June 6th-Drive-In Movies, D-Day, Nathan Hale, The Four Tops, Freddie Krueger, Uncle Kracker

0:19 Oh, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Factoid's about today. Today's June the sixth. We sang goodbye Saturday under the stars, Wicked Little Susie in my Daddy's car. So many memberies gotten lost, standing a found on a piece of history, hit the ground. The day that tore the last driving town. Today is also National drive in Movie Night. That was today. In nineteen thirty three, the Richard Hollings said he opening up the first drive in movie theater. It was in Cambridge, Massachusetts or Cambridge, New Jersey. I'm sorry now, I admit the picture isn't quite as good and the sound might not be so great, oh, compared to the indoor theaters.

1:02 But driving yeah, they're just cool. Now. A lot of you are probably gonna be too young. I've ever gone. But if you they're still one close to you, Yeah, hit it up. It's a good time for all ages, families, couples, friends, whatever you want to do. Now, if you don't have a drive in there, yeah, you can make one yourself. You have the technology. Put it in your driveway, you're in your yard or something like that. Just have fun watching a movie under the stars today. Okay, let's see what was happening in entertainment on you in the sixth then nineteen sixty three number one album was Days of One and Roses by Andy Williams Leslie Gore. Then One's on with It's My Party. Has tried the same holding when He's posted.

1:58 Heck saw Hockens had the number one country song with Lonesome seven seven two o three. Justin k your love for me should ever come around, you might want to call and brate the news to me. Just call Loans seven seven two oh three. The number one book was The Glass Blowers by Daphney D. Morier. Top movie was The Nutty Professor. This one that starts Jerry Lewis, Yeah, I don't waste your time. Go see Eddie Murphy from back in the late nineties. It was nineteen ninety the group Two Live Crew their album Nasty As I Want to Be became the first album every rold legally obscene All Let's see it happened on June the sixth. Now we talked about when the mountain tambar On volcano erupted over in Indonesia. The volcano threw up so much stuff into the atmosph it caused what they called the Year without a Summer all over the entire world.

3:04 For proof, it was today. In eighteen sixteen, ten inches of snow fell all over across New England. Eighteen forty four in London, England's George Williams, he founded the Young Men's Christian Association or YMCA. Stay so do you think George would have been proud to the village people celebrate his Christian Association? New York. In eighteen eighty two, Henry Seely invented the electric iron. It weighed fifteen pounds and took a half hour to warm up. Nineteen twelve, in Alaska the volcano Nova Reupta. It began erupting, erupted for three days. Now it was thirty times bigger than Mount Saint Heleans. It was actually the largest volcanic eruption in the entire planet in the twentieth century. Now the Revenue Act of nineteen thirty two it went in effect today.

3:56 It was created the first federal income or federal gasta. It was one cent per gallon. But those people they found an easy way around it. So the government came in. They had to add in a minute, said okay, it's one cent per gallon or a fourth of a cent per leader. Yeah, those people in nineteen thirty two were pretty clivered. Nineteen forty four are D Day and the Normandy landings took place largest amphibious landing in world history. One hundred and sixty thousand Allied soldiers landed four one thousand, five hundred men. They were killed and five thousand were wounded in the first twenty four hours. Now, five beaches are where the landings occurred. In the United States, we got Omaha in Utah. Now, those were the biggest resistance pieces. Yeah, so it had the hardest fighting, especially Omaha Beach. Now, the British they landed on Golden Sward and the Canadians they landed on Juno. So you know what DDA stands for nothing? Say, it was just a working title. The plan was to land on D Day, then they would give D Day another name later on. Well, they never filled in the spot, so it's still D Day Now.

4:53 I think you'd have way too many contestants nowadays to try this. It was today in nineteen forty nine, CBS thes the game show It Pays to Be Ignorant nineteen sixty nine, five months after studying the world and winning the Super Bowl, Number three quarterback Joe Montana quit football. See the NFL told the New York Jet quarterback that he had to sell his share of a bar slash nightclub that he owned. Joe said, no, you can't tend me to do my personal life. So the NFL said, okay, well, then you can't play well for the next season. Joe thought about it. We're gonna he's gonna make more money from football. So he's ended up selling his stake in the bar. Nineteen eighty four, in the Soviet Union, they started playing the video game Tetris. Yeah, I won't come to the United States till nineteen eighty eight. Brazil, in nineteen ninety nine at the Putnam Maximum Security Prison had the largest prison break in Brazilian or South American history.

5:42 Three hundred and forty five prisoners made a break for the gate well as the guards were scrambling around trying to round up all the prisoners. Two of the prisoners were shot and killed. Five innues sent bystanders. Yeah, they got thrown into the jail. Largest prison break in the United States was one hundred nine prisoners. That was during the Civil War down South twenty eighteen, in France, a man won their lottery for the second time in two years. The odds of him do him that one in sixteen trillion. Yeah, he won one million euros each time. Joke, joke, joke, sharge, dish shibt day. We're gonna targe he left this shiverthday. We don't simple tage like this shibirthday. And you know we don't give up birthday.

6:23 Okay, let's see it's born on June the sixth. US patriot Nathan Hale was born in Coventry, Connecticut, in seventeen fifty five nineteen seventy three, eighteen years old. He graduate first in his class from Yale. Then he joined the Connecticut in Militsia, a fight in the Revolutionary War seventeen seventy six, Nathan voluntarily to be a spy. Now, George Washington personally told Hale that he was caught, the British would hang him. Cal said that that's cool. So he went to New York City and started sending back intelligence about the British. Yeah, they did catch him. Now, this isn't just a room. The British actually wrote this down. They said that The last thing that Hell said before he was hung was I only regret that I have but one life to give him my country. He was twenty one years old. That was Levi Stubbs singing for the Four Tops. Levi was born in Detroit in nineteen thirty six. Now I am in three buddies. They formed the Four Tops in nineteen fifty three. Now those four They stayed together from nineteen fifty three to nineteen ninety seven before they ever made any changes to the group, So there were fifty million records. Some of their heads are I can't help myself. It's the same old song reach out. I'll be there, baby, I need you eleven and Levi. He had to retire in two thousand because of the health issues. He get married back in nineteen sixty and they had five children. He died in his sleep in two thousand and eight, seventy two years.

7:54 Old, pecifically in Mississippis. He was born Gary Anderson Bad. He's best known as Gary US Bonds say. His record company picked the name. They thought us Bonds it made it sound like a public service announcement, and they thought it would get the DJ's attention. I guess it worked. Gary was born in Jacksonville, Florida. He's eighty seven years old today now. He had to have New Orleans Quarter till three, School's Out, Twist Twist Senior nineteen sixty three. On his European tour, Gary's opening act was the Beatle. He married nineteen sixty three and they had one child.

8:47 Rull On Mob Wait, rull On Tom Letzer. Country singer Joe Stample. He's eighty three. He was born in spring Ye, Louisiana. Joe He's still tourist, going to bed nineteen sixty started out singing lead for the rock band The Uniques. Nineteen seventy one, he got his own record deal as a solo country artist, roll I'm Big, Mama, Billy, get me a woman, I'm still loving you, Whiskey, Chasing Ye had some of his solo hits. Had a lot a lot of success sing in duels with Moe Bandy Joe, him and his wife. They have three children. Actor Robert England.

9:33 He was born in Glendale, California, nineteen forty seven. He's seventy nine now. He is a classically trained actor. He studied acting at the London Academy of dramatic arts. Then he came home and we got famous playing Freddy Krueger and all those Nightmare on Elmstrep movies now slasher films. They start out almost kind of like a joke, So you went to him to have fun and get some excitement. Yeah, it was kind of just a good all time. But then when the original Nightmare on Elm Street came out, scared of the crap out of everybody. Now Robert, he says he's too old to do Freddy Kruger anymore. It's not retired from acting, he's retired from doing Freddy Krueger. So if there's any more Nightmare on Elmer Streets, yeah, it's not Robert being Freddy. He married his third wife in nineteen eighty eight. Comedian actor Colin Quinn. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty nine. He's sixty seven. Started out doing stand up. Then he was on Saturday Night Live for four years. He really hit big on the MTV game show it's called Remote Control.

10:26 It was really stupid, but every kind of watched it. He has actually written and starred in seven one man Broadway shows. He got married in twenty nineteen actor Paul Giamatti. He's fifty nine. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale. Now two of his other classweights got classmates that he graduated with. They were actors Edward Norton and Ron Livingston. Now Paul. He had a bunch of movies, but they're all small roles. He finally hit big. Yeah, they were big movies too. Finally got starring roles in Sideway, Cinderella Man, twelve years of slave. He married once and has a son from it. You don't know how you met me. You don't know why you can't turn around and say goodbye.

11:08 All you knows. When I'm with you, I make you free and swim to. Your things like a fishing the scene I'm singing. Follow me, everything is all right. He was born Matthew Schaeffer. Of course he goes by Uncle Cracker fifty two today. Born in Mount Clemens, Michigan in nineteen seventy four. Start out as a DJ, and he worked at the turntable for Kid Rock. Went So on Is on nineteen ninety nine. Follow me in a little while, drift away, Smile some of the hits you'll hear if you go see him had three kids from his first wife and him and his current wife they have two children. All right. Our Court of the Day comes from founding father Patrick Henry.

11:49 He died today in seventeen ninety nine and sixty three years old. Patrick says, I know not what course others may take, but for me, give me liberty or give me death. Thank you for listening it and don't reread to follow us on whoever you listen to us, so check out our links to the bottom of the show notes page. Our country ground Radio Artist Today comes from Lacy and Fort Richie, Florida. Out there Brandon beingsng Blue Collar Swallow. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Ninety eight degrees roasting din the summer sun. Brendon called the boy grow your bed and get you on hard work. Tallis since he's in his heaviment. He's a bad at some bitch. That's his testament.

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