CSB - Today in History - July 11

Today in History - July 11

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history, you've feened a few lips un ruled
and curldure ten in our day in history, the year
is nineteen sixty seven, when Kenny Rodgers, who was a
member of a group called the New Christie Minstrels, went
out on his own with a few minstrels and formed

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Kenny Rodgers and the First Edition. And this was one
of their first hits, Ruby don't take your love to town.
A few other things happened on this day in history.
In eighteen seventy seven here in New Zealand, Kate Edgar
became the first woman in New Zealand to gain a
university degree and the first woman in the British Empire
to earn a bah. She enrolled at the Canterbury College

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as the first woman student eighteen seventy seven. Big Ben
told for the very first time across London Today in
eighteen fifty nine. Big Ben is actually the nickname for
the Great Bell of the clock. The clock tower itself
was renamed Elizabeth Tower in a tribute to the Queen
herself of the Diamond Jubilee. Today, eighteen fifty nine, big

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Ben holding across the world right, Happy birthday to a
few famous people today, including Giorgio Ammani, the Italian born
fashion designer. He turns the big nine. Oh. Today a
man from the band the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band comes,
Jeff Hannah Warner, singer songwriter for that band. He turned

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seventy seven. Many happies to him today. To Jeff Hannah,
it's Richie Zambora's birthday today. Richie Sambora, lead guitarist for
Bond Jovi, turned sixty five. And Suzanne Vega remember the

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song My Name Is Luca. I Love Zan Vega also
in sixty five today Upstairs from you, Yes, I think
you've seen it before. And it was today, in fifty
five years ago that David Bowie released the song control

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to Me. It's time Wow. Yes, Space Oddity released it
nine days before Apollo eleven landed on the moon. Digitsime
and that's our day in history here on Gold Sports
and the Country Sport Breakfast Helmets