June 14th-Strawberry Short Cake,Burl Ives, Marla Gibbs, Donald Trump, Cutting Crew, Boy George, Yasmine Bleeth

0:09 Hello everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Bactoids. About to day isn't about cool media? Day's June the fourteenth. Shotay shut, He's a very day Colby. That's all we could find. It's National Strawberry Shortcake Day. Now. No one gets credit for the strawberry shortcake just kind of showed up around the eighteen fifties. So if you buy the shortcakes already made, there's really no way you can mess this up. You know, it might be fun to kind of go to like a farmer's market and some pick up some fresh strawberries. If you can't pick up your own garden yet, whatever you did, just enjoy some strawberry short kick today. She was going on in entertainment on June fourteenth, Let's Back to Your nineteen seventy eight number one album was the soundtrack for the movie Saturday Night Fever. Olivia Newton, John and John Travolta had the number one song with You're the One that I Want. Side number one country song was two More Bottles of Wine by

1:41 Emmy Lou Harris the West Coast. Two months later, Trouble Bottles All Moses. The number one book was Scruples by Judith Krantz. The top movie was Jobs Too. Now the plot is pretty complicated on this one. See this big ass shark terrorized as the citizens of a small beach down stars Roy Schrider, Lorne Gray and Murray Hamilton. Oh the chapel and gone again, May go to the Chapa again. Nineteen sixty four, in South Africa, forty year old Nelson Mandela married twenty two year old Winning. They had two daughters before divorcing in nineteen ninety six. Nineteen sixty three, forty one year old Betty White she married forty five year old game show host Alton Ludden. They were together until he died in nineteen eighty one. All right, let's see what happened in the world. On June the fourteenth, seventeen seventy seven, the Continental Congress, they got rid of the Grand Union flag. They replaced it with the Stars and stripes as the official American flag. It was designed by Francis Hopkinson. So what about Betsy Ross Well, I think she might have sown it, but nobody knows for sure. Seventeen eighty nine. On

3:13 April twenty eighth, we talked about how the mutiny on the Bounty happened how Fletcher Chritchenson and his mutineers took control of the ship the Bounty, and then Captain Bly and eighteen of his men that were loyal to him were set adrift in a lifeboat. Well forty five years later today bly and all his men they made it safely to the island of Timor. Yeah, they made a thirty six hundred mile ride. Eighteen thirty four in Springfield, Vermont. Isaac Fisher Junior. He invented sandpaper eighteen forty seven. So what do you think. Robert Bunsen invented yep the Bunsen Burner eighteen eighty one, and Cambridge, Massachusetts. The player piano was invented by John mcdammaney Jr. Nineteen forty eight.

3:53 The Ashwitz Concentration and Extermination camp opened up in Poland. It was opened by the controlling German Army R. Ginn. He just had Poland's POWs, but then they had Jews, Gypsies and round three million people died there. Now. When Francis Bellamy wrote the Pledge of Allegiance in eighteen ninety two, even though he's a devout Christian, he didn't put the word God in it. It was today, in nineteen fifty four, that the words under God were added by the United States Congress. Now Carl Rowan, he was this row left wing liberal newspaper columnists, huge, huge, gun control fanatic. He even wrote that any person that was found even possessing a handgun, except for a police offer, they had to go to jail immediately. Right then, Well today, in nineteen eighty eight he shot a teenager with an illegal handgun. A teenager and a couple of friends were skinny dipping in in Rowan's pool rolland he didn't get any jail done. Coop, show this sea.

4:49 We're gonna this sar this suar steak and you know we don't give up. Well, let's just check out of on June the fourteenth. Writer Harriet Beecher Stowe. She was born at Litchfield, Connecticut, in eighteen eleven. She was a very very religious woman, and she started writing these newspaper serials or what they were just stories back in eighteen fifty. They were called Life among the lowli She wanted to depict the harsh conditions that were experienced by enslaved Africans Americans in eighteen fifty two, they put the stories together and made it into the book Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was the first American novel ever to sell one million copies. Now, it might have been bigger than even in Britain.

5:31 Let's see, they didn't have copyright laws back then, so you didn't get any money if people sold your books overseas. But it was a huge hit over here. Helped one of the conditions that led to help the fight the Civil War. She went on to write thirty novels. She was married in eighteen thirty six. They had seven kids. He died in eighteen eighty six. She died in eighteen ninety six to eighty five years old. It's the best time. I don't know if there will be snow, but I have a couple. Jolly Christmas and when You originally released in eight nineteen sixty four, A Holly Jolly Christmas, It was still the fourth most popular Christmas song this last Christmas. Burl Eyes He was born in Huntsony, Illinois, in nineteen o nine nineteen twenty nine. He started out as a very popular folk singer, then he went mainstream in the nineteen forties and sixties. He went to country. He's really so over one hundred albums, was in over thirty movies on TV. You know him best though, for being the voice of Sam the Snowman and Rudolf the Red Nose Render. Burley married to his first wife for twenty six years and they had a son forty divorcing, and then he married his second wife in nineteen seventy one. They were together until he died from earl cancer in nineteen ninety five. Eighty five years old.

7:13 Actress Marla Gibbs is ninety two years old. She has born Margaret Bradley in Chicago in nineteen thirty one. Now, she didn't even start acting until she was forty. Then she hit big playing the maid Florence on the TV show That Jeffersons. After that, she was on two two seven. She did a bunch of TV movies and she did in a lot of regular movies too. She's actually still acting. She did a TV role just a couple of months ago, and she has a movie coming out later this year. She was married once and had three children from up before divorcing Donald Trump piece seventy seven. He was born in Queens, New York, in nineteen forty six, took over his father's real estate business in nineteen seventy one, expanded it by building skyscrapers, hotels, casinos, golf courses. Hosted the TV show Their Prennants and Celebrity Apprendance for fifteen seasons. Served as a forty fifth President of the United States from twenty seventeen into twenty twenty one. He was married to Ivana from nineteen seventy seven to nineteen ninety They had the three kids.

8:05 Then he was married to Marla from ninety three to ninety nine. They had one daughter. Then he married Melania in two thousand and five. They have one son, The lead singer of the Cutting Crew. That's Nick Van Eaton Eaty. He's born in nineteen fifty eight in Cockfield, England. Sixty five year old now. When he was eighteen years old, he was the opening act on tour for the band's Slade. He would go out on stage with a kazoo and a goostic gigarn from eighteen thousand people. Then he joined the band The Divers helped form Cutting Crew in nineteen eighty five. Their biggest head, I just died in your arms tonight. That's smaller hats I've been in before one for the mocking Bird. They broke up in nineteen ninety three, but they've been back together since two thousand and five. Nick got a daughter from an ex girlfriend. He got married in nineteen ninety six. Now Cutting Crew it means a band that doesn't perform live, Nope, they just stay in the studio and cut songs. President Georgio Dood. He sings lead for

9:35 the Culture Club. He just goes by boy George though, kind of like a hardcore rapper George. He was born in barn Hurst, England, in nineteen sixty one. Sixty two year old George start out singing with the band Bow Wow Wow. Yeah, he went by the name Lieutenant Lush, but Bow Wow Wow singer Annabella Yeah, she didn't like him, so he had to leave the band. Then he helped form a new band called Sex Gang Children. They changed that to Culture Club in nineteen eighty one, sold over fifty million records. Some of their biggest hits are do You Really Want to Hurt Me? Time, I'll Tumble for You, Karma Chamillion. Now they're coming on tour the United States in July. If that's your kind of thing, now it took people a long time to figure it out, but George Connley had admitted it in nineteen ninety five that he was actually gay. Actress Jasmine Bleeth is fifty five. She was born in New York City in nineteen sixty eight. Her first acting role was in a No More Tears baby shampoo commercial when she was ten months old. Hurt, She nailed it. She first kind of hit on the daytime soap operas Ryan Hope and then One Life to Live. She had really a big on Baywatch. He developed a really bad cocaine addiction, ended up retiring from acting in two thousand and three.

10:43 Sounds like she's kind of got her stuff back together and got straight. She started acting again in twenty twenty. She got married in two thousand and two. All right, ay, today's stupid fact hood that's gonna win you a beer. Forty thousand Americans are injured by toilets every year. Well, thank you for joining us today, were you yeah yet? Make sure you follow us and they won't charge you if you do. If you get a chance to stop by a country underground radio, it's up and running. The best unsigned, independent and underground radio there is. Let's end with music composer Henry Mancini. He died today in nineteen ninety four, it's seventy years old. Success is not usually easy or fast. You guys all have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.