Aug 27-Shortest War, Loudest Noise, 1st Oil Well, Pee Wee Herman, Barbara Bach, Captain & Tennille, Jessi Combs

0:19 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. To day is August the twenty seventh. No one because because. Today is nationale just because day today you are afraid it is something with no rhyme nor reason to it, just because fuck it. Rep you know, pop ben and see someone for a business just because where's something that's really out of style. I perform a random act of kindness just because or R I can have somebody out there you normally wouldn't just because today. Don't do what you're supposed to do. Do whatever you want to today, have fun just because Okay, let's see what's going on and entertainment. On August the twenty seventh, let's go back to two thousand and five. Number one album was Chapter five by Stained Rack Carrey had the number one song with We Belong Together, Come.

1:28 Back, Save Things. All the Month. Almost Don't Take Your Place Nobody Love Lone. Toby Keith had the nuber one country song with as Good as I Once Was But there was. A time back in My Friend when I could really down your niece love Tonight. Then I'm hampsted, n dude, is I wance?

2:11 Was I scoot wants as I have. That top selling book was Lifeguard by James Patterson and Andrew Gross Todd. Movie was a forty year old virgin Steve Krall. He finally thinks it's time for him to lose that virginity of This also stars Kathleen Keener, Paul Rudd, Seth Rogan, Jane Lynch. All Right, what happened on August the twenty seventh, sixth sixty three in Korea? A Japanese army invaded the island. They got with some Koreans called the Jerks. Now they got as far as the Gilm River, and that's when they ran into the Silla Korean Army and they were with the Chinese Army of the tanks. Well, it must have been a real butt whooping. See after that, Japan did not invade Korea for another nine hundred years.

2:53 Eighteen fifty nine, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, Edwin Drake he drove the first successful oil well up until well then the oil industry they made it get oil that seeped to the surface. They'd skimming off like bodies of water, dig shallow pits, that kind of stuff. Well, Drake, he came up with the idea to drill for it by using a pipe that would go down and keep the hole from colapsing. So for years the locals had been watching him drill whole after hole. Yeah, laughed at him the whole time, saying this Drake's folly. Then today sixty nine and a half feet boom struck oil. Now the only way you get the oil out was with a hand cring, but that still worked. Of course, the oil industry just exploded all over the world. Now though a lot of people got really rich on Aisle, not Drake. Yeah, he died broke. Eighteen eighty three, the largest explosion in human history happened. Ye had the volcano Krackatoia erupted, Now the island Krakatoa. It was actually three little volcanoes there were.

3:44 The whole island was five miles by three miles. It was in Indonesia. Now, when it erupted, it was the loudest sound in world history. It was hurt three thousand miles away. Now, that initial eruption, it shot all the stuff up in their fifty thousand feet, had the power of thirteen thousand toomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima. Then it created a tw one hundred and twenty foot title or well tsunami. So over thirty six thousand people died by the eruption of the tsunami. Now today, most of Krackato is actually underwater underneath the surface of the ocean, but some of it does stuck up and it still actually erupts. Last time Krakatoy erupted was twenty eighteen. The shortest war in world history was fought today in n eighteen ninety six, lasted thirty eight minutes. It was between Bretain and Zanzibar. Zanzibar it's an island off of Africa's east coast. Now today it's part of Tanzania, but back then it was on his own, but it was the Sultan is Zanzibar. Basically he ruled it. He was just a British kind of yeah, crony guy. He was huge on the British as they were trying to actually colonize all of Africa. But the Sultan he died really unexpectedly and suddenly no one knows for sure, but they thinked that he might have been poisoned by his nephew. See, because after the Sultan died, the nephew claimed that he was now in charge of Zanzibar. The Bridish said, no, no, no, no, say we have a guy to take his place, don't worry about it. Well, the Nephian sifted that he was in charge. Ben said no, we've got so many already that we're bring him in. He's gonna run it. The nephew then went and locked himself in the palace with all his servants, slaves of what little military he had.

5:08 British goes, hey, you got to go. You don't understand. Well, then the post nephew he didn't care. He even had some of his guys starts shooting firing warning shots at the British wad did it. Yeah, they were't going to stand for that. Nine o two am British warship started shelling the palace. They stopped at nine forty. Now that nephew he was long gone. Now the British they put their guy in power. Of course he didn't have a palace, but you know he was there there. Found out that nephew had made his way over to a German colony in East Africa. He asked the Germans for asylum. He said, the British were after him. They said, yeah, sure, whatever. Then they found out later they told the British who was seeking asylum there. They had no idea who that guy was, and they didn't care. Nineteen forty two, the United States battleship that Iowa was launched. Now it's the only US Navy warship ever built with a bathtivy. It was for transporting US President of Franklin Roosevelt. He was a sickly guy, so they put in a bathtive because he couldn't stand for a shower. I was take it out of the surface nineteen ninety. Today it's a museum.

6:05 It's docked out in Los Angeles. For thirty bucks. You can tour the island. I don't know if you guys see the bathtub or nine. Nineteen fifty five in England, in order to settle a bar bet, the Guinness Book of World's Records was published. Yeah, Guinness bear they sponsored that first one, just kept the name. Twenty nineteen out in Oregon at Alvred Desert Race, car driver Jesse Combs, she's at the speed record for the fastest woman who had ever driven. Jesse got up to five hundred and twenty two point eight miles an hour. Yeah, that record still stands sadly though after she's at the record. Yeah, she crashed and killed herself thirty seven years old. Joke, dope, joke, joke, joke, sharge thish shiverbf day. We're gonna page he left this Shiverfday.

6:47 We don't sit potage like this shivebirf Day. And you know we don't give up Earthday. So it was born out August the twenty seventh. Lyndon Johnson. He is born in Gillespie County, Texas in nineteen oh eight. First present born in the nineteen hundreds. Now he has just a career politician. He was the thirty seventh Vice President of the United States, and after Kennedy was shot, he became the thirty six President of the United States sir from nineteen sixty three to sixty nine. He married back in nineteen thirty four. His wife's name was Claudia, but she went by and everybody called her Lady Bird, Lady Bird Johnson. They had two daughters, Lyndon. He died in nineteen seventy three at sixty four years old from a heart attack. Le Charlie Leijil and no harsi y Charlie Gee, they can't believe this issue.

7:44 That was Tommy Sands. He was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty seven. He's eighty nine today. In the night nineteen fifties, he was a teen idol. Some of the big songs that he had for teenage crash going, Steady, singing Boys Sing, made half a dozen movies. Then he married Nancy Sinatra for five years now in Native Horse in nineteen sixty five, Tommy's career crash. He went right down the tank. He went south beeag time. Rumor was if Frank Sinatra had him blacklisted, that no one could prove it. So he went. He married a second wife for a few years and they had a daughter. He's currently married to his third wife and they have two kids. Love keep us together by whatever sun, sweet talking, singing, So dommns some round. She's just got home. Just stop.

8:36 Reasons do Dragon. He was a captain and Captain Antonil. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty two. He played keyboard for the Beach Boys. That's where he met and married Tony Tanil. Yeah. She was a singer for the backup for the Beach Boys. They made a good call, decided to go out on their own solo over twenty three million records. Love will Keep Us Together? Do that to Me One More Time? Shop around muskrat Rip got some of their heads. They even had their own variety TV shows for a couple of years. In twenty fourteen, after thirty nine years of marriage to Neil, she ended up filing for divorce see Draggon. He had some neurological issues that. Yeah, he really mental stuff. I mean he couldn't deal with stress or anger, anxiety. He was really really withdrawn. He couldn't show any affections toward anybody.

9:18 Basically he pushed Toneel away. So they did remain friends after the divorce, so much so that when Dragon died from kidney feller in twenty nineteen, yeah to Neil was right there at his bedside. He was seventy six years old. Actress Tuesday Well is eighty three. She's born in New York City in nineteen forty three. She got known on the TV show The Many Loves Adobe Gillis, and she was Adobe's unattainable with desire. Some of her movies were Rock Rock, Rock, Sex, Kittens Go to college, did a bunch of them, then she grew up. She was in Paid as It Lays, Once upon a Time in America. It's nominated for an Oscar for Looking for Mister Goodbar Tuesday. She had a daughter from her first husband. The second husband was Dudley Moore and they had a son. She divorced her third husband after sixteen years of marriage in two thousand and one. That's also the year when she retired acting. Retired actress and model Barbara Bach is seventy nine.

10:04 She's born in New York City in nineteen forty seven. Started out as a big time model, finally hit it as an actress in the movie James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me, then Force ten from Navarone The Humanoid. She had two children from her first dousand. Then when she was film in the movie Came Man. Yeah, that's when she met Ringo Star they got married nineteen eighty nineteen eighty eight, Barbara and Ringo. They were really messed up on drugs and alcohol and everything. They checked into rehab together, both men. Silber River since and still together. Actor comedian Paul Rubin. He was born in Peekskill, New York in nineteen fifty two. Of course, he's best known as pee Wee Herman. Paul came up with pee Wee with comedian Phil Hartman. Now, the first movie that pee Wee Herman was actually in was And He Gets Us Teaching Chong's next movie Yeh, then pee Wee's Big Adventure, pee Wee's Big todd No on TV, pee Wee pee Wee's Playhouse. So the movie is that Paul Rubbins was not as Peewee. Where the Blues Brothers Meat Boss two, he was the Pig One's father and Batman Returns Raccoon and Doctor Doolittle. Polly died in twenty twenty three at seventy years old. He had actually been fighting lung cancer for six years.

11:07 She call anything and everything fal just this one time she liked the fire. Was she's treating. Well. She can find some long hold. That one. That was Jeffrey Stale singingly through the country band boy Addy. He's sixty five today. He's born in Burbank, California. Boy Howtie. They had some sess in the nineties. Some of their heads were a cowboys born with a broken heart. She'd give anything. They don't make them like that anymore. They're only gathered six years now. Before that, well, Jeffrey was and he is one of the top songwriters in Nashville.

11:48 He's written over sixty songs. They've been huge hits for anybody, from Tim Agraw, Faith Leanne, Ryan's Ratsco Flats, Billy Ray, Cyrus, Zach Brown. I'm gonna stop now because that's a long list. Now. He actually if you want to check him out, he does release solo music still any tours alright here Cord of the Day, It's gonna come from Stevie ray Vaughn. No one's got down. Well money time, nothing free, Welcome mony, Come. Rest your free. Stevie died today in a helicopter crash in nineteen ninety, thirty five years old. He said, as far as I can tell, we're all here to help each other out, our brothers, our sisters, our friends, our enemies. Wow, thank you all for listening today. Now we had to follow us.

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