CSB - Today in History

Today in History - Oct 18

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
For today in history.

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Let's get into it. Our day in history being the
eighteenth day of October sixty eight days till Christmas Day,
and we're opening with the sound of Chuck Berry would
have been his birthday today. Was born on this day
in nineteen twenty sixteen.

Speaker 1 (00:22):
N we're back up in the wood.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
One of the pioneers of rock and roll music and
absolute legend, Chuck Berry. It was a terrible day for
singer soul singer Al Green today. In nineteen seventy four,
Al Green suffered severe burns after his girlfriend threw a

(00:44):
boiling pan of grits at him before shooting herself. On
this day in nineteen seventy four, Green sought spiritual comfort
in the church and eventually was ordained into a full
gospel tabernacle. Minister Al Greens to Let's take you back
to the nineteen sixty eight Olympic Games in Mexico and

(01:05):
the Cox four of Warren Cole, Ross, Collins, Dick, Joyce
Dudley story. In Cox, Simon Dickey beat the United States
and the Soviet Union to win the Cock four final
at the Olympic Games in Mexico. The coach Rusty Robertson
had earlier that year called them the funniest looking crew
you would ever see, and it was New Zealand's first

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success at Olympics in rowing, and Dudley story remembers the
last few hundred meters.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
Seven hundred and fifty meters, we would do thirty big
strong strokes to just get out and do the Murray
Helberg in the last three laps at right, same thing,
except we're doing it for seven hundred and fifty. We're
thirteen hundred meters out and just went come bow. And
that's exactly what happened physically. Oh, it's just immensely. I
just couldn't. I couldn't handle a hard race anymore. I

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took eighteen months before I could handle a really really
hard place a games.

Speaker 2 (01:57):
The late the legendary Dudley story remembering that race.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
Right.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Famous people having birthdays today and one of the founding
members of the band Steelers Wheels Joseph Egan, who along
with Jerry Raffid, he formed the band. It's his birthday today.
He turns seventy eight today. Remember the TV series Mork
and Mindy No Nano seventy eight to eighty two. Pam Dormer,
who played alongside the star of the show. It's Pam's

(02:25):
seventy three, seventy third birthday today it's Martina Navratolova's birthday.
Widely considered among the greatest tennis players of all time,
Martina is sixty eight and one of our greatest football players.
Ryan Nelson also former head coach of the Major League
though Toronto FC. Ryan Nelson turns forty seven today. Cord

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van Dam too, I should mention him the actor. He
is sixty four today. There we go. That's our day
in history here on Gold Sport and the Country Sport Breakfast,
Happy Friday.

Speaker 1 (03:02):
Six fifteen.

Speaker 2 (03:03):
Great hearing Dudley's story. The Late Dudley Stories recollections of
that win at the Mexico Olympic Games. He was a
great coach actually for Auckland Dio girls for quite some
time