June 1-Kentucky & Tennessee Birthdays, Marilyn Monroe, Morgan Freeman, Brooks & Dunn, Heidi Klum, Alanis Morissette

0:00 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today is June. The first June is named for the Roman god is Juno. She was married to Jupiter. She is the goddess of marriage and children. Now the June full moon, it is called the strawberry moon. June's birth flowers are rose and honeysuckle. June birth stone is the pearl. Now we're already in summer mode, so we might as well kick off June. Just go and barefoot.

0:47 I'm am a beth feet because because I want to feel the world's heartbeat and one of the old childs strong a tree. To a stabbing, my brus so deeping knowing then to my freedom. It's a June, I'm showing. See it is National go Barefoot Day Today is actually twofold. It just you know, just kick off your shoes and enjoy walking around barefoot and the grass on the beach or over a better calls, whatever are you like Now. Second, you're supposed to donate your shoes that you no longer wear anymore. Yeah, give it to the people who need it. Today, I'm thinking it might be a good day to drink though. Yeah, it won't hurt so bad when you step on something that really hurts. Let's see what happened in entertainment on June the first let's back to nineteen ninety three. Number one album was The Bodyguard movie soundtrack was Pretty Nice.

1:38 Whitney Houston. Jannet Jackson had the number one song, but That's the Way Love Goes. Toby Keith had the number one country song with should have Been a Cowboy? I should have. Been a Cowboy, Shouldn't learned a road?

2:18 We're in my six shoes riding my pony on Can time. Seen Any's herms? Just La Jean and Lord. The number one book was The Client by John Grisham. Tod Moon was Cliffhanger, two mountain rescuers. They are forced to guide a group of thieves that are missing loot stars Sylvester Stallone, Janeine Turner and John Lithgow. Do you remember that song by Eminem called Stan? On twenty seventeen, do the success of eminem song stan? Stan was added to the Oxford American Dictionary with the meaning of over zealous or obsessive fan for one particular celebrity. All Right, what happened in the world I'm in the first in twelve fifteen, peaking China. It is now Beijing now even back then in twelve fifteen and had over a million people.

3:08 Well Gengha's Khan and his Mongol army. They captured the city. Then they looted the whole city for over a month. Finally they just got tired of it and they couldn't carry all the stuff they told, so they just left. Happy Birthday, Kentucky seventeen ninety two. Kentucky became the fifteenth state Kentucky. It's Aroquois for land of Tomorrow. Capital is Frankfurt.

3:48 Highest point is Black Mountain at forty five feet. Kentucky state flower is the golden rod. Trey is a tulip. Popular fish Kentucky spotted baths and a bird is the cardinal animal is a gray squirrel. The dance is clogging. State food is BlackBerry. Some people born in Kentucky Johnny Depp, Muhammad, Ali, Abraham Lincoln, Loretta, Lynn, Billy Ray, Cyrus, Dwight Yoakum, all the Juds, and Jennifer Lawrence born in the Bluegrass State.

4:37 Happy Birthday, Tennessee seventeen ninety six. Tennessee became the sixteenth state named after the Cherokee tribe called the Tennessee. Now this capital is Nashville. Highest point is Klingman's Dome at six six and forty three feet. Tennessee state tree as the tulip. Popular insect is a firefly, bird, bob white, quail fish, channel catfish, flour is, the iris enamel is, the raccoon. State food is a tomato, and the Tennessee state firearm is a Barrett M eighty two. Some born in Tennessee Dolly Parton, Justin Timberlake, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Miley Cyrus, Kane Brown, Kenny Jesney, Morgan Freeman, Quentin Tarantino.

5:17 Some of the people born in the volunteer state. Now in his lifetime, Thomas Edison, he received one thousand and ninety three patents. Eighteen sixty nine he received his first one. Yeah, it's from an electronic vote recorder. Now it didn't work and they never used it, at least so they say. Eighteen eighty the first pay telephones were installed, and he guesses where New Haven, Connecticut. Nineteen oh seven, Serimento, Argentina. They recorded a negative twenty seven degree temperature. It is still the coldest temperature ever recorded in South America. Nineteen seventy four, The Heimlich Maneuver was first published on how to do the thing to stop choking. In nineteen eighty, CNN they went on the air for the first time. Coch Coach Goat shows this shibirth Day, We're gonna pause.

6:03 He left its shibirthday. We won't sit with targe like it's shibirthday. And you know we don't get because that's birthday. Let's check out who was born on you in the first actor comedian Andy Griffith. He was born in Mount Airy, North Carolina, in nineteen twenty six. Start out is just a stand up comedian released over twenty comedy albums, but of course he's most known for TV, starring as Andy Griffith on The Andy Griffith Show and then Matt Luck on Met Luck. He actually sang. He did country, gospel, and bluegrass. He won a Grammy Award for one of his bluegrass albums. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife, married his third wife in nineteen eighty three. Andy. He died in twenty twelve at eighty six years old from a heart attack.

6:55 Good you. It all had. Those unto you've played in the street. Love Truth Now and then major Change. Okay. Later on Elton John rewrote that song for Princess Diana, but originally he wrote it for Norma Jean Mortensen. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen twenty six. She's working in a munitions factory during World War Two. When a photographer he was sent to the planet to take pictures of the women working there supporting the war effort.

7:40 He noticed Norma Jean got her to quit the factory, changing the name to Marylynd and wrote and she became one of the biggest sex symbols in history. Some of Maryland's movies Gentlemen of Her Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire, Some like It Hot The Misfits Maryland. She was married to a sailor during World War Two. When he came home, they divorced. Then she married Baseball Hall of Famer Jodamajja for one year. Then she married a third husband for five years, Maryonlen. She was thirty six years old since she died in nineteen sixty two from a possible drug overdose. You made me cry when you said go to Mie shell My Dear Spell like. Gray She.

8:30 Rocker Pat Boone is ninety two. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in nineteen thirty four. Now he was the second biggest singer of the nineteen fifties YEP behind Delvis. Sold over forty five million records, released seventy two albums. Now, if you're a little young to remember his older stuff, you might remember Pat Boone from the nineteen nineties and released a heavy metal album. To Learn, How to Know and Forget How to Hate Manoos Not Shame, I'm Going os the Rails on a Crazy Train. Yeah, that was Pat Cover and Ozzie Osbourne. Now some of Pat's number one songs are Ain't That a Shame?

9:13 Love Letters in the Sand, Moody River. He was in over a dozen movie He actually has a show on Sirius XM radio. It's on their fifties channel if you want to check it out. I know my parents listened to it. Batmaned nineteen fifty three. His wife died in twenty nineteen. They have four daughters, one of them a singer, Debue boonm actor Morgan Freeman's eighty nine. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee in nineteen thirty seven. He grew up in Mississippi Now. After serving four years in the Air Force, Morgan, he headed to Hollywood in nineteen fifty nine. Took him until nineteen seventy one until he ever made any money acting. Yeah, he was on the kids show The Electric Company. After that his career took off. It's been nominated for Oscars for Our Street Smart driving his Daisy, the Shawshank Redemption in Victis, he won his oscar for a million dollar baby.

9:57 He is currently starring on the PARAMOUNTA net Work show Special Ops Lioness. I haven't seen that now. He has two times divorced. He had two kids from his first wife and then he had two kids from just fooling around. Actor in a auber JINOI. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty started out on Broadway, won himself with Tony Then he played father mulkay He in the movie Mash on TV. He was on Benson Deep Space nine Boston Legal married nineteen sixty three and they had two children. He died from lung and brain cancer in twenty nineteen at seventy nine years old. Actor Powers Booth He was born in Snyder, Texas, in nineteen forty eight. Started off in Shakespeare, first hit playing cult leader Jim Jones in a TV movie. Then he hit in the real movies Red Don, Tombstone, Man, Men of Honor. Married his college sweetheart in nineteen sixty nine and they had two children. Powers He died from pancreatic cancer in twenty seventeen at sixty eight years old.

10:53 WHOA We Don't turn Around Over Town movie. The done in country music's Brooks has done is Ronnie Done. He's seventy three, born in Coleman, Texas, in nineteen fifty three. Now, in nineteen ninety neither he nor Kicks Brooks was having any success as a solo artist, so the record company put them together. Yeah, they said that Ronnie's going to do the singing. Though. Now they are the number one country duo of all time, and they're the number three duo of all music on History. Yep, there behind Simon and Garfunkel and holl of Oates. They had twenty number one songs. They took a couple of years off, but they've been back together for a while though. Ronnie He's released five solo albums over the years. One went to number one and one went to number three, so he's had decent success as a solo artist. He married nineteen ninety and they have three children. Actress Terry Polo was born in Dover, Delaware, in nineteen sixty nine. Fifty seven year old is best known for Plant Pam and all those Fokker movies.

11:53 Now. She started on from the daytime soap opera loving. Some of her other movies that you might have seen though, were Born to Ride, Mystery, Date, Outlaws, and Angels. She married once for six years and they had a son. Then she had a daughter from a drummer. Supermodel Heidi Klomb She is fifty three. She's born in burgersh Gladbach, Germany, in nineteen seventy three. Now, while she was in high school, she won a German national world wide modeling contest. She beat out twenty five thousand other girls for it. So not only did she become one of the top models in the world, she's a really good business woman. She's hosted Germany's Next Top Model since two thousand and six. Her second husband was a singer Seal, and they have four kids. They divorced after nine years and She's been married to her third husband since twenty nineteen. Alana's morse said is fifty two. She's born in Ottawa, Canada in nineteen seventy four. I wrote her very first song when she was ten years old. No, she wasn't pissed off or anything. Her third album, Jagged Little Pill, It's sold over thirty three million. Yeah, that's one of the top albums of all time. She's at least ten albums total now.

13:11 She played God in the movie Dogma, and she has voiced on the TV animation series The Great Norse since twenty twenty one. She married in twenty ten and they have two sons and one daughter. Actor Tom Holland. He was born in Kingston upon Thames, England, in nineteen ninety six. He's thirty now. He started acting in British theater at nine years old, but now he's best known for playing Spider Man in six movies. He's been dating Spider Man co stars and data since twenty twenty one. Let's end with Helen Keller. She died in nineteen sixty eight at eighty seven years old. Helen said the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. He must be felt with the heart. Thank you for listening today, We sure appreciate it. Make sure you follow us on however you listen to us huh, you can go to your show notes today and find the links like coolmedia dot com and then gets you to the other podcast. It links to the puzzle book. Yeah, the Jones the June Puzzle book. It should be out any day now. Then we have our country undergund Radio Artists Today comes from Alan and Waco. You wanna stear Christopher James the song Little Sparks. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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