Feb 29th-Leap Day, 1st Black Medal of Honor winner, Dinah Shore, Pope John Paul II hit by a Nazi truck

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Visit about Cool Media. Day is February the twenty ninth. Everybody, stand up, celebrate This year's a leap key with one extra day. It's called leap Day, and it was necessary to add a day every four years to February. It is leap day to day. We all get a bonus day to day now. It actually takes Earth three hundred and sixty five days and around six hours to orbit the Sun every year, so every four years we just added data February to keep our calendars accurate. So how you gonna spend your free day? Well, you can do something really productive and kind of just waste it. Now. Most restaurants are having deals today to some of them are to Potlet, Krispy Kreme, Long John Silver's, Marco's, Beats, His Noodles and Company, Papa Murphy's, Wendy's. That's something you can do. But whatever you do, just enjoy the hell out of Leap Day.

1:07 You can't celebrate it again until twenty twenty eight. All right, let's who's going on in February twenty ninth and the year two thousand and five actually this is February twenty eighth. Yeah. The number one album was Seventeen Days by Three Doors Down. Murrio had the number one song with let Me Love You. You should let me love you, Let Me be the one shoes give you heavy thing, you fault in me a heavy good thousand put sex, make me your selection, show you the will of Suples Soup beats Rascal Flats. They had the number one country song where bless the Broken Road, me on intin your loving Noise, This much News wi is trust the Broken Roll mestay to. The number one book was Honeymoon by James Patterson and Howard Ruffin. The top movie was The Pacifier, a Navy seal he has to protect the five kids of a government scientist who was killed working on a top secret project, star Vin Diesel and Britney Snow in nineteen forty How do he McDaniel? She won an Oscar for her role and Gone with the Wind.

2:27 She was the first black actress or actor to win one. All right, let's see it happened in the world on Leap Day in fifteen oh four on the island of Jamaica. Christopher Columbus he knew there was going to be a solar eclipse today, so he and his men they were not getting along with the Jamaican natives there, and his things just got ready to get violent. Columbus told all the Jamaicans if they didn't do what he said and bring him and his men some food, He's going to take away the sun. The Jamaicans didn't blame him until the clips started. Then the Jamaican's agreed to do whatever he said. In nineteen forty four, overrom Poland, twenty three year old Carol washed Taya he was walking home from his job in a quarry where he was just performing manual labor when a German Nazi army truck hit him yes sent him flying unconsciously. Now, sadly that wasn't that all uncommon as the German's occupied Poland at the time, But what was really uncommon was the German officer on the truck that hit him stopped and started treating his injuries. Then he ordered another truck to be used as an ambulance and they took him to the hospital. Carrollly spent two weeks in the hospital recovering from a very severe concussion and shoulder injury and a lot of cuts and bruises. Now, when he was released from the hospital, it confirmed in Carol's mind. Then he was supposed to become a priest. Well, he did become a priest two and a half years later. Then in nineteen seventy eight he became Pope John Paul the Second Stock. A little high school basketball It was nineteen sixty four, North Carolina. A high school basketball game ended up fifty six to fifty four. So what well that was after thirteen overtimes. Goat show this shibf

4:02 day. We're gonna pause. He left this shivers day. We want simple tage. He left this Shibirf day. And you know we don't give up because that's birthday, all right. He was born on February of the twenty ninth, William Carney. He was born a slave near Norfolk, Virginia, in eighteen forty. Now he has skaped through the underground railroad. Then he joined the Massachusetts Voluntary Infantry to fight in Civil War in eighteen sixty three at the Battle of Fort Wagner in South Carolina. While he was already wounded, he heroically protected the American flag in the battle. He is the first black American to have received the Medal of Honor. He didn't know that's the highest military decoration anyone can receive. After the war, he was a maleman in Bedford, Massachusetts for thirty two years. There's an elementary school in Bedford that's named after him. He was married and him and his wife they had one daughter. He died from an elevator accident in nineteen oh eight at sixty eight years old. East See is west Don the wrong one I have chose.

5:03 Let's score. Keep on aware of those frills and flowers and buttons and bowls, rings and things and buttons and bowl She was Dinah Shore. She was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in nineteen sixteen. Now she was the first female singer to actually have huge success. From the nineteen forty to nineteen fifty seven, she had eighty hit songs. Then she did a couple movies. Then she spent the next forty years on TV. She had her own music variety show, and then she had a couple of talk shows. She did a bunch of specials and stuff. She was married to her first husband for nineteen years and they had a son and a daughter. Then she married at tennis pro for a year. Then she dated Burt Reynolds for six years. Burt Reynolds or twenty years younger than Dinah. She loved playing golf, and in nineteen seventy two she founded the Dinoshaur Golf Tournament. Today it's one of the major tournaments in the female professional golf circuit. She died from ovarian cancer in nineteen ninety four, at seventy seven years old. I'm just outside the fast falsis to see that hoop jack you raise saft, I'm gonna small.

6:06 I love fasting your fast and hitting your Oh wow, Apprecia, Who can U can? Rapper joh Ruhl, He's forty eight. He is one of Queen's New York in nineteen seventy six, probably best known for blending gangster rap and commercially pop music together. Sold over thirty million records. Probably would have sold more, but he spent a lot of time going in and out of prison. Now, he did get his ged in prison in twenty twelve, so he's got that. He got married in two thousand and one and they have three children. Jah. He is supposed to be kicking off a European tour right now. But see the UK, they denied him from enter in their country. Yeah, because of his criminal record. So I don't know if the whole tour is going to be counseled. They're just the UK.

6:49 Actor Peter Skeneveno. He's forty four. He's born in Denver, Colorado, in nineteen eighty. He has played Detective Dominic Carissi on Lawn Order Special Victims Gennisons twenty thirteen. He got married in twenty eleven and him his wife. She's a painter, but not a house painter. She paints portraits and crup. They have three children. All right, today's fact to it. That will win you a beer. The odds of being born on leap day are one and one one in one thousand and four and sixty one. That's how many days are between leap years. So according to the Social Security Administration, three three hundred and sixty two nine hundred people in America have February twenty ninth is their birthday. One point six million have March first. Well, as they say in Greenland, kujian kock that and thanks for joining us today and don't forget to follow us or come see us on Comedia dot com and see what we're doing on the podcast and all that kind of stuff. Let's send today with Davy jones Jee the former Monkey died today in twenty twelve at sixty six years old. He said, Justin Bieber stole my haircut. N's a row stole my dance. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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