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. I've been so this is their ninety eighth 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 Derek Queen out there in case his soda fountain broke down, so he put his soda bottles in the freezer, you know, just to keep him call. But the kind of half froze became slush started selling the huge hit now he called them icys in 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.

1:19 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 the ore. McDonald's Japan they have the most seven elevens of any country. All right, let's he's going on entertainment On July the eleventh got their twenty sixteen number one album was Views by Drake. Drake Whiz Kidding. Kyla had the number one song with one Dance. I pray to make it back at one piece, I pray, I pray. That's why I need no one nurs God, Annisy in mind. One more time for high highap I was taking him. Oh hold on me, I need no one nurse. Got Annes in mine. One more time for I Go high Alp Hollow taking.

2:00 A Florida Georgia Lyon had the number one country song with Holy Brendame. Jay Silvy, Never Leaven could She's the first thing I knew. I can't believe Manly cove You. The number one book was First Comes Love by Emily Griffin. The top movie was the Secret Life of Pets. A terrier named Max. His life goes downhill when his owner is taking a straight dog named Duke. Voice by Lewis C. K, Eric stone Street, Kevin Hart, Dana Carvey, whole bunch more, 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 prudens prudance. Yeah, they didn't light the Quakers at all.

2:55 So Anna and Mary they actually were arresting then had to spend five weeks in jail. Then they got deported to by Beatos. Little irony that that Peeredans 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 and the American Revolution. Now that is the day that the Marines still celebrated their birthday. 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 US Congress reinstated in the Marine Corps. They brought him back because the thought 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.

3:54 Today that'd be out seventy five hundred dollars. So yeah, the rich people, they were able to buy their 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 his some by eighteen months. This was kind of creative. Nineteen seventy six, before an 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 her he just give the do two thousand dollars a month. That's a little over seven thousand to day. 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.

4:47 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 misdemeanors. Joke, joke, dis shibbert Day. We're gonna page he left this Shibirthday. We got simpletage. He's like dis shibirth Day. And you know we don't give up. Birthday, all right. I was born on July the eleventh. John Quincy Adams. He was born in brain Dream, 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 sixty US president.

5:30 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 Representative. Yeah, he was there from eighteen thirty one until he died on the floor in forty eight. Actor Jo Brynner. He was born in that of Ustok, Russia, in nineteen twenty now after the Russian Revolution, when the Communist took over, his family fled to Paris, then Switzerland, China, Fine 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.

6:12 He liked the way it looks, so he just shaved his head for the rest of his life. From nineteen fifty one to nineteen eighty five. He started The King and I four thousand, 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. You in the Dark seven Count the Stars.

7:05 Slow, Jeff Hannah. He still sings for the Nitty Gritty Dirt band Jeff. He's seventy eight. He is born in Detroit. 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. They're getting ready to go out on and doing some tour in July seventeenth until the end of summer. Now 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, Texas seventy five. First got No Home, playing d Day in the movie Animal House. Then he was in the Last Boy Scout, My cousin, Vannie, 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. I Susan Vega. She's sixty six.

8:19 She has one in Santa Monica, California. Moved to New York when she was two. 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. Woman, I'm a fucking legends and manchesterss trying to stick the the for his paste, the same chick chest you want to get kick and Nicky Rivers got a spy, Johnny.

9:17 That is rapper Lil Kim. She's fifty one. She's broun in Brooklyn, New York. She gets the name Little Kim. Wow. She stands four eleven. Now the We're 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 she had to get fifth on Dancing with the Stars, so I mean that wasn't so bad. She lost Jim Nast Shawn Johnson. She had one daughter and she hadn't married yet or anything. But she's actually out into it right now. Until the end of September, everyone will check out Little Kim all in our court of the day is gonna come from Laurence Olivier. He died today in nineteen eighty nine and eighty two years old. Lauren said, having a have a very good reason for everything that you do. Okay, well, thank you all for listening today. Don't read to follow us.

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