Aug 6th-Rootbeer Float, Lucille Ball, Andy Warhol, Ginger Spice, Punky Brewster, 1st Atomic Bomb dropped

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today is August the sixth. I won my root been floating, My root be floating, My room being floating, my room floating. I got my one. Scoop scoot three stoop float, I got my fox scoop six scoop. I'm headed off the door. I want my being floating, my root beer floating, my root be floating. Today is National root Beer Float Day. Eighteen ninety three. Criple Creek, Colorado. Frank Weisner, YEP, the invent of the root and their float at his own brewing company up there. Pretty simple, I mean it's just a couple of scoots of vanilla ice cream and a glass of root beer.

0:59 Now he couldn't mate though, No, he couldn't have. And there's Charles Hines that had created root Bear back in eighteen seventy six. Nineteen nineteen, the first A and W root Beer opened up out there in Lodi, California. Now A and W they're going all out today. Free root beer floats today from two pm to eight pm. No purchase necessary, but they would like you to make a donation to a disabled American vectan, So that's pretty cool. Hamburger standard Wienersnisel. Yeah. They're also giving away root beer flutes today. All right, this is going on entertainment on August sixth, Let's go back there. In nineteen seventy number one album was a Woodstock soundtrack. Carpenter has had the number one song with close to You. Just two years.

1:45 On the day The New Got Chicken and Decide two creator Dream. Country Sonny James had the number one country song with Don't keep. Me hanging on, don't keep let me go, let me go, let me. If you don't keep me. The number one buck was love Story by Eric segaff to movie Chisholm. A cattle baron, he teams up with Billy the Kid in back Garrett to fight a land war.

2:33 Stars John Wayne, Forrest Tucker, and Christopher George. Okay, what happened on August sixth, sixteen sixty one is called the Treaty of the Hague. The Dutch they sold Brazil to Portugal sixty three tons of gold four point four billion dollars. Now, when it was proposed to use electricity for executing people, yeah, I was believed to be a lot more humane. Well, I don't know what he did, but they tested out on a horse and killed the horse with no problem. So in eighteen ninety in New York, William Krimler, he had been convicted a murder for killing his wife with the hatchet. Oh Willie, he received the honor being the first person executed in the electric chair. So they strapped him in and they zapped him with one thousand volts of electricity for about seventeen seconds. Well, unlike the horse, Willy, he didn't die, so they cranked it up to two thousand vaults and then they had led her up. Well, he started bleeding out of orifice in his body. Those mouth ears are all that.

3:28 Then he caught fire. Well, the witnesses they all started throwing up. As bad as it looked, I guess the smell was even worse. So it took him eight minutes to die. More human. Nineteen twenty six, America's twenty year old Gertrude Italy. She began the first women to swing the English Channel. She did in fourteen hours and thirty four minutes. That was two hours faster than any guy had done it. Yeah, her record actually stood for twenty four years until nineteen fifty when some dude broke it. Nineteen forty five, at eight fifteen in the morning, the United States B twenty nine bomber named the Nola Gay. It was named after its pilot, Paul Tabis's mom, dropped an atomic bomb named Little Boy on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Now the bomb killed one hundred and fifty thousand people pretty much instantly.

4:09 It's really unknown how many people died from the radio poation. Poisoning after that took place. Nineteen sixty five, President Lindon Johnson he signed the Voting Rights Act, air prohibited discrimination against minorities when it comes to elections. Twenty fifteen, out there in Pittsburgh, they held the world's largest pinball tournament in history, used over seven hundred machines. Zach Sharp he won it, got fifteen thousand dollars in a free game. Joke joke, joke, joke. Dish shibt Day, we're gonna par he left Thish Shiver Day, we gonna sipotage. He's like this shibirth day. And you know we don't give us birthday. Let's see what's born. On August the sixth, Alexander Fleming.

4:52 He was born in Darvo, Scotland, in eighteen eighty one. Now he was a microbiologist, and he is a guy that discovered pitticillin. Yeah, and it's true. It was basically because he left his lunch out. That's so much shocked. But anyway, it's considered one of the greatest discoveries in human history. I mean we take it for granted nowadays. But before penicilin, yeah, that was pretty bad for people. But both his wives they did die, but not in anything penicillin could have fixed. Then he had a son from his first wife, Flaming. He died from heart attack nineteen fifty five at seventy three years old. Hoot Gibson he was born in Techama, Nebraska in eighteen ninety two. He was an all around champion cowboy. Well out there in California. They needed cowboys to make silent films, so Hoot he was perfect. He knew how to work with horses.

5:32 Started acting in nineteen twelve, acted until nineteen fifty nine. He was in over two hundred silent and seventy five talking movies. Now, between World War One and World War Two, Hoot he was the second biggest office box office draw there was Yep, he's behind another cowboy, Tom mix Wod. He married and divorced three actresses. He had his son from actress number two, nineteen fifty two, fifty year old Hoot. He married himself with a twenty two year old Yieldler. They were mare for twenty years. They were there until who do you find the diaed of cancer in nineteen sixty two. It's seventy years old. Lucille Ball, she's one of Jamestown, New York. In nineteen eleven. She started out as a model, then she went on Broadway. Nineteen forty she married Desi Arnaz. They created Desilu Production. Of course, they created that I Love Lucy's show. They divorced in nineteen sixty after twenty years. Deasi Now he had been very successfully running Desilu all that time. Well, he decided after that divorce he was done. He wanted to go into something else, So Lucy took over. She was the first woman to be to basically own and manage a major Hollywood production company. Some of the shows that she put on the air Mission Impossible, The Untouchables, Star Trek, Yeah, that was Lucy Now her and Desi. They had a son and a daughter, Lucy. She made her second husband in nineteen sixty one. They were together until Lucy died

7:03 at seventy seven years old in nineteen eighty nine from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Actor Robert Mitcham. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in nineteen seventeen. When he was seventeen, he ran away from home. He up, he went down South, went to Georgia. Then he got sentenced to a chain gang for being a vagrant. Why he was able to escape the chain gang? Yeah, I ran back up to New England. Yeah, I went and decided to be an actor. Now he is considered one of the best movie stars of all time. Now not actors, no, no, no, one of the best movie stars. Kind of think like Kenoa Reeves. Now he is in over one hundred movies. Some of them are thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, River of No Return, The Longest Day, Midway Starting, all those big sitcoms in the eight or Sitcoffs, standing in all the mini series in the eighties, The Winds of War Warren, Remember North and South.

7:47 Now. He met his wife when he was sixteen years old and she was seventeen. They got married in nineteen forty. They had two sons and one daughter. They were together until Mitcham died nineteen ninety seven and seventy nine years old from lung cancer. Artist Andy Warhol, he was born in Pittsburg in nineteen twenty eight. I guess you called him a pop artist. I don't know. He got famous, you know, for painting like campbell, soup cans and that kind of stuff. Now, he did a silk screen in nineteen sixty three. It was called Silver Car Crash. It showed the mangled interior of a crashed silver car. Sold a few years ago, Yeah, one hundred and five million dollars, and just three years ago. He has a print. It's called shot Sage Blue Maryland. He did that back in nineteen sixty four. Sold for one hundred and ninety five million dollars. Yeah, it's just basically a really goofy looking portrait of Maryland Monroe. Now, nineteen sixty nine, this radical nut job lesbian feminist wanted to rid the world of men. She decided to start with a gay man, Andy Wirrel. Yeah, she saw him, shot him in the stomach. Well, he lived, but he had to live the rest of his life wearing a medical courset to keep his internal organs all in place. She only got three years in jail for it. Well, it was in New York City.

8:54 What do you expect? And he died in nineteen eighty seven and fifty eight years old, falling gall bider surgery. Science. I love my classes. He got a crazy teacher. Where's the classes? Things are going crazy? Only I'm all right game. That was Pat McDonald singing along with his wife Barbara. They were the duo Tim Buck three. Yeah, I know bad. He was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in nineteen fifty two. He's seventy three today. Future So Bright Thought was the only song that really did anything. They divorced in nineteen ninety five.

9:36 But bad. He is a really big, big time songwriter. Just some of the people who wrote hit songs for her share Keith Urban, Aerosmith, Billy Ray, Cyrus, Night Ranger. Yeah, it's a long list. Actress Michelle Yaw She's sixty three. She was born in Malaysia in nineteen sixty two. She started out as a martial artist movie star out there in Asia, first in the United States and the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies and watching Tire Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I think I got that right. Remains the Gisha, crazy rich Asian. She wont an oscar for everything, everywhere, all the time. She married her second husband in twenty twenty three, now Michelle. She is the only actress that Jackie Chan ever let do her own stunts in any of his movies. No, that was not The Weather Girls, It was a Spice Girl singing solo.

10:41 Jerry Hollowell is fifty three. She has won a Wafford England in nineteen seventy two. Jerry, she's best known as Ginger Spice. Maybe not the most popular, but still one of the Spice Girls. Now they've sold over on a million records. That makes them the best selling all female group of all time, even though guys played all the instruments. Now Spice Girls, they made a good tribe and things. So yeah, they're not coming back anymore. It looks like they're completely done now. As a solo artist, Jerry, she sold over fifteen million records. None of her STEP's been released in the United States though. Now she had a daughter from a boyfriend. She got married in twenty fifteen and they have a son. Only sign.

11:35 I'll be honest, I had no idea. The TV show Punky Brewster had a theme song. Well, the girl who played Punky Brewster she's now forty nine years old, So Leo Moonfry. She was born in Glendora, California, in nineteen seventy six. She was eight when she started playing Punky. Now, do you know what Punky Brewster's actual name was? It was Penelope. She's a Penelope Brewster now. After Punky, Yeah, Salio, she went on to Sabrina the Teenage Witch, which is kind of funny because the star of Sabrina the Teenage Rich was Melissa Joan Hart. Now Salil beat out Melissa as Punky Brewster with the auditioned. So yeah. She married almost. Twenty four years and they had four kids together. After they divorced, they had two sons and two daughters. Okay, quote of the day, it's gonna come from Rick James.

12:20 Freedom OUs. I really love she said, ches alright, chez alright. Rick died today in two thousand and four, fifty six years old. Rick says, I believe everything happens under God's plan. Well, thank you all for listening today and make sure you follow us on and you listen to us on so we come right to you and check us out at cool media dot com. That's cool three years now. Our country underground radio Artists Today comes from Tony After in Phoenix. He wants to hear brittley. I ain't can sung those kind of songs. You guys having an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

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