July 10-Pina Colada, Wyoming, Tesla, Dio, Pet Shop Boys, Rascal Flatts, Sofia Vegara, Adrian Grenier

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. This is July the tenth. It's some Breay made two claus one four Rea Chan leads said, saved with Camptain Morgan Oven never traveling, They travels out from God. It is National Pina Colada Day. Bartender Ramon Marino, he invented the pina colada and Puerto Rico in nineteen fifty four, is at the beach comber Barn, San Juan. The pina colada is now Puerto Rico's national drink. Pretty simple, really white rum coconut cream and pineapple juice. Yeah, that tastes pretty good about the real naming. So take a midweek break today and celebrate with some pincoladus pinacolada.

1:03 It is Spanish for strange pineapple. All right. Happened in entertainment of July the tenth. That's back in nineteen seventy four, the number one album was banned on the run by Paul McCartney and Wings. Hughes Corporation had the number one song with rock the Boat. So I like to know you got no shine, I like to know you got no Shine the Anne Murray. She had the number one country song with He thinks I still care just because I rang his number. I'm mistake today he still the number one. Book was Watershipped Down by Richard Adams. Top movie was Chinatown in the nineteen thirty is a private detective. He's supposed to expose the guy for adultery, gets himself into a whole bunch of corruption and murder. Stars Jack Nicholson, Fade Dunaway, and John Houston. All Right, what happened on July the tenth.

2:21 Now we don't know for sure how much of this is legend and how much of it is in fact. In medieval England there was a pretty lady named Godiva, and she was married to the Earl of Morica. Now that is a fact. Now, the Earl he got tired of Lady Goadiva begging him to lower the taxes that were very, very high in the town of Coventry. Finally he got done. She was just begging him and begging him. So she said, all right, I'll drop the taxes if you'll ride through naked through the town on a horse without the day. In ten forty the lady Goadiva, she told all the towns people to stay inside and shutter their windows and doors and do not look outside. She then covered her naked body with her long hair, and she rode the horse through the town. Now, the townspeople they did what she asked, well all except for one guy, this guy named Tom. Yeah, he washed her through his window.

3:06 That's where we get the word peeping Tom. So what do we know for his exactly fact, Well, the historical records. They show that in Coventry at that exact time there were no taxes except for on horses. All those surrounding neighbors they all had high taxes. Happy Birthday, Wyoming today. In eighteen ninety, Wyoming became the forty fourth state. Wyoming is an American Indian word means large prairie place. Capital of Cheyenne. Highest point is Gannett Peak. It's at thirteen eight and nine feet high. It's actually one of the toughest state high points to get to Wyoming. They have the lead east.

4:00 The amount of people hYP the lowest population of all fifty states. They around five hundred and seventy seven thousand. State bird is the western meadow larc fish, cutthroat trout flower, the Wyoming, Indian faintbrush mammal, the bison reptile, the horned lizard. State tree is a cottonwood. Some people born in Wyoming Jackson Pollock, Dana Perino, Jim J. Bullock, Ruling Gardner, Adam Archilette, Kirk Gowdy some of the people born in the Cowboys state nineteen eleven and North Bridgeton, Maine hit one hundred and five degrees that's still state record. Nineteen thirteen, the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth was at Furness Creek Raunge in Depth Valley, California, one hundred and thirty four degrees.

4:40 In Eastchester Township, New York in nineteen thirty three, first police department to ussault radios Hot ass Day Again in nineteen thirty six, Cumberland and Frederick, Maryland hit one hundred and nine degrees. Run in New Jersey got one hundred and ten, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania one hundred and eleven, Martinsburg, West Virginia one hundred and twelve, all still state records. He too at the Chadka Forest over in India, I heard of stampeding elephants killed twenty four tours nineteen eighty Willie Jones. He was taken to an Atlanta hospital he was dealing with heatstroke. Turns out he had a body temperature of one hundred and fifteen degrees. That's the highest temperature ever measured on human being. Will He spent twenty four days in the hospital. But yeah he lived. Gop Co cop goat shage. This Shibf day, were gonna pause. He left this Shiverf day. We don't simple targe. He like this Shibf day, and you know we don't do both Earth Day. So who was born on July the tenth, Nicola Tesla. He was born in Weston, now Croatatia in eighteen fifty six. Came the United States in eighteen eighty four to work for Thomas Edison. Ended up showing up Edison edit time or Tesla. He invented the A C current for electricity. Edison and he did the dc AC is pretty much what you used today. Rconi might get most of the credit for it, but it was actually Tesla who invented the wireless communication. Ended up with over two in the seventy five packs. He said he only slept two hours a night, but if it had take a nap during the day he never married. Died nineteen forty three at eighty six years old from a blood clot to the heart. Six feet six inch tall, Actor Fred Gwynn is best

6:13 known for plant Herman Munster on the TV show The Munsters. Born in New York City in nineteen twenty six. After serving in the Navy during World War I two, came home and graduated from Harvard. First tip big on TV on the TV show Car fifty four, Where Are You Well? Then The Munsters. Some of his movies were The Cotton Club, Ironweed Pet Cemetery. He was a judge in My cousin Vinnie. He's married to his first wife for twenty eight years. When they divorced, they had five kids. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty eight, and he died from pankraatic cancer eight days before sixty seventh birthday in nineteen ninety three. That was Ronnie James Dio singing for Deal. He was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, nineteen forty two. Learned how to play the trumpet at five years old. The total band Geek is all I've been. Halfway through high school he formed his first rock band. That's when he changed his last name from Patavona to deal Dio means God in Italian. He was in the band Elf and they joined some of the guys from Deep Purple and they formed the band Rainbow. After four years, he left Rainbow toor replaced Ozzy Osbourne as the lead singer for Black Sabbath. That lasted three years and then he had to go solo form the band Deal Now. He went back to Black Sabbath in two thousand and six until he died in twenty ten from stomach cancer at sixty seven years old.

7:42 He was doing double duty. He was performing with Black Sabbath and with Deal. He had a son from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy eight. That was Greg Kinn singing lead for the Greg Kin Man. He's seventy five, won to Baltimore in nineteen forty nine. He started the Greg kin Ban in nineteen seventy six. Now they're still out there performing, but Greg's the only original guy. They've released twenty four albums. Greg's released twenty four albums. Some of his heads are the breakup song, Jeopardy Reunited, Lucky Now. After the nineteen eighty is a success really tailed off so he ended up becoming a radio DJ. He has a son and a daughter. I sets Neil Tennant. He does that singing for the pet Shot Boy. Neil seven years old. He's born in North Shields, England in nineteen fifty four. Now Neil and Chris Lowe. They formed the pet Shot Boys in nineteen eighty one, sold over fifty million records. That makes them England's most successful duo. Some of their heads west End Girls, Let's make

9:13 lots of money. Always on my mind? What have I done to deserve this? Now? That was with Dusty Springfield. Neil he came out as gay in nineteen ninety four. Chris came out later on a couple of years later. But they won't talk about their personal lives at all, so they will not confirm nor deny over the last forty years if they have ever, have ever been, or are a couple. They chose to name the pet Shot Boys because they thought it was funny. Yeah, they thought it made him sound like an English rap groups Corcial Freedom Shot. Gary Levox. He's sing lead for the country band Rascal Flats. Gary was born in Powell, Ohio in nineteen seventy. It's fifty four now Gary and his cousin Jaya Marcus.

10:11 They started out in Shelley Wright's band. Then her quitarist got sick and he couldn't play, so she hired Joe Don Rooney. No. After a while, the three guys got together and said sorry, Shelley. They left informed Rascal Flats. In nineteen ninety nine, they had forty top ten hits, thirteen went to number one. Some of those are these days, may Berry. What hurts the most? Fast cars and freedom. They called her Quiss in twenty twenty one. Gary married nineteen ninety nine and they have two daughters. Fifty two year old actress so Via Vegara. She was born in baron Quela, Columbia. In nineteen seventy two. She was discovered walking on the beach in Columbia. They'd her first TV commercial when she's seventeen years old. All this for Pepsi and Columbia. You would have thought it had been for Coco. She came to the United States after that, and she hosted a bunch of shows for Univision. Then she hit really big, starring on the sitcom Modern Family. She's a judge and America's got talent Since twenty twenty.

11:01 Now Sophia, she's a natural bond. Yeah. She actually ties her hair dark brown or black in order to do roles in order to look stereotypically Hispanic. She was diagnosed with thyroid cancer when she was twenty eight years old. Yep, she beat it in two thousands, so that's pretty cool. Now she has a son from a really quickie marriage. She married her second husband in twenty fifteen and they just divorced in February. Actor Adam Grenier. He was born in nineteen seventy six and Santa Fe, New Mexico. It's forty eight. Grew up in New York City. Best known for starring on TV's On Garage. He did the movie too. Some of his other movie is Driving Me Crazy, The Devil Wears Prada, Affairs of the Heart. Now he married in twenty twenty two and they have a son. Okay, see I can get this right. This guy's actually Brittish. Actor Chiwetel Ego four. He was born in Forrest, Gale, England, in nineteen seventy seven. It's forty seven. First movie was Armistead, then Four Brothers, an American gangster, nominated for an Oscar for two years of slave now Git Dela. He hasn't married yet. Do you remember Jessica Simpson. She's forty four. She's born in Abilene, Texas in nineteen eighty. Got her first record deal at seventeen years old. She's bad there. I want to love you forever. I think I'm in love with you, irresistible with you.

12:35 Now she pretty much stopped singing around twenty ten. She says she still wants to continue with music, but now she's pretty as concentrating on selling her stuff. She sells clothes and shoes and handbags, all that kind of stuff. She played Daisy Duke in the movie Dukes of Hazzard. Hearn her first husband, Nick Lasche. They had their own TV show, It's called Newly Weds. Yeah, that show kind of ended when they got divorced after four years. She married her second husband in twenty fourteen and they have three children. This is kind of interesting and kind of cool. Actually, blood donors over in Sweden they get texted when their bloody is uiced. Oh thank you for being here today, We sure appreciate it. Make sure you follow us on whoever you're listening is on and come see us at coolmedia dot Com, This school at three US. Let's end with actor Omar Sharif. He died in twenty fifteen at eighty three years old. Omar says working gets in the way of living. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No, no, I don't know. No.