July 11th - Free Slurpees! Yul Brynner, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Suzanne Vega, Lil Kim, John Quincy Adams

0:19 Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. This is July the eleventh. Today is National Free Slurpee Day. Seven eleven stores. They celebrate their birthday every July the eleventh. This is their ninety ninth birthday this year. Now they're giving away free small slurpees in all their stores today. In the early nineteen fifties, Oh, Mark knet Nick, he owned darry Queen out there in Kansas.

1:00 His soda fountain broke down, so he put his soda bottles in the freezer, you know, just to keep him. Call about the kind of half broz became slush started selling huge hit now he called them icys. Then in nineteen sixty six seven eleven, they bought exclusive rice to his ices, and they started selling them all their stories except they read named them slurp piece. I don't know why Dairy Queen didn't do it. Seven eleven. They're the largest franchise company in the entire world. There are more, Yeah, they have more than McDonald's. There are twenty thousand more seven elevens in there. McDonald's Japan they have the most seven elevens of any country. Let's go back to nineteen sixty eight and see what was going on in entertainment. On July the eleventh, number one album was Bookends by Simon and Garfunkel. Herb Aalbert had the number one song but this Guy's in love with you? You see this guy?

1:46 This guy love with you? Yes, love. Who looks you way? Do tell me why? Net had the number one country song with d I v O RCEE d C. They comes fine today, pay Day Will by.

2:29 The number one book was Couples by John Updike. The top movie was Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River. Now an American and a British con artists they planned to scam the British out of a lot of money. Stars Jerry Lewis and Tyree Thomas. All right, what. Happened On July the eleventh, sixteen fifty six, The first Quakers landed in Boston. Now two English women and Austin and Mary Fisher. Things didn't go well, see the prudence Puritans. Yeah, they didn't light the Quakers at all. So Ann and Mary they actually were arresting, then had to spend five weeks in jail. Then they got deported to Barbados. Little irony of that that appeared in this came to America to escape religious persecution. The United States Marine Corps, it was founded on November tenth and seventeen seventy five. Now they were the Continental Marines of the American Revolution. Now that is the day that the Marines still celebrated their birthday.

3:16 But the Marines they were disbandoned after the war in seventeen eighty three. Then today in seventeen ninety eight, the Marines there, they were brought back. He has Congress reinstated in the Marine Corps. They brought him back because the thought we might have to fight in Napoleon. Eighteen oh four are the famous duel between Vice President Aaron Burr and former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. Yeah, I went down in New Jersey. Now Burr killed Hamilton. So that killed Burr's political career. So the only winner President Thomas Jefferson. Yeah. They were the two biggest political rivals, and he aided both of them. Eighteen sixty three, in New York City, the Union Army held its first draft lottery. Now, if you paid three hundred dollars, you didn't have to put your name in the Yeah, you're out of the lottery. Today, that'd be out seventy five hundred dollars. So yeah, the rich people, they were able to either way out of the draft. Eighteen ninety two, the US Patent Office it rolled that England's Joseph Swan actually invented the light bulb. Yeah, it wasn't Thomas Edison. Swan beating Hissen by eighteen months.

4:11 This was kind of creative. Nineteen seventy six before in Atlanta Braves baseball game, they held headlocks and wedlocks night. Thirty four couples were married at home plate and then they had a professional wrestling match. Nineteen eighty one. Never Rockefeller, who had the famous Rockefeller family. She became the first woman in history to have a court ordered maker pay her husband alimony. That's right, her husband. He was just this lowly college professor, and she was worth forty one million bucks. Judge told, hey, hey, just give the do two thousand dollars a month. That's a little over seven thousand today. Nineteen eighty eight. Boxer Mike Tyson, now Donald Trump was an advisor. Nineteen ninety New York City, Please they arrested dart Man. Yeah, dart man. See this guy. He would just walk around the city stabbing women with darts. Yeah, he stabbed over fifty women, mostly in the butt. Now thirty three year olds. You're own right. He paid one thousand dollars bail and they dropped all his charges down to just tiny mist means joke, joke, joke.

5:06 Dis shibt Day. We're gonna par he left this shibthday. We want simploutage. He's like dis shiburth Day. And you you don't you birthday? All right? I was born on July the eleventh. John Quincy Adams. He was born in Braindream, Massachusetts, in seventeen sixty seven. Now it's Quincy, Massachusetts. His dad was John Adams, founding father and the second President of the United States. John Quincy. He was the sixthy US president. He was pretty much just a career politician with a famous name. Surf from president from eighteen twenty five eighteen twenty nine. Got married in nineteen ninety seven or seventeen ninety seven. They had four kids. John Quincy He died in eighteen forty eight at eighty years old, on the floor the House Representatives from a stroke. See after he lost his re election for president. He went back and went to the House of Representatives. Yeah, he was there from eighteen thirty one until he died on the floor in forty eight.

5:55 Actor Jo Brynner. He was born in that of Ustok, Russia. In nineteen twenty. After the Russian Revolution, when the Communist took over, his family fled to Paris, then Switzerland, China, final in the United States. He got here when he was twenty. Nineteen fifty one, he shaved his head for the first time. Yeah, it was the star in the Broadway play The King and I. He liked the way it looks, so he just shaved his head for the rest of his life. From nineteen fifty one and nineteen eighty five he started The King and I four six hundred and twenty five times and even won an Oscar for it when they made it into a movie. Now he did take breaks, you know, off from the Broadway show to do other stuff, like some of his movies Where Are the Ten Commandments, Anastasia, The Magnificent Seven. And he had one child from a fling. He had one 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, but then he died from lung cancer nineteen eighty five at sixty five years old. The Stars Slow Jeff Hannah. He still sings for the Nitty Gritty Dirt band. Jeff is seventy nine. He was born in Detroit in nineteen forty seven. Now him and some of his friend in high school, they started themselves a jug band. Became Nitty Gritty in nineteen sixty six. They've had the hits modern day romance. Babies got a hold on me, fishing in the dark. I've been lucky by

7:27 Jeff's son. He actually go lead sings with Jeff when they go out on tour. He also has a daughter. Then he got married in nineteen ninety three. Actor Bruce McGill. He was born in San Antonio in nineteen fifty seventy six. First got home playing d Day in the movie Animal House. Then he was in The Last Boy Scout, My cousin, Vinny Cinderella Man Lincoln. On TV, he was on Rosolian Aisles. He was on the first season A Reacher. Bruce. He got married nineteen ninety four. That is Susanne Vegas. She's sixty seven. She's onorn of Santa Monica, California in nineteen fifty nine. Moved to New York when she was two.

8:23 She grew up in Spanish Harlem. Released her first album in nineteen eighty five. Get this. She's actually a lot bigger than the UK and Europe than she has been. Over here, Yeah, over here. Basically her only hits for Luca Book of Dreams and ninety nine point nine Degrees Fahrenheit. And she's on tour right now, yep, in Europe. Now a lot of those shows are actually sold out. If you look at him. In nineteen eighty six, a lawyer and a poet, he proposed to Susan. She said no. She ended up marrying another guy. They were married three years before they divorced. They had a daughter. Then in two thousand and six, twenty two years after he proposed, she married that lawyer and poet. Yeah they're still happy. Covetta's I'm a vets fucking legends and mat chesters trying to stick a block for his haste. Not the same chicks you want to get kick and Nicky Rivers got a spot that is rapper Lil Kim. She's fifty two, born in Brooklyn, New York. In nineteen seventy four. You get the name Little Kim. Wow, she stands four eleven.

9:27 Now they're tat rapper. Notory is big. He discovered Kim in nineteen ninety four. Now she sold over thirty million records. That is huge for a female rapper. Now. A couple of her hits are No Time, No Thanks, Magic Stick because it was Lady Marmelade. That was with Christina Aguilera Pink and Maya Kim. She you had to get fifth on Dancing with the Stars, so I mean that wasn't so bad. She lost to gymnast Shawn Johnson. She had one daughter and she hadn't married yet or anything. But in our court of the day is gonna come from Laurence Olivier. He died today in nineteen eighty nine and eighty two years old. Laurence said, having a have a very good reason for everything that you do. Okay, well, thank you all for listening today. Don't you read to follow us? Who you listen to is on It comes He's a cool media dot com. It's cool with three of us our country underground radio artists. Today comes from Troy out there in Minnesota. You want to hear Blacktop radio.

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