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

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Hi everyone, I am Jeff and
welcome to history. In fact, dud,

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it's about today, pison, about
cool media. It is July the

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sixteenth. Hey, it's National Cherry
Day. I love cherries. Cherries are

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sweet or tart. They originated in
Asia before spreading worldwide. In eighteen fifty

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two, Beat Doherty he began planning
cherry trees up in Michigan. It became

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the first commercial cherry business in the
United States Michigan. They're still the largest

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grower of cherries in the United States. I guess they like the perfect climate

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for it. Cherry is they're really
good for you, and if you have

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gout, they're really really good for
you. So whether you eat them fresh,

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put them into baked goods, or
top of them on ice cream,

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just enjoy the hell out of cherries
today and all summer long. Pretty much

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all right? What happened to entertainment
on July sixteenth? In the air nineteen

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eighty five number one album Songs from
the Big Chair by Tears for Fears Duran.

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Duran had the number one song with
if You Do a Kill. Wan

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Lee Greenwood had the number one country
song with Dixie Roads Dusty Dixie Taking them

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They like Supernock Kill Once you Know
you left Heaven, Read and Down Nixie.

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The top book was Skilling and Crew
by Stephen King. Top movie it

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was Back to the Future, a
seventeen year old go back goes back to

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nineteen fifty five, and a time
machine made from a Doloreian. Now I

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has to try and get home.
Stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.

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All Right, what happened on July
the sixteenth, fourteen thirty nine,

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Kissing was manned in England. Yeah, I was to try and stop the

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black Death plague that was spreading through
town. Now, although it's pretty impossible,

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then force if you were caught kissing
in public. Yeah, it was

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a big fine or public shamings.
Eighteen sixty two Lewis Swift and Hornce Tuttle.

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They discovered the Swift title comment.
Now in the year twenty one,

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twenty six, it has a one
in ten thousand chance of hitting the Earth,

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and it's big enough to end the
existence of humans. So I guess

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we'll have to warn our great great
great great great great grandkids. Nineteen oh

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two, Now we talked about Willis
Carrier inventing the air conditioner. It was

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today that he installed the very first
one. Yeah, it was in a

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printing plant in Buffalo, New York, Okay, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

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They are to blame for all of
this. Nineteen thirty five they installed the

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first parking meters. They were called
Parco meter cost five cents an hour.

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Nineteen forty five, as part of
the Manhattan Project, in Alamagordo, New

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Mexico, United States detonated the first
nuclear bomb test bomb. It was equivalent

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of about twenty thousand tons of TNT. The blast was visible for one hundred

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and eighty miles. Nineteen forty eight, the first airline hijacking took place.

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Four Chinese men had jacked to passenger
playing going from a cod to Hong Kong.

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Now the fight crew they fought back. Yeah, the pilot guy shot

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in the head. Though the plane
crashed into the ocean before the copilot was

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able to get to the controls.
Everyone on the plane died except for one

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hijacker. See he had pared.
He parachuted out when the fighting broke out.

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He ended up spending three years in
prison. But because it took place

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over international waters, Yeah, they
couldn't figure ot who was supposed to prosecute

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him, so they just finally let
him go. Nineteen sixty seven, the

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band The Monkeys, they were doing
a stadium show in the Queens, New

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York. Their opening act was Jimmy
Hendrix. So what kind of crowd do

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you think would have Jimmy Hendrix and
the Monkeys? That'd be interesting. Nineteen

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seventy nine, Saddam Saying became president
of Iraq. We know how that turned

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out. Coop Coop Coop Coop Coop
got shot. This shibf Day, we're

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gonna pu he left this shivers Day. We don't simple cause he like this

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Shiburs Day. And you know we
don't do both because that's birthday. So

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it was born on July the sixteenth. Cyrus Griffin. He was born in

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Farnham, Very, Virginia in seventeen
forty eight. Now Cyrus. He was

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the sixteenth and last President of the
United States Center of the Continental Congress.

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Yeah, he lost his job when
George Washington was elected the first President of

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the United States. But don't feel
sorry for Cyrus. They made him a

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federal judge. He was married and
had one daughter, and died in eighteen

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ten at sixty two years old.
Hello, I'm rbl Reddenbacker from Valparaiso,

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Indiana, And this is four ounces
of my orble Reddenbacker's Gormet pomping class.

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And this is four ounces of your
ardentized car that's popping. Okay, look

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at mine, that's blowing a top
right off as a poffer or of a

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Red and Baker. He was born
in Brazil, Indiana in nineteen oh seven.

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He was a food scientist. He
turned into a businessman. Yeah,

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he put a lot of science into
his He revolutionized the popcorn industry. He

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basically got that and it was for
kind of an afterthought. Yeah, Heed

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to revolutionize it by all the science
he put in a growing that popcorn.

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Now, when he started doing the
TV commercials for it, everyone thought it

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was just an actor. I don't
believe that that nerd was actually the guy

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who invented the popcorn. Now.
His first wife died after thirty two years

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they were being married. They had
two daughters. Married to a second wife

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for twenty years when she died.
Orvill He died in nineteen ninety five at

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eighty eight years old. He had
a heart attack while he was sitting in

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his hot tub and he drowned.
Actress Barbara Stanwick. She was born in

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two thousand and seven in Brooklyn,
New York. Started out as a model.

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In nineteen twenty nine, she started
acting in movies. Made eighty five

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movies over the next thirty eight years. In nineteen forty four, she was

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a highest paid woman in the United
States. No, not entertainer, she

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was the highest paid woman in the
United States. She her fame started to

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fade, so when it did,
she went to TV. Did quite a

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bit of Stow's. Probably the biggest
one was when she started on Big Valley.

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She divorced twice her and her first
husband. They adopted a son.

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Actor dancer Ginger Rogers was born in
Independence, Missouri in nineteen eleven. She

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made seventy three movies, and she
was one of the highest paid actresses in

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the world in the nineteen thirties and
forties. She is most known for the

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nine movies she started in with Fred
Astaire, the Fred and Ginger dance scenes,

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and they revolutionized musicals. They're still
kind of imitated today. She married

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and divorced five times. What is
this Slan sutt? He makes mee what?

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I don't want to somebody to tell
me? What is this man Hunt

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he makes Miki. That was Denise
Leasol. She was born near Sidon,

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Mississippi, in nineteen thirty four.
Denise's pretty much recognizes me in the Queen

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of the Blues. She released forty
albums. Her biggest hits were Trapped by

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I Think God, Love Now Run
and Tell That a man sized job.

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She was married to her second husband
in nineteen seventy seven. They had a

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son and two daughters. Now She
performed right up until she died in twenty

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eighteen and eighty three years old from
heart failure. That Rolling Stone magazine has

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Stuart Copeland, the drummer for the
band The Police, franked tenth of their

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best Drummers of all times. Stewart
is born in nineteen fifty two in Alexandria,

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Virginia, seventy two years old to
day now him in the place,

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lives all over one hundred million records. But get that Stewart, and when

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he's not with the police, she
hasn't been for a while. He writes

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ballets, operas and orchestras. He's
had a lot of creating music for movies

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and video games. He had a
son from a flag, then he had

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three sons from his first wife.
Married his second wife in nineteen ninety three

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and they have two daughters and one
son. So, yeah, he's an

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American in the band Police. But
get this, he's actually a hardcore heavy

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metal dude. Yeah. His favorite
band is Slipknot. Phoebe Kate's is sixty

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one. She's born in New York
City in nineteen sixty three. First hit

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in the movie Fast Time's Original High
Private School Gremlins Drop Dead Fred. Then

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she married actor Kevin Klein in nineteen
eighty nine and they had a son and

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a daughter. Yeah, Phoebe,
she retired nineteen ninety four. Just be

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a mom and a wife now if
the kids are grown. She owns a

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boutique on Madison Avenue or New York
City. Will Ferrell he was born in

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nineteen sixty seven in Irvine, California. He's fifty seven. Started out on

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Saturday Night Live for seven years,
then he went into movies. Some of

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them are old school Elf. The
anchorman movie is Talladega Knight Step Brothers.

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He married in two thousand and they
have three sons. Now Will's dad.

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He was a keyboardist and sax player
for The Righteous Brothers actor Cory Feldman.

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He was born in Los Angeles in
nineteen seventy one. He's fifty three.

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Start out as a child star.
Some of his movies were Goonies, stand

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By Me, The Lost Boys,
Licensed to Drive. But sadly, like

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a lot of child stars, he
ran in a lot of troubled drugs and

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thatw call. He is three times
divorced and has one son from his second

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wife. All right, let's go
back kind of to or for Reddenbucker.

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Now the state of Indiana they grow
more popcorn than any other state, but

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Nebraska is a close number two.
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Thank you for supporting it. All
right, let's end with Abe's wife,

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Mary Todd Lincoln. Mary said that
she died today in eighteen eighty two,

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at sixty three years old. Mary
said, plant your feet, stay firm.

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The only question is where do you
put your feet. You guys have

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an awesome day, and we will
talk tomorrow. The Heat Command remain Na