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

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factor. It's about to day present about cool meeting is August the second. Ice cream sandwiches. So Youyoman 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 melt. It is National ice Cream Sandwich Day. Pretty simple basically just Rectangler circle cookies with ice cream. But between the two of them now first known ice cream sandwiches. They were sold from push Guards in New York City in nineteen hundred cost you one cent. Now, with all the combinations available, you'll find one ice cream sandwich that you like.

0:57 So where about your diet tomorrow and just enjoy your ice cream sand all right? What happened on entertainment on August second and in the year twenty seventeen number one album was four forty four by Jay z Lewis Fonzie Daddy Yankee. Justin Baver had the number one song with Desposito. Dan sig Dance Mocito. You got those can this? He was hasking me, godankp see th kid, this is this? This man though Dylan Scott had the number one country song with My Girl. Shit, that's my girl in the passenger scene winning the dawn, dancing around cause in a scene that's my girl sipping crown spries in a ball cap turned back, Gooshi.

1:44 Cabinet that I can't made it go. You're gonna down it against taking all the guys wishing you with them, but a bit. They don't see what I see when I seen. Myl The number one book was House of Spies by Danielle Silva Todd. The movie it was The Dark Tower. A boy with visions of a dark tower in a parallel universe. He teams up with the tower guardian stop an evil warlock from destroying the tower and opening the gates of Hill. It stars Matthew McConaughey, Idris Elba, and Tom Twote. All right, what happened in August the second, seventeen seventy six, the signing of the Declaration of Independence took place. What Well, if you are paying attention on July fourth, you remember, Congress approved the Declaration of Independence.

2:28 The only person who signed it was John Hancock because he was a President of the Continental Congress. Then it was sent off to the printer, so today the other fifty five signed it. Seventeen ninety, the United States conducted his first census. There were three million, nine hundred and ninety nine two and fourteen people living here in the United States. That's counting six hundred and ninety seven six hundred and twenty four slaves. Well, at least they counted them. Nineteen oh nine, the United States issued the first penny called the Lincoln Penny, and from nineteen oh nine to nineteen fifty eight the penny had abe Lincoln on one side and wheat on the other. That's why they're called wheaties. There's still someone floating around out there. Then in nineteen fifty nine they had Lincoln on one side and the Lincoln Memorial on the other one. Then in twenty ten they added that shield. Well, Lincoln's still there too, That's why it's the Lincoln Penny. Nineteen twenty three, United States President Warren G. Harding died. He had a heart attack ways on a speaking tour around San Francisco. Vice President Calvin Coolidge. He was in Vermont visiting his parents' house. Now, their farmhouse had no electricity and no phone, so they had to send a messenger to Coolidge to let him know about Arnie. Ah. That woke him up in the middle of the night. So Coolidge, you got up, got dressed, said his prayers, went downstairs, and he met with some media who showed up. Not a lot, but some of them made it out there. Now, Coolidge's father was a justice of the peace. So by the light of a kerosene lamp in the parlor of the family home, yep, his dad administer heed the yeah, the oath of office.

3:47 So Coolidge was officially the thirtieth President of the United States. He then thanked all those in the media for stopping by, and then went upstairs and went back to bed, woke up the next morning, and headed off for Washington, d C. The marijuana attacks of nineteen thirty seven went into effect. Today you had out loud marijuana and marijuana products nineteen ninety A rock they evaded Kuwait. That's what started the whole first go for twenty eighteen Apple, they became the first company to be worth one trillion dollars. Go cot coot coat coat goat shug this shiver O day, We're gonna pause. He left this shiverarday we gonna simple tage like this Shivers Day, and you know we don't give up because work.

4:30 Alright, let's check out it. It's born on August the second Boy no Wallow playing songs that made per Way nice, like gosh, we hadn't made close. Actor Carol O'Connor was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen twenty four. He's best known for playing Archie Bunker on All in the Family, follow That Up But Archie Bunker's Plays, and then Heat of the Night. Biggest movie was Kelly Croes. Married nineteen fifty one and they had one son. Caroly died in two thousand and one as seventy six years old from a heart attack. Actor Peter O'Toole He was born in Leeds, England.

5:12 In nineteen thirty two. He was nominated for eight Best Actor Oscars. So first one was Lawrence of Arabia and he lost to Gregory Peck. Then he was nominated for Beckett and he lost to Rex Harrison. Then Line and Winter he lost to Cliff Robertson Goodbye Mister Chips, he lost to John Wayne The Ruling Class, and he lost to Marlon Brando The stunt Man. He lost to Robert de Niro. My favorite year. He lost to Ben Kingley two thousand and six for Venus, lost forst Whittaker. So they just gave him an Honorary Academy Award for Lifetime achievement. Now eight times without winning, that is the record. Well on the men's side, Clint Close, She's actually been nominated for eight times on the women's signs has never won. Peter he is married to his wife for twenty years.

5:54 They had two daughters. They divorced, then he had a son from a girlfriend. He died in twenty thirteen at eighty one year years old from stomach cancer. Horror film creator, director, producer Wes Craven was born at Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen thirty nine. Some movies he tried to scare us with The Hills Have Eyes, the Swamp Thing, all those nightmare on elm Street movies, scream movies. He had two children from his first wife, married his third wife in two thousand and four, and he died from a brain tumor in two thousand and five and seventy six years old.

6:45 That was Apollona Apollonia. She was the lead singer for the girl Appollonia six. She was born Apollonia Cataro in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen fifty nine. It's not means her sixty five. Today, she's best known for co starring with Prince in the movie A Purple Range Princess Love Interest A Polonia sixth. They only put out one album that was for the movie Purple Rain Appolonia. She had a couple of semi hit songs on her own, doing solo take Me with You and Since I Fell for You. She has married her first husband for five years and she's married her a second husband for ten years. Actress Mary Louise Parker is sixty years old. She was born at Columbia, South Carolina in nineteen sixty four. Started out in the soap opera Ryan's Hope. Then she did Broadway for a while, I Was Wanted Tone or was nominated for it Tony. Then she got known for the movie Fried Green Tomatoes, then Grand Canyon, Mister Wonderful, the Client.

7:33 On TV, she started on Weeds for seven years. She still loves quite a bit of Broadway now days. She had a son from actor Billy Kudrup, and she has a daughter that she adopted from Ethiopia. Movie maker Kevin Smith is fifty four. He's born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in nineteen seventy. First movie he wrote and directed were Clerks, then Maul Rats, Chasing Amy, Dogma Jane, Silent Bob movies. If you didn't know he's Silent Bob. Now he's a really big comic guy book He even has a comic book store, Aback Comb in Red Bank, New Jersey. Got married nineteen ninety nine and they have a daughter. Sam Worthington he was born in Goldaming, England in nineteen seventy six. It's forty eight years old. Went to Australia when he was an infant. First head in the movie Terminator Salvation.

8:19 Then he starred in Avatar and of course a sequel. He's also in Clash of the Titans, Hacksaw Ridge. Now some Sam. He has nine movies that he's either filming or in post production. Three of them are Avatar movies. Now see he actually did Avatar before Terminator, but it takes longer for him to do all that editing. But he says he was living in his car before he did his Avatar audition. Got married in twenty fourteen and they have three sons. Actor Edward Furlong. He's forty seven. He's born in Glennondale, California. In nineteen seventy seven, hit big at thirteen years old. We have to start in his first movie, he played John Conner and Terminator two. Since then, some of his movies were American X, American History X, Detroit, Rock City, Curl World, married once for three years and has a son from it. All right, if you're gonna celebrate your ice cream sandwiches today, this is interesting. The first ice cream sandwiches they use sponge cake instead of cookies. All right, thank you for joining us today. We surely appreciate you. Yeah, follow us on whoever you listen to us on and come see it's at cool media dot com. That's cool. Three years. Let's end today with Hall of Fame basketball player or Hall of Fame baseball announcer Vince 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.

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