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Today in History - July 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history, Yeah day in history, being the third
day of July and a sad day in music history.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Today we go back to nineteen sixty nine and one
of the co founding members of the Rolling Stones, Brian Jones,
died while under the influence of drugs and alcohol after
taking a midnight swim in his call. He was just
twenty seven years old. Today nineteen sixty nine, jump forward
two years and we lost another music legend, Jim Morrisons

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of the Doors. He was found dead in a bathtub
in Paris in France, and the cause of his death
he was given as a heart attack, and he too
was twenty seven years old. And jump forward to nineteen
eighty six and U two the band You two were
in morning they lost crew member Greg Carroll Wanging to
be born and Bred. He was killed in a motorcycle

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accident in Dublin while running an errand for Bono in
nineteen eighty six. In the song one Tree Hill and
the band's Joshua Tree album is dedicated to Carol. Really
sad day all right Well nineteen sixty three and in
the skies of New Zealand there was disaster. In fact

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still New Zealand's worst internal civil aviation accident and NAC
DC three crashed into the Kaimai Rangers, killing all twenty
three passengers and crew on board, and helicopters were used
for the first time in the search and rescue operation
that followed that day, nineteen sixty three at DC three

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crashing into the Coimos Right to the famous people birthday
and today, and happy birthday to Chats you and John Chatfield,
new Zealand cricketer played forty three Tests and one hundred and
fourteen odii's for New Zealand. He's seventy four today and
as good mate Sir Richard John Hadley, regarded as one
of the best cricket all rounders in history, he is

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seventy three today.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Happy birthday to.

Speaker 2 (02:07):
Him or kurtwood Smith who played Red Foreman in the
seventy show, He's eighty one today. It's Tom Cruise's birthday.
Many happy returns to Tom Turns sixty two and Sebastian
Vettel World Formula One champion won four titles actually in
the mid two thousands, four World Formula One titles. Famous

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for naming his cars, he had all sorts of names
for his Formula One cars. I'll talk more about that
later this morning. Happy birthday to him. He's thirty seven today.
Winston Reid former New Zealand football captain Winston Reid, now retired.
He is thirty six today. Julian Asage, who's been in
the news lately, repatriated to Australia. It's his fifty third

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birthday today. And Ellie king Silt. She is the daughter
of Rob Schneider, but also quite a star on her own.
She's a pop singer, country singer. She actually opened for
The Chicks when they toured New Zealand last year. Ellie
is thirty five.

Speaker 1 (03:10):
Steirty five.

Speaker 2 (03:13):
She's a great singer, got great attitude.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Happy Birthday, Test thirty, Keen thirty five.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
And then we go out date in history here on
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