Dec 7th-Pear Harbor Remembrance, Donald Duck, Harry Chapin, C. Thomas Howell, Sara Bareilles

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff. Welcome to history and factory is about today visit in my cool media. Day's December the seventh. December seventh, nineteen forty one, a date which will live in infamy. The United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked my naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. It is Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day. It was today, in nineteen forty one that Japan did attack Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. Over thirty five hundred, yes, soldiers and sailors are killed. Now, it wasn't only a declaration of war on the United States.

0:53 Japan also declared war on Great Britain. So Germany joined Japan, and the United States declared war on Germany and World War two is that for a lot more violent level. It'll be almost four years before the United States will see peace again. Now, if you remember how you felt on nine to eleven, yeah, you know exactly how they felt today in nineteen forty one in that generation. Now, that's kind of a tough transition. But let's see what's going on in entertainment on December the seventh. In two thousand and three, Number one album was in the Zone by Britney Spears, Ludacris and Shawna. They had the number one song with stand up. Just like that, Just like that, Just like that, how you ain't gonna cut good out Me? I'm the present you with VIP see he Oh, you don't have to see I t I'm young wilder like.

1:42 Cl Toby Keith. He had the number one country song with I Love this Bar. I Love this bar. It's my place. Just walking the front door puts a big smile on my face. It ain't too fall. The number one book was Bluefly by Patricia Cornwell. That movie was Less Samurai. An American military officer is hired to destroy the Samurai. Well, they catch him and then he ends up falling in love with the Samurai soldiers. Stars Tom Cruise, Kin Want Nobby and Billy Conley. All right, let's see what happened in the world on December the seventh. Well, Happy Birthday, Delaware, seventeen eighty seven. Delaware. They were the first state to ratify the US Constitution. That makes Delaware the first state.

2:58 Back in sixteen ten and explorer Samuel Argyll he named Delaware River in Bay after the governor Thomas West. He was the third Baron of del Boire, an English noble. The state. It just took his name from the river in the bay. You know, more chickens live in Delaware than people. Their state capitol is Dover. Highest point is Ebright as meant at four and forty eight feet high. Delaware state bird is the blue Hen. Animal is the great fox, flower is the peach blossom. Tree is American holly. State drink is milk, and their food is strawberry peach custard pie. Some people born in Delaware Valerie Burton, Ella, Ryan Phileppe, Terry Polo, Judge Reynell, George Thorgud, Elizabeth schu the dude invented the highlich remover. Yep, they were all born in the Blue Hen state. Nineteen oh nine, inventor Leo Bicklin he pattented his nose invention called the Big Light.

3:49 It was the first fully synthetic plastic. Yeah, that's what the whole plastic industry was based on. Now, oh, grant, you had been there all along, Okay, But nineteen thirty four a pilot named Wiley Post discovered the jet stream. Now Wiley he didn't do a lot of research or scientific observations. So he was just flying around up there one day and when the holy crap, you know. That's how the jet stream was discovered. Nineteen sixty three during the Army Navy football game CBS, they were the very first ever used instant replay. It was a thirteen hundred pound magnetic videotape recorder. Now when they used it, it showed Army quarterback Raley Steinbach scored one yard touchdown run. Well, the TV announcer he had to scream out and ladies and gentlemen, Army did not just score again. No, we had the technology to show what has just happened to you again? So yeah, it actually worked. But see the technicians they couldn't get it to work again the rest of that game. If you had any money on it.

4:40 Navy won the game twenty one to fifteen, nineteen eighty two in Texas, Charles Brooks Junior. He was the first person ever to be executed by lethal injection. He had been found guilty of kidnapping, a murder of at Ottoman Keennic. Cot Coke coat coat showing this shiberfday We're gonna he left this shuba we don't sit potage. He was like this Shibursday, and you know we don't because that's Worth day. Well, who was born on December of the seventh. Charles Nash. He was born in Wintaga, Oklahoma Territory in nineteen oh four. So who's Charles Nash? Who's got the sweets inspisation? One Gun's an argument. Never shows a man who's having all but always likening. I'm sho that's that.

5:38 Donald Duck Well, mister Nashy was the original voice of Donald Duck. Yeah. He voiced him for fifty eight years. He also voiced his nephews Huey, Dewey and Louis, and his girlfriend Daisy Nash. He married and had two daughters. He died nineteen eighty five from leukemi at eighty years old. Now him and his wife they have a joint tombstone on It's a carving of Donald and Daisy Duck holding hands. Suss Caddy Shack. That was the biggest movie acter Ted Knight was in. He played Judge Males. Ted He was born in Terryville, Connecticut in nineteen twenty three. Most known for TV, though starred as Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler mar Show, then as Henry rush On Too Close to Comfort. He got married nineteen forty eight. They had three children. Died from cancer in nineteen eighty six at sixty two years old. Actress Ellen Burston. She's ninety one.

6:43 She was born in Detroit nineteen thirty two. She's won the Triple Crown of Acting. She wonted tony two Emmys and an Oscar for the movie Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. She was also nominated for Oscars for the Last Picture Show, The Exorcist, Same Time Next Year, Resurrection, Requiem for a Dream. She has three times divorced and has a son from her second husband. I'm going to plea like you, man, You know, I'm going to plea like you. Ken the Cats when You're coming home. N of no, no man. Harry Chapin. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty two, and I guess you call him a folk singer and crossed over the pop charts. Some of his biggest hits for Taxi, Cats in the Cradle sequel I Want to Learn a Love Son Now. He would give over three hundred concerts every year, but half of them are all benefit concerts. The dude was just a huge humanitarian. He was dedicating his whole life to ending world hunger. Then, sadly, on July sixteenth and nineteen eighty one, he was driving to perform at a benefit concert when a semi truck hit his Volkswagen Beetle. Yeah, I killed him.

7:51 He's thirty eight years old. He was married and had one son and one daughter. Pretty too. Worland. They'lby won this man Now. That's country singer stage actor Gary Morris. He's seventy five. He's born in Fort Worth, Texas. In nineteen forty eight, he hit with that song Went Beneath My Wings, ten years before Bette Miller did it. Gary had his big success in the nineteen eighty. Some of his other hits were Baby Bye Bye, I'll Never Stop Loving You, one hundred percent, Chance Rain leave Me Lonely. He has four sons, one with his current wife. They've been married since two thousand and seven. Actres see Thomas Howes fifty seven. He's one of Van Nights California in nineteen sixty six. See Stands for Christopher. His first movie was e t Then he hit Really Big and Outsiders, Red Don Secret to Meyer Gettysburg, spending over one hundred and forty movies. Met his first wife, ray Don Chong, when they were filming the movie soul Man. They were divorced after only one year, and he is married to a second wife for over twenty four years. Before they divorced, they had three children tell me. Forty four year old Sarah Burrells was born

9:31 in Eureka, California, in nineteen seventy nine. She's had some success acting in theater and on stage, but she's best known for her music. Some of her hits were love Song, Brave, Come Home. That one was with I Think when Republican Sarah. She is currently engaged. All right, Today's factory that will win you beer. Let's go back to Donald Duck. Donald Duck. He has a twin, Yeah, he has a twin sister she names Della. I mean, who do you think the nephew is? Who he doing? Louis's mother was, thank you for being here. We appreciate If you haven't yet, make sure you follow us on whoever you listen to us, get a chance to have at coolmedia dot com and see what we're doing over there. Now, let's end with test pilot Chuck Jaeger. He died today in twenty twenty at ninety seven years old. What good is it to be afraid if it doesn't help anything, So you better figure out what's happening and correct it. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow