July 12th-Pecan Pie, Longest fingernail Milton Berle, Bill Cosby, Cheryl Ladd, Christine McVie, Gin Blossoms

0:19 Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff in Today's July the twelfth. Give me a P, give me an E, give me a C, give me hey, give me an give. Me a P, give me an eye. Give me COMPI come pie, P COMPI. Today is National Pecan Pie Day. Pecans. They are native to North America and Pecans by themselves, they're actually very healthy for you. Pecan pie. Yeah, not so much. Now, that's kind of hot. Outs. I had to be bacon today. But if that's your thing, hey, go for it. Rest of us, I guess we'll just go out and enjoy some peacon pie. But we can't eat too much. No, we want to look good. Today is International Skinny Dipping Day. Okay, let's see what's going on entertainment on July the twelfth. Back in nineteen fifty eight, the number one album was the Music Man movie soundtrack.

1:12 Cheb Welly had the number one song with the Purple People Eater. But I saw the thing coming out of the sky had a one long horn, one big guy. I co mister shaking in the sid it looks like a Purple People eater than me. It was a one eyed, one horn Flying. Purple People Eater? What one horn fur one? I had one horn Flying Purple People Eater. Johnny Cash had the number one country song with Guess things happen that way? Well, you asked me a file forgetting my baby, I. Guess I will some day. I don't like it, but I. Guess having a good way.

1:55 You asked me a file get along, I guess I would some way. I don't like it. The top selling book was Anatomy of a Murder by Robert Trevor. Top movie was The Vikings. A slave and a Viking prince. They fighted over the love of a princess. Stars Kirk Douglas, Tony Curtis, Ernest borgnine Genitly it was today nineteen sixty two, the Rolling Stones played their first gig. Yeah, the show was at the Marquee Club in London. The band got twenty five bucks for it. Not a piece, the whole band got twenty five You know what, It's probably pounds though, if it was over in London. All right, let's see what happened. On July the twelfth, sixteen thirty, the governor of New Amsterdam which is New York today, he bought Goal Island from a Native American tribe today.

2:42 That is Ellis Island, eighteen fifty nine in Manchester, Massachusetts, William Gooddell, he invented a machine for making paper bags. Kind of impressive, but I wonder where he got the paper. Now, the legend of wild Bill Hitcock began today. In eighteen sixty one. It was a Rock Creek, Nebraska. He shot and killed David Mcallis. Yeah, later found not guilty of murder. Yeah, the jury said that it was self defense. But his legend began nineteen hundred and Bittercreek, Wyoming and got up to one hundred and fourteen degrees still the Wyoming state record for hottist temp. Now this was way before ice. Even in nineteen seventeen of miners they went out strike in Brisbee, Arizona. Vigilanties kidnapped and deported thirteen hundred of those striking miners. Now, the trucking industry, there was revolution to ie today. In nineteen forty Frederick Jones have been in an air conditioning unit for trucks. Yeah, so now we could actually ship all kinds of food across the land for long haul. Nineteen fifty seven, Dwight eyesenow I became the first president to find a helicopter. Now, well he was doing that. His surgeon general, his name was Leroy Bernie. He became the first federal and public official in the United States to acknowledge the connection between smoking and lunk cancer. Lero, he is actually a heavy smoker.

3:46 Today it's actually National Etches Sketch Day. Also in nineteen sixty that just Sketch went on sale. Nineteen seventy sax On TV Family Feud, Yeah, hosted by Richard Dawson. Yea debut back in nineteen fifty two over in India Shihar Chilella. He stopped growing his fingernails. So now he had to fast forward sixty six years to twenty eighteen. See now he is sixty eighty one years old and now his hands had this figure mine. They were deformed, had nerd damage, loss of function. Yeah, So what they did is they took some power songs to cut off all those fingernails. Yeah, they were record setting, as you can probably imagine. So all together they measured three hundred and fifty eight inches long, that's almost thirty feet and one of his thumbs, that nail was the longest. It was seventy eight inches longer about six and a half feet. Sounds pretty gross, right, but you can actually go see him. Yep, they're under play hit the Ripley's Believer or Not Museum in New York City. Joke joke, joke, joke, huge, this shibarth Day, We're gonna pause.

4:41 He left this Shiverthday. We gonna simple page. He like this shiverbth Day. And you know we don't give the birthday. Born on July the twelfth, Comunitian actor Milton Burrow. He was born in mad At in New York in nineteen oh eight. He was in show business over eighty years. He started out as the Brester brown Boy in shoe advertisements. Then he did vaudeville theater, radio, TV movies. Nineteen forty eight, Milton, he became the first big TV star. Yeah, he hosted the Texico Star Theater every Tuesday night. He had ninety percent of the share of the audience. I'm thinking there might have only been one channel that ran for eight years. He played Vegas a lot over the years. That was kind of his big thing. The last acting really did was in two thousand. It was on Keenan and Kill he formed The Friar's Cub and he's hanging around all his entertainment friends. He married and divorced his first wife twice.

5:29 They had one child each time there Mary he had one child, and his next wife nineteen ninety one he dialed ninety. He married his third wife fourth time. Anyway, they were together until he died from coman cancer in two thousand and two. Ninety three years old. And a single showing on you has with me a game in private job. Well, since he served his time in prison, I think we can talk about him again. Comedian and actor Bill Cosby's eighty nine. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen thirty seven. He ran track and played football for Temple University.

6:18 Started doing stand up in nineteen sixty one. Now he is still one of the most successful stand up comedians of all time. Whether you like I Run On, He released over twenty country albums or comedy albums and videos. Now the first series on TV he was on His Ice Spy. Then he voiced Fat Aubert. He had turned in sixty episodes on The Electric Company, hit absolutely huge in the nineteen eighties with The Cosby Show. The nineties, he just did Cosby. He received seventy two honorary doctorates from college and universities. Sixty two of him rescinded. Yeah, when he was convicted of sexual assault basically rape day. He got married in nineteen sixty four. I had five children. His only son he was murdered, and one of his daughters. She died waiting for a kidney transplant. So that was Christine McVie singing for Fleetwood Mac. She was born perfect. Yeah, her name was Christine Perfect. She's born in nineteen forty three in Greenot, England. She started out in the band Chicken Shack. Then in nineteen seventies she loved Chicken Shack and joined Fleetwood Mac. Now she didn't sing lead a lot, and she mostly played keyboard and did backup sing, but she did a lot of their songwriting. Yeah, she wrote her cover pretty much all her heads. I mean eight of the ten songs that are on Fleetwood Max Greatest Hits, so yeah, she wrote them. She married John mcvee for eight years, then she married her second Usbin for seventeen years until they divorced. Christine she died from a stroke

7:51 in twenty twenty two. It's seventy nine years old. Actress Cheryl Attis seventy five. She's going to here on South Dakota in nineteen fifty one. Started out as a singer. Ye. She started singing in tour with the group The Music Shop. Then she sang in that cartoon Josie and the pussy Cats those around nineteen seventy. Then she started hitting getting regular acting jobs. So she did that hit really big on the TV show Charlie's Angels. Yeah, she replaced farrelh Fawcett. After that, she was on the TV show Lats Vegas. Biggest movie probably Poison Ivy sure how she had a daughter from her first seasin. She married her second husband in nineteen eighty one. Robin Wilson sings late for the jin Blossoms. Robin sixty one. He was born in Detroit nineteen sixty five. Grew up in Tempe, Arizona. Now they're actually on tour right now. I know they in August.

8:50 If you want to go see him, you go see him with your hair as hey, jealousy found out about you till I hear it from you. Follow you damn now. The singer for the band the Smiths. He died back in twenty seventeen, Ruh Robin. He fills in for the Smith Rings every once in a while. His wife is actually the state manager for Saturday Night Live, and they have two kids. Actress Michelle Rodriguez is forty eight. She's born in San Antonio in nineteen seventy eight. On TV, she started a loss, then she started playing left your t's and all those fast in the Furious Movie, Van Franchise movies. She was also in a couple of Resident Evil movies swat Avatar. Now, Michelle, she didn't know she didn't have a driver's license when they started filming that very first fast in the Furious movie. Yeah, they made her go get one, you know, since the movie is kind of all about like driving cars.

9:35 Stuff time. It's saday bly say blame me down on a set of roses. Sat in the miser. Send Me Away. That was Kimberly Perry singing for the band Perry. She's forty three, born in Jackson, Mississippi, in nineteen eighty. Now she and her two brothers. They formed band Perry in two thousand and five. They had to hitch If I die young, you lie all your life better dig two. Now they've been on hiatus since twenty twenty three. I mean they can't break up. I mean that would make Christmas and thanks Giving really weird. Kimberly. She's released a solo album since then, and she's been married to her first her second husband since two twenty twenty one, and they just recently had a son. Alrighty are. Quote of the day is gonna come from the fourth first Lady of the United States, Dolly Madison. She died to day in eighteen forty nine at eighty one years old. Dolly said, it is one of my sources of happiness. Never to desire knowledge of another person's business. Well, thank you all for listening. No forey to follow us on who you listen to us on? Comes here as a cool media dot com that's cool with three yohs our country underground radio artists. Today comes from Jen out There and Here's Burg, Pennsylvania.

10:48 She wants to hear Brinley Addington song No thanks, you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no smoke, no cold beird, no thirty jokes, no country cute. It is no cheating drinks, no good and noise, No thanks. I wanna go where the Knight's gonna go. Juke box on a band play in solid country, gold gap. Feeling big City Gone, getting nitty gritty, all with the pretty cherry. Bomb on the dance floor. I wanna feel the wind makes me feel when the good times runner ain't renvent the will Now, I.

11:31 Gotta say, that's in my kind of place. So WHI it is a mall in itify it ain't no taste, bout service v IP over read it. You asked me DJ spend feel in the blank, thank you kind of it, do no things. I wanna go where the knife's gonna go. Juke I sah. A man playing solid country go yeah. We in the big city, all getting diddy gritty, all with the pretty Jerry.

12:15 Com on the dancefort. I'm on the bill the wind makes with bill When the good Times old one ain't ren the little wideo Now, I gotta say, as Mick, I play, so if it is a morning, if it ain't no thing,