July 5-Bikini, Huey Lewis, Calvin & Hobbs, Edie Falco, Lifehouse, Owl City, Katherine Helmond, Marc Cohn

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and fact too. It's about today, presented by Cool Media. Today's July the fifth. Two three four. Tell the people what she won. It's gen Weedy yello kinik. You war for the first time, t J. G. Weedy YELLOPKINI So in the term she won us day. It is National Bikini Day today. Nineteen forty six. Over in France, an engineer named Lewis Reard. He showed off his newest creation at a fashion join Paris, the world's first two piece bathing suit, the bikini. He couldn't get any models to wear it for the show, though, so he ran across the street and he was able to get Mitcheline Bernardini that actually wore. Yeah, she wore she was a stripper. Now, the bikini had took off over in Uard, but now here in the United States. I guess we were a little too prude. Didn't hit in the United States until about nineteen fifty seven, fifty eight, somewhere around there. Now I reared. He named the bikini after the Bikini Atoll. It's in the South Pacific, now the United States. It just tested an hydrogen bomb there four days earlier. He said his bikini was just as explosive as that hydrogen bomb. So actually who celebrates today?

1:31 Men are women? Let's see what happened entertainment in nineteen fifty seven. On July the fifth number one album was Love Is the Thing by Nat King call Pat Boone had the m One's on with love Letters in the Sand. Only today. We passt time. A rity. Marty Robbins had the number one country song with a white sport coat and a pink carnation. Watch to go to the prom with the shoa.

2:18 Now you changed your mind? Let's see someone else live why. Sport cove energy. Carnation. The number one book was Scapegoat by Daphne D. Moyer. Top movie Wasn't a fair to Remember? Now? This couple they fall in love and they agreed to meet at the Empire State Building in six months? Well will they make it? I guess you have to watch it and see stars Kerry Grand and did Reker all right? What happened in the worldline July the fifth, sixteen eighty seven. Isaac Newton. He published his book on the Principle of the Mathematics. It's considered one of the most important books in the history of science. He outlined the laws of motion and gravity. Eighteen eleven, in Venezuela, they declared their independence from Spain. Took him until eighteen twenty three in order to get there. Now they were the first South American country to actually declare their independence. Eighteen fifty nine, American captain N. C. Brooks him and his guys on their ship, they discovered the uninhabited Midway Islands. They were in that northern Pacific Ocean, out in the middle of nowhere, So they decided what the hell they claimed it for the United States nineteen thirty seven, it h had one hundred and seventeen degrees in medicine Lake Montana, yep. That's still their record. Also in nineteen thirty seven, the lunch and meat spam went on sale. World War Two, in nineteen forty three, over in the Soviet Union, the Battle of a Kursk began, still the largest tank battle in world history. Now, the Soviets they had around six thousand tanks and two and a half million soldiers when the

3:48 battle began. Germany they had around thirty two hundred tanks and over nine hundred soldiers saw. The battle lasted until August the twenty third sviets. They ended up with over eight hundred thousand casual the German over two hundred thousand. Sovia won the battle though nineteen ninety four. Jeff Bezos, found at Amazon dot Com, ended up in Bellevue, Washington. In twenty seventeen over in India, three years after his death follows followers of the spiritual leader Ashutosh Mahari. Yeah, they won a huge court case. Of course, the court they rolled that they could still keep him in a freezer in case he came back to life. Cope, cope, cope coat show this Shiver day, We're gonna pause he left this shiverthday. Were gonna sit potage like this shiver birthday.

4:33 And you know we don't do because. That's a birthday. Well's check out. It was born on July the fifth. There's a. Taking the choices. That's a long mention the way I would have chosen soap. But I guess who's the bosses, okay. Actress Catherine Hellman. She was born in Galveston, Texas in nineteen twenty nine. Started acting professionally in nineteen fifty five. Best known for TV, first on Soap, then Who's the Boss. She had a recurring role on Everybody Loves Raymond. She lives in the movie is Time Bandit's Overboard. She always Lizzie in Three Cars Movies. Married his second husband in nineteen sixty two.

5:18 They were together until Catherine died from Alzheimer's in two thousand and nine at eighty nine years old. Time you'll start so I'm coming. Please, I want to love you. Huey Lewis of Huey Lewis in The News is seventy five. He was born in New York City in nineteen fifty. Start off with the hard rock band Clover, Then when they broke up, he went solo. He played harmonica on then Lizzie's biggest album. Then he started out Huey Lewis and the American Express. That changed you listen to the News in nineteen seventy nine. Some of our hats are heart and soul. I want a new drug, The power of love? Stuck with you. Do you believe in love? Huie?

6:09 He can't really sing it anymore. He came down to this thing called Minaire's disease. It's uncurable, it's affects your ears, so basically has trouble hearing in his balance and all that kind of stuff is all screwed up. But he's still really active in the entertainment industry. Huey he married one time for six years and has a son and a daughter from it. The greatest comic strip of all time was is Calvin and Hobbs. Bill Waterson driven from nineteen eighty five to nineteen ninety five. He was born nineteen fifty eight in Washington, DC. Bill's sixty eight. He's now living quiet, almost kind of a reclusive wife. The thinks he's hip in Ohio now. He quit when he thought Calvin and Hobbes might be getting stale or little redundant. Then in twenty twenty three he published his first work in twenty eight years. You call it the Mysteries, and I guess it was a fable for adults.

6:52 Now secured it in my sicious roll too, This pretty little thing waiting father change town in the Hunghuo. When I was walking in, I was walking with my feet seven feet. Off of Mark Cone is sixty seven. He's one in Cleveland, Ohio, in nineteen fifty nine. At least his first album in nineteen ninety one. Some of His hits are Walking in Memphis, Silver, Thunderbird, True Companion. He had two children from his first wife. His second wife was TV news report Elizabeth Vargas. They had two sons together before they divorced. Actress Eadie Falco sixty three. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen sixty three. Of course, she's best known from the Sopranos.

7:38 Then she did Nurse Jackie. I guess she was on OZ Before the Nurse Jackie. She was General Francis Artimore in the movie Avatar The Way of the Water. She's a tough Lavy. She's been sober since the early nineteen nineties, and she's a breast cancer survivor since two thousand and four. And she has a son and a daughter. Actress Claudia Wells. She was born at Kuala Lampure, Malaysia, two American parents in nineteen sixty six sixty today. Grew up in San Francisco. She played Jennifer in the very first Back to the Future movie, Yeah, Marty's girlfriend. Then her mom got cancer, so Claudia she told the studio that she couldn't do any of the sequels. She needed to stay home and take care of her mom until she passed. They replaced her with Elizabeth Schue. Nineteen ninety four, Claudie opened up a men's clothing store in Hollywood called Our Money Wells.

8:23 It's still there. She still owns it and manages it since twenty eleven, though she started doing some acting again. She has one son that is forty six year old Jason Wade, the lead singer for the band Lifehouse, born in Camerrio, California, in nineteen eighty go for him the Life House when he was fifteen years old nineteen ninety five.

9:03 Actually they started out being called Bliss, then in nineteen ninety nine they changed their name to Life House. They've had their heads hanging by a moment, You and me first time, halfway Gune Jason. He's only seven solo albums over the years by himself. He got married in two thousand and one and they have one child. Because I get a thousand bugs from ten thousand lightning moods, they try to teach me how to downs. Above my head. These Miss gog Is just lives. The electronic band ol City. It's well, it's just one guy. Adam Young, he's forty. He's born in nineteen eighty six and at Tumwa, Iowa. Grew up in Awa Doona, Minnesota.

9:50 Then in two thousand and seven, he was loading trucks at a Coca Cola shipping warehouse. While he was doing it and he would just compeled music in his head. They didn't go home to his parents' basement. Yep, he's his keyboard and he uploaded it onto my Space. Ended up getting a record deal in two thousand and nine. So I'm at al Citi's or Adam's biggest hits are Fireflies, Vanilla Tonight, good Time with Oh Yeah, good Time. That was with Carlie Ray Jebson. Now he never dated her, but Taylor Swift actually wrote her song Enchanted about him. It's not touring this summer, but if he ever does come on tour and you're a neck, he actually brings a whole band. It's not just him up all right. Or quote of the day, and it comes from baseball great Ted Williams. He died to day in two thousand and two at eighty three years old. Ted says, by the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it. Thank you, Oliver for joining us today.

10:35 We sure appreciate you being here. I hope you all had a great Fourth of July celebration. Now I don't forget to come to cool media dot com and get all the links to all our good stuff, the radio stations, the podcast, puzzle books, all that good stuff all right, A country underground radio our today. It comes from Jeff in Love and Colorado. You know us here, Todd Burrows song, Helen Back. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Thanks, no, thanks, darling. I've been down that road before because you look good and I can't say I'm not tempting, that's for sure, like my path being always said, once bitten, twice, shot gave gold. I cannot say no, but I can tonight because I've been too and back so all good.

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