CSB - Today in History - July 8

Today in History - July 8

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history. There we go our day in history
being the eighth day of July and opening with a
little bit of the Spice Girls. It was twenty eight
years ago, nineteen ninety six that the Girls released their
debut single This One Wanna Be and it shot straight

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to number one, starting Spice maning a Girl pass. Hard
to believe it was twenty eight years ago, right today.
Way back in eighteen ninety three, the New Zealand Racing
Conference was established. Now the New Zealand Racing Conference was
formed to control the thoroughbred racing industry in New Zealand.

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Prior to that, early race meetings were controlled by local
committees elected for that meeting eighteen ninety three. Right to
the famous people birthday in today and topping my list
is American actor Jeffrey tamber loved him in the TV
series Arrested Development that ran for two thousand twenty nineteen.
He's eighty today. It was also in the Hangover movies

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If You Love Your Cooking, Wolfgang Puck Austrian chef. He
turns seventy five today. American actress Royalty really out of America,
Angelica Houston. Many happy returns of the day to her.
She was in the Adams Family, just one of the
many movies that she was in. She is the daughter
of John Houston and Jelice Houston. Is seventy three today.

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Kevin Bacon, Happy birthday to him sixty six today. Apollo
thirteen footbloose and also a TV actor. Also birthday today
is Joan Osborne. You might remember this song one of
us from Joan Osborne's American singer would be and would

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You Card? This was a big hit for her in
nineteen ninety four. Many happy returns to the day to
Joan Osborne. It's Shane House's birthday today. Rugby for the
All Blacks good fifty four points for the Abs before
switching allegiances to Wales were played and got nineteen caps
for Wales. Happy birthday to Shane half fifty six today.

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British singer known as Beck. His real name is Beck
David Hanson. Happy birthday to him today. It's he How
old is He's fifty four today? British yachtswoman, English sailor
Dame Ellen McCarthy, Happy birthday to her today. She broke

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the world record for the fastest solo circumnavigation of the
Globe we gained her international recognition. She's forty eight today
and fieldingborn cyclist Jesse Sergeant now retired, but rode for
a team Radio Shack and represented US at the London Olympics.
Jesse thirty six today There it is famous people having

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birthdays today here on Gold Sport, on the Country Sport Breakfast,
Sally