April 7th-Beer. Russell Crowe, Jackie Chan, Hall & Oates, James Garner, Billie Holiday, Largest Python ever caught

0:19 He hello one in all, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factories. About today is in the back cool media. Day's April the seventh. Now this little song, it's more to the point, roll out the mineral and in there here that I like here what it makes me a jolly? I like beer. It helps me on why sometimes it makes me feel mellow. Today is National Beer Day. Now, people have been drinking beer for at least seven thousand years. So why are we celebrating beer today? Well, in nineteen thirty three, the United States Congress the reverse prohibition selling beer. Yeah, you can sell beer in the United States. Now the rest of the alcoholic beer. Now, beer is the most drank alcoholic beverage in the world. Now, it's whether you're like your logger, your ale, you're stout, you're Pilsner, IPA's whatever kind of bear you like? Does that fun celebrating today?

1:13 Just heads up, women, seventy percent of women who drink beer see more attractive to men than women who drink other alcoholic beverages. Just saying, all right, list who's going on entertainment on April seventh. It was back in nineteen eighty five, then one album was No Jacker Required by Phil Collins, still had no More Song with One More Night. Walk Please Get You. Earl. Thomas Connley had the number one country song with Underbound.

1:55 Jesus Can lever Hary. The number one book was Family Album by Danielle Steele Todd movie was Please. Academy two their first assignment. Six of the graduates are assigned to precinct where the second in charge tries to really screw them up so he can become in charge. Stars Steve Gutenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graff nineteen eighty five Wham. They became the first Western pop group in order to play over in the People's Republic of China. Yeah, they rock Beijing, all right. What happened on April the seventh, seventeen eighty eight, the first permanent settlement in Ohio was founded is Mariatta. Yeah, Marriette, Ohio.

2:49 They named it after Francis Marie Antoinette. Eighteen twenty seven. Over in England there Kim as John Walker. He invented the match. Yeah, the wooden match. Yeah, they hadn't been invented at lighters. They were actually invented before matches nineteen twenty six, An Irish woman living over in Rome. Her name was Violet Gibson. Well, she shot Italian dictator Benito Bose Lussolini. Now she missed with the first shot, but she nicked his nose on the second shot. Surprisingly, Mussolini, he didn't get that mad and he just kind of shrugged it off. No harm, no foul. Italian government though they had her deported, they thought she was crazy as hell. See, she told them that God had told her to do it. God wanted her to stop from the bad things that Mussolini was getting ready to do. Honestly, that kind of freaked that government out. See, they kind of knew that Mussolini wasn't a good guy. Nineteen forty five, in World War Two, Now, in the Battle of Okinawa over in the Pacific Japan, they launched one of their largest Kamikazi raids of the war, sent one hundred and ten planes at the United States Naval Fleet three years battleships were pretty damaged, pretty bad. The same day, over in Germany, they launched what they called Saunder Kamando LB. Now it was a special Air Force unit. Their purpose was just a ram airplanes up in the air. Oh that didn't work at all. Now it's easier an airplane to outmove another airplane than it is for a ship to dodge a dot kamakazi. Now let's just say this is an honor of National Bear Day. It was nineteen fifty nine.

4:09 Oklahoma they finally ended prohibition. Now, get this, they had actually started a prohibition early. Say they had been actually dry for fifty one years. Oklahoma started prohibition in nineteen oh eight. For get this. Oklahoma wasn't the last one to get rid of prohbition. No, that goes in Mississippi. They went until nineteen sixty six before you could buy booze. Nineteen eighty eight, the Soviet Union announced that they were going to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan, and they weren't gonna leave ten billion dollars worth of military surprise behind. In twenty sixteen and Penang Island over in Malaysia, they got a twenty six foot python that is the largest python ever captured. I live. Doke cojoked joke sharge thish shibirthday.

4:50 We're gonna tag he left this shiverthday. We got simple tage like. This Shive birthday. And you know we don't get up your birthday. Well's check out a born on April the seventh. I say I'll move the mountains, and now move the mountains if he wants them. Out of the way. That was singer Billie Holiday. She was born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifteen. She started singing in clubs in Harlem when she was just a teenager. By the time she was eighteen, she got her first record deal. She sang for all the big band leaders. The top one is count Basie, Artie Shah, Yeah, all of them. Then she was adopt singer in jazz and in pop in the nineteen forties, made all kinds of money, which is kind of a bad thing. See, she had a really bad drug and alcohol problem. Yeah, she was in and out of jail, and she got cirosis of the liver.

5:44 Yeah. She died in nineteen fifty nine and only forty four years old. She was married to her third husband at the time. Now, the movie The Lady Sings the Blues you know, starred Diana Ross. Yeah, that was all about Billy Holiday. Actor James Garner. He was born in Norman, Oklahoma. In nineteen twenty eight, on TV started Maverick and then The Rockford Files. Some of his movies were The Great Escape, Murphy's Romance, Maverick, my fellow American Space Cowboys, Garner. He received two Purple Hearts for fighting in the Korean War. Yeah. One of them he got Shopneil in his face, in his hand. The second line he got shot in the butt from friendly fire. He got married nineteen fifty six. They had only dated fourteen days when they got married. Well, it work though. They had two daughters. They were married all the way until he died from a heart attack in twenty fourteen and eighty six years old. Actor Wayne Rogers.

6:28 He was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in nineteen thirty three. You might remember most were playing Trapper John on the TV show Mash. Now. After he left Mash, he kind of left acting went into business. He was just super successful with the stock market in real estate. He was one of those guys that Fox News brings on as their experts on all that. Yeah. Well, he had married his second wife in nineteen eighty eight. They were together until he died from pneumonia twenty fifteen and eighty two years old. Movie maker Francis Ford Coppola is eighty seven. He was born in Detroit in nineteen thirty nine, won five Oscars, been nominated for fifteen times. Some of the movies that he's done that you might have heard of were Patton, all those Godfather movies, Apocalypse, Now The rain Maker. I think his best movie is The Outsiders.

7:10 Now. He got married in nineteen sixty three and they have two sons and one daughter. Jimmer Bench Girl and you don't juacause you know what, don't matter anyway, you knew it. The old Man's lining the Old Man. The Fitch Girls called to fall because you know what, don't let it anyway. John Oates he is the half of Holly Oates that didn't sing. He plays guitar, and he had co wrote in all their big hits. He's seventy eight years old today, born in New York City in nineteen forty eight. Now, him and Darryl Hall, they got together in nineteen seventy.

7:51 They were huge in the eighties. Had Rich Girl, kiss on my lips, private Eyes. I can't go for that new kind. Yeah, they were really big in the eighties. But they just finally called it's last year. So they've been doing something. Now. Let's he married his second wife in nineteen ninety four and they have a son. Actor Jackie Chan. He was born Feing she Long in Hong Kong in nineteen fifty four. He's seventy two today, been in an over one hundred and fifty movies. Has been not so many in the United States now. The martial artist. He has always and says he always will do his own stunts. He has actually a stuntman into Bruce Lee's movies now, the Rush Hour movies, the Kung Fu Panda movies, The Tuxedo, The Spy next Door. There's some us Jackie Chan movies. Now, Jackie got married nineteen eighty two and they have a son.

8:31 But Jackie didn't stop there. He went and had a daughter on the side. Actor Russell Crowe. He was born in Wellington, New Zealand in nineteen sixty four sixty two today. Moved to Australia when he was eleven. Had a lot of success acting in Australia. In the nineteen ninety five he came to the United States to see how he could do here. Hit Fast and the Quick and the Dead, Then No Way Back. La Confidential. Nominated for Oscars for The Insider and a beautiful mind won an Oscar for the Gladiator Russell. He married once and he has two sons from it. Okay for a quote of the day, we're gonna go with Carmaker Henry Ford. Henry died to day in nineteen forty seven at eighty three years old. He said, my best friend is the one who brings out the best in me. Oh that's sweet. Well, thank you for listening. Don't forget to follow us so we're easy to find. So on Spotify. It's a new month, so we have a new playlist going for history and Factory is about today, so it's easy. There's a link there if you want to go check it out. All right, our country underground radio arts today. It comes up from Melanie and Tampa. He knows here Darcy Kate song Let it out. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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