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

0:19 Hi, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and fact Dud's about today. Today is August the seventh. No lodes to my duty, no matter what the price. I'm counted of the calls hello, the second fires boy, no mona for you? What it? Time's asking me? How fair? The cross with oar the spree noo, no't come free. Today is National Purple Heart Day. Back in seventeen eighty two, General George Washington, he ordered the badge of Military Merit be given out. Now, I personally awarded the first three to the Revolutionary Wars. Then he ordered his officers toward them as appropriate. Now, after the Revolutionary War was over, they weren't awarded again until nineteen thirty two. Yeah, they were brought back under the order of the Purple Heart.

1:11 Now Washington his profile is on the badge. Now it is awarded in the name of the acting President of the United States, and it goes to all millinery personnel killed or wounded in action against an inemy staff. Sergeant Alvin Ireland he holds the record for receiving the most Purple Arts from nineteen forty one to nineteen fifty three. Yeah, he's wounded nine times. In World War two in Korea. Now, I personally want to get my utmost gratitude and appreciation and deep thanks to all the Purple Heart recipients and your families. Okay, what happened on August seventh? Back in twenty twelve, number one album was Uncaged by the Zach Brown Band. Carlie ray Jepson had the number one song with call Me Maybe Your. Stay was holding frid Sheene's skin was showing Hotton nine.

1:53 Woman was blowing where I think. He's going Veray, I just don't call me leaving hot to look back. Kenny Chaz and he had the number one country song with Come Over. Tony album Don't Care The Baby climbing the walls. Gets mell Keny, This bab getting in any code.

2:34 Come Over, Come Over. Come Over, Come Over. Come Over. The top selling book was The Fallen Angel by Danielle Silva. The top movie was a Born Legacy. Now this time Jeremy Renner plays Jason Bourde, not Mad Damon. But it's still like the other three movies, all right. What happened on August the seventh, eighteen eighty eight Philadelphias Theophilas van Canel in that of the river, the rever revolving. Yeah, that circular door. That's really irritating when people don't know how to get into it. Yeah. Now, it took him eleven years in order to sell one. See, the first one he actually put in was in eighteen ninety nine at Rector's Restaurant that was in Times Square in New York City. World War Two, in nineteen forty two, the first major land battle of the Pacific was fought. Yeah, the United States. They launched a surprise attack on the Japanese held island of Guadalcanal. Now it's gonna take till February before the Japanese finally surrender. But the most important thing was that it proved that the Japanese could be defeated.

3:30 Now the United States, they're going to start that island hopping campaign. Nineteen sixty three. For the first time since Grover Cleveland's wife Francis gave birth to a baby girl back in eighteen ninety three, the first lady the United States gave birth Jacqueline Kennedy, John's wife. She gave birth to a baby boy and then Adian Patrick. Sadly Patrick, he was born six weeks early though, Yeah, he was premature. Yeah, he died two days later. Nineteen eighty seven. Now it was only two point seven miles. But American Lynn Cox, she began the first person to swim from the United States to Russia. Yeah, I was across the Bering Strait. Now, but get this though, the water temperature is forty four degrees and she didn't wear wetsuit, No, just her swimsuit. Nineteen ninety, in response to Iraq invading Kuwait, Operation Desert Shield began. The United States started deploying it. His first troops over to Saudia. Radio that becomes Desert Storm when the fighting starts. Twenty eighteen, China, they banned Winnie the Poo.

4:23 It's still banned everything to do with Winny the Poo. See the Chinese people, they think that Winning the Poo looks like Chi Shi Bing. Yeah, they're their leader. Well he didn't like that. He thinks they're mocking him, so he just banned everything boo related movies, videos, merchandise. Lord help you if you're caught wearing a Winning the Poot T shirt. So, I guess over a billion Chinese they can't have any. Poo joke, dop, doke, dope, shod this shivers day. Please, Donna tu he left this shiver day. We w simple tage like this Shivers day. And you know we don't give up. Well, that's just She is born on August the seventh. Now, you know, we really don't talk about bad people on here if we can now, but if somebody is the best at being at the absolute worst all time, yeah, I guess we should talk about him. The Blood Countess Elizabeth Bathrie. She's from Hungary. She's born in fifteen sixty.

5:17 She is the number one all time female serial killer. Between fifteen ninety and sixteen ten, with the help of some of her servants, she killed over six hundred people. Supposedly they're all virgins. Now she did it so that she bathed in their blood. Now, she was married and she had eight kids, and she was batcraped crazy. But see this, that thing is her family actually owned all the land and hungry. So people kind of knew what was going on, but they didn't know what to do about it. Finally, enough of them got together in sixteen ten and said, you know, we got to stop this. So they put four of her servants on trial. They convicted them all for all those murders, but then the servants just disappeared Elizabeth. She was sentenced to house arrest in her castle for the rest of her life. Four years later, in sixteen fourteen, she just died. They found her body. Her bodyguard basically said, you went to sleep and never woke up. No one really bought it, but no one really cared either. She has fifty four now.

6:07 In the movie The Wizard of Oz the Good Witch Glinda, she was played by Billy Burke now Billy. She was born in Washington, DC in eighteen eighty four. She was a very popular actress. Then she married the Princio zig Field, Yeah, by the famous zig Field Folly fame. Yeah, they had a daughter, now Billy. She died from natural causes in nineteen seventy at eighty five years old. Back in nineteen thirty six, though, they did a movie called The Great zig Field, But they talked all about the zig Fields and their shows, the follies and all that kind of stuff. Now Billy, she was mad as hell. They would not let her play herself. She was said, there, I'm one of the top actresses in the world. They still would't let her play herself. You know what made matter is even a lot worse though. The actress who did play in the movie, Yeah, I went an oscar for it, Ring Fall.

6:50 On my Head and just the god who steamed up to the big fall. Nothing sused to fill Ring, I'm so fall man on my head and think all then. That was Billy Joe Thomas or just BJ Thomas. He's born in Hugo, Oklahoma, in nineteen forty two. He was a country singer who had a lot of success crossing over to the pop charts. Sold there was seventy million records. Some of his classic hits are hooked on a feeling, rain drops keep falling on my Head, play another Somebody did Somebody Wrong song, Don't Worry Baby BJ. He married nineteen sixty eight and they had three daughters. He performed up until nine weeks before he died. See he had lung cancer. Yeah, lung cancer got him in twenty twenty one, at seventy eight years old. She's crazy, Believe there.

7:41 I told her so, and the ball had the first out, just saying man this, She's crazy, Believe there, I told her so, But she stopping homaches out of control. Country singer Rodney Krall has seventy six. He's worn in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifty so number one Rodney call songs. It's such a small world. I can't leave you if I tried. She's crazy for leaving after all this time. Now, Rodney, he's out on tour right now. Mabe's gonna be out right total Thanksgiving right before then he's gonna stop. He had a daughter from his first wife. His second wife was country singer Roseanne Cash and Johnny Cash's daughter. They're married thirteen years and they had three daughters. He married his third wife in nineteen ninety eight. Actor Away Knight is seventy one. He's born in New York City in nineteen fifty five. Now, since he first got known on Seinfeld playing Newman and then on Third Rock on the Sun. Yeah, his officer done. Wayne's lost one hundred and ten pounds.

8:39 He looks really good. Yeah. He said he lost it over years, not all at once, like you know, for like some of those shots or anything. Nope, he just gradually gradually lost it. Some of his movies were Basic Instinct, Jurassic Parkspace, Jim JFK. He's done a lot a lot of voice work. He married his second wife in two thousand and six and they have a son. I'm out crowd on All Man Stands, All Cloud, the Busts, Suck Shouts to Steal. That was Bruce Dickinson singing for the band Iron Maiden. Well he still does. Bruce was born in Worksop, England in nineteen fifty eight, so that makes him sixty eight. He started singing for Iron Maiden in nineteen eighty one. He's one of the sang all our biggest songs. He left for a couple of years in the nineties, but he's been back since Iron Maiden.

9:31 They're actually out on tour over in Europe. They've actually sold over one hundred million records. Bruce is married to a second wife for thirty years. When they divorced in twenty twenty. They had three children together. Bruce he's just married his third wife in twenty twenty three. Actor David Dicovney's sixty six. He's born in New York City in nineteen sixty most known for playing Molder on the TV show The X Files. Then he was on Californiacs after that. Some of his movie is are California with a K Evolution Full frontal. He did couple X file movies too. Now he has married actress Taialoni for seventeen years and they had a son and a daughter. He married his second wife just a couple months ago in May after. Charlie's stern is fifty one. She's born in Bioni, South Africa in nineteen seventy five. She wanted to be a dancer, so she worked as a model in order to pay for her dance classes. So you know what happened, right, Yeah, she dished and both went into acting. Now, she didn't even get a sale line in her first movie, Yeah, I was Children in the Corn. Three, she didn't get known for Devil's Advocate, and then she went an Oscar for Monster. She was nominated for Oscars for a North Country and Bombshell. Charlie. She hasn't married. She has adopted two little girls. All right here. Quote of the day, it's going to come from legendary firefighter Redd A Dare.

10:41 He died it in two thousand and four at eighty nine years old. Rahet said, if you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do it, wait until you hire an amateur. Well, thank you all for listening and don't forget to follow us on you listen to us on as we come rank to you our country underground radio artists Today. It comes from Jim up there in Arvada, Colorado. He wants to hear a coach. Did you hid you son? Give me two steps? You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Give me two steps. Give me two steps. Baby, we'll be burning on the floor all night. Give me two steps. Give me two steps, baby, arms wrapped around hope the time, Jimmy to stamps. Give me two steps, baby, sweet things and you're here, kim it to you steps. Give me two steps, baby. Something you need to here. Don't hit me out day with somebody. Ship can music unless you won't see some moves like Katy over the snake. Let's say what we have going here. You know that I'll be groove.

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