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

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, dud, it's about today, pison, about cool media. It is July the sixteenth. Hey, it's National Cherry Day. I love cherries. Cherries are sweet or tart. They originated in Asia before spreading worldwide. In eighteen fifty two, Beat Doherty he began planning cherry trees up in Michigan. It became the first commercial cherry business in the United States Michigan. They're still the largest grower of cherries in the United States. I guess they like the perfect climate for it. Cherry is they're really good for you, and if you have gout, they're really really good for you. So whether you eat them fresh, put them into baked goods, or top of them on ice cream, just enjoy the hell out of cherries today and all summer long. Pretty much all right? What happened to entertainment on July sixteenth? In the air nineteen eighty five number one album Songs from the Big Chair by Tears for Fears Duran.

1:11 Duran had the number one song with if You Do a Kill. Wan Lee Greenwood had the number one country song with Dixie Roads Dusty Dixie Taking them They like Supernock Kill Once you Know you left Heaven, Read and Down Nixie.

2:00 The top book was Skilling and Crew by Stephen King. Top movie it was Back to the Future, a seventeen year old go back goes back to nineteen fifty five, and a time machine made from a Doloreian. Now I has to try and get home. Stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd. All Right, what happened on July the sixteenth, fourteen thirty nine, Kissing was manned in England. Yeah, I was to try and stop the black Death plague that was spreading through town. Now, although it's pretty impossible, then force if you were caught kissing in public. Yeah, it was a big fine or public shamings. Eighteen sixty two Lewis Swift and Hornce Tuttle. They discovered the Swift title comment. Now in the year twenty one, twenty six, it has a one in ten thousand chance of hitting the Earth, and it's big enough to end the existence of humans. So I guess we'll have to warn our great great great great great great grandkids. Nineteen oh two, Now we talked about Willis Carrier inventing the air conditioner. It was today that he installed the very first one. Yeah, it was in a printing plant in Buffalo, New York, Okay, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

3:00 They are to blame for all of this. Nineteen thirty five they installed the first parking meters. They were called Parco meter cost five cents an hour. Nineteen forty five, as part of the Manhattan Project, in Alamagordo, New Mexico, United States detonated the first nuclear bomb test bomb. It was equivalent of about twenty thousand tons of TNT. The blast was visible for one hundred and eighty miles. Nineteen forty eight, the first airline hijacking took place. Four Chinese men had jacked to passenger playing going from a cod to Hong Kong. Now the fight crew they fought back. Yeah, the pilot guy shot in the head. Though the plane crashed into the ocean before the copilot was able to get to the controls. Everyone on the plane died except for one hijacker. See he had pared. He parachuted out when the fighting broke out.

3:44 He ended up spending three years in prison. But because it took place over international waters, Yeah, they couldn't figure ot who was supposed to prosecute him, so they just finally let him go. Nineteen sixty seven, the band The Monkeys, they were doing a stadium show in the Queens, New York. Their opening act was Jimmy Hendrix. So what kind of crowd do you think would have Jimmy Hendrix and the Monkeys? That'd be interesting. Nineteen seventy nine, Saddam Saying became president of Iraq. We know how that turned out. Coop Coop Coop Coop Coop got shot. This shibf Day, we're gonna pu he left this shivers Day. We don't simple cause he like this Shiburs Day. And you know we don't do both because that's birthday. So it was born on July the sixteenth. Cyrus Griffin. He was born in Farnham, Very, Virginia in seventeen forty eight. Now Cyrus. He was the sixteenth and last President of the United States Center of the Continental Congress.

4:35 Yeah, he lost his job when George Washington was elected the first President of the United States. But don't feel sorry for Cyrus. They made him a federal judge. He was married and had one daughter, and died in eighteen ten at sixty two years old. Hello, I'm rbl Reddenbacker from Valparaiso, Indiana, And this is four ounces of my orble Reddenbacker's Gormet pomping class. And this is four ounces of your ardentized car that's popping. Okay, look at mine, that's blowing a top right off as a poffer or of a Red and Baker. He was born in Brazil, Indiana in nineteen oh seven. He was a food scientist. He turned into a businessman. Yeah, he put a lot of science into his He revolutionized the popcorn industry. He basically got that and it was for kind of an afterthought. Yeah, Heed to revolutionize it by all the science he put in a growing that popcorn.

5:21 Now, when he started doing the TV commercials for it, everyone thought it was just an actor. I don't believe that that nerd was actually the guy who invented the popcorn. Now. His first wife died after thirty two years they were being married. They had two daughters. Married to a second wife for twenty years when she died. Orvill He died in nineteen ninety five at eighty eight years old. He had a heart attack while he was sitting in his hot tub and he drowned. Actress Barbara Stanwick. She was born in two thousand and seven in Brooklyn, New York. Started out as a model. In nineteen twenty nine, she started acting in movies. Made eighty five movies over the next thirty eight years. In nineteen forty four, she was a highest paid woman in the United States. No, not entertainer, she was the highest paid woman in the United States. She her fame started to fade, so when it did, she went to TV. Did quite a bit of Stow's. Probably the biggest one was when she started on Big Valley.

6:10 She divorced twice her and her first husband. They adopted a son. Actor dancer Ginger Rogers was born in Independence, Missouri in nineteen eleven. She made seventy three movies, and she was one of the highest paid actresses in the world in the nineteen thirties and forties. She is most known for the nine movies she started in with Fred Astaire, the Fred and Ginger dance scenes, and they revolutionized musicals. They're still kind of imitated today. She married and divorced five times. What is this Slan sutt? He makes mee what? I don't want to somebody to tell me? What is this man Hunt he makes Miki. That was Denise Leasol. She was born near Sidon, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty four. Denise's pretty much recognizes me in the Queen of the Blues. She released forty albums. Her biggest hits were Trapped by I Think God, Love Now Run and Tell That a man sized job.

7:05 She was married to her second husband in nineteen seventy seven. They had a son and two daughters. Now She performed right up until she died in twenty eighteen and eighty three years old from heart failure. That Rolling Stone magazine has Stuart Copeland, the drummer for the band The Police, franked tenth of their best Drummers of all times. Stewart is born in nineteen fifty two in Alexandria, Virginia, seventy two years old to day now him in the place, lives all over one hundred million records. But get that Stewart, and when he's not with the police, she hasn't been for a while. He writes ballets, operas and orchestras. He's had a lot of creating music for movies and video games. He had a son from a flag, then he had three sons from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen ninety three and they have two daughters and one son. So, yeah, he's an American in the band Police. But get this, he's actually a hardcore heavy metal dude. Yeah. His favorite band is Slipknot. Phoebe Kate's is sixty one. She's born in New York City in nineteen sixty three. First hit in the movie Fast Time's Original High Private School Gremlins Drop Dead Fred. Then she married actor Kevin Klein in nineteen eighty nine and they had a son and a daughter. Yeah, Phoebe, she retired nineteen ninety four. Just be a mom and a wife now if the kids are grown. She owns a boutique on Madison Avenue or New York City. Will Ferrell he was born in

8:39 nineteen sixty seven in Irvine, California. He's fifty seven. Started out on Saturday Night Live for seven years, then he went into movies. Some of them are old school Elf. The anchorman movie is Talladega Knight Step Brothers. He married in two thousand and they have three sons. Now Will's dad. He was a keyboardist and sax player for The Righteous Brothers actor Cory Feldman. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy one. He's fifty three. Start out as a child star. Some of his movies were Goonies, stand By Me, The Lost Boys, Licensed to Drive. But sadly, like a lot of child stars, he ran in a lot of troubled drugs and thatw call. He is three times divorced and has one son from his second wife. All right, let's go back kind of to or for Reddenbucker.

9:22 Now the state of Indiana they grow more popcorn than any other state, but Nebraska is a close number two. Oh, thanks for being here today. Don't forget out Country Underground Radio. You can listen to that in any place that plays the internet radio stations. It's really growing and we like one. Thank you for supporting it. All right, let's end with Abe's wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary said that she died today in eighteen eighty two, at sixty three years old. Mary said, plant your feet, stay firm. The only question is where do you put your feet. You guys have an awesome day, and we will talk tomorrow. The Heat Command remain Na