Aug 21-Hawii 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 drunk. And there's the truth. Funny how it feels. I'm just skinned to my best jusion. 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. If you're going through tough times, hit them up. They've 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. And if you have some seniors live next door to or something like, just some 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. All right, this is going on entertainment in August twenty first, let's go back your two thousand and two. The number one album was The Rising by Bruce Springsteen. Nellie and Kelly Rowland had the number one song with dilemma.

1:39 Was it Calling the Beast? She said, you don't know what you Kenny Chazz, And you have the number one country song with the good Stuffy cause your hands shake so much. And it's the way that she looks with the rest center Ham Deton bars suffers the whole first. Year and ask. Him for second to keep her from teams. Yeah, man, that's the good.

2:21 The number one buck was Red Rabbit by Tom Clancy. Top movie with signs a widowed former reverend. He lives on a farm with his kids, finds crop circles in their fields. Now he knows something more frightening has to come. Stars Mel Gibson, Joquin Phoenix, and Rory Colgan. All right, what happened on August the twenty first, eighteen sixty three? William Contrell He led four n fifty Confederate Grilla soldiers on an attack or raid on Lawrence, Kansas. One hundred and fifty narm men and boys were killed in 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, Sir Token, New York.

3:01 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 for 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. Ooh, yep, he got popped the big time. Now the Mona Lise.

3:51 They went back to the Louver Vincenzo. 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. 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 based 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 camp. Hawaii state bird is the nanny fish is the reef trigger fish. Flower is Hawaiian Hibiscus tree is a kui ki dances. The Hulu food is tarot. Hawaiian state sport is surfing. Some people was born in Hawaii Bete Miller, Nicole Kidman, Lauren Graham, Bruno Mars, Kelly Preston, Bethany Hamilton just some of the people born in their Lowha state. Nineteen sixty nine, the first Gap clothing store opened up. It was in San Francisco.

5:13 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 about two and a half miles wide, 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 of 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.

5:57 Now he bought a truckload of twenty North Korean sold started screaming again, you must stop, you must stop. Bonifies just kind of smiled at it and went back and told those guys keep working, We're gonna cut it down. I did it, Park lost. 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 axwithy maniacs had charged their border. Yes, President Forbe 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. 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.

7:00 Nineteen ninety two and I had Ruby Ridge US marshals. They went to the home of 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 he they was just going to take out Weaver boy missed and hit his wife who was holding their infant daughter. Killed her. The wife so they get into a standof the stand up last eleven days when five were Weaver, Harris and his three remaining driverters. Yeah, they all surrendered, now, Harris, he got completely off the other the guy shut and killed the marshall. Yeah, he got an absolutely no troble Weaver.

7:47 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 dollar each for killing their mom. No one got any thing for the dog. Joke, gop cop gojke, dope show dish, Shiver birthday. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverthday. We want simple cars. He was like, this shiver birthday, and you know we don't give up that's worth to you. Well, let's check out a bonnout. I gotsa the twenty first you pig to find. Time to lead me Lucy, four hungred children and the cropping, the Ivans, vand times bild through some sad times.

8:37 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 or 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 charted a couple of songs. And team. And I'm following in. I watched so all. It out this I was holling that was Kenny singing their song. I just dropped in to see what condition my condition was in. Well, they broke up from 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 artist in the nineteen eighties. Now he sung the Gamber. That led to an acting career too.

9:39 Kenny 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 cancer. Last sethless. I hope someday old Ruth would be my wife, but it looks like. My life. The bathroom baritone singer for the Statler Brothers was Harold Reid. He was born in Staunton, Virginia, in nineteen thirty nine.

10:19 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, were on every variety show. You could think, I've toured pretty much all the time. Now read he's pretty much. They're comment for relief when they performed 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, Hell, Shoot I Now, Shoot, I Stay, should Stayed, Wild Tumble, So come on let me now.

11:01 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, He, 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 thro on whist. 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 Cotrell. She's sixty nine. She's born of Liverpool, England. In nineteen fifty six. On TV, she was really popular playing Samantheon Sex in the City. She was popular in movies 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. The younger Sledge sister Kim Sledge. She's sixty eight. 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.

12:43 He's the greatest dancer. We are family lost in the music. All American girls. Yeah, I got people on the 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 and Moss. She was born in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, in nineteen sixty seven fifty eight today. She had big play Trinity in the Matrix movies. She lost in Chocko 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, when sus.

13:24 Hound see. The movie over login Don. He died today in twenty twenty one, at eighty four years old. He said old men need applause to thank you all for listening to If we have to follow us on you listen to his songs, you can always check us out because he's a cool media dot com. Let's go three erhs our country and around radio artists today. It comes from Kerry and Colorado Springs. She wants to hear Jesse Lynn song keeping the ring. You guys have an offense. Someday we'll talk tomorrow. He's gone, he's he stood. It was fun at the start till he trembled on my heart and chick eat out on me go man the loud like some guy on the Conery country song. Now he's he's gone, so long, baby, how tomorrowble? That's not a wont spread my way.

14:43 He's stun me, but it's all right. You'll let me want good. Lame in the who now a normatial girl, but it warms my heart and sounds brighter than the stars. That number. Let me try to take it back. He's gone to see what happens now a country girl? Gettre you mad?

15:26 Mad? Maybe how cried to marble? That's not a wont spread my words? Stun he but it's all right. You'll have me want good Then in the room