CSB - Today in History - July 18

Today in History - July 18

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Our day in history being the eighteenth day of July.
We're opening our segment with the Bobby full of four
and their Big sixties had Eye fought the law and
the law won. It was today. In nineteen sixty six,
at their band leader Bobby Fuller was found dead in
his car in Los Angeles at the age of twenty three.
He died mysteriously from gasoline asphyxiation while parked outside his apartment. Yeah,

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that just was some great hits, that's for sure. Comp
forward to nineteen seventy six the Montreal Olympic Games and
Naddia Komenichi, the fourteen year old star gymnast from Romania,
stunned those watching the games by executing the perfect ten.
This was her recollection of her performance.

Speaker 1 (00:54):
So I land, and I thought I did a groutine.
Actually I didn't expect to get I didn't even think about,
you know, ten. I was hoping that I was going
to get nine, nine or something close to that. And
just because I heard the big noise in arena, I
turn around and I see the scoreboard that it's a

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one point zero zero, which was very confusing to everybody.

Speaker 2 (01:20):
That's Nadia kom and Ichi recalling that event nineteen seventy six.
She's one of the best known gymnasts in the world,
and in two thousand was named as one of the
best athletes of the twentieth century. Famous people birthday and
today and from the band Trinity comes their keyboardist Ryan Auga.
Happy birthday to him today. This was a big hit

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for the band. From Jill's Drisco. Ryan Auga turns eighty
five today. Sixties pop idol Dion Dion Lmucci, that hapen Wanderer,
he turns eighty five today. It's James Rowland's birthday, the
husband of Barbara Streisen. He's also an actor. He is

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eighty four today. And Martha Reeves of Martha Reeves and
the Vendellas Motown girl group. Martha Reeves still going strong.
She is eighty three. One of the best fast bowlers
of his generation. Dennis Lilly, the legendary Dennis Lily. He's

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seventy five today. Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group.
He co foundered the group, which controls more than four
hundred companies in various fields. He's seventy four today. American
country music singer Ricky Skaggs Happy birthday to him today.
He's heading down the Hillbilly Highway. He turns the Big

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seven oh today. Retired English professional golfer Nick Feldo. Happy
birthday to Nick Feldo sixty seven today. And Elizabeth McGovern
who of course famous for playing Core, Countess of Grantham
in Downtown Abbey. It's Elizabeth McGovern's sixty third birthday today.

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But also she's a member of a group called Sadie
and the hot Head. And this is Elizabeth McGovern out
front of Sadie in the hot Heads. She turned sixty
three today. Mark Sinkley, you probably know him as Vin Diesel.
Happy birthday to them today. Dominic Trento the Fast and

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the Furious franchise, he's fifty seven. And Kelly Riley, who
plays Beth Sutton on Yellowstone or Years, she is forty
seven today. And happy birthday to bad Mum star Kristen Bell.
She's forty four. Boy. That's a listen in a half
a world of Happy birthday if you're having a birthday today,
and that's it our day in history on Goldsport this

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is the Country Sport Breakfast