Aug 7-Purple Heart, Charlize Theron, Iron Maiden, Rodney Crowell, BJ Thomas, Worst Female Serial Killer

0:10 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. It is August the seventh Lodes to my duty. No matter was the price. I'm counted up. The calls hello, the second profice boy, don't want the time for you? What are times asking me? Holdfare? The cross with others? The streetome don't come free. Today is National Purple Heart Day. In seventeen eighty two, General George Washington, he ordered the badge of Military merit be given out I personally, what are the first three to Revolutionary War soldiers.

0:51 Then he ordered his officers to award it as appropriate. Now, after the Revolutionary War, it wasn't handed out again until nineteen thirty two. Then it was brought back back into service as the Order of the Purple Heart. Yeah, Washington's profiles on that badge. Now it's awarded in the name of the Act of the United States President to all military personnel killed or wounded in action against an enemy. Staff Sergeant Albert Ireland. He holds a record for the most Purple Arts from nineteen forty one to nineteen fifty three. It was wounded nine times in World War Two in Korea. Now We want to give our utmost gratitude and appreciation and thank you to all those Purple Heart recipients and their families. All right, this is going on entertainment on August seventh, Let's go back to your nineteen seventy eight number one album was the Grease movie soundtrack. The Rolling Stones had the number one song with Miss You Any Wedding had the number one country song with you Don't Love Me Anymore?

2:05 You don't love me any more, You don't love me any Please, spooky plea, let the lines going to my. The number one book was Chesapeake by James Mitchener. The top movie was Grease. That's our musical about going to high school in the nineteen fifties by actors in their thirties, star the Living Noon, John John Travolta and Stockard Channing. All right, what happened on August the seventh, eighteen eighty eight americanstal Felix van Canal. He invented the revolving door and that circular door that kind of irritate you when people don't know how to get into it, but he didn't build one for eleven years. First person I Won't put In was an eighteen ninety nine at the Rector's Restaurant on Times Square. World War Two, in nineteen forty two, the first major land battle of the Pacific was fought.

3:00 The United States launched a surprise attack on the Japanese on the island of Guadalcanal. Now, it took until February before the Japanese finally surrendered, but it did prove that the Japanese could be defeated. The United States then started as island hopping campaign nineteen sixty three. For the first time since Grover Cleveland's wife, Francis gave birth to a little girl. In eighteen ninety three, the United States President's wife gave birth John Kennedy's wife, Jacqueline Kidney, and gave birth to a baby boy. Sadly, the little boy named Patrick. Yeah, he was born six weeks premature. He died two days later. Now, it was only two point seven miles. But American Lynn Cox, she became the first person and swim from the United States to Russia. Yeah, she swam across the Bearing Strait.

3:40 But get this, the water temperature was forty four degrees and she didn't even wear what suit, No, just her bathing suit. So that's worth noting. Nineteen ninety, in response to Iraq invading Kuwait, Operation Desert Storm began the United States. They started deploying it first troop to Saudi Arabia. Now it'll become Desert Storm once the fighting starts. In twenty eighteen, China band Winning the Pooh is still in effect. See the Chinese people, they think Pooh looks like their leader. She's jumping. He doesn't like that, so he banned everything to do with winning the pool, movies, videos, merchandise. Lord help you if your got wearing a winning poo T shirt. So I guess over a billion Chinese they're not allowed to buy poo cot coke, coke co coat shage. This shiverth day, we gonna pause.

4:27 He left this shiverfday. We don't sit pletarge. He's like this shiver birthday, and you know we don't give up. That's the birthday. Okay, let's see it's born on August the seventh. Now you all know that we really don't talk about bad people there. But if someone is the best at being the absolute worst all time, I guess we should probably talk about him. She's known as the Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathory from Hungary born in fifteen sixty. She was the number one female all time serial killer between fifteen ninety and sixteen ten. With the help of some of her servants, she call over six hundred virgins. Yeah, she did it so she could bathe in their blood. Now she was married in eight child's but yeah, she was backcraped crazy.

5:07 But her family actually owned all the land in Hungry, so people knew what was going on, but no one knew what they were supposed to do about it. Well, finally in sixteen ten, enough people had enough and they'd got together. Yeah, they actually put four of her servants on trial and they convicted them and then they just disappeared. Elizabeth she got sentenced to house arrest in her castle for the rest of her life. Then in sixteen fourteen she just died. Yeah, her bodyguard said they know she went to sleep and never woke up. No one really bought it, but no one really cared either. She was fifty four years old. In the movie The Wizard of Oz the Good Witch Glinda, she was played by Billy Burke. Billy. She was born in Washington, d c. In eighteen eighty four. Now, she was very popular actress back in their day. Then she married Florence Zigfield, the famous Zigfield Follies, and they had a daughter, Billy. She died from natural causes in nineteen seventy at eighty five years old. Back in nineteen thirty six, they did a movie called The Great zig Field, all about zig Field and the follies and all that kind of stuff. Now, Billy, she was mad as hell that they wouldn't let her play herself. She said she was one of the top actresses and she wanted players.

6:09 They wouldn't let her do it. They had to make things matters worse. Yeah, the actress who played her, You had won an oscar for it. Ring on my head and just like the guy who streamed up to Big four, nothing. Seems to fit those ring ups fall in on my. Head and k. Had Billy Joe Thomas simply knowing it has bj Thomas. He was born in Hugo, Oklahoma, in nineteen forty two. Now he's a country singer, but he had a lot of success crossing over to the pop charts. So there were seventy million records. Some of those all time classics are hooked on a feeling. Rain drops keep falling on my Head playing another Somebody did Somebody Wrong song Don't Worry Beta. He got married in nineteen sixty eight and they had three dis e j performed up until nine weeks before he died and died from lung cancer in twenty twenty one at seventy eight years old.

7:07 She's crazy, believe there, I told her so, and the ball has have the fust off, just say his mane. She's crazy beleeve there, I tell her so, but she stopped booming beaches out of some troue. Country singer Rodney Krall is seventy four. He was born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen fifty. He's his first time I'm back in nineteen seventy eight. Some of his number one songs are It's such a small world. I couldn't leave you if I tried. She's crazy for leaving after all this time. He's out on tour now if you only check Brodney out now. He had a daughter from his first wife.

7:47 His second wife was Johnny Cash's daughter country singer Roseanne Cash. They're married for thirteen years and had three daughters. Rodney. He's been married to his third wife since nineteen ninety eight actor Way Knight. He was born in New York City in nineteen fifty five. He's sixty nine. First got known playing Newman on Seinfeld. Then he is Officer Dawn on Third Rock from the Sun. Some of his movies are Basic Instinct, Jurassic Park, Space Jam, JFK. He has done a lot of voice work Wayne and has been married to a second wife since two thousand and six and they have a son. That was Bruce Dickinson singing for the heavy metal band Iron Maiden. He still does.

8:47 He is born in works Up, England in nineteen fifty eight sixty six. Now. He took over singing for Iron Maiden in nineteen eighty one. He's sang on every one of their songs that he said any kind of success. He did live in nineteen ninety three to go solo and that didn't work out at all, so he's been back since nineteen ninety nine. Now they started an American leg of There Too on October fourth, and then they'll do it until Thanksgiving. I already made and they sold over one hundred million records. Brosi is married to a second wife for thirty years. When they divorced. A couple of years ago and they have three children. Actor David d'covney. He's born in nineteen sixty in New York City. He's sixty four. Most known for playing Molder on the TV show The X Files. Then he was on TV's Californication. Some of his movies were California, That's What The k Evolution, Full Fronto, a couple X Files movies. He was a goat man on Goat.

9:37 He was married to actress Talioni for seventeen years and they had a son and a daughter. Actress Charlie's thereon. She's forty nine. She was born in Benoni in South Africa in nineteen seventy five. She wanted to be a dancer, so she worked as a model to pay for her dance classes. Then she got rid of both those and just went into acting. She didn't even get a sale line in her first movie, it was Children in the Corn Three. You didn't get known for The Devil's Advocate, and then you went an Oscar for Monster, been nominated for Oscars for North Country and Bombshell. Charlie. She adopted two little girls. All right, hey, let's go back to Winnie the Pooh. Now if you want to see the real stuffed animals that inspired Winning the Pool. Yeah, Winny, Igor Piglet, all those characters in it. Yeah, they're actually stuffed animals from Robert Robin Master's bed or whatever. They're actually on display in New York Public Library. You can go see him for free. Well, thank you for being here today. We appreciate you. Follow us on who have you listened to us on? And come see us at cool media dot com. Now let's end with legendary firefighter Reddit Dare. He died to day in two thousand and four at eighty nine years old. Rad said that if you think it's expensive to have a professional to do it, wait till you hire yourself an amateur. Well, you guys have yourselves all an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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