June 14-Flag Day, Strawberry Shortcake, Donald Trump, Burl Ives, Marla Gibbs, Boy George, Yasmine Bleeth

0:09 Hey, hello, I am Jeff. Welcome to history in Fact too. It's about today, presented by Cool Meeting. Today's June the fourteenth. Stop short. Okay, she's a day baby cuts baby dad made me tay. That's a chay. Shut up. That's all we could find. It's National Strawberry short Cake Day. No one gets credit for strawberry shortcake. It just kind of showed up around the eighteen fifties. Now, if you already buy the short cake's already made. It's pretty hard to screw this one up.

0:53 Just thot saut sponge cake, strawberries and whipped cream. Yeah, not real healthy, but who cares. It tastes curly good. So enjoy the hell some strawberry shortcake today. Now as you're indulging, you can also celebrate Flag Day today. In seventeen seventy seven, when the Continental Congress chose the stars and Stripes as the American flag, Congressman Francis Hopkinson, he's from Pennsylvania. He designed it. No, No, not Betsy Ross. Betsy was a seams to us, and she may have helped sow the first American flag. Yeah, but she didn't create it. Her story is kind of like Paul Revere's ride you know where. He chose a good story over the facts in order to tell our history. We all celebrating Day's pretty easy with Flag Day. You just fly your American flag. If you don't have one, yeah, you buy one. They're not expensive. Today's a pretty great Friday.

1:36 You can eat strawberry shortcake and celebrate old glory. All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment on June fourteenth, Let's back to your twenty ten number one album was Gleed and the Music Volume three. Uh ser well I am. They had the number one song with OMG, It's so Many Ways I Love You, Iman like coomba God Soul and found You Fine leave dick me want to say, oh oh my God. Miranda Lambert had the number one country song with the House That Built Me someone Else on the Baby I Can Find So Suck Just come in, I swear ellieve holding nothing butt on Them. Movie to the Has Them. The number one book was The Girl Who Kicked the Horness Nest by Stiggy Larson toy Stort three. That was the number one movie. The toys are accidentally delivered to a daycare center after Andy goes off to college. Now they have to figure it out how to get home? Voice by Tim Allen, Tom Eggs, John Cusack, Don Rickles, John Ratzenberger, Michael Keaton. Yeah, a whole lot more. All all right, what happened in the world on June the fourteenth. Back on April twenty eighth, we talked about back in seventeen eighty nine, when the

3:06 mutiny on the Bounty happened. That's when Fletcher Christian and his mountaineers took control of the ship to Bounty and they sent Captain Bly and eighteen men that were loyal to him and drift in a life vote. Yeah, well today, forty five days after that, Yeah, they had been drifting those forty five days, and Bly and all his men made it safely to the island a teamor they traveled thirty six hundred miles in Springfield, Vermont in nineteen thirty four, fish or Springfield. The invented sand people eighteen forty seven. Now what do you think that Robert Bunsen invented? Yep, you're right, the Bunsen Burner nineteen oh seven. Norway. They gave women the right to vote, but only middle class women and only in parliamentary elections. That meant that they could only vote for a party and not a person. Nineteen forty the Nazi Oschwitz Concentration and extermination camp opened up in Poland. Now started out just Polish POW's, but then they expanded to the Jews, the Catholics, the Gypsies.

3:59 Yeah, a whole bunch of people. Over one more point one million people died at Ashwitz. Now, when Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance back in eighteen ninety two, even though he was a very devout Christian, he never put the word God in it. Nineteen fifty four, the United States congud added under God to the Pledge of Allegiance. Carl Rowan, Now he was this hardcore left wing liberal newspaper colonists. He had a huge, huge gunfoat fanatic. He even wrote that anybody other than police officers who was found carrying a handgun should go to jail immediately, no exceptions. Today, in nineteen eighty eight, with an illegal handgun, he shot a teenage boy. He had got the teenager and two of his friends skinny dipping in this swimming pool. No, he didn't do any jail time go got got goat shoge this shibirth day. We're gonna pause. He left this shibirthday. We don't simple targe. He left this shibirth day. And you know we don't get the birthday. Who was born on Gym the fourteenth? Writer Harriet beecher Stowe. She was born in Lynchfield, Connecticut, in eighteen eleven. She was a very religious woman. She started out writing this new newspaper serial stories back in eighteen fifty They were called Life among the Lowly. Now she wanted to expose the harsh conditions being experienced by the enslaved African Americans. Then in eighteen fifty two the stories they were all put together made into a book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was the first American written novel that sold one million copies. Yep, it was just as big over in Britain too. Now

5:29 the book it really depicted truthfully the life and the hardship that slaves were going through, and it helped galvanize the Northern Americans in their conviction in order to fight the Civil War. Harriet she went on to at thirty more novel. She married in eighteen thirty six. She had seven kids died in eighteen ninety six, so eighty five years old. I have a holy Choli Christmas. It's the best time all the year. I don't know if they're only snow, but I have a coup. But I'm a holy Jolly Christmas. And when you umped down the slave. Holly Jolly Christmas was actually released back in nineteen sixty four, sung by Burrel Lives this year was still one of the top Christmas songs Berrel lives. He was born in Hunt City, Illinois, in nineteen oh nine. Start out in nineteen twenty nine as a popular folk singer, then he went mainstream in the nineteen forties nineteen sixties he went into country music. RELEASEDI over one hundred albums over the years. He was in over thirty movies on TV. I'm sure you know him best for being the voice of Saying the Snowman and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. Burreli was married to his first wife for twenty six years when they divorced. They had one son. Married his second wife in nineteen seventy one. They were together until he died from oral cancer nineteen ninety five and eighty five years old. Bare

7:05 Actress Marla Gibbs is ninety three. She was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty one. Now, she didn't start acting until she was forty years old. Then she had big playing Florence the Maid on The Jeffersons and then she was on two twenty seven, then a bunch of TV and regular movies. She's still acting. She married once and has three children from it. Donald Trump he's seventy eight today. He's one of Queen's New York in nineteen forty six. He took over his father's real estate business back in nineteen seventy one. Then he expanded it by building skyscraper's hotels, casinos, golf courses, hosted the TV show The Apprentice. Served as a forty fifth President of the United States from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one. Now he's married to Ivana for thirteen years and they had three children. Then he was married to Marla for six years and they had one daughter. Then he married Milania in two thousand and five and they have one son. The lead singer for the Cutting Crew is Nick man Edie. He's sixty six. He's worn a cup full of England in nineteen fifty eight and when he was eighteen years old he was opening back band. He was opening act for the bands Slade. Now he would actually go on stage with just an acoustic guitar and a kazu yep for eighteen thousand people. It took some bath. Nineteen eighty five, the up formed Cutting Crew. The biggest hits we just played I Just Died in Your Arms.

8:37 They had the smaller heads like I've Been in Love Before and one for the Muckingbird Cutting Crew. It means that they don't tour. See they only cut songs in the studio, but they don't tour. Next year, to celebrate their forty years together, they're going on tour. Nick he had a daughter from a girlfriend. Married in nineteen ninety six. Little Clubs, Wow Boy George. He's sixty three. He's born Georgio, Dad and Brainhurst, England. In nineteen sixty one, started in the band Bow Wow Wow, Bow Wow Wow. Yeah. He went by Lieutenant Lush, but Annabella, the lead singer of Bow Wow Wow, she didn't like him at all, so he had to leave the band. So he co founded Culture Club in nineteen eighty one. This litoth over fifty million records. Some of their hits I Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? Time Tumble for You, comic Comelie, Now George He is starting a world tour in August. Now, when he's performing in the United States, he's performing with the band Squeeze.

9:46 When he's in Europe, he's with Culture Club. Actress yas Me and Blith. She was born in New York City in nineteen sixty eight. She's fifty six. Her first acting role was and No More Tears baby shampoo commercial. Yes, she was ten months old. I heard you really nailed it too. Then, as a teenager, she was on the daytime soap opera Ryan's Hope, and then she did One Life to Live. Then she hit huge on Baywatch. She got married in two thousand and two. All right, today's fact too. That will win you a beer. Every single year, forty thousand Americans are injured on toilets. Thank you for being here. Get a chance follow us on whoever you're listening to this on you, get a chance to dot by Coolmedia dot com. See what we're doing over there. Let's end with music composer Henry Mancini. He died today in nineteen ninety four at seventy years old. Henry said success is not usually easy or fast.

10:37 You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I don't know