Jan 31st-Hot Chocolate, Ham the Astro Chimp, Justin Timberlake, KC & the Sunshine Band, Tyler Hubbard, The Sex Pistols

0:09 I'm Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about the Day, presenting by Cool Media o Itays. January the thirty first, Today is National Hot Chocolate Day. Now, there is a difference between hot chocolate and hot cocoa. Yes, there is hot chocolate. It's thicker and creamier. Hot cocoa. It's made from cocoa, powdered milk and sugar. Hot chocolate is ground chocolate and contains cocoa butter, so it's better. I mean, they're both pretty good. Hot chocolate got popular in the United States in eighteen hundreds. Yeah, they use hot chocolate as a medicine for stomach problems. But after a while people started thinking, you know what, my stomach feels fine, but I sure would like some hot chocolate drinks some today.

1:00 Don't forget to Tapa with those little diarny marshmallows, or I guess you can use whipped cream. So if you're drinking it because you need to keep warmer, you just want to adult, enjoy that hot chocolate today, all right, this is going on entertainment On January thirty first, after year twenty thirteen, number one album was Burning Lives by Chris Domlin. Bruno Mars had the number one song with locked Out of Heaven. To Sex Takes Me Too Fast First Steady Sex take Sme Too Stop Best that. Sash I'm Gonna lock Up. The band Perry had a number one country song with better Dig two.

1:44 In the Town to Miss six Down, Don't Say Us Just a little too much. Figure that in Bettered Dick two. The number one book was a Memory of Light by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. The top movie was Warm Bodies a zombie He saves a still living girl from being attacked, then they become buds stars Nicholas Holt, Teresa Palmer, and John Melkovic. Nineteen forty nine, the first daytime soap opera went on the air, These Are My Children. It was about an irishwoman who ran in boarding house. Now it was sponsored by Procter and Gamble, so they advertised soap in another household product for women. Yeah, that's why they're called soap operas. What happened in the world on January thirty first, Well, we're starting out on fire. Today seventeen forty seven, the world's first venereal disease clinic opened up in a hospital on London, England. Now penicillin it won't be discovered for an other than one hundred and fifty years.

2:46 Makes you wonder what they did now. Veneerial disease was first mentioned around four inner BC. It was over in Greece. Now I didn't know what he was talking about, but he sure described gonerrhea to a t. It was Hippocrates. Now they do believe though the ancient agents Greeks and Romans all kind of referred to VD and when we were another like way early on, like thirty five hundred BC. So all of you who went to a high school or college, do you know what the word campus means? Well, it's Latin. Yeah, it means field. It was first used today in seventeen seventy four was to describe Princeton University. It's kind of funny VD in college. Back to back. Eighteen sixty five, by a vote one hundred and twenty one to twenty four United States Congress, they passed the Thirteenth Amendment through the United States Constitution. It abolished slavery and involuntary servitude. That's right. I think everybody knows the Thirteenth Amendment got rid of slavery. But not totally. No, it's still in there today. It says that slavery can be used as punishment for our crime if person has been convicted for it. That's right. See, that's what they used to justify when they have all those prisoners on chain gangs doing manual labor. So yeah, that's that we're allowed to do it. No, never changed it or amended it yet. Daytona Beach, Florida. In nineteen oh five, Britain's Arthur McDonald he became the first dude to drive an automobile over undred miles an hour. It is up to one hundred and four on the sands of Daytona Beach.

4:02 Seems kind of early for spring break. In nineteen thirty Scotch tape went on sale. It had thirty three dollars in sales that first year. Now, when Richard Drew invented the clear tape, he only had adhesive on the edges of the tape, so when you use it, it quickly fell off, and his customers would come back and told him take back this scotch tape. Let's say, back then, the term scotch it was meant. It was really derogratory. It meant cheap. Then after he fixed it by putting the adhesive all the way across the strip, he just kept the name Scotch Tape nineteen forty five. Over in France and World War two, United States Private Eddie Slovak. He was executed by firing squad. A US firing squad was for desertion. Now he was the only US soldier executed for desertion. During World War Two. Over twenty one thousand men were convicted of desertion, but he was the only one executed. So why Eddie, Well, don't really know.

4:48 It's pretty unclear. I mean, it could have been because he had a prison background before he got drafted into the army and everybody pretty much agreed the guy was a total lass and the Mighty Army they might have just used that kind of ex sendim say. No one really knows, and if they know, they took it to their grave with them. Martin Sheen played him in the movie Now Eddie. He was the first person, the first soldier in the military to be executed for just desertion since the Civil War, and since Eddie, no other soldier has ever been executed for desertion since Now the word computer. It was originally used to describe a person today. In nineteen fifty eighth, the United States successfully launched it's for satellite into space. It was Explorer one. Now the trajectory calculations, they're all done by hand by an all female team.

5:31 They called those women computers. Then when the machines took their job. Yeah, they just turned the word computers over the machines. Now Explore one. It remained in a space until nineteen seventy, So those women did some pretty fancy computing. In nineteen sixty one, the United States launched the first primate into space in world history. It was Ham, the astrochimp. Now Ham. He survived the trip just fine. He came back. He was a celebrity. He lived in Zeus until he died from old age in nineteen eighty three. Nineteen seventy, the guys in the band Grateful Day, they were arrested for drugs in New Orleans. I know, hard to believe. Well, it turns out the band owed the mob down in Texas money and the Texas mobsters were starting to get really mad. And I'm guessing the dead were pretty high, you know, high per Yeah, every knew who they were, so they were kind of too high profile to whack.

6:16 So what the mobsters? They turned them over to the authorities. Yeah, the Dead sing about it in their song Trucking nineteen ninety five. The United States President Bill Clinton, he was trying to avoid an illegal immigration problem, so he gave Mexico twenty billion dollar loan. Yeah, so they could stabilize their economy so their people wouldn't be crossing the border illegally. Doesn't see if it worked. Bo doked cojked goat shuge thish shivers day. We gonna he left this shiverfday. We want simple target this shiver birthday. And you know we don't get word. Okay, let's check out. It was born on January the thirty first. On that hand, maybe quite continental A dime's best friend.

7:03 I kissed her baby grand bud. If you don't pay the mental on your humblo flamily. That was Carol Channing. She's a comedian, actress, singer. She was born in Seattle, Washington in nineteen twenty one. It's most famous for her unique voice. I think I caught more annoying than unique, but it worked for her. Now she had big success on Broadway. She started doing Broadway in nineteen forty one when she was twenty. She did Broadway until she was in her nineties. Biggest shows that she started in were Hello Dolly and Gentleman of Her Blonds. In nineteen fifty six, she was starting in a movie called The First Traveling Sales Lady, and then she gave this unknown actor named Clint Eastwood his first on screen kiss. She had a son from her second husband. She married her fourth husband in two thousand and three. They'd actually gone They've been boy and girlfriend when they were back in junior high Carol. She died from natural causes in twenty nineteen at ninety seven years old.

7:56 Hello Yep. That was the opening for the original Bob Newhart Show. Actress Suzanne Plichette. She was born in Brooklyn Knights in New York in nineteen thirty seven. She started out on Broadway. She's best known non for playing Bob's wife on The Bob Newhart Show. Now she did play his wife in the very last episode of New Heart. Some of her movies were The Birds, The Ugly Docks, and The Shaggy Da. She boys Zerra in Lion King two, Our first husband was tin Io Troy Donahue. They were married six months.

8:38 She married her second husband in nineteen sixty eight. They were together to her husband died in two Then in two thousand and one, she married actor Tom postin Yeah the Guy. He was in both the New Heart series. Now they had actually met in nineteen fifty nine and always been kind of friends, but now they were both widowed, so what the hell they went and got married. Tommy died in two thousand and seven. Suzanne she died the next year from lung cancer, a seventy years old. Shake now, if you want to shake, shake, shake your beauty. Casey in the Sunshine Band. They kicked off their twenty twenty five tour yesterday in Pennsylvania. They will be on the road through April with youre going to try and check them out. Harry Wayne Casey. He is Casey. He's seventy four.

9:31 He's born in Appallaca, Florida. In nineteen fifty one, found a Casey in the Sundan's Band in nineteen seventy three, sold over one hundred million records. That's the way I like it. Shake, Shake, Shake, I'm your boogeyman. Get down tonight boogie shoes, yeah, some of their hits. Now he is the only permanent member of the thing, but when they perform in concert live, yeah, there are twelve musicians that make up the Sunshine Band. To them all, Queen, that's Johnny Rotten. He was the lead singer for the Sex Pistols. He was born in Ferensbury Park, England, in nineteen fifty six, sixty nine years old today. Now the sex Pistols they get credit for starting the punk rock music movement back in nineteen seventy five. They were elected into the Rock and Ro'll Hall of Fame a little over ten years ago. They refused to attend the show.

10:31 They quoted saying, the whole thing is a pistain. I guess we're British. We know what that meant. Our biggest songs where God Saved the Queen, Come on, everybody, anarchy in the UK, freaking the rigging. Now, they were really big over in Europe, in the UK, not in the United States, so no over here they were just considered an underground band, never even got any airplay or anything like that. So they were together on three and a half years. Then Johnny's he went and did solo, but he's still doing some solo stuff. It looks like, but he actually performs under his born name. He was born John Lytton. He left Johnny Rotten when he left the Sex Pistols, got married nineteen seventy nine. Him and his wife died in twenty twenty three. Actor actress Kelly Lynch is sixty three. She was born in Golden Valley, Minnesota in nineteen fifty nine. She first got known in the movie Cocktail, then Roadhouse, Drugstore, Cowboy, Curly Sue. On TV, she was on The L Word. She married writer producer Mitch Clays in nineteen ninety two and they have a daughter, god Shine.

11:42 In Queen. That was actress Mini Driver. She's fifty five. She was born in London, England. In nineteen seventy made her TV debut in a Right Guard, theodoran commercial, and she moved on to movies Circle of Friends, Gross Point Blank, Goodwill, Hunting. It's nominated for an oscar for that, The Phantom of the Opera, Not Nandor and Fodor, and The Talking Mongoose Many. Her and a ex boyfriend had a son. She's been with her current boyfriend since twenty nineteen. The rumor is that they're actually engaged. She released three albums over the years. That song I played was Invisible Girl. Yeah, it was off her second album. If you want to go download. Actress Kerrie Washington. She was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen seventy seven, and it was her forty eight She first did on the TV show Scandal.

12:29 You have. Her movies are Saved, The Last Dance. She was a Lisia Masters in some Fantastic four movies. Then she was on the King of Scotland, The Last King of Scotland, I believe, and then she was Her best movie was Django Unchained. I think she was just they have a thing out now, this was a really good show. You know who Tyler Perry is, right, Well, he has this show about all these women. It's called six Triple eight. It's on Netflix. Yeah, she's starring in that one. And that is the biggest watch show that Tyler Perry's ever put on Netflix. So pretty cool, now, Carrie. She got married twenty thirteen and they have a daughter and a son. Shift justin Timberlake. He's forty four. He was born in nineteen eighty one and Memphis tennis, saying you start out on the new Mickey Mouse Club. You on here thirteen year old Justin.

13:30 Because I'm said because you up as I child old man. Since then, Justin sold over seventy million records with in sync and over ninety million solo records. Now he was in Insic nineteen ninety five to two thousand and two. He's going out on his solo tour February third. He's gonna turn to the end of July. I you want to see Justin timberlate. He's done quite a bit of acting. Some of his movies were The Love Guru, The Social Network, Friends with Benefits. He voiced in the Trolls movie. Married actress Jessica Bill in twenty twelve and they have two Sonsia.

14:11 But your move, girl, Oh yeah, I'll take you dancing in the country and love me Freemy all the band. Never Never. Country singer Tyler Hubbard is thirty eight. He is born in Monroe, Georgia, in nineteen eighty seven. Now, I met Brian Kelly in college at Belmont University in Nashville. Kelly was born in Florida, so they started the country dual Florida and Georgia Line. Now Tyler he did most of the singing. They have eighteen number one songs now. I don't even know if they like each other or if they're ever gonna get back together, but since twenty twenty two they are on indefinite high. Well, it worked out good for Tyler though. He's had a lot of success with his first solo album. Yeah, and he's kicking off his solo tour on the twenty twenty visit. He's getting off of twenty twenty five solo tour out there in San Antonio on Valentine's Day. So if you're in San Antonio and you want to take your lady out for the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo, yeah, make sure you see the Tyler show too. He got married in twenty fifteen and they have two sons and a daughter now in So that was Marcus Mumford singing lead for

15:50 the folk group Mumford and Sons. He's also thirty eight. He was born and you're buta Linda, California. Grew up in Gingland. Yeah, he moved there when he was six months old. Now, he and his band made They formed Mumford and Sons in two thousand and seven. But they were doing They wanted a name that sounded like an antiquated family business. So I gets Mumford and Son Hits. Now they're a lot bigger than the UK and Europe than they are over here on this side of the pond. They're big as it's over air. Just little lying man the cave and I will wait. Marcus he got married twenty twelve and they have three children. Let's talk some more about hot chocolate. The largest cup of hot chocolate all time, eight hundred and eighty gallons. It was made in Tampa, Florida. Makes sense in twenty thirteen they is eleven hundred pounds of cocoa and eighty seven gallons of powdered milk. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. I know you listen to us on I want to hear that best country music out there.

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