Aug 19-Deep Purple, Eddy Raven, Bill Clinton, John Stamos, Europe, Kevin Dillon, Mathew Perry, Clay Walker

0:10 Hello everyone, I am jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, isn't a buy cool media? Today is August the nineteenth potato. It is National Potato Day. Around eight thousand BC, give or take a year, in Peru the Incas they began farming potatoes. Now you fast forward to fifteen thirty six and the Spanish brought the first potatoes back to Europe. Then go to eighteen oh two the United States President Thomas Jefferson brought French fries to the United States. Now there are over four thousand types of potatoes. Now there are very They're one of the very few vegetables E connects grow in all fifty states.

1:01 So how do we want to celebrate potatoes today? Well, we can have our potatoes baked or mashed. You can have potato salad, fridge fries, data chips, dater dots, ash browns. I can keep going, but I don't need to. You know how you want to celebrate the potato today? All right? What happened in the entertainment on August at nineteenth? Let's back nineteen ninety number one album was Please Hammer Don't Hurt Them by mc Hammer Mariah Carey had the number one song with Vision of Love. Still somehow the wather Una. It was Mama. She didn't know. I had the number one country song with next to You next to.

1:48 Me riding Mamaron, pick up, true, you better you're ready because I'm picking you up. The full moon shining a little bit. We've running out of gas made it stun We can get along, baby. I don't care. I ain't wearing as long as you there. There ain't no place in that rabbit next to use, sitting next to meeting. The number one book was The Burden of Proof by Scott Turow. Top movie was Extorcist three. A police detective investigating a series of murders finds out they're identical. The murders committed by a dead serial killer. Stars George C. Scott, ed Flanders, and Brad Duriff. All Right, what happened? On August and nineteenth, seventeen ninety three, A yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia. Now at that time Philadelphia was the capital of the United States. Five thousand people died the epidemic.

2:39 It just stopped in November. Going back then, had any idea why it stopped? They didn't know that when Philadelphia is in November, no Mosquitos. That's what was spread in the Yellow fever. For a little perspective of Philly, they had a population of fifty thousand people. Five thousand die, so I mean ten percent of their entire city died. As for COVID, less than half a percent of our people died. Twelve in the War of eighteen twelve in the United States warship the USS Constitution, yep, we call her whole Iron Side. Yeah, she defeated the British warship the Garyere. Now Las Vegas would have taken a beating on that one. See that was a huge upset the Garyere. Yeah, it was not to be unsinkable about the United States Constitution center on down to the bottom of the sea.

3:26 Old Iron Side is still there. Yeah, you can go see it as dry dock outside of Boston. You can actually tour for free. Eighteen fifty six, Gail Gordon, he actually invented evaporated milk. Now why would you want evaporated milk. Well, that's actually what goes into your coffee creamers, your sweeteners, your smoothies, your cream soup, your chowders, all that kind of stuff. Nineteen sixties Soviet uniusput Nick five. He had carried two dogs, two rats, forty mice, one rabbit, and some fruit flies into space. They are the first animals to come back alive from a spaceflight. Nineteen ninety five, Shannon Falkner made history. She was the first woman to get who was allowed to entrance into the citadel. Now after five days, yeah, she quit. Didn't like the military academy.

4:09 I guess in twenty twenty Apple, it began the first company in the world that were two trillion dollars. Today it's worth three point four trillion. Cot Co Coat goat Sharge. This Shibf day, We're gonna pause. He left, This shubfday. We gonna sit with Targe. He was like, this Shibirf day. And you know we don't get the birthday. Let's see what was born on August the nineteenth orb all right, he was born in Dayton, Ohio in eighteen seventy one. He was four years younger than his brother Wilbur. Now, of course the right brothers get credit for the first airplane flight back in nineteen oh three. Now, Wilbur he actually was supposed to make that first flight, so he won the coin toss and everything, but he kept stalling the plane. So after three tries orble was up. Yeah, he had no trouble making that first flight. Now they didn't just make one flight that day. They did big turns.

4:57 They flew pretty much all day. I think they both made like two or three flights. Horrible. He did continue to fly until nineteen eleven. Then he left flying and he just ran the company. He was a lifelong bachelor. He died in nineteen forty eight and seventy six years old. He had a heart attack. I'm concedingly, Ray, how did you see all a lot of situs in my way? Going on? Handley Blin. That was Johnny Nash. He was born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen forty Considered a pop and reggae singer, he was the first non Jamaica and to record reggae music in Kingston, Jamaica. Some of his hits were hold Me Tied, I can see clearly now stirred up. He had one child from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty six and they had two children. Johnny died in twenty twenty from natural causes at eighty years old.

5:54 I just saw the stream this ration it off shot the dog, So the kid love showing them off. Letter to you. Country singer Eddie Raven is eighty years old today. He was born Lafayette, Louisiana, in nineteen forty four. To celebrate. He's got a leg tattoo. Yeah, covers a whole I think it's his left thigh. Yeah, covers the whole damn thing. Now. Some of his number one songs are I Got Mexico, Shine, Shine Shine, Joe knows how to live by you boys, send it to you in a letter now. He had two kids from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and one.

6:45 Half the First Round Sound Stupid fell the player. Please crowd small Ian Gillen. He is still the lead singer for other band Deep Purple seventy nine today. Born in just Switch, England in nineteen forty five. Now, they joined Deep Purple in nineteen sixty nine. It's a love one hundred million records. Yeah. Some of their bodys hits Our Smoke on the Water, Woman from Tokyo, Kentucky, Woman, River Date, Mountain High. Now. The band actually started out being called Roundabout, and they wanted to change their name for a couple years, but they couldn't think of a new name. Then one day when they were practicing, one of their members just said, hey, what about Deep Purple.

7:33 That was the name of his grandma's favorite song, So Deep Purple it is now and he filled in his lead singer for Black Sabbath for a year. He's married since nineteen eighty nine and they have a daughter, Bill Clinton. He was born in Hope, Arkansas, in nineteen forty six, seventy eight years old today. He was Governor of Arkansas, then the forty second President of the United States, served from nineteen ninety three eight to two thousand one. He is married and has one daughter. Do you know that John Stamos really doesn't look that much different now than he did thirty years ago on Full House. Yeah, he's sixty one, ageing very well. He was born in Cypress, California, in nineteen sixty three. First got known on daytime Soap Opa General Hospital. Then he played Uncle Jesse on Full House.

8:30 He's on er for four years. First wife was Rebecca Romain for seven years. Married his second wife in twenty eighteen and they have a son. Now it's not just a character he plays a lot. No, he actually does play the drums. He even toured with the Beach Boys one summer. Missie sixty one year old Joey Tempest is still the lead singer for the band Europe. He is born in Uplands, Vivey, She, Sweden, in nineteen sixty one. No, it was nineteen sixty three. Well, luckily he goes by Joey, so I don't have to try and pronounce that Swedish name.

9:18 Europe they formed in nineteen seventy nine. Some of their hits are Final Countdown, Rock the Night, Carrie, Superstitious. You know. Oddly they only tour Europe. Joey. He is married and they have two sons. Actor Kevin Dillon. He was born in New Rochelle, New York, in nineteen sixty five. He's fifty nine. His brother, actor Matt Dillon, as one year older. Now. Kevin's first movie was Having Help Us and then Platoon La Blab. You know what. His biggest role might have been on TV's Onorage, We Play Johnny drama. Kevin he had a daughter from a girlfriend and then he married for thirteen years and they had a daughter. Actress Kia Sedgwack. She's also seventy nine. She was born in New York City. She first Got None from the movie Born on the Fourth of July, then singles Phenomenon Cave Dweller on TV. She started on The Closer for like five years. She married actor Kevin Bacon in nineteen eighty eight and they have a son and a daughter.

10:09 Never won nor closes A hope one more. Promise me? Did you get thirty Friday Chance? And when you get the choice to sit it down dance? I hope you ja. Country singer Leanne Womack is fifty eight and she was born in Jacksonville, Texas, in nineteen sixty six. Started out as a very successful song writer. They find let her sing in nineteen ninety seven. That song I Hope You Dance acrossed Over is a big hit on the pop charts. Some are big more of a big country hit'sorry, I'm the fool You Gotta talk to me, Little past Little Rock. Leanne had a daughter from her first husband. She's been married to her second husband since nineteen ninety nine and they have a daughter.

11:02 Johnson Chevelengy food not last to the lady. It's like your whistle again, secondary has a vino days even. Actor Matthew Perry. He's born in Williamstown, Massachusetts in nineteen sixty. I grew up in Canada. Best No, I'm playing Chandler on Friends. He did a odd couple after that, but some of his movie is were fools, Rush In, three to Dango, the Whole nine Yards, the whole ten years. And Perry died just last October at fifty four years old, from an overdose of the drug academine. Now a couple of days ago, just just a couple of days. I think it was thirty or Friday. Two doctors and three other people were arrested for selling and giving him those drugs.

11:50 In the Rose Days and the Landlady Money explain a bool smile, they. Say, where the smoke? There's fire called you Love Me. Country singer Clay Walker. He's fifty five. He was one in Beaumont, Texas in nineteen sixty nine. Back in nineteen ninety three. The first song he ever really ised, what What's It to You? It went up to number one. Yeah. Some of the number one songs that followed where live until I Die? Dreaming with my eyes open? Rumor has it nineteen ninety six, Clay was on top of the world.

12:32 He was kicking, but he was one of the top country singers out there. He was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. It did slow him down for a couple of years, and anyway, we finally figured out how to deal with it and he's been doing pretty good. He still records and tours. He's actually on tour right now. If you want to see him, I know he's coming here to play Red Rocks in September. Now. He has raised a lot of money for MS over the years, though, so that's one good thing that came out of it. I guess. He had two daughters from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have five kids. Let's go back to potatoes. Potatoes were the first food ever grown in space. Well, thank you for being here. Don't forget to follow us whenever you listen to us. On comes. Here's a cool media dot com. Let's go with three us. Let's end. The comedian Groucho Marx. He died to day in nineteen seventy seven at eighty six years old. Graucho said, I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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