Aug 21-Hawaii Birthday, Kenny Rogers, The Clash, Kim Cattrall, Sister Sledge, Carrie-Anne Moss

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and fact goods about today. Today is August the twenty first, and. If they found the found of you, I wouldn't. Drink a drum. And that's the truth. Funny how it feels. I'm just skinned to my best JUSI. The older. Today is National Senior Citizen's Day. Sure they might not drive so good anymore, and they're pretty bad at pushing a cart through the grocery store. But today we're honoring our seniors. Yeah, for everything they've accomplished in their lives and what they're still accomplishing now. If you're lucky, you have to have some seniors in your life, reach out to them today. Let them know that you love them and you're thinking of them. And if you're going through tough times, hit them up. They probably already gone through it so they can help you out. I just show your senior some heartfelt gratitude today. You know, it's at least you can do. If you have some seniors live next door to or something like this, a little choriest for them to help make their day. You know what you can actually do that every day. You don't need to wait till that's your senior Citizen's day. Okay, Let's check out what was going on in entertainment in August twenty first. It was about twenty fourteen. Number one album was Hypnotic Guy's by Tom Petty and the Heartbreaker Magic add the number one song with Rude Can.

1:35 Have for the small zis. You say on never get your blessings of today and love my friend Buddy answer. So rude? Don't you know you? Man? So? Chasing Aldean had the number one country song with Burning It Down. Conceive a Song Without You in five trod the sliding Up like It Sarlas Weird. Just tround. Down, School Jack names the jam to sto out Level and.

2:18 Right here nicking in a bit. That top selling buck was a Magician's Land by Lev Grossman. Todd movie was Guardians of the Galaxy. A group of intergalactic criminals have to get together to save the universe, stars Chris Pratt, Vin Diesel, Bradley Cooper and Zoseeldna. All Right, what happened on August the twenty first, eighteen sixty three? William Contrell he had fourn fifty Confederate Grilla soldiers on an attack or raid on Lawrence, Kansas. One hundred and fifty unarm men and boys were killed and the town was pretty much completely destroyed. So why'd they do it? Well, Contrell, he was really mad and upset that the Confederate Army denied him a promotion to rank. They said his methods were too barbaric. Eighteen seventy eight, Star Token, New York.

3:00 The American Bar Association is for him. It's for lawyers, not for Drunks. Well, now, bar it actually refers to the bar or the barrier that they used back then to separate the legal professionals, the lawyers and judges and stuff, from just the general public in the courtroom. Eighteen eighty eight. William Burrows. He invented the adding machine Paris in nineteen eleven. Vincenzo Perigia. He was working at the Louver Museum in Paris. Then when it closed to the night, he hid in the broom closet, so during the night and he took out the painting of the Mona Lisa from his frame and he put it in his coat. The next door when the Louver opened up, Yeah, he just walked out the front door. Now, since Dafinci had painted it Vinzio. Yeah, I believed that it belonged in the Italian museum. So he took it back with him to Italy, got in his apartment for two years. Then he decided to try and sell it to a gallery in Florence. Oooh yep, he got popped the big time. Now the Mona Lise they went back to the Louver Vincenzo six months in jail.

3:53 That was it. He was hailed as an Italian patriot and hero for trying to bring the painting back to Italy. Happy Birthday, Hawaii. It was today. In nineteen fifty nine, Hawaii became the fiftieth state Hawaii. It basically means homeland. Hawaii is one hundred and thirty seven islands. Honolulu is his capital. Highest point is Manikea thirteen seven hundred ninety six feet. Now that's above sea level. See if you go to it's base on the bottom of the ocean. Yeah, it's thirty three thousand, five hundred feet tall. Yeah, the tallest mountain on Earth. But since nineteen thousand feet are below the water, yeah, it didn't count. Hawaii state bird is the nanny fish is the reef trigger fish. Flower is the Hawaiian hibiscus tree is a Kuikoi dances. The Hulu food is tarot. Hawaiian state sport is surfing. Some people was born in Hawaiian Bette Miller, Nicole Kidman, Lauren Graham, Bruno Mars, Kelly Preston, Bethany Hamilton just some of the people born in the Low Hu state. Nineteen sixty nine, the first Gap clothing store opened up. It was in San Francisco. Nineteen seventy six, Operation Paul Bunyan began. Now it was in retaliation for what had taken place three days earlier. See and Korea did military design zone, you know that separates the North and South Korea. See it's

5:24 about two and a half miles wide and one hundred and sixty miles long. Well, there was about an eighty foot tall popular tree and it was blocking the view from one of the South Guard towers. So back on the eighteenth a US Army Captain Arthur Boniface, he had led a team with South Korean workers and a couple of his soldiers to go cut the tree down. Well, as they were preparing to cut it down, a North Korean lieutenant named Park Chan came over and just started screaming for them to stop. He told them that tree was planning by Kim Olschoon and they had to stop. Boni Face he just kind of looked like a yeah, whatever, blew him off. Well, Park he left, he came back and he was mad. Now he bought a truckload of twenty North Korean soldiers started a screaming again, you must stop, you must up. Bonaflies just kind of smiled at it and went back and told those guys, Yeah, keep working, we're gonna cut it down. That did it, Park lost.

6:08 It started creaming and screaming and creaning. Kill the bastards, well, the North Korean soldiers they all swarmed off the truck. So the South Korean workers they freaked. They all dropped their axes. Well, the North Koreans they grabbed the axes and it just started using them. Boniface and the US lieutenant named Mark Bennett. They were killed. Eight of the workers they lived, but they were pretty chopped up. So then after that, North Korea announced the world that axually maniacs had charged their border. US President Ford he didn't like that. Yeah, he decided that a really swift and rapid response with all military effort had to be taken, so he ordered Operation Paul Bunyan went down today, one hundred and ten US and South Korean soldiers armed with chainsaws.

6:49 They were escorted by twenty seven helicopters and three B fifty two bombers. Yeah, they circled over it. Well, they cut down that tree. They left barely even a stump. North Korea. They didn't say a word. Nineteen ninety two and Idaho Ruby ridges US marshals. They went to the home Randy Weaver. They were going to arrest him for firearms charges. Well, as the marshals are getting up to his house, they ran into Weaver, his son Sammy, their dog, and a friend named Kenny Harris. Now it got pretty heated. The marshall shot the dog and that led to a gunfight. Fourteen year old Sammy he was shot in the back and killed Harris. He killed one of the marshals. Then both sides scattered. Well, the next day an FBI sharpshooter heed They was just going to take out Weaver boy missed and hit his wife was holding their infant daughter.

7:31 Killed her. The wife so they get into a standoff. The stand up last eleven days when five were Weaver, Harris and his three remaining draughters. Yeah, they all surrendered. Now Harris, he got completely off. The other guys shut and killed the Marshall. Yeah, he got an absolutely no troble Weaver. All he had to do was pay a ten thousand dollars fine. Then the government they told Weaver they'd pay him one hundred thousand dollars for killing his wife and son. Then the government paid those three little girls who were left one million dollars each for killing their mom. No one got anything for the dog. Coke gop cop doke doke shod dish shiver birthday. Please gonna cause he left this shiver birthday. We want simple cars. He left dish shiver birthday.

8:12 And you know we don't give up God's birthday. Well, let's check out a bonnout. I got the twenty first. You had to find time to lead me Lucy, four hundred children and the cropping, the feat Ivevans band times bil through some sad times. This time you're mooning, all right. Kenny Rogers. He was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen thirty eight. Kenny sold over one hundred million records, mostly in country. He started out as a pop artist and then late night early nineteen late nineteen fifties, early nineteen sixties, this somewhere that didn't work, so he joined a jazz band, then a folk band. Then he became lead singer of a psychedelic rock band. Yeah, they were called the First Edition. They actually did chart a couple of songs.

9:04 And I'm team Can, I'm following. I watched it. All out as I was. That was Kenny singing their song. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Well. They broke up in the late seventies, so Kenny went solo into country music. Now if he wasn't, he was one of the best country or biggest country artists in the nineteen eighties. Now he's sung the gamble. That led to an acting career too. Can. He performed until twenty seventeen. He had a daughter from his first wife, son from his third wife, daughter from his fourth wife. Married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety seven and they had twin sons. Kenny died in twenty twenty and eighty one years old from bladder cancers.

10:02 I hope someday oh Ruth would be my wife but it looks. Like the bathsom. Baritone. Singer for the Statler Brothers was Harold Reid. He was born in Staunton, Virginia, in nineteen thirty nine. It was at the Statler Brothers whole time that they were together from nineteen fifty five to two thousand and two, released thirty eight albums. We're on every variety show you could think of, toured pretty much all the time now read he's pretty much. They're comic relief and they perform live loan in their live shows. He was married and I had one son and two daughters. He died in twenty twenty from kidney failure, eighty years old. Shoot I Stay, I'll Shoot, Shoot Stay Shot Wilder tumble.

10:57 Son No. The lead singer for the Class was Joe's strummer. Yeah. He played the guitar too. Joe. He was born in an anchor A, Turkey in nineteen fifty two. Grew up in England. Go founded the Class in nineteen seventy six, rocked the kas Ba should I Stay Here, Should I Go? London Colin Yeah, some of their biggest songs. Nineteen seventy five, Joe he was given one hundred pounds to marry a South African girl so she could become a British citizen. Well, later on Joe he got we fell in love. He found this girl. They were gonna get married, but he couldn't find that South African girl for nothing, so he had needed a divorcer and Noman or something couldn't do it. So him and his girlfriend they just lived together. They had two daughters. Then after fourteen years, yeah, they just both broke up. One throw on waist. Then he found the South African girl, so they got their marriage and noled.

11:41 He did find another woman and married her in nineteen ninety five. Two thousand and two, Joe had an undiagnosed heart defect. He seemed perfectly healthy. Yep, he just dropped dead at fifty years old. Actress Kim Cattrall is seventy. She was born of Liverpool, England, in nineteen fifty six. On TV, she was really popular playing Samantheon Sex in the City, but she was a popular movie in the eighties. She was in Police Academy, Porky's Maniquin Masquerade. She has three times divorced, and she has British, US and Canadian citizenships.

12:30 The youngest Sledge sister Kim Sledge. She's sixty nine. She's born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty seven with her sisters Debbie, Joanne and Katie Yep. They found the Sister Sledge in nineteen seventy one. They had a lot of success in disco. He's the greatest dancer. We are family lost in the music. All American girls. Yeah, I got people on a dance floor back then. Now, Kim, Debbie and Gatty they are still performing. I don't think they tour, but they perform quiet shows. Kim. She's married and they have three children. Actress Carrie Ane Moss. She was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, in nineteen sixty seven fifty nine. Today she had big playing Trinity in the Matrix movies. She's astoying, Chuckle lot Red Planet Frankenstein. She married nineteen ninety nine and they have two sons and one daughter. Alright here Court of the Day. It comes from half of the Everly Brothers, Don Everley movies.

13:29 Over Don. He died today in twenty twenty one at eighty four years old. He said, old men need applause too. Oh thank you all for listening to I don't we have to follow us on you listen to his sons. You can always check us out because here's a cool media dot com. Let's go three us our country and around radio artist today. It comes from Kerry and Colorado Springs. She wants to hear Jesse Lynn song keeping the ring. You guys having off. Someday we'll talk tomorrow. He's gone, he's he stood. It was fun at the start, and he trembled on my heart and chick eat out on me.

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