Feb 1st-GI Joe, Everly Brothers, Rick James, Warrant, Lisa Marie Presley, Pauly Shore, Harry Styles, Columbia Disaster

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factory. Is about today? Isn't about cool media? We are into February and get this February. It is one of the most misspelled words in the English language. All right, let's see what's going on on February the first. Today he never get luck away. Overland g. Today is National g I Joe Day. Now g I Joe dolls They went on sale today in nineteen sixty four.

0:49 It was the boy answer to the Barbie Doll original g I Do Joe dolls. Yeah, they were twelve inches tall, but dolls aren't cool for boys, so they changed them to action figures. Now there are three point and seventy five inches to GID Joe. He had his own breakfast cereal, his own TV show. Now those old GHO Joe Nelson, Yeah, they're worth a lot of money. So if some staffs at your parents house, yeah, go get him and take care of him. Gad Joe. It represents World War two soldiers. See the regular enlisted guys during World War Two. Yeah, they were gotten and got the nickname government issued Joe. So you can have fun playing g I Joe with your kids today. Just watch reruns. Just enjoy an American icon. All right, this is going on in entertainment. On February of the first back through in nineteen sixty three, number one album was The West Side Story movie soundtrack. The Rooftop Singers had the number one song with right Out Walking in Mine Definitely, Lester Flat and URLs Rugs had the number one country song with the Battle of Jed Clampett.

2:03 I'm gonna listen to him, A story about him, man named Jed. The poor him out and near barely kept his family fed. And then one day he was shooting nets and food and up through the ground come up on bling oil that is black and gold Texas team. Well, the first thing you know, old jebs and millionaire. The king folks said, Jed, move away from there, said California is the place you ought to be. Solda loaded up the truck kind moved the Beverly. The number one book was Seven Days in May by Fletcher Canabel. The top movie was Lawrence of Arabia. It's the story of England's army officer T. Lawrence. He was able to get warring Arab tribes to fight together during World War Two to beat the Turks nineteen eighty two Late Night with David Letterman. Yeah, I did booed. Dave's first guest was Bill Murray. Now, yesterday we celebrated Justin Timberlake's birthday. It was today in two thousand and four that we got to see just how great of a guy Justin is. He is just so nice during the halftime show up to the Super Bowl. Yeah, Justin he lest all see Janet Jackson's nipple. All right, let's see what happened on February of the first, eighteen eighty seven.

3:10 Harvey Wilcox he on one hundred and twenty acres of land in southern California. He subdivided it all up and started selling off the lots. He called the subdivision Hollywood. That was wife de Adra, she actually named it. Yeah, she called it Hollywood. She saw the name on a mansion in Illinois and thought it was really cool. So you have no Holly involved. Eighteen ninety seven, New York City's Travelers Insurance Company sold their first autumno insurance policy. Yeah, it was the first auto insurance policy issued in the United States. Nineteen oh two, China's Empress Zusi she banned binding women's feet. Yeah, I guess she had to put her foot down. Now, the practice of binding women's feed over in China. It started the tenth century during the Song of Dynasty. Say. The reason they bond young girl's fate was it was for in preparation puberty, menstruation, and childbirth, say feet binding. It symbolized the girls willingness to obey.

4:02 It also caused limitations to their mobility, and that kept women subordinate to men. So yeah, and it was really really painful. Nineteen fifty one, Gaveling, New Mexico set their state record and it got down to negative fifty degrees. But over across the boarding from there in Nevada. Yeah, see, the work leaked out over there that the United States government was going to test an atomic bomb by blowing it up outside of Las Vegas. Well a Las Vegas TV station, kate TLA. They wanted to film that secret nuclear blast, so they set up a camera on the roof of one of the Las Vegas hotels. They had the perfect view for the blast, sid was sixty five miles away and they had nothing to interrupt, you know, a perfect view. So then they leaked out word that they were going to show it live on TV. Everybody in Las Vegas gathered around their TV's as to watch the spectacular explosion. The bomb exploded and every TV just went white. Yeah, it was too bright. The TVs and the camera couldn't handle it. Pride of a Light. Nineteen sixty in Greensboro, North Carolina, it's known as the Greensboro Four.

4:59 Four black college students went into Woolworst to eat lunch. Well, they were a few service The Blacks weren't allowed to eat sit at the counter, so the students they refused to move, basically started to sit in well. Word got out. The protest was pretty much peaceful, swelled to seventy thousand people both then it led to boycotts and protests all over the country. Five months later, wol Worst they opened up their lunch counting to all black customers. It was cold here in Colorado. In nineteen eighty five, Maybell, up in the northwest part of the state set our state record negative sixty one degrees. Next door in Utah it was even colders Peter Sink, Utah they got down in negative sixty nine. Yeah, it's still their record. Two thousand and three, the Space Shuttle Challenge or the Space Shuttle Columbia. It disintegrated as was re entering the Earth's atmosphere, killed the seven astronauts on board, their bodies and all the records from the shuttle. Yeah, they found it scattered out across West East Texas and Louisiana. Now that disaster, it accelerated the end of the Space Shuttle program.

5:59 Those Shibbert Day we're gonna he left this shubfday. We got simple toage. He was like, just Shiburt Day, and you don't. So it was born on February. The first actor, Clark Gable. He was born in Cardez, Ohio, in nineteen oh one. One of the biggest movie stars of all time. It was only over eighty movies when an oscar for it happened one night. Some of his classic movies are Mutiny on the Bounty, Gone with the Wind, Run, Silent Run, Deep, the Misfits. When World War Two broke out, now he was already a really big movie start. And his third wife, Carol Lombard, she was almost as famous as she was. She was such a famous actor. Well, she went on tour selling war bonds. While she was out on that tour, she was killed in a plane crash. Yeah, well, since she gave her life, Clark decided, you know what, nobody wanted him to do it, and he refused and the movie he wasn't going to be talked out of it.

6:50 He joined the United States Army Air Force. He flew in a bomber over in Europe. He Marde, his fifth wife, in nineteen fifty five, and they had a son. Clark died in nineteen sixty, fifty nine years old from a heart attack. By by by Bis Hellenis. I think. By by. By by sweet Choris, Hella and Denis. That was Don Everley singing for the Everly Brothers. Don and his little brother Phil form The Everly Brothers nineteen fifty one. Donnie was born in Brownie, Kentucky in nineteen thirty seven. Don usually sing lead Phil sing all the higher stuff. Now. They took some breaks, but they pretty much for forurm together for fifty years. They were in that first class that get inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They actually considered themselves country. Now.

7:43 Some of their classic songs or wake Up Little Susie, All I have to do is dream Kathy's clown Bye Bye Love. Donnie had one child from his first wife. He had three children from his third wife, married Number four in nineteen ninety seven. They were together until he died in twenty twenty one from lung disease at eighty four years old. Where no. Dude due. Actor Sherman Himsley. He was born in East South Philly. In nineteen thirty eight, started playing George Jefferson on the sitcom All the Family. Then they spun him off into his own show, The Jeffersons. After The Jeffersons, he's starting to aim in now. Sherman. He was a very very very private person. He's actually a recluse now. He stayed away from Hollywood. He lived in Apaso, Texas. He didn't do any interviews. Died in twenty twelve from lung cancer, seventy four years old. Is that please?

8:46 How now? Wow? No freedom? Bous I really love to say so? Is alright? Alright? Rick James He's born in Buffalo, New York. In nineteen forty eight. After high school, Rick joined the Navy. Rick he didn't like the navy, so he deserted, got caught and had to do some time to brig When he got out, he went into music. You Want to Grab Me Award for the song Can't Touch This I Know. He co wrote it with Hammer. Now James is best known for Super Freak and Then You Turned Me On, Dance with Me, gold Blooded. He had a son and a daughter from a girlfriend. Married once for five years and they had a son. Ricky died from heart failure fifty six years old in two thousand and four.

9:37 Swallow So Much. That was Jennie Lane singing lead for the band Want. Janey was born Akron, Ohio in nineteen sixty four. Janey he was a drumming prodigy as a child. Yeah, he was a well known drummer by the time he was eleven years old. Then he joined Warrant in nineteen eighty seven. But they didn't need a drummer, they need a lead singer, so he went in and sang some of the hits. He sang Where Down Boys, Heaven, Uncle Thom'scabin, Jerry Pye, I saw Red. He married Marto Bobby Brown for two years and they had a daughter. Then he had another daughter with a second wife. They divorced after eight years.

10:26 Janey he died from a cute alcohol poisoning in twenty eleven at forty seven years old. Bruce's oldest son, actor Brandon Lee. He was born in Oakland, California, in nineteen sixty five. Bruce Lee started training Brandon Lee in martial arts when he was really young. Now, his career was just beginning. He had done a Kung Fu TV show. He'd done small parts of the movies. First starring role was in the movie The Crow. Now, when they were filming at the crew screwed up instead of a blank bullet and a gun so that when Brandy got shot it was just a blank They actually had a regular bullet in there. Yeah, I hit him in the chest and killed him. Its twenty eight years old, Brandon. He was engaged. He was supposed to get married one week after they finished filming, and he guesses. Lisa Marie Presley, Yeah, Elvis and Priscilla's daughter. She's born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen sixty eight. When she was twenty five years old, she inherited her father's estate. Now, from the time Elvis died until she was twenty five, her mom, Priscilla, she ran the estate. Get this. When Elvis died, he had pretty much blown most of his money. Yeah, he was bordering on being broke, so Priscilla she took over it.

11:51 By the time she got done with that, Yeah, she got that at state up to one hundred million dollars when she ended over to Lisa Marie. Lisa's she released three albums. She had a son and a daughter from her first husband. She married Michael Jackson for two years, and then she married Nicholas Cage for two years. Two thousand and six, she married her drummer. They had twin girls, and then she divorced him after ten years. We get this, she kept him on as her drummer, Lisa Marie. She died at fifty four years old two years ago from a heart attack. Comedian actor Pouli Shore is fifty seven. He started doing stand up in nineteen sixty eight. His mom owned the comedy club, So yeah, that's where he was born in La and she owned this real it's real famous. All the people started out the stand up dated her. Her name is Mitzi Mitzi Shore. Now after he kind of got a little known doing the stand up start and he became a VJ on MTV. Yeah, back in the day, they used to play music videos on MTV now some of his movies and Sino man Son in Law in the Army now Biodome Now not only was he in it, but he also wrote the movie Polly Shore is Dead. Yeah. Now he's taking his comedy tour out on tour. It starts February twenty first, it's.

13:01 Just this, Hell, it's not the same as. Less Who. It's just this, you know, it's not. The same Harry Styles. He's thirty one. He's born in Reddeth, England in nineteen four ninety four. Now in twenty ten, he was a contestant on the British TV show The X Factor. It's a singing competition. Well, he was an eliminator. So later on the show they got together and decided that Harry and four of the other losers they just get together and form a boy band. Now that was a good idea. The Grip One Direction sold seventy million records in twenty sixteen. They all went their separate ways, but that didn't slow Harry down. He's bigger now than he's ever been. So do you think he'd get married first, Harry or Poly Shore. Let's go back to Gi Joe four hundred million forty million. That's something they gi doos have been sold. Barbie, Yeah, that's all. We're a billion. Oh.

14:01 You gotta thank you all for listening today. We shure appreciate it. I hope you have a great weekend. Let's end with writer Mary Shelley. She's the writer who created Frankenstein did when she was nineteen years old. She wrote that book. She died to day in eighteen fifty one and fifty three years old. Mary said, I do not wish for women to have power over men, but power over themselves. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow