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

0:10 Hello everybody. I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today, presented by Cool Media. Today is August the sixth. I won my root been floating, My root been floating. My room being floating, My room be floating. I got my one scoot scoot three stoop float. I got my fox scoop six scoop. I'm headed off the door. I want my being float, my root beer float, My roop be a float. It is National root Beer Float Day eighteen ninety three and Cripple Greek, Colorado Frank Weisner created the root beer float. Pretty simple. Actually, there's just a couple of scoots of Vanella ice cream and a gloss of root bear. Now, it couldn't have done it if Charles Hyden's had an invented root bear. In eighteen seventy six, nineteen nineteen, the first A and W root Bear restaurant opened up. It was in Low d, California. Now A and W they are going all out to their free root beer floats all day long and all their restaurants. So go there and grab one or make it yourself. Just enjoy a root beer float. All right, We's see what happened in entertainment on August sixth, in the year nineteen eighty eight, number one album was Appetite for Destruction by Guns n' Roses.

1:18 Steve wood Would had the number one song with roll with It You Got a. Babe, Babe. George Strait had the number one country song with Baby Blue Baby. Like the colro Scos Lack of Bread. The spring Sheet came in Len Nasty and who ever hauld.

2:10 The number one book was Cardinal of the Kremlin by Tom Clancy. Tom Milly was cocktail Tom Cruise. He's a bartender in New York City now, him and Brian Brown. They put it on a big show when they mixed drinks. Then Tom goes down to Jamaica at Bartend and he falls in love with Elizabeth Schue. All right. What happened on August the. Sixth, sixteen sixty one is called the Treaty of the Hague the Dutch Republic. They sold Brazil to Portugal for sixty three tons of gold about four point four billion dollars. Eighteen oh six, the Holy Roman Empire officially ended. Yep, no more Holy Roman Empire. Now it's just Austria now. When they decided that they could use electricity for executions. They honestly believed that it would be more humane, so they I don't know what he did, but they ended up testing it on a horse and it killed the horse with no problems. Then it definitely worked for humans.

2:59 Right eighteen ninety in New York, William Kemmler. He was scheduled for execution for killing his wife with a hatchet. Oh, Willie, he got the honor being the first person to be using in an electric chair. They strapped him in the chair and zapped him with one thousand volts of electricity for seventeen seconds. Well, then they noticed he was still breathing, so they cranked her up to two thousand vaults and they let her rip. Then he started bleeding out of very oriphosis in his body. He has nose mouth ears who named it? He was bleeding. Then he caught fire. Well, all the witnesses they started throwing up. Well, look gross, but I guess the smell was horrible. Took him eight minutes to die. American and Gertrude Utterly she was a three time Olympic gold medal winningless in swimming. Nineteen twenty six, she became the first woman to swim the English channel. She did in fourteen hours and thirty four minutes. That was two hours faster than any man had ever done it. Her record stood for twenty four years until nineteen fifty when some man actually broke it. Nineteen forty five, at eight fifteen in the morning at the United States be twenty nine bomber, who was named n Novah Gay was named after his pilots.

4:01 Paul Tibbets's mom, dropped the first atomic bond on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. The bomb was named Little Boy. Killed over one hundred and fifty thousand people. They don't really know how many died afterwards from all the poisoning and stuff, but Japan sadly they refused to surrender. Nineteen sixty five, President US President Lyndon B. Johnson, he signed the Voting Rights Act. It prohibited discrimination against any minorities and elections. In twenty fifteen Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they had the world's largest pinball tournament of all time took place and they had over seven hundred machines that were. Used coke, coke, coked goat shage. This shibf Day were gonna page.

4:42 He left this shib day. We don't simple tage. He left this shibirth day. And you know we don't get birthday. So who was born on August the sixth Alexander Fleming. He was born in Darvill, Scotland, in eighteen eighty one. He was a microbiologist. But he was also the guy who discovered in a cylon. Now that is considered one of the greatest discoveries in human history. Now both his wife died, but not anything that penicillin could have fixed. He had a son from his first wife, Fleming. He died from a heart attack in nineteen fifty five and seventy three years old. Hoot Gibson. He was born in. Tekama, Nebraska in eighteen ninety two. He was an all around rodeo championship cowboys. Then they needed cowboys to make silent films on California, so they got Hoot.

5:25 He was perfect. He was good with the horse, so we started acting in nineteen twelve. Then until nineteen fifty nine was in over two hundred silent and seventy five talking movies. Between World War One and World War. Two, he was the second biggest box office draw behind Cowboy Tom Mix. He's married three actresses, and all of them ended up in divorce. He did have a son from actress number two, nineteen fifty two, fifty year old Hoot. He married himself, a twenty two year old yodler. They were married for twenty years until who died of cancer in nineteen sixty two at seventy years old. Lucille Ball She was born in Jamestown, New York, in nineteen eleven.

6:16 She started out as a model. Then she was on Broadway. Nineteen forty she married Desi Arnez. They created Desilu Production. Of course, they're the ones who created I Love Lucy and all the spinoffs and all that kind of stuff. They divorced in nineteen sixty. Now Daisi, he had very successfully been running Desilu the production company. He decided, you know what, he was done, He wanted to move on. Since they divorced, Lucy took over. She became the first woman to run a major Hollywood production company. So how you do well? Some of the shows she put on TV where Mission Impossible, The Untouchable, Star Trek Now Lucy and Deassi. They did have a son and a daughter. Lucy married her second husband in nineteen sixty one. They were together until Lucy died at seventy seven years old nineteen eighty nine from an abdominal aortic aneurysm. Actor Robert He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in nineteen seventeen. When he was seventeen, he'd run away and gotten down to Georgia. He got sentenced to be on a chain gag for vacancy. Well, he was able to escape the chain gang and he went back to New England. He is considered one of the best movie stars of all times. No no not actor, one of the best movie stars of all time. He was in over one hundred movies. Some of them were Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo, River of No Return, Cape Fear, The Longest Day.

7:26 Midway met his wife when he was sixteen and she was seventeen. They got married nineteen forty and had two sons and one daughter. Mitcham died in nineteen ninety seven and seventy nine years old from lung cancer. Artist Andy Warhol He was born in Pittsburgh in nineteen twenty eight. I guess you call him well out a pop artist. Got famous for painting things like campbell, soup cans, and that kind of stuff. Now. He did a silk scream in nineteen sixty three called Silver Car Crash. It showed a mangled interior of a crashed silver car. Sold a few years ago for one hundred and five million dollars. Then just two years ago he had this print and it was called shot Sage Blue Maryland. He had done it back in nineteen sixty four, so for one hundred and ninety five million dollars. All it was was her goofy looking portrait of Marilyn Monroe nineteen sixty nine. This radical nut job lesbian feminists. She wanted to rid the world of men. Yeah, she dieded to start with gay Andy Warhol. She shot him in the stomach. He lived, but he had to live the rest of his life wearing a medical corset. He had to keep all his internal organs in place. She only got three years in jail for it, and he died in nineteen eighty seven at fifty eight years old, following gall bladder surgery.

8:31 Science. I love my classes. He got a crazy teacher. Where's the classes? Things to go? And grazes only Jesus, I'm doing all right, Shade. That was Pat McDonald singing he and his wife Barbara. They were the duo Tim Buck three. Yeah, I know now Yeah. He's born in Green Babs Gonson in nineteen fifty two. He's seventy two today. Future so Brian. That's the only song that they had that were charted. I mean they divorced in nineteen ninety five. But Pat he has a big, big, big time songwriter. Just some of the people he's written songs for Cher Keith, Urban Aerosmith, Billy Ray, Cyrus. Night Ranger list goes on actress Michelle Yoo. She's sixty two.

9:21 She was one of iPAH, Maryland or Malaysia in nineteen sixty two. She started off as an Asian martial arts movies star in the United States, hit Big in the James Bond movie Tomorrow Never Dies, then Crouching Tiger Head and Dragon Remains of a Gisha, Crazy rich Asian. She won an Oscar for Everything, Everywhere, all the time. Now. She married her second husband just a year ago July. She is the only actress Jackie Chan ever let do her own stunts in any of his movies. It's Rain.

10:08 That was Jerry Hollowell singing solo. She's fifty two. She was born on Waltford, England in nineteen seventy two. Best known as Ginger Spies, not one of the most popular, but still one of the Spice Girls. They are the best selling all female group of all time. There's sold over one hundred million records. Spice Girls. They're still together minus Posh now as a solo artist Jerry. She sold fifteen million records all over in Britain. None of her stuff's been released on this side of the pond. She had a daughter from a boyfriend and she got married in twenty fifteen and they have a son. You man only day Silent turn Around.

10:53 I had no idea, but Punky Brewster had a themed song. Huh. That girl who played Punky Brewster is now from forty eight years old, Celil Moonfry. She was born in Glendora, California, in nineteen seventy six. She was eight when she started playing Punky. Do you know what Punky Brewster's first name actually was Penelope Bevanella be Brewster, now after Punky Brewster, Celil. She was on Sabrina the Teenage Rich, which is kind of funny because the star of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Melissa Joe Harten Celil beat her out to play Punky Brewster in the audition for that TV Small World. Now Sealilo's you're married from nineteen ninety eight and they divorced in twenty twenty two, and they had two sons and two daughters. Alright, ey, now, if you're gonna celebrate roupe beer today, you might want to be just be careful.

11:44 Okay. See, if you drink at least twenty cans of root beer, there's a really good chance that you might get a little bit buzzed. Yeah, you could possibly get drunk. Even so, don't drink twenty five at least. Anyway, Thanks for listening, and feel free to follow us. I know if you're listening to us on you get a chance tot by cool media dot com. What we're doing over there. Let's end with Rick James. Read about Sorry, I really love she said, So she is all right, She is alrighty. Rick died today in two thousand and four, at fifty six years old. He said, I believe everything happens under God's plan. All Right, you guys have an awesome day, and we'll all talk tomorrow.

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