's seventy two now. He was originally hired to be a rider for Saturday Night Live. Then they decided to actually put him in the original cast before the first show in nineteen seventy five. He stayed for four years. Then he went into movies. It's just some of the movies that also helped write. He did The Blues Brothers, the Ghostbuster movies, Spies like Us Knitz. He was nominated for an Oscar for Driving This Daisy. He married actress Donnie Dixon in nineteen eighty three. They met filming the movie Doctor Detroit.

10:03 They have two daughters. They separate in two thousand or twenty twenty two, and they say they have no plans to divorce. The ninety this time and your male rested. When you hold me too, don't close. Country singer Keith Whitley. He was born in Ashland, Kentucky in nineteen fifty four, started singing in bars when he's sixteen years old. Now. He only released two albums while he was alive, and then two more were released after he died. Out of those four albums seventeen hit songs, some of the number ones where don't close your eyes when you say nothing at all, I'm in I'm no stranger of the rain. I wonder do you think of me?

10:54 He married duntry singer Laurie Morgan and they had a son. After three years of marriage, in nineteen eighty nine, he drank himself to death. Yeah died from alcohol poisoning at thirty four years old. Actor Alan Ruck is sixty eight. He is born in Cleveland, Ohio, in nineteen fifty six. He has best known for playing Ferris Bueller's best friend Cameron in the movie Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He was also on the three Fiugitive Speed, a couple of Star Trek movies on TV. He was on Spence City for six years. Alan he 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. Princess Diana would have been sixty three. She was born today in nineteen sixty one and Sandringham, England. She was born Diana Spencer. She was thirty six years old and she died in nineteen ninety seven. Pama Anderson she was born in nineteen sixty seven of Lady Smith, Canada. She's fifty seven. She got discovered on the jumbo tron at a BC Lions football game.

11:46 That letter to being a Playboy Playmate of the Month in February of nineteen ninety that letter to be Playmate of the Year in nineteen ninety one, and she was the tool Time Girl for two seasons, the first two on the TV show Home Improvement, and she really big on Baywatch. She was in a lot of music videos. She's done for Cinderella, Aerosmith, jay Z, Kid Rock, Kanye West, Johnny Cash. Her first husband was Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee. They had two sons and divorced after three years. Now that three year marriage, that was the longest one she had. She then married Kid Rock, Then she married her third husband twice. Then she married two other guys really quick. None of them made the three years like Tommy leaded word let Me Work, Kid yes yet a big Let me search it. I gotta work s Yes, yes, I like to get the rapper missy Ella. It's fifty three. She's went in Portsmouth, Virginia in nineteen seventy one, started rapping in Sista and then Swinging Mob. She went so in nineteen ninety seven she sold There were forty million records, which is huge in rap, especially for her female rapper. Some are hits her socket to me get your freak on. Work it hot boys. She's going out on tour July fourth. Sierra and Busta Rhymes are opening up for it might be quite the show. Forty seven year old actress Lyfft Tyler was born in nineteen seventy seven in New York City. She was born Lyft run grun See

13:16 your mom was dating Todd Rudgren. Then she had an affair with Aerosmith Steve. Tyler found out that Tyler was actually her dad when she was around ten years old, running gan. Though he was still cool, he manned up, he still took care of her like she was his own. She started modeling of fourteen years old. First only got none in the Aerosmith video for Crazy. First hit is an actress in the movie That Thing You Do, then Armageddon three, Lord of the Rings Movies, Incredible Hulk. She married once for five years and they had a son. And she dated a boyfriend for seven years and they had two children. All right, let's go back to sharks. Do you know that sharks do not have bones? No, no bones in their entire body. Thank you for being here today. Were glad you come and joined us. If you can't follow us on whoever, you listen to us. If you haven't followed us yet, we're on everybody, or you can stop by coolmedia dot com. That's cool. Three ill, let's see what's going on there. And I'm supposed to remind you can always check me out on Facebook. Also, let's in with actor Marlon Brando.

14:09 He died in two thousand and four at eighty years old. Marlon said, never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.