June 19-Martini, Juneteenth, Garfield, Heart, Kathleen Turner, Doug Stone, Paula Abdul, Zoe Saldana

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today, presented by Cool Meeting. This is June nineteenth. Em Oh, my jobs, It's Martini time, Martin. It's National Martini Day. Martinis they originally called the Martinez. They were created during the California Gold Rush in the California town of Martinez. Originally they were wine, gin in and olive, but vermuth eventually replaced wine. Now you can have to get a vodka martini to celebrate today. You can have your martini dry, dirty, shaking or stirt.

0:58 All right, this is going on and entertainment on June the nineteenth. Let's back to nineteen seventy one. Number one album was Tapestry by Carol King. Carol King had the number one song with It's too Late and It's too late, It's too late, So we really did try to be something inside him Hide and just Kid. Jerry Reed had the number one country song when You're Hot, You're Hot, When but I Don't want to hear. The number one book was Passions of the Mind by Irving Stunk. The top movie was Willard a nerd. He uses his pet rats for revenge on those who Torment Him stars Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester and Sendra Lucke. Now, if you're a horror film fan and I haven't seen that one, yeah, he might want to watch Willard. It's pretty creepy, all right. What happened in the world On June the nineteenth, seventeen seventy eight, After spinning the winter at Valley Forge in Pennsylvania, George Washington and the Continental Army left to go continue to fight against the British. Eighteen forty six, the first official baseball game using modern rules was played. The New York nine beat the Knickerbockers twenty three to one. It's June teenth today. It is considered the day

2:32 when slavery actually ended in the United States. It was eighteen sixty five and Galveston, Texas Union General Gordon Granger he read the federal orders that all slaves were freed. See word that the South had surrendered in the slaves were free. Yeah, it hadn't reached Texas yet, So just like that, all those slaves down in Texas found out, May We're free. In nineteen ten, the First Father's Day was celebrating any guesses where Spokane, Washington Now, Father's Day didn't become an official holiday until nineteen se Mother's Day nineteen fourteen. Do you guys all like playing pinball? Well? In Atlanta, Georgia, in nineteen thirty nine, they banned pinball. Yeah, They're the first major city to do it, said it led to gambling, crime and moral decay.

3:14 Now, if you got cod it was a twenty dollars fine and thirty days of community service. It was called pinhibition, and it actually spread all over the country. Most of the major cities actually banned pinball. In fact, New York City pinball was illegal until nineteen seventy six. Nineteen forty one, as Soviet anthropologist Michael Jsuinov he opened up the tomb of Timur. He's the guy who founded the Timyard Empire back in thirteen seventy and what today is Iran. Now, when Michael opened up that toomb, there was an inscription on it. It read, whoever opens this tomb shall unleash an invader more terrible than I. Three days later, Germany invaded the Soviet Union. Today is also the National Garfield Day, created by Jim Davis, a comic strip Garpfield. They debuted in nineteen seventy eight. Nineteen eighty eight, Denny row He made the Guinness Book of World Records. See Denny, he shaved one nine hundred and ninety four men in one hour. They have to wonder how did Denny find one thousand, nine hundred and ninety four men that had done him? Do it? Go cot coke coke co goat show this shiver birthday.

4:20 We're gonna pause. He left this shibthday. We don't simple tag. He was like this ship birthday, and you know, we don't get the birthday. Who was born on gym the nineteenth Actress Gina Rowlands. She's ninety four. She was born in Cabria, Wisconsin, in nineteen thirty. Most of you probably know her for the movie The Notebook. Started acting in nineteen fifty. Was nominated for two Oscars for a Woman Under the Influence and Gloria. Some of her movies that It Might Know, We're a two Minute Warning, The Brinks Job, Hope Floats. She was married to her first husband thirty five years when he died. They had three children. She's been married to her second husband since twenty twelve. Actress Felicia Rashadz. She was born in Houston, Texas, in ninete teen forty eight. She's seventy six.

5:01 She was born Felicia Allen. Debbie Allen. Yeah, that's her younger sister, Felicia. She's best known for playing Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Then she played Cosby's wife again in the show Cosby. Her biggest movie is are those Creed Movies. She's done a lot of Broadways, won two Tony's. She had one son from her first husband. Her second husband was Victor Willis. He was the lead singer for The Village People. Then she married Amadra Shod for sixteen years and they had one daughter. Said she let's get her the magic. That's Anne Wilson. She's the lead singer for the band Heart. They were the first rock band actually have women up front. That Anne and her sister in Nancy. Anne seventy four a r. She's born in nineteen fifty in San Diego, California. She started singing as a little kid. See she had a really bad stutter, but singing it actually was able to cure her stutter. She first joined the band Whiteheart, then they changed their name to hocus Pocus. Then they changed it to Just Heart in nineteen seventy three. That's when Nancy joined them. They're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of their biggest HiT's Our Magic Man, Crazy on You, Barracuda, what about Love Now Heart? They're going out on to her July thirtieth for the rest of the year. If you want to go check them out. And she adopted a boy and then she got married in twenty fifteen. Actress Kathleen Turner. She was born in Springfield, Missouri, in nineteen fifty four. She's seventy today. Her first acting job was

6:33 on the TV show The Doctors, and she hit really big in the movie Body eight and then Romancing the Stone. Peggy Sue got married. She's nominated for and Oscar for that one. She married once for twenty three years and they had one daughter, Beauty I See. Country singer Doug Stone. He was born in nineteen fifty six and Marrietta Georgia sixty eight years old. Some of his number one songs are I See You in a Different Light, a jukebox with a country song, too Busy Being in Love? Why didn't I think of that? Now? Doug? He's getting ready, got and do some shows. He started it on July nineteenth and when he was thirty four years old, Doug he had a quadruple bypath surgery. Well it looks like it works, so that's cool. He had four children from his first wife, one child from his second wife. Twenty fifteen, he married himself, a fiddler, now Him and Earth. They have a daughter. Singer,

8:03 dancer, choreographer Paula Abduel is sixty two. She's born in San Fernando, California, in nineteen sixty two. Started out as a Laker girl Yeah for the La Laker basketball team, ended up as their lead choreographer. That guy to the gig of being the choreographer for Janet Jackson that led to a record deal. Some of her number one songs were a straight up forever year girl, Opposites attract Rush Rush. She still does some choreography. She was one of the original judges on American Idols. She did it for eight years. She married actor Emilio Stevez for two years, then she married her second husband for seventeen months, actress Robin Tunney. She was born in nineteen seventy two in Chicago. She's fifty two. Her first movie was in Sino Man. Then she's best known for TV, though she started on prison Break and then The Mentalist. She was married to her first husband for nine years. Now.

8:50 She has two children from her fiancee. They've been engaged since twenty twelve. Actors Zoe Saldana. She's forty six. She was born in Passaic, New Jersey, in nineteen. She is the second highest grossing female actress of all time. Her movies have made over fourteen billion dollars. She's behind Scarlett Johansson. Zoe she was She's been in the three biggest money making movies of all time. She was an Avatar, Avatar, The Way of the Water and The Avengers Endgame, and she's already shot Adventures three and four. If that's uh, you didn't know it, Yeah, there's gonna be an Avengers three or Avengers. There's gonna be an Avatar three and four, Avatar three. It'll come out in twenty twenty five, Avatar four and twenty twenty nine on TV ZOI. She is currently starring on special ops Lioness. It's on the Paramount Network. She married in twenty thirteen and they have three sons.

9:39 I want to wish my aunt Gina in though a very happy birthday. Now people won't believe her age on paper. She's still knockout pretty. So Gene, you have yourself a very great birthday and nope, you know that we all love you. Now, this has absolutely nothing to do with my aunt Gene. Well maybe in college. But every year eleven thousand Americans are hurt. You have to go to the emergency room trying weird sex positions. I guess it wouldn't be weird if you didn't get hurt. Right, all right, thanks for being here today. We sure appreciate you. You get a chance come and see us on coolmedia dot com and see what's going on on the radio stations and the podcast. Let's end with businessman Thomas Watson. He's the guy who made IBM what it is. He died today in nineteen fifty six at eighty two years old. He said, if you want to improve your success right, double your failure rate. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No, no, no, I don't know.

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