June 15th-Waylon Jennings, Ice Cube, Helen Hunt, Courtney Cox, Slade, Air Supply, Kansas, Dannebrog

0:19 Well, hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, Today's June fifteenth. Just why, no matter. How young prune may be, it's always full of wrinkles. We may get them. On our Facebook, prunes get them every place from Oh. A vision worries us. But brunes don't sit down, brun or no matter how young a prune may be, it's always getting too. It's National Prune Day. Brunes. They're just dried plums, well a certain type of plump, but they're high in fiber, vitamin A, antioxidants. They're good for your vision and your digestive system. Yeah, the prune texture kind of that's a little off putting. But you can put them into cakes and juices, into salads and that kind of stuff. Prunes they really started out about eleven hundreds out in Syria. Then they got popular in the United States in the eighteen seventies. Now, eating prunes before you go to bed at night, yeah, they lower your blood pressure.

1:13 So start eating healthy, e your prunes, have a good poop, and have a good prune day to day. All right, let's see what happened in entertainment on June the fifteenth, Let's back to nineteen ninety five, and one album was Cracked Review Mirror by Hooty and the Blowfish. Bryan Adams add the number one song with have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? She needs somebody Jellen School. Tell Me. Clinton Black had the number one country song when Summer's Coming.

1:55 And then on Earth and I'll get me huming like Eveway Coming come Running. With the. ROTI line nine is Shattered. Summer Coming on. Line. The number one book was The rain Maker by John Grisham. Top movie was Batman Forever Batman. He has to battle Two Face and the Riddler, so he brings in Robin to Hilp stars Val Kilmer, cryst O'donald, Tommy Lee Jones, and Jim Carrey. So what happened on June the fifteenth? Let's start off with some trivia. What is the world's oldest national flag? Well, it is the Danni Brog. It's the flag of Denmark. It's red with a sideways white cross on it. So apparently in twelve nineteen the Danes were in what is today Estonia. They were fighting in the Battle of the lynden NISI. Now they were getting their butts kicked when a large flag fell from the sky. Yeah, that's what all. It took the tide of the battle turn and the Danes won. They've been using the dannen Brog ever since. Francis John Francois Dee Rosier. He was a huge hero in France in late seventeen hundreds. See he made the first untethered hot air balloon flight. And today, in seventeen eighty five he and Pierre Romain they became the world's first aviation fatalities. Yeah, they crashed trying across the English Channel in a hot air balloon. Happy Birthday, Arkansas. Today.

3:38 In eighteen thirty six, Arkansas became our twenty fifth state. Arkansas. It's a Koppa Indian word. It means people who live downstream. Capital is little Rock. Highest point in is Mountain Magazine twenty seven hundred and fifty three feet. Arkansas state bird is the mockingbird. Flower is the apple, boxton mammal, white tilled deer. Trey is a pine tree. Beverage milk food is the peak. Arkansas state dance, Yeah, the square dance twenty two states Square Dan says their state dance. Some people born in Arkansas. Johnny Cash General Douglas MacArthur, Bill Clinton, Billy Bob Thornton, John Grisham, Glenn Campbell, Mike Cuckabee, Mary Stein Brgin yep. They were all born in the natural state.

4:18 Eighteen forty six, United States and Great Britain, they signed a treaty making the forty ninth parallel pretty much the border between the United States and Canada and the western the Great Northwest of that whole area, so it created the territories of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho. Eighteen sixty four, the Union Army confiscated the home well basically the plantation of Confederate General Robert E. Lee It was near Arlington, Virginia. They turned his land into a military cemetery, So yeah, Arlington National Cemetery, land that the Leeze used to own before the Civil Wars. Japan in eighteen ninety six and eight point five magnitude earthquake hit about one hundred miles off the coast of Haunts. You created two big tsunamis. Waves were up at one hundred and twenty five feet, killed over twenty seven thousand people. After it was all over, the survivor they play tsunami stones all over the area.

5:03 At the high watermark. Those stones are still there. They read, do not build any homes below this point. Now. Like I said, the stones are still there. Well, later generations they didn't pay attention to those stones. Twenty eleven tsunami hit that area again, killed sixteen thousand people, all those people that built homes below those tsunami stones. Nineteen seventy six, a baseball game had to be postponed because of rain at the Houston Astronome. How was that, well, heavy rains. It caused the streets to flots and one to get to the astrodom watch the game. Joke joked, joke, sh just shibth day. We're gonna he left this shiverbthday. We want simple tage like this shibirth Day.

5:46 And you know you don't give up birthday. Let's check out who was born on you in the fifteenth. Let's goodletex waiting this successful life for a living, not a feud. Had fields in mccode. Whalen Jennings. He was born in Littlefield, Texas in nineteen thirty seven. Whaling He started out as one of Buddy Haway's crickets. Yeah, he played bass guitar for him in nineteen fifty nine, and he gave up his seat on the plane that crashed to the Big Bopper. See the Big Bopper was six, so Whaling did him a favor by making him right on the plane and not right on the bus. Yeah, some favor. Then, of course Whalen had to go solo. Huge success of the country artists, some of his all time classic hits or Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys. I've always been crazy. I'm a rambling man. He did the theme song for Dukes of Hazzard the nineteen eighties. He was in that country supergroup, the Highwaymen. He had four children from his first wife, a daughter from a second wife.

6:50 Married his fourth wife, Jesse, in nineteen sixty nine. They had their son, Shooter Jennings. Now for years Whalen he abused cow alcohol, cocaine. He spoke six packs of cigarettes a day for a long time time. Got clean in nineteen eighty eight, but it's just a little late. He had already had diabetes and a bunch of other issues. He ended up dying in two thousand and two at sixty four years old. That was naughty Holder. He sang lead for the band Slade. He's eighty today. He's born in Walsall, England, in nineteen forty six. Now Naughty. He's sang lead for Slade from nineteen sixty six to nineteen ninety two. Now Slave. They're pretty interesting band. See. They were really big in the UK in the early nineteen seventies, but they couldn't get the United States to play their songs over here for anything. Then in the nineteen eighties American band started covering slate songs from the early seventies.

7:50 They were all great, big hits. Some of them are like Mama, We're all crazy. Now come on and feel the noise. Squeeze me, bleeds me. That's just so Now. The only slate song that they actually prefer that was a hit in the United States is that one I played, Run Run Away Not. He had two daughters from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and four and they have a son, Russell Hitchcock. He is half of Air Supply. He does most of the singing and we talked about the other aff of verses by Graham Russell four days ago on his birthday. Hitchcock is seventy seven, born in Melbourne, Australia air supply. They sold over one hundred million records. Some of the biggests that Russell sangs are lost in Love, all out of love, every woman in the world. Now he had a son from a fling and he got married in two thousand.

8:58 Man Jacobs, wasn't mad Man? I hear the voices win a free. I could hear the answer, Harry. Was. That was Steve Walsh singing for the band Kansas. They were kind of an underrated band. Steve was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri in nineteen fifty one. He's seventy five today now. He was with Kansas from nineteen seventy three to twenty fourteen. Now some Kansas hits that he sang on were carry on Wayward's on Dust on the bottle, pointing over return all I wanted, yeah, pretty much every one of their It's now him and his wife. They have two sons and one daughter. Actor James Belushi or Jim Blush if you prefer. He's seventy two. He's born in Wheaton, Illinois in nineteen fifty four. Started out on Saturday Night Live for a couple of years, then he started in the sitcom according to Jim, for eight years.

9:54 Some of his movies were about Last Night, Red Heat, Curly Sue, Underdog. Yes, John Belushi is a older or was his older brother James. He had a son from his first wife, and he had a son and a daughter from his second wife. Actress Helen Hunt is sixty three. She's born in Culver City, California, in nineteen sixty three. Now she has twelve. She was on the TV show Swiss Family Robinson seventeen's late seventeen years later. Yeah, she started on the sitcom That About You. Hit really big there. Some of her movie is Our Project ex Twister Castaway, nominated for an Oscar for the Sessions. She won an oscar for Good as It Gets Now. She married actor Hanka's Area for seventeen months and after that a couple of years. She had a daughter from a boyfriend. Actress Courtney Cox was Birmingham, Alabama, in nineteen sixty four. She's sixty two now. She had done quite a bit of acting and she finally hit really big starring as Monica on Friends. Then after that she did Cougartown that was pretty big. Some of her movies Our Ace Ventura, Pet Detective, three thousand miles to Graceland. Now. She married actor David ar Kett for fourteen years and they had one daughter.

10:54 And everything is ald white. I got a. She get off. Home. He sent him mix will playing. Basket and gave me on the court. And I'm troubled last week freakings's every way like m J. I can't believe today wasn't good day. Now. He was born O'sha Jackson videos world famous as Ice Cue. Born in Los Angeles, he's fifty seven. Started out rapping with n w A. If you don't know what that means, I'm not gonna tell you. He went solo in nineteen eighty nine. One of the most successful rappers of all time. Now as an actor, he's been in over forty movies.

11:35 First one was Boys in the Hood, and then Anaconda, did all those Fridays movies, the barbershop movies, Three Kings, I Ask You. He got married in nineteen ninety two and they have four children. Actor Neil Patrick Harris is fifty three. He's won Albuquerque, New Mexico in nineteen seventy three. When he was sixteen, he started on Doogie Helser. Then he played Barney on How I Met your Mother. He's won five times five Primetime Emmys over the years. He's won a tony effort his work on Broadway. Neil alread his husband in twenty fourteen and they have two children. Alrighty here quote of the day. It comes from Elephantzgerald Nice. It freezes scene to wispoof I Love You.

12:15 Our word singing in the. Sycamore tree dream a little dream. Momy Ella died today in nineteen ninety six at seventy nine years old. She says, now it isn't where you come from, it's where you're going. Thank you all for listening today, and remember to follow us on whoever you listen to. This song makes it easy to find us again now our show descriptions. It has a link to Spotify. Now that is our history and Factoids playlist that we have on there. Yeah, it plays all the songs that I play clips of during the show. So if you hear one gome Man, I haven't heard that in a long time, you just click over there and you can hear the whole song. Nope, it doesn't cost you anything.

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