Jan 23rd-Pie, John Hancock, Happy Gilmores Grandma, Pointer Sisters, MacGyver, Mariska Hargitay, Tiffani Thiessen

0:18 Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff. Today's January the twenty third. Baby Pash, don't want to make pish, don't want to make pie with the heart in the middle of baby It, don't goanna make for you? Gona make a pie with the heart in the middle. Of beneves. Yeah, I had been enliven that up with the Little Motley Crew. Today's National Pie Day. It's been a while since Thanksgiving. I guess we can celebrate pies again. And one form or another, pies they are eating all over the world.

1:03 First recorded pie recipes they go back to the Romans and BC Times say they were made from rye crest, goat, cheese and honey. Now the hardest part about today is figuring out what kind of pie you want to eat. Apple is number one, then pecon, cherry, blueberry, and so on. Now I am a pie guy. I would rather have a pie than a cake any day. Now. The reason for today it's actually encouraged people to bake their own pies. Yeah, I rediscover the art of baking. That's pretty cool. You can actually get your bike pie cress pre made and then just fill it with what you want but if that's too much work. Yeah, there are deals out there, big ones at village in So if you want to eat healthy today, pumpkin Yeah, pumpkin pies are the healthiest depending on what you proNT top. All right, this is going on entertainment on January the twenty third, It's about Your twenty fourteen number one album was the Frozen movie soundtrack. Pit Bull and Keisha had the number one song with timber put.

1:51 Your pott the night is going Kevin you better, move. You better, James you over, I'll be their you overgave. Luc Brian had the number one country song with drink a beer. Don't feel like going home, So I'm going to sad ride here on the edge of this peer watch Son said, can drink a beer.

2:42 The number one book was The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kid. Top movie was right along a security guard. He has to prove himself to his girlfriend's brother, who's a top cop, so he rides along with him for a twenty hour riding through the Atlanta streets. Starts Ice Cube, Kevin Hart and Tika Sumthter. It was Today. In nineteen eighty six, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inaugurated its first class, first class to go into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Chuck Berry, James Brown, Ray, Charles Sam Cook, Fats Domino, the Everly Brothers, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jimmy Rogers, Little Richard, and Elvis Presley, in no particular order. All right, let's see what happened on January of the twenty three. China. The Ming dynasty began in thirteen sixty eight when forty year old Xu Jiong jing He began the first Emperor or the first Yeh Emperor or China now the Mings. They held onto the ruling China for three centuries. Let's stay in China.

3:38 In fifteen fifty six, the deadliest earthquake in world history hit the Shoon Sheen Province. Eight hundred and thirty thousand people were killed. An area covering five five hundred and twenty square miles was just totally leveled. Now, it wasn't the strongest magnitude earthquake, it wasn't even close. But see, most of those people in that area lived in caves, and the caves are kind of in soft soil. Yeah, and they all collapse that's what killed so many people. Fifteen seventy over in Scotland, James Stewart, he was the Earl of Moray. He was just walking down the street when a guy shot him out of a window. Now that was the first time in history that somebody was assassinated by a gun. Now, the guy who pulled the trigger, he was a supporter of Mary the Queen has got yeah, started a whole civil war. Seventeen eighty nine, the first Catholic college in the United States was farmed. It's Georgetown Washington, d C. Now it was not named for George Washington. No, it was named for George Gordon and George Bell. Who the hell were they? Well, they were the guys who donated the land for the college. Seventeen ninety five, in the war between France and the Netherlands, France's cavalry they were able to capture fourteen Dutch horseships. So I had the guys on horses captured warships. We'll see the Dutch ships they got stuck in the ice in port. So the French just ran across the ice and captured the ships.

4:52 Eighteen ninety seven, in Greenbrier County, West Virginia Elvia Hester. She was found dead in her house. Now, her husband was arrested for the murder. Now, I guess her ghost showed up at the trial to testify against him. See, it is the only case in US history where the testimony of a ghost help secure conviction. Nineteen fifty seven, the Whammo company, they started selling Pluto platters, those plastic dicks, didn't they didn't sell very well. Well. The next year they renamed them Frisbees, and sales really took off. The Frisbee was actually started at the Yale University. It was in the late eighteen hundreds. The students would play cats with empty pie tins made by the Frisbee Pie Company. So, I guess we should play some frisbee to celebrate PI Day. Right. It's kind of cold and snowy here, but okay. The deepest place on Earth is between Guam and the Philippines. It's the Marianna Trench. It's almost thirty six thousand feet deep. In nineteen sixty, United States Navy lieutenant Don Walsh and Swiss oceanographer Jacques Picard. Yeah, they were the first to go to the bottom. Now, it wasn't a submarine. They called it a Bathlisphere and it was named Treeste. See Jock's dad. He actually designed it back in nineteen fifty three for the French name.

6:00 But the French they didn't have the balls to use it. So the United States was down there first. Nineteen seventy one, Prospect Creek, Alaska got down in negative eighty degrees. Called this temperature ever recorded in Alaska and in the United States. Nineteen seventy eight, Sweden became the first country to ban aerosol spray cans. Yeah, they didn't want it to destroy the atmosphere. You would think Sweden they would want global warming. Joke, joked, joke, shog This shibf day, he left this shiverbth day. We want simple tage like this shibirth day. And you you don't do birthday. Well, let's see. He was born on January the twenty third.

6:42 Founding father John Hancock. He was born in Bain Braintree in Massachusetts in seventeen thirty seven. Hancock he became one of the richest men in the original thirteen Colonies. Yeah, he had a lot to lose if that revolution didn't succeed. Now, he was a well known and really well row respected merchant. But he's also a smuggler. But most of the stuff he smuggled it was so the Americans didn't have to pay the high taxes from imposed by Britain, not like he was smuggling meth or coke or something. Now, Hancock, he was the president in the Continental Congress when the Declaration of Independent was adopted, So as president, he was the only one to actually sign the original Declaration of Independence on July fourth. Yeah, then it was sent to a printer, and when it came back for the printer, that's when everybody else signed it. So yeah, that document was hanging out there for a month with only Hancock's signature on it. Now, he had a really pretty signature if you've seen it. But that is why even today people still refer to signing your name as giving your John Hancock unless you're into thirty. I don't know if you know how to sign your name anywhere. You just check a box. Ant Cock married nineteen seventy seven and they had a son and a daughter. He died in seventeen ninety three, eighties or fifty six years old. They think it was from gout act as Francis Bay. She was born in Manville, Connecticut, in nineteen nineteen nineteen thirty.

7:53 She started out on radio. Then she did not act again until the nineteen seventies. Yeah, she was in her mid fifties when she started up again, and she did a lot of acting after that. I bet you know her best were playing Happy Gilmore's Grandma Francis. She is also an acrack Nophobia, karate kid, the Wedding Planner. She's married nineteen forty six. Her husband died in two thousand and two and they had one child, Francis. She died from pneumonia and at ninety two years old in twenty eleven. And all that Jays start. I know how Woo bemarked where the gen is cold, but the. Pianat it's just a noisy hat with it is a ninety broke and all.

8:36 Jay. She is Broadway legend Cheetah Rivera. She was born in Washington, d c. In nineteen thirty three. Started on Broadway in nineteen fifty one. She starting Everything Bye Bye Birdie, Westside Story, Chicago, Kiss On the Spider Worm. She's nominated ten times for Tony Awards. Yeah, that ties her most of all time she won three and she was married for nine years. Now, while she was married, she got pregnant with her daughter. So and at that time she was supposed to start over in London and the production of West Side Story. She told me, I can't do that. So those guys in London they postponed the entire show until after she gave birth to the baby. That's what you call I having some poll. He died in twenty twenty four at ninety one years old, following a short illness. He is considered the greatest Dutch actor of all time. Rucker Howard He was born in Brookline, Netherlands, in nineteen forty four.

9:27 His first American movie was Sylvester Stallone in Nighthawks. Biggest movie was Blade Runner. I think his best acting job was in the hitcher Now. He had a daughter with his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen sixty eight, Rutger. He died in twenty nineteen following a short illness seventy five years old. That was a Needa have Pointer singing for the Pointer Sisters. Anita was born Oakland, California, in nineteen forty eight June. Bonnie, Anita and Ruth formed the Pointer Sisters. In nineteen seventy Anita, she sang lead on Fairytale Yes We Can, I'm So Excited. In nineteen eighty six, She's Dead a do It with country singer Earl Earl Thomas Conley. It's called Too Many Times got at number two on the pop chart.

10:27 Now. Surprisingly, with all their success, the Pointer Sister's never had a number one song. No Fine and Slow Hand both got up to number two, and actually I need to sing both of those two. She retired in twenty fifteen pretty much just because of age. She had had a daughter from her first husband. She married divorce to another guy, Anita. She died from cancer in twenty twenty two at seventy four years old. Actor Richard Dean Anderson. He's seventy six. He was born in Minneapolis in nineteen fifty. Started out on the soap opera General Hospital, did that for six years. Of course, he's best known for being mcgiver. Now. After he started in mcguiver, yeah, then he went to start on Stargate SG one. Now that makes perfect sense. If you're going to travel through space, you want mcguira there if something breaks down, right, Richard, he has one daughter.

11:09 He retired in twenty thirteen. Do you remember the pilot who had to land his plane on his jetliner on the Hudson River when a bunch of birds stick out both of his engines. Hey's Chelsea Sulemberger just goes by Soley. He was born in Dennison, Texas, in nineteen fifty one, seventy five year old now after being a pilot in the United States Air Force, flew through US airwaves for thirty years. Retired in twenty ten. Married in nineteen eighty four, and they have two daughters. You don't remember Tom Hanks played him in the movie Solely. Actress Mariska Haggerty. She's sixty two. She was born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen sixty four. Her first acting job was in the movie Goolies. Then she did a lot of TV appearance and finally hit big in nineteen ninety nine and Law and Ordered Special Victims in it. She's still doing it and now she even produces in drixom Now it is the second longest running TV show in history, behind The Simpsons. Yeah, the Simpsons have been on ten years longer than Lawn Ordered Special Victims. You know, Yeah, it's been on twenty seven years if you believe that. And Mariska's mom was Jane Mansfield. She Mariska, she was asleep in the backseat of the car when it crashed. That killed her mom. Yeah, she was three and a half years old. She still has a scar on the side of her head. She got married in two thousand and four and they have three children. Actress Tiffany thesa And is fifty two. She's born in Long Beach, California in nineteen seventy four. Started out playing Kelly on Saved by the Bell. Then she was Valerie on Beverly Hills nine oh two and zero.

12:29 Sum of her movies were her son in law, Love Stinks The Ladies Man. She married in two thousand and five and they have a son and a daughter. Alright here Quote of the day. Now, ladies and gentlemen, Gee. Johnny Johnny Carson. He died to day in two thousand and five at seventy nine years old. Johnny said, married men live longer than single men, but married men are a lot more willing to die. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us now you listen to us on so is it a fun our country and the ground radio artists of the day. It comes from Mitchell in Montgomery, Alabama. You must say hear Brinley Addington song those kind of songs. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

13:13 I love this water and holding a ball, I eat ball and a throwback of her ban. Usually it's me to drop a five in a jar for still guitar on a heartbreaks song. But damn, here's a twenty. It's time boys. I can't do it tonight. Boys. It'll feel two real too close to the home. I'm too toll rubbing, sheese too far doll, don't play. Me, no hang, no wailing now, no no shows. As that over and now it's going ahead and me there's a cheerum affre since she ain't here, I'm so long smiling cry. I can listen to those kinds so all this kind of night.

14:14 When I'm throwing them back with me and knee all night. Ain't nothing like a little load school hurt always on my mind. Yesterday's wing around mill and bite till you lose your girls, and you know what you're saying. Battle, It's like it been where you. Are out now. It feel too meal, too close and home. I'm too told of the chicks too. I gone off, don't clean, ain't no, ain't no wheeling, No we don't, no nothing, show Jones out over how it's going ouhead me, there's a tearium. Onna been here.

14:56 Since you ain't here. I'm sold on somebody pride. I can't listen to those times songs Old this kid, I. Lay little raya the man. Play a little Johndie Cream, play a little song of sound, play card cradle, play anything anything but Jon't blame you know hey, no way, no wind