May 28-Hamburgers, Gladys Knight, John Fogerty, Kylie Minogue, Colbie Caillat, 1st Quintuplets

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today present, about cool media. I hope you all had a great Memorial Day and a great Memorial Day weekend. It's the unofficial beginning of summer. Now. I don't know why they're doing this day to day right after Memorial Day, but sure I can use another burger on May the twenty eighth. I like hamburgers. I really like hamburgers. I really like hamburgers. I like to you them every day. I like to go to a restaurant and say, give me a hamburger. Sometimes I even say give me two hamburgers. It is National Hamburger Day. Hamburger's resorta kind of originally created a hamburg Germany, but they really weren't the kind of hamburg that we eat today.

1:00 They were actually created at Louis Lunch in Connecticut at the end of the eighteen nineties. Now today a Hamburger Day. Nope, it's not a Burger Day. It's Hamburger Day. So keepe your turkey and veggie burgers for tomorrow. Now, the best way to celebrate will be grilling your own hamburger yourself today. But if that's not possible. I think you can find a restaurant somewhere that'll cook you a hamburger. This is going on and entertainment on May twenty eighth, Let's back to nineteen eighty eight. Number one album was Faith by George Michael. George Michael had the number one song with one More Try Swift Say You Love Me. Kathy Matteia. She had the number one country song with eighteen wheels and a dozen roses, eighteens, Johnson roses, Jim Mormas on a forty moss All that Radio and you Stand the Rest of Time one of hesus. The number one book was Zoya by Danielle Steele. The top movie was Crocodile, then D two Crocodile Dundee. He has to protect his woman from gangsters who follow him down under. Stars Paul Logan, Linda

2:35 Kazlowski, and John Millene fight Dawson to the javel See of the Joger. It was nineteen eighty two. Rocky three was about to re release the theaters. So Vester stallone he had to ask an unknown band called Survivor to write and record the theme song for the movie. See. They came up with Aya the tiger. The raising is see the band queen they went, Let stallone use their song, another one bites the dust. All right, let's see happened in the world on May the twenty eighth, five eighty five BC.

3:20 And what's Greece today. The Lydians and the Medis had they had been at war for six years. Now as they were ready to go fight in a battle. They were standing across from each other getting ready to go at it. A solar clubs sassin yep freaked out both sides so bad that they negotiated peace treating and both went home. Seventeen forty two, in London, the first indoor swimming pool opened up. Now technically it was a brothel. Now it was only open for men, and of course one guinea to swim. That was about one hundred and fifty dollars today. So what they were able to do, they were able to keep the riff raff out and you got a little something next to besides that money than just a swim. Seventeen fifty four, the first battle of the French Indian War was fought. It was the Battle of Johnmanville Glynn. It was in southwestern Pennsylvania. Today twenty two year old George Washington led British troops to defeat the French Canadian soldiers.

4:06 Washington had Fort Necessity built there after they won the battle. The British are so happy with George they made him a lieutenant colonel after that. Nineteen twenty three really big day for women. Yep, the United States Attorney General Henry Doherty. He announced that it was legal for women to wear trousers wherever they wanted. Nineteen thirty four, in a little farmhouse near Colander, Ontario, Canada, Olivia and elzire Dione. They already had five children and they were ready for Olivia to deliver their sixth. But she was pretty big, so they thought she might be Avvan twins well. A local doctor and two midwives they stopped by to help out. Over the next twenty four hour as Olivia gave birth the five identical baby girls. They were the first quintuplets anywhere in the world who actually survived infancy. They all actually lived to adulthood. Two of the sisters. Yeah, they're still alive. They're both going to celebrate their ninetieth birthday today, So happy birthday, dion Quin tuplets nineteen fifty nine, a female reesis monkey named Abel and a female squirrel monkey named Baker.

5:04 They were strapped into a Jupiter rocket and shot three hundred miles into space at ten thousand miles an hour. Flight took fifteen minutes. Now both the monkeys they were recovered alive. Yeah, they were the first animals to live through a space flight. Now able. She did die four days later. But Baker, she had a nice life. She was a minor celebrity. Died nineteen eighty four at twenty seven years old. And as far as anybody knows, yeah, she was also the oldest world's oldest squirrel monkey in Milan, Italy in nineteen ninety nine. It took him twenty two years to restore it, but finally Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece painting The Last Supper was finally put back on display. Coach coat, co coach goat shag, this shiverf day, we're gonna pause. He left, this shiver day. We gonna sit with car. It's shivers day. And you know we don't give up because that's a birthday, all right. The born on May the twenty eighth, riter Ian Fleming. He was born name Mayfair, England in nineteen oh eight.

6:01 During World War Two, he served in the British Naval Intelligence. While he was doing that, he got the idea of a spy named James Bond. He wrote the first James Bond book in nineteen fifty two. It was Casino Royale. Well, yeah, well he was alive. He sold one hundred million James Bond books. But there's a whole bunch more after he was dead, and he didn't write them, all the ones for the last thirty years, So how could you ever follow up writing a James Bond book. Well, he followed up by writing the kid's book Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. And he married nineteen fifty two and they had a son and died from heart disease in nineteen sixty four at fifty six years old. Baby Please don't go, Baby, Please don't go, Baby, Please don't go back to I love you. You got me way, you got me way down here. That was Tee bone Walker. He was a pioneer and blues music, especially jumping electric blues. He was born in Lynden, Texas. In nineteen ten.

7:04 He released thirty five albums A t Bow and he's in the Blues and Rock and Roll Hall of Fames. From nineteen twenty eight to nineteen seventy five, he was one of the main players in the blue scene. Then he had a stroke and died from pneumonia. From it, and it was only sixty four years old in nineteen seventy five. He had been married since nineteen thirty five, and they had three children. While she pours her sound ball some strange if myself and drains somewhere, she's a the same, I'm drinking dub. They called him the King of the honky Ton. Gary Stewart born in Jenkins, Kentucky, in nineteen forty four. Now he was really popular throughout the old nineteen seventies and some of his that's for drinking thing out of my hand. She's acting single, I'm drinking doubles. Now, though not as popular, he still had pretty good success throughout the nineteen eighties. Him and his wife. If they'd married young, they had a son and a daughter.

8:01 His wife died after they had been married forty three years, then one month later he committed suicide. In two thousand and three, fifty nine years old, Jame Georgia said he's going back to Seas Last Night. Gladys Night. She's eighty years old. She's born in Atlanta, Georgia, in nineteen forty four. She's coming out on tour June seventh, Yeah, and she'll be doing it the rest of the summer. If you want to check out Gladys of course, she's best known as Gladys Night and the Pips and Two of the Pips, where one was her brother and one was her cousin.

8:43 Now they're all in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of their biggest hits. I heard it through the grape vine. If I were your woman midnight train to Georgia, I got to use my imagination. Now hear the Pips. They stopped touring together in two thousand and nine. She had two sons from her first husband. She had her from her second husband. She married husband number four in two thousand and one. Right, John Fogery, he's seventy nine. He's one in Berkeley, California, in nineteen forty five. Now John and George Thorowgood, they're actually going out on tour.

9:31 They start next weekend. Throughout the whole summer, they had a pretty good shows. They can both still sing. He co founded Cretin's Clearwater Revival in nineteen fifty nine. He was their lead singer until nineteen seventy two, when he left to go solo. Some some of their biggest hits were Susie Q, Proud Mary, Bad Moon, Rising, Down on the Corner, Solo Guy, some of the solo hits for the Old Man, Down on the Road, We're rock and Roll Girl, center Field. He had three children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety and they have two sons and one daughter. Now, those two sons, they're actually in his band. So you'll see him if you go check him out this summer with George Stoorgod. Actor Sandra Locke. She was born in Shelbyville, Tennessee. In nineteen forty four, she was nominated for an Oscar for the first movie she was in, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. But Sandra, she's best known for all the movies she made with Clint Eastwood. Some of those were Outlie, Josie Wells, The Gauntlet, Every which Way but Lose, Bronco, Billy, Sudden Impact. Now she got married back in nineteen sixty seven, but the guy was gay, so they just married to cover it up, I meaning they never really consummated and they were more like brother and sisters. But then they both this kind of went and did their own thing. She started dating Clint Eastwood in nineteen seventy five, and Clint was actually married at the same time when he moved in with Sandra. They broke up in nineteen eighty nine. Eastwood he pretty much screwed her over pretty good all those years they lived together. He told her that he didn't want any kids, so they didn't have any. But on the side he had fathered two kids from another woman. Sandra. She died in twenty eighteen at seventy four years old from cancer. Of course, her gay husband. Yeah, he got all her ass sets, her ashes, her estate, everything worth twenty million bucks. Oh. They had been legally married for fifty one years.

11:24 Roland Gift He sang lead for the band The Fine Young Cannibals. He was born in Birmingham, England, in nineteen sixty one. He's sixty three. Started off playing the saxophone. In nineteen eighty four he got the gig as a front man for The Fine Young Cannibals. They had had Johnny come home ever falling in love. She drives me crazy. I'm not the man I used to be. They broke up in nineteen ninety two. Roland's been solo ever since. Now. They got the name Fine Young camin Holes from the nineteen sixty movie All the Fine Young Cannibals and had Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood in it. Roland he was married and had a son, Sally. His wife died in twenty nineteen. The Washing Sheep, Babe, Don't Kicking Loom the South Fix so nice, It's just another day in advertised Country singer Phil Vassers sixty two born in nineteen sixty two and lynch Burke, Tennessee.

12:24 In the early nineteen nineties, he was the top songwriter out there in Nashville. Wrote number one songs for Tim McGraw, Jody Messina, Colin Ray, Alan Jackson. That's just to name a few of them. Finally got his own record deal in two thousand. It's done good and some of his hits are just another damn paradise in a real love last day of my life. Love is a beautiful thing. Till He's going out on tour June fifth. If you want to check out his show. He has twice divorced. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife and one daughter from his second wife. I know you'll get to chance. How many of you remember that? That was the first song that Kylie Mineau released back in nineteen eighty seven. Well, it only charted in Australia and New Zealand, but they played a lot on MTV just because she was cute, but it didn't chart.

13:24 Now she sold over eighty million records and that makes her the biggest selling female artist singer in Australian history. Yep, she passed Olivia Newton John Kylie. She was born in Melbourne, Australia in nineteen sixty eight. That makes her fifty six now. She had just a decent career over the years, but then the two thousands hit and she exploded. She had that big international heads can't get you out of her head, Love at first sight, all the lovers. Now, she was diagnosed with breast cancer only thirty six years old, but she's beaten it, so that's great. She's been healthy since two thousand and five. Seven times the fame I get the say the silly place starts in my shoes and a Kokoman nose wherever it goes, it was always no. You make you smile. Please stay for a while. Now just stake your time wherevy you go. Kobe Kalay she's thirty nine. She's born in Malibu, California. In nineteen eighty five, she first got popular on the website MySpace, and then you got a record deal out of it in two thousand and seven. Since she's won two Grammys, she's had the hits Bubbly Realize its falling for You, I do. Her latest album she just released I think was in October. Yeah, it's actually a country album.

14:35 That's not a real big stretch for her from where she was, but I guess it's doing pretty good. It's got pretty good reviews for it now. She is doing some touring this summer if you want to see her. And she was engaged once for five years, but I guess it didn't take all. Right, Today's fact good. That'll win you ate beer and night. Oh, let's go back to Hamburger's in night the world's largest hamburger nineteen eighty two and Rutland, North Dakota, Wait three five hundred and ninety one pounds fed eight thousand people. Oh, thank you for being here today. We appreciate you. If you get a chance to out by Coolmedia dot com, that's Cool three us. You can see what we're doing on the radio station and the other podcast, let'sten Today with War Harrow. Actor both of them, Addie Murphy. He died in nineteen seventy one at forty five years old. Addie said, I'll tell you what bravery really is. It's just a termination to do a job that you know has to be done. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No. No,