Aug 21-Hawii Birthday, Kenny Rogers, The Clash, Kim Cattrall, Sister Sledge, Carrie-Anne Moss, Mona Lisa Stolen

0:10 Helloja, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it is about today. Visit about cool meeting. It is August the twenty first, And. If they found the found love you, I wouldn't drink a drunk. And then it's the truth. Funny how it feels. I'm just skinning to my best usion. The older. Today is National Senior Citizen's Day. I mean, sure, they might not drive so good anymore, and they're pretty bad at pushing a cart through the grocery store. Today we honor our seniors and what they've accomplished in their lives, what they're still accomplishing now. If you're lucky enough to have seniors in your life, reach out to them today and let them know that you love them and you're thinking about them now. If you're going through issues, hit them up. They've already gone through those.

0:59 They'll probably be able to help you out. Today. Show genuine, heartfelt gratitude to our senior citizens, you know, help them out with little chores and make their day. Let them know that they deserve dignity and respect. You know what. You don't have to do that on just National Citizen's Day either. You can do it every day all right, this is going on in entertainment. On August the twenty first, Back to Your nineteen seventy number one album was Blood, Sweat and Tears three by Blood Sweat and Tears. The Carpenters add the number one song with close to You. Why Dude start all out from the sky. Every time you will blight me.

1:41 Lovesity to You. Charlie Pride had the number one country song with I'm just Me Not then more or Less, I'm Not Beare the best. Exactly pot see Yesterday and the every Day I'm Just Made. That number one book was Love Story by Eric Segall. Top movie was Diary of a Mad Housewife. A housewife with an abusive husband as an affair with a writer.

2:22 Stars Richard Benjamin, Kerry Snodgrass and Franklin Gele. All Right, what happened on August the twenty first, eighteen sixty three? William Quintrell he led four hundred and fifty Confederate Grilla soldiers on an attack or arraid of the town in Lawrence, Kansas. One hundred and fifty unarmed men and boys were killed. The town was completely destroyed. Now Quintrell, he was really mad and upset and see the Confederate Army. They denied him on promotion and rank. They said his methods were two barbaric eighteen seventy eight in Sarasota, New York. American Bar Association. Yeah, it's founded now, it's for lawyers, not for drunks. Well eighteen eighty eight. William Burrows in the Addey Machine nineteen eleven in Paris, Vincenzio Periga.

3:04 He was working at the Louver Museum. Now. One night when it closed for the night, he hid in the broom closet. During the night. He took the painting of the Mona Lisa out of its fram and put it underneath his coat. When the Louver opened up the next morning, he just walked out the front door. Now, since Dafinci painted it, Vincenzio, Yeah, he believed that it belonged to the Italian museum. I took it back to Italy, kept in his apartment for almost two years. Then he tried to sell it, Yeah, to a gallery over in Florence. Yeah, of course he got popped. Now, the Mona Lisa, it went back to the Louver. Vincenzio. Yeah, six months in jail, that was it. He was hailed as an Italian patriot and hero for trying to bring the painting back to Italy.

4:01 Happy Birthday, Hawaii, it was today. In nineteen fifty nine, Hawaii became our fifty estate. Hawaii basically means homeland. Hawaii is one hundred and thirty seven islands. Honolulu is the capitol. Highest point is Monica thirteen thousand, seven hundred and ninety six feet. It's also actually the tallest mountain on Earth. It's thirty three thousand, five hundred feet forty five hundred feet taller than the Mount Everest, but nineteen thousand, seven hundred of the feet are underneath the water. Now that'll win you bet Hawaii. The state bird is the nene. Fish is the reef triggerfish. Flowers a Hawaiian by hibiscus tree is a kukoe dances. The Hulu food is taro. Hawaiian state sport is dodgeball. Oh wait, that didn't pass. Hawaiian state sport is still surfing. Some people born in Hawaii Bette Midler, Nicole Kiddlin, Lauren Graham, Bruno Mars, Kelly Preston, Bethany Hamilton, the Surfer. Just some of the people born in the Loja State. Nineteen sixty nine, the Gap Clothing store open up its first door in San Francisco. Nineteen seventy, Operation Paul Bunyon began. It was retaliation for three days earlier.

5:04 In the Korean the military zone that separates North and South Korea, there's a great, big, eighty foot popular tree that blocked the view of one of the checkpoints. So on the eighteenth, an Army Captain Arthur Boniface, he led a team of South Korean workers and a couple soldiers go cut that tree down. Help because they, you know, keep the view going. Now, as they were preparing to cut it down, in North Korean Lieutenant Park Chung he came over and started screaming, I'm gonna stop. Tried to tell him that tree was planned by Kim o Soon and they had to stop. Boniface. They just blew him off. Baki just returned back to this side of the border, got a truckload of twenty North Korean sodian and then returned. He started screaming again, you must stop, you must stop, Bonifleot, and he told this man just keep working, and he turned his back on him. Well that wasn't enough. He screamed in Korean kill the bastards. Well, all the soldiers swarmed off the truck. The South Korean workers freaked out and dropped all their axes. North Korean's yep, they grabbed those axes and started using them on the team. Two were killed, that was Officer Boniface and the US Lieutenant Mark Bennett. Eight others were They lived, but they were pretty chopped up and cut up and stuff. Then North Korean claimed that axe wielding maniacs charged their border. Well, United States President Ford Yeah, he decided that a swift and rapid response was required, so he ordered Operation pulp Bunyon.

6:20 One hundred and ten US and South Korean troops along with armed with chainsaws, twenty seven helicopters and three warplanes were circling overhead. They cut that tree down and only left a tiny little stump. North Korea didn't say a word that time. Nineteen ninety two and I Ruby Ridge began United States Marshals. They went to the homestead of Randy Weaver to arrest him on weapons charges. Well, the marshals they actually ran into Weaver, his son, Sammy, their dog, and a friend named Kenny Harris. Well, things got he did, and the marshals they shot the dog. Well, that led to a gunfight. Fourteen year old Sammy he was shot in the back and killed Harris. He killed one of the marshals. Both sides then scattered. Well. The next day an FBI sharpshooter he was trying to shoot Weaver. He missed and hit his wife, who was holding their infant daughter, Yep, killed her. It took eleven days for the standoff the end. Finally, Weaver and Harris, and Weaver's three remaining daughters, they all surrendered.

7:11 Now Harris, he got completely off. Yip didn't get in any trouble. Now Weaver, he had to pay a ten thousand dollars fine, but the government then paid him one hundred thousand dollars for the death of his wife and son. Then the government paid those three girls one million dollars each. Go go goat coat, goat coat, goat show. This shiver day, we're gonna pause. He left this shiver day. Were gonna simple cause he left this shivers day. And you know we don't get bud. That's birthday, all right, Let's check out who it was born on August the twenty first. You paid the Fine Time to lead Me Lucy, four. Hungry Children and the crop in the fee.

7:55 Iven Some Man times bild through some same time, This time yourmoney. Kenny Rogers. He was born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen thirty eight. Kenny sold over one hundred million records, mostly in country you know in the nineteen fifties. He did start out as a pop artist, but that didn't work out, so I joined a jazz band, then a folk band. Then he was in a psychedelic rock band. They were called the First Edition. They actually charted a couple of songs. And I'm Team Car and I'm following. I watched so all it out and I was that was Kenny singing.

8:42 Just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in oh and they broke up. By the late seventies, he went solo on country If he wasn't thee It was one of the biggest country artists in the nineteen eighties, and his song of the Gambler that led to an acting career. Kenny performed up until twenty seventeen. He had a daughter from his first wife, from his third wife, a daughter from his fourth wife. Married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety seven and they had twin sons. Ken. He died in twenty twenty at eighty one years old from bladder cancer. But no. Last can. Truthless. Cruth walked hope someday Old Ruth would be my wife, but it.

9:25 Looks like a ruthless. Oh my life. The bass and baritone singer for the Statler Brothers was Harold Reid. He was born in Stunton, Virginia in nineteen thirty nine. Now he was with the Staller Brothers. They released thirty eight albums and sixty nine singles. They would go on every variety show you could possibly think him as often as they could now Reed. He was usually the comic relief when they did their live shows. He was married and had one son and two daughters. He died in twenty twenty from kidney fire at eighty years old. Shoot I Stay, I'll shoot I now shoot Stay Wilby Tumble.

10:12 So Come. The lead singer for the Class was Joe Strummer. Yeah, he played guitar too. Joe. He was born in an Ankara, Turkey, in nineteen fifty two, grew up in England. Helped co found the Class in nineteen seventy six. Some of their biggest that's where rock the Kasbo. Should I Stare? Should I Go? London Colin, they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nineteen seventy five, he's given one hundred pounds to marry a South African girl so she could become a British citizen. Later on he got himself a girlfriend and they wanted to get married, but he couldn't find that South African girl to get a divorce. Tell him and his girlfriend. They lived together fourteen years and had two daughters. After they broke up. Then he found that South African girl and they got that marriage and North he did find another woman and they married nineteen ninety five. They were together until two thousand and two. He had an undiagnosed heart defect. See he seemed perfec healthy and then just one day just dropped dead at fifty years old. Actress Kim Cattrell she's sixty eight. She's born of Liverpool, England, in nineteen fifty six. Now she's best known for playing Samantha on Sex in the City. She was really popular and hit big in the nineteen eighties, doing a lot of movies. Some of the big ones where police Academy, Porky's Mannequin.

11:19 Big Trouble in Little China, Bonfire, the Vanity. She has three times divorced, and Kim has British, Canadian and United States citizenships. The youngest Sledged sister is Kim Sledge. She was born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty seven. She's sixty seven a day now. Along with her sisters Debbie, Joni and Cathy, they formed the Sister Sledge in nineteen seventy one, big disco success. Some of their heads songs where He's the Greatest Dancer, We are family lost in the music, All American girls, Kim, Debbie, and Kathy. They're still performing. Kim is married and then they have three children.

12:11 Actress Carrie Anne Moss. She was born in nineteen sixty seven and Burnaby, Canada. She's fifty seven, Hit Big Plant, Trinity in the Matrix movies. She's also in Chuckle Lot, Red Planet, Fido Mas. She married nineteen ninety nine and they have two sons and one daughter. All right, let's go back to Hawaii and Hawaii Mount Hya e Ele it is the wettest place on Earth. It gets four to ninety one inches of rain every year. All right, thank you for joining us today. We sure appreciate you. It comes to this at coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three of us. Now that's end with Don Everley of the Everly Brothers.

12:51 Listen movies over plilig on this. Don died in twenty twenty one at eighty four years old. Don said, old man, they need a plaus to you. Guys are having an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no no no. No no no No no no no no no no no no no