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

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it is about today, presented by Cool Media. It 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 this year, summer begins at four fifty one pm Eastern Time on Thursday, June the twentieth. Now we're already in summer mode, so we might as well kick off June. Just go on barefoot a bear. I'm in a fair feet because I want to fill the world heartfeeding, want of old childs strong like a tree chechestavamobu so ding knowing the Junia freedom. It's a Junia John. Underneath 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 beta 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, all right to see it happening In entertainment on you first, let's go back to the nineteen sixty eight. The number one album was Bookends by Simon and Garfunkle. Simon and Garfunkel had the number one song with Missus Robinson Jesus. Number one country song was Honey by

1:57 Bobby Goldsborough. She was always young at heart, kind of dumb. It was kind of strunk, and I loved her son and I surprised Dru with a puppy kept me up all Christmas. Seed Two years ago, the number one book was Airport by author Haley. The top movie was Bendaluro James Stewart. He pretends to be a hangman to help Dean Martin out from getting a hang so then they escaped to Mexico being chased by George Kennedy's posse. 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 on June the first in twelve fifteen, Pete King China. It is now Beijing now even back then in twelve fifteen and had over a million people. Well Gengha's Khan and his Mongol army. They captured the city, then to the whole city for over a month. Finally they just got tired of it and they couldn't carry all the stuff they stole, so they just left. Happy Birthday, Kentucky. Seventeen ninety two, Kentucky

3:30 became the fifteenth state Kentucky. It's Aroquois for land of tomorrow. Capital is Frankfurt. Highest point is Black Mountain at forty five feet. Kentucky state flower is the golden rod. Tree 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 Cyrus, Dwight yoakum Oh, the Juds, and Jennifer Lawrence born in the Bluegrass State.

4:27 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 mammal is, the raccoon. State food is a tomato, and the Tennessee state firearm is a Barrett m eighty two. Some b born in Tennessee. Dolly Parton, Justin Timberlake, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, Miley Cyrus, Kane Brown, Kiney, Jesney Morgan, Freeman, Quentin Tarantino, 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.

5:17 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 cot Coke Coke co Coach show. This Shimer Day, were gonna pause, he left this shubfday. We gonna sit ple t dis s birthday and you know you don't do because that's a 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. At leased 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

6:48 at eighty six years old from a heart attack. You all had those too. You've played the 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.

7:29 She was working in a munitions factory during World War Two. When a photographer he was sent to the plant to take pictures of the women working there supporting the war effort. He noticed Norma Jean got her to quit the factory, changing the name to Marilynd and wrote and she became one of the biggest sex symbols in history. Some of Maryland's movies Gentlemen of Her Blonde, 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 Jodamajio for one year. Then she married a third husband for five years, Marles. She was thirty six years old. Since you died in nineteen sixty two from a possible drug overdose. You made me cry when you said good Mine. She dear spell like Gray.

8:26 Rocker Pat Boone is ninety years old. He's 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 when we released a heavy metal album to Learn How to Know and Forget How to Hate. Then boos I'm going oster Rais 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? 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, Debbie Boone.

9:31 Actor Morgan Freeman. He's eighty seven. He's born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen thirty seven. 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. Been nominated for Oscars for Our Street Smart Driving Miss Daisy, the Shawshank Redemption in Victis, he won his oscar for a million dollar Baby. Currently starring on the Paramount Network show Special Ops Lionus 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.

10:24 Married nineteen sixty three and they had two children. He died from long 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 pink creatic cancer in twenty seventeen at sixty eight years old. Black Beyond, We Don't Turn Around Town movie The done in country music Brooks and Done is Ronnie Done. He's seventy one, 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 they actually just kicked off their tour for this summer last night here in Denver. 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

11:54 they have three children. Actress Terry Pulo. She was born in Don'ver, Delaware in nineteen six sixty nine. Fifty five year old that's best known for playing Pam and all those fucker movies. Now, she started on a fund the daytime soap opera Loving. Some of her other movies that you might have seen though, were Born to Ride, Mystery Day, 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 one born in nineteen seventy three in Burgage Gladbach, Germany. 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.

12:37 She's hosted Germany's next Top model since two thousand and six, and she took a couple of years office. She's been hosting America's Got Talent since twenty thirteen. Her second husband was the singer Seal. They have four kids. They divorced after nine years, and she's been married to her third husband since twenty nineteen. Alanas Morris said she's fifty. She was born in Ottawa, Canada, in nineteen seventy four. She wrote her very first song when she was ten years old. No, she wasn't pissed off or anything. Now.

13:22 Her third album, Jagged Little Pill, it sold over thirty three million. Yeah, that's one of the top albums of all time. She's at least ten albums total. She played God in the movie Dogma, and she has voiced on the TV animation series The Great Norse since twenty twenty one. Her upcoming tour that should be actually a pretty cool tour. She's torn with Joan Jet and the black Hawks and Morgan Wayne. They kick it off on June ninth. She married in twenty ten and they have two sons and one daughter. Actor Tom Holland. He was born in Kingston Up on Thames, England in nineteen ninety six. He's twenty eight now. He started acting in British theater at nine years old, but now he's best known for playing a Spider Man in six movies. He's been dating a Spider Man co stars and Data since twenty twenty one. All right, today's factod that will win you a beer. You let's go back to Kentucky. Middlesboro, Kentucky is only US city built entirely inside a meteor impact crater. Well, thank you for joining us today. I appreciate you. Don't forget to follow us on whatever you listen to us on. We're on everybody get chanced up at coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three yeous. Let's end with Helen Keller. She died today 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. They must be felt with the heart. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No, no, no,