Feb 22nd – National Margarita Day, George Washington, Tallest Human Ever, Steve Irwin & Drew Barrymore

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Visit in by Cool Media. It's February, the twenty second e the Doll shooting tangles, who cares look at it all days, Tom Treason in the sunlight stream and Belade. After two three loa shocks. It is National Margherita Day. Oh they're pretty simple. Tequila, triple second, lime juice. If you're making up, just remember the three two to one row. Three parts to quila, two parts triple second, one part lime juice. In nineteen thirty eight, a famous Broadway dancer named Marjorie King. She was partying with her friends down in Baja Mexico, but she was pretty much allergic to most types of alcohol except tequila. Well, Danny Herrera, he owned a bar down there.

1:07 Now he wanted to help her party with the friends, so he created the margarita. Yeah, so she could drink. Well, our friends tried it, they out loved it, and then the margaritas they took off as they all told their famous celebrity fans back in the New York Broadway scene. Now, other people they have claimed to have invented the margarita over theres but none of them go back as far as nineteen thirty eight, so I'm giving Donny all the credit for it. So have fun drinking your margharitas today. All right, this is going on in entertainment On February the twenty second. Back in nineteen sixty six, number one album was Whipped Cream and Other Delights by Herb Albert's Tijuana Bass Lucris. Do you have the numb one song with Lightning Strikes? Jack Green? He had the number one country song with there Goes My Everything.

2:09 Oh My Dream There Cole Smile. The number one book was The Source by James Mitchener. The top movie was Harper. Paul Newman was Harper. He was a private eye Lawn because she was a really rich woman. She's Toy Newman or she hired Newman to go find her kidnapped husband. Nineteen eighty nine. The Grammy Awards, they got their very first rap Emmy. They went oh, hard school, gangster, rap man, carm It's all.

2:53 The same, no matter Tom the plates. They don't understand that are going to make some mistakes. So toil you are. The kids all across the lake. They don't need to argue. Parents just don't understand. DJ Jazzy Jeff and the French press to Prince s Prince they took on that first wrap out our Grammy Award. Yeah, parents just don't understand. They beat out Hello Cool J and his song going back to Cali and Salt and Pepper with their song Pushy all right. See it happened in February the twenty second, seventeen ninety seven. It was the last time anyone tried to invade Great Britain. France decided they wanted to take Great Britain down, but they knew they couldn't do it alone. So but they didn't figure out that if they invaded. They thought the Irish wouldjoin them in their fight. See the Irish and the Great Britain. Yeah, they didn't get along so good. So what France was gonna do. They were gonna launch two forces. Now, one would land in Ireland and the other would land in Great Britain and then they would all meet up.

3:45 And they were also going to put a small diversionary force out in Wales to try and distract them a little bit. But bad weather get the two main forces from landing. But that small diversion force, Yeah, I did land over in Wales. Now, those guys that remember, they were just a bunch of guys. They plucked up the streets pretty much. They didn't they were the diversionary forces. They didn't give a crap about those guys. So when they got there on the land, yeah, they all just broke rack and took off and headed into town. Yeah, they started looting all the farmers and all that kind of stuff. Say, but the locals, yeah, they weren't going to put up with that. No. So as it turned out, those French soldiers, they said the locals were down right mean. Say, the guys were actually trying to take all the booze that they could get. So all night and all day in that town it was called fish guard Whales. You could see women with brooms chasing guys in French soldier uniforms all around town. But where they to get up to the British army that something was going on down there.

4:37 So just like the French had predicted British soldiers, they did respond. Then when they arrived, fifteen hundred French soldiers, they were marched to them by a bunch of women and black cats carrying brooms. Now, the French decided they were just going to surrender, but six hundred of them had off. Those women scared them so much they had it off across the country side. They have never seen them again. Oh word got out, and no one's tried to invade Great Brittin ever since. Then eighteen nineteen, the Adams Orness Treaty assigned. It was between Spain and the United States. The United States had got Florida. See, Spain wanted the United States to pay five million dollars for Florida. The people of Florida they did not like being controlled by Spain at all, and since eighteen ten they had been terrorizing the Spanish authorities that were there. It was so bad that Spanish were just looking for a way to get out of there. So the spain Is authorities they claimed that the Florida terrorists they had actually cost five million dollars in damage to assets that were owned by Spain. So they told the United States, you pay and you can have Spain. They signed the treaty and the Spanish authorities left. US authorities they went down to Florida and they told the Fortia says, all right, you know, Spain five million dollars. Now, we ain't paying it for you, so you better pass the hat or do something, because you're gonna have to pay Spain all that money. People in Florida said, screw you, We're not paying them. The United States went okay, they went back to Spain and said, sorry, dude, they won't pay up. That's how we got Florida for free.

5:54 Eighteen fifty six, the first national meeting of the Republican Invention was though it was in Pittsburgh John Reid, he is considered the father of American golf. It was today in eighteen eighty eight. Yeah, he demonstrated golf for the very first time in the United States. It was at a cow pastor and yunkers in New York, London, England, nineteen oh seven. The first taxi kasm meters started running nineteen twenty in Emoryville, California. The first time they ever used an artificial rabbit at the dog racing track. Now at every dog racing track across the nation. After that, all the mechanical rabbits were always called rusty. Last year probably you probably ever went to a dog track, but see the mechanical rabbit. It was attached to the inside rail, and at the beginning of each race, the dogs they would be in shoots and then the motorized rabbit would just come flying around the track, and then the announcer, Yeah, here it goes rush day. And then as he passed the dogs, they would drop the gates and the dogs of chase Rusty. It actually was funnier than it sounds.

6:44 You actually bet on it. Now there are only two dog racing tracks left in the whole entire country. Yeah, they're both in West Virginia. Nineteen thirty three, airplanes, they were no longer a fly over the White House. Now it wasn't a security issue, No, President Franklin Roosevelt, he just got tired of the plane was waking him up when he was trying to take a namp NASCAR in nineteen fifty nine, and the first dayton of five hundred was run. Now, it was a good one. Lee, Petty and Johnny Bochamp. They finished side by side for a photo finish Bob and we there was no camera on the finish line. After they interviewed enough people after three days, they finally said okay, and they gave it to Petty. Doke Co joked joke, sharge, dish shiverth day.

7:24 We're gonna pause. He left this shiverfday. We got simple targe. He left this shibirth day. And you know you don't give left your birthday? Okay. Who was born on February the twenty second Wow? The founding father of our country. George Washington was born in Pope's Creek, Virginia in seventeen thirty two. He fired for the British in the French and Indian Wars. Then he led the colonial army in the American Revolution. First president of the United States are from seventeen eighty nine to seventeen ninety seven. The only president not to live in the White House now, Washington he didn't even want to be president after the Revolution. He just wanted to go back to Mount Vernon. He wanted to grow his crops and make his boo. Yeah. Washington was one of the biggest distillers in the Tower Country. But he kind of caught the attitude, you know, if you want something done right, you just got to do it yourself. That's why he actually became president. It's not a good thing for a country that he did. Now. When George married Martha in seventeen fifty nine. She was a widow. He adopted her two young children, a boy and a girl.

8:17 George he died in seventeen ninety nine. Now he had gotten something that was like strep throat. Now today it would have been easily treated with his medicine. Back then they used bloodletting, and they think what killed him was they took out too much blood. He was sixty seven years old. Actor Robert Young was born in Chicago in nineteen oh seven. He was an over one hundred movie He's been started doing Father Knows Best on the radio in nineteen forty nine. Nineteen fifty four they switched it from the radio and onto TV, so he was the Father who Knows Best until the nineteen sixty nineteen seventies played Markets Will Be MD. He was married sixty one years when his wife died in nineteen ninety four, and they had four daughters. Robert He died from respiratory failure in nineteen ninety eight at ninety one years old. Robert Wadlow He was born in Alton, Illinois, in nineteen eighteen. Now, due to a really messed up pituitary, glen Robert is the tallest person in history, grew to eight feet eleven point one inches tall. He weighed four and than thirty nine pounds, but he was so tall he looked skinny.

9:11 Now. He was taller than his dad when he was eight years old, so that's when he was six feet when he graduated from high school, he's eight foot four inches now. He never did stop growing and he never used a wheelchair, but he did need braces on his legs to support him so he could walk. Then to make a little money on the side, he would make promotional appearances, but not freak show things. No, not like side you know circus side shows or freak shows. No, he actually wore like a suit and tie. It was really dignified affair. In nineteen forty one of his leg brace was actually caused a wound on his ankle that got really badly infected. Yeah, he ended up dying from that infection twenty two years old. His coffin was eight feet nine inches long, weighed over one thousand pounds, took nine to twelve or twelve pallbearers and eight assistants in order to carry him in his coffinto his grave. Rock Rocky Rock Rock Rock. People from Tennessee, then spread on out to the lone prairie, turns me in and shot out to me that was God. Mitchell.

10:17 He was born in Detroit nineteen twenty seven. Started out singing in big bands, then switched over to pop and rockabilly. Sold forty four million records. Some of his biggest hits sorry my Heart Cries for You, There's a pawn Shop on the corner in pennsil Pittsburgh singing the blues, rockabilly, rock guy. He was married to his fourth wife when he died in nineteen ninety nine from complications from cancer surgery seventy two years old. Actress Julie Walter. She's seventy five. She was born in Edge, Boston, England, in nineteen fifty. Her first movie was Educating Rita. She was Rita. She nominate for an Oscar for it. She's best known though, for playing Molly Weasley and all those Harry Potter movies. She was also in the Mama Me and Paddington movies. Her and her husband they've been together since nineteen eighty five and they have one daughter, Julie. She's fighting boo cancer and she says she's not gonna stop her. She keeps working so good for Julie. After Kyle MacLachlan, and he's sixty six. He's born in Yakama, Washington. Now this first movie was done. Then he did Blue Velvet at the Doors. He played Dale Cooper on Twin Peaks on TV and in the movie. He was in six in the City for two years. Caley married in two thousand and two and they have a son, The Crocodile Hunter Steve Irwin. He was born in Upper Fern Tree Gully, Australia in nineteen sixty two. His parents they owned a small reptile park, so he grew up around snakes and lizards and all that kind of stuff. Then he was nine, he wrestled his first crocodile. Now, don't freak out, his dad was right there.

11:37 Steve. He took over the park in nineteen ninety nine. He renamed it the Australian Zoe and then it exploded with all the attractions he brought in and that caused all kinds of guests to come. In nineteen ninety six he started the TV show The Crocodile Hunter, seen it over one hundred and thirty countries. Now, after being around all those crocodiles, all those deadly snakes. In two thousand and six, he was swimming with a stingray. Yeah, the bar from the Stingrays tell Prista's heart is forty nine years old. His wife, his daughter, and his son, they've all kept his legacy alive though, promoting conservation and the Australian Zoo. Actress Drew Barrymore. She's fifty. She was born in Culver City, California. She is part of that really famous Barrymore acting family, Dree. She had big in her second movie was et Now that allowed her to host Saturday Night Live. She was seven years old. She's still the youngest person to host Saturday Night Live. Then she did fire Starter, Never Been Kids, the wedding Singer, fifty first Dates. All it was Charlie Engels Movies. Since twenty twenty eight, Drew, She's got her own TV show. It's a talk show. It's called The Drew Barrymore Show. She's divorced three times and she has two daughters from her third husband. Now, if you decide to go out and celebrate some Margarita's to day to get the best tasting margaretor we have to use Blanco tequila or white tequila. Yeah, it gives the best taste. Well, thank you for listening today. Never forget to follow us.

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