Aug 2-Archie Bunker, Wes Craven, Silent Bob, Sam Worthington, Edward Furlong, Ice Cream Sandwich

0:19 Hi everyone, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor It's about today. Today is August the second ice. Cream sandwiches, So Yeoman delicious. You take them out of your freezer and then you eat them. Ice cream sandwiches. Do not pack them in your lunch box and take them to school with you because they will mount. Today is National ice Cream Sandwich Day. Pretty simple cookies with ice cream in between them. Now. The first ice cream sandwiches, they were sold from push Guards in New York City on nineteen hundred. Dish cost you one cent. Now there are so many common you'll find an ice cream sandwich that you like today, you know, you try to might make them at home. It might be something a little different. Now, the very first ice cream sandwiches, they were actually made with a sponge cake and not cookies. Okay, that says Going On Entertainment on August the second after nineteen sixty nine number one album was Blood, Sweat and Tears. By Blood Sweat and Tears, Ziegern Evans had the number one song with in the year twenty five twenty five. In the twenty five twenty.

1:27 Far if man is still alone, if. Woman can survive, they may for fuck Dnes and his buckeroos at the number one country song with Johnny be good. Let's say axles under walleys back complaining hills on my game. Very great. Let's stood an old cap and dat a birthday wood. But after cut the boy name Tony to be good. They never ever learned to reader right so well. But he could play a Gauiti NFL.

2:09 The number one book was The Love Machine by Jacquelin Shusan. Top movie was Easy Rider. Two bikers. They take a road trip from Los Angeles to New Orleans. They took up with the hippie along the way stars Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Jackie Nicholson. Ah, what happened on August the second really big day in American history? Today most Americans don't even know about it. It was the signing of the Declaration of Independence. You're saying, what wealth he had paid attention? On July fourth Congress they approved the Declaration of Independence. The only person who actually signed it was John Hancock, and that's because he was the President of the Continental Congress. See. Then it went to the printers and they printed him off, bought him back today and the other fifty five members of the Continental Congress.

2:49 He define me signed him today. Nineteen nine or seventeen ninety, the United States, they conducted their first census, said the United States had three million, nine twenty nine, two and fourteen people living here. Six hundred ninety seven six hundred and twenty four of the people were slaves, at least they counted them. Eighteen fifty eight, the first mail boxes were installed in Boston and New York City. Now before then people didn't have mailboxes at their house. They had they had to go pick up their mail at the post office. Taverns are ins eighteen sixty three and Saratoga Springs, New York, the Saratoga Horse Racing Track open yep build their first races today. Now not only is Saratoga the oldest horse track in the country, it's the oldest sporting venue of any kind in the United States. And yeah, Saratoga Springs that's where French fries were invented. Also nineteen oh nine, the United States issued the first penny called that the Lincoln Penny. From nineteen oh nine to nineteen fifty eight, that abe on one side and wheat on the other side. They're called wheedies. There's still someonem floating around out there. Nineteen fifty nine, they had ABE on one side and the Lincoln Memorial on the other side.

3:53 Twenty ten, Yep, still ab on one side, and then they had that shield on the other side. Yeah, that's why it's called the Lincoln Penny. Nineteen twenty three, United States President Warren G. Harding he died. He had a heart attack out in San Francisco. Yeah, he was doing a speaking tour. Vice President Calvin Coolidge, he was up visiting his parents in Vermont and their farmhouse. He didn't have any electricity, no phones, nothing like that, so they just inded a messenger to let it Coolies know about Arting. Well, they woke him up in the middle of the night, so Coolies, he got up, he got dressed, he said, his parers came downstairs. He mailed with a couple of media. They had actually showed up. And Coolidge's dad, he was the justice of the peace out there. So by the light of a kerosene lamp in the family the home parlor. Yeah, his dad administered the oath of office, and Calvin Coolidge was officially the thirtieth President of the United States. Well, I was officially at twelve forty seven am on August the third. Now he thanked those in the media came out to see him. Then he went upstairs, went back to bed, woke up the next morning, and headed off to Washington, d C. To get to work. Nineteen seventy five and Providence they set the Rhode Island state record when they hit one hundred four degrees hot to stemp Ever and Rhody now Massachusett, Yeah, the Chester and New Bedford they set their state record one hundred and seven.

5:05 Nineteen ninety. Iraq invented coop or invented. In nineteen ninety, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Yeah, that was the start of the First Gulf War. Twenty eighteen. Apple they became the first American company. If you worth a trillion dollars today there were three trillion dollars. But get this in video and Microsoft have passed him in videos the most. Now it's like four or four trillion dollars. Joke Coo joked, coke joke shoge thish Shivers Day. Please Donna pause, he left this shumarday. We don't simple target this Shivers Day. And you know you don't give up good to you. That's just check out. It was born on August the second boy no Way playing songs per way nice, gosh, we hadn't made clothes. Actorate care Jaello O'Connor. He was born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen twenty four. On TV, he's best known for man Archie Bunker, Yeah, on All in the Family. Then he did Archie Bunker's plays. Heated the Night. Biggest movie was Kelly's Heroes. They married in nineteen fifty one. They had one side Carly died in two thousand and one and seventy six years old from a heart attack. Actor Peter O'Toole. He was born in Leeds, England in nineteen thirty two. Nominated for eight Best Actor Oscars, never one. Now you probably don't know any of those movies, to be honest with, So here's who. He lost to Gregory Peck, Rex Harrison, Cliff Robertson, John Wayne, Marlon Brando, Robert de Niro, Ben Kingsley, and Fort Whittaker at eight

6:38 times without winning. That's a record. Yeah, no one else has been nominated eight times and that went well on the men's side. See Glenn Close on the woman's side. She's also been nominated eight times and number one Peter. He is married for twenty years and they had two daughters when they divorced. After that, he had a son from a girlfriend. He died in twenty thirteen at eighty one years old from stomach cancer. Horror movie maker Wes Craven He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen thirty nine. Some movie he amazed that he wanted to scare us with, were the Hills Have Eyes, The Swamp Thing, The Nightmare on elm Street Movies scream movies. He had two children from his first wife, married his third wife in two thousand and four. Then West died in two thousand and five from a brain tumor seventy six years old. That was Apollonia. She was the lead singer for Apollonia six.

7:44 She was born Patricia Appollonia Cato nineteen fifty nine in Santa Monica, California. Sixty six years old today. Now she got famous goh starring with Prince in the movie Purple Rain. Now Apollonia six. They only put out one album that was from the movie Purple Rain solo, and she had a couple of minor heads. Take Me with you since I fell for you. She was married to her first husband for five years and she married her second husband for ten years. Actress Mary Louise Parker sixty one. She was born in Columbia, South Carolina in nineteen sixty four. Started out on the soap opera Ryan's Hope. Then she went to Broadway, did that for a while, got nomina for a Tony, and she went to the movies, got known for Fried Green Tomatoes, then The Grand Canyon, Mister Wonderful, the Client on TV. She went back to that, she did she started on Weeds for seven years. A Parker.

8:30 She had a son from actor Billy Credrup, and then she's actually adopted a daughter from Ethiopia. Mover maker Kevin Smith. He was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in nineteen seventy fifty five year old. First movie that he wrote and directed was Clerk's then Maul Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, The Jay, and Silent Bob movies. You don't know he's sighted on Bob. Now he's a really big comic guy. Yeah, he even owns a big comic book store back there in Red Bank, New Jersey. He married in nineteen ninety nine. And then have a daughter. Actor Sam Worthington. He had born in nineteen seventy six in England. He moved to Australia when he is six months old. He's forty nine today now. He was really popular Australian actor. But then he hit big in the United States and worldwide and Terminator Salvation, then the Avatar movie, his Clash of the Titans, Hacksaw Ridge. He has three movies coming out later this year.

9:20 Yeah. One of them is another Avatar movie. It's going to come out right before Christmas. He got married in twenty fourteen and they have three sons. Actor Edward for Long. He's forty eight. He was born in Glendale, California, in nineteen seventy seven. He hit big at thirteen years old. Starred in his very first movie. Yeah, it was John Connor and Terminator two, then American History Acts, Detroit, Rock City, Cruel World. He married once for three years. He has a son from it all right here. Quote of the day. It comes from a Hall of Fame baseball announcer Vin Scully. He died today in twenty twenty two, at ninety four years old. Vin says, if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans. Thank you all for listening. Make sure you follow us on whoever you listen to his son so we can write to you every time and you can see it's at cool media dot com. That's cool with three of us our country underground radio artists today.

10:09 It comes from Troy in Springfield, Missouri. You don't to see her. Bobby Cool and his song Dancing in the Rain. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. And I'll starting bicic Aultry were young and we read it go I want you and you won't mean and that's all we mean. No things got hot on song went now, Pantathono was getting wrong in dig up and the rain takes down. We didn't let ruin shows spearing dancing now in rain, slee Road, maas and ring were I guess the count up born out that we run shot out time you look me and out of you and out never you look it. Fu be pulled up bang nobody while we're singing that another Songbong but birds these hands stickamunties, No really dancedes not big brains.

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