CSB - Today in History

Today in History - July 25

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history. In most we knew four.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to our day in history, being the twenty fifth
day of July. And it was today, in nineteen ninety
two that the Olympic Games opened in bus Solona with
all countries present for the first time in modern history.
And this was the theme song for the Games from
Freddie Mercury, Bus Salona, nineteen ninety two. Staying with a

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sporting theme and jump back to nineteen eighty one and
three hundred and fifty anti Springbok anti Tour demonstrators invaded
Rugby Park in Hamilton on this day in nineteen eighty one,
forcing the Springbok Vocado match to be abandoned and there
were some very violent scenes from rugby supporters and the police.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
One senior officer said, you have to be peared to
hit man, woman, child, priest, prostitute if you go out
on this tour.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
Oh nineteen eighty one, remember it so well. Two thousand
the year two thousand, Air France Flight four five nine oh,
which was a concord supersonic passenger jet, crashed just after
takeoff from Paris, killing all one hundred and nine aboard
and four on the ground, and the cause of that
crash was a piece of titanium debris on the runway
that ruptured attire, which burst and sent a chunk into

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the fuel tank. Those images of that crash were very sad,
indeed right to the famous people on my list having
birthdays today and topping the list as founding member of
the Seekers. The great songwriter on his own Bruce Woodley
your friend. This was one of his solo hits. He's
eighty two today, he wrote. Simon de Garfunkels cloudy as well,

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very good songwriter. Happy birthday to him. Jim McCarty from
the band The Yardbirds, founding member of that band and
still tours with him as well. He is eighty one today,
got on your Jim, Happy birthday to you today. It's
Imman's birthday. She, of course, is the famous Somalian American model,

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the real name Amman Mohammad ab Julmud. Happy birthday sixty
nine today, and it's Mattie LeBlanc's birthday today. Joey Trebiani
from Friends Are You dog Ah? Yes, Happy birthday to
him today. He is fifty seven and im'tual birthday today.
Many happy returns of the day to you, and that's

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our day in history here on gold Sport and the
country Sport.