Jan 17th-Popeye, Betty White, James Earl Jones, Steve Harvey, The Bangles, Jim Carey, Kid Rock, Zooey Deschanel

0:19 Welcome to history and facto. It's about today. I am Jeff. Today's January the seventeenth. Oh, I'm delighted to say Sailor Man, I'm delied. I just say I'm strong because. He's I'm delighted. To say today is national Popeye the Sailor Man Day. That was today. In nineteen twenty nine, Popeye made his comic strip debut. It was actually in a thimble theater. It was a comic strip that actually featured olive oil. By nineteen thirty three, of though Popeye it was really big. He had his own comic strip, his own radio show, cartoons. E. C. Seeger. He's the one who created Popeye. He model pop buying out oil. Yeah, after the couple who lived next door to him. Now, the words jeep, wimp and doofless they all started in the Popeye comic strip. So I guess today you celebrate by binge watching Popeye cartoons and movies.

1:11 I guess you can annoy the hell out everyone by talking like Popeye. Get this, When Popeye and Olive Oil started out, she had a brother. His name was Castor. Castor Oil and Popeye did not start eating spinach yet, No act to about the forties. See he got his strength from rubbing the head of a hen named Bernice. All right, this is going on Entertainment. On January seventeenth, it was Back to nineteen sixty three. No. One album was a West Side Story movie soundtrack. Steve Lawrence said the number one song with go Away Little Girl. Live so sweet. Limbs must never mean. I've been long to soone else and I must be true.

1:58 Go Away Little Girl. Lester Flatten Earl Scruggs at the number one country song with the Ballad of Jed Clampett. I'm gonna listen to a story about a man named Jed brew Mountain near Barley kept his family fed, and then one day. He was shooting that from ten of through the ground. Comb a bubble and flude alreadies black cool takes his tea. Yeah. Different guys singing on the TV show. Top book was Seven Days in May by Fletcher Cannabel. Top movie was Lawrence of Arabia British officer T. E. Lawrence. He successfully united warring Arab tribes during World War One to fight against the Turks. Stars Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness and Anthony Quinn movie won seven Oscars, including Best Picture. O'Toole won an Oscar for Best Actor and Shreif won for Best Supporting Actor. Okay, what happened on January the seventeenth, seventeen seventy three British Captain James Cook and the ships in his expedition again the first across the Antarctic Circle.

3:01 No one else had ever been that far south. Millsboro, Delawares at the state record in eighteen ninety three got down to negative seventeen out west. In eighteen ninety three, way I was, the Kingdom of Hawaii was no more. The United States launched an illegal coup on overthrow Hawaii's Queen Lila Kukuni. Yeah, so then they set up a puppet government and made Hawaii a republic, no longer a kingdom. A couple of years later, of course, and made it a US territory. Now, this would suck. In nineteen twelve, a British expedition led by Robert Scott they reached the South Paul. Now after him doing all that hardship for a month. After end, they found out that Norwegian Roald Anderson and his expedition had gotten there a month earlier some second really bites. Nineteen twenty, the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. Yep. That made it the first day of prohibition. Yep, no more alcohol. Now you could drink alcohol. It wasn't legal to drink it, you know, so if you had someone around the house, you get into trouble for sipping it.

3:54 But you couldn't make alcohol. You couldn't sell alcohol, you couldn't transport alcohol. So basically there's no way to get it. So oh, get this, Yes, the birthdate. The birth rate in the United States, it did go down during prohibition, which makes sense. Eighteen ninety three, Nigeria, they expelled two million illegal aliens. They were out, mostly from Ghana. Nineteen eighty four is known as the Beta Max decision. United States Supreme Court. They ruled that you could tape TV shows at your house on your video recorder and watch them later. See Disney and some other people. They had suits saying that taping their shows violated copyright laws. During the trial in front of the Supreme Court, they called mister Rogers as a witness. So he tests me. He said, yeah, helped people would videotape these shows. The Supreme Court they ruled with mister Rogers nineteen ninety one, Desert Shield turned into desert storm. As the Gulf War began, a US led coalition they started bombing the hell out of Iraq.

4:47 Now it was the first war see on live TV. Americans had no idea. The military had stealth fighter planes, Patriot missiles and Hummers. Now, the coalition they only had authority to overthrow Iraqi government. They were not allowed to uh. Basically, they were not allowed to overthrow the Iraqi government. They were only allowed to do whatever it took to kick Iraq out of a Kuwait. Twenty seventeen, President of Barack Obama, he commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning's prison sentence from thirty five years to seven years. See. Manning was convicted of espionage and a whole bunch of other crimes. Yeah, leaked over seven hundred and fifty thousand classified documents. Now Chelsea was actually born Bradley. So Obama also agreed to use taxpayer money to give him a sexchange operation while it was in prison or sex reassignment surgery.

5:33 Joked jokege dish Shibbert day, We're gonna page he. Left thish shib day were gonna sit potage. He's like this shibirf day and you know we don't give. All right. It was born on January seventeenth. Founding father in Benner Benjamin Franklin. He was born in Boston in seventeen oh six. Now for a fat, frumpy ball guy, he might have accomplished more in his lifetime than anybody in history. Yeah. He you know, he didn't discover He didn't discover electricity, but he proved it was there. He also invented the lightning rod bifocals. The Franklin still a whole lot more of advengeance. Now, he charted and named the Gulf Stream.

6:14 When he was twenty three years old, he started his first newspaper. Later on he did the Poor Richards Almon Out. Now, he signed both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. He was the United States first Postmaster General. He did that and a whole lot more while being one of the biggest players in ConA America. That dude was a hound. Now. He did have one illegitimate daughter that he actually claimed. People have claimed her a lot more. He did marry back in seventeen thirty and his wife, she died in seventeen seventy four, and they had one son and one daughter. But that didn't slow Franklin down at all. Sea. His wife was afraid of water, so she would not get on a ship. So Ben made a lot of trips over to Europe. Yeah, he had to, you know, to supports the American cause. Franklin he died from plurisee in seventeen ninety at eighty four years old. Twenty thousand people in this funeral. Percy it messes up your lungs.

7:03 Actress Betty White. She was born in Oak Park, Illinois, in nineteen twenty two. She acted from nineteen thirty nine to twenty twenty one. She started out on radio, best known for TV, though she was on the Mary Tyler Moore show Golden Girls Hot in Cleveland. She was in so many TV shows as guests and stuff. I don't know if it was ever counted at all. I wasn't gonna do it. Some of her movies are Dennis the Menes, Lake Placid, The Proposal. She did a lot more voice working than the Untelly Think Now. When she was ninety six, she was asked her secret to staying young. She said vodka and hot dogs in that order. Oh, and some exercise too. Her first husband was the Air Force pilot road a chicken farm. Her third husband was TV game show host Alan Luden. That was her true love. They got married nineteen sixty three. They were together. Alan died in nineteen eighty one. Betty. She died in her sleep two weeks before one andreth birthday in twenty twenty one.

7:50 Percanta Baby, just slip the sable under the tree for me. I'm also good girl, Santa Baby, so hurry down the chimney to night. That was earth a Kit. She was born in North South Carolina in nineteen twenty seven. No, seriously, that's the name of the town is North South Carolina. Six hundred and ninety people lived there. Earth Is. She started out on Broadway. She was a successful singer in the early nineteen fifties on TV. She played Catwoman on Batman. Now. Some of her movies were Boomerang, Fatal Instinct, Preaching to the Choir. Now, when I said that she started out on Broadway, she actually performed on Broadway from nineteen forty five to two thousand and seven. She married once in the sixties for five years, and they had a daughter Earth that she died from colon cancer in two thousand and eight, three weeks before eighty second birthday. One of the greatest voices of all time, actor James Earl Jones, was born in Archa, Butler, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty one.

8:49 When Earl was a boy, he had a really bad stutter. It was so bad that he wouldn't even tek her crocking prior in public at all. He was also really into writing poetry. He loved doing that. Then in high school one of his teachers made him stand up and read so with poetry in front of the whole class public spig And it turns out it's how he overcame stutter. First movie was Doctor Strangelove, did over eighty movies after that, nomine for an Oscar, for The Great White Hope, he won a couple of Tony's Now the last movie he made, Remember It Coming to America Too Early. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty two and they had a son. Now. His wife died in twenty sixteen. Earl died just in twenty twenty four, at ninety three years old, mostly from diabetes. Comedian actor Andy Kaufman. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty nine. Now, Andy said he was not a comedian because he never told the joke. He just made people laugh. Biggest acting roles on TV he played lock on Taxi. Now this was way before social media.

9:41 But what made Andy actually famous is he would pull off these really big pranks, and he'd pull off these really big hoaxes and all that. Then they would go to day or what we call the Dave Viral. He had a daughter from his high school girlfriend. Andy died in nineteen eighty four, thirty five years old, from lung cancer. He never smoked. Same. Paul Young. He's seventy. He was born in Newton, England in nineteen fifty six. Started out singing for Cat Cool and the Coolcats. He left them and sang for the Q Tips. Then he went solo in the early eighties.

10:27 Some of us hits are come Back and Stay. Every time you go away, everything must change. What becomes of the Brookenharten Since nineteen ninety three. When he's not doing his solo stuff, he sings lead for those Pecaminos. They are a British band that plays Tex mex music and they tour all over the UK. And Europe. You have to wonder how they know what text mex Music sounds like. Polly got married nineteen eighty seven and his wife died in twenty eighteen, and they had three children together. Married his second wife twenty twenty four. tvOS Comedian actor Steve Harvey's sixty nine. He was born on Welts, West Virginia, in nineteen fifty seven. Steve he also had to a really severe study as a kid, started out doing stand up comedy. Then he hosted Showtime at Apollo. He was an original member of Kings of Comedy, did their tours, movies and specials and stuff. He did his last stand up act in twenty twelve. On TV, he had the Steve Harvey Show. He's been hosting Family Feuds since twenty ten.

11:21 He had two daughters and one son from his first wife. He had a son from the second wife. Married his third wife in two thousand and seven. He adopted her three children. Man that was Susan A. Hoff singing for the band The Bengals. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty nine. She's sixty seven to day. She is a guitarist and singer. She doesn't like it when people forget about her guitar playing. Now, she helped formed the Bengals in nineteen eighty one. They took most of the nineties off, but they went back together since nineteen ninety eight. Some Bengal hits, Manic Monday, Walk Like an Egyptian, Hazy Shade of Winter, Eternal Flame, Susanna, She's on these nine solo albums. She got married in nineteen ninety three and they have two sons. Actor comedian Jim Carrey is sixty four. He's won in New Market, Ontario, Canada in nineteen sixty two. Jim he started doing stand up comedy when he was fifteen. He has dad would drive him to the shows. First got known in the movie One's Bitting That he only hit big on the TV show in Living Color. Jimmy played Andy Kaufman in the movie Man on the Moon. It was all about Andy Coughlan's life.

12:34 Yeah. He won a bunch of awards for that too. Jimmy had a daughter from his first wife. Then he married actress Lauren Haley. For almost a year. J Sign he was smoking things. Excepting whiskey, not taking sweet home for him. Rapper singer Kid Rock, he was born in Romeo, Michigan in nineteen seventy one, makes him fifty five years old, did it now? He started out breakdancing, Well, it didn't take long and he figured out he's a lot better rapper in DJ than he was a breakdancer, so he had put that together. Today now he's added singing country and rock to his rapping. Some of us hits are Cowboy only God knows why. Picture that was with Cheryl Crow All summer long. He was in the movie Joe Dirt.

13:27 Now he and his high school girlfriend they had him, were raising three children together. Then he found out that only one of those kids was actually his, so he took his son and went and raised him as a single dad. I mean he did marry Pamela Anderson for one year. Kid rock as an ordained minister and has a firearm collection. Forty six year old. Actors Zoey Deschanel was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty. She first got known in the movie Almost Famous than Elf Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy's his voice of Bridget in the Trolls movies. Most known for TV, though on New Girl in two thousand and six, she formed the music deal. She and him Yeah Ward.

14:07 Sometimes to m s. In the Sun. In the Sun. She and him have released seven albums. They were nomina dated for a Grammy. Biggest hit is the one I just played in the Sun got up to number four. Now they've charted five Christmas songs. Zoe. She had a son and a daughter from her second husband. She is engaged to one of the Property brothers, Jonathan Scott. Yeah, I don't know which ones. Went alright here. Quote of the day. It comes from the nineteenth President of the United States, Rutherford bat Hayes, died today in eighteen ninety three at seventy years old. Ruthererdt said the President of the United States should always stay true and be mindful of the fact that he serves his party best when he serves his country best.

14:53 True. Well, thank you all for listening today, and don't forget to follow us who you listen to son check out the show description for any questions you might A country and a ground radio artist today it comes from Brent out there in Wichita. He wants to hear Donny Lee song. Anyone else y'all have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. It ain't always easy loving Sobati, but you can't live until you can drive me crazy. Smell bleaby, you pull me back around. He been on a worse day and we're finding like where animees, there ain't no dall a jury, only one for me.

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