July 10th-Pina Colada, Dio, Greg Kihn, Pet Shop Boys, Rascal Flatts, Sofia Vergara, Jessica Simpson, Nikola Tesla

0:19 Hi, I'm Jeff, and welcome to history and fact. Du It's about today. Today is July the tenth, Bring. May two Claus one four reach chand let's said saves cham morgan O never traveling, They travels up for God. Today is National Pinia Colada Day. Bartender Ramon Marino, he invented the pina colada and Puerto Rico in nineteen fifty four, was at the beachcomber barnes End. One. Penna clade is Porto Rico's national drink. Pretty basic, really, It's just white rum, coconut cram and pineapple juice. Even taste good without the room.

1:06 So take a midwy break today and so break with some pina coolatus pinacolada Spanish for strained pineapple. All right, this is going on entertainment on July tenth. It's about year two thousand and six. Number one album was Loose by Nelly Fertato. Nellie and Timbaland had the number one song with Promiscuous Miss canny Chezi had the number one country song was Summertime.

1:48 On the Nest Bar a sheep Shades and a. Bottle of the Perfect Song. On the radio singles we Know smile. It's a cass, It's a simple man sometime. The number one book was Twelve Sharp by Janity Vanovitch. The top movie was Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest, Jack Sparrow. He races to find the heart of Davy Jones or his soul will be enslaved to Davy. Stars Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Kira Knightley. All right, what happened on July tenth? Now we don't know how much of this is legend and how much of it is actually fact. In medieval England, there's this really pretty woman named Godiva. Now she was married to the Earl of Mercia.

2:38 Now that is a fact. But the Earl he got tired of Goodiva ragging on him to lower the taxes in the town of Coventry. See they were really high. So she was just relentless in pushing him to lower those taxes in country. Finally he said enough, all right, I will lower the taxes and country if you ride through town naked on a horse. Well, today, in ten forty, Lady Godiva, she told all the people in the town of Coventry to stay inside, to shutter their windows and doors, and do not look outside. Then she covered her naked body with her long hair and rode a horsetry town. Well, the town's people they did exactly what she asked him to do. Well except for one guy. You know, there's always that one guy. Yeah, he was named Tom. Now he washed her through the window. That's where we get the word peeping come from. So what do we know is for a fact, well, what we do know from historical documents. From that record, it shows that in the town and Coventry in ten forty there were no taxes except for on horses. All the surrounding towns they all had high taxes. Happy Birthday Wyoming today. In eighteen ninety, I I only became our forty fourth state. Wyoming. It's an American Indian word. It means large prairie place. Capital is Cheyenne. Highest point is Gannett Peak at thirteen thousand, eight hundred and nine feet. It's one of the toughest state high points to get to. Wyoming. It's the pretty

4:11 much it has the smallest population of any state. Yeah, it only has around six hundred thousand people who live there now. The Wyoming state bird is the Western Middle lark fish is the cutthroat trout, flower is the Wyoming Indian paintbrush mammal is the bison, reptile horned lizard. Wyoming state tree of the Cottonwood. Some people born in Wyoming Jackson Pollock, Dana Pirno, Jim J. Bullock, Rudolph our ruland gardener Adam march Aletta Kirk Gaddy. That's just some of the people born in the Cowboys date nineteen eleven, North Bridgeton, Maine got up to one hundred and five degrees still their state record. Nineteen thirteen the hottest temperature ever recorded on earth. YEP. They got it at Furness Creek Ranch out in Death Valley, California, one hundred and thirty four degrees. East Chester Township, New York, in nineteen thirty three reclaimed the first police department to have radios. Nineteen thirty six. It was a hot day back is all kinds. State records were set, so some that are still going was one hundred and nine in Cumberland and Frederick, Maryland, one hundred and ten and run in New Jersey, one hundred and eleven in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, one hundred and twelve and Martinsburg, West Virginia nineteen seventy two.

5:14 And the Tindaka Forest over in India. I heard of stampeding elephants guilled twenty four ursts. Nineteen eighty Oh Willie Jones. He was taken to Atlanta hospital. He was dealing with a heat stroke. He had a temperature of one hundred and fifteen degrees. Now that is the highest temper there's ever been recorded on a human being. But Willie, he spent twenty four days in the hospital. Now he got out. He lived. Joke, joke, joke, dish Shibf day. We're gonna he left this shiverfday. We want simple tage. He's like this Shibf day. And you know we don't give up the birthday all right? Who was born on July the tenth. Nicola Tesla. He was born in what today is Croatia in eighteen fifty six.

5:54 Came the United States in eighteen eighty four to work for Thomas Edison. Tesla. He ended up showing up Edison. Yeah, Tesla came up with AC or alternative current for electricity. Edison he was all in on DC current that's direct current, AC current. That's pretty much what you used today everywhere you go. Now, Marconi might get all the credit for it, but Tesla he's the one who actually invented wireless communication. He ended up with over two undred and seventy five patents. Now he says he only slept two hours every night, but if he needed, yeah, he would take a nap during the day, but he didn't say how long of those naps were. He died nineteen forty three, eighty six years old, from a plaid clout to his heart. Six foot six inch actor Fred Gwynn was born in New York City in nineteen twenty six. After serving in the Navy during World War Two, came home and graduated from Harvard. Then, like most Harvard people that he became an actor. First got known on the TV show Car fifty four. Where Are You? Became famous for playing Herman on the Munsters, Yeah, Herman Munster. Some of those movies were at the Cotton Club Ironweed Pet Cemetery. He was a judge in my cousin Vinnie. He's married to his first wife twenty eight years and they had five kids. After they divorced, he married nineteen eighty eight his second wife. They were together until he died from pink creatic cancer eight days BEFO for sixty seventh birthday and eight nineteen ninety three. That was Ronnie James Deal. He was born in Portsmouth, New

7:27 Hampshire in nineteen forty two. Earned how to play the trump but when he was five years old he was a total band nerd. Yeah, but then halfway through high school he formed his first rock band. That's how and when he changed his name. His name he was born with a Patavona, he changed it to Deal. Deal what means God in Italian. That later on he was in the band Elf and those guys they joined some guys from the guys some Deep Purple and they formed Rainbow. After four years in Rainbow, Ronnie he left replays Ozzy Osbourne is the lead singer for the band Black Sabbath. That lasted three years and then he went out and he formed the band Deal. Now between Elf, Rainbow, Black Sabbath and Deal. The songs that Ronnie sod sang, yeah, fifty million records now he did. He did go back and he was with Black Sabbath in two thousand and six until he died in twenty ten from stema cancer.

8:10 Sixty seven years old. He had a son from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen seventy eight. That was Greg Kinns singing lead for the Greg Kin Band. Greg was born in Baltimore in nineteen forty nine. Now he started with the Greg Kin Band in nineteen seventy six. Some of the heads were the breakup song, Jeopardy Reunited Lucky. But after the nineteen eighties, man his popularity just tanged. Yeah, other than a couple like eighties cruises and that kind of stuff. Yeah, he didn't really have any music and had becoming a radio DJ. Not that there's anything wrong with that. He died just last year at seventy five years old from Alzheimer's. He had a son and a daughter.

9:20 I see Neil Tennant. He does a singing for the pet Shot Boys. He's seventy one. Born in North Shields, England. Neil and Chris Lowe. They formed the pet Shot Boys in nineteen eighty one. They sold the over fifty million records. That makes them English's most successful duel in history. Weston Girls, Let's make lots of money. Always on my mind, what have I done to deserve this? That was with Dusty Springfield. Ye, that's some of their heads now. Neil he came out as gay in nineteen ninety four. Chris he came out a couple of years later. Now they will not, absolutely will not talk about their personal lives at all, so they will not confirm or deny if they ever have been or are a couple now. They chosen in the Pet Shop Boys because they thought it was funny. They thought it made him sound like an English rap Groupascal Freedom.

10:27 Gary LeVaux, he sings late for the country band Rascal Flats. Yeah, I know they broke up, but they got back together earlier this year. Gary, he's fifty five, is born in Powell, Ohio. Now, Gary and his cousin Jay DeMarcus, they started out in Shelley Wright's band. Now her guitar player got sick and so Shelley she hired this guy named Joe Don Rooney. Well, after a while those three guys got together and said sorry. Shelley went and formed Rascal Flats in nineteen ninety nine. They've had forty top forty hits and then thirteen went to number one. Some of their number ones are these days, Mayberry, what hurts them, fast Cars and Freedom. Gary married nineteen ninety nine and they have two daughters. Actress Sophia Vergara. She's fifty three. She was born in baron Quili, Columbia.

11:09 Now. She was discovered walking on a Columbian beach. She did her first TV commercial at seventeen. It was for PEPSI. I know Columbia. You would have thought it been co Oke right. Then she came to the United States. She hosted a bunch of shows on Univision, but she hit really big starring on the TV show Modern Family. She's been a judge on American's Got Talent since twenty twenty. Now, so she's actually a natural blonde. She actually dies her hair darker for in order to get rolled, so she looks more stereotypically Hispanic or Latin. Now she had she's a thyroid cancer survivor. Yeah, so that's cool. She had a son from a really quickie marriage and then she married another guy for nine years. They divorced last year. Actor Adrian Greener. He was born in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He's forty nine. Grew up in New York City. Probably best known for starring on TV's Entourage, Well and the movie.

11:53 Then he was in Drive Me Crazy, The Devil Wears Prada, Sex Death in Bowling. He got married in twenty twenty two and the one son are expecting their second child. Now, let's see if I can do that's right now. This guy is actually British actor Chewittel as Julie Wilfor. He is forty eight. He's born in London, England. Now his parents are from Nigeria. His first movie was Armistad, then The Four Brothers American Gangster. He got not many for an oscar for twelve years of slave. The guy does a lot of charity work. Do you remember Jessica Simpson.

12:42 She's forty five. He's born in Abilene, Texas. Got her first record deal when she was seventeen. She's had the heads I want to love you forever. I think I'm in love with you, irresistible with you. She pretty much stopped singing around twenty ten. Then she just released that country album not too long ago, a couple months. Anyway, it's not that bad. I heard some of the songs. Now she pretty much just concentrates on her selling her stuff. Now she has this whole Jessica Simpson line of clothing, shoes, handbags, household, you name it, she might be selling it now. As an actress, she played Daisy Duke on the movie Dukes of Hazzard. Probably most famous, though, we have, for TV her and her first husband, Nick Lache. They had the TV show in the newly Wits Now. That show ended after four years when they divorced. She married her second husband in twenty fourteen. They are currently separated. They have three children. Okay. Quote of the Day It comes to us from actor Omar Shreef. Omar died today in twenty fifteen at eighty three years old. He says, working gets in the way of living. Well, thank you all for joining us today, Thank you for listening, and don't forget to follow us on who you listen to us on our country underground radio Artists of the Day. It comes from Tyler in Northern California. He wants to hear Kyle Daniels song A Friend with Weed. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

13:53 Will song Comessttle world keeps on spinning around and ride. I've been working like a dog every day from nine to five. Then it all to me against the loll just merely getting by. Because it's Friday again, and we ain't as ship to to get high as they to wrap up untry. So if I ive share something to you, you share something to me. A friend with weed, he's a friend in den. Let's be when drug to a real good time.

14:41 It don't cost up for life, just. Sending nicola for a dime, and it comes from the earth. Two fat meads on the life home grown a hydrophony. You don't one. It's gonna get you high because it's Friday. You can and got ships do We get high as a giraffe loop down a tree. So if I share some, do will you share some to me? A friend with me Is friends indeed