June 14th-Flag Day, Bourbon, Donald Trump, Burl Ives, Boy George, 1st Country Song, Marla Gibbs

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today. This is June the fourteenth. I will be drinking bourbon whiskey all night long with my friends used to keep me. In the company. Today is National Bourbon Day. Now we aren't talking just whiskey, Nope, we're talking bourbon now. When Scottish settlers they started making whiskey in Kentucky in the mid seventeen hundreds, the only great available it was corn. Yeah, while they grew in that area, kind of new to them. But that limestone water in that area it was high in calcium, low and iron. So it made some good taste and whiskey.

1:08 But they were storing the whiskey and fish barrels. Now that kind of ruined the taste. Then seventeen eighty Elijah Craig heah, he started charring the whiskey barrels that game with the whiskey a totally different taste. Then he stamped bourbon on the barrels that showed what county it came from, sent it down to the Mississippi, New Orleans. Took three months to get there. So that age that whiskey made it taste even better. It was a huge hit down on New Orleans. They love that whiskey. He had bourbon stamped on. That's that guy's name is Bourbon. Now bourbon. It can made anywhere. It doesn't that he made in Kentucky. But there are specifications that you have to do to make true bourbon. Now. It has to be at least fifty one percent corn. It can't be any less than eighty proof, and it must be aged in new chart oak barrels. And you can't have any additives like for color or flavor of that kind of stuff. Jack Daniels, not bourbon, Jim Bean. Yeah, it's bourbon. Today's also Flag Day, all right, show your American pride to dame. Fly that American flag. Now, you guess you can salute it with a glass of bourbon. Yeah. I can't get any more American than that. All right? Who designed the American flag? No, not Betsy Ross. It was a guy named Francis Hopkins.

2:33 He was a founding father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was the first federal judge of the George Washington appointed and he had been a representative from Pennsylvania. All right, let's see what happened in entertainment on June the fourteenth, about to twenty twenty four. Number one album was The Tortured Poet's Department by Taylor Swift, Post Malone and Morgan Wallen had the number one song with I had some help ow. Because maybe it is no friends that I'm crazy like I'm the only long. Wat you from them start You had a loud help fall to living in your big glass house with the new.

3:17 It's a number one country song too. How don't you know I. Had some hell? He It ain't like I can make this kind of a song by myself. Don't I let you? Ain't help me? Pull that bottle of. Shell b TV every weekend? If you code and tall they sixty you want to make some dream? Or I had some help? The number one book was You Like It Darker by Stephen King. Top movie was Inside Out too. That's when Riley she goes into puberty, so she has a lot more complex emotions. What It's by Amy Pohler, Maya Hawk and Kensington Tallman nineteen twenty three. The first every number one country music song was recorded. It was by Finland John Arson. He called this song a little log Cabin in the Lane I'm getting old.

4:06 Leeble and I come marsh war. That ross train is a whole wildly to well fan ol mister sigh there, Now I roam in with the fel. Okay, let's see what happened on June the fourteenth. Now, if you listened to our shirt forty five days ago, it was on April twenty eighth. Well, I talked about the seventeen eighty nine Fletcher Christian, how he had led the mutiny on the bounty he had that British warship. Now him and his man they sent Captain Bly and eighteen crewmen who were loyal to him, A drifted a twenty foot lifeboat. Well, that lifeboat arrived today at the island of Timur. Yeah. Had that boat had traveled thirty six hundred miles in the last forty five days Springfield, Vermont.

4:51 In eighteen thirty four, Isaac Fisher, he had been in Sandpaper. Nineteen forty eight, Germany, they were occupying the country of Poland. Over in Poland. Today they open up the concentration camp Auschwitz. Yeah, over at one point one million people died there by the end of the war. Now have you ever wondered why are your TV. There is no channel one. Nineteen forty eight, the FCC they removed Channel one from being a television broadcasting channel. Channel one. Its frequency is supposed to be used for land and mobile services. Now, even though the American Pledge with legions was written by a minister, he never put the words unearned God in anywhere at all. Today in nineteen fifty four are President Dwight Eyes. Now he signed a law adding under God to it. So now it goes I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the Republic for which it stands, One Nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Nope, didn't have it before today in fifty four. Nineteen eighty nine, Queen Elizabeth the second from she nighted President Ronald Reagan. But since he wasn't a subject of the United Kingdom yet, it's just an honorary yeah, kind of thing. Twenty nineteen, the people in northern Norway living on the Summer Roy Islands, they submitted an application to be the world's first time zone free area.

6:04 Yeah. They said that in the summer they have two months of complete sunlight straight and in the winter they have two months of complete darkness, so they don't need no time zone. Coke joked joke, sharge dish shiverth day. We gonna he left this shiverthday. We want simple tage like this shiverbth day. And you don't give birthday all right? A barn On gym The fourteenth author Harriet breecher Stowe. She was born in Lynchfield, Connecticut, in eighteen eleven. She wrote over thirty bucks, but she's best known for her book Uncle Tom's Cabin Now. That was the first novel written by an American to sell over a million copies. She was a big time abolitionist. In her nineteen eighteen fifty two books, he had depicted the horrible conditions that enslaved black people were living in. It was a really big hit up north and over in England. That's so popular down south. Though after the Civil Wars she did she still wrote song. She helped found the University of Hartford.

7:01 She was married and they had seven children. She died seventeen days before eighty fifth birthday in eighteen ninety six. When you pop on a star makes no difference. Your heart us will come to you. That was actor singer Cliff Edwards. He was born in Hannibal, Missouri, in eighteen ninety five. Really popular singer in the nineteen twenties and thirties, and he actually played the ukulelean a whole bunch of his songs. It was so popular that they sold millions of ukuleles all across the country. Made over one hundred movies. It's probably best known though, for voice in Jimmy Crikman ined Pinocchio. He also was the head crow in the movie Dumbo, and he divorced three times, had one son. Now He died from heart failure nineteen seventy one, seventy six years old.

8:00 The Mississiuto hung were you see somebody waits for you? Kisser once for me a hund Christmas and didn't tier for he lives. He was born in Hunt City, Illinois, in nineteen oh nine. Started as a very popular folk singer, and then he crossed over to country music. I'm sure you know his Christmas songs, A Holly Jolly Christmas and Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. It's more hits. A couple of them are Jim Jim Jimmrie and Little Bitty Tear. He was an actor. He he won an oscar for Big Country. He was in Hat and a Cotton roof narrated of course, Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer. He was married to his first wife for twenty two years and they had one son.

8:45 Married his second wife in nineteen seventy one. For Early died two months before his eighty six birthday in nineteen ninety five from oral cancer. Actress Dorothy McGuire. She was born in Omaha, Nebraska, in nineteen sixteen. She always seemed to play the mom in all our movies. She was kind of pretty, and she wasn't frumpy or anything like that, but she was always the mom. She was the mom, an old Yeller, the Remarkable Mister Pennypacker, Swiss Family, Robinson. She did play Virgin Mary and The Greatest Story Ever Told. She got married nineteen forty three. Her husband died in nineteen ninety They had a son and a daughter, Dorothy. She died in two thousand and one at eighty five years old from heart failure. Do you remember the TV show that Jefferson's Well, they are quick Weighted? Sassine made Florence was played by Marla Gibbs. Marla is ninety five today.

9:50 She was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty one. After the Jeffersons, she was on two twenty seven. Some of her movies were A Meteor Man, The Visit Media's Witness Protection. She this is just on an episode on TV on Will Trent. She was married from nineteen fifty five to nineteen seventy three and they had a daughter and two sons. President Donald Trump is eighty who was born of Queen's, New York in nineteen forty six. Made billions of dollars in real estate and development, who's been in professional wrestling, had his own TV show, The Apprentice. At seven years old. He became the wealthiest president of the United States history. Served as the forty fifth US president from twenty seventeen to twenty twenty one. Then he is reelected in twenty twenty five. Now, whether you like him or not, you will not get an accurate assessment or unbiased account of has presidency at all. Yeah, they're both skewed both ways.

10:38 Donald Junior, Evanka and Eric. They were from his first wife, Evanna. Tiffany was from his second wife, Marla. He married his third wife, Milania in two thousand and five and they have their son Baron. That one hit Wonder I Just Died in Your Arms Night. It was written and sung by Nick van Eddie. He was from the band Cutting Grill.

11:18 Nick was born in Cuckfield, England in nineteen fifty eight and he's sixty eight, Cutting Cree. There's still around, so I must be bigger over in England. They had a couple of minor hits like I've Been in Love Before and one for the mocking Bird. Like I said, minor hits. Nick. He had a daughter from a girlfriend he got married in nineteen ninety six. I made me crush resuss that.

12:00 Boy. George he was born Georgio Dowd in Barnhurst, England. He's sixty five today. Yep. Still the lead singer for the band Culture Club. Yeah, they're still there now, do you really want to hurt me? Time? All tumb before you car Machamellion. That's some of this. That's about fifty million records. George. She had a lot of trouble with drugs and all kinds of issues, but he went He did go to prison for a while. Must have worked. Sounds like, yeah, he's been clean since two thousand and eight actress he has been. Bleeth is fifty eight. She was born in New York City in nineteen sixty eight. Started acting young. I mean one of her first jobs she was on Candy Cameron when she was six. Of course, she's best known for being on Baywatch. She's on the TV show Next Bridges for a little while now. She got in a lot of trouble with cocaine, so she finally got herself clean in two thousand and two.

12:45 She got married in two thousand and two and retired from acting in two thousand and two. Quite of the day today. It comes from composer Henry Mancini. He died to day in nineteen ninety four. It's seventy years old. Henry said success is usually not easy or fast. Thank you for listening today, and no for to follow us on whoever you listen to us on our country or gone radio. Artist of the Day comes from landing in Connecticut. He wants to go all the way over to England. He wants to hear the charlesy song. Whenever you're around you guys, have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Listen you convince. Here's a mystery to me. My mind just back to.

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