July 11-Free Slurpee Day! 7-Elven birthday, Yul Brynner, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Lil Kim, Dartman arrested

0:10 Hi there, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Factoid's about today is in a by cool Media. Today is July the eleventh. It is free Slurpy Day. That convenience store seven to eleven. They celebrate their birthday every year on July the eleventh. They are celebrating their ninety seventh birthday this year giving away free small slip piece today. In the early nineteen fifties, this guy, Omar knittlic you own his own convenience star, and the soda fountains broke down, so I put his SODA's into the freezer to keep them call, but they kind of half into a slush. Started selling them as ices. Nineteen sixty six seven eleven they bought exclusive rides to sell ices and all their stores except they renamed them shirt peace. All right, this is going on and entertainment No On July the Eleventh's got the year two thousand and four number one album was Kissed of Death by Judakiss. Fantasia had the number one song with I Believe Tim McGraw. He had the number one country song

1:41 with Live Like You Were Dying. Sweeter Game forgive this sad tonight. He said, Sunday Out Isn't Change Flocked. The number one book was Sam's Lettered at Jennifer by James Patterson. Top movie was Spider Man two Peter Parker battles a brilliant medieval scientist, oct To Octavius. Stars Toby Maguire, Kirsten Dunstan, Alfred Molina. What happened on July the eleventh, sixteen fifty six?

2:22 The first Quakers landed in America? Yeah, they landed in Boston. There were two of them, two English women, Ann Austin and Mary Fisher. Didn't go well for him. See, the Puritans, they didn't like those Quakers showing up, so they arrested the two women, threw him in jail for five years, and then deported them to Barbados. Yeah, I think he'd get the irony of that Puritans coming to America to avoid religious persecution. The Marine Corps it began November tenth in seventeen seventy five. They were the Continental Marines of the American Revolution. Now that is the day that the Marines celebrate for their birthday. But see, the Marines were actually disbanded after the war. Yeah, in seventeen eighty three. Well, today In seventeen ninety eight Congress, they reinstalled the Marine Corps. YEA brought them back because they thought they might have to fight Napoleon. Eighteen oh four, the famous duel between the United States Vice President Aaron Burr and former Secretarisurer Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton went down. Burr he killed Hamilton, So Hamilton was dead. Burr his political career was dead. The only winner President Thomas Jefferson. Those were his two biggest political rivals, and he hated both of them. Eighteen sixty three, in New York City, the Union Army held its first draft lottery.

3:30 Now, if you paid three hundred bucks, you didn't have to put your name in for the draft lottery. Yeah, so basically only that rich people could afford the three hundred bucks. Say back then, well today it'd be about sending five hundred dollars. Eighteen ninety two, the United States Patent Office, they declared that England's Joseph Swan he had actually invented the light bulb before Thomas Edison. In God We Trust was first put on the US coins in eighteen sixty four. In nineteen fifty five, it became law that in God we trust must be put on all us, including paper money. Nineteen eighty one. Never Rockefeller, Yeah, from the famous Rockefeller family. She became the first woman that was court ordered to actually pay her husband alimony. That's right. He was a college professor. She was worth forty one million dollars.

4:14 Judge to just give him two thousand a month. Nineteen ninety, New York City police they arrested dart Man. Yeah, the guy just walking around the city stabbing over fifty women with darts. Got go, got got goat shog this shibth day. We're gonna pause. He left this shibfday. We don't sit potage. He left this shibirth day. And you know, we don't get that's your birthday. That see was born on July the eleventh. John Quincy Adams he was born in seventeen sixty seven at Braintree in Massachusetts. It's actually now Quincy, Massachusetts. His father was John Adams. He was the second US President. John Quincy He was a sixth US president. He was a career politician with a really famous last name. Served as president from eighteen twenty five eighteen twenty nine. Married in seventeen ninety seven, They had four kids, Adams. He died in eighteen forty eight at eighty years old, on the floor from a stroke in the House of Representatives. See After he lost his re election for president, he went back to the House of Representatives worked there from eighteen thirty one until he died there on the floor.

5:18 Actor Jo Brenner. He was born Invitedofstok, Russia. In nineteen twenty. After the Russian Revolution, his family fled to Paris, Switzerland, China. Yeah, finally the United States got here. When he was twenty years old. Nineteen fifty one, he shaved his head for the first time. He was the star on the Broadway play The King and I. Well, I like Dolly Luck. So he shaped his head every day the rest of his life. From nineteen fifty one to nineteen eighty five. He started in The King and I four six hundred and twenty five different shows. He won an oscar and they put it into a movie. Now he did take breaks from the Roadway play to do other stuff like Some of his movies were The Ten Commandments, Anastasia the Magnificent at seven then he had a child from a fling, and he a child from his first wife. One child from his second wife, two children from his third wife. Married his fourth wife in nineteen eighty three. Then he died from lung cancer nineteen eighty five at sixty five years old. You in the Dark Stars, We Love Jess. So that is Jeff Hannah. He is still the lead singer for the Nitty Gritty Dirt band. Jeff seventy seven born in Detroit in nineteen forty seven. Co formed Nitty Dick Nitty Gritty in nineteen sixty six. Some of their big hats are modern day romance. Baby's got a hold on me, fishing in the dark.

6:45 I've been lucky. Now they're actually out on to it right now that we're gonna be touring until November. If you want to go see him. Jeff's son, he is actually co lead sings when they actually performed live. He also has a daughter and then he got married in nineteen ninety three. Actor Bruce McGill was born in San Antonio, Texas in nineteen fifty seventy four years old. First got known playing d Day in the movie Animal House and he's in the Last Boy Scout, My cousin Vinnie Cinderella Man Lincoln on TV. He was on Rizzolian Isles, and he was on the first season A Reacher. He's been married since nineteen ninety four. I j Suzanne Vega.

7:41 She's sixty five. Born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen fifty nine, grew up in New York City. Released her first album nineteen eighty five. Now she is a lot bigger in the United Kingdom and Europe than she ever has been in the United States. Over Here pretty much your only hits for Luca Book of Dreams ninety nine point nine degrees, Fair Night, Blood makes noise. She is on toury right now, but yep in Europe. Vague guys. She had a daughter from her first thousand, married a second husband in two thousand and six. Control Woman covetas and I'm a Vettis fucking legends and manchesters in abysinal, my own mess, trying to stick of what the for his paste? Not the same chick test you want to get kick and Nckey Rivers got a hit the spot. It's not ninety ninety ninety ninety.

8:28 She was born Kimberly Jones, but I guess since she stands four feet eleven inches, thoughs She's known as rapper Lil Kim. Fifty years old today, born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen seventy four. Now the rapper Notaori is big. He discovered Kim in nineteen ninety four. Now she sold over thirty million records. That's a lot for a female rap artist. A couple of her has no time, no thoughts, magic stick. Her biggest dead is Lady marmelad. That was with Christina Aguilera, Pink and Maya. She got fifth on Dancing with the Stars, so she's got that. Jim. She hasn't married yet, but she does have a daughter. All right, Let's go back to seven eleven, seven eleven. It's the largest franchise company in the world. YEP. Since two thousand and seven they passed McDonald's up there now twenty thousand more seven elevens in McDonald's. This will really surprise you. Japan has the most seven elevens of any country. Oh, thank you for being here today. Don't forget to follow us. I know if you listen to us. On comes in this on coolmedia dot com.

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