CSB - Today in History - July 16

Today in History - July 16

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is the Country Sport Breakfast with Brian Kelly on
Gold Sport Today in History. It was raining hard in Frisco.
I needed one more fare. I make my name our
day in History here on gold Sport in the Country
Sport Breakfast and opening with the late legendary US singer

(00:21):
songwriter Harry Chapin, who had a couple of big hits
in the seventies, including this song Taxi. It was today
in nineteen eighty one that he was killed in a
car crash at the age of thirty eight on a
New York expressway. Twenty twelve also lost John Lord, former
keyboard player with Deep Purple, passed away at the age
of seventy one. The Wanganui Fibergate. I've got to mention

(00:45):
this story. In nineteen hundred and three, the Wanganui Fibrigade
became the first in Australasia to use a motorized fire engines.
How about that all right? Jump forward to nineteen sixty
nine in the war, the world watched with interest in
the US for the launch of Apollo eleven.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
Mission sequence starts six.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
The spacecraft at the start of its mission to land
mean on the Moons zero engine running three astronauts Neil Armstrong,
Buzz Aldron and Michael Collins aboard Apollo eleven. Today in
nineteen sixty nine, very sad day in the US as well. Today.
In nineteen ninety nine, we lost John F. Kennedy Junior,

(01:30):
the son of a former President of the US, along
with his wife and sister, killed in a plane crash
off Massachusetts.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
John F. Kennedy Junior and his wife and her sister
took off from Caldwell, New Jersey's, small place not far
from New York City, about eight thirty Eastern time last night.
While no flight plan was filed, none had to be
under the circumstances of this flight. They were bound from
Arthur's Vineyard the The plane was due there about ten o'clock.

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Never got there.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
There were that story out of nineteen ninety nine. Today
right to the famous people. Birthday today and a lady
considered to be one of the greatest tennis players of
all time, Australian Margaret Court twenty four women's singles title
in total. She turns eighty two today. The drummer for
the police, Stuart Armstrong Copeland. Happy birthday Stuke Copeland. It's

(02:21):
his seventy second birthday today. The creator of Riverdan's Lord
of the Dance, Michael Flatley. Michael Flatley turns sixty six today.
American funny man Will Ferrell real name John William Ferrell.
Very funny guy. I loved him Zankerman. Will Ferrel fifty
seven today. Corey Feldman, American actor. It's his birthday. He

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turns fifty three today. Wendell Saylor represented Australia in both
rugby league and rugby union, mainly played for the Brisbane Broncos.
He turns fifty today and Australian of Australian's day today.
Australian golfer Adam Scott. He was ranked number one in
the world from mid May to August of twenty fourteen.

(03:08):
Happy birthday to Adam Scott, who is forty four today
and also having a birthday today is a Fat Boy
Slam singer. Flat fat Boy Slam's right here, right now.
Hell of a name. Fat Boy Slam's forty nine today,

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and that is our day in history here on golf Sport,
the sixteenth day of July. It's the country Sport Breakfast,
Good morning,