Aug 16-Rum, Kool & the Gang, Madonna, James Cameron, Angela Bassett, Steve Carrell, The Fighting Girlfriend

0:17 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today past a boy cool meeting days. August the sixteenth, Pull drinking room, drink PU drinking room. Pull drinking room. Drinks come, I think to switch man pull trinking room. I stren pull drinking room. I three pull twrinking rum. Ire Ho. It's National Rum Day, A type of rum. It started being made about three hundred BC. Wasn't until the sixteen hundreds though, when the kind of rum that we drink to day started being made. Yeah, they needed the sugarcane from the Caribbean in order to do that. Rum is the number two liquor. It's behind vodka. Now beer and wine aren't considered a liquor. Surprisingly, sales of white rum and dark room, yeah, they're almost even. I would have thought it would been dark rum would have sold a lot more.

1:10 So. How do you want to celebrate today? You got Pinnikolatta, Dakery, rum and cook, Muedo, Mike tie, Hurricane Long Island iced tea. You know, there are so many different types of run drinks. You just bell to find one you like. All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment in August sixteenth. Back in twenty twenty three, number one album was Utopia by Travis Scott Morgan walland had the number one song with last Night You told me. That you whis our somebody ever met the baby baby soft is telling me this Saint over here, No way, it was our last night. The kids still lives and make your grip to see with your finger SIPs last bottle of jaquee split the fits, just talking about life on Stai sipy you. You know you.

1:54 Little to fight a number one country too, But. I'll still going wick all new me. I know the the last live we lit, so I can't remember everything we see it. Bob, we said it all. He told me that you win. How somebody ever, man baby Bavis, something's telling me this, saying over it. The number one book was Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. The top movie was Blue Beetle Aliens. They give a recent college graduate a pseudo armor that makes him the superhero Blue Beetle Star Zulto Marijuana Bueno Marquessiino and Becky g Now. Normally we give a quote from a person at the end of the show who had died that day, but August sixteenth. This actually had a lot of people pass on us, so we're just gonna do it right now.

2:46 Elvis Presley, he died in nineteen seventy seven at forty two years old. Babe Ruth died in nineteen forty eight at fifty three years old. We lost Aretha Franklin in twenty eighteen at seventy six years old. Miss Kitty from Gunsmoke. Amanda Blake, Yeah, she died nineteen nine, is sixty years old. And Margaret Mitchell, the lady who wrote Gone with the Wind. She was hitten by a car and died nineteen forty nine at forty nine years old. All right, what else happened? On August the sixteenth, eighteen fifty eight, the first transatlantic telegraph was sent English is Queen Victoria. She sent it to US President James Buchanan. She congratulated him on the mutual success the two countries achieved by being able to employ that telegraph across the Atlantic Ocean. It opened up such exciting potential possibilities with technology in the future. No one wrote it down but Buchanan. He just kind of replied back what it could happen? And since eighteen sixty five over in South America. Yeah, they had been fighting what they'd called the Triple Alliance. It was Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay versus Paraguay. Yeah, that was pretty much just slaughter.

3:48 But Paraguay would not surrender. So today, in eighteen sixty nine, at the Battle of Acustaneu, twenty thousand Brazilian and Argentine troops faced off against Paraguay's three thousand troops. Everyone a Paraguay and trips. They either killed, injured, or taken prisoner. I probably should have mentioned that all Paraguay trips were boys between nine and fifteen years old. You know what. Paraguay, there's two would not surrender. They had no one left to fight. But nope, they weren't going down. Nineteen thirty the first sound and color cartoon was released. It was Fiddlesticks. Now it wasn't by Disney, but it was by a guy who used to work for Disney. It was about Flip the Frog. He was a feature performer at a nightclub in the forest. All the forest creatures love to come see him dance and play piano. Nineteen fifty four, the first issue as Sports Illustrated went on so nineteen sixty nine. Now, yesterday we talked about how Richie Havens opened up Woodstock. So you want to know who played on day two? Santana, The Grateful Dead, Creten's clear Water Revival, Janis Joplin Slying the Family Stone, The Who Jefferson Airplane. Yeah, that was the best day if he were going to go to any tomorrow's closing. Yeah, I don't really has this.

4:52 Jimmy Hendricks and Shawanana nineteen seventy two, King of Sin, the King of Morocco. He was finding his personal seven twenty seven airplane and a coup took place down in his country. Some of his own Air Force fighter plays. They attacked his jet. Yeah, in order to get him to stop shooting. The King grabbed the mic and screamed into the radio, stop shooting. The tyrant is dead. We killed him. Well, the air Force pilots kind of said cool and just flew off. Well, the king was able to land safely, and yes, he was able to crush that coup. Due to international pressure. In twenty seventeen, Lebanon, they abolished their Article five point twenty two of their penal clue. YEP, it's one of the laws. Now that law said that rapists would not be prosecuted if they married their victims. And twenty twenty one, and the worst military and foreign policy decision in US history took place United States President Joe Biden. He gave the Taliban Afghanistan the airport that the Taliban didn't even want, and he gave them billions upon billions of dollars of military equipment, weapons and supplies. Yeah, they didn't ask for that either, and he wanted to make it all worse. Yep, thirteen US soldiers were killed.

5:58 Gop coat goat show, this shiverf day, were gonna pause. He left this shiverf day. We gonna sit with Caage left this shibirf Day. And you know we don't get that. Birthday well Hood born on August the sixteenth. Mariah Octabuskaya. She was born in Crimea, Russia, in nineteen oh five. Now, during World War Two, she found out that her husband and kids killed fight in Germany, so she sold everything she owned and she offered to use that money to buy a tank for the Soviet Army with two conditions. One she got to drive it, and two the tank would be called the Fighting Girlfriend. Sylvia said, okay. So it turned out that Maria had She was actually really good battle after battle, she even promoted all up to sergeant.

6:41 She was totally kicking butt. Then in January nineteen forty four, in a battle, her tank was hit by an anti tank show it knocked off the track, so under heavy fire she hopped out and with rifle fire going around and artillery dropping all around her, Yeah, she was able to fix that track. But Sally, she was crawling back into her tank. Yeah, she was hitting the head buy some shrapnel. She was in a coma for two months before she died. She was thirty eight years old. She did receive the Hero of the Soviet award. That is the highest award that the Soviets gave out for bravery in battle, kind of like our Medal of Honor. One of only two women to get it. Shine Swaying too, I let him, let him go.

7:34 She's Edie Gourmet. She was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen twenty eight. Now she had hits on the pop and Latin charts, and after all her success as a solo artists, she's best known for performing with her husband, Yeah, Steve Lawrence Steve and Edie. They had a lot of success, so lots of records played Vegas a lot. They performed together for fifty five years. Then they also had two sons along the way. She died six days before eighty fifth birthday in twenty thirteen. Shame gets a. Shame. That was Gary Luiso. He was singing for American Breed.

8:23 He was born in Chicago in nineteen forty five. American Breed they're around from nineteen sixty two to nineteen seventy. Bid Me Shape Me, Yeah, that was their biggest hit. But after they broke up, that's when Gary had his biggest success in music, started his own record studio. Just some of the people who recorded there sticks Reo Speedwagon, Bad Company, Lies in the La Tenacious Dan Nelson. I had a lot more too. Gary had two children from his first wife, and he did get remarried in nineteen eighty eight his first wife had died. They had two children. Gary died from pancreatic cancer in twenty sixteen at seventy years old. Actor Reginald Veil Johnson is seventy four. He was born in Queens, New York, in fifty two. Biggest movie is Where the first two Diehard movies. Remember he played Aul. He was also in Turner and Hooch, Crocodile Dundee.

9:08 Biggest success was on TV. Started on Family Matters. He was that copp what was his named? Carl Winslow went to high school with porn star Ron Jeremy don't know if they hung out. How you gonna do it if you really don't want to day by standing? Tell men how you gonna do it if you really don't want to dance by standing? That was James J. T. Taylor singing for Cooling the Gang. He was born in Laurence, South Carolina, seventy three today. He joined cool In the Gang in nineteen seventy nine, pretty much sing lead on all their songs. He sang from seventy one to nineteen eighty eight like what Ladies Night, Celebration, Get down on it your name and he sang it.

9:55 He did come back for a couple of reunion shows. Then JD has done some solo stuff. He did a little Broadway He's married. Hey you all flying? Oh she all throw a crunchy. You think someday she'll comety you betiful Jet. That was heavy metal singer Kathy Lee Gifford. She was born Kathy Lee Epstein. She's seventy three. Also today, she's born over in Paris. Friends first got known singing on the game show named That Tune. Then she was with Live with Regis and Kathy Lee from nineteen eighty five to two thousand. Then she did Today with Kathy Lee and Hoda from twenty and eight to twenty nineteen. She also released sixteen albums over the years. Her second husband was Frank Gifford. They married nineteen eighty six. They had had a son and a daughter. They were together until Frank died in twenty fifteen. Movie maker James Cameron is seventy two. He was born up in Canada, but he finished hig school out in California. He made three of the six movies that had made over two billion dollars, Avatars and Titanic. His first hit movie was Terminator, and he followed that with Aliens. His fourth wife was actress Linda Hamilton. They had a daughter, then he left Linda for his fifth wife. They got married in two thousand and they have two daughters and one son.

11:14 No Chime Tuesday. Back in nineteen eighty two, that song Everybody It did not chart in the top one hundred, but it did getting up to number three on the dance chart. That was Mdonna's first single. She was born Madonna Chaconne in Basity, Michigan, in nineteen fifty eight. Sixty eight year old, she sold over three hundred million records. That makes her the world's best selling female artists of all time. She's also made nineteen movies, but we won't talk about those. Her first douzand is actor Sean Penn for four years, and then she had a daughter from a fitness trainer and she married her second asthm He was filmmaker Guy Ritchie, and they had two sons. After they divorced Madonna, she's adopted three little girls. Actress Angela Bassett. She's also sixty eight.

12:09 She's born in New York City. Some of her movies were Malcolm X, Waiting to exl The Avengers. She's nominated for Oscars for What's Love Got to Do with That? And Black Panther Waconda Forever on TV. She has done a lot of American horror stories. Angela married in nineteen ninety seven and they have a son and a daughter. Actor Timothy Hutton was born nineteen sixty in Malibu, California, sixty six. Today, he is the youngest actor ever to win a Best Supporting Actor Oscar went for when he was twenty years old for Ordinary People. Some of his other movies Taps, The Falcon and The Snowman, Made in Heaven, Everybody's All American. His first wife was actress Debora Winger for four years and they had a son. Then he is married to a second wife for nine years and they had a daughter, Actress Steve carellis sixty four. He is born in Concord, Massachusetts, in nineteen sixty two. First guy known and as a correspondent on The Daily Show with John Stewart. Then he was on the TV show The Office. Some of his movies The Anchorman movies. Forty year old Virgin Get Smart voiced in the Despicable Means movies.

13:07 All One Got married nineteen ninety five and they have a son and a daughter. Sal Insu Sky sing Si Fantassmine Line Busy No. One Thousand Miles by. Name. Forty six year old Vanessa Carlton was born in Milford, Pennsylvania, in nineteen eighty. She graduated from the American School of ballet. Then she died and she didn't want to dance, so she went into music somewhere hits one thousand miles, Ordinary day white Houses, Hands on Me. She married in twenty thirteen and they have a daughter. Stevie Nicks actually performed her wedding ceremony. All right, let's talk some more about Rum now. The difference between lark light and dark room.

13:55 It's only the aging process. Yeah, light, Rum's not aged as long. Oh, thank you for following us, and come in and listen to us at Comedia dot com and all that good stuff. What we're gonna do today is we're just gonna end with my mom's all time favorite Elba song. I'll never know, have an awesome day, and we'll all talk tomorrow. Star are in the sky. I'll never know. What fire lies a firefly. I never know. What happens to horde. It's time O mine. Sometimes the thing most we never understand