June 30-Cole Swindell, Lena Horne, Little River Band, David Alan Grier, Pay Toilets, Tunguska, Corvettes

0:00 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and fact dudes about today. This is June the thirtieth, fort. Data day.

0:40 Damn, today is National Corvette Day. So do you know who makes the Corvette? General Motors. Yeah, I started selling them today in nineteen fifty three. That's what I want to sell a Corvette. It was the first mass produced United States sports car. I know a lot of your saying, well those Chevy Corvette. Chevy's part of General Motives. I think the nineteen sixty six Corvette is considered the best corvette. Yeah, by all the car collectors and all the car people and all that kind of stuff. Now, if you're really a Corvette guy, have fun celebrating Corvette today. Let's see what happened in entertainment not on June thirtieth. It was back to nineteen eighty seven. Number one album was Whitney by Whitney Houston. Whitney had the number one song with I Want to Dance with Somebody with Earl. Thomas Conley had the number one country song with Who. That was a close one.

1:53 I loved her because she was day and I knew all along it wasn't fair, but I didn't care then I got the hell out of there. But that was a close. The number one selling book was Misery by Stephen King. The top movie was Dragnet. Now it's just a really bad remake of the TV series stars Tom Hanks and Dan Ackroyd. All Right, what happened on June the thirtieth? Now, I would like to hear the backstory of this, but I just can't find it anywhere. Seventeen fifty five, in the Philippines they closed all non Catholic Chinese restaurants. Eighteen fifty nine, a French acroback called Charles Blondon. He was the first person across Niagara Falls on a tight rope.

2:42 Eleven people have done it now, ten men and one woman. Eighteen seventy eighty, Kelly She became the first American woman to graduate from law school. Yeah, it's Northwestern University today. Nowadays fifty five percent of all graduates from law school are women. Now, he was just a twenty seven year old clerknineteen oh five when Albert Einstein released his thirty special Relativity you know equals in C Square. Now it's known as the Tunguska event. It's the largest impact basically recording ever in Earth history. The nineteen oh eight Nights Siberia. It was near the Tunguska River. A large fireball I think it's probably a metea R exploded in the air over the area. Now, the explosion of fireball, it leveled eighty million trees over eight hundred and thirty square miles.

3:27 That's one thousand times bigger than the bomb that they dropped on Herotiaea. It's so remote though, they don't think anybody was killed there. Yeah, but they did take out a bunch of reindeer. Now they can't really prove that it was a mid air metior burst that happened, so the think could be possibly aliens. Nineteen thirty seven in London, England, they actually launched the first emergency telephone service ninety ninety nine. Yeah, it still is today here in America are nine to one one. It didn't start until nineteen sixty eight. Nineteen thirty eight DC Comics Action Comics series She number one Spider Earth Spider Man Superman appeared. Nineteen eighty seven Canada, they started using a new one dollar coin. It's called the Loony. Why would they name it after a bird because there's got a loon on it. Now they're two dollars kind. It's called her tuney Yeah, two dollars plus the bird. Nineteen ninety two, the first pay bathrooms in the United States open for business. It's in New York City, of course. Twenty five cents a pop joke, joke, joke joke, show dish.

4:30 Shiver birth Day. We're gonna pu he left this Shiver birthday. We got simple TOAs like this Shiver birthday. And you know we don't give up the birthday well. She is born on June the thirtieth. Actress Susan Hayward. She was born in North New York City in nineteen seventeen. Started as a model, ended up being nominated for five Academy Awards. She went once it was where I want to live. She had twin sons from her first husband. She has married her second husband nine years when he died. Susan she died from her brain tumor in nineteen seventy five and fifty seven years old. Love me, I'll leave me, I'll let me be lonely. You won't believe me, but I love. You only I've love been lonely, then happy with somebody else.

5:18 Singer, dancer, actress Lena Horne. She was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen seventeen. Now, when she's sixteen, she joined the course line at the Cotton Club in New York City. That led to her being in entertainment for over seventy years. Some of her movies where the six Feet Fall is the Whiz, That's entertainment. She recorded over seventy albums, won four Granny she wanted Tony Now. She had a son and a daughter from her first husband. She's married to her second husband for almost twenty five years when he died. Lena she died from congestive heart failure in twenty ten, ninety two years old. So she let me take it. Love at you now the test longking me on your side. I think it sounded now I shoot say, don't be dinging that I don't want you.

6:16 That was Glenn Shurock singing for the Little River Band. He's eighty two years old today. He's born in Chaith of England in nineteen forty four. Moved to Australia when he is ten. He started singing for the Twilights in the nineteen sixties. Now they were a pretty big actually in Australia and he helped form the Little River Band in nineteen seventy five. Some hits that he sang or a lady, lonesome loser, take it Easy on Me the Night Out, so basically every one of their hits he sang. Now. He left the band to go solo in nineteen ninety six. Now he's still actually tours Australia solo. Now. He is married to a second wife for forty years. When they divorced, he married his third wife twenty twenty one. Actor comedian David Allen grere Is seventy is born in Detroit Now. He graduated from Yale and went straight to Broadway.

6:58 They did quite a bunch of Broadway over the years. Nominated for Tony Once, first really known though on the TV show in Living Color, then Martin, Life with Bonnie, the Cool Kids. Some of his movies are Boomerang in the Army, now Blinkman David. He has two times divorced and he has a daughter from his second wife. Actor Vincent Dianafrio. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty nine. He's sixty seven. First got known playing that fat Army recruit Leonard in the movie Full Metal Jacket, been in over ninety movies, Mystic Pizza, Men in Black, The Cell Escape, playing That's Someone on TV on Law and Order Criminal ten. For ten years, he had a daughter from actors Greta Scatchi, and then he got married for twenty five years. They had two sons and they just recently divorced. She's a nine country fan guy in California and this over calif Yes kill Country singer Cole Swindelle is forty three. He's born in Glennville, Georgia, in nineteen eighty three. Star Dad is a very successful songwriter.

8:10 Some of the people who wrote number one songs for are Luke Comb's Florida Georgia Line, Chris Young Call. They finally let him sing in twenty fourteen. Some of his number one songs are Ain't Worth the Whiskey, you should be Here single Saturday Night, She had Me at Heads, Carolina. His song I Now is called Girl Dad Now. If you haven't heard it, it's a definite listen. He's able to do a song about his dad and his daughter pretty cool call. He's not on tour now until the end of September. If you want to go see him. He's a good show. He married Courtney in twenty twenty four. And that daughter, she's almost one years old. All right, it's a short one day start. Code of the Day comes from comedian Buddy Hackett Bud he died in two thousand and three. It's seventy eight years old. But he said, as a child, my family's menu consisted of two choices, take it or leave it. I thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. I know you're listening to his own because stop by Coomedia dot com.

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