CSB - Today in History - July 4

Today in History - July 4

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history. Aerican girls, an American guys. We always
stand the pensiloon. We always recognized when we see glory flying,
there's a lot of men, so we can sleep in

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peace in nine when we laid down.

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yes our day in history, and we recognize today being
the fourth of July. The United States declared independence from
Great Britain on this day in seventeen seventy six, known
as Independence Day. Will be that tomorrow in the States,
but I guess for Americans living here it is July
fourth today now. Also, the completed Statue of Liberty was

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formally presented to the US ambassador at a ceremony in
Paris on this day in eighteen eighty four, and then
it was transported to New York City where it is
unveiled and dedicated in eighteen eighty six. Yes, alrighty, well,
let's take a look at some of the things that
happen on this day. In a very sad day in music,

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we lost a leegends, Yes, we lost a legend, a
true legend. Barry White, American record producers, singer, songwriter, five
time Grammy Award winner and with a.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
Very sexy voice.

Speaker 2 (01:24):
He died of kidney failure at the age of fifty eight. Today,
in two thousand and three, it's Prince Michael of Kent's
birthday today. He's fifty second in line to the British throne.
Happy birthday to Prince Michael. He turns eighty two today.
Jeremy Spencer from the band Fleetwood Mac one of the
founding members of that band. Yeah, he birthdays today. Jeremy

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Spencer turned seventy six. Funny story about him. He left
the band in nineteen seventy one when they were touring
in the US. He said he was going out to
buy a newspaper. He was down two days life in
La the Children of God Headquarters. We'd shaved off his head.
Seventy six today. Happy birthday Jeremy Spencer. Jeremy Cedric Spencer,

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John Alexander Australian professional tennis player, sports broadcaster and federal
politician JA as he is known, Happy birthday to him.
He is seventy three today. From the band Earth Wind
and Fire, Remember comes their percussionist Ralph Johnson. Happy birthday,
Raffy seventy three today. British singer John Waite. Remember this song.

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This was a big hit for him in nineteen eighty four,
Missing you. He's seventy two today. Happy birthday to Kirk
Pengali from in excess, member of that band for quite
some time. Kirk Pengali turned seventy six today and then

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we gosh some of the things that happened on this
day in history here on Gold's Sport this is the
Country Sport Breakfast, sporting the one half the other so
that they moved away from nine Gold Spot the Country
Sport Breakfast