Jan 25th-Robots, Alicia Keys, Jennifer Lewis, Etta James, Nike, 1st Winter Olympics, Irish Coffee

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Fact Dudes about today present a by Cool Media. Is January the twenty fifth opposite, So opposites like differents to say opposite opposite. Let's playing this last game. The opposite of boys is girl. Oh hell no, we got you to gather, we got you together. Okay, that's a little better. Today is National Opposite Day. Yeah. Today is pretty much for kids, but adults they can have fun with it. Kids are supposed to say things like vegetables are my favorite food, I love cleaning my room, I didn't hit my baby sister. Adults they're supposed to say things like I hate being Exercising is fun. I didn't know you had a sister. Now, just be silly today and have fun with it. But you know, it's really fun. It's also National Irish Coffee Day. That's right, You're gonna walk around drinking Irish coffee all day. Everyone's just gonna think of black coffee. I do have one question about today, though, so what is the opposite of oppositees Day? Okay, this is going on and entertainment on January twenty fifth. Back to you in nineteen sixty two, numb one album was Blue Hawaii by Elvis Presley Chubby Checker adding in one song with the twist Leroy Van

1:54 Dyke had the number one country song with walk On. By byng To. Did wouldn't look so good? You know someone I'm not supposed to know? Just walk on Bye. Waited on the Corner. The top book was Franny and Zoe by J. D. Salinger. The top movie was El Sid Rodrigo Diaz Divavar. He was a fabled Spanish show. He was known as El Sid Now. He defended a Christian Spain against the Moors stars Trauton, Heston and Sofielder in So you know it was a long movie. Nineteen forty nine, the first Emmy Awards were held. It was at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

2:40 Tickets for five bucks to get in. Now, those Emmy Awards, they were just for TV in LA That's right. If you weren't on La TV, yep, you were't eligible for the first Emmy Awards. Wasn't until the fourth Emy Awards in nineteen fifty two that the Emmy Awards and they went national. Let's go back to nineteen forty nine and that first Amy Awards Shelley Dinsdale. She was the very first to win an Emmy. She got it for Best Tea. She was a ventriloquist. I won't see what happened on January the twenty fifth, eighteen nineteen. Former United States President James Thomas Jefferson. He up found the University of Virginia. If you ever wondered Jefferson, he went to William and Mary eighteen forty American Navy Captain True Wilkes. He was the first to figure out that Antarctica was a continent, not in an island. Eighteen seventy eight. It was the first time a torpedo was used to sink a ship.

3:25 A Russian Navy ship used a torpedo to sink a Turkish supprise ship that was anchored off the coast of the country of Georgia. Now it was during that Russia turks War. I know, I know some of your things. Hey, what about the USS Hunley in the American Revolution or the American Civil War? The Honley suck that thing in South Carolina. Well, the Honley he used that mine, not a torpedo, and that's why he didn't get away. Nineteen twenty one, the word robot was used for the first time. It was in the Czechoslovakian play Now all the play it was about robots who were building robots, and then all the robots they turned against humanity. So not only did they interview robot, they also introduced the thirty of pretty much every science fiction movie to come. Nineteen twenty four, the first Winter Olympics began. They were held in Shamano Fronts.

4:08 Not a lot of events bob sledding, cross country, skin curling, figure skating, ice hockey, ski jumping, speed skating. America's Charles Jutra even won the first United States gold medal and Winter Olympics when he won the five hundred meters speed skating. After that, Norway pretty much won every medal. Now, every event in those Lypics held outside, even figure skating. China. In nineteen forty four, Florence leaked tim Oway. She became the first woman ever to be ordained as an Anglican priest. Yeah, see Britain, they'd been in China for a long time, and so there were a lot of Angelican Christians living there. Then when Japan invaded China in World War two, Yeah, they started to run out of men who could be priests. So Florence was up. But then after the war they let her keep the name Praise, but yeah, they wouldn't let her practice as one anymore till nineteen seventy one.

4:52 Then they said you could be a full fledged priest again. Nineteen forty five Grand Rapids, Michigan. They began the first city, but fluoride in their water. She had the residence and Grand Appas they of the worst teeth in the country. So then after a couple of years, yeah, they did a survey sixty to sixty five percent reduction in tooth the k and children. So it went to nationwide. Nineteen sixty four are the company Blue Rivet Sports was founded. It was in Oregon. They made running shows. Nineteen seventy one they changed their name to Nike. Nike is a Greek goddess for victory. She fought with Zeus in this battle against the Titans. Now, I don't know if the we're gross is right or not, or maybe creepy, but it just seems weird. Nineteen seventy four, doctor Christian Barnard, he performed the first heterotropic heart transplant, so they put the donor heart inside the just but you don't remove the old heart, so you got two hearts there. Just seems kind of weird to me. Let's go back to robots.

5:47 Nineteen seventy nine, Robert Williams. He was the first person in the United States ever killed by a robot. Say he was working at the Ford Motor Plant in Michigan. Yeah, one ton mechanical arm took him out. Now I'm guessing it was a malfunction and he did and piss off that arm. But by Chicona Wisha was the opposite day there, Huh, jope, joke. Joke, shag Dish Shibbert Day. We're gonna tag he let thish Shibday. We won't sitotage. He's like just Shibbert Day. And you know we don't give up birthday. So it was born June twenty or January twenty fifth. Uh, that'd be actor Dean Jones. He was born in Decatur, Alabama, in nineteen thirty one. Nineteen sixty, he made his Broadway debut alongside Jake Fond in the play There was a Little Girl. Now, if you don't know his name, he'll recognize his face if you're over forty years old. He was in a lot of Walt Disney movies. Yeah, some of them were Herbie the love Buck movies, That Darn Cat, The Ugly Docson, Monkey Go Home, The Shaggy Da. Now.

6:45 He had two children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy three and they had one child, Dan. He died from Parkinson's in twenty fifteen at eighty four years old. Oh whie singing wall down on her bigger platreat. That was Edda James. She was born in Los Angeles nineteen thirty eight. She's saying gospel, blues, jazz, rock and roll, soul, rock, R and B. Now some of her biggest hits where the Wallflowers at last? Tell Mama nothing got a hold of me. I'd rather go blind. Now She's in the Rock and Roll and Blues Hall of Fames. When she was younger, though, she had a really bad heroin problem ruined her career. Then after twenty years of addiction, she spent seventeen months in the hospital getting cleaned and when she got out, Yeah, she ended up becoming having a really good career long time too. She had two sons from two different boyfriends. Then she got married in nineteen sixty nine. Now Ear and her husband they got popped for heroin possession, but he took the whole blame for it. Yeah, he ended up doing ten years in prison so she can go back home and work. They were actually back, they were still together and Edi died from leukemi in twenty twelve at seventy three years old. Actor Diyna mine Off She is sixty nine. She was born in New York City in nineteen fifty six. Her biggest movie was Greece.

8:12 She played Marty on TV. She was on Soap and then empty Ness. She's been married to her second husband since nineteen ninety seven and they have three sons. Actors Jennifer Lewis is sixty eight. She was born in Kinlock, Missouri, in nineteen fifty seven. Started out on Broadway. Then she is a backup singer for Bette Midler. Now as an actress, she always plays the mom. Yep, well, similar movies, What's Love Got to do with that? The Preacher's wife, those Brothers movies, Think like a Man movies, the wedding ringer, yep. She's always the mom. She calls herself the mother of Black Hollywood. She even played the mom on the TV show Blackish. She had a daughter and then she got married in twenty twelve.

8:52 In Town and She's not fucking time fight. Forty four year old Alicia Keys was born in Manhattan, New York. In nineteen eighty one. She sold over ninety million records Fallen Girl on Fire, You don't know my name? If I ain't got you my boo. That was with Russia or Rusher they got. That's some of her heads and she's won fifteen Grammy Awards. Now. Her first acting job was when she was four years old. She was in an episode of The Cosby Show.

9:36 Yeah. She played one of Rudy's friends at a slumber party. Alicia, she married twenty ten and they have two sons. Let's talk some more about Irish coffee. Irish cosfe. It was invented nineteen forty two over Inn Island. See a plane of American pack with passengers on it. It was all American in airline flight. Well, they were delayed at takeoff because of bad weather. Well, the chef at the airport restaurant. He noticed that they were freezing their butts off just sitting out there, so to warm them up, he put a Irish whiskey and their coffee and give to him worked really really well. Well, thank you. For following us today, and don't forget to come to Country Underground Radio. You can go to Country Underground Radio dot com or just google it to find the best independent country music anywhere on the Internet. Mary but Tyler Moore, she died today in twenty seventeen, eighty years old. Mary said, take chances, make mistakes, that's how you grow. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.