June 30-Corvette, Loonie, Cole Swindell, Lena Horne, Little River Band, Pay Toilets, Tunguska

0:10 Hello everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoid is about today, presented back cool Media. This is June the thirtieth for Stasim Hot Candle Day Shift CAMDA. Today is National Corvette Day. You might have never even thought about it. Do you know who makes the Corvette? GM? General Motors started making them in nineteen fifty three. Corvette was the first mass produced US sports car. I know some of you are saying that Chevy Corvette.

0:52 Yeah, that's true, but Chevy's part of General Motors. They consider the nineteen sixty six Corvette to be the consider the coolest and the best Corvette of all of them by collectors and all car people. Yeah, if you're a Corvette person, have fun celebrating today. I guess the rest of us we'll just spend our Sunday drinking beer. All right? What was going on entertainment on June thirtieth. Let's just about two years of twenty twenty two number one album was Proof by BTS Harry Styles, adding in one song was as it was in this, it's just this. You know it's not the same.

1:33 It's just you know, it's not the same as Parmally they had the number one country song. Well take my name. They might think just to wait, but I don't. Don't Donald, mister man girl. I want you in every single part of my world. So it take my head. Let me make you man to wait to say that time never fell like test people say nine ninety to make you. The number one book was It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover. Top movie. It was Elvis. It's about Elvis from the time he's a kid to a superstar. Stars Austin Butler, Olivia De Jong, and Tom Hanks. All right, let's check out what happened on June the thirtieth. Now, I would like to hear the backstory for this one, but I can't find it anywhere. Seventeen fifty five the Philippines, they closed all non Catholic Chinese restaurants. Eighteen fifty nine Francis Charles Blondon.

2:36 He was the first person to cross the Niagara Falls on a tightrope. Since m nine men and one women have done it who lived. Now fifteen have gone over there in a beryl and lived eighteen seventy eighty Kepple. She became the first woman to graduate from law school in the United States. Graduated from the old University of Chicago today is Northwestern. It's called the largest impact event in recorded history. In nineteen oh eight in Siberia, Russia, is near the Tunguska River. They think it as an airborne meteorite that exploded, but a great fireball flattened over eighty million trees. That's right. It was one thousand times bigger than the bombit was dropped on Hiroshima. Now that meteor theory is cute, but I think we all really know it was aliens.

3:19 Now, surprisingly, they don't think anybody ever died in that. They think it was too isolated. Nineteen thirty eight. In DC Comics Action Comics Series issue number one, Superman first appeared nineteen thirty seven. In London, England, they launched the first emergency telephone service for no It was ninety ninety nine. That's still their emergency use today if they have an emergency nine to nine nine. We started using nine one one in nineteen sixty eight. Nineteen eighty seven, Canada started using their one dollar coin. It's called the loony what would you call it? Coin? And Looney Wow that had a loon bird on it. There are two dollars coin. It's called the tuney. Yeah, that's two plus the bird. Nineteen ninety two, the first pay bathroom in the United States opened up for business New York City, twenty five cents a pop dope coop goat sharge. This shiver Birthday, We're gonna pause.

4:11 He left this shiver Birthday. We gonna sit potage. He's like this shive birthday. And you know we don't get because that's your birthday. I was born on June the thirtieth. Actress Susan Haywood. She was born in New York City in nineteen seventeen. Started out as a model, ended up being nominated for five Academy Awards. She won it once for I Want to Live. She had twin sons from her first husband, married to her second usband for nine years when he died. Susan she died from a brain tumor in nineteen seventy five. A 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 up, been lonely then happy with somebody else.

4:57 Singer dancer actress Lena She was also born in New York City. In nineteen seventeen, when she was sixteen, she joined the chorus line at the Cotton Club in New York City. Ended up being in entertainment for seventy years. Some of her biggest movies were The Sigfield, Foles, The Whiz, and That's Entertainment. She recorded over seventy albums, won four Grammys. She had a son and a daughter from her first husband, married his second husband in nineteen forty seven. He died in nineteen seventy one Lean and she died from congestive heart failure in twenty ten at ninety two years old. Now Tess line, making Me Your Son Solid Shoes. That was Glenn Sharrock when he used to sing for the Little River Band. Glenn Zady is born in Chatham, England. Grew up in Australia. Start out singing for the Twilights in the nineteen sixties. They were actually pretty big in Australia. Then he helped form the Little River Band in nineteen seventy five. Some of the hits that he sang were A Lady, Lonesome Loser, take it Easy on Me the night outs. Basically he sang every one of their hairs. He ended up going solo in nineteen ninety six. He actually still tours Australia solo. He was married to a second wife for forty years when they divorced. Then he married his third wife in twenty twenty one. Actor comedian David Allen Grere.

6:26 He's born in nineteen fifty six in Detroit. He's sixty eight. Graduated from Yale and he went straight to Broadway. Did quite a bit of Broadway. Actually even got nominated for Tony. He really hut big on the TV show in Living Color, then Martin Life with Bonnie and then The Cool Kids. Some of his movies were Boomerang in the Army, now Blank Man. He has divorced two times and he has a daughter from his second wife. Actor of Vincent Dinafrio. He's sixty five. He's born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty nine. First gout non Planning, that overweight fat recruit in the movie Full Metal Jacket has been an over ninety movie. Some others were Mystic Pizza, Men in Black, The Cell, Jurassic World. On TV, he was on Lawn and Order Criminal in ten for ten years.

7:08 He had a daughter from actress Greta s Cassese. Then he married for twenty five years and they had two sons when they divorced. She's a ninest country fan guy shity slipping to California and this song is over Califiner Sit. It's Carol country singer Carle Swindal at He's forty one. He is born in Bronwood, Georgia, in nineteen eighty three. Starred as a very successful songwriter. Some of the people I wrote number one songs for where Luke Bryant Florida, Georgia Line and Chris Young finally got a chance to sing solo in twenty fourteen, so some of his number one songs are Ain't worth the whiskey. You should be here single Saturday Night and she had yet heads Carolina call these actually out on tour right now. I think it just started yesterday. He just got married too, on June the twelfth, So congratulations Cole and Courtney.

8:05 You know what, Let's go back to Ada now. She may have been the first woman to graduate from college or medical school in eighteen seventy. Today fifty five point seventy five percent of all law school graduates. Yep, women, Wow. Thanks for joining us today. We're like hanging out with us. Get a chance to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on we' run everyone. Stop by coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three others. See what's going on on the podcast and the cool Cast. Let's end with comedian Buddy Hackett. He died in two thousand and three at seventy eight years old. Budd he said, as a child my family, his menu consisted of two choices, take it or leave it. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No non