Feb 15th-Gum Drops, Galileo, The Simpsons, UB40, Chris Farley, Melissa Manchester, USS Maine Exploded

0:19 Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff. Today's February the fifteenth. Drop gum up, dum up cum drop in the candy shop around the coneer, a little table, cheese and coner. I looked at her, and she looked at me. I stole a kiss and my hot sized basing gum gum. Today is National gum drop Day. Gum drops there at jelly candy coating and sugar color ful chewi tastes really good. Have you baked? You can put them on cookies and cupcakes and that kind of stuff. I just email the bag, you know. I take a break from other chocolate yes day.

1:00 Just enjoy some gum drops today. Now, I hope you all had a great Valentine's Day. Now, something I didn't mention. I didn't want to put any pressure on the guys. But men they say I love you first before the girls do twice as often. All right, let's he's going on in February the fifteenth. Let's back to nineteen fifty seven. Then one album was Calypso by Harry Belvifronte. Elvis Presley had the number one song with too Much. Honey, Too Much I need you. Much much. Sonny James had the number one country song with Young Love Amp.

1:45 Your reverse tells me no one can take keep a place. Young. The number one book was Peyton Place by Grace Mattelius. The top movie was Funny Face. When they do have fashion shoot in a bookstore, they discover how hot the clerk was. Stars Hotdreyette Burne, Fred Astaire and Kate Thompson. So what happened on February the fifteenth, three ninety nine BC. Philosopher Socrates. He was tried in front of five hundred judges in Athens, Greece. He was on trial for corrupting the minds of the youth and impiety. The impiety it was for his lack of respect for traditional gods of Athens. Yeah, he wouldn't acknowledge Greek gods, and he is repped in the youth. Yeah, because of his attitude against any kind of authority. Two hundred and eighty judges found him guilty, two undred and twenty found him innocent. So he was guilty.

2:43 So he had to commit suicide by drinking him luck. He was about seventy one years old. The thing seventeen sixty four Pier Leclade. He founded the French trading post today that we call now Saint Louis, Missouri. Eighteen sixty nine, the charges of treason against former Confederate President Jeffy and Davis were dropped. They were dropped really quietly. See the United States, they did not want Davis to go to trial. They went to trial, it would come out that the Southern States really didn't do anything wrong by succeeding from the Union. Yeah, there was nothing in the US Constitution forbidden states from leaving. Well there is now. Eighteen ninety eight, tensions were really high between the United States and Spain. That United States battleship the main it was harbored in Havana Cube and it exploded. Yeah, it just blew up.

3:24 Two hundred and fifty eight years soldiers or sailors and soldiers on the board were killed. To this day, they do not know how it were White exploded. Now Spain, that could have caused it. That it could have happened, or it could have been one of the coal furnaces on the ship, or it could have been an outdated boiler system. No one knows what happened. But the newspapers in New York Journal in New York World. They were having a heated competition for readers, so they started publishing really exaggerated and outland stories about what had happened. They said that Spain had mined the harbor and the main exploded because of it. It said Spain torpeded the main. All kinds of stuff. Now that spread to other newspapers are the country. So that fired up the American people. How dare Spain blew up one of our ships? The rallying cry again, remember the Spain the hell or remember the Main the hell was Spain. So yeah, it was pretty much media hysteria is one of the reasons for the Spanish American War, So thank you fake news. Nineteen oh three, Morrison Rose, Miss ten they started selling Teddy Bears, named after President Teddy Roosevelt. Nineteen thirty in Illinois. At their state high school basketball tournament, Wenona beat to Luca in ten over times final score twenty six to twenty two.

4:32 Nineteen thirty sax coldest temperature ever recorded in North Dakota. I would have thought would have been colder partiall got down to negative sixty nineteen sixty one. Outside of Brussels, in Belgium, a plane crash killed the entire United States ice figure skating team. All thirty four skaters, coaches, and sports staff were on board. Yeah, they were on their way to Prague for the World Championships. Seventy three people died in total because of that, and that includes the crew and all the other passagers. One farmer on the ground was killed. Don't know why. Yeah, they still don't know why. Rushed. Well. Happy Flag Day, Canada nineteen sixty five. Their flag that we know, they're red and white with the maple leaf. Yeah, I was raised for the very first time. Before them, Canada's flag was the British Union Jack. Nineteen eighty nine, the last Soviet Union troops left Afghanistan, now the Soviets.

5:16 They didn't leave behind billions of dollars in weapons and supplies. Joke, joked, joke, shog dish shimmers. Day's gonna he left this shiver day. We don't simple page, He left this shimbf day. And you you don't do. All right. It was born on February the fifteenth Galileo. He was born in Peasa in fifteen sixty four. Considered the father of astronomy, modern physics, modern science. He did so much I can't get dense it done now. He was an early rock star. Yeah, he only a lot of people to call him by one name, Galileo. He was born Galileo Galilee, so I can't blame him now. He had two daughters and one son Illegitimately he would not marry their mom. If that didn't piss off the Catholic church. En, he really got it when he got charged with heresy. Yeah, Galileo, he had the absolute gall to say that the Earth revolved around the Sun when everybody knew that the Sun revolved around or everything revolved around the Earth. Right. Well, he took it back really quick though, see the Catholics rule that. Yeah, due to his heresy conviction, he was eligible for torture. So all of a sudden Galla, hey, I'm just kidding, I'm kidding, I'm can Well, they didn't believe him, but they did let him take it back, so they made him live the last nine years of his life under house arrest.

6:29 Died in sixteen forty two at seventy seven years old. Actor comedian Harvid Korman. He was born in Chicago in nineteen twenty seven, must know him for the TV show Carol Bennett won for Emmys for it. Some of his movies were Blazing Saddles. He did a couple of pink panther movies, Hucked Finn of Herbie Goes Bananas Now. He had two children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty two and they had two daughters. Harvey died in two thousand and eight from an aortic aneurysm. Eighty one years old. Actress Jane Seymour. She's seventy five. She was born in US, England in nineteen fifty one. She first got known playing The Bond Girl, Solitaire and Live and Let Die. Then she's in Battlestar Galactica, Somewhere in Time Wedding Crashers on TV. She started as Doctor Quinn Medicine Woman. Now she's divorced four times and she has two children from her third husband and two children from her fourth husband. Twenty eighteen. Sixty seven year old Jane Seymour. Yeah, she plows for Playboy magazine for the third time, but this time I went sixty seven. That's the oldest anyone's done it, so hopefully we don't go on from there. Well, that's a Manchester. She's also seventy five.

7:51 She was born in the Bronx, New York. Started out as a backup singer for Bet Midler. Then she went solo in nineteen seventy three. Some of her HiT's are Midnight Blue, Don't Cry Out Loud, walk on By. You should hear all she talks about you. Now she still performs. She does some shows where it's just like a concert where she goes sing, But a lot of her shows they're like in a club setting and she tells stories and sing songs and all. That's kind of an intimate night with Melissa. Kind of cool, it sounds like now. She married twice. She had two children from her second husband, cartoonist Matt Gorny. He's seventy two. He's born in Portland, Oregon, in nineteen fifty four. His dad was named Homer, his mom was named Margaret. Her maiden name was Wigham. He had two younger sisters, and they were named Lisa and Maggie.

8:33 I think you know where this is going now. He actually started out writing for the comic strip of Life in Hell. Yeah. He did that from nineteen seventy seven to twenty twelve. During that time, he kind of hit big with a thing called The Simpsons in nineteen eighty nine. Longest running TV show all time. Between the TV show, the movies, the merchandise, the franchise has made over twelve billion dollars. Now. He also did Future Ram if you remember that. Now. Maddie had two sons from his first wife, Homer and Abe. He married his second wife in twenty eleven. In twenty twenty four, they had their eighth kid together and includes two sets of twins. That was Ali Campbell singing for UB forty, Ali sixty seven for nineteen fifty nine in Birmingham, England, helped form You Be forty in nineteen seventy eight, sing lead in two thousand and eight, and they all got kind of tired of each other. Well, they got tired of Ali sold seventy million records during that time. Yeah, they HiT's Red Red Wine here. I am the way you do the things you do. I can't help falling in the loft. So yeah, pretty much all covers now.

9:47 When Ali left, his brother took over his lead singer for You Be forty. After five years, Ali ordered himself back. He said he could not listen to his brother butcher his songs anymore. So now they're UB forty with or featuring Ali Campbell. They do a little releasing and they do some touring and stuff. Ali. He has eight kids. Yeah, two of them are with his wife. You Be forty it is the form in England that you fill out to collect unemployment. Yeah. The band members did it and they got their unemployment. So they named their band after the form that they got their money from. You Be Forty. Actor Chris Farley. He was born in Madison, Wisconsin in nineteen sixty four. Started on Saturday and Live for five years, then hit big in the movies The Tommy Bowoy, Black Sheep, Almost Heros, Beverly Hills, Ninja Sadly Cras had a bad drug addiction. Yeah, he ended up dying from an overdose nineteen ninety seven at thirty three years old. He had gone in to treatment seventeen times for drugs and alcohol.

10:37 But yeah, too bad, none of them took Remember Jane Child, Well, she's fifty nine now. She was born in Ontario, Canada in nineteen sixty seven. Starting out, she played synthesizer, piano, organ and sang for the band called Deadheads. Yeah, they traveled all over Canada, did forty five shows over a year, got twenty five dollars a week for it. Released her first solo album nineteen eighty nine. Some of her hits are Welcome to the real World, Don't want to fall in love? All I do now? Around two thousand and seven, yeah, she just lost her desire for music and retired. She married musician Kat Gray in two thousand and four. Now Kat, he does. He's the head musician. He does all the music for the game. So let's make a deal. I've been doing it since two thousand and nine. Actress Renee o Connor. She was born in Houston in nineteen seventy one, fifty five year old name. She got famous playing Gabrielle on zena warrior princess, and then of course Hercules. She done something she has like a production company and stuff nowadays.

11:49 She had a son from her first thousband and she has a daughter with her second husband. Alright here Code of the Day it comes from Nat King Cole again. That is sweating you are. Unforgettable, so near a fall. Nad died to Day in nineteen sixty five, at forty five years old. He said, people don't slip. Time catches up with them. Well, thank you all for listening today. I forget to follow us. He listened to his signs. It makes it easy for your fine us, our country and around radio artist to day comes from Luke out there in Los Angeles. He wants to a bottom of the bottle by the Gin Palace, gestures you guys, have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

12:38 Gave you your hand to another man and let me sity seeking consolation. The whiskey wining beerd the liquord noves my senses, but it just can't take your pleat and at the bottom of the bottle, past sea face. At the bottom of the bottom, I still see you in there, reminding me what he used to be and how you used to kip. I slip and fall through the alcohol and lose your memory. But when I hit the bottom of your still waiting that airphone