CSB - Today in History - June 20

Today in History - June 20

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history ground control to me, it's on our
day in history, being the twentieth of June. Opening with
David Bowie's Space Oddity. He went into recording studios in
fact Trident Recording Studios in London today in nineteen sixty

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nine and recorded the song that We're Not to become
a number one hit around the world. Nineteen sixty nine
five big day for New Zealand sport today Back at
nineteen eighty seven, the All Blacks beat France twenty nine
to nine at Eden Park in Auckland in the final

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of the first Rugby Union World Cup twenty points tonight
takes him twenty point at with All Blacks were the
Rugby World Cup. There we go, yeah, Keith Quinn and
his call on that one, winning that one by twenty
nine to nine against France. So the famous people birthday

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and today and American singer Jerry Keller one hit wonder
and it was this one. Here comes Summer to keep
ninety fifty nine he is eighty seven to In fact,
summer has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere today. It's actually
the first day officially of some are known as the
Summer Solstice. Shine Braha yeah, absolutely all right. Also having
a birthday today is a legendary co founder of the

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Beach Boys, Brian Wilson, often called a genius for his
novel approaches to pop compositions. Brian Wilson turns eighty two today.
Very troubled man, but happy birthday to him. Co wrote
or wrote twenty five of the top forty hits for
the band. Happy eighty second birthday. Also having a birthday

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today is Canadian songstriss songstress and Murrie mad sold over
fifty five million albums worldwide. Great Boys seventy nine today.
Also a very good scratch golfer. It's Dolores Lala Brooks's
birthday today. You may not remember recognize that name. She

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was a member of the Crystals. It's a big hit
for them. She is seventy seven today. And it's the
man from Tuskegee, Lionel Richie's birthday deepens. I remember the
Commodorees and then a whole lot of successful hits on

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his own hand. The birthday to Lionel Richie, who's seventy
five today. American actor John Goodman, remember him? And Roseanne
who's also in a whole lot of other great movies.
Happy birthday then I loved him in the big Leboldski.
John Goodwin's seventy two. Today, Michael Anthony, who's the bass
player for the band Van Halem's, Happy birthday to him. Today,

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Michael Anthony turns seventy. Today's happy birthday to him. And
also another bass player and that is John Taylor from
Duran durand a couple of bass players. This is something
in the water. John Taylor sixty four. Today, Michael Anthony
turned seventy. And the gorgeous Nicole Kidman Any happy returns

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of the day to her fifty seven. She's been married
to keep the band since two thousand and six. Happy
fifty seventh, Nicole. And there we go just some of
the things that happen on this day in history. Here
on gold Sport, it's the Country Sport Breakfast, good morning,
nine minutes away from nine. I always wanted to be
a proficient bass player, but no didn't quite work out.

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