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. Loes to my duty, no matter what the price, I'm counted up. The calls hello the secondfius boy, don't time for you? What it? Time's asking me? Hold fair and cross with ter the spree, No, don't countree. 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 to award 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 Art. 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 millinary personnel killed or wounded in action against an inemy staff. Sergeant Alvin Ireland he holds a 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 deg thanks to all the Purple Heart recipients.

1:38 And your families. All right, this is going on entertainment On August the seventh's back the year two thousand. Number one album was Now four by various artists in Saint Yad. The number one song with It's going. To be Me. Some Night cast its Tunning may lone Star. They had the number one country song with what about Now? What about now? How about baby wants?

2:20 Men? Don't think. That's been there never man said we've been tall being about what about now? Why should we wait? The number one book was The House on Hope Street by Danielle Steele. The top movie was ho Man, a scientist. He's able to turn himself invisible, but then he becomes a Jane dangerous, really nut job. Stars Kevin Bacon, Elizabeth Shoe, and Josh Brolin. All Right, what happened on August the seventh, eighteen eighty eight. Philadelphias Theophilas van Canel in That of the River the rever revolving Door. Yeah, that circle, 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 Pacific was fought. Yeah, the United States. They launched a surprise attack on the Japanese held island of Guadalcanal. Now it's going to take till February before the Japanese finally surrendered. But the most important thing was that it proved that the Japanese could be defeated. Now the United States are going to start that island hopping campaign.

3:32 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 Gate birth Jacqueline Kennedy, John's wife. She gave birth to a baby boy, then Nadian 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, it was as the bearing straight 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 his first troops over to Saudi a radio that becomes Desert Storm when the fighting starts. Twenty eighteen, China, they banned Winnie the Poo. It's still banned everything to do with Winnie the Poo. See the Chinese people, they think that Winning the Poo looks like Chi shin bing. Yeah, they're their leader.

4:29 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 it Winning the Poo T shirt. So I guess over a billion Chinese they can't have any. Poop dope, coo, doped dope shod this Shivers day. Please don't he left this shiver day. We don't simple cage like this Shivers day. And you know we don't do well. Let's just say 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.

5:16 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 could bathe 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 a 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.

6:05 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 Princia Zigfield, 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 just said, there, I'm one of the top actresses in the world. They still wouldn't let her play herself. You know what made matters even a lot worse though. The actress who did play in the movie, Yeah, I went an oscar for it.

6:46 Ring fall on my head. And just like the god who's feed up to big fall, nothing seems to fit. Ring. I'm so fall in on my head and think all. 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 the pop charts. Sold there was seventy million records. Some of his classic hits are hooked on the 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, I.

7:40 Told her so? And the ballad the bust up just saying, man, she's. Crazy, believe there, I told her. So, But she stopping. Woman ches out to tro Country singer Rodney krall is seventy. He was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen fifty. So number one Rodney cal 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 that he's gonna be out right to 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.

8:24 He married his third. Wife in nineteen ninety eight after Way Night. He's seventy. 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. 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. No, 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, Roud. On All Mad Stud's all here, the busts socks shouts to.

9:12 Steal that was Bruce Dickinson singing for the band Iron Maiden. Well he still does. Broucey was born on Worksop, England in nineteen fifty eight, makes him sixty seven years old today. He started singing for Iron Maiden in nineteen eighty one. He's one of that sang all our biggest songs. He left for a couple of years in the nineties, but he's been back since Iron Maiden. They're actually out on tour over in Europe. They've actually sold over one hundred million records. Broucey 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 Kneb David d. Coovni. He was born in nineteen sixty in New York City's sixty five. Most known for playing Moulder on the TV show The X Files.

9:54 Then he was on Californiacs after that. Some of his movie is are California with a K full fronto. He did a couple X File movies too. Now he is married actress Tialoni for seventeen years and they had a son and a daughter. He married his second wife just a couple months ago and man actress Charlie's then. She was born in Benoni, South Africa in nineteen seventy five. She's fifty day. 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.

10:35 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. 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 two our country underground radio artists. Today it comes from Jim up there in Arvada, Colorado. You want to hear Cody Joe, hide your 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. Gimme two steps. Give me two steps.

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