Aug 3-Watermelon, First Female Rabbi, Tony Bennett, Martin Sheen, Martha Stewart, Metallica, John C. McGinley

0:10 Hi everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, presented by Cool Media Days August the. Third, watermel and watermelon on the vine, on the vine, Sweet and red and juicy, Sweet and red and juicy. Please be mine, Please be mine. It is National Watermelon Day. Watermelon is ninety water. They sure tastes good and it's actually healthy for you. They started farming watermelon around three thousand BC, and the now river over in Egypt, watermelon says everyon found in King Tut's tomb now seeless watermelons. They were created nineteen thirty nine.

0:53 What they do is the flour that's on the vine that becomes a watermelon. They spray it with a mild type of acid and that's what makes it now see less watermelons. Eighty five percent of all watermelons sold in the United States. Now, why you're celebrating Watermelons Day? New I try and break Jason Chivitz's record. He was able to spit a watermelon seats seventy five feet. But if that seems like too much work, just enjoy your watermelon today. When the sun goes down, switch you over to some watermelon wine. He roped back, her eaves drop down to your knees, crawled across the floors, and she jumped back all the fiend gee wiggle and she diggle beat all you ever saw it? This, It's how you do fall and crawl?

1:35 Okay? What happened to entertainment On August third? In the year nineteen sixty seven, number one album was Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Clark's Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. The Doors had the number one song with light My Fire. You know that it would be untrue. You know that I would be onlie befos to say to you good. We would much high lud. Sunny James had the number one country song with I'll Never find another U and. Ib be there something If you will hold my head, I.

2:20 Still need you there beside me, no matter what. All ride never mine. The top book was The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder. Top movie was In the Heat of the Night. A black police detective from Philly. He's mistakenly arrested arrested for murder when he passes through a small Mississippi town. When he's cleared, the local sheriff ask him if he'll solve that murder stars Sidney Pointier and Rod Steiger. All right, what happened? On August the third, fourteen ninety two, Christopher Columbus sailed the Ocean Blue. Hey left Spain on his first voyage today to India. Now can you name his three ships? The Nina, Penta, Santa Maria. Now we all know he didn't make it to India, But would you really care if you were with him? I mean they got to hang out in the Bahamas. I mean I'd sign up for a second voice there. Especially. It was like in the spring or something. Nineteen fourteen, the first ship went through the Panama Canal. Now it wasn't supposed to.

3:21 The Panama Canal wasn't scheduled open for twelve more days. But the SS Christophal they paid some bribe money and they led him through. Also in nineteen fourteen, the fighting in World War One actually began. Now, all the Europeic countries, they'd been posturing and saber rattling, talking a bunch of smack about who's gonna kickoos, but they were actually still picking sides. Germany said enough, we're going in, and they invaded Belgium and declared war on France nineteen twenty one outside of Troy, Ohio caterpillars. They were destroying their crops around there. No one could figure out what the world they were supposed to do, so they got this pilot, James McGredy, loaded up his plane and he performed the world's first crop dustin. Surprised out of everybody that it worked. Word really spread fast about that crop dustin nineteen fifty eight.

4:05 Now her record still stands. Her name is Miriam Hargrove. She's from Yorkshire, England. She finally passed her driver's tests down the fortieth try not only who would ride with her, but who would actually ensure. Nineteen seventy five, the New Orleans super Dome opened up. It cost him one hundred and sixty three million dollars to build it. Now, for perspective, the last two dome stadiums belt were in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. They cost almost four billion dollars each. Nineteen eighty one, thirteen thousand aircraftic controllers went on strike. Now, it's actually illegal for them to go on strike, but they did it anyway until President Ronald Reagan told them if they didn't get back to work, in forty eight hours, he's going to fire him. Well, he kept his promise. He fired eleven three hundred and forty five of them.

4:46 Not only did he fire him, but he banned him from ever being able to work for the United States federal government for the rest of their lives. 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, which he did. Coat coat, goat shog this shibf day, We're gonna pause. He left, this shiverf day. We don't sit potage. He like this shibf day. And you know we don't give day. Okay. It was born on August the third journalist Ernie Pyle. He was born in Dana, Indiana, in nineteen hundred. He was a very popular roving human interest reporter, did folksy human interest stories about regular people all over the United States.

5:31 Then when World War Two began, he literally covered it from the trenches. He went over there and was side by side with the US soldiers fighting over there. He was able to tell their side of the stories right from the front lines. Start off in North Africa, campaign, then Italy, then the Normandy invasion. Then in January nineteen forty five he went over to cover the fighting that was going on in the Pacific. Now his stories were published in over four hundred daily newspapers and three hundred weekly newspapers. His first person's perspective of the warrior really made him kind of a living legend. Then, on April seven teenth, in nineteen forty five, he was covering the Battle of Okinawa. He went on shore with a bunch of marines on this little island north of Okinawa. A Japanese machine gun got him forty four years old. He left a widow, Regina Jonas. She was born in Berlin, Germany, in nineteen oh two. She was a Jew, and in nineteen thirty five Regina became the first woman ever ordained as a Jewish abbi ever. Now, even with all the Nazi persecution of the Jewish people taking place over there at that time, she stayed in Germany. She believed that she needed to keep performing her rabbi duties there during that crisis. Well, she was fondly arrested by the Gestapo in nineteen forty four. They sent her to Auschwitz concentration Camp Yep. She was immediately executed. She's forty two years old.

6:41 But regina story it really doesn't stop there. You see. Yes, she was forgotten to history and nobody really knew anything about her. But then in nineteen seventy two, a woman named Sally priessint she was ordained as a rabbi. She was considered the first woman to be an a rabbi, but old timers kept saying that, no, there was a woman over in Germany during the war she was a rabbi. No one could have reprove it. Then, in nineteen ninety one, after the Soviet Union fell and people were allowed back in East Germany for the first time since the war, a researcher came across an envelope. On it was written Regina Jonas. Inside where two pictures of her her teaching certificate, her rabbi college diploma, her dissertation, some personal papers, and some of her speak at sermons. Yeah, the world finally get to know Regina Jonas, the first female rabbi.

7:24 She doesn't like crapcas with Clarens and hers. Wondo Harlow's in Irelands and. Dephni Wali Art with the resident her. That's why the Lady is up shine. That was Lady Gaga singing with the legendary Tony Bennett. Tani was born in Queen's, New York in nineteen twenty six. Started singing professionally in nineteen thirty six. Yep, he was ten years old, but he was singing great. Really didn't take off until he got back from fighting in Europe during World War Two. Then he sold over fifty million records early sixty one albums. Biggest it might be I left my heart in San Francisco. Oh, I guess it could have been because of you or Ragster Riches. I don't know. I wasn't born yet. Now. He performed his entire life, and he was even diagnosed with Alzheimer's in twenty sixteen. Still kept on performing until his ninety fifth birthday in twenty twenty one. He and Lady Gaga, Yeah they've sung that right around there around twenty twenty one.

8:24 Well after that he did retire and Alzheimer's I finally got him in July twenty first, at ninety six years old. In twenty twenty two, he married 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. Now she was a school teacher. He'd been dating her since the nineteen eighties. Actor Martin Sheen. He's eighty four. He was born Ramonestevez in Dayton, Ohio in nineteen forty. He was kind of known, but he really hit in the movie Apocalypse Now, then The Final Countdown, Wall Street, JFK. He's voiced over sixty documentaries. Biggest TV show is West Wing. He married nineteen sixty one and they have three sons and one daughter. Two of the sons are actors Emiliu Estevez and Charlie Sheen. Martha Stewart She's an eighty five eighty three year old, very rich white woman. She loves to hang out with the rapper snoop. She's got more to her than that. She was born Martha Coostra in Jersey City, New Jersey, in nineteen forty one. She grew up around money and then she really married into money.

9:25 She married Andrew Stewart nineteen sixty one until nineteen ninety. They had one daughter. Then after the divorce, Martha said she was tired of living off other people's money, and she wanted to make her own money, so she started her own company, Martha Stewart Living. Yeah. I grew into a huge empire with all kinds of products, print and TV media. She became the first self made woman billionaire. She got into a little trouble though for insider training, but she's rebounded nicely and after serving a little time in federal prison. Yeah, now she has street cred with the Rappers. Actor John C. McGinley. He's born in New York City in nineteen fifty nine sixty five. Today he's acting in over sixty movies. He's usually supporting roles. Some of his movies were Platoon, Point, Break Off of Space, Any Given Sunday, Get Carter on TV. He was on Scrubs for ten years. He had a son and from his first wife. He married his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have two daughters.

10:21 Everywhere. James Heck phil He is the lead singer from Metallica. He's born in Downey, California, nineteen sixty three, sixty one year old. He started Metallica well Lars Ulrek in nineteen eighty one. They sold one hundred and twenty five million albums. Now, this kind of surprised me. I don't know if a surprise you. They won nine Grammy Yah, they won the ninth one earlier this year, but nominated twenty six times. They're out doing stadium shows right now through the rest of the year. James, he was married for twenty five years when they're divorced, being final in twenty twenty two, and they had three children together. Actress Evangeline Lily. She's forty five. She's won of Fort Saskaskwan, Canada in nineteen seventy nine, first guy known on the TV show lost starting that and then she went to movies. Some of those are The hurt Locker. She played Turiel in the Hobbit movies, and then she played Wasp in some ant Man and Avengers movies. No less than two months ago, just in June, she announced that she was stepping away from acting and she didn't think she'll ever come back to it. She had one quick marriage and she's been with her boyfriend since twenty ten and they have two sons.

11:40 All right, When you're trying to pick out your watermelon to day to celebrate, remember the largest watermelon ever grown three hundred and fifty pounds was by Chris Kent in Tennessee. Oh. Thanks for be listening today. We sure appreciate you. If you like your country music, don't forget about country Underground radio then number one independent country radio internet radio station there is. That's a wrath. 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. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no no no no No no no no no no no no no no no