July 17-Tatoos, Donald Sutherland, David Hasselhoff, Luke Bryan, Craig Morgan, Disneyland Opened.

0:10 He Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Isn't it buy cool media? Today is July the seventeenth. Beautiful tats all over my back makes me so proud. I'm gonna shout it aloud. I got another tattoo. Baby yeah, no, no, no, baby, no the tattoo. Today is National Tattoo Day. Now we know for sure the tattoos go back to thirty two fifty BC. The Iceman, the guy who was discovered in the Alps frozen and ice. He was covered in tattoos and then carbondated him back to thirty two to fifty So we're pretty sure that tattooing it wasn't in. You're probably a thousands of years before then.

0:55 You know what, Tattoos originated all over the world and all different cultures. Yeah, they all seem to discover it from them themselves. The person most responsible for the late tattoos are done today Thomas Edison. Yeah, he invented electric pin. He wanted to use it to make copies on paper. He thought if it had needles and ink, you could get it down to three and four layers of paper so that you didn't have to you know, make copies of it. Well, the pin was a bus, but a Polish tattoo artist happened to see one in the window. Yep. Decided. Well, with a couple of modifications, Yeah, and the tattooed gun or pin that are used today, we're done. So now I personally think they should celebrate National Tattoo today. I think they should pair it with a liquor Day. But anyway, have fun with your tattoos today. This is going on in entertainment on July seventeenth. Let's go back to nineteen seventy five. Number one album was Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboys by Elton John. Captain Antonia allowed the number one song with Leve will Keep Us Together, sweet talking girl singing a song Don't mess around. She's just got to stop us stop love you, love you, he musted. Conway Twitty had the number one country song with Touched the Hand before you all count Then touch the hand, man and man, then tell me you don't love me any The number one

2:38 book was The Money Changers by Arthur Haley. Top movie with Josh a big ass shark terrorizes a beach community off a kid God Stars Roy Schreider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss. All right, what happened in the world On July the seventeenth, thirteen twenty eight the air of the Scottish throne. Prince David he married Joan, Princess of England. David was four, Joan was seven. Eighteen sixteen, the ship Lagarsis. It discovered a raft that had survivors from the ship Medus. Apparently Medusa had sank thirteen days earlier. Now, the one hundred and fifty one people who survived the sinking, only fifteen were still in the raft. The rest had been cannibalized, murdered or committed suicide. Seems pretty extreme for thirteen days. Eighteen sixty two, Abraham Lincoln he signed the law he had authorized African or former slaves, but it allowed anybody with African descent tax He joined the United States military. They hadn't been allowed to. Yeah, but some were. Yep, they were. But this just kind of made a little more legit. Over one hundred and eighty six thousand fought in the Union during the Civil War. Russia in nineteen eighteen, the former ruling family, the Romanovs. They were executed the Bolsheviks line them up in front of a firing squad and opened up. Took place in the basement of a house. Now the family it consisted of the former Czar Nicholas, his wife, their five children, and some of their servants.

4:00 Now Lynnon he had actually given the orders for him to be killed, mutilated, burn and then buried in a nearby forest. Nineteen thirty six Francisco Franco He led an uprising and began the Spanish Civil War. Nineteen fifty five, arco Ido became the first US city who is electricity was produced by nuclear power. While they were doing that down in California, Disneyland celebrated its screen opening, did it on live TV nationwide in front of sixty million people. Ronald Reagan hosted the show. Nineteen eighty nine the United States, they raised the drinking age drink alcohol the twenty one years old. Now, actually the federal government didn't have the authority to do that, so they told all the states raise your drinking age up to twenty one years old. They were not going to give you an your highway funding. Winn nineteen eighty nine, they did the first test of the B two Stealth bomber wonder who was able to see it? Co cot coke coat goat shoge this shiver day, were gonna pause, he left this shub day. We gonna sit ple caage. He like, it's sure birthday, and you know we don't get because that's birthday al right. It was born on July the seventeenth. Actor James Cagney. He was born in New York City in eighteen ninety nine. Now he was always thought of this machio, really tough guy. His professional acting role, yeah, he dressed as a woman in a course line. After that though, he made lots of movie about westerns and war movies. Won an Oscar for Yankee Doodle Dandy. He married in nineteen twenty two and they had two children.

5:26 Retired from acting when he started having health issues in his sixties. He ended updying in nineteen eighty six at eighty six years old. Actor Donald Sutherland. He was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada, in nineteen thirty five. He was in over one hundred and forty movies. First one was nineteen sixty four Castle of the Living Dead. He is considered the greatest actor to ever have not been nominated for an Oscar. Kind of a shame. Well, let's just do my favorite Donald Southern movies. Then how about Mash Animal House, Space, Cowboys, And I guess I'll go with the Hunger Games movies. He did a pretty good job on those, even though I did ever liked the movie. He from his second wife, He had twins, Keifer and Rachel. Married his third wife in nineteen seventy two and they had three sons. Donald died just last month, June twentieth, at eighty eight years old, following a long illness. Actress Diane Carroll. She was born in Bronx, New York, in nineteen thirty five. She went to high school with Billy Dee Williams. She started out modeling for Emony, made her first movie as Carmen Jones, then Porgy and Bess, got nominated for an Oscar for Claudine, did a lot of Broadway, one of Tony.

6:29 She had a daughter from her first husband. She was left a widow from her third husband. Her fourth husband was Victim Moone. They divorced after nine years in nineteen seventy six. Diane died from cancer in twenty nineteen at eighty four years old that was the Hof. David Hasselhoff. He's seventy two, Baltimore, Maryland, nineteen fifty two. Start out on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, did it for seven years and then started on night Rider, bay Watch, bay Watch Knights. Now he's released twelve music albums wherever he sings, but not in the United States, but he is huge over in Germany, Austria, Czech Republic, in Switzerland. He had two daughters from his second wife, married his third wife in twenty eighteen.

7:20 Now he will be voicing half nine thousand when the movie at Kung Fu Too comes out next year. Fast Track Fail, Louders and party Barns, having rocking boat, trailer bar anger down, getting loud all summer louns, five houseboat front porches, past terminal chairs, a tiki torches and the regular joes rocking them most the written JOCKO that is country singer Craig Morgan He's sixty today, born in Kingston Springs, Tennessee. In nineteen sixty four, she started out in the United States Army aired second Get, an airborne unit.

8:01 He was active for nine and a half years. Was involved in the invasion of Panama. Then he was in the reserve for six and a half years. Now last year, after over twenty years, he re enlisted in the Army Reserves. Yep took his reenlistment both on the stage at the Grand Old Opry during one of his shows. Now, he released his first album back in two thousands. Some of his biggest hits are Redneck, Yacht Club, That's what I Love about, Sunday's Little Bit of Life, Bonfire. He's actually on tour right now. If man check him out, he'll be doing it until the end of November. Cregg, you married nineteen eighty nine and they have five kids. Woodland, Sunday and the Souls. Now she's got me twist like a sure country singer. Luke Bryan was born in Leesburg, Georgia, in nineteen seventy six. He's forty eight after graduating from Georgia State University. He's been the biggest country singers out there, sold over seventy five million records, not twenty seven number one songs. He's won every award a couple times over. He's also been a judge on American Idol since twenty eighteen.

9:09 Now he is out on tour right now through September if you want to go see him. He married in two thousand and six and they have two sons. Have you all been watching Shark Week on the different cable channels like the Discovery Channel and National Geographic Channel. There are all those movies about shark attacks. Well, in New York City people are bitten by other people ten times more often than people are bitten by sharks. And the rest of the world. Well, thanks for being here today. We appreciate you. Make sure you follow us. I know, have you listened to us on and come see us at coolmedia dot com. This's go of three to see what's going on the podcast and the radio stations and all that good stuff. Let's end Billy Holiday now, love the Mountains if he wants them, Loud of the Week, Crazy, CAUs me, Shine, Crazy, Crazy, and love I Say. Billy died to day in nineteen fifty nine, at forty four years old. She said, sometimes it's worse to win a fight than lose. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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