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0:19 Hello one in all, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factor it's about today. Today is August the third watermelon. Watermelon on the vine, on the vine, Sweet and red and juicy, Sweet and red and juicy. Please be mine, Please be mine. Today is National Watermelon Day. Watermelons are ninety two percent water. Sure days good though, and they're really healthy for you. Watermelons they started being farm three thousand BC around the Nile River over in Egypt. Now see this watermelons. They were created in nineteen thirty nine. What they do is that flower that's on the vine that becomes a watermelon. Yeah, they spray that with this mild type of acid. Yeah, make some seedless. Now, eighty five percent of our watermelons sold in the United States are seedless. Now, if you're going to old school and having seeds in your watermelon today, try and break Jason and Chiwitz's record. He was able to spit a watermelon seeds seventy five feet. One's able to be able to break it. Since, So enjoy that watermelon to day. Then when the sun goes down, hit up that watermelon wine.

1:25 He sit the gun of gallon fifteen raised wine, the biggest Watermelon, Roll the Pine, You Save the song Bottle Bays Long, Don't Drive do the Watermelon Cross? Okay, it was going on in entertainment on August third, It was about there. In nineteen fifty nine. Number one album was The Kingston Trio at Large by the Kingston Trio Paulinka. He had the number one song with Lonely Boy. I'm just a lonely boy them all alone would not then.

2:06 I've got everythink. What all I want. Is someone too love Stonewall Jackson. He had the number one country song with Waterloo Water, where. Everyone Everybody, Everybody Water. The number one book was Exodus by Leon URIs. The top movie was North by Northwest. A business executive. He has to go on the ruin when he is mistaken as a government spy. Now foreign spies, they're all after him.

2:56 He does fall in love with a woman, but he's not sure what side she's on. Cary Grant, even Marisaint and Jean's Mason Starr in it all right? What happened? On August the third, fourteen ninety two, Columbus sailed that Ocean Blue Christopher Columbus and he left Spain on his first voice Today. It was to India. If you remember that. Yeah, he was on the Santa Maria, the Nina, and the Pentis. They came along and support ships with men and supplies. Well, since they didn't make it to India, but you know what, I don't think I would have either. They got to hang on in the Bahamas. Now that'd be a lot better than India. Seventeen ninety seven, Bohemia, it's basically the Czech Republic today, that whole area with their Emperor Francis. He was so appreciative that he allowed all Jewish men who served in his military. Yeah, they can marry any non Jewish women they wanted. He said, yeah, thanks for your up. You can marry whoever you want. Now, nineteen fourteen, the first ship went through the Panama Canal. Now I wasn't supposed to see the Panama Canal. I won't open for another twelve more days. But the Christophal they paid the not some bribe money, they were able to let through. Also, in nineteen fourteen, World War One, the fighting actually began.

4:00 Up until now, there have been a lot of saber rattling, talking smack people picking sites. Jeremany said enough, they went and invaded Belgium and declared war on friends. Nineteen twenty one outside of Troy, Ohio, caterpillars. They were destroying their crops. No one could figure out what they were going to do about it. They got this pilot, Jill McGready, and they hey, they loaded up this plane with pesticides. He did the world's first crop dustin. It actually surprised everybody how well it did. Words spread pretty fast about how good that crop dustin does. Yeah, but nineteen twenty one won on a lot of planes. Nineteen seventy now her record still stands. Mariam Hargrove from Yorkshire, England. She finally passed her driver's desk on the fortieth try so who would ride with? Well? Who was it? Sure? Nineteen seventy five in New Orleans, the Super Dome opened up for business.

4:44 Cost one hundred and sixty three million dollars to build. For a perspective, the last two dome stadiums to open up in Los Angeles in Las Vegas, they were almost four billion dollars each. Nineteen eighty one, thirteen thousand air traffic controllers went on strike. Now it was actually legal for them to go on strike, but they went on strike anyway, So President Ronald Reagan he told them they didn't go back to work in forty eight hours, he'd fire all of them. Well, he kept his word. He ended up firing eleven thousand, three hundred and forty five of them. But not only did he fire him, he banned them from ever being able to work for the federal government and for the rest of their lives. In twenty seventeen, in Massachusetts, Michelle Carter she was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. She was convicted of urging her boyfriend to commit suicide. He did coke.

5:31 Joke, shog dish, shiverbirth Day's gonna he left this shibf day. We won't sit potage. He left this shibirth day. And you know, we don't give up workday, okay. I was born on August the third journalist Ernie Pyle. He was born in Dana, Indiana, in nineteen hundred. Ernie he was a very popular roving reporter doing interest stories and all that. Yeah, basically human answer stuff all across the United States. Yeah, people really loved him. But then when World War Two start out, he literally covered it from the front line. The trenches. Yeah, he was side by side with the US soldiers fighting over there. He told their stories right from the front lines. So he started off in the North Africa campaign, then Italy Normandy, he did that invasion in January nineteen forty five, he went and covered the fighting over in the Pacific. Now his stories were printed over four hundred daily newspapers and over three hundred weeklies. Now his first person perspective of that war kind of made him a living legend. Really. April seventeenth, nineteen forty five, he was covering the Battle of Okinawa.

6:30 He went on shore with a platoon of Marines on a little island north of Okinawa. Yeah, the machine gun got him forty four years old. He left. The widow, Regina Jonas. She was born in Berlin, Germany, in nineteen oh two. She was Jewish. In nineteen thirty five, Regina, she became the first woman ever ordained as a Jewish rabbi ever. Yeah, and even with all the Nazi prosecution that was going there, yeah, towards the Jewish people, she stayed there. Yeah, she believed that she needed to keep performing her rabbi duties there in the middle of all that atrocity is going on. Well, the gestape, Well, they finally got her in nineteen forty four. She was sent to Auschwitz, the concentration cap and she was immediately executed forty two years old. Now you'd think Regina, her story would kind of stop right there. That doesn't. Then it got lost in history, that's for sure. No one really knew who anything about her. Then in nineteen seventy two, this woman named Sally Preessen, she was ordained as a rabbi.

7:22 She was considered the first Jewish woman rabbi. But old timers, they now were scattered all over the place, over the United States and Israel, and they kept saying, no, there was a woman over in Germany during the war that was a rabbi, but no one could prove it. Nineteen ninety one, after the Soviet Union collapse, people were finally allowed back in East Germany the first time since the war. Well, her researcher came across an envelope. On it a read Regina Jonas. Inside were two pictures of her, her teaching certificate, her rabbi college diploma, her dissertations, some of her personal papers, and some of her sermons. So the word. Finally got to know the first Jewish rabbi yep or female rabbi. But Regina Jones nuts, she doesn't like.

8:04 Sars wdo harlow in Irelands and wild keviny walt dishart with the rest of us her. That's what the lady is up shine. That was Lady Gaga singing with the legendary Tony Bennett. She didn't even care that he offered her to singing the song Lady who was the trimp it on her his twenty eleven album called Duets Tony. He was one of Queens New York in nineteen twenty six. Started singing professionally in nineteen thirty six. Yeah, he was ten, but his singing career really didn't take off until he got back from fighting in Europe during World War Two. Then he hit big. He had hits. I left my Heart in San Francisco, Rags to riches because of you. Now.

8:50 He was diagnosed with Alzheimer's in nineteen or in twenty sixteen. Keept performing Yep up until his ninety fifth birthday in twenty twenty one. Then he retired Alzheimer's Hey had did get in the next here in twenty twenty two, at ninety six years old. Erried his first wife for nineteen years and they had two sons. Married his second wife for twelve years and they had two daughters. Married his third wife in two thousand and seven. She was a school teacher. Yeah, they'd been dating since the mid nineteen eighties. Actor Martin Sheen's eighty five. He is born and he was born Ramon Estevez. He was born in Dayton, Ohio in nineteen forty. Now he was kind of known, but he really hit big in the movie Apocalypse now than the Final Countdown Wall Street, JFK. He's voiced over sixty documentaries, biggest TV show and on West Wing. Got married nineteen sixty one and they have three sons and two daughters now Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Those are two of his sons. Martha Stewart she's eighty four. She was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in nineteen forty one. She grew up in money, then she married into more money.

9:51 She was married from nineteen sixty one to nineteen ninety and they had a daughter. Now, after they divorce, Martha decided, you know what, I'm tired of living off other people's money. I want to make my own money. So she started her own company and Martha Stewart's living. Yeah, I grew into a business empire, all kinds of products and media and all that kind of stuff. She became the first self made woman billionaire. Now, she did get in some trouble for some insider training, but it was kind of bs though, be honest with you. She lost money on the whole thing, and then she had to go to jail. Yeah, but she's rebounded. I mean, her company is doing good. She's got money now after serving a couple months in prison. Though. Yeah, she's got street cred with the rappers now. Just a snoop actor. John C. McGinley. He was born in New York City in nineteen fifty nine sixty six today, been an over sixty movies. Some of them are Platoon, Point Break, Office Space, Any given Sunday on TV is on Scrubs for ten years. He had a son from his first wife and married his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have two daughters. Everywhere James Hetfield these things lead for Metallica. He was born in Downy, California, in nineteen sixty three. Sixty two years they started formed Metallica with Lars Oldrich in nineteen eighty one. They just rolled through Denver a couple of weeks ago. Yeah, they have quite that stadium show going up there. Sold the

11:23 underd and twenty five million albums. Get this, they won nine Grammys if you're surprised about that. They've been nominated twenty six times. James, he married for twenty five years and they had three children. Now, when they were married, they lived up here in Vail. Yeah, that's where she's from. After the divorce. Yeah, they both still live up here in Veil. It's just not together. Nineteen forty six. Evangelina Lily. She was born in Fort Saskatchewan, Canada. In nineteen seventy nine. She did a little modeling, then she hit really big on the TV show Lost. Some of her movies were The hurt Locker, what was the name Tory l and a couple of the Hobbit movies. She was Hope Van Dine and or I Guess the Wasp really in some of the amp Man and Avenger movies. But she retired last year. She's not gonna be doing it anymore. Yep.

12:05 She's just basically concentrating on being an author. She's been writing since twenty thirteen and that's all she wants to do. I guess he's pretty good at it. Uh. She has what a son? And no her and her boyfriend. They have two sons, all right. Our quote of the day it comes from comedian Lenny Bruce. He died today in nineteen sixty six, at forty six years old. Lenny said, there is no what should be. There is only what is. Oh, thank you all for listening today. Ien't forget to follow us on you listen to a song, come says at coolmedia dot com. That's cool at three years a country underground radio artists Today it's from Kelly out there in Houston. She wants to hear Melanie Merny song Mixed Drink. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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