june 20-Summer, West Virginia birthday, Nicole Kidman, John Goodman, Lionel Richie, Beach Boys

0:10 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. This is June, the twentieth selling tam time. Each selling time coolsering is a selling time. It is the first day of summer, longest day of the year up here in the Northern Hemisphere. Summer officially starts at two fifty one pm Colorado Time. You'll have to do the math where you live now. Summer last until September twenty second, So have fun and make this a summer very memorable. All right, what's going on in entertainment? On June twentieth, Let's back to your two thousand and one number one album was Break the Cycle by Staying Christina Aguileary Little Kim Pink Maya. The other number one song with Lady Marmaladee. Lone Star had the number one country song with I'm Already There. A little voice came on the phone said, Daddy, when you come home. He said, the first thing that came to his mine, I'm already there. Say

1:47 look around. In nineteen seventy five, the movie Jaws was released at theaters. Now it's supposed to have a lot more shark scenes in it, but the mechanical shark kept breaking down. So Steve Steven Spielberg, he decided to just suggest the shark's presence by I'm playing ominous music. That was it, all right? What happened in the world on June the twentieth, sixteen twenty seven Ottoman pirates they began raiding villages up in Iceland, captured over fo hundred people and sold them into slavery. Seventeen eighty three, the last battle of American Revolution was fought. It was actually fought off the coast of India.

2:42 Yeah, it was a naval battle between British and French ships. See where at and reached them that the war was over. Luckily the battle was a draw. So yep, no harm, no foul. It's called the Battle of cuddalor Happy Birthday, West Virginia. It was today in eighteen sixty three a West Virginia became the thirty fifth state. It seceded from Virginia at the beginning of the Civil War. Its capital is Charleston. Highest point is Spruce Knob fred and sixty three feet high. State bird is the Cardinal fish Brooks trout, mammo, black bear, reptile timber, rattlesnake tree is a sugar maple flower is the rhododendrum. State rock is coal. Some people born in West Virginia Steve Harvey, Randy Moss, Chuck Yeager, Mary lou Retten, Brad Paisley, Kathy Mitteia, Nick Saban, actress, Kenchita, Pharaoh Yep.

3:50 Some of the people born in the Mountain State. Nineteen hundred over in China. German ambassador Baron van Ketteler. He decided to go to the Chinese government and man that they put more guards for protecting the Europeans that were over in China. He was killed in Rounde. Howard University had opened up in eighteen sixty seven. It was for black students. It was today. In nineteen twenty six, Mordecai Johnson became the first black president of Harvard University. Do you remember the cartoon Huckleberry Hound nineteen sixty It was the first animated showed ever Win an Emmy nineteen seventy seven. The first oil entered the Alaska pipeline took it thirty eight days to come out of the Port of Valdiz. Nineteen seventy nine. United States President Jimmy Carter, Bless his heart, he unveiled thirty two solar panels he had installed on the roof of the White House.

4:36 Ronald Reagan, he had him Remerg's first thing when he took over coke coke, coke, coke, co coat shage, this shibirth day, were gonna pause. He left this shibirthday. We don't simple tage. He was like, this shibirthday and you know, we don't get up because that's the birthday. Want to know who was born hundred and twentyeth Well Soldier War hero Oddie Murphy. He is burn in Kingston, Texas in nineteen twenty five. During World War Two, he received every combat award for valor that was given out by the United States Army. He also received awards for heroism from France and Belgium. He received his Medal of Honor when he was nineteen years old. He single handedly held off a whole entire company of German soldiers, then wounded and out of AMMO and help arrive helped lead a counter attack. He turned his war hero fame into being a movie star. Yep been one of the top actors in Hollywood. Was in starting over forty movies. Oddi married his second wife in nineteen fifty one and they had two sons. Nineteen seventy one, Otdi died when the private plan that he was riding in crashed into a mountain in Virginia, forty five years old. Actor Martin Landau. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen twenty eight. Started out as an editorial cartoonist for a newspaper, started acting in nineteen fifty seven. His first movie is Pork Chop Bill nominated for Oscars for Tucker and Crimes and Mister Meanors won an Oscar for playing Bella Lagosi and ed Wood now him and his wife.

5:58 They divorced after thirty six years of marriage. They had two daughters. Martin died in twenty seventeen at eighty six years old from hyperphylactic shock. It's kind of like sepsis. Actress Olympia Ducacas. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts in nineteen thirty one. She was in one hundred and thirty plays, sixty movies, and made fifty TV appearances. She won an Oscar for Moonstop. Some of the movies that you might actually know were Look Who's talking still Magnolia's in the event. She married nineteen sixty two and they had three children. Olympia died in twenty twenty one at eighty nine years old. Hey, maybe I hear the blues of Collin toss salads and scambled eggs twice this time, and maybe I seem a bit confused. Yeah maybe, but I got you peggs. But I don't know what to do with those toss salads and gram days. Actor John Mahoney. He was born in Blackpool, England in nineteen forty. Probably best known for playing the Dad Martin on the sitcom Fraser started acting when he came over to England after he graduated from high school started in a theater company in Chicago. With him in that company where John Malcovic, Garrisonis and Laurie Metcalf, he did Win Antonio for Broadway. He first got known in the movie The Manhattan Project. Then he was in Ten Man, Moonstruck, Say Anything, Primal Fear. He beat colon cancer twice, once in the eighties and once in the two thousand. He was a really devout Catholic. Died from throat cancer in twenty eighteen at seventy seven. Years old. I got a mismarnager some radio. I was checking out. The servant seemed to see you. When the DJ he tells me that the servant

7:30 is fine. That's when Surfin. That was the first song released by the Beats Boys back in nineteen sixty one, made it all way up to number seventy five on your charts. It was written by Brian Wilson. He's eighty two today, born in Inglewood, California, in nineteen forty two. Nineteen sixty two, became the first pop artist credited for writing, arranging, and produce and performing his own material. Now, it's no sacret Brian. He's had struggled with mental illnesses pretty much his whole life. Had his first nervous breakdown in nineteen sixty four, but he's persevered now. He helped form the Beach Boys in nineteen sixty one with his two brothers Carl and Dennis, their cousin Mike Love, and their friend Al Jardine. They sold over one hundred million records are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Brian. Recent last twenty years or so, he's been in and out of the Beach Boys.

8:24 Right now, he's officially a beach boy again. But he hasn't touring this summer with him now. His wife died in January, and he's feel like hitting on the road. He is married to his first wife for fifteen years before they divorced. They had daughters, Carney and Wendy, you know the girls from Wilson Phillips. Then he married a second wife in nineteen ninety five until January and the thirtieth. Now, my uncle Tom out there in Pennsylvania. He has a standing request that whenever we play Anne Murray, we always have to play here song Snowbird. Okay, Minian is so in that holding Ian Moulgrass last waiting for Musco. The Sobird says the song you will you sing? Anne speaks to me of flowers that bloomginn in Spring. Anne Murray she's seventy nine, born in spring Hill, Nova, Scotia, Canada.

9:16 In nineteen forty five, she was the first Canadian female solo artist to reach number one in the United States. She's sang country pop an adult contemper so there were fifty five million albums. Some of her number one songs are You Needed Me, I Just Fell in Love Again, Shadows in the Moonlight, could I have this dance? And she returned in two thousand and eight. She just said that forty years wasn't enough. She was married once for twenty three years and they had a son and a daughter. Yet songs the Funnies Marri Lionel Ritchie. He's born in Tuskegee, Alabama. Nineteen forty nine seventy five year nineteen sixty eight he became a saxophone player and singer for the Commodores now Walter Orange. He sang all the fast and the dance songs for the commoners. Lionel. He sing all their slow songs and love ballads. Some that Lionel sang were easy. Three times of Late You Still thirty one solo in nineteen eighty two hit huge with the song Endless Love with Diana Ross.

10:24 It's one of the top twenty selling songs of all time. Linel. He's actually sold over one hundred million solo albums or records anyway. Some of those number one songs are all Night Long, Hello, Truly Say You Say Me Now. This is probably a pretty fun show. He's currently on tour and Earth Wind and Fire is opening act. That made pretty fun in September through November Lionel, he'll be doing a resident residency and Las Vegats. Nineteen seventy five, he married his college sweetheart. They went to the Tuskegee Institute together. They adopted to call They divorced after eighteen years. He married a second wife for nineteen years when they divorced, and they had a son and a daughter. Actor John Goodman is seventy two. He's born acting, Missouri in nineteen fifty two. Went to college at Missouri State University. One of his classmates and his drama classes Kathleen Turner Goodman. He became a household name when he started on the Sick Comras, and he had already been in the movie's Revenge of the Nerds and Raising Arizona. Now he's been in over one hundred movies on TV. Of course, he's been on the Connor since twenty eighteen, and they say that next season is the last season for the Connors.

11:43 He got married nineteen eighty nine and they have a daughter. Actress Nicole Kidman. She was born in nineteen sixty seven in Honolulu, Hawaii. She's fifty seven. Her parents moved backed Australia when she was three. Started acting in Australia when she was sixteen. Been nominated for Oscars for a Mulin Rouge rabbit Hall lying being the Ricardos. She won an Oscar for the hours. She was married to actor Tom Cruise for eleven years and they had a son and a daughter. Married country singer Keith Thurban in two thousand and six and they have two daughters. You know what, this makes absolute sense when you think about it. Animals that lay eggs do not have belly buttons. Well, thank you for joining us Day. We appreciate it. Can follow us on whoever. You listen to a song, come see it's a cool media dot com. That's cool at three US. Let's end with comic book artist Jack Kirby. He died to Day in nineteen ninety four at seventy six years old.

12:31 Jack said, perfectionists are their own devils. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No