Jan 27th-Chocolate Cake, Mozart, Tracy Lawrence, Faith No More, Bailey Zimmerman, Holocaust Remembrance Day

0:10 Happy Monday, everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about to day visit about cool media to day's January the twenty seventh. My favorite old the cakes make some more tight spots. Wants to sing? Whoa chocolate cake? Chocolate Today? It is National Chocolate Cake Day. Chocolate. It is the number one choice of their favorite cake. Batty large margin first recipes for chocolate cake. They started a periaring of cookbooks in the eighteen forties. Now the box of chocolate cake mixes, you know, the ones that make it really easy to cook at chocolate cake started coming out in the nineteen thirties. Now, if you behave yourself over the weekend, I think you deserve to start the week off with the cheat day. The rest of us, Yeah, we'll have a cheat day too. You know, some chocolate cake today? All right? This is going on entertainment on January the twenty seventh. Back to nineteen ninety three number one album was the Bodyguard movie soundtrack. Whitney used to sing most of those songs, and she had the number one song with I Will Always Love You, don't we both? No, I'm not with you? You mean Randy Travis had the

1:40 number one country song with look Heart, no Hands, no Fancy, no wall, no let just you catch me fall, no Hand. The number one book was The Bridges of Madison County were Robert James Waller. The top movie was Aladdin. A really nice streak kid and a mean visor. They both go after a magic lamp that can make their wishes come true, voiced by Robin Williams, Linda Larkin, and Scott Winer a r What happened on January of the twenty seventh Back in seventeen seventy three, England's Captain James Cook, him and his ships. They begame the first across the Arctic Circle. Now, it was kind of cold down there and they didn't know what they were doing, so they just kind of piddled around and came back up north. Today, in eighteen twenty a Russian expedition it was led by Fabian Billingshauser and Mikhael Lazarev. They were the first people actually see the continent of Antarctica. Now they circum they have navigated the whole thing twice, but yeah, they didn't put foot on it. A year later, though, an American seal hunter named John Davis. Yeah, he's actually the first person to step onto Antarctica. Eighteen seventy at DePauw University in Indiana, the first sorority was found in It was called Kapa alf Thea. Now they actually called themselves a female fraternity. It was not until eighteen eighty two at Syracuse University when Gamma Phi Beta was founded. Yeah, they called themselves sorority. So they were first one is not

3:11 to be a female fraternity, So all the other female attorneys thought sorority sound of betters. They all switched to. Now, although all the sororities use Greek letters in order to you know, spell out their names, sorority is actually Latin. Yeah, I mean Sister nineteen forty at a CCC camp in Floyd County, Georgia, got done a negative seventeen degrees still their record cold temperature in Georgia. Nineteen forty four. In World War Two, the Soviet Union it was finally able to repel the German army. Yeah, from his siege that it was doing on Leningrad. Say, it was one of the worst sieges in world history. Lasted eight hundred and seventy two days. A million Soviet soldiers died trying to free the city. A million citizens inside Linigrn died in and during the stage five hundred thousand German soldiers they were also killed. So what exactly is the siege? Well, it's basically it's pretty simple. The military surrounds the city and the cut soft all the essential supplies they need, you know, food, water, power, that kind of stuff. Yeah, forces a city to surrender. Today is actually a pretty somber day. Yeah. It is the International Day of commemorating the victims of the Holocaust. It's called the International Holocaust Remembrance Day. It was today. In nineteen forty five, the Soviet Union Army it liberated the Auschwitz and Berkanal concentration camps over there in Poland. Nineteen sixty seven, in Cape Canaveral in Florida, NASA, they were doing a launch rehearsal for the Apollo I spacecraft that they were going to launch into space. Yes, they were practicing. A fire broke out in the spacecraft killed all three astronauts on board, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chafey. Nineteen seventy the movie rating system changed. Yeah, they used to have

4:43 a rating called m. It was for mature audiences. Yeah, they changed it to PG for peranium Gardens suggested. Nineteen seventy three, the United States, North, yet Mom and South Vietnam. They all signed it a cease file that ended the Vietnam War. So that come with that ended no more war. So the first thing that happened was the United States Selective Service, no more draft. They stopped that immediately. But sadly, Colonel William Noldy, he was killed by an artillery show eleven hours before the ceasefire went into effect. Yeah, he was the last American soldier was killed during the Vietnam War. His number was fifty seven thousand, five hundred and ninety seven. JP Coop joked, joke, show this Shibbert Day. Please don't pause.

5:26 He left this shib day. We want simple cage. Let this Shibbert Day. And you know we don't do well. Let's check out. It was born on January of the twenty seventh, seventeen fifty six. Wolfgang ama Dan's Mozart was born in Salzburg and what today is Austria. It's considered the greatest composer of all time, composed over eight hundred different works, did it in every genre symphony, opera, chamber of music, choir music, if people played or sang it, and he wrote it. Now, Mozart he figured out that since he had already mastered the violin, he had already mastered the piano, he should probably start composing. He did.

6:18 He was five years old. Now. He had loved to really dress flamboyantly with elegant and elaborate clothing. He always wore a white rig whenever he was in public. He kind of had like strawberry blonde here. But he was a little guy. He was only five foot four and really skinny. He had like pock marks on his face from having a small box when he was a kid. Now, if you're really interested in Mozart, just check out the movie Ama Dais. I'll tell you everything you need to know. He got married in seventeen eighty two and they had six kids, but only two of them survived intency Mozart. He died in seventeen ninety one, thirty five years old. They don't know why. I mean, he did have health issues off and on pretty much his whole life, but they don't know if that contributed to it or a lot of people back then they thought he was murdered. Writer Lewis Carroll. He was born in Darsbury, England, in eighteen thirty two. He wrote poetry and short stories, and one day he was at a church picnic. Now he wrote a boat across the lake to get to the refreshment stand on the other side. Well, in the boat was a ten year old little girl named Alice Lindall and her sisters. Well, Alice knew that he wrote, so she asked him to tell him a story. So he made up a story about a little girl named Alice who fell down a rabbit hole. Then she had quite the adventure after that. Well, it turned out that boat right across the lake. Yeah, it gave him his two biggest books he ever had, Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass Nowis. He died from lincefluenza in eighteen ninety eight, sixty five years old. Actor Howard McNair. He

7:52 was born in Los Angeles in nineteen oh five. He was best known for playing Floyd the Barber on The Andy Grifflith Show. I first got known on the radio. He voiced Cocky Adams on Gun Smoke for nine years. Yeah, Gun Smoked It actually started off on the radio, was on there for nine years, and then the TV show for twenty years. Now, when the ave Andy Griffith stroke started, Floyd the Barber he would be up cutting hair and he was bop be bopping all around town and all that. Well, Howard he had himself a stroke now left his left side of his body paralyzed, and he felt bad for him and he didn't want to kick him off the show. So after that you only saw Floyd the Barber, Yeah, just sitting out in front of the barber shop on his stoop. Now, the complications from that stroke that got worse. He ended up dying in nineteen sixty nine and sixty three year old. He was married and had one son.

8:36 Actress Donna Reed. She was born in Dennis and, Iowa in nineteen twenty one. Started acting professionally in nineteen forty one. You might know her best. She was George's wife Mary in the movie He Is a Wonderful Life. Then she went an oscar for Here to her eternity. She was the first big time named movie start to actually go from movies to TV. She had the Donna Reed showed for eight years. She was married to her second husband for twenty six years. When they divorced, they had four children. She married her third husband and in nineteen seventy four. She died in nineteen eighty six at sixty four years old from pancreatic cancer. Retired actress Bridge of Fonda sixty one. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty four. Part of that acting fond of family. Her dad was Peter Fonde. Now. She made her movie debut when she was four. She was in a scene with her dad in the movie Easy Rider. Then she didn't act again until nineteen eighty seven. Some of her movie is where Godfather.

9:24 Three single white female singles Jackie Brown, Lake Placid. She retired in two thousand and two. She's just sad enough, she said, I don't want to do this anymore. So then in two thousand and three she married Danny Elfman. You remember he was the lead singer for the band Oingo Boingo. They have one son, Daddy one on that one. Want to change my clothes? She had Mama the boy weld into good n hell out of every good die. Young country singer Tracy Lawrence is fifty seven. He was born in Texas, Atlanta. Texas in nineteen sixty eight. Now it is a early city. It's Atlantic Test six. It's actually the second largest city in the United States named Atlanta. Yeah, that's five thousand, four hundred people in it. Now some of Tracy's number one songs Sticks and Stones, alibis time marches on Texas Tornado. Now do you remember what movie that song I played from The Good Die Young was in.

10:22 It was Maverick with James Gardner and Mel Gibson. Tracy's going down on tour of February twenty eight. If you want to go see him. He's kicking it off on Corpus Christy. He got married to his third wife in two thousand and they have two kids. What's the lead singer slash rapper for Faith No More. He's Mike Patton. He was born in Eureka, California. He's also six fifty seven. Faith No More. They started in nineteen seventy nine. Mike joined them and started singing for him in nineteen ninet eighty eight. Yeah, that's when they finally had some success.

11:09 Midlife Crisis, Easy Falling to Pieces, Epic that some of their hits, Mike, he's reading at least three solo albums along the side. But he's actually released a bunch of songs in Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and German. Too Married once for seven years old and Between a rockner Place, Red Well and Tasty is Rolling down Your Face When a Wall Down, Dad Door Sween Alone Men in a damn Exausta Country singer Bailey Zimmerman. He was born in two thousand. It's not makes him twenty five. That's an easy one to figure out. He was born in Louisville, Illinois. Now he started releasing music on TikTok just to impressed girls.

11:57 Ended up releasing his first album two years ago. It had the hits on it Falling in Love, Rock in a Hard Place, Religiously. He's going out on tour March first. He's starting out in Florida, all right. One of the most popular chocolate cakes in the entire world. It is the German chocolate cake. Well, it comes from the United States. A guy named Samuel Jerman actually created it. Well, thank you for listening today, and don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on want to come to coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three us and if you hit on the podcast, you'll hear all a bunch of different podcasts. Up the options that you like. Now, let's end with astronaut Gus Grissom, who died in that Apollo went fired. He was forty years old today. Now the conquest of space, it is worth the risk of life. Well, thank you Gus. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.