June 29-Hugs, Slim Pickens, Little Eva, Gary Busey, Dokken, Men at Work, Nicole Scherzinger, Eminem

0:10 Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Facto. It's about today, visit about cool media. This is June the twenty ninth. I want to hug when we say hull, I want to hug when it's time to go. I want to hug cause I want he didn't know how I'm off of they from the you. I want a hug. What a wonderful feet. I want to hug the few you squeeze and want a hug. It certainly seems like the matsur real thing to do today is a National Hug Holiday. Hugging is what separates part primates from the rest of the animal kingdom. Now it's called the cuddle hormone. Hugging releases oxytocin that helps strengthen bonds, and it also helps reduce illness and at least a less severe symptoms with people who are sick. Today is not just about hugging sick people. Now, you're supposed to need hug people who look like they need it, people who are sad, lonely, depressed, or just having a bad day.

1:03 Now a hug can really be a blessing for someone. So I also can reassure them that you really care about it. Now you can help people out a lot. What the hug, Plus it's free to do all right? What's going on entertainment? On June the twenty ninth, it was back to nineteen sixty two. Number one album was The West Side Story movie soundtrack. Ray Charles had the number one song with I Can't Stop Loving You. I'll let us on mind You Live in Me movie The Sometime. Claude King had the number one country song with Wolverton Mountain. They see don't cool on Wolverton Mountain if you're looking for a while. Colls Cliff on the Flowers has a pretty young daughter. He's mighty handy with the gun man. And nine the top book was A Ship of Fools by Katherine On Porter Todd. Movie was Hell's for Heroes in World War Two. A small squad of American soldiers have to hold off an entire German company for two days. Stars Steve mcquahan, Bobby Darren, fest Parker, James Cobern, Bob Newark. All right, let's see what was going on in the world. On June the twenty ninth,

2:35 way back in the day the Globe Theater over in London. It was really famous, especially if putting on William Shakespeare's place. Sixteen thirteen, they were performing Henry the Eighth. Well, to announce that Henry the Eighth was arriving on the set, they fired off a couple of stage cannons. Yeah, that's set. The thatched roofspan fire. Whole place burned to the ground. I mean everybody got out. It started in the roof, so they had time. Eighteen sixty three, the First National Bank opened up Davenport, Iowa. Nineteen fifty six, President Eisenhower he signed the Interstate Highway Bill that created the Entertainment Highway System, cost twenty five billion dollars over ten years to bill forty one thousand miles of in a straight highway. Nineteen seventy two, the United States Supreme Court banned the death penalty, said it was cruel and unusual punishment. Yep, beaming in Texas well, the Supreme Court changed their mind in nineteen seventy six. I guess it wasn't so cruel or unusual.

3:25 Nineteen fifty eight, in Iceland, they elected the world's first democratically or what elected female president. I'll give it a shot. And her name was Victis Finnboga Dotier, I might be right. In nineteen ninety four, it was one hundred and twenty eight degrees highest temperature ever recorded in Arizona was at Lake Havasu City. In two thousand, rapper Eminem his mom sued him for ten million dollars for defamation of character. She said that she was mad that his song My Name Is he said that she did more dope than he did. Found out, my mom's just more dope than I do. Damn. I told him I grew up to be a famous rapper, make a record about doing drugs and name it. After she said, no way, he did more dope than she did. All the judge just gave her twenty five thousand dollars a go away. In twenty fifteen, in China, they reported thirty percent of the Great Wall of China has disappeared. Now, some of it was from natural causes, you know, rain, win and that kind of stuff, but some of us just from people stealing bricks. Go got goo, goot coot, goat shug. This shiverf day, We're gonna pause.

4:33 He left this shivers day. Were gonna simple targe. He like this shiver birthday. And you know, we don't get the birthday, so he was born on Gin the twenty ninth. Actor Slim Pickens. He was born in Kingsbury, California, in nineteen nineteen. In high school, he would make some extra money on the side doing rodeo. His dad forbid him from doing rodeo, so to hide from the riding from his dad, he went by the name Slim Pickens instead of the name he was born with, Lewis Lindsley. His brother went by Easy Pickens. Now. After he graduated from high school's Slim spent twenty years on the rodeo circus, became a very famous rodeo clown, retired from it and went into movies. First hit in the movie Doctor Strange Love, then Young Riders, Blazing Saddles Stapple Dunkling Game. I don't know. For some reason, they always did cowboy movies. Married in nineteen fifty and they had three children. Slim died nineteen eighty three at sixty four years old from a brain tumor. I know you'll get to like it, even boy. And She was best known as Liliva. She was born in Belleven, North Carolina, in nineteen forty three, when she was a teenager. She was babysitting for a songwriters Carol King and Jeff Goflin. Then when they saw her singing and dance with their kids, they wrote the song look Emotion. They asked Little Eva if she had sing the demo for him.

6:04 After she sang it, they said she should just do the song hit number one in nineteen sixty two. Later on she had the heads keep your Hands Off My Baby, Let's Turkey Trot Swinging on a Star Now in nineteen sixty two when Lokemotion was number one, and on that she was getting paid fifty dollars a week. King and Geffen. Yeah, they kept thrust the money so Little Eva. She never really made a lot of money for music. She did do quite a few years on the oldies circuit. She was married for twenty years and they had three each other. She died from cervical cancer in two thousand and three at fifty nine years old. Actor Garrett Busey He's eighty born in Goose Creek, Texas in nineteen four to four. Started out playing drums in a couple of bands, and then he would do TV appearances on the side. He was the last character killed on the TV show Gunsmoke. First actually got known for acting and the movie A Star Is Born.

6:51 But he hit really big playing Buddy Holly in The Buddy Holly Store. Nominated for an oscar for it. Then he was in Leaf, The Weapon, Point Break, Underseas, Black Sheet. He's been almost one hundred and thirty movies. Actually, nineteen eighty eight he crashed on his motorcycle. Yeah, I wasn't were in helbut suffered as skull fracture and permanent brain damage. Kind of explains a little bit of it. He had a child from a girlfriend, and he had child from his first wife or his third wife in twenty nineteen and they have one child. Comedian Richard Lewis. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen forty seven. He really big as a stand up in the eighties and nineties. He had this really neurotic, self deprecating, dark kind of sense of humor. That was what his comedy is about. One of the top draws to go see in the eighties and nineties though, and he started on the sitcom Anything But Love with Jamie Lee.

7:35 Curtis. Biggest movie. He played Prince John in Robin Hood min and Tights got married in two thousand and five. Now Richard. He'd been suffering from parkinson for a couple of years ago, but a couple months ago. In February, yeah he died from a heart attack. Seventy six years old. Actor politician Fred Grandy. He was born in Sioux City, Iowa, in nineteen forty eighties seventy six. In high school, he went to a boarding school. His roommate was David Eisenhower, Dwight Eisenhower's grandson. Fred ended up as David's best man in his marriage. He married Julie Nixon, former President Nixon's daughter. Fred started acting at Harvard and after graduated, biggest role was on TV playing Gopher on The Love Boot. When that series ended, he quit acting and went into politics. He was in the House of Representatives representing Iowa from nineteen eighty seven to nineteen ninety five. No, he does a little acting, does a lot more like conservative talk shows on the radio.

8:28 He had a son and a daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty seven and they have a daughter. Don Dawkin is still rocking at seventy one years old. He and the band Docan they'll be turring in early July through the end of September. Donnie was born in Los Angeles nineteen fifty three. Started out in the band Airborne in nineteen seventy six. Nineteen seventy eight he changed Airborne to Dowkin Our Heads, Dream Warriors.

9:11 In my Dreams you just got lucky Breaking the Chains the song that we exit to all the time, it's not love he does. He has released a couple of solo albums, but he releases them under Don Dawkin, So Don dawc and that is totally different than Dawkin. He has one daughter, healing right, all that work, don't if you hang outside, don't come in now. That is Colin, a single lid from Minute Work. He's also seventy one, born in Salt Creek, Scotland. Moved to Australia when he has fourteen. Go found a Minute Work in nineteen No cool story for how they got the name. They didn't have a name. When they showed up to their first show. They said, oh, we're a minute at work.

10:05 They've had it's who can it be? Now? Down under? Be good, Johnny overkill. Now you're gonna have to follow me here on this one see Colin. He is the only guy who's still in the band min at Work. He also does solo stuff, so he is actually touring right now Australia solo. In September, he's come to the United States to tour with Ringo Stars All Star Band. Then he's going to South America to tour as min at Work by himself. I think all the new music he releases must be so. He is married to a singer, Cecilia Noel. She's from Peru and they both become US citizens. Actor Lance Barber. He was born in Battle Creek, Michigan in nineteen seventy three. You one best known for playing Sheldon's dad in the TV show Young Sheildon started out doing improv.

11:05 Jennifer Garner was in his comedy Troupe. He first kind of got known in the movie Always Sunny in Philadelphia. He is married and they have two children, and this is the last year for Young Sheldon. Don't you should go from us hot like me? Don't shoot? Should go from uzz freak like me? Don't shot? Guys, do not answer that. That was Nicole Schure, singer. She's singing for Pussycat Dolls on that song. She's forty six born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in nineteen seventy eight. Grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. Started out in the group Eden's Crush. Then she moved over to Pussycat Dolls. Some of their HiT's are Don't You Stick With You beat Buttons Now. After a magical seven year career, the pussy Cat Dolls broke up in twenty ten. Well she resbounded really good. She won Season ten and Dancing with the Stars, so she's always got that. It's been a panelist on The Mass Singer since twenty nineteen. Nicole. She is currently engaged to a Scottish rugby player. In twenty thirteen, at Bally's Hotel in Las Vegas, Jeffrey on Dish he hugged seventy seven people in twenty four hours.

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