June 17-Taj Mahal, Barry Manilow, Joe Piscopo, Thomas Haden Church, Greg Kinnear, Kendrick Lamar, Bunker Hill

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today's June the seventeenth cabin Late. It's a piece sent Okaen and rockerly Jake, good Light to it around, Lovely taste to crunch you soundstaf them so much fun, too much. Today is National Eat your Vegetables day. Boy. They are really pushing the vegetables. That's two days in a row. Well that's pretty self explanatory. Let's just go ahead and see what's going on in entertainment on June seventeenth. Back in nineteen seventy five, now, my album was Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy by Elton John. America had the number one song with Sister Golden There Well you.

1:21 Show charity thinking I don't mind singing. I just can't make it. Don Williams had the number one country song with You're My Best Friend. You're my show from trouble and you're myker in life, sohould show but most of all, you're my best friend. The top selling buck was The Money Changers by Arthur Todd. Movie was Jaws. A huge shark goes out a killing spree off of Long Island. A local police chief, a marine biologist and an old sea captain have to stop him.

2:10 Stars Roy Scheider, Robert Shah, Richard Dreyfus, and Rus Yeah, Bruce, that's the robotic shark. Yeah, that's what they called it. Ah, what happened on June the seventeenth. Now a lot of people out there, they did not realize that. The taj Mahal in India. Yeah, it's a mausoleum. No, it was not built as a terrorist attraction. It was today. In sixteen thirty one, Mumtaz Mahal, she died giving birth to her fourteenth child. Now, her husband was sha Johan. He was the Mughal Emperor. He ordered the Muslim to be built in her honor. Took him almost twenty thousand workers twenty years to build it. Mumdaal and sha Johan. Yep, they're still in tomb there today. Don't fire in TC the whites of their eyes. Ah. That fame, that famous phrase. It came out in seventeen seventy five. It was in the Battle of Bunker Hill.

2:54 It was during the Revolutionary War. Bunker Hell, it's just outside of Boston. Now. The colonial soldiers now they put up that's a really good fight. They actually did, but they were way, way, way out numbered by the British. The British suffered a lot more casualties though, one thousand and fifty four for Britain, Colonial four and in fifty that's pretty much all of them. Now, like they say, the British, they might have won the battle, but they lost the war. Now, on that two hund and fiftieth anniversary of Bunkerer, historians are trying to get it corrected. See, the battle was actually fought on Breedzill. Yeah, it's right next to Bunker Hill. So a lot of the well, not a lot, but the colonial soldiers who were running from the British, they had to run over the top of Bunker helped to get away. Eighteen thirty seven Charles Goodyear, he got his first patent for rubber. Eighteen fifty six Republican Party held their first national convention.

3:37 Was in Philadelphia. Oh and so the. Chapel and gone again. Until the chapel. Again. In eighteen seventy one. Anna Swan looked radiant as she married Martin Bates. Now Anna, she stood seven feet eleven inches tall. Martin he stood seven feet nine inches tall. They are still the tallest married couple of all time. Nineteen oh one, colleges in university started using a standardized test to get admission into their schools. That test became known as the sat In France. In nineteen thirty nine, they held their last public guillatining. Convicted murderer Eugene Widman got the owner. Now did you catch that, I said last public guillatiny.

4:23 Yeah. The last time the guillotinees somebody was nineteen seventy seven. First time was back in seventeen ninety two. You're curious that blade on the guillotine who weighed eighty eight pounds. Nineteen sixty three, at the United States Supreme Court ruled against reading the Bible and prayer and school an honest side note. Ever since then, test course have gone down all across the country. Nineteen sixty five in Holly, Colorado got eleven inches of rain in twenty four hours. Now that is the state record by a long way out there. Say, Colorado is actually pretty dry now, Holly. It sits pretty close to the border. So actually Kansas they had to deal with all that water. Nineteen ninety three, on National Live TV, the Los Angeles police. They pursued a white Ford Bronc with oj Simpson and now he had failed to turn himself in for murder charges of killing his ex wife and her friend. Now, see it wasn't an Heide speed jase though. It actually lasted like an hour and a half as they kind of drive really slow through town. Og just went to his house. When he got out, the police just arrested him there. He had some youngers. It was nineteen ninety three, so there wasn't a lot going on on TV back then because we didn't have that many channels. So yeah, it gave Ebby something to watch her in summer rerun season. Now, if you look at your ten dollar bill, you'll see the image of Alexander Hamilton on it. He was the first US Secretary of the Treasury, been honest since nineteen twenty nine.

5:33 President Obama in twenty fifteen he wanted Hamilton taking off it. Yeah, he wanted to put a woman on it. He didn't care what woman. He just wanted a woman to replay this Hamilton. The United States actually got together both sides and said, no, that's stupid. Joked Jake Shog Dish Shivers Day, please don't he left this shiverfday. We want simple targe. He like thish shibirth day, and we don't give. Up the birthday. Well, let's see. Born on Gin the seventeenth. Actor Ralph Bellamy. He was born in Chicago in nineteen oh four. You probably know Ralph for the movie Trading Places. Yeah, he was one of those brothers that made the best. Made his first movie in nineteen thirty one, made over one hundred of him, Rosemary's Baby. Oh God, pretty well, that's something you might have seen now. He had won child from his first wife, he had won from his second wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen forty nine. They were together until he died in nineteen ninety one at eighty seven years old from lung failure.

6:26 When I was a lad, an old shep was was above boys and meadows waits trained. Just a boy and his dog. We were both full of fun. We grew up together that way. That was country singer Red Foley. He was born in Blue Lick, Kentucky, in nineteen ten. In the nineteen and forties and the nineteen fifties, he sold over twenty five million records. Now, that was absolutely huge back then and not for country artists, just for any artist's period. Now he hosted the first cowboy or country music TV show. Yeah, it was called the Ozark Jambrie. They just call it cowboy music. Back then, Rad's first wife she died during childbirth.

7:13 Now the baby girls she did live. Then he had three daughters from a second wife. That waife committed suicide. Now one of those three daughters she married Pat Boone. Now Reddy got married to his third wife in nineteen fifty two. Nineteen sixty eight, read he was performing the Grand Ole Opry. After his show was over, he just went back to his hotel and went to sleep. Never woke up, died from respiratorial failure. Fifty eight years old. Write songs, I write the song, Rite the song. Bailey youngs cry.

7:53 Very Manilow. He is a very successful songwriter, reading over four hundred of him. Even won a couple of Grammys for song. But he didn't write that one. Barry is eighty three. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen forty three. Started out writing jingles for commercials. Now, he sold over eighty five million records. Some of his number one songs are Mandy looks Like we made it. I write the songs Copa Cabana did not get in number one, Nope, but it only made it up to number eight. He married his high school sweetheart for two years, then he dumped her and left her to go try and make it as a singer. And plus he was gay. I started dating as his future husband in nineteen seventy eight. They got married in twenty fourteen when it became equal. Comedian Joe Piscoppo is seventy five. He's born in Passaic, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty one. He's been and I'm pretty much a dedicated bodybuilder most of his life. But dude, seventy four years old, he's still pretty jacked up.

8:42 Joe. He first got known on Saturday and I did that for four years. Then he's been a really successful stand up comedian, does some really good impressions. Some movies that Joe was in where Johnny Dangerously Wise guys did heat. He's yeah. He's been a conservative radio talk show host since twenty fourteen. He had one son from his first wife, Befreest. Turn married their nanny and then him and nanny had three kids together, but then they divorced in two thousand and six. Actor John Grease was born in Glendale, California, in nineteen fifty seven. He's sixty nine. His biggest role was playing Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. He's also been in Real Genia's Running, Scared Taken two. Been in almost ninety movies. Actually non TV, he was on Martin. He's been on The White Lotus since twenty twenty one. Actor Thomas Adan Church is sixty six, born in nineteen sixty in Woodlands, California. Grew up in Texas. First got known on that TV sitcom Wings. Then he did the sitcom Ned and Stacy. He was Ned. First movie he was Tombstone and then George of the Jungle. He played the Sandman in a couple of Spider Man movies. He's nominated for an Oscar for Sideways. He has two children from an ex girlfriend. Actor Greg Kinnear is sixty three. He's born in Logan's Port, Indiana. In nineteen sixty three. He first hit hosting the TV show Talk Soup Yeah. He was the first one to host that. First big movie is In with Sabrina. We were Soldiers Little Miss Sunshine.

10:01 He's nominated for an Oscar for as good as It Gets. Greg got married nineteen ninety nine and they have three daughters. Actor Jason Patrick is sixty. He's born in Queens, New York in nineteen sixty six. Jackie Gleeson, Yeah, that was his grandpa on his mom's side. Now Jason. His big movie, he really big in the movie Lost Boys and then The Beast, Sleepers the Alamo. Speed to Jason. He has one son from an next girlfriend. I fight Quitnes season, I still be. The greatest puncal My left show just win by row rush out. But the baby in a spy row so Plano. See, we'd like to keep it on. I know this levels to it you and I know peasant p Humble, Sit down, Humble, Sit down, Humble. The only musician not from the classical or jazz music genre is to receive a Politic Serprize for music him. Rapper Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick is thirty nine. He's born in Compton, California, in nineteen eighty seven. Started forming as DJ k Dot and as a rapper. Kendrick Lamari hit big in twenty eleven.

11:05 Some of his hits are Humble, swimming Pool, Pray for Me, bad blood. That was a Taylor Swift Kendall. He was a member of the supergroup Black Hippies Yees. They broke up in twenty twenty, though now he is engaged and they already have a son and a daughter, so they got to take care of A quote of the day comes to us from fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. She died today in twenty nineteen at ninety five years old. Gloria said, you must always have this stride Again, Gloria, you must always have a secret, great big hope for yourself, your love and your life. The bigger the better. Thank you for listening today, and no fred to follow us on whoever you listen to us on Country and the Ground radio artists today. It comes from Becky in Toronto, Sir Angela Harris a song Let's go for a ride. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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