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 Factoid's about today. Today's June the seventeenth. Cabin Late It's a piece zen Okaren and Rockery Jacobite to it around, lovely taste to crunch you downd. Must fall from 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. Oh, this one's pretty self explaned to us. So let's see what went on on entertainment in June seventeenth. Back in nineteen eighty three, number one album was Thriller by Michael Jackson.

1:04 Irene Cara had the number one song with Flush Dance, What a Feeling. Rappround Jacko. Eddie Rabbit. It had the number one country song with you Can't Run from. Love Founded Where there for Me? You can't un umber? It's just no place in world.

1:46 You can't help. When it's still hold you guns give. The number one book was Returning the Jedi by Joon Dbynge. The top movie was super Man three. Superman He Has to Go Against a Computer Genius stars Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder and Richard Pryor. 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, Mumdas 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. Mumpdau and Sha Johann. Yep, they're still in tomb there today. Don't fire in tce the whites of their eyes. Oh that fame, that famous phrase.

2:39 It came out in seventeen seventy five. It was in the Battle of Bunker Hill. It was during the Revolutionary War. Bunker Hell, it's just outside of Boston. Now. The Colonial soldiers, now they put up 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 hundred and fiftieth anniversary of Bunkerer, historians are trying to get it corrected. See the battle was actually fought on Breedzill. Yeah, that'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 Head. We get away. Eighteen thirty seven Charles Goodyear, he got his first patent for rubber.

3:23 Eighteen fifty six, Republican Party held their first national convention. Was in Philadelphia. Oh and so was the Chapel gone again? Till the Chapel. Gone 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 the University started using a standardized test to get a mission into their schools. That test became known as the sat In France. In nineteen thirty nine, they held their last public guillatini. Convicted murderer Eugene Widman got the howner. Now did you catch that, I said, last public guillatiny. Yeah, the last time the guillotine 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 of 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.

4:42 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 Bronco 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 a heigh speed Jase, though it actually lasted like an hour and a half as they kind of drive really slow through town. Oj just went to his house. When he got out, the police just arrested him. There you 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 Eby something to watch during 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 U S Secretary of the Treasury, been honest since nineteen twenty nine. President Obama in twenty fifteen he wanted Hamelton taking off it. Yeah, he wanted to put a woman on it. He didn't care what woman. He just wanted a woman to replace this Hamilton. The United States actually got together both sides and said, no, that's stupid joke, joke.

5:38 Joke, dish shibt day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverbfday. We got simple tage. He was like, this shibirth day, and you know you don't give up birthday. Well, let's see a barn on gin. This 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 bet. Made his first be in nineteen thirty one, made over one hundred of them. 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. When I was a lad, an old chip was was a po Boys and Medals, Wait Stray, just a boy and his dog. We were both full of fun. We grew up together that way.

6:39 That was country singer Red Foley. He was born in Blue Lake, 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 artists period. Now. He hosted the first cowboy or country music TV show. Yeah, it was called the Ozark Jamboree. They just call it cowboy music. Then Red's first wife she died during childbirth. Now the baby girl she did live. Then he had three daughters from his second wife. That wife committed suicide. Now one of those three daughters she married Pat Boone now ready got married to his third wife. In nineteen fifty two. Nineteen sixty eight, read he was performed with 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.

7:23 Write a song, I write the songs, spash, I write the song, says. Cry Very Manilow. He is a very successful songwriter, written over four hundred of him. Even won a couple of Grammys for songwriting. But he didn't write that one. Barry he's eighty two. He's born in Brooklyn, New York. Started out writing jingles for commercials. Now, he sold out 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. Now, if you want to see Barry, he'll be singing in Las Vegas the rest of the year. Check him out. 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. That started dating as his future husband in nineteen seventy eight.

8:20 They got married in twenty fourteen, when it became an equal. Comedian Joe Piscopo. He's seventy four. He was born in Passaic, New Jersey. He's been and I'm pretty much a dedicated bodybuilder most of his life. But dude, seventy four years old and he's still pretty jacked up. Joe. He first got known on Saturday and Live, 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, Beforrest, turned married their nanny, then him and the nanny had three kids together, but then they divorced in two thousand and six. Actor John Grease. He was born in Glendale, California. Sixty eight today. His biggest role was playing Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. He's also been in Real Genius, Running, Scared Taken two, been in almost ninety movies Excellent on TV, he was on Martin. He's been on The White Lotus since twenty twenty one. Actor Thomas Hayden church is sixty five.

9:15 He's born in Woodland, California and 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 sand Man 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 Canary's sixty two. He was born in Logansport, Indiana. 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. He's nominated for an oscar for As Good as He Gets. Greg got married nineteen ninety nine and they have three daughters. Actor Jason Patrick. He was born in Queens New York. He's fifty nine to day. Jackie Gleeson. Yeah, that was his grandpa on his mom's side. Now Jason Big movie, He really big in the movie Lost Boys and then The Beast Sleepers the Alamo. Speed to Jason. He adds one son from an next girlfriend.

10:08 If I quit this Seasons, I still the greatest funk my left show. Just win a by row, rush out. Put little baby in the spy row. So Plano. See, we'd like to keep you don't know, I know this level strew it. You and I know telling Humble Down, Humble Down, Humble. The only musician not from the classical or a jazz music genre is to receive a politic serprise for music. Yep them. Rapper Kendrick Lamar Kendricks thirty eight. He's born in Compton, California. Started performing as DJ k Dot and as a rapper. Kendrick Lamari hit big in twenty eleven. 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.

10:54 Yep. They broke up in twenty twenty, though Kendrick he's on utol right now. If you want to check himut I'll be out till mid December, pretty much coming everywhere. Now. He is engaged and they already have a son and a daughter, so we got to take care of our 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 have Let's stride again, Gloria, you must always have a secret, great big hope for yourself, your love and your life. The bigger the better. Well, thank you all for listening. Don't forget to follow us on you listen to us on our country underground radio artist to Day She's Canadian is Angela Harris. This is her song Let's go for a ride. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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