July 15th- Be a Dork, Rembrandt, Linda Ronstadt, Willie Aames, Forest Whitaker, Bridgette Nielson, Gabriel Iglesias

0:19 Hi, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today is July the fifteenth. Isn't it clear? I'm a dork for you? Dude, you make me feel like a geek? Can you make my heart squeak? Squeak? You are the soles of my shoe. I'm a dork for you. Today is National be a Dork Day. Well that's done. A dark is is defined as a person who lacks social skills, has eccentric interest or hobbies, and bad fashion sense. In the eighteen hundreds, dark it was a derogatory term for venus. Then in the nineteen sixties dork yabbyca switched over it became socially awkward person with a bad fashion sense. Now, girls they use the word dork more playfully than boys. Boys used dork as an insult.

1:09 Let's be honest, we can all be dorks from time to time. So let's go ahead and celebrate today by not caring what society thinks, be confident in our own skin and doing what really feels like what we want to do. And we probably should go watch Dumb and Dummer. So today, grab hold and embrace your inner darkness. Now, I couldn't say that if it's still mint Penis. Let's just see what appen on July fifteenth. Back in nineteen seventy nine, Donna Summer had the number one album with bad Girls. It is also the number one song. Talking about see them on on my Street good Night. We cannot buck cat Stranger, you can't stash your pockets nice, but you.

1:55 Want to go Time. And Murray the one country song with Shadows in the Moonlight hand. The hand Ugo, dancing through the mooki Way, find a Little high. Well Weekend the last. Shadows in the Moonlight. The number one book was Sophie's Choice by William Styron. The top movie was Dracula back in nineteen thirteen. Count Dracula, he travels to England looking for a bride, stars Frank Glengela and Lawrence Olivier. Nineteen seventy two, the album Honky Chateau went to number one was Elton Johnsons, the first number one album, Yeah It had the song Rocketman on it all right. What happened on July the fifteenth, seventeen forty one Russian ship captain Alexi Cherikoff he saw some unknown land. It wasn't on any charts or anything. So he sent some of his men on shore to go check it out and then claim it for Russia. Well, they were the first Europeans to visit Alaska. Yeah, well, I guess the first white guys to visit Alaska. I mean Russia. It's half European and half Asia. Seventeen ninety nine, Napoleon's French soldiers they were fighting in Egypt. Well, they were digging in the sand trying to find some stable ground in order to build a fort. Now it was near the town of Rosetta, Egypt.

3:18 What they found instead was the Rosetta Stone. Yeah. The stone was thought to have been carved around one ninety six BC. It's actually a decree, and they wrote it in three different languages. They wrote it in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, ancient Egyptian script, and ancient Greek. Now, by seventeen ninety nine, no one anywhere could read ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, so no one knows what was said on the pyramids, the tombs, the statues of the moni is none of that. Note. But now because of the Rosetta Stone, yep, they were able to figure out Egyptian hieroglyphics. A couple of years later though Britain. They actually beat the French in battle there. Yeah, they took the Zetta Stone. Yeah, took it back to London. You can go to see. It's in a museum over there. When Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark got west to explore the what he bought in the Louisiana purchase, he said, go all the way west to the Pacific Ocean. Then in eighteen oh six he said, Zebulum Pike, he said, you go to the Canadian border, and then go all the way down south to the Mexico border and check out what we bought. Well, Pike and his men they left to day from Fort bellefont Dame. It's near Saint Louis now. They would explore the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, the Spanish settlements down there in New Mexico. Now, it's not as famous as Lewis and Clark expedition. Someone had to do it, and he did get Pike speaking named after him. Okay, we're gonna go back to Napoleon now.

4:29 After Napoleon was defeated for the first time and sent into exile on the island of Elba. He came back and started a one hundred day war. It was actually one hundred and ten days. But now he's surrendered today in eighteen fifteen, So now they're going to exile him to Saint Helena Island. It's a really remote island in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. Died there six years later, eighteen sixty nine, and Martin was invented Hipole Mega Marayse's. He was working for the French Navy. Yeah, he was trying to figure out something to do. Yeah, because Butter spoiled. Yeah, he's trying to replace butter. Nineteen twenty two, at the Bronx Zoo in New York, for the first time in world history, a duck bill platypus was put on display. Matthew wondered, duck bill platypuses they live on the eastern coast of Australia and Tasmania, pretty much just like a beaver, except they burrow into the river banks just did to build dams. Nineteen thirty four, Balcony Falls, Virginia got to one hundred and ten degrees not still Virginia state highest tempt.

5:21 Nineteen eighty President Jimmy Carter, his brother Billy Carter. He had to register as a foreign agent for the Libyan government. Yeah, it was discovered that old Billy, Yeah, Libya had actually paid him hundreds of thousands of dollars. Huh, sounds kind of familiar. Nineteen ninety two over in India, now the costs of weddings had just gotten out of control. They were still out of control that the city of Arissa over in India, they passed a law. They set a limit on what you could actually pay for a wedding eight hundred dollars and no more. But do you think about eight hundred bucks. At that time, the average worker in India made eight hundred dollars a year. Now you can only have fifty guests. Also, so if you went over your eight hundred bucks or fifty guests, six years in jail. Joke, joked, joked, joke, dish Shibbert day, he.

6:07 Left this shub day. We want simple tage like this Shibirth day. And you know you don't. Say you probably won who know it was born on July the fifteenth well, the artist rim Brandt. He was born at Lighten of the Dutch Republic in sixteen oh six. He was born rim brand Hermoni is zun van ring. That's why he just went by. Rembrandt created over six hundred paintings, four hundred etchings, and two hundred drunks. They painted everything from portress to Bible scenes, historical events, mythology. Now, if you really want to sound smart, if you're happy to be at like a cocktail party or somewhere they're talking about art, just remember that rim Brandt. He just said that he was a master of contrasts between light and dark. Then you can drop it his greatest pratings or night Watch, Storm at Sea and the Jewish Bride. Yep, that'll make you sound like he paid attention to him man, and he's class back in college. Now, brim brand he painted his self portrait. He called it the Standard Bear a couple of years ago, so for one hundred ninety eight million dollars. Married in sixteen thirty four and they had four children. His wife died in sixteen forty two.

7:05 Rem brand he died in sixteen sixty nine and sixty three years old. Nobody knows why, but he did die broke. He was poor. He got buried in an unmarked rented grave. Linda ron Stat is eighty years old. She's born in Tucson, Arizona, in nineteen forty six. Now. She was the top female singer in the nineteen seventies. She was the first female singer ever to tour and perform an arenas. She released twenty four albums over the year.

7:48 There were rock and pop, folk, country, Spanish, sold over on a million records. Some of her biggest hats for Blue Bayou, Different Drum, You're no good, It's so easy Linda. She had to retire in twenty but yeah, she couldn't sing anymore. She came down with the disease. It's pretty much like Parkinson's. She has one daughter and one son. She is seventy three year old. A Laicia Bridges. She was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in nineteen fifty three.

8:31 Now. When she was twelve, she had her own radio show. Yeah, she was on every Saturday night on the station in Selby, North Carolina. I Love the Nightlife. That was pretty much her only big hit. I mean, she released some other music. She actually worked as a DJ in dance clubs. Alicia, she has been open lesbian since she was only a teenager. Actor Willie Eames was born in Newport Beach, California, in nineteen sixty. That makes him sixty six today. Known for TV first Got Non On eight Is Enough, then Charles in Charge. He started as Bible Man for about seven years on the kid Children's Christian series. He had a son from his first wife. He had a daughter from his second wife, married his third wife twenty fourteen. Actor Forest Whitaker sixty five. He was born in Longview, Texas. I grew up in California. In college at the University of Southern cal started out as a studying opera ended up graduating with a degree in drama. His first movie was Fast Times at Ridgemont High, then Platoon, The Crying Game, won an Oscar for the Last King in Scotland. He's been an over one hundred movies now. He's done a little bit of directing. He's done a lot of producing though.

9:30 On TV. He's been starring on the Godfather of Harlem since twenty nineteen Forrest. He was married for twenty five years when they divorced, and they had three children. Actress but Gee Neilson. She was born in Denmark. She's sixty three today. Started out as a supermodel six feet one kind of has a bill for a supermodel. First movie was read Sonia, then Rocky four, Cobra, Beverly Hills, Cop two. She had one son from her first thousband. Then she married Sylvester stallone for two years. Then she had a kid from football player Gasno. Then she had two sons from her fourth husband. She married a fifth husband in two thousand and five. I'm not sure how she pulled this off, but in twenty eighteen, at fifty four years old, she gave birth to their daughter. Actor Scott Foley was born in Kansas City, Kansas, in nineteen seventy two. He's fifty four. Best known for TV Felicity, The Unit, Scrubs, Scandal Now. He was in the movie Scream three. Must not got killed off because he's filming Scream seven. His first wife was actors Jennifer Garner for four years. Married his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have three kids. Actor Brian Austin Green was born in Van Uys, California. He's fifty three. He hit really big on Beverly nine oh two to one, Oh Yeah. He played David. They had a lot of TV appearances. He was on Anger Manager for a couple of years. He had a daughter from actress Vanessa Marcial. Then he married actress Megan Fox for eleven years and they had three sons and him and his current fiance they have a son.

10:53 Comedian Gabriel Iglesias is fifty. He was born in San Diego in nineteen seventy six. Gabriel, he goes by the nick Fluffy, start doing stand up in nineteen ninety seven. Now he's one of the biggest stand up comedians out there. He's actually not on tour right now. If you want to go see he's gonna be out there to mid November if he comes by your city. He does a lot of comedy specials for What Comedy Central and Netflix and that kind of stuff. Talks about Latino culture being fads, everyday life. It's done a lot a lot of voice work. But he has acted in two movies. They're both Magic Mike movies. Yeah, he kept his clothes on. Quote of the day is gonna come from fashion designer Gianni Versaci. He was murdered today in nineteen ninety seven, at fifty years old. He says, it's nice to have valid competition.

11:36 It pushes you to do better. Thank you all for listening today. We sure appreciate it. Make sure you follow us on whoever you listen to us on. So where easy to find now? I've got quite a few emails from people trying to figure out the July National Days puzzle books. Well, you can actually just clink on the Today's show notes on Arrov on the show description, it'll link you're right over there to Yeah to Amazon and so you can get him. So what is it? Well, they're just the puzzle books about everything that happened in the month of July, from my Watermelon Day to ice Cream Day to National Football Day and Soccer Day and that kind of good stuff. That's got a whole bit of crosswords and a bunch of word searches, words scrambles, all kind of matching games and that kind of stuff that's really fun. People like it. That's what. I don't know why they have trouble finding it. This month's kind of odd. Our Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day comes from Brint out There, in which Duck Kansas he wants to hear Ryan Wes Ryan's song three More Words Say that again? Sorry, Prince our country underground radio artists.

12:34 A day comes from Brinton, which you talking just he wants to hear rest Ryan's three words away song, You all have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. We've been dancing around the edges something we both know. Your hand fits mine just right, like a sunset on back road. I don't want to scare the moment, say too much, too soon. But I can think about saying this to you. Every smile, every it's uh just pulling me closer to there. I'm just three words away from falling all the ways there and every hardy.

13:19 I ain't sure how long I can wait. I've been holding back the baby. I don't want to play it safe. I'm just three words, three words away. I hear men quiet, you're drifting off to sleep, They're dancing all my lipshit. You leaning close to me. You laugh and say I'm quiet, but you don't know the inside. Every look you give me just pushes me to cross that line. Every second, every side, I'm closer to letting it fly.

14:08 I'm just three words away from falling all the ways there and every harby. I ain't sure how long I can wait. I've been holding back for baby, I don't want to play it safe. I'm just three words, three words away.