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 duds about today. This is June the thirtieth. Fortta da da da him today shift damn.

0:45 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. They 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. All right, this is going on entertainment on you in the thirtieth it's about to nineteen ninety five. Then when album was pulsed by Pink Floyd Brian Adams had the number one song with have you ever really loved a woman? And give the wings what she owns to fly? Then will you find yourself lived.

1:34 In her? You you love? John Michael Montgomery had the number one country song was sold I said, hey, pretty lady, I. Want you give me a sign. I'd give anyone to Mickey medal line. Beach picking. Yeah, I've never seen anyone looking so fun. Oh my god, I haven't seen. The one of them kind. I'm going going class leading in the second row. She's a nine ten. I know she's got to be Visit long Hair, Blue Bible. I'm about to get my heart good bye. The number one book was The rain Maker by John Grisham.

2:16 Top movie was Apollo thirteen NASA. They have to figure out how to get Apollo thirteen back to Earth after a spacecraft got really damaged. Stars Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, and Bill Paxton. 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. 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 clerk in nineteen oh five when Albert Einstein released his thirty special Relativity you know, equals in C square.

3:09 Now it's known as the Tunguska Event. It's the largest impact basically recording ever in Earth history. It was the nineteen oh eight Nights Siberia. It was near the Tunguska River. A large fireball I think it was probably a meteor exploded in the air over the area. Now, the explosion of fireball, it leveled eighty million trees over eight hundred and thirty square miles. That's one thousand times bigger than the bomb that they dropped on Herotia. 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 meteor burst that happened, so they think could be possibly aliens. Nineteen thirty seven in London, England, they actually launched the first emergency telephone service. Ninety nine nine yeah that it still is today here in America are nine to one one.

3:56 It didn't start until nineteen sixty eight thirty DC Comics Action Comics series of issue number one Spider Earth Spider Man Superman appeared nineteen eighty seven Canada, and 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 is in the United States, open for business. It's in New York City, of course. Twenty five cents a pop joke. Dokejke coke joked, coke joke. Show this shiverth Day, please gonn pause? He left this Shiverthday.

4:36 We want simple cars like this shiver Birthday and you know you don't the birthday, well, it's is born on June the thirtieth. Actress Susan Hayward. She was born in North New York City in nineteen seventeen. Start 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 rain tumor in nineteen seventy five at fifty seven years old. Love me on, 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.

5:20 Singer, dancer, actress Lena Horne. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen seventeen now when she has sixteen. She joined the course line at the Cotton Club in New York City. That led to her being in an 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 late, let me take it. Love at you now. Making meat just so I'm thinking sound that shoot say.

6:13 Don't be thinking that I don't watch you in. That was Glenn Shurock singing for the Little River Band. It's eighty one years old today. Is born in Chadam, England. 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 Greer is sixty nine. He's born in Detroit. Now.

6:59 He graduated from YE I went straight to Broadway. He did quite a bunch of Broadway over the years, nominated for Tony Once. First really got 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 Dinafrio. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He sixty six. 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, Planning, That's Someone on TV, It was Online Ordered 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.

7:44 She's a ninest country fan guy. In California in this song over. Country singer Cole swin Dallas forty two. He was born in Glennville, Georgia. Star Dad is a very successful songwriter. 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.

8:25 Now Cole, he's on on tool right now. He's going all the way out to the end of October. If going to see him. Pretty good show, Cole. He just got me here last year. Yeah, and they're expecting their first child, so congratulations Cole and Courtney. All right, it's a short one day. It's our Code of the Day comes from comedian Buddy Hackett. Buddy 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 ill. Thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. I know you're listening to his own stop by Coomedia dot com. Let's go through othern's see what's going on on the podcast. Radio station cool casts all that fun stuff. Our Country and Around Radio station it's called Country and Around Radio dot Com. We play the best up and coming and independent country artists out there. Our country underground Radio Artist of the Day to Day comes from Shane and Tacoma, Washington.

9:14 He knows here Jeff Griffith and his song Let's Make Love Tonight Like There's no tomorrow. You guys, have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow when it work. Today, everything when all and I just couldn't wait drink it back home. I can see today's been hard on I not think I know just what way all home, dude, Let's make love tonight. This all tomorrow. Don't get about the world outside.

10:08 Higher and all. Wow, there'll be no pain sorrow that's made love tonight. There's no to mongro