June 12-George HW Bush, Anne Frank, The Troggs, Asia, Boston, Chris Young, Meredith Brooks, Gomer Pyle

0:10 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it is about today, presented by Cool Media. Today is June the twelfth. It is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. Peanuts. They originally came from Brazil, Peru, that whole area of the world. No one knows who created the peanut butter cookie. Peanut butter who was invented in nineteen sixteen, so sometime after that. Peanut butter cookies. They're pretty easy to make if you're so inclined, if you're not allergic to them, to peanuts anyway, and enjoys some peanut butter cookies, and don't forget the milk. All right, this is going on in entertainment on June the twelfth. Back there, in nineteen seventy, number one album was McCartney by Paula Cartney. Ray Stevens had the number one song with everything is Beautiful. Everything is beautautiful in its own way like a story summer night or snow covered winter's day, and Everybody's beautautiful.

1:26 Conway Twitter, he had the number one country song with Hello Darling, Hello Darning, nice to see you. It's been a long time. You cast as lovely as you used to be How's your New Love? The number one book was Love Story by Eric Segall. The top movie was A Science Social Club A Cowboy. He finds out that the business he inhered from his brother is actually a house of prostitution. Stars Jimmy Stewart, Henry Fonda, and Shirley Jones. All Right, what happened in the world. I'm June twelfth, seventeen ninety two. British explorer George Vancouver. He landed in today what is Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Eighteen fifty nine in Nevada, the comstock load was discovered. Now it was the first major silver discovery in the United States eighteen eighty five. Or in France they were holding a murder trial. Well, the buildings are roof, collapsed and killed all thirty people inside. Yeah, I never find out if the guy was guilty or note.

2:31 Now, After Spain surrendered to the United States falling the Spanish American War in eighteen ninety eight, the United States took control over Cuba. Then in nineteen oh one, in order for the United States to pull out a Cuba and leave them alone, they told Cuba they had to have a constitutional convention that they were going to show how they were going to rule their country. So Cuba they held that. Today they adopted the constitution the United States wrote for him. Nineteen thirty one, Gangsta al Capone. He was charged. We had five thousand counts of prohibition violation and perjuring, plus twenty two counts of taxavision. They actually got him on the tax division. In nineteen sixty four, in South Africa and Nelson Mandela, he was sentenced to life in prison for his part in a conspiracy plot to overthrow the South African government.

3:19 Served twenty seven years, got out in nineteen ninety. Now, if you don't like peanut butter cookies, today is also National Loving Day. Richard Loving. He was a white guy. Now Mildred she was black. They became friends when they were little kids. Now over the years they fell in love. Then in nineteen fifty eight, on Mildren's eighteenth birthday, they got married. Now, shortly after they were married, they got arrested. Seeing Virginia, interracial marriage was illegal. Yeah, so they played guilty and agreed to move from Virginia so they didn't have to do a year in jail. They went up to Washington d C. He had three kids. Now, the whole time they were up there, they were actually fighting Virginia in court. Finally, in nineteen sixty seven, the United Supreme Court ruled on the Loving side. They said you could not prohibit people from marrying because they were a different race. That was unconstitutional at that time. In nineteen sixty seven, sixteen states had it illegal to have interractional marriages. That that was no longer valid in Loving versus Virginia. Hip ended all that kind of stuff. So Happy Loving Day. In twenty fifteen, over in Zimbabwe, they got rid of their own currency. Yeah, they weren't gonna use the Zimbabwe dollar anymore.

4:23 They said it was worthless. So if you wanted to exchange it, they'd give you one American dollar for thirty five five drillion zimway in dollars. Coat, coat, goat shage. This Shibf Day, were gonna pard he left this shiver day. We won't simple targe. He like this Shibirf Day, and you know we don't give because that's the birthday, all right. It was born on June the twelfth. George Herbert Walker Bush was one of Milton, Massachusetts. In nineteen twenty four, bluw a torpedo bomber in the Pacific during World War Two. After the war, he moved to Texas and made a killing in oil. Then he went into politics. Was the vice president of Ronald Reagan for all eight years. Then he served as the forty first President of the United States nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety three. Married Barbara Back in nineteen forty five. They had six kids, including forty three per The forty third President of the United States, George W. Bush hd HW died in twenty eighteen and ninety four years old from Parkinson's Oh Braying mord cause you're leaving you fall in four somebody it is in two easy. That was Victim Moone. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. In nineteen twenty eight, Frank Sinatra said that he had the best set of pipes in the business. Vicki started singing professionally in nineteen forty seven. He had a lot of success on the charts all up til nineteen sixty nine. After that

5:56 he just played Vegas a lot and toured a little bit. Finally retired for good in two thousand and one. He had a son from his first wife three daughters from his second wife. His fourth wife was Diane Carroll for nine years. He married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety eight. Dick died in twenty eighteen at eighty nine years old from respiratory failure and frank She was born and Frankfurt, Germany. In nineteen twenty nine. She got her diary for a thirteenth birthday back in nineteen forty two. She kept up with it until August first, nineteen forty four. Oh that was her last entry. She and her family were arrested on August fourth. She died at the bergen Berger and Concentration Camp in February or March of nineteen forty five. She was fifteen years old. Longing that's Jim Nabors. You sang that song backcomb in Indiana every year before the Indianapolis five hundred car Race did it from nineteen seventy two to twenty fourteen. Our neighbors. He was born in Silicaga, Alabama, in nineteen thirty. Best known for an actor on TV, he played Goomer Pyle first on The Andy Griffith Show, and then they spun it off and he had Goomer Pyle usmc now as a comedian and a singer. He did all the viral variety shows. Now he was with his husband thirty eight years before they could finally get married in twenty thirteen. Jimmy died in twenty seventeen at eighty seven years old. Wow Wow Wow sing sing, I love you.

7:50 Reg Presley, he sang League for the Trogs. Is born in and Over, England, in nineteen forty one. He formed the Trogs in nineteen sixty four. Now after a while thing the Trogs had a couple of minor heads with with a girl like you, I can't control myself. Love is all around now Ridge. He was with the Trons until twenty twelve. That's when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. Died one year later at seventy one years old. He's married for over fifty years and they had two children. Really used and that's a rose for circumstance. One thing that June Louisia and we went streams to gay the songs on the Sun. It was John Whitton.

8:39 He's singing lead for the bat Asia. He was born in Willington, England, in nineteen forty nine. Start out singing for the band King Crimson. Then after they went their separate ways, he co founded Asian nineteen eighty one. Some of their hits were a heat of the moment, Only time will tell soul survivor don't cry now. He was with them until twenty seventeen, when he died from colon care answered sixty seven years old. He was married and they had one child. That was Brad Delp, singing lead for the band Boston Brad. He was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, in nineteen fifty one. So he joined this band called Mother's Milk. Yeah. He finally talked to him in and changing the name to Boston in nineteen seventy four, sold over seventy five million records. They it's more than a feeling, long time, feeling satisfied. Don't look back, Amanda Brad. He divorced twice. He had two children from his second wife. Committed suicide from carbon monoxide poisoning in two thousand and seven at fifty five years old. Actor Timothy Busfield He's sixty seven. He was born in Lansing, Michigan, in fifty seven. Done a lot of theater over theirs. Probably should have gotten an oscar though for playing Poindexter in the movie Revenge of the Nerds. Think about it. He really looked like he knew how to play the violin and that he did good. He's in and filled the dreams National Security on TV is

10:13 on his thirty something the West Wing. Had one child from his first wife, two children from his second wife. Been married to actress Melissa Gilbert since twenty thirteen. Dame Meredith Brooks. She was born in Corvallis, Oregon, in nineteen fifty eight. She's sixty six. Started out in the all girl group Sapphire. Then she played a lot of indie stuff after she left them. Finally got her own record deal in nineteen ninety five. Of course, Bitch that was her biggest hits. She also had I Need, What would Happen? Laid Down. She retired from singing and performing in two thousand and seven. I think she does a little writing and producing and stuff. She married once and she has one son. We can't sing lind girls. I'm coming over in every real line with the closer see it for another time.

11:18 Try a country singer. Chris Young is thirty nine. He was born in Murphysboro, Tennessee, in nineteen eighty five. Now. He won the fourth season of Nashville Star. Since then, he has had eleven songs go to number one. Some of them are Getting You Home, the Black Dress Song, the Man, I Want to Be, I'm Coming Over, Think of You. That was with Cassidy Boope. He goes on tour June twenty first. If you want to check out Chris and Girls, he's still single. All right, today's fact too. That will win you a beer. Now if you stretch out a slinky all the way, pull it straight eighty seven feet long. Wow. Thank you for being here. Don't forget to follow us whenever you listen to us on and don't forget about Country and Ground radio if you don't listened for a while. Yeah, the artists has been putting out a lot of new materials, so there's a lot of new songs on there. If you like your independent country radio. That's en with actor Gregory Peck. He died to day in two thousand and three at eighty seven years old. He said, faith it gives you an inner strength, a sense of balance, and a perspective in life. You guys have yourselves an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.