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. Day is August the twenty seventh. Wow, No, because. Because today is national. 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 in 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 you 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, all right, this is going on entertainment.

1:17 In August twenty seventh, Got your nineteen seventy three number one album with Chicago six by Chicago Stories. Have the number one song with Brother Louis, She was. Ells, the It Was Water Than. Dan's and Danger on Your Taste Brown Sugar. Merly Hagar have the number one country song with Everybody's Had the. Blues Readbody Knows the Tubes.

1:58 And Yeah Rebodies the Way. Calls and Rebodies Had the Blues. The number one buck was Breakfasted Champions by Kurt Vonnegut. Top movie was American Graffiti Kids on Cali, spend the last night after their graduation cruise on the strip. Yeah, they're going to start going their separate ways tomorrow. Stars Ron Howard, Richard Dryfless, Paul la Motte, and a whole lot more people in that one. 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 Bjorks. 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 in the tanks. Well, it must have been a real butt whooping. See after that, Japan did not invade Korea for another nine hundred years. Eighteen fifty nine, near Titusville, Pennsylvania, Edwin Drake he drove the first successful oil well up until then, the oil industry. They made it get oil that seeped to the surface, that'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 whole time, saying this Drake's folly. Then today sixty nine and a half feet boom struck oil.

3:22 Now the only way you get the oil out was with the 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. He had the volcano Krackatoia erupted. Now the island Krakatoa. It was actually three little volcanoes there were. The whole island was five miles by three miles. It was in Indonesia. Now, when it erupted, it was a loud to sound in world history. It was hurt three thousand miles away. Now, that initial eruption, it shot all the stuff up into their fifty thousand feet, had the power of thirteen thousand and atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima. Then it created a twoe hundred and twenty foot title or well tsunami. So over thirty six thousand people died by the eruption of the tsunami.

4:09 Now today most of Krackatot is actually underwater underneath the surface of the ocean, but some of it does stuck up and it still actually erupts. The last time Krakatoy erupted was twenty eighteen. The shortest war in world history was fought today in n eighteen ninety six. The 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 bit. 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 thanked 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 Bradish 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 bringing him in.

5:02 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. British goes, hey, you got to go. You don't understand. Well, then the pole and he didn't. That nephew he didn't care. He even had some of his guys starts shooting firing warning shots at the British. Well I did it. Yeah, they were going to stand for that. Nine o two am British warship started shelling the palace. They stopped at nine point 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 bath They was for transporting US President of Franklin Roosevelt. He was a sickly guy, so they put in a bathti because he couldn't stand for a shower. I was taking out of surface in nineteen ninety. Today it's a museum.

6:05 It's docked out in Los Angeles for thirty bucks. You can enter 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 bar they sponsored that first one, just kept the name. Twenty nineteen out in Oregon at Alverred 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 joke, joke, joke, shage dish, SHIVERBF day. We're gonna page he left this shiverfday.

6:47 We gonna sit potage like this shivebirth day and you you don't give up birthday. So it was born out August the twenty seventh Lyndon Johnson. He is born in Gillespie County, Texas in nineteen oh eight. First she was president. 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, Lynn, and he died in nineteen seventy three, sixty four years old, from a heart attack. Le Chart.

7:30 Jil and no HAWSII. Charlie Grash. They chaff believe this issue. That was Tommy Sands. He was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty seven. Still what this He's eighty eight today. In the late 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 and they divorced in nineteen sixty five. Tommy's career crash. He went right down the tank. He went south big time. Rumor was that 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.

8:12 He's currently married to his third wife and they have two kids. Love keep us together. Whatever, some sweet talking singing. So dommns some round. She's just got He's home to stop. Tell dragon. He was a captain and Captain Antonil. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty two. He played keyboard for the Beats Boys. That's where he met and married Tony Taneil. Yeah, she was a singer for the backup for the Beats 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 Ripe. That's 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 Toneil, she ended up filing for divorce. See Dragon, 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. Basically he pushed to Niel away. So they did remain friends after the divorce, so much so that when Dragon died from kidney felluer in twenty nineteen, yeah, to Neil was right there at his bedside. He was seventy six years old. Actress Tuesday Well it was eighty two. She was one of Manhattan, New York. In nineteen forty three. She got known on the TV show The Many Loves Adobe Gillis. 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

9:44 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. Her second husband was Deadley 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 when she retired from acting. Actress model Barbara Bach. She was born in New York City in nineteen forty six seventy nine to eight. 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 filming the movie Cape Man, Yeah, that's when she met Ringo Star. They got married nineteen eighty nineteen eighty eight, Barbara and Ringo.

10:24 They were really messed up on drugs and alcohol and everything. They checked in the rehab together, both ben sober 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 Chalk's Next movie, then pee Wee's Big Adventure, pee Wee's Big Todd Now on TV pee Wee pee Wee's Playhouse. So the movie is that Paul Rubins was not as pee Wee. Where the Blues Brothers Meet Boss two, he was the pig One's father and Batman retured and he voiced the 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. Justice. One time she liked the fires. Was she's treating. Well. She could find someone. To hold love that food. That was Jeffrey Stale, single to that country band, boy Addy. He's sixty four today. He was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen sixty one. Boy Howdy. 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.

11:50 He's written over sixty songs. They've been huge hits for anybody from Tim McGraw, 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 and he tours alright here. Cord of the Day, it's gonna come from Stevie Ray Vaughn. No, it's coming down. Money time, nothing free, welcome money. Come resc 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. And we had to follow us.

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