June 28-Mel Brooks, Mr. Miyagi, Gilda Radner, Kathy Bates, John Cusack, Elon Musk, Kellie Pickler, Tapioca

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff And today is June twenty eighth. Welcome to history and factoids about today. Let's just say, I mean, will share myself for you, just say seeing to see you and repassing. Today is National Tapioca Day. Now we mostly tap yoka is pudding tap yoca. It comes from the kazava plants roots. Now it's healthy for you. When it's cooked, rat's poisonous. How long do you think it took him to figure that out? Now, I'm not a fan, but I don't want to hold you back. So if you want to go and enjoy some tap bioca today, just make sure it's cooked. Let's see what happened in entertainment nineteen twenty eighth.

1:02 It's back to nineteen fifty six. Number one album was Elvis Presley By Elvis Presley. Googie Grant had the number one song with Wayward Wind. The Wayward Wind. It's a restless wind, a restless wind. Fo year old Cony was born. Next staking. ELA's that the number one cutry song with heartbreak Hotel Well this is. My bed Love, will the find a new place? To twelve will It's done? End of the Lone Street that Harvey hotel.

1:47 I'll be lonely, well, lamb so lonely, I'll be lonely. I could die. The number one book was The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. Todd was the King and I a widow. She takes a job as a limon nanny for the King of Siam, Yeah, for his kids. Stars Joe Brenner, Deborah Kerr, and Rita Marino. What happened on June the twenty eighth, seventeen seventy eight during the American Revolution was at the Battle of mon Month that was fought in New Jersey. Now, the battle pretty much ended in her draw, but the United States claimed victory. Now the story of the battle though, was Molly Pitcher. Her name was actually Mary Hayes, but Molly's husband he was fighting for the United States. Now, like a lot of the otherwise, Molly, she was following the troops as they would go around. Yeah, the ladies would be in the back and they'd help out with like food and medical stuff and sewing and all that kind of stuff. But during the battle, while the fighting was going on, Mollie she was taking water out to the soldiers who were fighting against the British Now, when her husband got wounded, she just took over his place. That are geting, that's right.

2:48 She was loading it and shooting and everything. George Washington, he was so impressed he made her honorary noncommissioned officer. Eighteen fifty nine in Newcastle. Upon Tying in England, they had the world's first dog shows entered. Twenty three were pointers, twenty seven were setters. Don't know who one. Eighteen seventy Congress, they had created the first four federal holidays. It'd be New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. Now it was only for federal employees. Everybody else they were on their own law. Today there are eleven federal holidays. Nineteen ten, the first zeppelinaiirship made his first fight with passengers. Yeah, it was over in Germany. Well, the Zeppeline got stuck in some trees. One person was injured. That was a crew member when he was trying to get it unstuck from the trees. Nineteen fourteen, the Archduke of Austria, Franz Ferdinand him and his wife Sofia. They were assassinated driving through Serajova and Bosnia. They were shot by a Serbian who wanted to end the Austrian Hungary rule of Bosnia Herzegovinia. Well, that really made the Austrians mad, so they declared war on Serbia. Serbia, they declared war on Austria. Then all the other countries in Europe they just picked a side and they all went to war. That's how World War One began. Sixteen million people ended up dying from it.

3:57 Ironically today, in nineteen nineteen, the Treaty of Versailles was signed over in France. It's the treaty that ended World War One. Yeah, the treaty was between Germany and all the Allied countries. Germany they had to admit that they started the war and they had to pay for the whole damn thing. That's what led to World War two. Now, the United States, he did sign that Treaty of Versizes, but the Senate never ratified it. Now they wouldn't do it. So the United States and Germany they got together and signed their own separate peace to in nineteen twenty one. Nineteen sixty five, US President Lindon Johnson, he authorized the first ground troops to be sent to Vietnam. Before then, it was all special Forces. Now, I hope most of you have seen the movie or read the book Loan Survivor. It's all about Marcus Lutreux. What happened today in two thousand and five over in Afghanistan. It's called Operation Red Wings.

4:43 Now Marcus lived, but three other Navy seals are with them. They were killed during the operation when they were ambushed by Taliban. So a helicopter was sent out to help him out, and that the helicopter was shot down. That killed sixteen more Navy seals out there. Marcus he was later rescued two thousand and nine, and Stephen Hawking he held a party for time travelers he has at Cambridge University in England. Now he didn't send out invitations until the next day. Wouldn't it be cool if somebody had just showed up South Korea North? I know, in South Korea. In twenty twenty three, everybody in the country of South Korea became one year younger. Yeah, now that would suck if you're about ready to get your driver's license and been allowed to buy beer. See what happened is South Korea had joined their rest of the entire world. Say before that, when somebody was born in South Korea. They were automatically given the age one. Now South Korea, you actually had to wait till your first birthday before you were a one year old like the rest of the world.

5:38 Joke doke, joke, coke joked joke, shoge thish shiberth day. We're gonna pause, he left this shuverfday. We gonna simple carge like this shivebirth day. And you know we don't do birthday. Let's see what was born on June the twenty eighth, No Brooks. He's one hundred years old today. He's born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen twenty six. Writer, director, actor, and producer comedian Mail. He's an he Got winner. Yeah, he won his Oscar for the producers. Then he's won four Emmys, three Grammys and three Tony's. Now, after he served over in Europe in World War Two, he came home and started in the show Bills. Was nineteen forty seven. Some of his movies are Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World, Part one, Space Boat on TV Great, He Gets Smart. Mel had three children from his first wife, then he married Anne Bakroft. The other actress. In nineteen sixty four, they had win son, and she died in two thousand and five. Mel He says he's still working. Yeah, he's doing some right and he has some projects that he wants to do. Actor comedian Pat Marita. He was born in Alton, California, in nineteen thirty two.

6:40 Now. He got spinal to Berkeley yosis when he was two years old. Ended up spending the next nine years in the hospital, you know, from being traded for and different surgeries, learning how to walk. So when he's eleven, he is finally released, yay. He immediately sent to Arizona to a World War two Japanese and tournament camp. Yeah, that's where his family is being held at. After college, Patty became a manager at the aerospace company Luckyed. Yeah, I moved up really quick. But then he got burned out. So he became a stand up comedian. He called himself a hip nip. Then that got him on the TV show Happy Days. He played Arnold It really big, played mister Miagi in the Karate Kids Moves. He was nominated for an Oscar for the first one. He had one child from his first wife, two from his second wife. Married his third wife in nineteen ninety four. Pat died from kidney failure two thousand and five, seventy three years old.

7:26 Actress comedian Gilda Radner. She was born in Detroit nineteen forty six. As she started out in the Second City comedy Trip. Then she was an original cast member for Saturday Night Live from seventy five to eighty. She did some stand up comedian. Then she married Gen Wilder nineteen eighty four. They were in the movies Hanky Panky, The Woman in Red Hotel, or What It was at Haunted, Honeymoon Sthing like that. Yeah, they did those movies together. Then gil That died from ovarian cancer in nineteen eighty nine, forty two years old. Actress Kathy Bates is seventy eight. She's born in Memphis, Tennessee. In nineteen forty eight, she won an Oscar for Misery. She was nominated for Oscar for her primary colors about Schmid Richard Jewel. She was also in Fried Green Tomatoes, Water Boy, Titanic. Now she is currently starring on the TV show Matt Luck Kathy.

8:10 She married once in the nineties. For about six years now, she has beaten both ovarian and breast cancer. So good job, Kathy. Actor John Cusack is sixty. He was born in Evanston, Illinois, in nineteen sixty six. His two older sisters are actresses and in Joan Cusack. Now. He had small roles in the Movie's Class and Sixteen Candles. Then he hit finally in the movie The Sure Thing, then Better Off Dead, Say Anything, Connair, Hot Tub Time Machine. Now John, he is actually a sixth degree black built our kickboxer. Right. He started kickboxing when he was training for the movie Say Anything. Actors has Mary Stuart Masterson. She's also sixty. She's born in Los Angeles. She was in her first movie when she was eight. Yeah, it was The Stepford Wives.

8:51 Her first starring role in the movie it was Heaven Help Us, then Some kind of Wonderful Fried Green Tomatoes, Bennie and June. She got married her third husband in two thousand and they have four children. They live on a farm. Actress to Tina Arnold. She was born in Queens, New York in nineteen sixty nine fifty seven. Today started acting as a teenager. Her first movie was a Little Shop of Whores, then Big Mama's House, Wild Hogs on TV. She started out on the daytime soap Opera's Ryan's Hope, and then all my children moved to nighttime and started Martin and then everybody hates Chris. She had a daughter from a boyfriend. Then she married, divorce twice four years, both times. Trillionaire Elon Musk He's fifty five. He's born in Pretorious, South Africa. In nineteen seventy one, moved to Canada and he was eighteen and decided to go to the University of Pennsylvania. After he graduated and moved to California, started a couple of software companies, sold them for a lot of money, so he started SpaceX in two thousand and two. Then in two thousand and four, I took a lot of that money and he invested in a car company called Tesla, took over running that in two thousand and eight. He has created a lot of different businesses and companies over the ears. I mean, he bought Twitter, but he changed that to x Now. Elon and his first wife, they had a child he died from sudden infant death syndrome. Then they had twins, and then they had triplets. Then they divorced after eight years. Then Elon married and divorced his second wife twice in six years.

10:09 Then he had three children from the Canadian singer Grimes. So that's nine kids, right, Okay, he has five more along the way country singer Kelly Picklers forty. He was born in Alba Marley, North Carolina in nineteen eighty six. Now we all first met Kelly on American Idol in two thousand and five. She finished six players, but that was okay. She got a record deal out of it, red high heels. I wonder things that never crosses a man's mind. Best days of your life. There are some of her heads. Now this is probably better than winning American Idol. In twenty thirteen, she went Dancing with the Stars.

11:01 She got married in twenty eleven. Then her husband he killed himself in twenty twenty three. Okay. Our quote of the day to us comes from the fourth United States President, James Madison. He died today in eighteen thirty six at eighty five years old. He says, the most instances of stealing that freedom of regular people is by silent and gradual abuse by the people in power. True. Well, thank you all for listening today, and don't get to follow us. I know you listen to his song. Check out coolmedia dot com. That's Cool three US and Country Underground Radio. Our Country Undrea got done. Just google it it It'll come up for like ten different places. You can listen to it on so our Country undergund Radio artist the Day. It comes from Stacy over in Edmonton. Yeah, she wants to listen to another Canadian, Susie Corey. He just wants to hear her song Pretty Little Things. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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