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

0:09 Well, hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about to day pasion and buy cool media. There is June the sixth, we sang goodbye Saturday under the stars, Wicked Little Susie in my Daddy's car. So many memories gotten lost and found on the piece of history hit the ground the day that tore the last driving It is national drive in movie Night. It was today, in nineteen thirty three that Richard Hollings had opened up the first drive in theater did in Cambridge, New Jersey. Now, sure the picture wasn't as good and the sound kind of sucked compared to indoor theaters, but you know what, drive ins were just cool. Now.

0:54 So many of you are two younger and member probably going to our driving But if there's still one area, yeah, I hit it up today. Man, they are a good time Now. If they don't have any drive ins around you, like most of us don't, well you can make your own driving, yeah, doing your yard of your driveway. Just enjoy watching a movie under the stars. All right, what's going on in entertainment on you? In the sixth Let's back Your two thousand and nine number one album was relapsed by M and M. The Black Eyed Peas had the number one song with boom boom pal got boom boom pal Damn chickens jogging my style. They try to cover in my swagger. I'm on that next, She's now. I sold three thousand, Hey, you sold two thousands late. I got that boom boom boom that future boom boom boom. Let me get out boom boom, gotta good get boom boom boom, gotta good get boom boom boom. Brad Paisley, you had the number one country song, but then just came in Fevers the Seeing We've come so Far and Athona Loved You.

2:06 The number one selling book was Gone Tomorrow by Lee Child. Top movie was The Hangover. Three guys wake up in Las Vegas after a bachelor party. They have no idea what happened and can't find the groom stars Bradley Cooper, Ed Holmes and Zach Gallifanikas. In nineteen ninety, the group Two Live Crew their album Nasty Doesn't Want to Be Yeah. It became the first album ever ruled legally in obscene all Right. What Happened in the World On June the sixth Now we've talked about Man Tambora in the Indonesia erupting. Yeah, well, the cause what we called the year without a Summer. There's proof today it was eighteen sixteen ten inches of snow fell all across New England. Eighteen forty four in London, England, George Williams he formed the Young Men's Christian Association or the Ymcade. What do you think of Georgia? Think about his Christian Association being celebrated by the village. People probably think it takes a village.

3:09 Eighteen eighty two in New York Kerry Steely he invented the electric iron. Now it weighed fifteen pounds and took a half hour to warm up. Nineteen twelve in Alaska, nov Rupta volcano. It started erupting today. Now it erupted for three days. The eruption it was thirty times bigger than sound ay Lowonds. Yeah, Noverrupta. It was the largest volcanic eruption in the entire twentieth century. The Revenue Act of nineteen thirty two was enacted today in nineteen thirty two. Now it created the United States first gas tax. They were at one cent per gallon. People got around it, though, so they had to put an amendment on it, so the New Revenue Act of nineteen thirty two read it was one cent per gallon or one fourth of a cent per leader. Nineteen forty four, it was D Day the Normandy landings took place. It's the largest amphibious landing in history. One hundred and sixty one thousand Allied soldiers stormed the beaches of Normandy. Forty five hundred of the men were killed and over five thousand were wounded. In that first twenty four hours, five beaches were landed on Britain, United States, and Canada all hit them. United States we got Omaha in Utah, which actually had the hardest resistance so meant for the toughest fighting. Then Britain they landed on Golden Sward.

4:18 Canada they got Junio. So what does D Day stand for? Well, nothing, say, it was just a working title. They said they were gonna launch on D Day and then they would fill in that D Day was later. Oh, they never filled it in, so it's still D Day. Now. This would actually be huge now, except I think you'd have way too many contestants to be able to do it. In nineteen forty nine CBS they debuted the game show It Pays to Be Ignorant. Nineteen seventy two gold it hit an all time high. It was selling for sixty dollars. Announce. Yeah today, I just looked at this almost twenty four hundred dollars announce. Nineteen eighty four, Soviet Union, they started playing the video game Tetris. Yeah, I won't come to the United States until nineteen eighty eight. In nineteen ninety nine, over in Brazil, at the Putnam Max Security maximum security prison, they had the largest prison break in Brazil's history, or three hundred and forty five prisoners made a break for the gate. Now as the guards are trying to round them all up, two of the prisoners were shot and killed. Five innocent bystanders were actually thrown into jail. Twenty eighteen, over in France, a man won their lottery for the second time in two years. The odds were doing it. One and sixteen trillion cot Co cop goat Shage this Shiver birth day. Were gonna pause. He left this shiverbthday. We gonna sit with Caage. He left this Shiver birth day, and you know we don't get use that's the birthday. Who was born on June the sixth, US patriot Nathan Hale. He was born in Coventry, Connecticut, in seventeen fifty five. Seventeen seventy three, at eighteen years

5:49 old, he graduated first in his class from Yale. Then he enjoyed the Connecticut and militia to fight in the Revolutionary War. Seventeen seventy six, he volunteered to be a spy. Now George washer and personally told him if you do this and you get caught, you will be hung. Hal said, oh, that's cool. So he went to New York City and started sending back intelligence and the British didn't catch him. Now the British actually wrote it down. They said that his last words before they hung him, I only regret that I have but one life to get for my country. He was twenty one years old. That was Levi Stubbs singing lead for the four four Tops. Now Levi was born in Detroit in nineteen thirty six. Now he and three of his buddies they formed the Four Tops in nineteen fifty three.

6:48 Now those four they remained together from nineteen fifty three to nineteen ninety seven before they made any changes to the group sold over fifty million records on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of their biggest hits are I Can't Out Myself. It's the same old song reach out, I'll be there Baby, I Need your eleven. Levi had to retire in two thousand because of health dishes. Two of the original four tops they're still performing, so I guess with two new talks Levi. He married nineteen sixty and they had five children. He died in his sleep in two thousand and eight at seventy two years old. Missifically the Mississippi's Down in the Tackle stole out on the Street.

7:40 Gary Anderson, he has best known as Gary US Bonds now his record company. They picked the name us Bonds. Yeah. They thought it sounded like a public service announcement, so they thought it would get the DJ's attention. Well it worked. He was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in nineteen thirty nine. He's eighty five today, still performing. He's actually doing a show in New Jersey today to celebrate his fifth birthday. I know what you're thinking, Yeah, I looked it up. It actually doesn't start till seven thirty PM. Some of his biggest heads are New Orleans Quarter to three, School is Out, Twist Twisting Your In nineteen sixty three on his European tour. Gary's opening act was the Beatles. Yep, they opened for him on his European tour in sixty three. He's been married since nineteen sixty three and they have one child. Roll on Big Moll Wait Sang, roll on Big Mall, No No, Tom Let's her Bree. Country singer Joe Stampley's eighty one.

8:43 He was born in Spring, Louisiana in nineteen forty three. Nineteen sixties. He started out singing the eight for the rock band the Unaques. Then in nineteen seventy one he got a record deal as a solo country singer. Some as big as heads are, roll on Big Mama, Billy, Get Me a Woman, I'm Still Loving You, and Whiskey Chasing. Now He's had a lot, a lot of big success with duos with Moe Brandy, Joe and his wife. They have three children. Actor Robert England. He was born in Glenndale, California, in nineteen forty seven. He's seventy seven years old now. He is a classically trained actor. He studied at London's Academy of Dramatic Arts. Then he hit big playing Freddy Krueger and all those Nightmare on Elm Street movies. Now, back in the day when you went to a slasher film, they were kind of a joke. So he went just to kind of have fun, get a little excitement. They usually let him see some girls boom during the movie. Now, their original Nightmare on Elm Street came out scared that crap out of everybody. Now, Robert, he had a nice career doing horror films, but he says he's too old to do Freddy Krueger anymore. Yeah, he retired from that one, not from acting, but from Freddy Krueger. So if they're released anymore Freddy Krueger movies, yeah, it's not going to be England. He's been married to his third wife since nineteen eighty eight. Comedian actor Colin Quinn. He was born in nineteen fifty nine in New York City. He's sixty five. Started out as a stand up comedian. Then he first got known on the MTV game show Remote Control. Then he did Saturday Night Live for four years.

10:03 He hosted Comedy Central's Trough Crowd with Colin Quinn. He has written to start in seven one man Broadway Theater shows. He got married in twenty nineteen, actor Paul Giamati. He's fifty seven. He's born in New Haven, Connecticut, in nineteen sixty seven. Graduated from Yale, and two of his classmates when he graduated actors Edward Norton and actor Ron Livingston now Paul. He started out he had a whole bunch of small rules, but they were in really big movies like Donnie Brasco, The Truman Show, Saving Pride Run. Finally kind of got starring rules for Sideways, Cinderella Man, twelve years of Slater. 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.

10:48 All you knows When I'm with you, I'm make you free and swim to your things like a fishing the scene. I'm singing, follow me. Everything is alright. I guess if your parents name you Matthew Schaeffer, you tell everybody just to call you uncle Cracker. He was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan, in nineteen seventy four fifty years old today. Start out as a DJ and he worked the turntable for kid Rock. Then he went solo in nineteen ninety nine. He's had the head follow me in a little while, drift away. Smile now, Uncle Cracker, he is opening the Kenny Chesney Stadium tour. This kicks off what Saturday, June eighth. He had three kids from his first wife. He has two children with his second wife.

11:33 Alrighty, today's fact to it. That'll win you a beer. Let's go back to the iron now. Ironing your clothes has been proven to avoid infections caused by lice. Well, thank you for being here today. We sure appreciate you being here. May forget to follow us on whoever you listened to us on and come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three y ohs. Let's end with founding father Patrick Henry. He died today in seventeen ninety nine at sixty three years old. Patrick said, I know not what course others may take, but for me, give me liberty or give me death. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no no, no, no no no no no no no