July 16-Hot Dogs, Orville Redenbacher, Will Ferrell, The Police, Ginger Rogers, 1st Airplane Hijacking

0:19 Well, Hi, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today's July the sixteenth. Hot Dog, hot Dog, hot diggity Dog. Now we got ears inside for cheers. Hot Dog, hot Dog, The problems solved. Hot Dog, hot Dog, hot diggingy Dog. Today is National hot Dog Day. Hot Dogs they started over in Germany as Frankfurters. Now they came to the United States around eighteen seventy back girls named Charles Feldman. Now, to make it a true hot dog, it has to have a natural casing, which is usually sheeping testing. Well, luckily we don't go by true hot dogs nowadays, do we. You know what? There are so many types of hot dogs. Yeah, you should one you like. You can even go vegan if you want. You know what. Today is also one of my favorite days. It's National cherry Day. Yeah, I love my Cheers. Let's check out what went on and entertainment on July sixteenth. Back in two thousand and nine, then when the album was The End by Black Eyed Peas.

1:14 Black Eyed Peas had the number one song with I Got a Feeling. Does not say nice, Let's leave me up, I got my money, Let's spin up, go out and spacile, hold my car, jump out that soft book. Let's get it. Oh, I know, We'll have a ball and just get down, god out and. Just do all. Derek's Bentley had the number one country song with Sideways. Then it's Hey, now you go, d J. Don't playing down kick. Those girls out all the fload, Gotta make. Them want to come back from a little being. Hey that song and down me.

1:54 Hey, we're gonna come back around. We don't week. It's time to play gold to get it. The number one book was A Swimsuit by James Patterson and Maxine Patrol. Top movie was Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Now Harry, he begins his sixty year at Hogwarts and he finds this old book that says on at the property of half Blood Prints. That's where he learns all about Lord Voldemort's past. Stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson. All right, what happened on in July the sixteenth, fourteenth thirty nine, kissing was banned over in England. Say they were trying to stop the black plague of death that was going through the whole country.

2:36 Pretty impossible than for us though. But if you were caught kissing, I guess you'd probably be in public, but you were subject to a really big find and or a public shaming. I guess if you wanted to stop kissing, I don't know. Maybe you make people wear a mask. Fifteen forty eight, LAPAs, Bolivia was founded. Yeah, Spanish founded it. It is the highest capital in the world that twelve thousand feet high. One hundred thousand people live up there. Yeah. Second highest cap blows keto over in Ecuador at three hundred and fifty feet seventeen sixty nine. Father Jinnapiro Sarah, he founded the mission San Diego. It's the first mission that they found it out there in California. Now he picked a nice spot. Now we talked about Willis Carrier invented the air conditioner. Well today, in nineteen oh two he installed that first air conditioner. Yeah, I was in a printing shop up in Buffalo, New York. Sure, thank you.

3:22 Oklahoma City nineteen thirty five they installed the first parking meters, called them Parko Meters cost five cents an hour, so as to parking meters cost today. Well, in Denver they're two dollars an hour. Los Angeles totally depends on where you're at. Then go from fifty cents to six dollars an hour New York City, there are seven to fifty an hour. San Francisco eleven dollars an hour. That's a lot of quarters. Now, this was only a test, It was just a test. Nineteen forty five, the United States detonated in an atomic bomb, the first one near Alamagordo, New Mexico. Yeah, it was equal to about twenty thousand tons of TNTA. It seems like it'd be kind of hard to keep a secret. You could see it for one hundred and eighty miles away. But yet the world was really surprised, and the Uniteds dropped to one on Japan a month later. Nineteen forty eight eight the first airplane hijacking went down. Four Chinese man hijacked at passenger plane that was going from a cot to Hong Kong. Now, the fight crew they fought back, but yeah, the pilot he got shot in the head though, and the plane crashed in the ocean before the co pilot could get behind the controls. Everyone on the plane died except for one hijacker. See, he parachuted out when they started fighting, he d have spending three years in prison. I said you, No one could figure out who was supposed to prosecute him because it happened over international waters. So yeah, there's funny.

4:32 Just let him go. Nineteen sixty six, rumors were swirling that Mauzi Dung, the guy who was in charge of China's Communist party, that he was too old to lead anymore. He was seventy two years old. So now he went out to wu Wan. Then he swam the yank Sea River. Shut everybody up. So which one of the things with you have rather seen? It's back in nineteen sixty seven in Queens, New York, the Monkeys put on a concert. Jimmy Hendrix was their opening act. But out there in San Francisco the Who as their very first American tour. They had Herman's Hermits for their opening act. Nineteen seventy nine, Saddam Muzzin became the president of Iraq. We know that's gonna turn out. Twenty twenty four are Paraguay. They pulled out the largest cocaine bust in history. They call it Operation Sweetness. Yeah, they were able to get four tons of cocaine. Yeah, they found it in a shipment of sugar.

5:22 Joke joke, joked, joke, charge dish shivers Day. We're gonna pu he left thish shubfday. We got simpleoutage. He like this shivers Day. And you know we don't give up birthday. Well, that's born on July the sixteenth. Cyrus giff Griffin. Cyrus Griffin. He was born in Farnament, Virginia in seventeen forty eight. Now Cyrus. He was a sixteenth and last US President under the Continental Congress. Yeah, he lost his job when George Washington was elected the seventh of the first president of the United States. George did make Cyrus a federal judge though, now Cyrus. He was married and they had one daughter. He died in eighteen ten at sixty two years old.

6:02 Hello, I'm Morble Reddenbaker from Valparaiso, Indiana. And this is four ounces of my orble Reddenbacker's gomete pomping clocks and this is four ounces of your ardentized that's popping. Okay, look at mine that's blowing up top right off as a. Popper or of a Reddenbacher. He was born in Brazil, Indiana in nineteen oh seven. Now he was a food scientist who turned businessman. He revolutionized the popcorn industry. He put a lot of science into growing popcorn. Now his is still the number one selling micro with popcorn. Now. When he started out doing the TV commercials for his popcorn, everyone just thought he was an actor and no one believed that Nerd came up with a new way to pop popcorn. Now. He married his first wife for thirty two years when she died. They had two daughters, married a second wife for twenty years when she died, Orivilee. He died nineteen eight ninety five at eighty eight years old. Yeah, he had a heart attack while he's sitting in his hotel.

6:51 He ended up drowning. Actors Barbara Stanwick. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen oh seven. She started out as a model, then she started acting in movies in nineteen twenty nine. She made eighty five movies over thirty eight years. In nineteen forty four, she was the highest paid woman in the United States. No, not just entertainer. She was the highest paid woman in the United States. But once her fame started to fade out, Yeah, she just went to TV. She really big in the Big Valley. She divorced twice, and her and her first husband they had a son. Actress dancer Ginger Rodgers was born in Independence, Missouri in nineteen eleven. She made seventy three movies. She was one of the highest paid actresses in the nineteen thirties and forties. She is most known for the nine movies that she started alongside Fred Astaire, The Fred and Ginger Dancings. Yeah, they set the standard for musicals. Now there's still a really big influence today. She went in Oscar in nineteen forty. That was the first year that the academy. Yeah, they didn't announce beforehand who the winners were going to be. Ginger. She married and divorce five times.

7:46 Ended up dying in nineteen ninety five from a heart attack eighty three years old. What is this man that he makes me? What? I don't want somebody. To tell me? What is this land that he next week? East? That was Denise Lesaal. She was born near Sight On, Mississippi in nineteen thirty four. Considered the Queen of Blues, she at least forty albums over theirs might have heard her song my Toot Toot Our biggest song was the one I played a track, but I think I left. She married her second husband in nineteen seventy seven. They had a son and two daughters. She performed right up until she died. She died in twenty eighteen from heart failure, eighty three years old.

8:31 That log. The drummer for the Police Stuart Copeland. He's usually ranked in the top ten for best drummer off time on all those lists for seventy four. Born in Alexandria, Virginia, night teen fifty two. Yeah, I know the Police are a British band, but see his dad was a spider in World War Two and after the war helped create the CIA, so they moved around a lot. So that's how Stewart ended up in England. He helped formed the Police was sting in nineteen seventy seven. They added Annie Summers sold over one hundred million records. They called her quits in two thousand and eight. Stewart keeps busy though he rides ballets, operas orchestras. He does music for movies and video games any tours. He had a son from a fleeing. He had three sons from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety three, and they have two daughters and one son. Now, Stewart's favorite band to listen to Slip Nutt. Yeah, he loves heavy metal music.

9:40 Retired actress Phoebe Kates is sixty three. She was born in New York City in nineteen sixty three. When she was ten, she started acting. She became a successful teen model, and then she got tired of the most modeling scene, so she went into acting. She first hit in the movie Fast Times at Ridgemond High, then Private School, the Gremlins movies, dropped Dead Fred. She retired in nineteen ninety four. She had married actor Kevin Klein in nineteen eighty nine, and they had a son and a daughter. She just wanted to be a mom and a wife. Since the kids have grown up now though, Yeah, Phoebe, She's opened up a boutique out there on Madison Avenue in New York City. So you're getting tired of all those worldfare uh Peythyle commercials. Yeah, kind of getting annoying, don't you think. Will is fifty nine. He was born in Irvine, California, in nineteen sixty seven. His dad played the keyboards and the saxophone for the Righteous Brothers. Well. He started out on Saturday Night Live for seven years, went into movies, first starring role in the movie It was Old School, then Elf. The anchorman movie is Stally Dagga Knight Step Brothers. Well.

10:36 He got married in two thousand and they have three sons. Actor Corey Feldman. He was born in Los Angeles. He's fifty five. He was a really big child star. He was in the movies Goonies, stand By Me, Lost Boys, Licensed to Arrive. Sadly like a lot of child stars. But yeah, I got it with drugs and alcohol and legal trouble and all that kind of stuff. He still does little acting from Town Town now. He has three times divorced and he has a son from his second wife. All right, Our quote of the day comes from Abe's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. She died today in eighteen eighty two at sixty three years old. Mary said, plant your feet, stay firm. Only question is where do you plant your feet? Well, thank you all for listening today, and don't forget to follow us on how you listen to His own comes here's a cool media dot com that's three oh then cool and our country underground radio artists of the day.

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