June 23-Pink Flamingo's, June Carter Cash, Danzig, Frances McDormand, Selma Blair, Melissa Rauch, Lorena Bobbitt

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today is June the twenty third. She made a new man of me. We got hainte flamingos in the FRONTI yard picked window with a few wall morning, blue collar heaven, mister blaiz it just any embitters, miss We got pink flamingo. Today is National Pink Flamingo Day. Nineteen fifty seven. Right out of high school, Don Firestone. He was hired by a company and Leo mister Massachusetts to make plastic lawn ornaments. Oh, he's looking Friday. So he's looking through an issue in National Geographic. Saw some pictures flamingos. What the hell now?

1:02 In the past pink flamingosy ever thought of a tacky and kind of portete. Well, then they actually became a source of rebellion. Yeah, it was a form of expression against societal norms and that kind of stuff. Today, I don't think anybody really cares. Now. If you have a pink flamingo, or you can get your hands on one today, you're supposed to actually take it with you on whatever you're doing. Yeah, and whether you go to that pool, the beach out to eat, you know, the park whatever. Take pictures of you and your pink flamingo and your exploits today. That's cooler than a selfie. Just have fun on a really silly day. Now. Flamingos they mainly eat algae and Brian shrimp, so when they metabolize that, it turns their feathers pink. Yeah, their natural blondes. All right, let's see what was going on in entertainment on June the twenty third Speck. In nineteen eighty six, No One album was Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston out of the Bill and Michael McDonald had then It's On with on My Own, on My wo we Knows, and the number one country song with Living in the Promised Land.

2:19 Our dreams are all Steve still know how Freedom Me. While across the Shifting Sand Room for every Woman. The top selling book was Last of the Breed by Louis Lamour top movie was Karate Kid Too. That's one Daniel. He goes with mister Miyagi to Miyagi's home of Okinawa, That's where he grew up. Yeah, Miyagi is gonna visit his dying dad. Well, well they're back there they both have to use karate starts. Pat Maurita and Ralph Machio. Ah, what happened on June the twenty third and the year ninety zero three the world's oldest parliament meant for the first time, it's called the off thing. It's in Iceland. Yah, they still meet. Seventeen eighty four, Edward Warren, he made the first hot air balloon flight in America. Edward he was thirteen years old. Makes sense though, a thirteen year old boy, that volunteer freezy thing that looked kind of cool.

3:22 Eighteen forty six in Belgium, Adelph Sachs he invented his newest instrument and he guesses, yeah, the saxophone. And Moresbury, Pennsylvania. In eighteen sixty eight, Christopher Scholz he gets credit for inventing the typewriter. Now, other typewriters they'd been invented, but the keys were all in alphabetic order, so they didn't work. They'd all get jammed up together. So Shoalz he invented the quirty keyboard, and that's the qwerty that you see today that prevented all the keys from jaminem So he gets credit for inventing the whole entire typewriter. Eighteen ninety eight, the President of the Philippines, Emilio and Gwingdaldo, he decreed that he was replacing his dictorial government. He is replacing him with a new government by the people. He was going to be president. Nineteen twenty six, the first SAT College interc exams were given World War Two in nineteen forty two the British they were able to capture Germany's newest fighter airplane is called the Fokker Wolf FWE ninety, fastest airplane in the entire world. They were able to catch or capture that thing totally intact. Say the German pilot accidentally landed in British air base in Wales. Now he wasn't trying to defect or anything. He honestly thought he was landing in an air base in Germany, probably not one in Germany's ace pilots. Nineteen sixty with a prescription, the world's first contraceptive pills for birth control went on sale here in the United States. Nineteen eighty David Letterman Show debut on NBC. It was a daytime talk show.

4:44 Now the people who are home during the day, they didn't like that at all. They thought it totally sucked, So NBC they moved it to midnight. Nineteen eighty two. The coldest temperature ever recorded at the South Pole negative one hundred and seventeen degrees. Now that's not the coldest temperature ever. That's one hundred and twenty eight and that was at a Soviets research station in eighty three, Australia in nineteen eighty two, and tibetan domestic cat, his name was Heini. He weighed in at forty five pounds. That set a new world record for fattest cat. Well, they stopped that record right then and there. They said they're not continuing it. Nope, they did not want people trying to break the fattest cat record. So leave your little cat alone. You can't win any awards for it now. I guess if you're under thirty, she probably didn't have to deal with any of this media frenzy. Back in nineteen ninety three. You think things go viral, Now, this was before the Internet, even Lorrain and Bobbit. She cut off her husband John's penis while he was sleeping. Then she grabbed the part that she cut off and took it with her when she drove away in the family car.

5:40 At some points she got tired of it and threw it out the window. Now, well, John was in the hospital. The police were able to find that severed penis. Doctors were able to sew it back on. Now John couldn't but lorraina. She ended up getting off from it. Yeah, claimed temporary and sanity and it worked. Twenty twelve. Over in Thailand, seventy six months they were sent to the hospital. Yeah, they were attack bass form of bees. How many of them do you think kept their valet? Silence joke, dope, joke, joked joke, show dish Shivers day, Please don't pause, he left this shivery. We want simpletage this shivers day, and you know we don't work day. Let's check out who was born on June the twenty third, Well, now, Jude Jackson, No head you hell don't please? Oh hell beg come was sal Gimo Jackson? That was country legend.

6:40 June Carter Cash. She was born in Macy Spring, Virginia, in nineteen twenty nine. Now, she was born into the famous Carter music family. She started performing with the family when she was ten years old. Then, when her parents retired. Yeah, she born with their sisters. They were the Carter Sisters. Later on, of course, she performed with her third husband, Johnny Cash, now June. If you want to know more about her, yeah, I just watched the movie Walk the Line. They do a pretty good job doing about her life. Now. She's won five Grammys and she also played the guitar, banjo, harmonica, and otto harp. She did have a daughter from her first husband. She is country singer Carlene Carter and she had a daughter from her second husband. She married Johnny Cash in nineteen sixty eight and they had one son, June. She died in two thousand and three. Is seventy three years old after heart valve surgery. Actor Brian Brown is seventy nine. He's born in Sydney, Australia in nineteen forty seven.

7:28 You probably know him best for her starring in the movie Cocktail with Tom Cruise. He is also in Gorilla's The Miss Along Came Polly, Gods of Egypt. He married actress Rachel Ward in nineteen eighty three and they have three kids. That was Glenn Danzig, singing lead for the band Danzig. He was born in Lodi, New Jersey. He's seventy one today. He formed the Misfits in nineteen seventy seven, then they fired him in nineteen eighty seven, so he started the band Danzig. Now you won't believe it, but he does a lot of different types of music. He does punk rock, heavy metal, blues, and classical music. He's even wrote hit songs for Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison.

8:21 Some of his Danzig songs we might have heard of from Mother Black, Dirty Summer, Can't Speak, I Don't Mind the Pine Now at the day, he is really really big in the comic books. Actress Francis McDorman is sixty nine. She was born in Gibson City, Illinois, in nineteen fifty seven. She's won Oscars for Fargo, three Billiards, bill Boards outside of Eming, Minnesota, and No Manland nominee for Oscars for Mississippi Burning, almost famous in North Country. She's also in two Emmys and a Tony, so she's pretty much to getting that close to getting that he got as. She got married to movie director Joe Cohen in nineteen eighty four and they have a son. Actress Samma Blair is fifty four. She's born in Southfield, missis she again. In nineteen seventy two, she graduated magna cum nod from the University of Michigan with a triple major English psychology and photography.

9:07 So of course she went into acting. Her first movie was The Broccoli Theory. She played the pretzel cart lesbian. Yeah, she finally hitting the movie Curl Intentions legally brong the sweetest thing. She's in those hell boy movies. She was married to Frank Zappa's son I'll met for two years. Then she had a son from a boyfriend. Twenty eighteen, someone was diagnosed with multiple scrosses. So we wish you're the best. But she's actually still doing some acting. She's got a movie coming out later on this year, A Person's. Seeing the Hot Tense State. The nearly fourteen million years ago expansion started, and waiting the years began. To Coobie, Altros began to Julie, and the Dulls developed twosy build a warrant. The science sist tod unravel all started.

9:51 Whist Pigan actress Melissa Rouch. She's forty six, born in Marlborough Township, New Jersey in nineteen eighty. Probably most known for and Bernadette on the TV show Big Bang Theory. Now, before that, she was on VH one Best Week Ever. After that, she was the judge on Night Court. Now, if you've seen her on rth, Kurt, yeah, you know the voice she used playing Bernadette was not her real voice. Yeah, so obviously she does a lot of voice work too. She got married in two thousand and seven and they have one son and one daughter. Okay, our quote of the day it comes from Jonah Sulk. He's the guy who came up with the vaccine that eradicated polio. Jonah says that or he died in nineteen ninety five at eighty years old. Now his quote of the day, he says, the reward for work well done is an opportunity to do more work. Thank you for being here today, and don't fit to follow us on whoever you listen to.

10:38 A son got some emails about the puzzle book. Exactly what it is. Well, it's about like eighty puzzles a little more, the word searches, crossword matching, puzzles, words, scramble, spot the difference, all different kinds of stuff they have to do with whatever the national day is of the day, for instance, like on Father's Day, we did a spot the difference of a dad playing with his son and the daughter, and there's a word search at the top twenty five things that Dad's for Father's Day. For this year, it's a lot of fun. Our country ground radio arts today. It comes from one down in Trinidad, Colorado. He wants to hear Lisam song Summerfall. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. South of the border on a beach of what sand. She SIPs Margart readers and works on her tan. She's enjoyed her vacation. In fact, she's had a fall. Last night at the fiesta, we danced all nine long. She held me closer with every song. That back at the hotel, we got no sleep at all. She's just here for a good time to let down her hair. But I'm having a hard time, trying hard not to care. I'm Vernans, swept on my.

12:03 Feet by a law. She's had a great summer and I've had quite a fall.