June 16th-Fresh Veggies. 1st Woman in space, Billy Crash Craddock, the O'Jays, Tupac Shakur, Laurie Metcalf

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and fact. Dude's about today. This is June the sixteenth. Some vegetables are you Hemy trails, Travis fra caving cabbage, some vegetables for you, Hemy. And we sing. Now today is National Fresh Vegetables Day. Now today is promote the nutritional benefits of fresh vegetables. Fresh vegetables. They were on the top sources of micronutrients, nutrients of all kinds, fiber minerals, all that good stuff. Now there are no bad vegetables. Some just taste like it. Now some of your gardens are probably getting ready to start picking them. If not, yeah, there's always farmers' markets out there. Now. The most eden garden digital tomatoes health is guarden vegetable spinach. Wow. Don't just eat vegetables today, make it a habit. Let's see what happened to entertainment on June sixteenth. Back in nineteen eighty five, the number one album was around the world in a day by printing The Revolution. Tears for Fairs had the number one song with Everybody Wants to Rule the World?

1:24 WHOA We Will? The Ukrage Boys had the number one country song with Little Things Wait. Oh my Name. In the middle of the night, singing radio.

2:06 To the number. One book was Skeleton Crew by Stephen King Todd. Movie was Rambo First Blood Part two, and that's one Rambo. He goes to Vietnam to break out some us MIA's from a Vigcong prison. Stars Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, and Julia Nixon. Nineteen sixty. The movie Psycho went into theaters nineteen seventy eight. Yep, Greece hit the theaters all right. What happened on June the sixteenth, sixteen fifty seven. Dutch astronomer Christian Huggins he invented the pendulum clock, well not actually actually used Galileo's notes. See Galileo had written it all out, but he died before he could actually build one. Eighteen eighty four, the first roller coaster for an amuseum park opened up was on Coney Island.

2:47 It was called the Switchback Railway. Cost you five cents to ride it. So he had to climb up a tower. Then you got in this bitch like cart with wheels and they pushed you off the tower. Then you just rock it down the track to the other side. Yeah, he got up about six miles an hour. When you got the other side, Yeah, they switched you over to another track and then pushed you back. Eighteen ninety three, at the Chicago World's Fair fw ruckyem he started selling carmel, coda, peanuts, and popcorn. Yeah, call them cracker jacks. Nineteen oh three, both Ford Motor Company and Pepsi Cola filed for the formation of their companies. Nineteen eleven, a one point sound one point seven pound meteorite hit a barn near Kilbourne, Wisconsin. Yeah, it was big news in Columbus County back there. Nineteen twenty nine, sixty two year old Otto Frank arrived in San Francisco. He walked all the way from New York City, made pretty good time. He walked four thousand, one and sixty five miles and one hundred and eighty three days.

3:37 Nineteen sixty three, Syviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova she became the first woman to fly into space. Wow, she's actually it was a solo mission, so she's still the only woman to ever fly into space solo. All she wanted for her reward for successfully completing her mission, Yeah, she wanted the Soviet government to find out where her dad died during World War Two. Well, they found it, and now there's a monument on that site. Nineteen seventy five and so fall South Dakota, Oh, Randy Farlan found himself a fourteen leaf clover. Twenty twenty four or one hundred and five year old Virginia hits up. She graduated with a master's degree in education from Stanford University eighty three. Is that years after she was forced to drop out? Joke joke, joke, joked, coke joke, shog dish shibth day.

4:20 Please Donna pause, He left this shiverthday. We want simple tage. He left this shibirth day. And you know we don't let the earth to okay. It was born on Gin the sixteenth. Actor Jack Albertson was born in Maldon, Massachusetts, in nineteen oh seven. You know Jackie. He played Grandpa Joe and the original Willie Wonk and the Chocolate Factory went an Oscar for the movie the subject was Roses. On TV, he was on Chico Man, did a lot of Broadway, even wanted Tony. He acted right up until he died in nineteen eighty one and seventy four years old from colon cancer. Lit some motion in your hands, Come on and make it film. I has didn't kissed me once? Sag, why hasn't I seen you? Live?

5:03 Then? Rub it in, rubb It. Billy Krash krad At. He's eighty seven. He was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, in nineteen thirty nine. Now he got the nickname Crash from playing running back in his high school football team. His oldest brother actually taught him how to play the guitar when he was only six. Then, by the time he's eleven, he won a local talent contest fifteen weeks in a row. Started releasing his first songs in nineteen fifty seven. Some of his number one songs are Boom Boom Baby, rubbed In Ruby Baby. Now used to still performs like one or two shows every year. He married his high school sweetheart that they're still together and they have three kids. That was Eddie Liebert singing for the OJS. He's eighty four. Born in Bessemmer, Alabama, in nineteen forty two. Grew up in Canton, Ohio nineteen fifty eight and high school Him and four of his buddies.

6:11 They formed a group called the mascots. Oh, they found out that was taken, so they switched. They were the triumphs. Oh that was taken. Nineteen sixty three, they became the OJS. They took the name from a Cleveland DJ called Eddie Oj. He was the first DJ who played their songs. Now, Eddie and two of the other OJ's are actually going down a tour June twentia. Now if you go see Amyl Polo here, I love Train, put your hands together. I'm in it for the love love, I love music. Now Eddie. He had two sons from his first wife, and he married a second wife in two thousand and five and they have a daughter. He is Gino Vanelle, seventy four year old, was born in Montreal, Canada. Gino he gave his demo tape to Herb Albert when he was running from security guards. We got him a record deal.

7:13 Then he became the second white guy ever to sing on Soul Train. Then he went and toured with Stevie Wonder. Don't know if Stevie Knewy's what or not. Now some of his biggest hits are people Got to Move, I just want to stop living inside myself, Wild Horses Now He's been married for almost forty years and they have a son. Actress Lorie Metcalf was born at Carbondale, Illinois, in nineteen fifty one. She's seventy one. Started out well, she's always been doing it and she's been doing a lot of theaters all her career. Even been nominated for six Tony Awards, she's won twice. She first really hit mainstream on the TV show Roseanne and then the Norm Show. She played Sheldon's mom on The Big Bank There, and her daughter Zoe played Sheildon's mom on Young Sheldon. Some of Laurie's movie is Our Internal Affairs JFK. She voiced Jenny and the Toy Story Movies. Nominated for an Oscar for Ladybird Now. She had Zoe from her first cousin and she's married her second husband for twenty one years and they had two sons and one daughter.

8:04 Well you learned you can't sign it down, baby, No, what do you mean you don't know? Chachio Brown. Brown Now he was born the Saint Crooks, but he got renamed when he was one year old the Tupac Shakur. Now Shakur was his mom's maiden name. And Tupac was from Tumac Tupac Amrid. He was an inc and ruler who was executed by the Spanish in seventeen eighty one after he failed revolt against the Spanish. So you got Tupac. Shakur sold over seventy five million records in a pretty short career, at least four albums while he's alive. Seven more have been released after he died. As an actor is in the movie is Juice Poetic Justice Above. Lah Lah Tubaci was shot and killed and drive by shooting in Las Vegas in nineteen ninety six, only twenty five years old. Actor John Cho is fifty four. He's born in Soul, South Korea in nineteen seventy two. Moved to family in the United States when he was six. Now after college. She was teaching high school English literature. Then he got the job playing one of those milk guys in the American five movies. Yeah. Since then he's played Harold and Harold and Kamar movies. He was Sulu in three Star Trek movies. Got married in two thousand and six and they have a son and a daughter. Actress Ali Stroker is thirty nine. She's born in Ridgewood, New Jersey, in nineteen eighty seven. She's two years old. She was in a car accident left her paralyzed from the waist down.

9:29 Didn't slow down though she acted off through school. It's paid off though. She was the first actor or actress who needed a wheelchair to perform on Broadway. Later on, she actually wanted Tony for her performance in Oklahoma. She is married and they have one son. Oh had our quote of the day. It comes from actor George Reeves. He was the guy who played the original Superman on TV. He's murdered today in nineteen fifty nine at forty five years old. He said, knock the t off a cant thank you for listening today, and no free to follow us on whoever you listen to us. Son, Now, if you do puzzles and they were to keep your mind sharp, or you want something to do on a plane flight or a car, right, we have a puzzle book just for you. It comes out of every month. June's out now. It has word searches cross where it's word scramble, spot the difference out lots more now. The puzzles they all have to do with the National days that I talked about at the beginning of every show. So yeah, you can just click on the link on the bottom of the page and the show description or go to cool media dot com. Yeah, lots of fun, a lot of positive feedback. People really enjoy doing it our country and around radio artists to day. It comes from Kindred Dayton.

10:30 She wants to hear Brad Howard song back of the pickup truck. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. I wasn't bouncing in and laughing at you roll down an old dirt rode Daddy love review, hoping that we're just hang on well. I every call a time when I ever had so much fun, and I did win a road in the back of a pickup truck, I would saying, there my own I'm stretched out on that rusty bus, just waving that the people in their. Cars when the light turned reds. I get a little scared when the tires had a whirr about, but it made me feel big in the back of it. Bick of truble. I didn't carry about the roller.

11:21 Coaster down at the county. Back to me, it didn't have the punch a trup bad had when we got back home. I always threw my hands up in the airs because I was so excited that I got another right back. There, you my steak. I'm kind of crazy when I said that my first love was a bouncing it and laughing in the back of It because of truth.