July 15-Be a Dork, Rembrandt, Linda Ronstadt, Forest Whitaker, Gabriel Iglesias, Killer Bees, Napoleon

0:10 He Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about to day visited by cool media. Today's July the fifteenth. Isn't it clear? I'm a dork for you. Dude, dude, you make me feel like a geek. Can you make my heart goes? Squeak, squeak, You are the soles of my shoe. I'm a dork for you. Yeah, it's National Be a Dork Day. A dork is a person who lacks social skills, has eccentric interest in hobbies, and has bad fashion sinse. Any guessing where the word dork came from. Well, in eighteen hundreds, dork was a derogatory term for pnis. You happened in the nineteen sixties, I switched over to be a socially awkward person with bad fashion sense.

0:56 Girls, they actually used dork more playfully than boys. Boys used dork as an insult. Let's be honest. We can all be a dork from time to time. So let's celebrate today by not carrying what society things, being confident in our own skin and doing what we feel like. And we have to watch the movie Dumb and Dummer. All right, this is going on entertainment on July fifteenth. In the year nineteen ninety five, number one album was History, Past President, Future Book One by Michael Jackson. TLC had the number one song with Waterfalls, Oh jat Falls s j Entual I told you all, Thank you John Michael Montgomery had the number one country song was sold I Send pay pretty Lady. Won't you give me a sign? I give anything to beach picking. Yeah, I've never seen anyone looking so fund I gotta haven't seen it. One of them going flasky. The second road n the top book was Beach Music by Pat Conroy. Top movie it was Apollo thirteen. It tells the story of how NASA got fled Apollo thirteen back to Earth after a major malfunction. Stars Tom Hanks, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Bacon. All Right, what happened on July the fifteenth, seventeen forty one? Russia Sea Captain Alexi Cherkhoff he saw some unknown land. Yeah,

2:30 it wasn't on any charts or anything, so he sent some men on shore to check it out and claim it for Russia. Yeah, they're the first Europeans to visit Alaska. Seventeen ninety nine Napoleon soldiers who were fighting in Egypt. They were digging in the sand trying to find some stable land to build a fort near Rosetta, Egypt. Well, they found what is today known as the Rosetta Stone. Now the stone is believed to have been carved around one ninety six BC. It's actually a decree. But see what's on it is they wrote it on it in ancient Egyptian hieraroglyphics, ancient egypt script, in ancient Greek. And by seventeen ninety nine no one could read any of the old Egyptian hieroglyphics. No one could read what was in the Egyptian pyramids, the tombs, the statues, monuments, all that kind of stuff.

3:12 Yeah, no one had any idea what they said. But now because the Rosette istin now they could read them Breton. They defeated France and a couple of years later so they took the Rosetta Zone back with them to London. It's in the museum today. Eighteen oh six, when Lewis and Clark were sent to explore what was bought in the Louisiana purchase, Jefferson told them to go all the way west to the Pacific Ocean. Now he had different orders to Zebulon Pike. Pike was to go to the Canadian border and go all the way south to the Mexican border and check out what was bought. So him and his men left today from Fort Belle Fontaine in Missouri. They were to explore the Great Plains, Rocky Mountains, Arkansas and Red Rivers, and the Spanish settlements in New Mexico. And it's not as famous as the Lewis and Clark exposition, but he's got Pike's peak eighteen fifteen. Well, we're back to Napoleon was defeated the first time and sending into exile on Alba.

4:01 He came back and then started one hundred days war. Wow, it was one hundred and ten days. But he had to surrender from that today again. And so now he's going to be exiled to Saint Helena Island. It's a remote island in the Southern Atlantic. He died there six years later, eighteen sixty nine. Working for the French Navy hippot Mega O Mornes, he invented Margarine nineteen twenty two in New York City at the Bronx Zoo first time ever in a zoo, A duck bill platypus was put on display. Nineteen fifty four in Balcony Falls, Virginia sept their state record at one hundred and ten degrees. In India, the cost of weddings had gotten so out of control that in nineteen ninety two the city of Arisa they passed the law sending a limit on what you could pay for a wedding eight hundred bucks. No more than a iron Bucks. But see eight hundred bucks at that time that was the average Indians yearly salary. Yeah, and you could only have fifty guests. So if you went over the intern bucks who had more than fifty guests six years in jail. The ninety three killer bees that officially made it the United States, an eighty two year old rancher in Texas was the first person the United States killed by the Africanized bees. In twenty twelve, some believed it is the greatest day in the history of music. Open Condam Stars, coming them, start Oop, come them start coming them, start Oop Dumm Star. South Korean singer PSI He Really Is Gangam Style went up to

5:33 number one in thirty six countries. Luckily, the United States didn't fuf for that crap. Now up here, it only got up to number two. Gop CO cop goat shoge this shivebarth day, We're gonna pause. He left this shiver birthday. We gonna sit plecage. He left this ship birthday. And you know we don't give up because the birthday. Let's it was born on July the fifteenth. Rem Brandt considered one of the greatest artists of all time. He was one rim Brandt Hermizoon van Wrenn in Leiden, Dutch Republic, in sixteen oh six. Made over six hundred paintings, four hundred etchings and two hundred drawings. He painted everything from portraits to Bible scenes, history events, mythology, animals. So if you really want to sound smart, if you're at a cocktail party and they're talking art, just say that rim Brand's greatest paintings were The Night Watch, Storm at Sea or the Jewish Bride.

6:26 Now he is self portrait. It's called the Standard Bear. A couple of years ago. So for one hundred and one hundred and ninety eight million bucks, rim Brand he Biden died. He married in sixteen thirty four. They had four children. His wife died in sixteen forty two. He died in sixteen sixty nine at sixty three years old, and nobody knows why. Linda Ron's dad. She's seventy eight. Born in Tucson, Arizona, in nineteen forty six. She was a top pop female artist in the nineteen seventies.

7:11 She was the first female singer to actually tour and perform an arenas. She's only twenty four year albums over the years when rock, pop, folk, country, and Spanish soldo over one hundred million records. Remember her biggest hit, star Blue Bayou Different Drum, You're No Good It's so easy. She had to retire in twenty eleven. Yeah, she came down with the disease that's a lot like Parkinson's, so we was sure the best. It sounds like she's out of quite the fight. She does have a son and a daughter on the seventy one year old the Milicithip Bridges was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in nineteen fifty three. When she was twelve, she had her own radio show every Saturday Night and Shelby, North Carolina. I Love the Nightlife. That was pretty much her only big hit, I Mean.

8:07 She released other music and she worked as a DJ and a bunch of dance club. She has been an open lesbian since she was only a teenager, A new neighbors who lives, downshes and understand even just to take good like He's one of them. Charles Shots, Love, Days and Night. Actor Willie Eames. He was born in nineteen sixty in Newport Beach, California, sixty four today known for TV first got known on Eights or Not, and he's best known for playing Buddy on Charles in Charge. Now. He starred in Bible Man and Kids Christians or Yeah the Christmas Shuries. He did it from nineteen ninety five to two thousand and three. He had a son from his first wife, a daughter from his second wife, married his third wife and twenty fourteen actor Forrest. He was born in Longview, Texas in nineteen sixty one. Sixty three year old in college at the University of Southern cal started out studying opera, graduated with a degree in drama. First movie it was Fast Times at Ridgmond High and then Platoon The Crying Game won an Oscar for the last game in Scotland been in over one hundred movies. Now he's done some directing him He's done a lot of producing on TV. He's been starring on the Godfather of Harlem since twenty nineteen. I'm pretty sure it's on Epics. He was married to a well his only wife. He was married for twenty five years. They divorced in twenty twenty one, and they had three children together. Actress Bargee Nielson. She's also sixty one, born

9:37 in Roderverer, Denmark. Now at six feet one inches tall. Start out as a big time model. Her first movie was Red Sonia, then Rocky four, Cobra, Beverly Hills, Cop Too. She speaks Danish, English, German and Italian. She had one son from her first thousand. Then she married Sylvester Stallone for two years. Then she had a child and football player Mark Gastineaux. Then she had two sons from her fourth husband. She married a fifth thousand in two thousand and five, and somehow she gave birth to their daughter in twenty eighteen, when she was fifty four years old. Actor Scott Foley. He was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in nineteen seventy two. He's fifty two He's also best known for TV. Started out on Felicity, Felicity, then the Unit in Scandal. He was in the movie Scream three, so he's got that. His first wife was his actress Jennifer Garner, for four years. Then he married his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have three children. Actor Brian Austin Green is fifty one. He's born in Van Nuys, California, in nineteen seventy three.

10:33 Started out on Knats Landing, then hit huge on Beverly Hills nine oh two, I Oh. He played David, made a lot of TV appearances, even on Anger Management for a couple of years. He had a daughter from actress Vanissa Marcial. Then he married actress Megan Fox for eleven years and they had three sons. He and his current girlfriend. They also have a son. Stand up comedian Gabriel Iglesias. He's forty eight, born in San Diego in nineteen seventy six. Nope, he didn't mind if you call him fluffy doing stand up in nineteen ninety seven. Now he's one of the biggest comics out there. Done a lot of Netflix and Comedy Central specials. Talks a lot about being fat, having the Latino culture and just everyday life. It's actually on tour right now if you want to go out and see him when he comes by your city. He's done a lot of voices in movies, but he's actually acted in two Magic Mic movies. Now he didn't take his clothes up. Let's go back to killer bees. When a killer bees stings you, it releases a chemical that smells like righte banana, and that's what triggers the other killer bees to attack. Oh, thanks for being here today.

11:31 We appreciate you. Come follow us on whoever you listening to us on and see us on coolmedia dot com. That's cool three us. Let's end with fashion designer Giovanni Versacchi. He has murdered today in nineteen ninety seven, at fifty years old. Giovanni says, it's nice to have valid competition. It pushes you to do better. Is have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Do you know they had the