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

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today. Day is June the twelfth. Today is National Peanut Butter Cookie Day. Now, peanuts, they originally came from Brazil, Peru, that kind of area. Now, no one knows who created the peanut butter cookie. But peanut butter it was invented around eighteen ninety five, so sometime after that. Now, should you be so inclined today? Peanut butter cookies. They're pretty easy to bake. Might be a little hot tic fire up the oven though. Now, if you're gonna eat on peanut butter cookies are probably one of your healthier cookies. So enjoy some peanut butter cookies and don't forget your milk. Okay, let's see what's going on entertainment night, June the twelfth. Let's back to twenty fourteen, and one album was ghost Stories by Coldplay.

1:13 It is and Charlie xc X add the number one song with Fancy. So Fancy you were reading on in the s from to Tokyokia? Can't you chase this gals. Name? Look Brian had. The number one country song was played again she was fine, Come. Here boy, how on a dance for ressa or she was taking my hands, spinning me. Around to lift faded out. She gave me a kiss, she said, played, played again playing.

2:00 Yeah. The number one book was skinIn Game by Jim Butcher Todd Mo was twenty two Jump Street. This time officer Schmidt and Jenko. Yeah, they go deep undercover to local college stars Channing Tatum, Jony Hill and Ice Cube. Al Right, what happened on June. The twelfth, seventeen ninety two British explorer Captain George and Vancouver Him and Escrew they landed and what is today Vancouver, British Columbia Baseball. In eighteen eighty Lee Richmond, he was pitching for the Warchester Ruby Lakes. He threw the first perfect game in Major League Baseball history. Up he beat the Chicago or the Cleveland Blues. One did nothing. Eighteen eighty five in France, Now they were holding the murder trial there when the courthouse roof collapse killed all the thirty people that were inside.

2:45 So no one knows what the guy was guilty or not. Now. After Spain surrendered the United States at the end of the Spanish American War in eighteen ninety eight, United States got Cuba. Now the United States toile Cuba that no, we're not going to occupy your country forever. Your troops will leave. Just want to make sure that you come up with the constitution to show us how you're going to rule your country. So you have to have a constitutional convention, then we'll leave. Well. In nineteen oh one, Cuba held that Constantation Snow Convention to show what kind of constitution that they voted for, the constitution that the United States wrote for. Nineteen thirty one, gangster al Capone he was charged with five thousand counts of prohibition violations and perjury. Also twenty two counts of taxivision. Yeah, they got him on the tax evasion South Africa. In nineteen sixty four, Nelson Mandela, he was sentenced to life in prison for his partner conspiracy to overthrow the South African government. I mean he was guilty, admitted to doing it.

3:39 Ended up twenty seven years of that life Centsence Bore was leased in nineteen ninety then he was elected president. Now, if you don't like Peter Budden Cookers, today is also National Loving Day. Now Richard Loving he was a white kid. Mil Ritchie was black they became friends when they were just kids. Now over the years they fell in love. Nineteen fifty eight, on Milder's eighteenth birthday, they got married. Shortly after that they got arrested. Yeah that's right. See, in Virginia, interracial marriage was illegal, so other Lovings. They pleaded guilty and agreed to move out of Virginia so they didn't have to serve a year in jail. Moved to Washington, d C. They had three kids the whole time, though they were fighting Virginia in court. Today. In nineteen sixty seven, the United States Supreme Court ruled for the Lovings. Yep, they said you cannot prohibit people from marrying because they were from different races. It was unconstitutional.

4:26 Get this back in nineteen sixty seven, sixteen states had interracial marriage as illegal. No more thanks to Loving versus Virginia. Ye, so happy loving day everybody. Twenty fifteen is Zimbabwe. They decided to get rid of their own currency. Yeah, they thought it's pretty much worthless, so they said, no more's in Boayan dollar. But if you want to exchange it will We'll give you one American dollar for every thirty five quadrillions in boyan dollars. Copper day, dis shibb we won't sit Patage. He was like dis Shibbert day and you know we don't get.

5:07 Well. Let's see born on you in the twelfth George Herbert Walker Bush. He was born in Milton, Massachusetts in nineteen twenty four. Philli trp Peter Baumber in the Pacific during the War two. After the where he came back and moved to Texas. He made a killing of oil. Then he went into politics. He was roun with Reagan's vice president for all eight years. Then he served as the forty first President of the United States from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety three. Married Barbara Back in nineteen forty five. They had six kids now. One of those, of course, was the forty third US President, George W. Bush nice W. He died in twenty eighteen and ninety four years old from Parkinson's disease. Oh braying, cause you're leaving you fall in four somebody, it is into easy.

6:03 He 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. Dicky started singing professionally in nineteen forty seven. Now he had a lot of success on the charts until nineteen sixty nine. After that he just played a lot of Vegas and a little touring. He had a son from his first wife, three daughters from his second wife. His fourth wife was Diane Carroll. There were married for nine years, married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety eight. Vic died in twenty eighteen, at eighty nine years old from respiratory failure. Now I think all of you heard the whole story about the diary of Anne Frank and Frank was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in nineteen twenty nine, nineteen forty two, on her thirteenth birthday, she got her diary. She kept up on writing in her diary until August first, nineteen forty four. See that was her last entry. Her and her family were arrested on August the fourth, and she died at the bergen Bergeran concentration camp in February or March in nineteen forty five, fifteen years old.

7:12 Long baby, that's Jim Nighbors. He was born in Salad Cougar, Alabama, in nineteen thirty Now that song that I just played is called the back Home in Indiana every year before the start of the Indianapolis. Five hundred neighbors even seen that song from nineteen seventy two I'll Wait at twenty fourteen. Of course, he's best known note of playing. Gomer Pile on TV, first in the Andy Griffiths Show, and they spun him off into Goomer Pyle usmc. He is with his husband thirty eight years before they could get married, and they did so in twenty thirteen. Jim died in twenty seventeen at eighty seven years old from natural causes. Wow he really wow wow singing I Love You.

8:15 Rech Presley. He was a lead singer for the Trocks. He was born in Andover, England in nineteen forty one. Now he helped form the Trogs in nineteen sixty four. They started out being called the Troglodytes that they decided that was too long, so they shortened in to the Trogs basically a trocolidyte. That's just the capment. Now after a wild thing they had a couple of minor heads with a girl like you, I can't control myself. Love is all around now Rege He's with the Trogs until twenty twelve. That's when he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He died one year later at seventy one years old. He was married for over fifty years. They had two children. Really use it and said it's a road for circumstance.

9:00 Fun thing that June and we was screened to care the songs on Sun. It was John Wedden. He sang lead for the Bad Asia. He's born in Willington, England, in nineteen forty nine. John. He started out singing bat or in the band King Crimson. He formed Asia in nineteen eighty one. Heat of the Moment, Only Time Will Tell Soul Survivor Don't Cry Yeah, some big Asia's big hits. Now. He is with Asian until twenty seventeen. That's when he died from colon cancer at sixty seven years old. He was married and they had one child, Hell.

9:43 Song. The lead singer for the band Boston was Brad Delp. He was born in Peabody, Massachusetts, in nineteen fifty one. Now he joined this band called Mother's Milk. Well. He was able to get him to James. Their name to Boston in nineteen seventy four sold over seventy five million records after that. Some of their hits are more than a feeling long time, feeling satisfied, Don't look back, Amanda now Brady divorced twyth He had two children from his second wife. He committed suicide from carbon monoxide poisoning in Twente thousand and seven, at fifty five years old. Actor Timothy Bussfield is sixty nine. He's born in Lansing, Michigan, in nineteen fifty seven. He's done a lot of theater over there. Start out, yeah, sorry, now, he started out. He should have gotten an oscar though, playing Poindexter and the Deep movie Ridge of the Nerds.

10:46 I mean you really thought he could play the violin there now. He was also in Phield The Dreams National Security on TV is on thirty something in the West. Wing had one job and his first wife two children from the second wife, married actress Melissa Gilbert thirteen. On the sang do you not need a Sy'm changing changing? Meredith Brooks is sixty eight. She's one of Cravallis Oregon. In nineteen fifty eight, she started out, now I'll go grow up Sapphire. She left them and she did the indie scene for a front number of years, and then she got her own solo record deal in nineteen ninety five.

11:33 Bitch was her biggest hit, and then I Need What will Happen? Lay down Now Meredith. She retired in two thousand and seven. She was done with music. She married once and she has one son. We can't see nil girlsund I'm coming over everywhere, line the way the closer see it for another time, trywhere. Country singer Chris Young was born in Murphysboro, Tennessee, in nineteen eighty five. Forty one today now. He won the fourth season in Nashville Star. Since then, he's had eleven songs go to number one. Some of them are Getting You Home, that Black Dress song, the Man I Want to Be, I'm coming over, Think of You. That was with Kessley Pope.

12:23 All right. Our quote of the day, it's gonna be from actor Gregory Peck. He died in two thousand and three at eighty seven years old. Back said, faith, it's giving you an inner strength, a sense of balance, and. A perspective on life. Thank you for listening today. Make sure you follow us on whoever you listen to us on our country and the ground radio artist Today comes from Julian names Iowa. She wants to hear Kenny Chrissio song Another tonight. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Time to make another memory. He won't forget me pick up. Well, we left all with the whiskey and cigarettes, got a line out the door and a four on four and the shore gone again. Loud, cutting up and having some less spits, and Jack can't get the men's bat.

13:15 Better make him count cutting never be another. They never be another tune nights. Breaking it up. And while they were calling in here, you know there ain't non stop then all the gold times, even if you try, all the god one light a light in the shock soul come out of make dining another, never being another. They will be another tonight again