Feb 12th-Abraham Lincoln, Arsenio Hall, Wilson Phillips, Christina Ricci, 1st Guy Given Penicillin, Largest Sailfish

0:19 Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff. Today's February the twelfth, last little plum puddy. You'll be shoot spies. Oh my god. You see. Today is National plum Pudding Day. Yeah. I concur plum pudding. It's more of a Christmas dish. I don't know why they're celebrating it today. Blum pudding. It didn't even contain plums. I was creating the seventeen hundreds over in England. Now they call raisins over their plums. So yeah, pretty basic, actually pretty easy to make if you want to try some raisins nutmeg, apple, cinnamon dates. Now, when you make pump pudding, as you're stirring it, you have to use a wooden spoon, and as you stir, everybody in the house has to come grab a hold of that wooden spoon.

1:13 Then you all make a wish. Supposedly brings really good luck. So I guess that's our reason to try and celebrate plump pudding today. She's going on entertainment on February twelve. Let's back here in two thousand and seven. Then my album was Late Night Special by Pretty Ricky. Beyonce had the numb one song with Irreplaceable. Must Us sun at Heaven Bay Must Must You must Spoon to whoever.

1:53 Rodney Atkins add the number one country song with watching You. Eat All My Food? All was you. We got Cowboy and boom some camels fanchev were just racking. We all dude, everything you due shop, I've been watching. The number one book was Plumb Loving by Janety Vanovich. That's funny. The number one movie was ghost Rider a motorcycle Stepman sold his soul. Now he fights for vengeance. Stars Nicholas Cage, Even Mendez and Sam Elliott. All Right, what happened on February the twelfth, fifteen forty one Spain?

2:36 They founded Santiago, Chile. Santiago is Spanish for Saint James seventeen thirty three. The Colony of Georgia was founded by James Oglethorpe. Now, in England, if you were poor and in debt, yeah, you were thrown into prison. So Oglethorpe wanted to give the poor a place, that's start a new get him out of the crowded jails over there. So he's kind of sold it as a Southern defense to the English colony. So Spain couldn't get to him from the Florida. Yeah, so today him in one hundred and fourteen Callin is set foot in Georgia. Yeah, it was on a bluff near Savannah. He had four rules, no rum, no slavery, no lawyers, and no Catholics. That's right. Now. None of those was a callings says were debtors. No, they weren't even in trouble with the law or nothing like. They just came over helping colonized this. Now, they eventually did send some debtors over here, but not a lot.

3:21 And the debtors that came over here, yeah, they were usually coming over as indentured servants. Seventeen ninety three of the United States Congress passed the first state or at the first federal fugitive Slave laws. Now it required that every state, even the states, for slavery was illegal. They had to return all escape slave to their owners. Now, if you helped an escape slave with a five hundred dollars fine, that was a lot of money back then. Now, the fugitive Slave law, it didn't mention the word slave in it at all. He just phrases like person escaping from service of another master, and stuff like that. You know what, Actually the word slave, it's not in the original Constitution now when they wrote it, they thought the slave was an ugly word and they would stain in the document. Eighteen twenty five, the Creek Indian tribe gave up their lands in Georgia and Alabama. They received land and what is today Oklahoma and two hundred thousand dollars. Well, that really pissed off the Creek Indian people. They end up killing that chief who signed that treaty. But he did sign that treaty. He get the United States government.

4:16 They weren't gonna let him out of it, so Sally, they had to start walking. This is in a fun day in history. Eighteen fifty three in Illinois, and they passed a lot that all free negroes that came to Illinois could not stay longer than ten days. If they did, they had to pay a fifty dollars fine. And if they couldn't afford that, yeah, they'd put into slavery until they could pay it off. Well, they were honest. They basically said, yeah, we just don't want black people immigrany Illinois. All right, Ladder note any guesses on where the first artificial Iron Creek ice rink was in North America eighteen seventy nine, Madison Square Garden. Yeah, in New York City they were able to make an artificial ice drink. Eighteen ninety nine Camp Clark And Nebraska, they set the state record and negative forty seven. Now in England, it had been over ten years since Alexander Fleming had discovered penicillin, but they hadn't used it on people yet, just mice. Today, in nineteen forty one, in Oxford, England, a police officer, Albert Alexander, he had been hurt by a German bombing rad Yeah, he got a really bad infection across his face and upper body. The doctors decided that, you know, since he's going to die from that infection anyway, what the hell, let's just try that penicillin. Albert began the first person to be giving penicillin. It wasn't a shot.

5:21 They gave it to him interveniously. Well, it worked, it worked miraculously. He was really coming out of it. But then they ran out of penicillin. So Albert died a month later. But now they did know that that thing works. Problem months, how do he mass produce penicillin, so they started out only giving it to kids because they didn't require as much of it. Then the United States joined World War Two, well, Breton just turned that peniculin over to the United States, and then they had drug companies. They had no problem mass producing it. They have never been at pensulin shortage since nineteen forty seven. C. W. Stewart, he was fishing off the Galapagos Islands. He got the world's largest selfish. Yeah, the record still stands eleven feet long and weigh two hundred twenty one pounds. Now selfish, I don't know what they are, be awful white because the twelve or eleven pound or eleven foot swordfish, yeah, weighs fourteen hundre pounds. Nineteen fifty nine, the Lincoln penny went into circulation. That's the penny that we used until they stopped making him earlier this year. It replaced the wheat penny. They had a couple wheat stocks on the other side. Now a wheeppenny day is worth four cents, but they think it'll probably be at least ten years before the Lincoln pennies even worth two cents. Nineteen seventy three because of the peace treaty that had been signed ending the Vietnam War. The first one hundred and sixteen at fourhunred and fifty six uspow is being held by North of vietnames were released all the POWs. Yeah, they released.

6:35 By the end of March two thousand and one, the United States spacecraft near Shoemaker. It landed on four thirty three euros. It came the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. It's still there. Yeah, it's just waiting for somebody to come up and wait for it to be the first spacecraft to take off from an asteroid. Coke joked, joke, show this Shumarday, we gonna left this suverarday, We're gonna sit. He was like this shubirthday and you don't Who. Was born on February the twelfth, Abraham Lincoln. He was born in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodtsville, Kentucky, eighteen o nine. He grew up in Indiana. Now he was self taught and everyone went to school. He grew up on a farm and he had too many tories to go to school. But Abe's family, they thought he was super lazy. See Abe, he wasn't good at doing chorge.

7:25 He hated manual labor. He was always sneaking off to go read a book or write poetry and that kind of stuff. He had become a lawyer. Back then you didn't need to go to law school. You didn't even to go to college. All you had to do was study nder an established lawyer. Then when you knew enough, you just hung a sign up saying hey, I'm a lawyer. Bar Association. It wasn't founded until eighteen seventy eight. Lincoln he was a sixteenth President of the United States, sir from eighteen sixty one eighteen sixty five. Married Mary in eighteen forty two. They had four sons. The oldest one Robert, He was the only one that made it to adulthood. He lived till he was eighty two. Second son, he died at four years old. Third son, he died at two. Youngest, said Tad. He made it up to eighteen now eighty is fifty six. When he was killed. He said, six foot four. He is the tallest president we've ever had.

8:08 Rock Star actor Lorne Green He was born in Ottawa, Canada in nineteen fifteen, best known for TV. Started out as Ben Cartwright on Bonanza. Then he was Commander a Dommi and bat Battlestar Galactica. He released ten albums if he even had a number one song in nineteen sixty four, number one in the United States and Canada. I nursed him till the danger passed. The days went by, he meant it fast, and then from the dawn till setting sun he practiced. With that deadly gun, and hour on hour I watched in awe. No human being couldn't match the draw of Ringo Ringo. I went to number one between Leader of the Pack and Mister Lonely in the December that year. Laurenie had two children from his first wife. Married a second wife in nineteen sixty one and they had a daughter. Orn died nineteen eighty seven and seventy two years old from pneumonia.

9:00 Telling all the same lines, the same Alma lines, South Ge sirs hes tonight, she She's not ready. She's indeed, Country singer, Mope and Ecdy two. He was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in nineteen forty four. Grew up in San Antonio. He's out on tour now, yeah he knows. Show was scheduled all the way till next February. He was really big in the seventies and eighties. Some of his number one songs are Hank Williams, who wrote My Life I Teated myself out of you. She's not really cheating, she's just getting even now. He and Joe Stampley they had a lot of success singing together well. He married once for thirty years when they divorced. No kids. Model actress Mott Adams is eighty one. She was born in Sweden in nineteen forty five. She was a Bond Girl in two different James Bond movies Only Actress to Pull That off and Man with a Golden Gun she was Audrey Andrews, and then in Octopusy she was Octopussy. She's also in Rollerball Killer, Forest Tattoo. She's been married to her second husband, says nineteen ninety nine.

10:13 Love O You Marry the song. Michael McDonald. He was born in Ferguson, Missouri, in nineteen fifty two, seventy four years old. Today started out singing backup for Steely Dan. Then he joined the Doobie Brothers in nineteen seventy five. Some Doobie hits that he sang were what a fool believes, Minute by minute, Taking it to the streets. Went solo in nineteen eighty three, but he's a doobie again. He came back in twenty nineteen. Well he was solo. He released ten solo albums, I Keep Forgetting, No Looking Back, Sweet Freedom, some of his big solohids. Michael who married nineteen eighty three and they have two children. Actress Joanna kr And. She was born in San Francisco in nineteen fifty three. Seventy three year olds.

11:04 Older sister is Olympic gold medal swimmer and sportscotster donnade Verno Danna. She played a lot of TV parts, Finally Hit, she played Maggie sever on Growing Bands, been in over forty TV movies. Probably had more success dress correcting than acting, especially recently. Now. She has twice divorced, and she had a daughter from her first husband. I want you in that young man and tie that notch. I'm free for you and I want you to hold on the gods unchanging head, your hell, Joshua fight the Battle of Jericho. Yeah, Help Daniel get off. The lines, Dan, help girl get off the land. Comedian actor, TV host Are Senior Hall. He's seventy. Born in Cleveland in nineteen fifty six. Started out doing stand up TV or stand up comedy, and he got his own late night TV talk show. There Our Signior Hall Show.

11:52 It's pretty big in the nineteen nineties. Some of his movies are Amazon, Women of the Moon, Coming to America, both of them Harlem Knights are He has one Son. You. Change Away. She sings lead and is the Phillips and Wilson Phillips. China Phillips fifty eight today, born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty Her famous parents, John and Michelle Phillips from The Mama's in the Puppas. China started out acting. She was in the movie as some kind of wonderful caddy shack to say anything. Then she teamed up with her childhood friends Wendy and Carney Wilson. They found it Wilson Phillips in nineteen eighty nine. They've taken some brags. Apparently they're still together though some of their hits are hold On, Release Me, Impulsive, You're in Love Now China. She married William Baldwin in nineteen ninety five and they have two daughters and one son. China She has a cool Christian faith based women's community called California Healing for any of you ladies out there who want to check it out.

13:03 Actor Josh Brolin. He was born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen Well, he's also fifty eight years old, so that was nineteen sixty eight. Huh. Heya's dad is actor James Brolin. Now Josh is from James's first wife, so Barbara stressed and is his stepmot. Josh's first movie was Goonies, then he was in hollow Man, No Country for Old Men, w Nomineate for an oscar for Milk. Josh I had two children from his first wife. Then he married actress Diane Lane for nine years. Then he married his third wife in twenty sixteen and they have two daughters. Actress Christina Ricci is forty six. She was born in Santa Monica in nineteen eighty. She was nine in her first movie it was Mermaids with Sharon Wenona writer. Then she played Wednesday Adams and a couple of Adams family movies, Ice Storm, sleep Yalla. She had a son from her first husband, married her second husband in twenty twenty one and they have a daughter already. Quote of the day.

13:51 It comes from Hall of Fame football coach Tom Landry. Tom died to day in two thousand and seventy five years old. He said, leadership is getting someone to do what they don't want to do so they can achieve what they want to achieve. Well, thank you for listening today. I forget to follow us and now you listen to this on our Country and the Ground radio artists today comes from Christina and Detroit. She wants to hear buck for It's on Cowgirl. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Then she's racing the winds, bostating new ground. Breaking new halls. Shome on Rody Town.

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