Aug 4-Chocolate Chip Cookies, Champagne, Louis Armstrong, Billy Bob Thornton, Barack Obama, Sprouse Twins

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today's August the fourth. Can sound. Tish from the cook and ferris to the cooking chest. The cooking bears terres dish and with a cookie dish, and with a cookie dish, toys sticky dish. Today is National Chocolate Chip Cookie Day. Nineteen thirty eight. Ruth Wakefield, she's baking at that toll house in out there in Wetmland, Massachusetts. She wanted to bake some chocolate cookies. Let you, ran out of baker's chocolate. So she crumbled up some chocolate candy bar Yeah, dumped it into the cookie dough. She figured out, I'll mix the milk together. Wow, she was wrong. Yeah, she had cookies with chunks of chocolate in them, and they tasted great. Luckily, the chocolate chip cookie was born. Now they're really easy to bake if you're gonna make it at home with the kids and all that kinds of stuff. But if it's too hot to fire up the oven, yeah, I just go buy your favorite chocolate chip cookies. Don't forget the milk.

1:18 Let's check out what's going on entertainment in October the fourth back in nineteen eighty two, and then when album was miraged by Fleetwood, Mac Survivor had the n One song with I Had the Tiger. My Tasson to the Chile of the Jagger. Hank Williams Junior had the number one country song with Honky Tonkin. Wins You up bingly have no place to go coming Savya, bring us a long shot home, Tom getting home around the town.

2:15 The number one selling book was The Prodigal Daughter by Jeffrey Archer. Top move was E T an Alien he lands on Earth. Now I need some nerdy kids to help him get back home. Stars Henry Thomas, Drew Barrymore, Peter Coyote, d Wallace. Nineteen fifty eight Billboard. They combined their five different music charts, their jukebox charts, and their radio charts came up to the Billboard Top one hundred Songs in the country. That very first number one Billboard song Ricky Nelson, Poor little Fool. They used to lay around arcation that little girl fall.

2:58 Oh yeah, well, let's see what happened On August the fourth. It was called the Devil's Wine. Corks would pop out bottles of explode. It was sixteen ninety three a French monk. His name was Don Perignon. Yeah he Advantage Champaigne, Happy birthday. United States Coast Guard seventeen ninety the United States. They were needed for an arms and custom enforcement service, so the United States Cutter Service began. Nineteen fifteen, changed the name to the Coast Guard. Nineteen sixteen, the United States agreed with Denmark they were gonna give Denmark twenty five million dollars in gold for the Virgin Islands. That sounds like a good deal to me. The US the Denmark the gold, and they get control of the Virgin Islands in one year. But often they called the Virgin Island and somebody already owned them. Lostic loved stick. It was today.

4:02 In twenty fifteen, they had on Twitter that Miss Piggy and Kermittha Frog announced jointly they had broken up for good. They were no longer a couple. I checked and they still are broken up. Joke joke Coo joked joke shog dish shib day. We gonna par he left this shiverfday. We don't sit potage. He left Thish shibirf day. And you you don't give birthday. Suz born on August the fourth, Jesse Reno. He was born in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, in eighteen sixty one. Eighteen ninety two, Jesse invented the escalator. Now they demonstrated he put that first one on Coney Island. Yeah, he left it there for two weeks. Seventy five thousand people waited in line to go up and down on it. Then they moved it to that Manhattan entrance of the Brooklyn Bridge.

4:50 Jesse died at eighty five years old in nineteen forty seven. A very very rich man. I see shree So Green, I've seen him flu following you, and I think to myself. What a wonder for Louis Armstrong. He was born in New or Only as a nineteen oh one. Now most people call him Louis. Yeah, he preferred Louis though. Now he got famous playing the trump, but he had a really distinctive gravelly voice made him really famous when he did a scat singing. He married his fourth wife in nineteen forty two. Now when he got way back when before he even got married his one of his older sisters had died and she had a three year old boy who had brain damage. Yeah, Luis, he actually raised that boy his whole life. Well, he married that fourth wife in nineteen forty two. He died from a heart attack in nineteen seventy one, a month before his seventieth birthday.

5:52 Now get this, he had wore a star of David his entire adult life. Yeah, he was Catholic. He was backdad Catholic by that, but he did it to honor a Jewish family. They'd taken him off the streets when he was seven years old. Yep, they even gave him money to buy His very first instrument was a clarinet. Whin's the beef? Some hamburger place to give you a luckless female a lot of bond? Where's the had Wendy's We save a Hamburger we modestly called a single, And Wendy's single has more beef and the wholper lit a big knackle that Wendy's. You get more bean and less barney. I don't think there's. That was Clara Peller. She was born in Chicago in nineteen oh two. Now she worked as a manicure It's pretty much our whole entire life. When she's eighty one years old, she went to a casting call and she got the job. She got the job of saying where's the beef? It became one of the biggest catchphrases in advertising history. Now they paid Claire at three hundred and fourteen dollars and seventeen cents for that commercial. The second commercial she got paid five hundred thousand dollars. She married once from nineteen twenty five to nineteen thirty three, and they had teach othern She died in nineteen eighty seven, one week before eighty fifth birthday. Actor comedian Richard Belzer.

7:00 He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in nineteen forty four. Started out a very successful funny stand up comedian, and he was pretty good. Nineteen ninety three switched tears. He started playing Detective John Munch on TV's homicide Life on the Streets. Then he played Munch for twenty three years on TV on Lawn Order and Lawn Order SEUV. Now that twenty three years he played Munch, that's the longest anyone who's played one character on TV in history. Kelsey Grammer's second he played Fraser for twenty years. Bell was retired in twenty sixteen. He had married his third wife back in nineteen eighty five. He died in twenty twenty three from a respiratory disease. Seventy eight years old. Actor Billy Bob Thornton the seventy one. He was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas. In nineteen fifty five, won an Oscar for sling Blade for writing it. Yeah, he was nominated for acting in it too, but he got it for writing it. At that time though, Billy Bob, he was pretty unknown. But after that, oh after Slingblade, his career just took off. Armageddon, Primary Colors, Bad Santa Friday Night Lights.

7:56 He had one child from his first wife, two children from his fourth wife. His wife that was actress Angelina and Joe Lee. They were married three years, married his sixth wife in twenty fourteen and they have one job. They're still together. Since two thousand and seven. Billy he has been the lead singer for a band called The box Masters. They're out on tour until mid October if you want to see him, But get this, they're actually opening two shows for The Who on their farewell tour. They'll be opening the August sixteenth and August nineteenth show. So what can you expect to hear from the Box Masters. Sam. I got you, Yeah, you heard it right. I'll give you a ring when you give me back my ball, one of their big hits. Barack Hussein Obama is sixty five.

8:55 He's born in Hawaii in nineteen sixty one, forty fourth President of the United States, and Michelle. They have two daughters. Act. Oh, we're gonna talk about the Sprouse twins, Cole and Dylan. They're thirty four today, arborn and Lorezo, Italy in nineteen ninety two. Now Dylan is fifteen minutes older. Now. When they were four months old, they moved to Long Beach, California. Say their parents were actually Americans and that's where they were from. And they're eight years old. They played Julian in the movie Big Daddy. They're best known though, for TV. They started in the Sweet Life of Zack and Cody. Now Dylan he played Zach and Cole he played Cody. In twenty twelve, they both quit acting YEP, and they went to They both went to the New York University in New York. They both graduated. Now they're both kind of gradually getting into acting and that kind of stuff.

9:40 They got a lot of business things they're doing. Dylan, he got married in twenty twenty three. All right, Our quote of the day comes from Marilyn Monroe. She died to day in nineteen sixty two at thirty six years old. Maryland says, we are all stars. We all deserve to twinkle. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. Come see as a co media com and cool for us our country underground radio artists today. It comes from Alexa in Pennsylvania. Here Kenny Curcio in his song Jersey Shore. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Get from girl. What's a country girl doing around here? Jesus, let me show you where we got a little down here up here?

10:23 Jesus, do you see y'all? We see something I want you to know. I'm Jersey Shore. You ain't. I've seen nothing like this about the town of Sunset. Seen the ski song, kids, You're gone. I feel the small water in this slack hand. You see the flock lets punning me in a start. Walk the boards on now you never want to go home. When the sounds come out, you'll understand lack Jersey, Yeah, on Jersey.

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