June 10-Iced Tea, Hattie McDaniel, Howlin' Wolf, Judy Garland, The Shirelles, Elizabeth Hurley, Faith Evans

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factor it's about today. It is June the tenth. Give me big old sweet as tea, the refreshing sugar rush that means so much to me, the. Amber color tonics, that's my heart at ye. It might have started up in China, but down in Carolina it's big old sweet hosed tea. Today is National Iced Tea Day. Now the Chinese they started drinking tea around twenty seven hundred BC. Iced tea it started out in the late eighteen Niners really got popular in nineteen oh four. See it was really hot at the World's Fair in Saint Louis. No one wanted any tea, so Richard Bletchen and he started selling chill tea sploated from there. So whether you like it sweeten or unsweeten, with lemon or raspberryes, just straight up enjoy some iced tea if you want to wash it down.

1:06 Today's actually National Eggworld Day too, so that would be a good combo. All right, this is going on entertainment on June the tenth. It was back to nineteen eighty two and when album was Tug of War by Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder. You had the number one song with Ebony and Ivory. Every YEA many side, my side on my Dad, Why. Don't the bell at me? Brothers? They had the number one country song with for all the Wrong Reasons.

1:48 Day your Side, all wrong. All around. The number one book was The Man from Saint Petersburg by Kin Filett. Top movie with Et the extra tresto, Some Kids up in Alien go Home to his planet starts Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Dree Wallace. Now Jane's smoking Pat Welsh. She voiced Et Steven Spielberg. Guy for the job, because smoking hope. They have a really husky voice. All right, let's see what happened on June the tenth. Now, I'm guessing you've all heard that story of Benjamin Franklin finding his kite with a key on it during a thunderstorm.

2:34 That actually happened today in seventeen fifty two in Philadelphia. Now, his kite was not struck by lightning, but the key and the silk straining that attached it to the kite, they did receive an electrical charge. Yeah, that was from the thunderstorm. So that actually proved that lightning is electricity. Now it seems funny now, but yeah, they didn't really know that back then. Seventeen seventy British explorer James Cook he discovered Australia's great barrier reef. Now he wasn't looking for it his ship Pitt and Cook said, hey, look what I found. Seventh yis President Andrew Jackson. His funeral was held today in eighteen forty five. It was at his house in Tennessee. Of course, all the important VIPs and all the big society types of tendant thing. Now, Jackson he had a pet parrot, and he really loved that bird a lot. He even put in as well that he wanted the bird to attend his funeral. Well, the bird did attend the funeral, I mean, after all, was in his house. But here's how the newspaper described the funeral. While the crowd was gathering, a wicked parrot that was a household pet, became so excited it commenced to swearing so ludely, so loud, and so long that it had to be removed from the premises. Jackson was really famous for. Uh yeah, he had quite the swearing vocabulary.

3:42 Eighteen fifty four the National Navy Academy, Annapolis. He had held their first graduation ceremony, just some piece of trivia, and the Naval Academy their Bancroft Hall. It's the largest dormitory in the world. Eighteen sixty nine, the first shipman a frozen Beef, arrived in New Orleans. Eighteen six on the North Island in New Zealand, the volcano Tarawega erupted. Now Nolan was hurt, but all the locals were just mad as hell. He had destroyed all their hot springs. Nineteen oh two HF. Califan He invented that envelope with a clear window in it so you could see the address on the inside. You forget that sometimes, Yeah, somewhere along the way, somebody had to think of that stuff. That just seems normal today. Nineteen oh five for the first forest fire lookout tower was built is in Greenville, Maine.

4:27 The nineteen forties was the peak. They had over four thousand fire lookout towers across the country. Today there's only about three hundreds. Nineteen thirty five, in Akron, Ohio, Robert Smith and Bill Wilson formed AA Alcoholics Anonymous. The lightis massacre carried in nineteen forty two. Today it's in the Czech Republic. See the German officer who was in charge of the village of Las. After the Germans captured the village, he was killed. So Hitler ordered that all one hundred and seventy three men over fifteen years of a's we killed one hundred and of five children that were left. Yeah, they were sent to concentration camps. Eighty eight of them died there. The one hundred and eighty four women who lived in Latis, they were sent to concentration camps, and sixty of those died there. Now every animal in that entire table village hip it was killed, and the entire village was burnt to the ground, and then it was bulldozed. Yeah, today no one's actually sure where that town actually stood.

5:16 Nineteen seventy seven and Apple Computers started shipping out the first computers they sold twenty twenty in Sweden. Now, after thirty four years of trying to figure out who had murdered Sweden's Prime Minister old Off Balmy, they closed the books on it. Yep, they said that whoever did it's probably did. Now doke co joke joke, shuge dish Shibf day, were gonna pa he left this shibfday. We don't simple tage like this shibirth day. And you know we don't give. Up the birthday. Well, let's see. Is born on June the tenth actress Hattie McDaniel. She's one of Wichita, Kansas in eighteen ninety three. Grew up here in Denver. Now she was the first first black actress, well the first black actress or actor to win an Academy Award. She wanted to play Mammy and Gone with the Wind. Now because she was black, she couldn't go to the movie's premiere. It was at an all white theater. But in the Oscars they had to make an acceptance so she could actually attend the Oscar ceremony because she was nominated, so she had to sit at the table all the way in the back with her dating her white agent. She was actually an over hunt three hundred movies. She only got credited for back one hundred and four of them. Though now her first husband he died from an illness, her second husband as he died when he was shot to death. Then she divorced husbands three and four Hattie. She died from breast cancer in nineteen sixty two at only fifty seven years old.

6:34 Night Shot Old Night. He might have been born Chester Barnett, but he is world famous as Howland Wolf. He's born in White Station, Mississippi in nineteen ten. Now helped that Delta kind of the Mississippi and the Chicago Blue scenes together. Yeah, that was like one of the most influential blues artists of all time. So he was also in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the Blues Hall of Fame. He actually played psychedelic rock in later on in his life. Now, some songs that you might have heard him Smokestack, Lightning, Spoonful, Red Rooster, those are his big ones.

7:21 Now. He got married in nineteen nineteen sixty four. Yeah, he was like in his fifties and they had two children. He died in nineteen seventy six, sixty five years old, from heart attack in liver failure, and I heard. Long. Judy Garland she was born in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, in nineteen twenty two. Now she was really famous, so she's still probably most famous for playing Dorothy and Wizard of Oz.

8:03 Started out performing at two years old in vaudeville, how she acted, she sang. She won three Grammys. She was nominated for Oscars for A Star Is Born and Judgment at Nuremberg. She had her daughter, Eliza Minelli, from her second husband. Then she had Lorna Luff and her brother from her third husband. She married a fifth husband just one month when she died from a drug overdose in nineteen sixty nine, forty seven years old. You give Merla, She's so sweet. To night love. Love in your will you Love Me Too?

8:45 That was Shirley Owen, and she sang lead for the Sharrell's Shirley's eighty four. She was born in Henderson, North Carolina. She grew up in New Jersey. Now her and the three other Sherrells, they met back in high school, started singing together in nineteen fifty seven. Some of their hits are Tonight's the Night will You Me Tomorrow? Dedicated to the one I Love Mama said there in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Shirley decided to go solo in nineteen seventy four, so that meant no more Shrills Shirley. She retired in twenty twenty. She has two times divorced. Actress Randy Heller is seventy eight. She was born in Brooklyn, New York. Best known for playing Danielson or Daniel larrusso Yeah his mom in the Karate Kid movie and Cobra Kai. She's been in a really long term relationship. They even have two daughters. Actress Elizabeth Hurley. She's sixty. She was born in Basingstoke, England. Now some of her movies are A Passenger fifty seven. She played Vanessa and a couple of Austin Powers movies, played the devil in Bedazzle and Double Whammy. Now she did it backwards. She became an actress and then a model. She dated actor Hugh Grant for thirteen years. Then she had a son from just a fun time and she married another guy for four years.

9:50 She's able to get a divorce for unreasonable behavior. Unreasonable behavior, that's guns for divorce over in England. Ten five ten one. I wish bullying. I'd wish you next to me and Dick it being some fall off spring bullying because you made my heart thing. I want to get. My heart mas so my love too. She is Faith Evans. She's fifty t she's born in Lakeland, Florida. She grew up in New Jersey. Now our first tip was when There's Big and their song One More Chance went to number one Buff Daddy and their song I'll Be Missing You. So just by herself solo, she sold over twenty million records. Some of them are as I Get Home love Like it is never gonna let you go.

10:40 That's just someone now. She was married in not Torre's Big or Biggie for three years when he was shot and killed. They had one son. Then she had a son from a boyfriend. And she was with her second husband like fourteen years and they had two kids. She married her third husband, yeah, just five years after DJ Qualls. He was born in Nashville, tennis See in nineteen seventy eight. DJ's forty seventy day. He first got known playing Kyle in the movie Road Trip, then Hustle and Flow, Delta Forrest, road Trip, Beer Punk. DJ is currently engaged to his future husband. Shouldn't surprise you. Former actress now artist Leli Sobiiski. She's forty two and she's born in New York City. Start acting as a teenager and she was in the movie Is Deep Impact Never been kissed, joy Ride Night Train.

11:26 She retired from acting in twenty twelve to comments right on her art and raising her kids. She paints and scopes abstract works. I guess she's pretty well known for it. She got married in twenty ten and they had that son and daughter. All right. He our quote of the today Today, We're gonna go with Ray Charles. Who treat me so mean? Could have mean us a shame? I can't skive me you show I have. To ta. Ninety. Don't you come back no more? All right? Ray? He died today in two thousand and four, at seventy three years old. Now, Ray says that love is very special word. I only use it when I really mean it.

12:07 You use it too much and it becomes cheap. Ray had twelve children from ten different women. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't read the follow us on who you listening to? Some comesy's at cool media dot com. Now, hopefully tomorrow my voice will come back. But until then, don't forget about counry undergund Radio. Just go down Country Underground radio dot com or just search country at Yeah the best independent, up and coming country music there is. They were gonna go with Alice Sanders. This is her song famous, have a Great Day, Love Game. And Lambasoom slipping all lemonade so sweet, can't mean look Amanda sign the sheets, A little bunch of luxury can't eat, but I'm all fleet kids slipping on the back door, Cheese by my lad cheese all of me pass damn famous Alma's come times, says Dan Joe, Come My.

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