June 25-Catfish, Virginia Birthday, George Michael, Carly Simon, Ricky Gervais, Split Enz, Custer's last stand

0:09 Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today visited by cool Media. This is June the twenty fifth. You like cat cat, cat cat cat cat, catfish beever, Come home, Come, I got that cat cat cat cat cat cat calfish bever. It is National Catfish Day. Catfish. They are named after their long barbles that look like cat whiskers. Catfish are one of the most eaten fish in America. Now you can have breaded, fried, grilled, smoked catfish. Farming has exploded over the last thirty years. Now they are really really healthy for you.

0:50 But if you don't want to buy, you can go catfishing. Yeah, catfish, they're really fun to catch. Biggest catfish ever caught in the United States with a blue catfish Cotton, Virginia in twenty eleven, one hundred and forty three pounds. So the catch buyer go out in order and just enjoy some catfish today. All right, Well, this is going on in entertainment on June twenty fifth, go back there. In nineteen eighty two, number one album was Asia by Asia. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder had the number one song with Ebony and Ivory never Mony sign My Side My Gun Gee.

1:38 Conway Twitty had the number one country song with slow Hand. You own a man with the soul you want alone with the knees you want somebody who was sometimes not bumming. Number one buck was The Man from Saint Petersburg by Ken Fullett. Top movie was Et Extraterrestrial. A nerdy kid helps a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home planet stars Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore and d Wallas. All Right, let's see it happened in the world. On June the twenty fifth, Happy Birthday Virginia seventeen eighty eight, Virginia became the tenth state named after England's Queen Elizabeth. She was known as the virgin Queen. Capital is Richmond. Highest point as Matt Rogers a five seven and twenty nine feet. Virginia state bird is the Cardinal fish is the brook trout, flower and tree are the dagwood mammal Virginia bigger, and the Virginia state drink is rye whiskey. Some people born in Virginia. Eight presidents have been born in Virginia. That's the most of any state. Sandra Bullock Patsy Kleine,

3:08 Chris Pratt, lit See, Elliott, Gabby Douglas, Rob Loue, Warren Batty, Wayne Newton had just some of the people born in the Old Dominion state. It was Custer's last stand today. In eighteen seventy six, at the Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana, sue Indians led by Chase Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. They were able to kill Custer and all two hundred and sixty eight of his men. That included two of Custer's brothers, his nephew and brother in law. Nineteen thirty eight, the United States Federal minimum wage Law went in effect, guaranteed workers twenty five cents an hour, and they proved they couldn't work more than fifty four hours in a week. Nineteen fifty the Korean War began North Korea. They wanted the whole country to be communists, so they attacked South Korea with over sixty thousand troops. Then the Soviet Union and China jumped in on North Korea side, so the United States and the United Nations actually went in on South Korea side. A truce was signed three years later in nineteen fifty three. Technically, the wars still on. Yeah, no peace Street. He's ever been signed, just that truce. Nineteen sixty one, Iraq they declared that Kuwait is part of Iraq.

4:09 Kuwait they declared, no, we aren't. That is the rationale that has Saddam Hussein used when he rated Kuwait back in nineteen ninety. Now, how would you like to hold this record? Nineteen seventy seven, Virginia park ranger Roy Sullivan. He was struck by lightning for the seventh time. That's right, he lived again. Now. The first time Oh Roy was struck by lighting was back in nineteen forty two. Cope Cope Coop Coop Coat shot this shiver Day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiver Day. We won't simple target. It's shibs day. And you know we don't do because let's check out it. Born on you in the twenty fifth starring June Lockhart, You Riley John Provo, says Timmy and of course Lassie actress June Luckard.

5:11 She started acting in nineteen thirty three when she was eight years old. Today she's ninety nine years old. She's born in New York City in nineteen twenty five. She is one of the last surviving actors from Hollywood's Golden Age. Now she wanted Tony on Broadway, but she's best known for TV. She played Timmy's mom on Lastie in two hundred episodes. Then she was a mom in Lost in Spay. She was the doctor on Petticoat Junction. She retired from acting just three years ago, in twenty twenty one. She has twice divorced, and they had two daughters from her first husband, David. So you probably think this song is about your So she thinks this song is about Jim Dogee Dogee. She says that all three verses of that song are about three different guys. The first verse is about Warren Baty. Carly Simon's eighty one. She's born in New York City in nineteen forty three. Her dad, he was a co founder as Simon and Schuster. Carly she started out singing with her sister. They were Simon's sisters. Then her sister left in nineteen seventy one. That, of course, Carly had huge me and solo. Some of her hats are Mockingbird, that was with James Taylor, You're so vain, nobody does it better, and Jesse. She still released his music. If you want to hit up her website. She was married to James Taylor for eleven years and they had two daughters. She was married to her second husband for twenty years when they divorced. Carly. She's a breast cancer viver since nineteen ninety eight, so that's awesome. Comedian Jimmy Walker.

7:00 He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen forty seven. He's seventy seven. He actually still tours the country during the stand up comedy routine. Best known though, for playing JJ on the sitcom Good Times. He got really famous for the catchphrase I don't kind of got him typecast Loane found where Hard Troupe, We're getting work? After that, he wasn't the movie His Rabbit Test Concord Airport seventy nine and going Bananas times we shout out that's no problem. Sometimes the same town shit up. That was Tim fans Late for the band Split Ends. He was born in Tay I want not to New Zealand in nineteen fifty two. He's seventy two. Co found his Split Ends in nineteen seventy two. They had the hits I Got You one step Byhead six months in Leaky Boot. When they broke up, he joined his brother in the band Crowded House for a little while, and then he got out of that and released eleven solo albums. He's written for movies and musicals and that kind of stuff. He has married and they have a son and a daughter. Comedian Ricky Gervais. He was born in nineteen sixty one and reading England in sixty three year old. Now. In the nineteen eighties he was in a new wave band. Yeah, they were called Sonora Dancing.

8:24 Oh that didn't pay the bill, so what do you do? The nineteen nineties became a stand up comedian. Now he co created the show The Office over in Britain. That's such a big hit in Britain they brought it over the United States. In movies, he's played Doctor McPhee and some of That Night at the Museum movies. Most of his movies, though, are all voice rolls. On TV. He was on the Office over here for eight seasons, done a bunch of stand up specials. Been with his girlfriends is nineteen eighty two. Now they had no desire for marriage or kids waste. Yes. George Michael was born in East Finchley, England in nineteen sixty three solo one hundred and twenty five million records. He and Andrew Ridgley formed Wham in nineteen eighty one sol there were thirty million records. Nineteen eighty six.

9:22 They went their own way and of course George had huge solo. First solo song your released is actually duet with Aretha Franklin. I knew you were waiting for me now. He was with this partner for four years when he died in twenty sixteen. See George. He had a lot of trouble with drugs for a long time. Findly got him at fifty three years old. Let's go back to Catfish Humans hat between two thousand and four thousand, Taste Buds Catfish one hundred and seventy five thousand. Wow. Thanks for being here today. You get a chance follow us on whoever you listen to us on. Come says at coomedia dot com. This go three us. Let's end with Michael Jackson Shop Sam Michael today. In two thousand and nine, at fifty years old, Michael said, I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to you. Guys are have an awesome day. We'll all talk tomorrow. No no, no, no, no, no matter