July 8-Ice Cream Sundae, Liberty Bell, Coca-Cola, Toby Keith, Beck, Kevin Bacon, Angelica Houston,

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, present by cool Media. Today's July the eighth. I love ice cream Sundays. They taste very good. He is the dude. Oh yeah, I do not want just a big old bowl of ice cream. I want to smother it with lots of sweet yo mis stuff. I like to put how fudge on my ice cream. I like to smother rid with the cherry and sprinkles and other stuff. It is National ice Cream Sunday Day, eighteen eighty one in Wisconsin. Edward Berners he invented the ice cream Sunday. So thank you Edward. Yeah, celebrate. First you had figured how many scoops you want? Then what do you want to put on them?

0:51 Caramel, chocolate, hot fudge, strawberry, butterscotch, What about the sprinkles, cherry's nuts, whipped cream? Whenever you want, and you can go. It's big or small and you want. You know, technically Banana Splitzer considered Sundays. So whatever you doing, enjoya Sunday today. She is going on and entertained Manon July the eighth, Let's back to nineteen ninety four number one album was Purple by the Stone Temple. Pilots All for One had the number one song with I swear Man Mistakes, I'll Never Brain Your Heart and Nice by the Stu I'll Me. Neil McCoy has the number one country song with wink Oh, this is just skimming that way all day. Have a strain, She's gotta kimm in that way. The number one book was The Chamber by John Grisham. Top movie was Forst Goom, a guy w with a seventy five IQ. He meets every president as part of every historical event in America from the nineteen fifties through the nineteen seventies. Stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, and Gary Sinise. Ah. What happened On July the eighth, seventeen seventy six, Colonel John Nixon had the first public reading in the

2:23 Declaration of Independence. It read it to the citizens of Philadelphia. Originally the Liberty Bell, it was ordered for the Pennsylvania State House. Now they had it built over in England and shipped over here. It got here in seventeen fifty one. Now, before they hoisted it onto the roof, they decided to get a little testing. Well, I cracked saw they had a couple of local metal workers melt her down or recast it. Then today, in eighteen thirty five, it cracked again. They couldn't fix it this time, so it hasn't been ranged since eighteen eighty nine. The last official semi legal bare knuckle boxing heavyweight title championship was fot They won a one last big bare knuckle fight before gloves became mandatory, held in Hadesburg, Mississippi, John Sulliva, and he won. He was able to defend his title his opponent couldn't come out for the seventy fifth round, wondering there were one minute rounds.

3:10 Nineteen thirteen, Alfred Gilbert He invented the Erector set ended up becoming one of the most popular toys of all time today. In nineteen forty seven, the United States Air Forest reporter that they had recovered a flying disc that had crashed in Roswell, New Mexico. Next day they said it was a weather balloons, not a UFO, so never mind. Nineteen fifty, in the Korean War, Leroy dinz He became the first American soldier to be giving a purple heart out in that war. One hundred and eighteen six hundred and fifty purple hearts will be given out for the Korean War. Last year, twenty twenty three, over in Stockholm, Sweden, Elton John performed live for the very last time. YEP was the final final show for his final Goodwill tour.

3:52 I think y'all know what probably his last song was that he airplay Goodbye Yellow Brick Roading coke Sharge this shiverf Day, were gonna pause he left this shubfday. We don't simple caage he like this shubirf Day, and you know we don't get that birthday, okay. Who was born on July the eighth, John Pemberton. He was born in Knoxville, Georgia in eighteen thirty one. You're in a medical degree by the time he's nineteen years old. Then he went to fight for the South in the Civil War. During a battle, he was stabbed in the chest. He led, but it caused a lifetime of chronic pain. After the war, is working as a pharmacist and he became addicted to morphine. So he's trying to kill, you know, kicking himself getting off the morphine. So he's coming up and trying all these different concoctions to see what he could do well. One day accidentally mixed carbonated water with the concoction he was working on. I knew it wasn't medicine, but it tasted really good and it made a good fountain drink. So coca cola was born. Now, the original coke, it did have nine bilograms of cocaine in it, just to give you a little perspective. A typical line of cocaine that people snort and cane tains around fifty to seventy milligrams. Now after Pemberton, you know, of course he didn't kick the morphine, but he ended up getting stomach cancer. So when he was all sick and broke, Yeah, he sold the recipe for coca cola for hardly any money.

5:11 Ended up dying from the cancer in eighteen eighty eight, at fifty seven years old. He was married and they had one son. Actor Jeffrey Tambor. He's eighty. He's born in San Francisco in nineteen forty four. For Scott known on TVs. He was on The Ropers and then The Larry Sanders Show, The Arrested Development. Biggest movie is he was the dad in the Hangover movies. He was also in the movie His Life Stinks, Joe Black and Hill Boy. He had a daughter from a girlfriend, married a second wife in two thousand and one, and they had three sons and one daughter. Actress Angeline Angeline Yeah and actress Angelica Houston. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty one. She's seventy three. Her grandfather he won an Oscar for being an actor. Her dad won an Oscar for being a director.

5:54 She won an Oscar for acting in Pritzy's Honor. She was also nominated for Enemies, Love Story, and The Grifters. Now she didn't get any awards for us. She played Martitia Adams in the Adams Family movies. She dated Jack Nicholson for seventeen years. When they broke up, she married a sculptor. They were married for sixteen years and he died in two thousand and eight. Now once, she's gonna be in the next John Wick movie. Yeah, it's coming out next year. Actor Kevin Bacon. He was born in nineteen fifty eight in Philadelphia's sixty six. First movie was Animal House and then he got killed in the original Friday the Thirteenth. I first really got known though in the movie Foothill Footloose, she's having a baby River Wilde. He's been an over eighty movie of all different kinds of genres. That's why there's the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon been married actors Curres said, you ex sence nineteen eighty eight, and they have a son and a daughter. I should have been a cow shouldn't learn. We're in my six riding my pony.

6:56 Kevin Hrs just left Jean and Lord. Country superstar Toby Keith. He was born in Clinton, Oklahoma, in nineteen sixty one. Now he was working in an oil field and then playing in the local bars at night over in Oklahoma when a flight attendant who was a fan of his, she got a copy of his demo tape. Now in one of the fights that she was working, there's a record producer on there, so she gave him his tape. Record producer to signed Toby in nineteen ninety three. First song of released was his first number one song, should have been a Cowboy. Ended up with twenty number one songs, got married nineteen eighty four. They had two daughters and one son. Told he was diagnosed with stomach cancer in twenty twenty one, ended up dying from it in his sleep. February. This is last February at sixty two years old. Actor Billy Credrup. He's fifty six.

7:45 Born in Mahasset, New York in nineteen sixty eight. Did a lot of Broadway. Nominated four times for Tony's One Once. First movie that was kind of big, Well it was actually really big, but he actually had a role in it. Almost famous. Then Mission Impossible three, Watchman eight, Pray on TV. He's been on the Morning Show since twenty nineteen. He had a son from actress Mary Louise Parker. Then he married actress Naomi Watts just last year. That guy just goes by Beck. He was born Beck Campbell in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy. It's fifty four. He does folk, funk, hip hop, electronic, ll thrown in a rock.

8:37 He's won eight Grammys. Started playing out the city buses and coffee houses out in California nineteen ninety three. Is able up to scrape enough money together to make five hundred copies of his song loser Surprise out of the hell out of him and everybody else. When he became a worldwide hit, some of his other hits are where It's at, the new Pollution. Now he's gonna go out and do a little bit of touring and starting at the end of this month. He was married to actress Marissa Ribissi for seventeen years, and they had a son and a daughter. We talked about the movie Forrest Gump. Well, actually start out as a book called Forrest gumb Now in the book Forrest, he was six six and weighed two hundred and forty pounds. Original choice to play in the movie John Goodman, Well, thanks for joining us today. We're sure appreciate you being here. Come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool three. I was gonna see what's doing it on the other podcast in the radio station saying with actor Ernest borgnine. He died day in twenty twelve at ninety five years old. Ernest said, I think we all have the urge to be a clown, whether we know it or not.

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