CSB - Today in History

Today in History - Sep 16

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
We welcome to our day in history, the sixteenth of September,
kicking off with the sound of Mark Bolan and t Rex.
And it was today, in nineteen seventy seven that the
twenty nine year old lead singer for the band t
Rex was killed instantly when the car driven by his
girlfriend Gloria Jones, left the road and hit a tree

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in one of London's suburbs, Barnes. Hearingly, mister Jones.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Broke her jaw in the accident.

Speaker 2 (00:34):
Very sad sixteenth and September nineteen seventy seven. In nineteen
oh five, the first touring game by New Zealand's first
fully representative rugby team to tour the Northern Hemisphere happened.
They were known as the Originals. They won thirty four
of their thirty five matches played and popularized both the

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Harker and the all Black nickname. The only game they
lost was Wale's Three Nyl, in which Bob Dean's great
uncle of the renowned Wallabies coach Robbie Deans, may have
been denied a late equalizing try. Iesevatory famous nineteen hundred
and five right to the famous People Birthday today and

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out of the Love and Spoonful one of their singers
and also the drummer for the band, Joe Butler.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Joe Butler turns eighty three today.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
From the Hollys come Bernie Calvert played bass in the
band from sixty six until nineteen eighty one.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
He's eighty two today.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Out of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers comes their bass
player as well a few bass players.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Ronnie Blair.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
It's Ron Blair's seventy six birthday today, and out of
the Small Faces their drummer Kenny Jones. What a great
band seventy six today. Actress Suzanne Ritten who played Rox
Scene Melman and La Law. What great series that was
as well, Susan seventy six today. One of the Bellamy brothers,

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this time David Bellamy seventy four today. He and his
brother were well part of a duo, had a whole
lot of great hits, including this one.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
If I seed you had a beautiful body, would you
hold it against me? A great line? Seventy four today.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Scottish rugby Union players Scottish great Andy Irvine's seventy three today.
Legendary guitarist Earl Klog Happy birthday to Early's won something
like a couple of Grammy Awards, received thirteen nominations.

Speaker 1 (02:38):
He's seventy one today.

Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's Richard Noel Marx's birthday today. Happy birthday to Mark Well,
to Richard Marks who is sixty one today.

Speaker 1 (02:52):
And Mark Anthony. It's quite a list, isn't it. Mark
Anthony the singer.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
As well today, Happy birthday to him.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Twenty six birthdays. There we go out day in history.
This is gold sport. It's the country sport breakfast. It'd
be Monday, good morning,