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0:10 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media is August the twenty seventh. No because. Because today is national, Just because day today, you are afraid to do something with no rhyme nor reason to it, just because take a trip, pop in and see someone for a visit, just because you can wear something that's way out of style, or do a random act of kindness, just because you can ask somebody else that you've been afraid to you before, just because today, don't do what you're supposed to do.

1:05 Do you want to do? And have fun? Just because all right, let's see it happening. Entertainment. In August the twenty seventh, Let's back to your nineteen eighty one number one album was Foreigner four by Foreigner Diana Ross. I'm not a Richie had the number one song with Endless Love. There's only you in my life, the only thing that's quiet, my first love. You're every brow that I told. You you revery stuff. Ronnie Millsap had the number one country song, But there's no getting over me.

1:48 I'll be the reason. Let you tell the boys the notion of until. Everyone there. And you mighty even be Darling rain. Over. The number one book was Kujo by Stephen King. Top movie was Raiders The Lost Arc back in nineteen thirty six. An archaeologist named Indiana Jones has to find the arc of the Covenant before the Nazis due. Stars Harrison Ford, Caroen Allen, and John Rise datis Ah. What happened on August the twenty seventh, eighteen fifty nine, near Titusville, Pennsylvania.

2:30 Edwin Drake He drilled the first successful oil well. Yeah, up until the n the oil industry pretty much collected their oil on the surface. Well, Drake, he came up to the idea to drill for it using a pipe, and that way he keep the hole from collapsing. Well, the locals, they were watching him drill, and they laughed at him. They called the Drake's folly. Then when he got to ninety sixty nine and a half eight, boom struck oil. Now the only way you can get that oil out though after it hit, Yeah, had use a hand pump, but it worked. Now, of course the oil industry just exploded a lot of people made millions of dollars off it. Drake. He end up dripping, dying broke. Eighteen eighty three, The biggest explosion the world has ever known happened when the volcano Krakatoa erupted the island of Krakatoa. It was actually three volcanic points and the island was five miles by three miles. It's silver in Indonesia. Now went it exploded. It was the largest sound in world history.

3:19 It was hurt three thousand miles away. And now he had the power of thirteen thousand nuclear bombs that were the size of the ones that we dropped on Japan. The ash and rocket showed up to fifty thousand feet in the air. One hundred and twenty foot tsunami was created. Over thirty six thousand people died either by the eruption of this tsunami. Today most of it it's all under water, but it does break the surface and it still erupts. Last eruption of Krakatoa is twenty eighteen. The shortest war and world h history happened in eighteen ninety six. Lasted for thirty eight minutes. It was between Breton and Zanzibar now Zanzibar. It's an island off the coast of East Africa. Now it's part of Tanzania. But back then the sultan in Zanzibar, he was a big pro English guy who was England was trying to colonize most of Africa. He was all for him. When he just tied suddenly. They didn't know what happened, but they think he was poisoned by his nephew. See, after he died, his nephew he claimed that he was now in charge. British said no, no, no, no, no, we have a guy in mind, don't worry about nephew said no, I'm in charge. They said no, we're putting our own guy in there. So the nephew he locked himself in the ruler's palace with the servants, slaves and what little military they had. British kept telling you can't.

4:23 You don't what I'm saying, you got to go. He wouldn't go. Even had some of those guy who's take some shots at the British. Well, the British sad enough, nine oh two am, British warship shot a shell on the palace. They stopped at nine forty. The nephew he was long gone. The British they put their guy in power and the nephew. They figured out I did make it over to a German colony in East Africa and Germany they gave him asylum. Nineteen forty two of the United States battleship the Iowa, it was launched, still the only US Navy ship that was built with a bathtub. Originally the ship was built to transport US President Franklin Roosevelt. But you know, because of Roosevelt sickly held on it. Yeah, he couldn't stand up for ash hour. Nineteen fifty five in England, in order to settle a bar bet, the Guinness Book of Worlds Record was published. Yeah, it is named for the beer company Guinness. Everyone's who sponsored it.

5:11 At the Alfred Desert over in Oregon in twenty nineteen, race car driver Jesse Combs, she set the record for fastest woman for the fastest speed a woman's ever driven. She got up to five hundred and twenty two point seven miles an hour. That record still stands, but sadly, Jesse, after she set the record, she crashed and was killed. She's thirty nine years old. Coke coke, coke, coke, co coat shage. This shibirth day were gonna pause. He left this shibfday. We don't simple tage. He was like this shibirthday, and you know we don't give up that birthday all right. It was born on August the twenty seventh Lyndon Johnson. He was born in Gillespie County, Texas in nineteen oh eight. First just President, born in the nineteen hundreds. He was a career politician. He was the thirty seventh Vice president and then the thirty sixth president when he took over for John Kennedy when he was killed. Served as president from nineteen sixty three to nineteen sixty nine.

6:03 He had married his. Wife in nineteen thirty four. Her name was actually Claudia, but she went by Lady Bird Lady Bird Jumpson. They had two daughters. Johnson. He died in nineteen seventy three at sixty four years old from a heart attack. Le Charlie. Jo and no Harty. Le Charlie Gee Crash. Jay Chat believe this issue. That was Tommy Sands. He was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty seven. He's eighty six today. In the late nineteen fifties, he was a teen idol. He had that song teenage Crash going steady, sing Boy sing, made half a dozen movies, married Nancy Sinatra for five years. After they divorced in nineteen sixty five, Tommy's career went south big time. Rumor was that Frank Sinatra had him black ball in the entertainment industry. But no I could prove it.

6:59 But he couldn't get a job for nothing. He didn't marry for a couple of years and had a daughter from it. Love Keep Us Together made whatever, some sweet talking girl singing so stemans around. She's just got He's home stop she. Loves Darryld Dragon was the captain and Captain Antoniell He's one of Los Angeles in nineteen forty two. Now he played keyboard for the Beach Boys, and while he was doing that he met and married Tony Tanail. She was singing backup for the Beach Boys. Well, they decided to go out on their own.

7:40 That was a good call. They had this level. Keep us together, do that to me one more time, Shop Brown muskrager Loft. They've been at their own variety TV show for a couple of years. Then, after thirty nine years of marriage, in twenty fourteen to Neil, she fouled the divorce see Draggon. He had a neurological issues. Yeah, he couldn't deal at all with stress or anxiety. He was really withdrawn. He couldn't show any affections or anything. Basically he pushed Taneil away so after the divorce. So they did remain friends, I mean even so much so. Though. When Dragon died from kidney fellure in twenty nineteen, Taniel she was right there by his side. He was seventy six years old. Actress Tuesday Well, she's eighty one. She was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty three. She had a bit bart when she was twelve years old and now Forred Hitchcock movie. But she first got known when, Yeah, she was on The Many Loves of Adobe Gillis on TV.

8:27 She played Adobe's Unattainable Desire. Some of her movies were Rock Rock, Rock, Returned to Peyton Place. She's a nominated for an Oscar for Looking for Mister Goodbar. Then she was in Arthur Arthur Well. She had a daughter from her first thousand. Her second husband was actor Deadly Moore. They had a son. She was married to her third husband for sixteen years when they divorced. They divorced in two thousand and one, so she divorced and retired from acting both in two thousand and one. Actress model Barbara Bach. She was born in Queen's, New York in nineteen forty six. She's seventy eight. The nineteen sixties she was one of the top models. He finally it as an actress in the James Bond movie The Spy Who Loved Me. From then she went to Force ten from Navarone The Humanoid. She had two children from her first husband. Then, when she was fool of the filming the movie came Man. Yeah, she met Ringo Starr. They got married nineteen eighty. Nineteen eighty eight, Ringo and Barbara they were both really messed up on drugs and alcohol, so they both checked into rehab. Well both been sober since. Actor comedian Paul Rubins. He was born in Peekskill, New York, in nineteen fifty two. He's best known for Pee Wee Hermon.

9:30 Now. He created Pee Wee Herman with comedian and Bob Hartman. Now do you know the first movie that Pee Wee Herman was actually in? It was a cheating chunk fook. Yeah, Cheaching, Chongk's next movie, then Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Big Top Peewee. Then on TV they had Peewee's Playhoffs. Some movies that Paul Rubin was actually in, not as Peaway where the Blues Brothers Meet Balls two. He was the Penguin's father and Batman Returns, and he voiced the raccoon and Doctor Loulittle Paul. He died last July, Yeah, July twenty twenty three, at seven years old. He'd been fighting lung cancer for six years. She tell anything and everything. Fally love just this one time.

10:12 She liked the fires, but she's been treating. Well. She could find someone to hold, but that one. That was Jeffrey Steel, singing lid for the country band Boyouty. He's sixty three. He's born in Burbank, California, in nineteen sixty one. Now him and Boy Howdy they did have success in the early nineteen nineties. They did a Cowboys Born with a Broken Heart. She'd give anything. They don't make them like that anymore. But they were only together for six years. But Jeffrey is and was one of the top songwriters out in Nashville. He's written over sixty big hit songs for everybody. Tim McGrath, Faith Hill, Leanne, Ryan's Rosco Flats, Billy Ray, Cyrus, Zach Brown.

10:55 That's just some of them. Now he still does some solo stuff on his own. He usually does acoustics. Now. I told you earlier that krack of toa was the loud of sound in Earth's history. What do you think the second out of sound in Earth's history is? Well, that's the content Tanguska meteorite that exploded over Sibury in nineteen oh eight. Well, thank you for being here today. We sure appreciate you for listening. Follow us on whoever you listen to us on it comes. Here's at coolmdia dot com. That's cool, Thrieos. Let's end with Stevie Rayvaughn. No one's cotting down, So. Money time nothing, welcome, mony, come and rescuar free. Stevie died today in a helicopter crash in nineteen ninety at thirty five years old. Stevie said, as far as I can tell, we're all here to help each other, our brothers, our sisters, our friends and our enemies. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow non