June 22nd-Kissing, Meryl Streep, Kris Kristofferson, Cyndi Lauper, Todd Rundgren, Carson Daly, Squiggy

0:19 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History in Factory. It's about today. Today's June the twenty second. Still feel everything that you do. Kiss he spends you long since somebody listens. Today is National Kissing Day. Today is actually to promote improving your health by kissing. I'm serious kissing. It relieves stress, it burns calories, it improves your immune system. Plus it's kind of fun. The first time k kissing was written, who's about fifteen in OIRBC over in India. Now I don't have any proof, but I don't think kissing really became popular as people started brushing their teeth. But that's just me now, just so you know, it was in nineteen forties before people in America started brushing their teeth every day now with toothbrushes, mouth washed breath, men's gum. Yeah, had no reason that you can't exercise those thirty four facial muscles. It takes the kiss today, So grab someone special and get healthy and kiss today. I have absolutely no idea why they would combine these two. Yeah, it's National onion ring Day too, so when you're kissing, of course you want onion rings. Onion rings they were first basically Mento Cookbucks in about eighteen oh two. Now the

1:49 deep Fried battered onion rings that we left today, they didn't become popular until nineteen sixties. That's what A and w Rippeer restaurants put them on their menus. Yeah, their first national chain to do that. Then. Of course onion rings exploding popularity. Now they're everywhere, So whatever you want to do, they just enjoy kissing and enjoy some onion rings. All right, let's see what happened in entertainment on you in the twenty second. That's a bauck. In nineteen ninety six, then one album was Load by Metallica. Bone Thugs and Harmony had the numb one song with the Crossroads. Hey and we pray and we pray and we pray, and we've pray every day, every day, every day, every day and we're praying, we're praying, we. Pray and we steal with Lacys.

2:30 The follow me Roads. So weather was television seven. Comers, So think a bit to do the people that's known then he's in's term booth. Tracy Lawrence had the number one country song with Time Marches. On Mama's Enter Learning how to Sow That is drinking beer. Listen to the radyint william Saints for log. And there John time marches On Tow marches On. The top selling book was The Runaway Jury by John Grisham. Top movie was a racer, a witness protection expert. He gets suspicious of his coworkers in a case of high tech weapons. Stars Arnold Swarzenegger, Vanessa Williams and James Kahn.

3:21 All Right, what happened on June? In the twenty second English Explorer Henry Hudson. He's a the Hudson Bay and the Hudson River are named after. In sixteen eleven, he was on a voyage to try and find the Northwest passage Hudson. He really pissed off his crew though he kept gettinghim stuck in ice. So Anthony Green, he ended up leading a mutinee on Hudson ship to Discovery. Now Hudson, his son and seven crewmen's were loyal. Yeah, they were set adrift in lifeboat ironically in Hudson Bay. Now they were never seen again. The mutineers. They were able to limp that ship back to England, but only four of them actually made it back alive, and those four were put on trial from murdering Hudson. Well, the four they claimed that they were innocent. It was the other guys who killed him and all that kind of stuff. They were just there. They didn't have anything to do with it.

4:04 The court said, okay, let him go. Sixteen thirty three astronomer Galileo. He had been sentenced to prison. See Galileo, he had the gall He actually was teaching that earth revolved around the sun. Of course, it's pure heresy. Everybody knew that everything revolved around the earth. So Galileo today found out that not only was he going to prison, he's going to be flogged. So he took it all back. He said, hey, man, I'm just kidding. Of course, everything revolves around the earth. I know that. You know. Of course I didn't do anything wrong. Well, the Vatican they didn't think he was sincere, so instead of flogging him and putting it in prison, Yeah, they just sentenced Galileo to life in under house arrest. So yeah, he had to live out the last nine years in his house.

4:44 On the bright side, the Vatican eventually did apologize to Galileo. Yeah, they admitted that they were wrong. It was nineteen ninety two, eighteen forty seven, sixteen year old Hanson Gregory he invented the ring donut. Now, he was a cook on a merchant ship and he was giving a rest be for a pastry. But he couldn't get that pastry to cook all the way through, so he ended up just cutting out the centers of it. Yeah, that's how your don it was invented, So thank you, Hanson Gregory, eighteen sixty five. The Confederate ship that Chinandoah fired the last shot of the Civil War, the Shenandoah was actually in the Baring Sea off of Alaska when they received word that the South had surrendered, So they fired a blank round at a passing whaling ship to get their attention. Then they surrendered to the whalers. Now, I think our authorities kind of kept this historical story cud of out of the headlines.

5:32 About five years ago. Back in eighteen ninety seven in Bombay, India, they were suffering through a plague, so the British, but Walter ran in charge of overseeing the plague. So today the locals they shot and killed Walter. Yeah, I was in protest for the excessive measures he was using to then force He had to combat the city's plague epidemic. Nineteen thirty four, Bank Robert John Dillinger. He was named America's first Public Enemy Number one by the FBI. First Dairy Queen opened up to Day in nineteen forty and Juliet, Illinois nineteen forty one. The largest invasion in military history happened when Germany attacked the Soviet Union. Germany used three thousand or three million soldiers to attack the Soviet Union all across this eighteen hundred mile border. Yeah, this ended up building the whole bloodiest part of all the World War Two. Now sadly was even sadder once Germany attacked that and with their all the stuff that's done, twenty six million Soviet citizens are killed during that time. Nineteen sixty nine, the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Yeah, it caught fire due to all the pollution. Flames reached up to five stories I but they were able to put it out pretty quick. They put it out about a half hour.

6:36 They used water from shore. Nineteen eighty Pope jump all the second he sayd Kateria Tekawita, she is the first Native America and to be saying it, nephew want to hear all about her. You can just listen to the Catholic one on one podcast I talk all about her. In twenty twenty two, at tooth of Patrese Lumaba, it began a tour of the Democratic Republic of Congo. See Patrese he is a leader of the Congolese his independence movement. Now he was murdered and then his body was dissolved by acid except for one tooth. So after that tienth tour of the country, it was laid to rest in the cemetery and Kenny Shatshaw's. Cop Stop Coop Coop Chop coo go show this shimt day.

7:18 We's gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We won't simple targe. He like this shibs day. And you know we don't do work. Let's check out it was born eyed Gin in the twenty second. Why me, Lord, what have I. Dude? Deserven one of the pleasure I know. That was Chris Christopherson's only number one song, Sunday Morning Coming Down. Chris He was born in Brownsville, Texas, in nineteen thirty six. He had a lot more success as a songwriter than a singer. You read a lot of number one songs for other artists. He won a couple Grammys for his own writing. Then in nineteen eighties he was in that country supergroup The Highwayman. He was a very successful actor too, A Star is Born, Semi Tough, Convoy, Heavens Game, Yeah, some of the movies he was in.

8:12 He had one daughter and one son from his first wife. Second wife was Ruda Cools and they had a daughter. Married his third wife in nineteen eighty three. They had five children. Chris Just died last September at eighty eight years old. Actor David L. Louder. He played Squiggy on the TV show of Verne Shirley David. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen forty seven. Some of his movies he was in nineteen forty one used cars Man with one Red Shoe in Scary Movie he played principal Squigman had a lot of people are too young to get that joke. Nineteen eighty four, he is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. Ended up becoming a really big advocate for it. Raised a lot of money for MS. David. He married his second wife in nineteen seventy nine and they had one daughter. He died from his MS in twenty twenty at seventy three years old. That's Todd runn Wren.

9:15 He's seventy eight, born in Philadelphia in nineteen forty eight. Some of his hits are Hello, It's me I Saw the Light? Could we still be friends? Bang on the drums all day? Todd. He's out on tour right now. If you want to check him out. I'll be out there until the end of August. Then he goes to Europe. Nineteen seventy six, Todd Lungern's girlfriend cheated on him with Stephen Tyler from Van Arrowsmith. Then she got pregnant. Well, Todd manned up. He raised that future actress Live Tyler as if she was his own. Then he had two sons from another girlfriend he married nineteen eighty eight and they have two sons. Lindsey Wagner, she played her. But do you know what the bionic woman's name was on TV? Yeah, it was Jamie Summers. Now most people can remember Steve Austin as a six million dollar man, but they forget about Jamie's Summers. As let's explaining to talk about woman.

10:02 Lindsay Wagner is seventy seven. She was born in Los Angeles, but that she grew up in Oregon. Besides the bonic Women, she's in like sixty TV shows, made a whole lot of TV momies. She's four times divorced and had two sons from her third husband. Also seventy seventy days. Actress Meryl Streep. She was born in the Summit, New Jersey. Merrill is considered the greatest actor of her generation. Now. She's been nominated for record twenty one Academy Awards. She won three Kramer Versus Kramer, Sophie's Choice, and Iron Lady. She got married in nineteen seventy eight and they have one son and three daughters. Belle and her husband they've actually been separated since twenty eighteen, so that usually means there is no prenup. Sidney Lapper she was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty three. She's seventy three. She sold over fifty million records. Said they had girls just want to have fun time after time. She bought true Colors.

11:17 She got married nineteen ninety one and they have a son, Freddy Prince. He was a very popular stand up comedian in the nineteen seventies. Also started on the TV show Cheic Going the Man Sally Freddy He really suffered bad from depression nineteen seventy seven, only twenty two years old. Yeah, I shot himself in the head. He was married and they had one son, ended up being actor Freddy Prince Junior. Yeah, Junior. He was ten months old when his dad committed suicide. Senior. He was born in New York City in nineteen fifty four.

12:04 That was Green Guard Side. He still sings lead for Scritty Palati. They're still together Green seventy one. He's born in Cardiff, Wales in nineteen fifty five. Helped formed Scritty Palidi in nineteen seventy seven. Name Scritty Palidi's based on some Italian Marxist who was really big back then. They only had a couple hits on this side of the pond. What perfect arm? What would it be? Perfect? Way? Boom? There she is. That's about it really. Granny is married to a singer from over there too, and all Scritty Paliti does is too of the UK actress Tracy Paul And she was born on Long Island, New York in nineteen sixty sixty six years old today. She's probably best known though for being just married to Michael J. Fox. They met when they were both doing the TV show Family Ties. Later on she did like some other TV movies.

12:48 She was online order SVU, but she's been pretty much just to stay home mom, taking care of their four kids. Then when her and Michael married nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, she's been his primary caregiver since she got diagnosed with Parkinson's and nineteen ninety one. Writer Dan Brown was born in Exeter, New Hampshire in nineteen sixty four. He's sixty two sold over two hundred million bucks. Some of them are the Da Vinci Ca angels and demons. The last symbol Inferno. He was married for twenty one years, and his wife found out that he was more demon than angel when it came to other women. Carson Daly, he's fifty three, is born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen seventy three. Started out just as a regular ol DJ, ended up posting MTD's TRL. From that, he went to Late Night with Carson. That late night show, he had his last call with Carson daily. He did that for seventeen years been hosing the voice since twenty eleven, been on Today since twenty thirteen, got married in twenty fifteen, and they have four children. All right, Our quote of today goes to comedian George Carlin. He died it in twenty eighteen at seventy one years old. George said, don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things. Hey, thank you for listening today. We sure appreciate it. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on.

13:56 I always check out the show notes for links so you can see all our cool stuff, our country and the ground radio artists. Today. It comes from Jenny and Love and Colorado shes he her Page retlgive song. Drinks alone. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Mama always said not to drink alone, or else you've got a problem. So cheers with me. Cheers with me to getting kind of high. We go re lit alone to smoke them. If you got home, sharing is caring to pass it over here. So I got. Nothing now, I'm trying to forget. Everybody's gone good.

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