Jan 2nd-Happy Birthday Georgia, Speed Limit drops to 55MPH, Tia Carrere, Cuba Gooding jr, Hoobastank, Kate Bosworth

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It is about today presented my Cool Media. It is January the second Me my. Friends Chinese buffet. And it was really. Hitting my ummy. And Hi Jeterfield, Bummies, worse commy. Everybody kind of looks casual and Chinese, moufy Chinese. It doesn't have to be Chinese. Any buffet will do. Today's National Buffet Day. The Sweetish they created a buffet and the fifteen hundreds started out as a table to drink schnaps before dinner. Then they turned it into the smortgage board in the eighteen hundreds.

0:53 But by the nineteen hundreds everybody figured out the Swedes were onto something. Now the buffet. It was a good way to feed a lot of people. He's I think everybody likes buffets. You can always find something you like. So if you're not that hungry today, make some plans and go to a buffet this weekend. Just enjoy and grub down. All right, this is going on in entertainment on January second. Let's go back to your two thousand and nine number one album was Fear. Let's buy Taylor Swift Beyonce. I had the number one song with single Ladies Man all my hips and we put it in my berry hundred.

1:35 Breaking a cup can care. That's us a play Rascal Fats. They're the number one country song with here let me say the number one book was Scarpetta by Patricia Cornwell. The top movie was Marley and Me Newlywed's own Wilson and Jennifer Anderson. They adopt the dog. That's pretty much it, all right, let's see it happened on January the second, Happy Birthday Georgia seventeen eighty eight. Georgia became the fourth state. It's named after Britain's King George, the second. Now the capital is Atlanta.

2:50 Highest point is Basstown ball the four thousand and seven and eighty four feet Georgia state bird is the brown thrasher fish, large mount bass flowers, the Cherokee rose tree, Southern live oak. Food is grits and fruit is peaches. Georgia State song is Georgia on My Mind by Ray Charles. Some people born in Georgia Martin Luther King Jr. Julia Roberts, Jackie Robinson, Hulk Cogan, Kanye West, Gladys Knight, Alan Jackson, Ryan Seacrest, Luke Bryant, Doc Holliday. There's some of the people born in a peach state. Eighteen thirty nine. French photographer Louis Deguri. He took the first photo of the moon. All right, let's talk boxing, but knock boxing. We're talking bare knuckles boxing. Eighteen sixty five in Silver City, Montana.

3:33 A walter wait guy named con Orman. He fought a heavyweight guy named Hugh O'Neal. They fought for one hundred and eighty five found or one hundred and eighty five rounds. Yeah, they fight until they had to call it because of darkness. Eighteen ninety Edmund McIlhenny, he was on a hunting trip down there in Louisiana, shot him a nineteen foot two inch alligator. Now that is still the largest alligator ever found, whether it was kept in captivity or shot yep. Never seen an alligator bigger than nineteen feet two inches. Nineteen oh three, Mini Cox she was appointed the postmaster for Indianola, Mississippi. Now she was the first black woman to be a postmaster in Mississippi. The locals in Indianola, they didn't like that at all. It was bad enough they had to have a black postmaster, let alone a female black postman.

4:15 They were so mean to many that she was forced to resign. Well, President Teddy Roosevelt, he heard what was going on down there. He refused your resignation. Yeah, you just shut down the post office. Yeah, the mail for Indianola I was sent to a town thirty miles away. How they got their mail, that was up to them. And since Teddy he refused the resignation Many, she still got paid until the end of her term two years later. Now after that they did actually appoint a different postmaster and they opened their one backup. But now fast forward to two thousand and eight, Indianola, they got themselves a brand new post office building. They named it yep, the Mini Cox US Federal Post Office Building. On January tewod when you think of air conditioning, is the first thing that comes to your mind? Buffalo, New York. Yeah, probably not, but it was today in nineteen oh six in Buffalo, New York, though, Willis Carrier receive the patent for their inventing the world's first air conditioning unit. Yeah, so air conditioning was invented in Buffalo in January nineteen thirty four, Pennsylvania. Yeah, their first state run liquor store opened up. Is still that way today. All liquor stores in Pennsylvania and state run.

5:14 So yeah, it's easier just to get your booze running across the state line. Nineteen fifty nine, the Soviet Allunia Union, they losched l Luna one spacecraft. Now was supposed to be the first man made object to impact the moon. Wow, they missed the moon. So Luna wan it was the first man made object to fly past the sun. Nineteen seventy four, are President Richard Nixon signed into law a bill that made it maximum speed limit. You could drive your car fifty five miles an hour. Yeah, and it was everywhere too. It was on the interstate, state roads, county roads, city roads, at any road they have, the maximum speed limit could be fifty five miles an hour. Well, they did it because they were supposed to cut down on how much gas. Liane was just that it didn't It wasn't even closet.

5:55 Cop coat show shimmer oday. Please don't he left this shibfday. We simple tage he left this shiberfday. And you know we don't give. Okay who was born on January this second. Science fiction writer Isaac Ozamoff. He was born in Petrovochi, Russia, in nineteen twenty moved his whole family over the United States when he was three. Grew up in Brooklyn, now Well. He was one of the top selling sci fi writers of all time. Wrote five hundred books, and he did it while he was teaching biochemistry at Boston University. He had two children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy three. He died in nineteen ninety two, at seventy two years old, from aides He got it from a blood transfusion during heart surgery back in nineteen eighty three. Actor Dadney Coleman. He was born in Austin, Texas, in nineteen thirty two. Grew up in Corpus Christi. Now it sounds like he was a really nice guy, but he played an ass and a lot of movies. Some of them were Towering Inferno, nine to five, Tutsie War Games, You Got Mail. He had one son from his first wife, two daughters, and one son from his second wife, Dabney.

6:58 He just died last May at ninety two years old from heart failure. I ain't got no single writ up for two hours of Pushian Broom baza A twelve four Business Room Mama. Man of means Fine, No means King. Country singer Roger Miller was born in Fort Worth, Texas in nineteen thirty six. Grew up in Oklahoma. Won eleven Grammy Awards and When Tony. Some of his biggest hits are Dang Me Chugger Lug, King of the Road, Little Green Apples. Started out in nineteen fifty seven and performed recorded right up until he died nineteen ninety two and fifty six years old. He had died from throat and lung cancer. He had four children from his first wife, two children from his second wife. Then he had two kids just playing around, and he married his third wife in nineteen seventy seven. Actress Tita Krere. She's fifty eight.

7:52 She's born in Honolulu, Hawaiian nineteen sixty seven. First got known on the soap opera General Hospital. Then she had big playing Cassandra in Waynsworld. She's also in True Lies. She voiced Leelo and Stitch in the movies and the TV show. Now she's won a couple of Grammy Awards. Way Oh Kiki hakuy he knew, he knew Wayoo, he knew heww. Dis. She won her Grammys for her Best Hawaiian Albums Dis.

8:33 She had a daughter from her second nusband. She's twice divorced. Actor Cuba Gooding Junior is fifty seven. He was born in The Bronx, New York, in nineteen sixty eight. His dad Cuba Gooding Senior. Yeah. He was the lead singer for the group The Main Ingredients Junior. His first movie was Coming to America. He played Boy Getting Heir Good that he hit and Boys of the Hood Outbreak As Good as It Gets won an Oscar for Jerry Maguire. He married his high school sweetheart in nineteen ninety four. They had three kids and then divorced in twenty seventeen. Actor Ty Diggs. He was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen seventy one. He's fifty four. Start out on the stage, Yeah, he was starting on Broadway. Then he hit on TV on Private Practice. Some of his movies are How Stella Got Her Grew Back, The Best Man, Chicago Rent. He was married actress Idina Menzel for eleven years and they had a son togetherson Doug Rob. He sings lead for the band Hoopa Stink.

9:47 He's fifty today. He was born in Agrea Hills, California, in nineteen seventy five. Co founded at Hoopa Stink in nineteen ninety four. Some of the guys hits are Crawling in the Dark, Running Away. The reason this sold over ten million albums. Now, no one in the band will tell what hoop of state means. Doug. He has been married since two thousand and eight and they have two kids. Forty two year old actress Kate Bosworth was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty three. She had small roles in The Horse Whisper and Remember the Titans, But then she yet Big and blou Crush, then win a date with Todd Hamilton Superman Returns twenty one. She married her second husband, actor Justin Long, in twenty twenty three. All right, let's talk a little bit more about Georgia. As we said Georgia, it's known as the peach State, but California produces the most peaches in the United States. California actually produces two thirds of all the beaches grown in the United States. Then South Carolina, then the Peach State Georgia. Their third in production. Wow, thank you for joining us today. We appreciate you listening. Neverget to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on.

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