June 11-Corn on the Cob, Jacques Cousteau, 38 Special, Air Supply, Gene Wilder, Smoke Monkey

0:09 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History in Fact D. It's about today, presented by Cool Media. There is June the eleventh coin cob. It's fun to jew coin cub. Just pinking up a jew coin cob. You don't need a spoon when you want to eat some corn. Get up coin cob. Oh yeah, talking that con cob. When you want to eat some cord, Get corn cob. It's sunning to jew you cor cob, just thinking up a jew coin cop. You don't meat spoon when you want to eat some corn, Get up colub. It is national Corner on the Cob day. Corn. It was first domesticated and farmed around ten thousand years ago in southern Mexico. Now, what a great excuse for a cookout today. Whatever you're cooking, just make sure you include some corn on the cob. You can grill it, boil it, steam it. Yeah, and if you get bored, you can count the number of rows on each era of corn. They should always be an even number. They're about eight hundred kernels on every year of corn. Now it's really healthy for you, So enjoy some corn on the cob with the rest of your cookout today.

1:14 See what's going on in entertainment. On June the eleventh, let's back to nineteen eighty. Number one album was Against the Wind by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band lips Ink. They had the number one song with Funky Town Ronney millsapp He had the number one country song with My Heart Save Signs Small. There's My Plans apport through Cosmo still belongs. The number one book was The Born Identity by Robert Lelham. The top movie was Empire Strikes Back Luke. He begins his Jedi trading with Yoda now Darth Vader. He chases the rest of his friends across the galaxy. It stars Mark Cammell, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher. Back in two thousand and two, American Island Idol debut. Do you remember the first judges were Simon col Paul Abdull, Randy Jackson. All right, let's see happen in the world on June the eleventh. Today it is western Honduras. In seven thirty eight it was a Maya city of Copan. Now after eighteen Rabbit was killed Smoke Monkey, he

2:46 took over the throne. There wanted to talk about it because how often do I get to say smoke monkey? Seventeen seventy eight British Captain James Cook he discovered at Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Now, actually one of his ships hit the Great Barrier Reef and Cook said, hey, look what I discovered. Now, only six indred people lived in Detroit in eighteen oh five, but a baker there he spilled his pipe which set his barn on fire, which set the whole city on fire. Yeah, when it was all over, only two brick chimneys were left standing. They caught the Great Detroit Fire. In nineteen nineteen, the racehorse shir Barton It won the Belmont Stakes and had already won the Prickness in the Kentucky Derby, so that made it was the first horse to win the horse racing's triple crown. Nineteen twenty eight, Buddy arrived in the United States. His first sing eyed acctic in the United States.

3:31 Morris Frank He brought him back from Switzerland, where he had been trained as a seeing eye dog to help Morris out it was blind. After that, Morris he created the first sing I dog school here in the United States and Tennessee. Nineteen fifty five oh in France and the auto race of twenty four hours of the Bonds. They had the worst wreck in motorsports history. Seeing Mike Carthurne. He made a pitstop by pulling in front of Lance mcmacklin. Well, maclin had to swerve and then he creamed into Pierre Levey. Pierre's car launched into the stands. Now drivers back then didn't have seat belt, so he was thrown from the car and killed. But then his car hit the stands and just disintegrated all over him. Now, the hood of the car decaptivated several of the spectators and you combine that with the rest of the car to breathe. Yeah, eighty three spectators were killed. Nineteen ninety four and Jacksonville ford him. They set the record the largest box of popcorn thirty nine feet long, twenty one feet high, eight feet high. Yep, they had it all filled with popcorn. Two go cot co coat, goat shot. This Shibf day, were gonna pause. He left this shiverfday.

4:35 We gonna siple cars. He left this Shibf day, and you know we don't get it. Was born on Guinne the eleventh Gusteau. He was born in Saint Andre did cub zach Frantz in nineteen dead. He was an underwater explorer, filmmaker, researcher, inventner Now he made oceanography Call. He was the first one to make movies and TV shows about the oceans and all the creatures that were in it. Now to make us a the water explanation even easier. Yeah, he thended the Scoopa gear. Yeah, basically the same stuff they used today. He is married to his first wife for fifty three years when she died in nineteen ninety They had four children. Married his second wife in nineteen ninety one. Castelli died in nineteen ninety seven and eighty seven years old from a heart attack. Oddly, it wasn't buried to see comic comedic actsor Dean Wilder. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. In nineteen thirty three, he was nominated for Oscars for the Producers in Young Frankenstein also played Willy Wonka and Willie Wonka in the Chocolate Factory. Then he starred in Blazing Saddle, Stir Crazy Woman in Red Jane. He had a daughter from his second wife. He was married to Gilda Radner for five years when she died from cancer. Married his fourth wife in nineteen ninety one. He died in twenty sixteen and eighty three years old from Alzheimer's. Actress Adrian Barbo.

5:46 She's seventy nine. She's born in Sacramento, California, in nineteen forty five. She first got known playing Rizzo on Greece and Broadway. Then she was b Arthur's daughter on the TV show Mod. Then she yet big in the movies The Fog Is Escape from New York, creep Show, Swamp Thing. She's actually filming too, getting ready to film two movies right now. Her first husband was movie director John Carpenter for five years and they had a son. She married her second husband for twenty six years until they divorced. They had twin boys, now Adrian. She was fifty one years old when she gave birth to those twin boys. Don't know how I'm so lost to live. I'm going right believing what I'm kidding, Too late to say that I was. That was Graham Russell, half of the heavy metal duo Air Supply. He was born in Arnold, England in nineteen fifties. Seventy four.

6:46 Nineteen seventy five, he was touring with the rock opera Jesus Christ Superstar when he met Russell Hitchcock. They formed Air Supply and they've sold over one hundred million albums since. Some of their biggest songs are lost in Love, all out of every woman in the world. Even the Knights are better making love out of nothing at all. Now they're on tour right now. It's gonna run from the end of the year. If you want to go catch one of their shows now. Graham he married his high school sweetheart right as they graduated. They ended up with a son and a daughter, Dors ten years later, been married to a second wife since nineteen eighty six. Donnie van Zanti was the lead singer of thirty eight Special, still one of the most underrated bands of the nineteen eighties. Donnie seventy two. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in nineteen fifty two, formed thirty eight Special nineteen seventy four. It's all over twenty five million records. They had the hits hold on Zoie rocking into the ninth Caught Up in You, Fantasy Girl.

8:03 His older brother, Ronnie was the lead singer of Leonard Skinner when he was killed in that plane crash. Now his younger brother Johnny, him and Ronnie they did perform together. They had a band called Van ZANDT by Donnie. He had to retire in twenty thirteen due to health issues. He is married to his wife, Ashley. Comedian actor Hugh Lourie he was born in nineteen fifty nine and Blackbird, Lais, England. He's sixty five. Started out in the English comedy team of Frid Laurie in the nineteen eighties and nineties. First found fame in the United States in two thousand and four when he started on the TV show House. Did that until twenty twelve, then pretty much the rest of his stuff is all British. He married nineteen eighty nine and they have two sons and one daughter. Actor Peter Dinkliche. He was born in Jersey Shore, New Jersey in nineteen sixty nine. He's fifty five grew up in Ireland, though now he has dwarf vism. He stands four feet five inches tall. He was on ab SO eight HBO's Game of Thrones from twenty eleven to twenty nineteen. He won four Primetime Emmys for it. Some of his movie is were Elf, Little Fugitive, Death at a Funeral in Avengers Infinity War. Guy married in two thousand and five and they have a son and a daughter. Actor Shia la Beouf. He is thirty eight.

9:11 He is born in Los Angeles nineteen eighty six. Started performing stand up comedy in clubs at ten years old, got his first job on Disney's Channel Even Stephen. Then he hit the movie Some of Them are Disturbia, did all those Transformers movies, Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull Man Down Now. He is married for two years and they divorced. Then a couple of years later they started dating again and now they have a daughter. All right, today is factoy that will win you a beer. Let's go back to corn. One acre of corn. It eliminates eight tons of carbon dioxide from the air. Well, thank you for being here today. You get a chance follow us on whoever you're listening to us on and come see us at cool media dot com. That's cool at three yeh's you know what.

9:52 Let's end with actor John Wayne. He died today in nineteen seventy nine at seventy two, John said courage is being scared to death, but sad it up anyway, You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. No no no no no no no no no no no no no