Feb 19th-Chocolate Mint, Cracker Jack, Lee Marvin, Smokey Robinson, Jeff Daniels, Seal, Benicio Del Toro

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factoids about today, present by a cool meeting. Hope y'all eyed yourselves. A great weekend. So happy Monday, twenty twenty four. This year there are fifty three Mondays in it. It happens once in a while. Well, let's see what else is going on on February of the nineteenth. I'm just wanting to call the min chocolate chip, Min chocolate chim, That's what I want, Min choco litchims, That's all I want. It is National Chocolate Mint, day to day chocolate and mint together and it always relaxes you, but also social poop. So that's a good reason to celebrate peppermint patties. They were invented in nineteen forty. Nineteen fifty three, the Girl Scouts started selling thin mint cookies. Nineteen seventy three of the first minute chocolate chip ice cream went on sale. Now this isn't a combination I like. So I'm gonna sit today, but I hope you all enjoy your own chocolate mint today. All right, this is going on in entertainment on February nineteenth. Back in nineteen ninety four, number one album was Kicking It Up by John Michael Montgomery.

1:17 Seline Dion had the number one song with the Power of Love Song. John Michael Montgomery did have the number one country song with I Swear, I Swear and the Star sco I'll Music Michael Shan. The number one book was Disclosure by Michael Crichton. The top movie was on Deadly Ground a fireman. He takes on an environmentally destructive oil company Sar steven Sagall, Michael Caine, and Joan Chin. All right, let's see it happened in the world. On February of the nineteenth, eighteen thirty one, in Pennsylvania, the first coal burning locomotive made its first run. Before coal trains, they ran on wood.

2:25 Eighteen eighty one, Kansas became the first state to ban all alcoholic beverages two nineteen oh six, Battle Creek, Michigan, Will Kellogg and Charles Bowling they formed the Battle Creek Toasted corn Flake Company. Yeah today is just Killogg. In nineteen twelve, Crackerjack. They started putting prizes in their boxes of cracker ducks. They were just little plastic dogs and horses and rings and stickers and temporary tattoos. I don't think they've changed in all those years. Nineteen fourteen, if you mailed the package under fifty pounds, it was actually pretty cheap to do so. In Idaho, little four year old Charlotte Pierstaff, her parents mailed her from their home and granger to her parents' house seventy three miles away. Yeah, the Post Office delivered Charlotte by train. They put a bunch of twenty five cent stamps on her coat and sent her on the way to meet grandma and grandpa. Well, word got out about and so you can imagine its spread like crazy across the country, mainly in rural areas.

3:21 Now, that lasted until nineteen twenty when the Post Office enacted the no mailing your kids to rule. So when he let you do that, unsy the spring for the postal insurance. Nineteen forty two, the United States President Franklin Roosevelt. He ordered the internment and detention of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. Over one hundred and ten thousand were held in the conser not concentration camps, but in tournament camps. Most of them are US citizens. Now this is gross and the Japanese they had controlled the Ramary Island over in Burma since nineteen forty two, and they captured it nineteen forty five. A division of India's army that was led by the British they attacked the island to take it back, the Japanese soldiers being pushed back. They ended up in a mangrove swamp. Over two days, nine hundred and eighty Japanese soldiers were killed by crocodiles. Nineteen sixty eight, Mister Roger's neighborhood debut went all the way until two thousand and one. Nineteen eighty one, George Harrison, the former Beatle, he was found guilty of plagiarizing his song My Sweet Lord.

4:18 Yeah. They said he stole it from the Ronnie Max song that he wrote for the Chiffons. He's so fine. Well, here's Harrison's version. Here's Ronnie Max's version, He's so fine. She wi mind. Now. The court ruled that Harrison was guilty, but they said he didn't do it on purpose. They actually found him guilty of subconscious agiarism. Yeah, he still had to pay five hundred and eighty thousand dollars though Coach got co cop goat show. This shimmer day, gonna pause. He left this shire birthday.

5:01 We gonna simple targe. He left this ship birthday. And you know we don't get because that's your birthday. Who was born on February of the nineteenth Actor Lee Marvin. He was born in New York City in nineteen twenty four. He had that deep voice. He always played the tough guy. Lots of times he is the villain. He joined the Marines when he's eighteen years old. He fought over in the Pacific Girling World War Two. He was in twenty one twenty one Japanese island landings, and then he was finally injured by a machine gun fire at the Battle of Side Band. Took him an entire year to recover, came home, went into acting, went an oscar for a cat balloo. Some of his other classic movies The Man Who Shot Liberty, Valance, Dirty Dozen, painterr Wagon, Built The Force. He had four children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy.

5:42 They were together till he died from a heart attack in nineteen eighty seven at sixty three years old. You know, I honestly thought he always looked older than sixty three. Years old day. Smokey Robinson, he's eighty four. He's born in Detroit nineteen forty. Started out in the Miracles, then they became Smokey Robinson. In the Miracles they went from nineteen fifty five to nineteen seventy two, and then Smokey retired. Yeah, I became a vice president Motown Records. Well that guy was the rid of the Miracle, so then he could just start being Smokey Robinson. Now he was a vice president of Motown until nineteen ninety. Some of the biggest hits the Smokey sang on We're shop around the tracks of my tears. I second that emotion, tears of a clown. He had two children from his first wife, then he had one child on the side. That's why she was his first wife.

6:45 Then years later he had a child from a flaing married a second wife. They've been married since two thousand and two. Smoky, he is actually heading out on tour Louke Christy. He's eighty one. He's still performing also. He's born in Glenn Willi, Pennsylvania. In nineteen forty three, got his first record deal in nineteen years old. His biggest that's where lightning strikes, then the Gypsy cried Rhapsody and rain I'm Gonna make You Mine. Been married since nineteen seventy one and they have two kids. Actor Jeff Daniels. He was born in Athens, Georgia, in nineteen fifty five. He's sixty nine.

7:35 Started out on Broadway. First Got None for the movie Terms of Endearment and a Rachnophobia, Dumb and Dummer, Pleasantville, Gettysburg. He's been starring on the crime drama American Russ since twenty twenty one. Start out on Showtime, now it's on Amazon Prime. Married his college sweetheart in nineteen seventy nine and they have three kids. To you Because I'm Doing Because, Dude. Johann Josel. He is best known just as Falco. He was born in Vienna, Austria, nineteen fifty seven. Now Falco. He came from the Vienna underground music scene. Now he is a lot bigger in Europe than he was over here. His biggest songs over here were Dirk Commissar Vienna calling rock Meam a Dance. Now he had a really bad drug and alcohol problem, and everybody thought he was super talented throughout the music business but nobody wanted to work with him because he was so unreliable. So in nineteen ninety eight he went to the Dominican Republic to get himself sober. I don't know if he was sober or not, but the car he was driving hit a bus.

8:48 He was forty years old. I become a lot, the lot that you shunk and this scene Welcome to kiss again, your stage hol the singer Seal. He is sixty one. He's born in Buddington, England, in nineteen sixty three. He got the scars on his face from Type of Loopus. Some of his biggest hits are Crazy File Like an Angle, Don't Cry, Kiss from a Rose. He was married to super Motto Hide Clum for nine years and they had four children. I bet we've been together for a million years, and I bet we be together for a million more. Which Uly has started breathing all the night week and I can't read. Johnny Mathis and Denise Williams same the thing song for the sitcom Family Ties. Actress Justine Bateman's fifty eight years old. She's born in nineteen sixty six and now you Ryan, New York. She's three years older than her brother Jason Bateman, who's an actor. If you don't know, justin Yeah. She was fifteen when she started playing Mallory on Family Ties. She's made a lot of TV movies.

10:09 She rides, directs and producers and now after finally Ties went off the air, she went to UCLA and got a degree in computer science. She is also a licensed pilot and certified scuba driver diver. She been married since two thousand and one and they have two kids. Actor Benicio del Toro. He was born in Sandramin, Puerto Rico. In nineteen sixty seven fifty seven won an Oscar for Traffic. He was nominated for twenty one grams. His first movie is Back in nineteen eighty eight. He played Duke, the dog faced Boy in Big top Tee Week. Some of his other movies The Usual Suspects, Licensed to Kill. He played the collector in some of the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Now he hasn't married yet, but he did get Rod Stewart's daughter, Kimberly, pregnant. They weren't dating or anything, but she did have a daughter. Alright, Hey, today's back to it.

10:54 That will win you a beer. Now. Earlier I said Crackerjack started putting prizes in their boxes in nineteen twelve. Before or that, they put coupons in there, from everything from watch us the silverware to sewing machines, that kind of stuff. Oh thank you for hanging with us today. We sure appreciate it. Listen today. But Johnny, paycheck, take this job and shove it. Work took all. I was working all Try stand in my waist, out of the door. Johnny died it in two thousand and three at sixty four years old. Johnny says, if you're going to be ashamed about something, then don't do it. You guys have an awesome day.

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