Dec 19th-Hard Candy, Earth Wind & Fire, Kajagoogoo, Janie Fricke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Bobby Brady, Tenochititlan

0:09 Hi everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, presented by Cool Media. It is December the nineteenth. Maybe some wheat Lydia, clamangel Lyda, just get drum Melvy just starts lager hard candy. Today is National Hard Candy Day. Most hard candies there are beer sugar. Now they add the colors and different flavors and later on about to make hard candy, you boil sugar syrup up to three and twenty degrees. Then it becomes pliable so you can roll it or put it into molds or shape it out if you want.

0:58 After it cools down, you have your heart candy. The first art candies were peppermints and lemon drops. They were created for medicinal purposes back in ancient Egypt. Our candy. It's not just for Christmas. You can get a year round, but today celebrate with some Christmas hard candy. And don't forget the candy canes. All right, So going on entertainment on December of the nineteenth, that's back here. In two thousand and seven and one album was Noel by Josh Grobin. Alicia Keys add the number one song with No one to. Kids, an I could say one day like all the Everything's gonna be all. You. Taylor Swift add the number one country song with our song, and he says.

1:50 Our song is a slave of stream war, singing out tapping on your window when we're on the phone and you talk real slow because it's late and your mom, I don't know our song is the datement I didn't. The number one book was Teas for Trespassed by Sude Grafton. Top movie was National Treasure Book of Secrets Nicholas Cage. He follows clues left in John Wilkes Booth diary proved that Woo Booth. Yeah, he didn't assassinate Lincoln imposedly, all right, what happened on December the nineteenth Let's start off in fourteen eighty seven and what today is Mexico City. The Aztecs, they held their grand opening ceremony for their sixth Great Temple, tinem Chichenlun. Now the soldiers they dressed as eagles and stood all along the steps up the great pyramid, prisoner for war. They were taking up the steps to the top.

2:40 Then high priests they used ceremonial knives to slice open their chests and pull out their still beating hearts hip. Then they kicked their lifeless bodies off the pyramid. Now, the steps they ended up turning into a river of blood. See, they did that for four days, and they actually sacrificed or killed over four thousand prisoners of war. They were trying to appease the Aztec gods. Now today you can tour that pyramid, but they don't let you walk up the steps, which is probably a pretty good thing. Seventeen seventy seven, the United States General George Washington and has men set up camp for the winter and Valley Forge in Pennsylvania. Valid Forge, it's about eighteen miles northwest of Philadelphia. Now. They stayed there until June. Start out with twelve thousand men. About three thousand died from disease, hunger exposure. Now the weather was really wasn't that bad. It's about normal for that type of year. But what they really locked was supplies. Yeah, that kind of got him. Eighteen twenty three, in Georgia became the first state requiring all babies to have birth certificates.

3:36 Baltimore in eighteen ninety one, Charles Uncles he became the first black priest or dained in the United States. Nineteen seventeen, in Toronto, the NHL played his first game on artificial ice. Now that makes no sense. Now I know what artificial turf looks like and feels like. But ice is ice, no matter how you make it. In Sheffield, England, in nineteen twenty two, twenty four year old Treesa Vaughan she had to go to court. She can fed that. Yes, over the last five years she had married sixty two men in fifty different cities in three different countries. She would marry a guy, have some fun, and then just go on to the next guy without divorcing the previous guy. Now, she said, it would have been a crime for her not to keep marrying. She had so much love to share that she just couldn't give it away, or that'd be like prostitution. So she said that men they were like eating chips. After she ate her first one, she couldn't stop. Besides, some of those men, she said, we're really old, so some of them should have died by Now, that makes sure widow several times over, so she deserves some sympathy. Now we looked, we could not find a picture of Teresa joke, joked, joke, shog thish shiverf day.

4:44 He left this shiverthday. We got simple tage. He left this shibirf day. And you don't. Let's just see it. Was born on December the nineteenth Actressislelyge Tyson. She was born of the Bronx, New York in nineteen twenty four. She acted for almost seventy years and Tony and Emmy and she believed in or got an Honorary Academy Award. On TV, she played Kunta Kinte's mom on the miniseries Roots. She was on How to Get Away with Murder from twenty fifteen to twenty twenty. Some of her movies were Busted, Looz Fried, Green Tomatoes, The Diary of a Mad Black Woman, Alex Cross. She had a daughter from her first husband, then she married Miles Davis for eight years that when earned Miles divorced in nineteen eighty nine. Yeah, she was done with marriage.

5:25 Cicily died in twenty twenty one at ninety six years old. Do you Rammbers? Shot was changing Chasing? That was Maurice White singing for Earth Wind and Fire. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee. In nineteen forty one. He formed Earth Winding Fire in nineteen seventy. Then he added a horn section, so that technically made him I'm a bandleader along with songwriter, producer and co lead singer. He spit singing with Philip Bailey, so I had some Maris sang where September Shining Star, after the Love Is Gone, Boogie Wonderland. You know we don't lose use boogie as much as we probably should know this earth Wind and Fire they actually started out being called the Salty Peppers, sold over ninety million albums. Racy married nineteen seventy and they had three children. He was with the band right up until he died from Parkinson's disease in twenty sixteen and seventy four years old. Aben, if you have a wonder, wonder whatever the King of I'm living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati wk Army. Actor Tim Raid is eighty years old. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia, in nineteen forty four. Most known for TV, he played Venus fly Trap on WKRP in Cincinnati. Then he was on Simon and Simon Sister and Sister. He had two children from

6:56 his first wife married a second wife in nineteen eighty two. Yeah, the theme for w Carripi it was pretty easy. But how many of you knew the theme from Vegas? Yeah, they were on TV at the exact same time. Actor Robert Yer. He was born in Toronto, Ohio. In nineteen forty six, he started over ten TV series Swat Vegas. Spencer for Eyer. He list to National Geographics Explore, It's just Someone. He did make some movies Magnam Forest, Ice, Pirates, Invitation to Hell York. He married a second wife in nineteen seventy five and they had three children. He died from cancer in two thousand and two, fifty five years old.

7:46 Shez Vegas Wormy mos. Roy country singer Janny Fricky's seventy seven. She was born in South Whitley, Indiana, in nineteen forty seven. After high school, she went out to California. Now, she just wanted a job as a backup singer. She wasn't looking for stardom or anything like that. She just wanted to make some money singing while she's out there. She entered a talent contest. You won, so they sent her to Nashville and the rest is history. Some of her number one songs are Don't worry about Me Baby. It ain't easy being easy.

8:29 Let's stop talking about it. Always has, always will Janny. She's been married to her second husban since nineteen seventy five, and she does do some touring if you want to try and check her out. The lead singer for the and Kaja Google was lim All. Yeah, he was born Christopher Hamil, but he just went by Limo. You know, you got Shaer and Madonna and you have Limo. Limo It's just an anagram for Hamil. He's born in Bimberton, England, in nineteen fifty eight. He's sixty six. Start out as an actor. He was in an Adaman music video. He decided that was pretty cool, so he decided to go into music and he joined a book band called Ark Nouveau.

9:21 Later on they changed their name to Kaja Google, got themselves a record deal. Some of their ets are too shy hang on now, Big Apple Now. They split up in twenty eleven, but lim All he's still tourist. He pretty much uses the Coja Googa name too. He's still out there though. He is openly gay, but he won't talk about his personal life at all. I know you're waiting Coja Google. What's that. Well, it's simply the sounds that influence me. I know it's pretty lame, but they made some money off it. We're looking for the young guys boy to talk about. It was Mike Lookinland. He was born in Mount Pleasant, Utah, in nineteen sixty sixty four years old. Today, best known Finland Bobby Brady on The Brady Bunch and all their reunion shows. Dude's a deadhead.

10:11 Yeah. I used to follow the Grateful Dead around, went to over one hundred of their concerts or whatever those things were festivals. Today he most lyrics behind the scenes. He does the audio equipment and that kind of stuff for movies and TV shows. Mike he married nineteen eighty seven and they have two sons. Actually, one of his sons played him in the show Growing Up Brady. Actress Jennifer Bales is sixty one. She was born in Chicago in nineteen sixty three. Her face movie It was My Bodyguard, and then she had really big in flang stance. Now when she filmed Flashdands, she was actually going to Yale. She took a semester off to go film the movie. Then when they were done filming, she went back and got her degree from Yale. Some of her other movies were The Bride, Devil in a Blue Dress, One Ray Jury. On TV, she was on the L Word for six years, Jennifer.

10:53 She married her second husband in nineteen ninety eight and they have one daughter, Actress Christy Swanson. She was born in nineteen sixty nine and The guna Beach, California. She's fifty five today. She had some small parts and pretty and Pink and Farris Bueller's Day Off. But then she hit really it big when she starred in Buffy, the van Byerslayer, that regional movie. Then she was in the Chase, Dude, Where's My Car? She was on the TV show Skating with the Stars. She won the damn thing. Yeah. She even married her a pro skating partner, in two thousand and nine and they have a son, actor Jake Jillanaw. He's forty four. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty. Actors Maggie Jillan Hall as his older sister. He was in his first movie when he was ten, it was City Slickers. Once he got older, Donnie Darko the day after tomorrow broke back Mountain. It's not a name for an oscar. For that one jar heads earlier the year he started in roadhouse. I guess he was doing Patrick Swayze's rule. All right, let's go back and talk a little bit more about hard candy. George Smith.

11:48 He invented the lollipop in nineteen oh eight. He named it after his horse, Lollipop. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't read to follow us on. Whoever you listen to is on, you know, for you country underground radio, the independent country music out there anywhere on the internet. You just google it in and boom, you'll find someplace that plays it. Let's end with Ryder. Emily Bronte. She died today in eighteen forty eight, at thirty years old. Her biggest book was Weathering Heights, Emily, and she said, whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same. Now, guys, remember that on Valentine's Day. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.