Feb 20th – Cherry Pie Day, Rihanna & Kurt Cobain Birthdays, Cindy Crawford, Sidney Poitier & 1984 Entertainment

0:19 Welcome to history and factor it's about today. I am Jeff. This is February of the twentieth. Jes so much bringing chands. Today is National cherry pie Day. I think the boys and warrant we're celebrating something else. Now, we're gonna celebrate the cherry pie that Grandma used to make. Now, apple is the number one, but I'm gonna go with cherry as my favorite. Now, if you want to bake your own cherry pie, preserve cherry just as good as fresh.

1:01 It didn't matter. Cherry's are healthy for you, yeah, especially if you have gout or any other kind of inflammation. Yeah, I'll knock the hell out of that. So that's good. So we're gonna go with that. We're gonna say we're eating healthy today when we eat at cherry pies. There's no national deals going on today. There are quite a few local bakeries and restaurants having some deals. All right. That's going on in entertainment on Fabry of the twentieth. It's a back to twenty eighteen then when album was Man of the Woods by Justin Timberlake. Drake had the number one song with God's Plan. Don't Pull It up at six am, the cuddle and me. You know how I like it when you love you know me? I don't want to go. I'm gonna miss me. Yes, I see the things that they wish, you know me. Hope. I got some brothers that I live me. They gonna tell the story.

1:43 It was dead from me, God's playing. Bb REXA and Florida Georgia Lyon had the number one country song was meant to be. I Ain't gonna lie because I'm tired of the fake love. Show me what You'm playing? Hold up, girl, don't you know you? Beautiful? Season see? The number one book was Darkened Depth by JD. Rob Todd. Movie was Pacific Graham Uprising Jake and Mike A. They lead need to lead a new generation of pilots against a new threat. It stars John Boyega, Scott Eastwood and Kaylee Spainey. Al Right, what happened on February the twentieth, fourteen seventy two? Norway they gave Scotland the Orkney and Shetland Islands. Now they are northeast of Scotland's mainland. But see Norway they owned them and they were actually only using it for a security posit Yeah, it was on a dowry. See, Norway's king was going to pay a dowry for his daughter to marry Scotland's James the Third. Well, all the king never paid the dowry, so Scotland got to keep the islands. Norway they'd actually owned those like five hundred years. So how that marriage go after the dowry?

2:56 And well, it turned out the Scotts they loved the Norwegian Margaret. They didn't like the Scottish James the Third though. Eighteen twenty four, over in England, the first description of a dinosaur was published England's William Buckland. He was the first to realize that fossils the peacefully in finding they were actually an extinct lizard like animal. He called them the megalosaurus or a great fossil lizard of the stonefield. That kind of started the whole dinosaur craze. Eighteen thirty nine, the United States Congress they outlied dueling In Washington, DC. Eighteen sixty five, the MIT or the Massive Chusetts Institute for Technology was founded. Yeah, it was the first school of architecture. Now, it was a big deal. In the Post Office. In eighteen seventy two, first Luther Crowe. He came in and he patented a machine that could manufacture paper bags. Then Silo's Noble and J. P. Cooley came in and they pattent a machine that could manufacture uniform toothpicks.

3:47 You ever fly into Chicago probably flew in or out of O'Hare Airport. Nineteen forty two. Navy lieutenant pilot butche Hair he was on patrol when he saw nine Japanese bombers heading towards the US aircraft carrier, the Lexion. Oh Harry, it was the only one up in the air, So yeah, he launched a single handedly launched an attack on those nine planes, shot down five of them before the other four boogied out. That made in the first American ace pilot of World War Two, and it made in the first Navy ace pilot of all time. Now he has awarded the Medal of Honor. Sadly, he was killed in action a year later. Now, oh Harry, he was a native of Chicago and his family was kind of known as Chicago too. But that's why they needed the airport after him. See, his dad was actually a lawyer for gangster al Capone. That's right, But his dad flipped and his dad actually worked with the Feds and then he helped get Cavone convicted. So Capone's guys murdered him. But yeah, different story. Nineteen fifty nine is Seattle, sixteen year old Jimmy Hendricks played his first gig. It was at the basement of the Temple Dharst Synagogue. Now the band they fired him after the first set. Yeah, he's playing two Wild nineteen sixty two aboard the space crafts Friendship seven John Glynn. He became the first American to orbit there.

4:53 In a little over on a little hundred five hours, he completed three orbits. Joke dish Shibbert Day. He's gonna pause. He left this shivers day. We got simple page. He left this Shibirthday. And you don't do. Birthday, okay. He was born on February of the twentieth Sidney Poitier. He was born in Miami, Florida, in nineteen twenty seven. Now his family actually lived in the Bahamas, but his mom was nine months pregnant when she decided to go to Miami and sell some stuff that they'd grown on their farm. While she was in Miami, Sydney made a dramatic debut. Well, he also got you a citizenship out of it too. He started acting in nineteen forty six. He won a Best Actor Oscar for Lilies of the Field. He was the first black man in first Bahama man to do that. Some of his other movies were Porgy and Bess to Sir Would Love in the Heat of the Night and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

5:45 He had four daughters from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen seventy six and they had two daughters. Sydney died in twenty twenty two at ninety four years old. Actress Amanda Blake. She was born in Buffalo in nineteen twenty nine. Most famous playing Miss Kid. He on gun Smoke all nineteen year It's Born in twenty five episodes. Now, she was really big into wildlife rescue and that kind of stuff, So she would just piss off the whole cast and crew of Gun Smoke. Yeah, she'd bring her pet lion on the set, so she ows lions and tigers and cheetahs and stuff like that. Amanda. She married a fifth husband in nineteen eighty four. He gave her aids. She ended up dying from it in nineteen eighty nine.

6:27 Severn Peter Wolf sang late, but it was the Jay Giles band. Jay Giles, he was born John Guiles in New York City. In nineteen forty six, started a jazz band in college called it Snoopy and the Sopwitch Camels. Well, they were doing pretty good, so they moved to New York City and they ended up changing the name and changed their music style again. The Jay Gyles Band played rock. Now he was the leader, but he didn't sing, He didn't write any of the songs, he didn't play lead guitar. He just kind of hung out in the back with the drummer playing them backup guitar. But he was the one who got paid the most, so I guess you could say as a leader he was pretty good at delegating responsibility. Now, the band broke up in nineteen eighty five.

7:12 Jay he just pretty much got out of music and concentrated on rebuilding old cars and doing auto racing and stuff like that. He did play the reunion shows though. Guiles he died from natural causes in twenty seventeen at seventy one years old. Actress Sandy Duncan and she's eighty today. She was born in New London, Texas, in nineteen forty six. Most known for Broadway. Her biggest role was on the Touring Company. Yeah, she started as Peter Pan. She had really short hair and she did look like a twelve year old boy, so it worked. On TV. She started on The Hogan Family and when she was twenty six, she had a tumor removed between behind her left eye. Now left her blind in that eye. But contrary to the fake news and rumors, Yeah, she didn't wear a glass eye. Now she does. Wow, Yeah she did that.

7:53 You know. She stayed commercials for whet nds if those crackers for almost thirty years, if you remember those. She married her third husband in nineteen eighty and they have two sons. You can call me crazy. I don't know. The chances he shutting down setting the shot right now. That's so nice. So I got a. That was Kathy Bailey singing for Bailey and the Boys. She was born in Morristown, New Jersey in nineteen fifty one, seventy five years old today. Now. Kathy, her husband and another boy they made up Bailey in the Boys. Some of their head songs are Oh Heart, wish I had a heart of stone full, such as I long shot Now Bailey and the boy is It called it quits around twenty twelve ish now Kathy and her husband, though they are still together and they have a daughter, Catherine Cummings.

8:45 Now she was born in nineteen fifty two. That started something that would land her and all her siblings in the Guinness Book of World Records. See like I said, Katherine was born today in nineteen fifty two. Well in nineteen fifty three. Your sister Kerr was born nineteen fifty six, her brother Charles was born, then her sister Claudia she was born in nineteen sixty one, and her youngest sister, Cecilia, she was born in nineteen sixty six. See here, probably think, so, what's the big deal? Five kids? Well, they were all born on February of the twentieth and all from natural childbirth. Y have no induced labors, no sees sections, nothing, They all just popped out on February the twentieth. The odds of that are so incalculable. There are so many zeros of that, it's just kind of ridiculous. Supermodel Cindy Crawford is sixty. She was born into Calvi, Illinois in nineteen sixty six. She has valedictorian ne Herig school class, and then she got an academic scholarship to study chemical engineering at Northwestern University. She left after one semester to go be a model. That was a good cause. She became one of the most successful models in history. Now after being on over a thousand magazine coverage, she became a very, very, very successful business woman. She was married to actor Richard Gear for four years and then she married her second husband in nineteen ninety eight. They have a son and her daughter. Her daughter is actually a pretty successful model right now too. Actor Andrew Schue He was born in Wilmington, Delaware, in nineteen sixty seven. Fifty nine year old, four years younger than his older actor's sister, Elizabeth Shu Andrew he got famous playing Billy on Melrose Plays. His biggest movie is Rainmaker. Now, when he was starting out, he had some pretty cool und got in some pretty cool movies that are uncredited. That means that he was in the movie,

10:16 but he didn't have a line. Yeah, he was in the Karate Kid, Vision Quest and Cocktail. Now he had three He has three kids from his first wife. He married a second wife in twenty ten. She's Amy Robock if you remember her from Good Morning America. In twenty twelve, it came out that Amy and her co host on Good Morning America, TJ Homan, were having an affair. Well they got fired. Then Ammy, Amy, she devoced Andrew and and TJ's wife divorced his wife. And now they're getting ready to get married. Well now TJ his ex wife and Andrew they are dating and they're gonna get married too. That's an episode of melrose Place. Kurt Cobain. He sang lead for Nirvana. Kurt was born in Aberdeen, Washington, in nineteen sixty seven. For his fourteenth birthday, he hit a choice biker used by or used guitar. He chose the guitar co found in Nirvana in nineteen eighty seven. Kurty did the singing, guitar playing and wrote most of their songs. Now, even though they haven't been a band since nineteen ninety four, they've still sold over seventy five million records. It's even better they only released three albums. Curty married Courtney Love in nineteen ninety two. They had one daughter, Kurt. He actually did have a gun and he used it on himself in nineteen ninety four and when he was twenty seven years old.

11:46 On short. That's Rihanna. She's thirty eight, born in Saint Michael, Barbados in nineteen eighty eight. Sold over two undred and fifty million records. That puts her second all time as a female singer. Yeah, she's behind Madonna who has four hundred million. Roan has fourteen number one songs, that puts her second all time behind mahav Mariah Carey who had nineteen Ronnie. She does some acting. Some of her movies were Bringing On All or Nothing, Battleship Ocean's eight. Since twenty twenty she has been dating Asap Rocky. He's our rapper and they have two sons and one daughter. All right there.

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