June 8-Jerry Stiller, Nancy Sinatra, Three Dog Night, Bonnie Tyler, Keenen Ivory Wayans, Milli Vanilli, Kanye West

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today. This is June the eighth. Today is national name. You are Poison Day Today. You choose what you want to drink today. You know poison. It started out being called out poison for alcohol. That was basically during prohibition, kind of a secret code. Now when you pick your poison, you're choosing beer, wine, whiskey, bourbon, gin, tequila, vodka. Now whatever, what's your whistle? Now? That goes back to the thirteen hinders. Today is also best Friend's Day, So pick your poison and have your best friend drive you home.

1:05 Let's see what happened in entertainment on June eighth. Let's go back to nineteen ninety four and one album was The Crow. The movie soundtrack All for One had the number one song with I Swear and I Say. By the moon Elessos and the sas I'll be there. I swear. Like a Shello. That's why You. Sun Brooks and Down had the number one country song with that Ain't no Way to Go? That, Ain't no way to justin?

1:50 Don't you that user. Say he no way? The number one book was The Chamber by John Grisham. The top movie was Speed A bomber. He rigs a Los Angeles bust exploded to the bus drops under fifty miles an hour for the speed Oh Ken, Noah Ris and Sandra Bullt. They have to keep that buzz going above fifty miles an hour in order to save everybody on the bus. Dennis Hopper, he's the bad guy. He's the bomber, all right. What happened on June the eighth, seventeen eighty nine. James Madison, He proposed the Bill Rights to be added to the US Constitution. That's the first ten amendments. They guarantee personal freedom and set limits on federal government powers. Eighteen sixty nine in Chicago Is McCaffrey.

2:41 He invented the vacuum cleaner. He named it the sweeping machine. Eighteen ninety six. The world's first car theft happened out in Paris, France, Baron Deezulin at his Pugo. It was stolen by his mechanic. Now they caught the mechanic pretty easily. See they're only like six cars in Paris at the time. Now, if you read Georgia O. Willi's book nineteen eighty four, yeah, it was published today in nineteen forty nine. Kind of creepy, A lot of the stuff he said. He was about forty years later on nineteen fifty six, Vietnam, United States Air Force technical Sergeant Richard Fitzgibbon, Junior. He became the first American to die in the Vietnam War. He was actually shot by another US airmen now November one, nineteen fifty five, that is considered the beginning of the Vietnam War.

3:22 It's when the first US advisors has arrived over there. Nineteen sixty eight, Martin Luther King's killer James row Jones, he was captured. He is trying to board a plane and he throw airport in London. Nineteen seventy. Major League Baseball's union, they celebrated they were able to get the minimum salary for Major League Baseball player twelve thousand dollars a season today seven hundred and sixty thousand dollars. That's a little more than inflation nineteen eighty eight. And now they're still the only airline to do this. Japan's npon Airways started painting big menacing eyeballs on his jet engines. Yeah, it does well. It reduces bird strikes by twenty percent at Rowland Park Prison in Kansas. Richard Anthony Jones. He was freed after seventeen years. See I Look Alike a guy who looked just like him and gotten arrested. Turns out Anthony who was telling the truth the all time, he was nowhere near that area when the murder was taking place.

4:14 Jokejke, joke, joke, dish shiverf day's gonna pause. He left dis shiver day. We don't simple page. He left dis shivers day. And you know we don't get your birthday all right. It was born on June the eighth comedian and actor Jerry Stiller. He was born in New York City in nineteen twenty seven. He got really known as part of the comedy team Stiller and Marra. They performed with his wife Van Mirror. They performed together for almost thirty years. Now after they retired their comedy act, Jerry hit big on DD. He played George Costanza's dad on Seinfeld Frank Constanza, and he was on Ken Queen's for nine years. Jerry and Ann they'd married back in nineteen fifty four and she died in twenty fifteen. They had the son bo Stiller and a daughter, Amy Stiller. Of course, they're both actors.

5:01 Jerry He died from natural causes in twenty twenty at ninety two years old. Comedian Joan Rivers. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen thirty three. Now, she was a true pioneer. There were hardly any women doing stand up when Jones started out, and none of them were as blunt as she was. She made her first appearance on The Tonight Show in nineteen sixty five. Later on she guest hosted The Tonight Show. She's the first woman to host the late night TV show. She had her own late night show in the eighties and she had a daytime talk show in the nineties. Her and her daughter, Yeah, they did all those critiquing when they would critique people going up and down the red carpet at all the big events and awards ceremonies and that kind of stuff. Now, Joan, she was one of four Americans that were actually invited to the wedding of Prince Charles and Chameleon. She was married for twenty two years when her husband died and they had their daughter, Melissa Jones.

5:45 She died in twenty fourteen and eighty one years old, just after a really minor cosmetic surgery, and now. Someone else is getting know your best. These boots on a book, and that's just what they all do. One of these daysies boots ug on a blebble. That's Nancy Sinatra. She's eighty six. She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in nineteen forty. She's Frank's not just little girl now. She started singing on her dad's Arriety TV show in the late nineteen fifties. That led to really big success in Europe and Japan. Yeah, she didn't hit in the United States. It's on nineteen sixty six.

6:26 She hit what that's on? These boots are made for walking? And how does that grab you? Darling sugar train. I heard her dad had a number one song called something stupid, kind of creepy your dad and a daughter singing a duet. But anyway, Nancy. She was married to her second as her fifteen years when he died, and they had two daughters. Jeneramiah was a good frog, was a good friend of mine. Never letudos what he said, but. You always have. That was Chuck Naground singing for three Dog Night. He's eighty four today. Born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty two. Now he helped form three Doc Night in nineteen sixty seven. Now all three guys sang lee on different things. Some of the songs that Chuck sing legane were old fashioned love song, joy to the world, the show must be going. They sold over sixty million albums.

7:24 Chuck Leaf three Dog Night in nineteen eighty five. Now he had a really bad heroin addiction. He dropped out a thirty different drug rehab centers, finally got clean in nineteen ninety one. Now he performed right up until a couple of years ago. Yeah, he has COPD and ha gotten so bad he can't sing anymore. He had a daughter from his first wife, a son from his second wife, daughter from his third wife. Then he had another daughter fooling around with a girlfriend. Married his fourth wife in twenty twenty. S Bob Skaggs. He was born in kend, Ohio in nineteen forty four. It's eighty two today. Started off playing guitar in the Steve Miller band. Then he hit as a solo artist in the mid nineteen seventies.

8:22 Some of his hits are low down, Lido shuffle, break down, dead ahead, Look what you've done to me? He had two sons from his first married. I was married his second wife in nineteen ninety two. The time I was falling a lot. Now I'm only falling apout ninety two to clit. Super husky voice. Bonnie Tyler seventy five. She was born at Skewing Whales in nineteen fifty one. It's a heartache, total eclips of the art, holding out for a hero.

9:02 Here she comes, got some of her biggest hits. Now She's still tours pretty much only Europe though. Now. She married nineteen seventy three, and her and her husband they have made an excellent business team through the years. They have invested their money really well. They have a ranch in Portugal, a ranch in New Zealand and twenty two houses spread across England. Does the name tim berners Leading sound familiar, Well it shitit. Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web. Yeah, he created the web in nineteen eighty nine. Decided not to charge money for it. He thought everyone she'd have their right to use it. He still believes that, but he wishes that. Yeah, he could have done something to help protect people's privacy a little better. Now, although some people had made billions of dollars off the web, he's only worth about ten million dollars now. Him and his first wife they divorced after twenty one years. They had two children. Married his second wife in twenty fourteen.

9:50 Tim was seventy one today. He was born in London, England, in nineteen fifty five. Now, if you're younger than forty, you probably don't remember that TV show actor, comedian filmmaker Keenan Ivory Wayans. He's sixty eight. He's born in Harlem, New York, in nineteen fifty eight. Now he is the second oldest of all those ten Wayans kids. Start off doing stand up and he hit really big when he created the TV show in Living Color. Now, Keenan he makes a lot of movie. He doesn't star in his movies though, No, he usually does, like a minor part of but Yeah. He writes, directs and produces him I'm Gonna Get You Suck a Scary movies, one and two White Chicks. Yeah, some of the flicks. Keenan and his ex wife they have five children.

10:47 Girl, you know. Rob Platis. He was born in Munich, West Germany in nineteen sixty five. Now Rob and Fan Morvin are Fab Morvin. Yeah, they were working as models and they had their own band out there in Munich. Now they got signed to a record deal. They got a really big advance and everything. Then when we went to record that first album, found out they wouldn't be singing on it. No, they were just the face of Millie Vanilli, Charles Shaw and Tommy John. They'd be doing the singing. Well, Robin Fab they weren't gonna put up with that, so they stormed out of the studio. Problem was, though, they'd blown all that advanced money and they had no way to pay it back, so they had to go ahead and go along with it.

11:35 That worked, I mean they did sell ten million albums in the one in Grammy. Of course, it blew up in their face when it got out that they were just lip syncing. Nineteen ninety eight, Robbie died from alcohol and prescription drug overdose, thirty two years old. Actress Juliana Margerlez is sixty. She's born in Spring Valley, New York. In nineteen sixty six. She first got known on the TV show Er and then a good wife did the Morning Show some of her movies or ghost Ship Snakes on a plane. End up, guys. He got married in two thousand and seven and they have a son. I need you, man. I can't wait much longer, kind of right now, this change much longer. That's so long I've been yer. Kanye West is forty nine. He was born in Atlanta in nineteen seventy seven. Somehow that did sold over one hundred and sixty million records. He has legally changed his name to ye Ye no middle name and no last name.

12:34 It comes from the Bible. It means you. He married Kim Kardashian for eight years and they have four kids. Married his second wife in twenty twenty two. All right, that's good. Our quote of the day. We're going to end with Andrew Jackson in the seventh President of the United States, died today in eighteen forty five, at seventy eight years old. Andrews said, you know, there is no pleasure in having nothing to do. The fun is having lots to do and not doing any of it. Well, thank you for list and don't forget to follow. Whenever you listen to a song. Our country underground radio artist to day comes from Kim in Chicago. She wants to hear lead a page this song. You ain't no match. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I brought you the break up with waterproof make up. Yeah, I sent you longstem sorries back no more and solver can I come over?

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