July 3-Rednecks, Tom Cruise, Aaron Tippin, Lisa Simpson, Ratt, Johnny Lee, Trent Tomlinson, Kimmy Gibbler

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jaff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by cool Media. Today's July the third. Some people up down on me, but I don't how damn you don't the baby on my hip, Zamie, I ain't. No, I'm just trying out of dings and I say, hey, y'all, hey, it's American red neck day. Redneck. It's kind of a unique word. It started out meaning uneducated, poor white farmer Southern farmers. Though they turned the word from being derogratory to meaning hard working Christian farmer. Well over the years, from gener duration to generation, it's kind of changed. Now. The woken popular culture they define a red neck as just a white person who's racist and able to adapt, and that's resistance to progress. Well, the people who don't give a damn about woke or popular culture, yeah, they believe that a red neck is actually defined as a person who is a hard worker, regardless of race, who loves God and loves country. Now those are the paper we're going to celebrate today. So to celebrate is customary to drink beer. But every redneck knows that you have to earn it first. So whatever project you've been putting off. You gotta get her done today, either cleaning the garage, doing the garden, working on the yard, washing your truck, fixing the fence. Now, once you're all done, you can relax with good friends and company, good food, and good beer. Now remember, a

1:41 word is only derogratory if you give her that power. Ah. What happened in entertainment on July the third, It's about nineteen seventy three number one album was Living in the Material World by George Harrison. George Harrison had the number one song with give Me, Love Me, Live Me Live Mean Read, help Me Go Elly Loo. Charlie Pride had the number one country song with Don't fight the feeling of Love. Don't don't don't you bude the feelings a love off? Love is something gobody have its full? Read Shall You Taken More? Some Shine from About? The number one book was Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. The top movie was Living Let Die James Bond. He is sent to stop a brilliant and evil heroin dealer with a complex organization and a psychic tarot card reader. Stars Roger Moore, Yeah fit Coto and Jane Seymour. All right, what happened nine July third, sixteen oh eight.

3:00 French explorer Samuel D. Champlain, He founded the city of Quebec night seventeen fifty four. George Washington, he surrendered. The only time in his entire military career he's fighting for the British during the French and Indian War. Is at the Battle of Fort Necessities in southwest Pennsylvania. Now, he was heavily outnumbered and had his backup against the wall in the fort basically, and the French forces they were pretty much ready to just gonna wipe them all out, so he surrendered. Now, he didn't speak French, so he signed the surrender treaty with not knowing what it said. The treaty basically blamed George Washington for all kinds of stuff that he didn't even do. But the French did let him and his men go back to their homes in Virginia. Then, twenty one years exactly to the day, seventeen seventy five, Washington took command of the Continental Army to go fight the British eighteen sixty three in the Civil War. The Battle at Gettysburg ended after three days. It was a major victory for the North, and not just the largest battle of the Civil War.

3:55 It's the largest battle ever fought in the North American continent. The Three Day to fighting there were fifty one thousand casualties on both sides. Now, if you put the eighth and sixty three guys you died, that's more Americans that were killed in the D Day invasions. Just a side note, over three thousand horses were killed at Getysburg. Eighteen seventy one, the United States first narrow gage railroad opened up. Yeah here in Colorado. It was a Denver, real grand It's basically circled Colorado. They had all the mining towns, Leadville, Aspen, Cripple Creek. Tell you right now, narrow gage. That pretty much defines what it is. That track is just narrow thing, a regular railroad. You can still actually ride most of those railroad routes on narrowgate trains. Now, Happy birthday, Odao. It was today.

4:59 In eighteen nine, Idaho became the forty third state. The name Idaho means nothing. No, it doesn't mean anything. See then this guy named George Whitney. He was a mining lobbyist back in Washington, DC, He told Congress that Idaho was a Shoshonian Indian word meaning jem of the mountains, that it was just a word he made up to try and get Idaho a territory way back in the day. Idaoa's capital is Boise. Highest point is boor Pick at twelve thousand, six hundred and sixty two feet. Idaho state bird is the mountain bluejay, fish, cutthroat, trout, flower, sarringa some the tray is the white pine, fruit is the huckle bear, and the vegetable yep potato. Some people born in Idaho Staca Juea, Lina Turner, Harmon Killerbrew, Pappy Boyington, Sarah Palin, Jake Plummer, Aaron Paul All born in the gym state. It was what nineteen forty the British Navy they sank what was left of the French Navy. That's right, even though they were friends. Yeah, they didn't want Germany to get into those ships.

6:00 Nineteen eighty seven, two British billionaires Robert Branson and Pere Lanstrom. They ride in Scotland after you know, hot air bloom. Yeah, they left Sugar Loaf, Maine, thirty three hours earlier. First time in history of the two guys across the Atlantic Ocean and a hot air balloon. Cope Cope, cope, goat shage this shivers day, we're gonna pause. He left this Shubarday. We gonna siple cage. He's like this shub birthday and you know we don't get that's a birthday. Let's check out. It was born on July the third, Hunt me, I want your how you do? Yeah?

6:51 That was fun. Teleabass. She was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen forty started out singing professionally at seventeen years old, got it for his record deal at twenty one Vegas hits Rescue Me. Don't mess up a good thing. You'll miss me when I'm gone. She was married for twenty nine years when they divorced. They had four children. Fintella died in from a heart attack in twenty twelve at seventy two years old. Actor Kurt wood Smith He's eighty one. He was born in New Lisbon, Wisconsin, in nineteen forty three. Best known for playing Red for him and on That's It Con That's seventy shows. They actually been in quite a few movies, some of them are RoboCop, Rambow three, Broken Arrow, Deep Impact. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife nineteen eighty eight. Marble Sweeping Love in all the wrong places, Looking loved, too many faces, searching their eyes, looking for trade, says one I'm dreaming of, hoping to find the friend and lover. Country singer Johnny Lee was born out though Loma, Texas, in nineteen forty six.

7:59 He's seventy now. That song looking for Love, it was a big crossoverhead on the pop church. Some of Johnny's big country heads picking up strangers, bet your heart on me, Hey, Bartender could have heard a heartbreak now. He still performs, but it's usually in Branson. His first wife was actor Shirley Tilton, if you remember from Dallas. They had a daughter. Then he had a son from his second wife. Always Am Forever, Each moment with you is just like a dream of me that somehow came true.

8:39 That was Johnny Wilder. He sing lead for the Bend heat Wave. He was born in Dayton, Ohio in nineteen forty nine. Helped form heat Wave in nineteen seventy five. Their biggest hads were Boogie Knights, The groove Line, Always in Forever. In nineteen seventy nine, when they were at the peak of their popularity, Johnny was in a car accident left him paralyzed from the neck down. He can sing some. He's sing a little bit in the studio. In the nineteen nineties he released a couple of solo gospel albums. He died in two thousand and six of fifty six years old, in his sleep from complications from his paralysis. Actress Jan Smithers. She was born in North Hollywood, California, in nineteen forty nine. She's seventy five. She got discovered ditch in high school. A photographer took some pictures of her and her friends at the beach. She ended up on the cover of Newsweek magazine, who stuted what teenagers do today. Then she got known. My biggest acting role is playing Bailey Quarters on W. Grippe in Cincinnati. Her second husband was actor James Brolin for nine years, and they had a daughter.

10:00 Four octave singer Laura Brannigan. She was born in Briston, New York in nineteen fifty two. She had the big ad Gloria Solitaire self Control. She married nineteen seventy eight, and then he died in nineteen ninety six. Laura, she died in her sleep from a brain aneurysm in two thousand and four at only fifty two years old. That was Stephen Percy singing lead for the yacht rock band Rat and he was born in nineteen fifty six. Lounge Beats, California sixty eight. He form Rat in nineteen seventy six. They finally called her quits in twenty twenty one. They had the hits Round and Round, You're in Love, I Want a Woman, Dance love, and use a dirty job. Stephen is still really active doing his solo stuff.

11:01 He had a daughter from his first wife. He married his second wife just a year ago. You got me your home man got me all Stream. Never compromise. What's right? Hand a fool, your family name. You gotta stand for something. Are you all anybody? One of my favorite country singer Aaron tippin sixty six. He's won in Pensacola, Florida in nineteen fifty eight. He's out on tour right now to the end of November. If you want to catch one of the shows. He puts on a really good show. When he was twenty years old. He worked as a commercial pilot. He also did some truck driving and pipe fitting, then decided to move to Nashville and give country music a try. Worked out pretty good. He released his first album in nineteen nineties, had some of the big hits.

11:50 You've got to stand for something. There ain't nothing wrong with the radio working Man's PhD. That's as close as I'll get to loving you kiss this. He married nineteen ninety and they have two sons. Yes, he still flies. He has his own private plane. Tom cru Is the sixty two born in Syracuse, New York, in nineteen sixty two. His movie had made over twelve billion dollars. First movie. He had a small role in Endless Love in nineteen eighty one, nominated for Oscars for Born on the fourth of July Jerry McGuire Magnolia. He is currently filming the eighth Mission Impossible movie. His first wife was actors Mimi Rodgers Now. She got him into scientology. She left scientology and divorced tom So. Then he married Nicole Kidman and they had a son and a daughter. His third wife was Katie Holmes and they had a daughter. Actor Thomas Gibson. He's also sixty two, except he was born in Charleston, South Carolina. Most known for TV. He hit really big playing Greg on Darman Gregg. Before that, he was on Chicago Hope. After that, he was on Criminal Minds. He was on that for eleven years. He married once for twenty five years before they divorced, and they had two sons and one daughter. Best trick will be perfect for my science project. Sciences has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol and Chinese food, but I can still ruin saft takes for everyone. Actress Yardley Smith. She was born in nineteen sixty four in Paris, France. She's sixty grew up in Washington, DC. As a child, she got teased a lot because of her high pitched voice. Worked out really well for She's

13:20 been voicing Lisa Simpson since they began in nineteen eighty nine. Now she does act She's not just a voice actress. First movie it was Having to Help Us, and then the Legend of Billy Jean City Slickers toys on TV. She was also on the sitcom Herman's Head. She married her third husband in twenty twenty two. He worn out. He's signed them Mallers count the Keys. He's kind of the long playing the malt call a cow. I don't mean to make a maple sponsored bild Chamy with the Mables TV is telfer than me. Country singer Trent Thomlinson was born in Blatheville, Arkansas, in nineteen seventy five forty nine. Some Mean's biggest hits are drunker than me. One Wing in the Fire just might have her Radio one. Now he has one time divorce, and then he has a daughter from it. Actress Andrea Barber is forty eight. She's born of Los Angeles in nineteen seventy six. Start out acting young. She was on the soap oroper Days of Our Lives when she is six years old. Did that for four years, then went over and played Kimmy Gimble on The Full House. Yeah, she was DJ's best friend on the show. Di did all eight seasons. Then she came back for Fuller House. She married once and has two children from it. Well, I guess you can argue him if you want, But the center of the universe is Wallace, Idaho. That's right. No one can really disprove it, and so they're claiming it, and they have a big celebration every year. Thanks for being here today. We like having you join us there.

14:48 Listen to me be stupid, all right, don't forget about country underground radio. With the holiday coming out, you even hear some of the best independent country music there is. Let's end with Andy Grif. He died to day in twenty twelve at eighty six years old, and he says, when you're young, you'll think you'll live for you. Ever, when you age, you realize how much comfort you can get from the past. Guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no no no no no no no no no no no no no