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 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 Hey, 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 not guy's name is bourbon now bourbon. It can mate 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.

1:55 Now. It's Saturday, so enjoy some national bourbon whiskey today. Today's also flat dayside. 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. He was a founding father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. He was the first federal judge of George Washington appointed, and he had been a representative from Pennsylvania. All right, this is going on entertainment on June the fourteenth, spent nineteen sixty two.

2:50 Number one album was a West Side Story movie soundtrack. Ray Charles had the number one song with I Can't stop Loving You. I've made of my mind to live in me movie All the Loon Sometimes. George Jones. He had the number one country song with it she thinks I still care, Just be calls. I spoke her name somewhere, just be called bang her number by mistake.

3:36 Today she do who cares. The number one book was A Ship of Fools by Katherine an Porter. The top movie was That Touch of Mink. Now a rich guy and any young woman in them. They've got the hots for each other. But the rich guy he only wants to have an affair. The woman she wants to get married. Starts carry Grant and Doris. Day nineteen twenty three, the first ever number one country music song was recorded. It was by Finland John Carson. He called this song a little log cabin in the lane. I'm getting old feeble and I come Marshall war that ross train and the whole wild wail mast fane, mister sigh.

4:27 There now I roam in with the fel. Okay, let's see what happened on June the fourteenth. Now, if you listen 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 drifting and twenty foot lifeboat. Well, that lifeboat arrived today at the island of Timur. Yeah, had that boat that traveled thirty six hundred miles in the last forty five days. Springfield, Vermont. In eighteen thirte before Isaac Fisher, he had been in Sandpaper nineteen forty eight, Germany, they were occupying the country of Poland. Over in Poland. Today they opened up the concentration camp Auschwitz.

5:10 Yeah. Over at one point one million people died there by the end of the war. Now, if 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 of 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 resigned 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 sub the United Kingdom. Yeah, it's just an honorary yeah kind of thing. Twenty nineteen, the people in northern Norway, living on the Samarroi Islands, they submitted an application to be the world's first time zone free area.

6:12 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. Joke Coke co joked, Jake Sharge, Dish shiverth day we gonna he left this shiverthday. We don't simple tage like this shiver birth day. And you know you don't give up birthday all right? A born on Gym the fourteenth author Harriet Breacher Stove. She was born in Lynchfield, Connecticut, in eighteen eleven. She wrote over thirty bucks, but she's best known for her book Uncle Thom's Cabin Now. It was the first novel written by an America to sell over a million copies. She was a big time abolitionist. In her nine eighteen fifty two book, 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, not so popular down south, though after the Civil Wars she did she still wrote song. She helped found the University of Hartford.

7:09 She was married and they had seven children. She died seventeen days before eighty fifth birthday in eighteen ninety six. One you poupon a star, makes no difference, Your hearts 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 know for voice in Jimmy Criknan in Pinocchio. Yeah, also was the head crow in the movie Dumbo. And he divorced three times and one son.

8:00 Now. He died from heart failure nineteen seventy one, seventy six years old. Oh the mississou too hung? Where are you hang to see? Some body waits for are you kisser? Once for me. A Huddy Christmas and didn't tier for lives. He was born in Hunt City, Illinois, in nineteen oh nine. Started as a very popular folk singer yea, 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.

8:42 Now. He was an actor, ya. He won an oscar for Big Country. He was in ca Haat 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. Married his second wife in nineteen seventy one. B Early died two months before his eighty six birthday in nineteen ninety five from Ora Answer 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 had 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 Sassin made Florence was played by Marla Gibbs Marla's ninety four Today. She was born in Chicago after the Jeffersons. She was two twenty seven.

10:01 Some of her movies were Meteor Man, The Visit Madea's Witness Protection. She was just on an episode on TV on wil Trent. She was married from nineteen fifty five to nineteen seventy three and they had a daughter and two sons. President Donald Trump is seventy nine. He was born in Queens, New York. Made billions of dollars in real estate and development, who's been in professional wrestling, had his own TV show, The Apprentice. At seventy 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.

10:43 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.

11:24 Nicki was born in Cuckfield, England. He's sixty seven today, 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. Nicki had a daughter from a girlfriend. He got married in nineteen ninety six. Made me cruts discuss the one that.

12:05 Boy. George he was born Georgio Dowd in Barnhurst, England. He's sixty four today. You have 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 all over fifty million records. George. He had a lot of trouble with drugs and all kinds of issues. But he might He did go to prison for a while. Must of work. Sounds like, yeah, he's been clean since two thousand and eight. Actress Jasmine Bleeth. She's fifty seven. She's born in New York City. Started acting young. I mean one of her first jobs she was on Candy Camra 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. She got married in two thousand and two and retired from acting in two thousand and two.

12:54 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 all for listening today. Don't we get to follow us and you listen to a song and it comes He's a cool media dot com. That's cool. Three us and you guys have a great Bourbon and flag days our country underground radio artists of the day. We're gonna go over to England with England's band the Charles E's. This is their song. Whenever you're around. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrows. You convey is a mystery to me. My mind just bad to so constantly. Don't know why.

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