June 17-Veggies, Barry Manilow, Joe Piscopo, Thomas Haden Church, Greg Kinnear, Kendrick Lamar

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about Today, presented by Cool Meeting Today's June the seventeenth, Grabin Late, It's a peace Zen Okaren and rock Ely, Jacob Night chewe it around, Lovely Taste, crunchy sound, John Bastables them so much fun, too much. It is National Eat your Vegetables Day. That's pretty self explanatory. So let's just go see what was going on in entertainment on June seventeenth. Let's go back to your nineteen ninety one number one album was spelled Bound by Paula Abdell.

0:54 Paula Abdill had the number one song with Rush Rush I'm gonna I'm gonna try, I'm gonna Chasel Rendy, Oh My Hot Laden come to the garth Brooks. He had the number one country song with the thunder Roll under Road and Light and Strike Another Locals Cold, I'll Steve listen as the storm goes Onlado Control the thunder Roll. The number one book was Loves Money Loves to Dance by Mary Higgins Clark. Top book or Top Book Top movie was Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves. Robin Hood. He decides to become an outlaw to fight back against the tyberannical Sheriff of Nottingham. Stars Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, and a Mary Elizabeth Master Antonio. All right, let's see happened in the world on June the seventeenth. A lot of people do not realize that in India the taj Mahal is a mausoleum. Yeah, I wasn't built as a tourist attraction today. In sixteen thirty one, Mom Tazmohal, she died while giving birth to their fourteenth child. Her husband, the Mugo Emperor Shah Johan. He ordered the great mausoleum be built in his wife's honor.

2:23 Took around twenty thousand workers almost twenty years to build the Well, it's her tomb, the taj Mahall don't fire. You see the whites of their eyes? Well, that line became famous today. In seventeen seventy five, in the American Revolution, at the Battle of Bunker Hill, was fighting near Boston, Massachusetts to day now. The colonial soldiers they did put up a pretty good fight, but they were way out numbered by the British and men and weapons. The British did for a lot more casualties, but they ultimately did win the battle. Now, that famous Battle of Bunker Hill was actually fight in Breeze Hill. Eighteen thirty seven. Charles Goodyear, he received the first and for rubber. Eighteen fifty six Republican Party. Oh, this first national convention in Philadelphia. Oh, and so it was the chapel Land gone again until the chapel gone again. Eighteen seventy one, Anna Swan 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. Nineteen oh one, colleges they started using the first standardized testing for admission into all colleges and universities. Those tests be game here SATs. In France. In nineteen thirty nine, they held their last public guillotining. Yeah, the convicted murder Edward Edgar Widman. Yeah he got the honor. But it was the

3:53 last public guillotine. They still guillotine. The last person actually guilotine was nineteen seventy seven eineteen sixty three, the United States Supreme Court rolled agains reading the Bible and prayer in public schools in nineteen ninety four on National Live TV, the Los Angeles Police they chased a white Ford bronco of oh oh J Simpson. Yeah, he didn't turn himself in to face murder charges for killing his ex wife. Now, the chase, it lasted an hour and a half, that Ojay. Once he got home, he stopped and the police were able to arrest him there. Now, if you're too young to remember, it wasn't the highest speed chase. But back then we didn't have as many options on TV, so it's kind of a nice change for something to watch during a rerun season. Co cop COO coch coach charge this shibf day, We're gonna pause. He left this shib day. We won't sit potage.

4:44 He was like this shibirf day. And you know we don't give us birthday all right. It was born on June the seventeenth. Actor Ralph Bellamy was born in Chicago in nineteen oh four. You probably know Ralph best for the movie Trading Places. Made his first movie back in nineteen thirty one, ended up making over one hundred of them. Some you might know or Rosemary's Baby, Oh God, Pretty Woman. He had one child from his first wife one from his second wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen forty nine. There 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 above boys and meadows, waits train, just a boy and his dog. We were both full of fun. We grew up together that way. Country singer Red Foley. He was born in Blue Lick, Kentucky, in nineteen ten.

5:46 In the nineteen forties and fifties, he sold over twenty five million records. That was absolutely huge back then. He and also hosted the first popular country music TV show, It's called the Ozark Jamboree. His first wife died during childbirth. Read had three daughters from his second wife, but she died and one of those daughters actually married Pat Boone Read. He married his third wife in nineteen fifty two, and in nineteen sixty eight, Red was performing at the Grand Ole Opry. After a show, he went back to his hotel and went to sleep, never woke back up. Died in a sleep at fifty eight years old from respiratory failure. I write a song, I write the songs Lo Spanish. I write a song that Bailey Young Girls Cry Barry Manilo. He is a very successful songwriter. It's even won a couple of Grammys for it. But he didn't write that song. Barry's eighty one today. He's one of Brooklyn, New York. In nineteen forty three, started out writing jingles for commercials Now, I sold over eighty five million records.

6:54 Some of his thirteen number one songs Mandy looks like We made it. I write the songs, but commanded. He didn't go to number one, Nope, only made it up to number eight. Barry still out their performing if you want to see him. He married his high school sweetheart for two years and he left her to go try and make it as a singer. And he was gay, so that didn't help. Started dating his future husband back in nineteen seventy eight. They got married in twenty fourteen. Comedian Joe Piscopo. He was born in nineteen fifty one in Passaic, New Jersey. Seventy three. Now he's been pretty avid body builder pretty much his whole life. Now at seventy three, dude is still actually pretty ripped. First got known on Saturday Night Live. He was on there for four years. Done a lot of stand up shows, does a lot of impressions on HBO specials.

7:35 He was in the movie is Johnny Dangerously Wise? Guys Dead Heat Now. He has been a conservative radio talk show ho since twenty fourteen. He had one son from his first wife and three children from his second wife. Actor John Grease. He's sixty seven. He's born in Glendale, California, in nineteen fifty seven. Johnny's best known for playing Uncle Rico in the movie Napoleon Dynamite. He was also in Real Genie and Yes It's Running Scared Taking two, been a actually almost ninety movies on TV. He was on Martin. Actor Thomas Hayden Church. He was born in Woodland, California, in nineteen sixty sixty four. Today grew up in Texas. First got known on the TV sitcom Wings, and then he started as Ned and Ned and Stacy.

8:18 First movie was Toombstone and then George of the Jungle. Nominated for an Oscar for Sideways, and he played the Sandman in a couple of Spider Man movies. He has two children from an ex girlfriend. Actor Grek Canary's sixty one. He was born in Logansport, Indiana. In nineteen sixty three. Now he first hit pretty big on as a host of the show called Talk Soup on TV. His first big movie was in with Sabrina and he was nominated for an oscar for As Good as It Gets. He was also in When We Were Soldiers, Little Miss Sunshine, Heaven Is for Real. He got married nineteen ninety nine and they have three daughters. Actor Jason Patrick's fifty eight. He's born in Queens, New York in nineteen sixty six. Jackie Gleason was his grandfather on his mom's side. Made a name for himself in the movie Lost Boys and then Beast Brushed Sleepers. He has one son from an ex girlfriend. If I quit this Seasons, I still pie the greatest punk My left show just went by row rush out, put little baby in the spy row soprano. See we'd like to keep it on the I know this level. Strew it you and I no tell him be humble down, Humble down, humble. The only musician outside of classic and jazz to receive a Polar Serprise for music YEP rapper Kendrick Lamar. Kendrick was born in Compton, California, in nineteen eighty seven. He's thirty seven, started performing as djak Dot. Then he had big as a rapper in twenty eleven. Some of us hits are Humble, Swimming Pools, Pray for Me, Bad Blood.

9:52 That was a Taylor Swift Kendrick. He was a member of the hip hop Supergrew Black Hippies until they broke up in twenty twenty two. He's been with his girlfriend since twenty fifteen and they have one son and one daughter. All Right, today's fact that will win you beer. Back to the guillotine. The blade on the guillotine. It weighed eighty eight pounds. Well, thanks for joining us to day. We appreciate you being here. Make sure you follow us on whever you listen to us on so we're pretty much everywhere. Get chanced on at coolmedia dot com. That's cool three ers, and see what we're doing on the other podcast in the radio station. Don't forget about Country Underground Radio, the best independent country music anymore. Let's end with fashion designer Gloria Vanderbilt. She died at in twenty nineteen at ninety five years old. Gloria says, you must always have a great secret, big fat hope for yourself, in love and in life. The bigger the better you guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.