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

0:10 Hi everybody, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Isn't about cool media. Today is June twenty eighth. Today is the National Day of Joy. Today is for our people to reap the benefits of being joyful now. Being full of joy it helps you mentally and physically. Enjoying everyday moments helps your well being. Now, a lot of people they just think the joy comes from material possessions, wealth and prestige. Not so joy is actular inner now, being able to rejoice at all times and over small things. Today, discover what makes you joyful, you know, look deep inside and see what makes you smile and be a source of joy to others.

1:00 So everyone have a joyous day. All right, Let's hear what's going on in entertainment on June the twenty eighth. Let's back to nineteen seventy. The Beatles had the number one album Would Let It Be. Jackson five had the number one song with the Love You Save You Quitting Quen Training your promo Tell Me Why? Ned had the number one country song with he Loves Me All the Way let Me Lovely, Lovely. The number one book was Loves Story about Eric Seagall. The top movie was Kelly's Heroes, a group of US soldiers. They sneak behind enemy lines to steal a secret stash and Nazi treasure stars Clean East to a Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carol O'Connor, Donald Sutherland, whole bunch of people. All right, let's se it happened in the world on June twenty eighth. The American Revolution. In seventeen seventy eight in New Jersey, the Battle of Monmouth was fought. It's pretty much a draw, but the United States was able to claim victory. Now, the story of the battle was Molly Pitcher says she was following the troops and

2:30 helping out behind the scenes because her husband was actually fighting for the colonial army. Later they found out her name was actually married Ludwick Hays. But during the battle, Molly she would carry water to the troops during the fire. Then when her husband was wounded, she took his place at his cannon. Yeah, she helped fire it and clean it and all that kind of stuff. George Washington was so oppressed about what she did during the battle that he made her an honorary and non commissioned officer eighteen fifty nine, the world's first dog show was held in Newcastle upon the Tie in England. Fifty dogs were entered, twenty three were pointers and twenty seven were setters. Didn't say who won. In eighteen seventy eight Congress they created the federal holidays New Year's Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day. Eighteen ninety four they created Labor Day. Now originally those were just for federal employees. The regular people were supposed to work. Nineteen ten, the first Zeppelin airship with passengers it made his maiden flight over in Germany, got stuck in some trees and one crew member was injured trying to get it free. Nineteen fourteen, Austria's Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sofia were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia. They were shot down by a Serbian who wanted to end Austria Hungary rule of Bosnia and Herzegovinia.

3:40 Now that road pissed off austrias they declared war on Serbia. Serbery declared war on Austria. Then all the other European countries just picked a side and went to war. That's how World War World War One began, sixteen million people died. Then in nineteen nineteen, the Treaty of Versailles was signed. It ended World War One. The treaty was between Germany and the Allied Forces. Germany had to admit that they started the whole war and they had to pay for the whole thing. Yeah, that's what led to World War Two. Now, the United States, they signed that Treaty of ver Science, but the Senate refused to ratify it, so the United States and Germany signed a separate peace treaty in nineteen twenty one. Nineteen sixty five, President Lyndon Johnson he authorized the first years ground troops over to Vietnam. So have you all either seen the movie or read the book about Lone Survivor that was with Marcus Latreuelle about over in Afghanistan. It happened to day in two thousand and five and off Afghanistan. It was called Operation Red Wings. Yeah, that's where it all took place. Nineteen years Navy seals are killed. Two thousand and nine, Stephen Hockey hosted a party for time travelers at the University of Cambridge. He didn't set out invitations until after the party Coop this. We're gonna this sugar stay and you know we don't give up. Well, let's just see who was born on June the twenty eighth, mel Brooks. He's ninety seven today. He was born Melvin Kaminski in nineteen twenty six in New York City. Writer, director, actor, filmmaker. He's won the e

5:12 Good you know, he won an Oscar for the Producers. He's won four Emmy's, three Grammys and three Tonies now. After serving in wor Up during World War Two, when he got back, he started in show business in nineteen forty seven. Some of his movies are Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, History of the World Part One, Spaceballs. On TV, he created Gets Smart and History of the World Part two. I believe that's just recently on Netflix. He was married to his first wife for nine years and they had three each other. He married actress and Bancroft in nineteen sixty four. They were together until she died in two thousand and five. They had one son, mel He's still actually working in writing. Actor comedian Pat Morita. He was born in Islington, California, in nineteen thirty two. He got spinal to bercleosis when he was two years old, so he spent the next nine years in hospitals being treated, having surgery, and then learning how to walk.

6:13 When he got out he was eleven years old, he was mealy sent to a World War two Japanese and tournament camp in Arizona. Yeah, that's where his family was being held. Eventually he ended up becoming a manager at Lockeen and he got tired of That's what he decided to go into show business. Start out as a stand up comedian, called himself the Hip Nip Well. After a bunch of guest appearances on TV, he finally got his big break playing Arnold on the TV show Happy Days. Then he really hit big playing mister Miyagi in the Krowdy Kid movies. He was nominated for an Oscar for the first one. He had one child for his first wife, two from his second wife, and married his third wife in nineteen ninety four. Pat died from kidney failure in two thousand and five at seventy three years old. Actress comedian Gilda Radner was born in nineteen forty six and Detroit, Michigan.

6:55 Started out in the comedy troup Second City, then She was in the original Saturday Night Live Castle on seventy five to eighty. She did all that, Rosanna, Rosanna, Dana and wa Barbara Walters Harves. She did it. She did stand up too. She married Jean while there in nineteen eighty four. Now they were in the movie is Hanky Panky The Woman in Red and hunted Honeymoon Together Gilda. She died from ovarian cancer in nineteen eighty nine at forty two years old. Actress Kathy Bates is seventy five. She's born in Memphis, Tennessee. In nineteen forty eight, she won her oscar for Missouri, the nominated for primary Colors About Schmidt and Richard Jewell. She was also in Fried Green Tomatoes, The Water Boy, Titanic. Kathy. She married once for six years in the nineties, and she's beaten both ovarian and breast cancer, so that's cool. Actor John Cusack he was born in nineteen sixty six and Evanston, Illinois, fifty seven year old. His two older sisters are Anne and Joanne Kuzak. He first really got None for the movie The Sure Thing and then Better Off Dead, saying anything Conair, hot Tub, Time Machine. He's made over ninety movies over his lifetime. He is a Level six black belt in Kickbuk. Actor Mary Stuart Matterson. She's also fifty seven, born in nineteen sixty six in New York City. Her first movie is when she was eight, it was in The Stepford Wives. Her first starring role was in Heaven and Help Us and Some kind of Wonderful Fried Green Tomatoes, Binny and June Bad Girls. She married her third husband in two thousand and six and they have two sons and a daughter. Actress to China Arnold. She's fifty four. She's born in New York City in nineteen sixty nine. Fifty fifty four year old. Yeah, that's right. She

8:28 started acting as a teenager. Her first movie was Little Shop of Horrors. Then she was in Big Mama's House and Wildhawks. She's best known for TV, though she started out on the soap opera Ryan's Hope and then All My Children before she get really big on Martin then Everybody Hates Chris. She had a daughter from an ex boyfriend, and she's been married twice, four times four years, both times. Elon Musk he's fifty two. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa in nineteen seventy one. Moved to Canada when he was eighteen, and then he decided to go to the University of Pennsylvania. Went out to California after he graduated and started a couple of software companies, which he sold for a lot of money. Then he found his SpaceX in two thousand and two. Two thousand and four, he invested a whole bunch of money in a car company called Tesla. In two thousand and eight he became their CEO. He's really created a lot of businesses. I mean, you couldn't even come close to listen to them all over the times, I think, y'all, though he's kind of busy with Twitter right now. Hit his first wife, they had twins, then they had triplets before they divorced after eight years. He married, married and divorced his second wife twice.

9:28 Then he had a son and a daughter with the singer Grimes, and then he also has twins from a fleeing country singer Kelly Picklers thirty seven. She was born at Albert Marine, North Carolina in nineteen eighty five. First got known when she was nineteen. On the American Idol, she finished sixth but you got a record deal out of it. Some of her heads are best days of year life, red high heels, I wonder, don't you know how much I loved you? Now she might have not won American Idol, but even better, she won Dancing with the Stars in twenty thirteen. Kellis, she got married in twenty eleven. Her husband he just died from suicide in February. All right, today's stupid fact to it a winya beer.

10:24 Women are wives. Yeah, of course they're women, But whis are taller than their husband's only four percent of the time. Well, if you get a chance to at by coolmedia dot com and you can see what's going on on the podcast and the radio station, that's Cool Underground Radio, the best in underground and independent country music. As always, thank you very much for listening to us today. We sure appreciate it. Let's end with the first president in the United States, Jim Madison. He died today in eighteen thirty six, at eighty five years old. There are more instances of the abridgment of freedom of the people, by gradual and silent and in compliment by the power by those who are whatever. What he's talking about is Basically, you're getting your stuff stolen from you really quietly. There's no big fights about it.

11:09 So you guys all have a great day and we'll talk tomorrow