July 18-Wrong Way Corrigan, Vin Diesel, Kristin Bell, Dion, Martha & the Vandellas, Ricky Skaggs, Nero

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's July the eighteenth. I'm Solow Candy, so pret I get a little angry and Soura candy carry. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm super Psycho Gray. You want to turn the lessle sour candy carry? It is National Sour Candy Day. Now. Back in the eighteen hundreds, candy makers they had a really bad reputation for the way they went out making candy. Yeah, so they couldn't really experiment it. See if they made stuff like sour candy, everyone just think that it was a bad batch. They were trying to push off. But by the nineteen fifties they had gotten the trust of the public, so they started playing around.

0:54 Came up with atomic firewalls and lemonheads and all that kind of stuff. Now it's our candy. It's everywhere, So pick your favorite and enjoy today. All right, let's set it happening entertainment On July eighteenth, Let's back to the year two thousand and five. Number one album was Somewhere Down in Texas by George Strait. Mariah Carey had the number one song with we belong together, ba leve of me still suputubi some same thing the mon Toby Keith, he had the number one country song with as good as I once was, I said, girls, I ain't as good as I once was.

1:41 I got a few years on now, but there was a time back in my crime when I could really The number one book was eleven on Top by Janity Vanovitch. Top movie was Charlie and the Chucolate Factory. Now they just remade the nineteen seventy one movie, but this time it stars Johnny Depp, Freddie Hiymore and David Kelly. All Right, what happened on July the eighteenth, in the year sixty four a d The Great Fire of Rome began, burned for six days, and then at rignited and burned for another three. Two thirds of Rome burned to the ground. Now there's a legend that the Emperor Nero he played his fiddle while Roman burns. Yeah, that can't be true, though the fiddle won't be invented for another thousand years. It makes a good legend, though, But everyone does believe that Nero had a part in that fire, though see narrow he played the fire on a small religious sect called the Christians. Now that gave him full of thirty to persecute those Christians. But it's rather strange though, that all that area of Rome that burned. Yeah, it fit exactly into the blueprints that he had actually had drawn up there for a new garden in a new palace. Maybe every drug company should do this. We should get the people at Pfizer, Eli, Lilly, Serna, all of them to agree to do it. In eighteen ninety two, Ukrainian scientists Waltmore hicked one. He created the first vaccine against cholera, now to make sure that no one got sick from it, and he tested on himself first. Yeah, it worked and he lived, So I think that's a good testing point. Nineteen twenty five, Adolf Hitler published

3:13 his book It was four and a half years of struggle against lie, stupidity and cowardice. Oh, the publisher changed the name to mind comp which means mind Struggle. Airplane mechanic Douglas Corgan. Now he had helped build the airplane in the spirit of Saint Louis. That's the plane that Lindberg flew across the Atlantic Ocean in nineteen twenty seven, Now, Corygan, he didn't have a lot of money. He had just enough money to buy an old junker airplane. He wasn't able to get it to fly, though. But see Corgan, he really really wanted bad to be like Lindbergh. Yeah, he wanted all that fame and fortune and all that stuff that he received after he flied across the Atlantic. So he decided he was going to go for it. Yeah, so he flew to New York City, gassed up, and then before he could take off, the authorities they saw that crappy plane and what he was gonna do. They grounded him. They said it was suicide.

3:55 There's no way that plane could ever make it across the Atlantic Ocean. Argued with it, he said, just let me go. I can make it. So he said no, not only that, but we're also going to tell you that crappy plane off our airport. Now Corgan really beg no, no, no, please, don't toe my plane away. He promised to fly back to California. Oh, they didn't think he could make it back to California, but at least it wasn't over water like over the ocean, So they said, all right, you can go ahead. And take off. This morning in nineteen thirty eight, at an airport in Dublin, Ireland, the workers reading breakfast when the crappy airplane came sputtering in for a landing. When they went over to investigate Corgan, he got out of the plane he started asking where am I? I have no idea. I got in a cloud bank when I left New York on my way to California and lost my parents. Can you please help me figure out where I am? A lot of people bought that story. Yeah, I was on the front page and every newspaper in the world of the huge headline wrong way Corgan after dick a boat back to New York. They did hold a parate for him.

4:48 It was actually bigger than Lindberg's when each he was young in the That recording is back from nineteen fifty three. Yeah, nineteen fifty three and eighteen year old Eli was Presley. He went into Sun Records and in Memphis. Yet he paid him three dollars and ninety eight cents and let him make a record for his mother. Yeah, it's for his birthday. So that was the recording of my happiness. On the other side of the record was that's your heartaches begin nineteen sixty nine. Yes, Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts. He's at a party on the island at chap Equittic. It's off of Martha's Vineyard.

5:36 Now. He offered to give a ride to one of his young staffers, a twenty eight year old Marry Joe Kopecne. Kennedy, Yeah, most likely drunk. He drove off one of the bridges going into the mainland. Kennedy. He was able to get out of the car. Mary Joe. Yeah, she wasn't, Kennedy. He said. He tried silver tip and dived down to rescue her, but he just couldn't do it. So he went back to his hotel room, went back to bed, and then he woke up in the morning and called the police and let him know about his accident. When they pulled this car out of the well, I guess the ocean, they found Mary Joe inside. Yes, you drowned, Kennedy. He ended up getting two months suspend as a sentence for leaving the scene of an accident. In twenty nineteen, the city of West Palm Beach, Florida. They had had it enough, wasn't enough? They were done. They weren't dealing with it anymore. Homeless people kept gathering on their waterfront wharf.

6:20 That was it. They were gonna get rid of them no matter what. So they started blasting the kid's song Baby Shark and It's raining Tacos. Well it worked really well. Yeah, the homeless people left, but the homeless advocates tried to take the city to court and sue them, and yeah, no court would take it. The strain and tacos fell out of the sky. Talkos, no need to ask why, Just supen your mouth, close your eyes, and strain and t all right. Who was born on July the eighteenth, The unsyncam o Molly Brown. She was born in Hannimal, Missouri. In eighteen sixty seven. She married a poor miner up in Leadville, Colorado. They s great buy for a few years, had a son and a daughter. Then her husband, John Brown, hit big, We're talking really big, ended up buying a huge mansion in Denver. You can actually tour it. It's called the Molly Brown House. Then Molly she became one of the biggest socialites in Denver. Nineteen twelve, she was visiting her daughter over in Paris and she got worded that her oldest grandson back in Denver.

7:26 Yeah, it was six. So she got on the first ship that she could get to get her back to the United States. Just so happened to be the maiden voyage of the Titanic. Now you've seen all the movies, you know what happens next. Now, her husband, he died in nineteen twenty two. Then Molly, she moved to New York City. She died from a brain tumor in nineteen thirty two at sixty five years old. Actor Hume Cronin. He was born in London, Canada in nineteen eleven. Probably most known for doing theater some of his movies Where the Postman's Always Rings Twice the Cocoon movies. His second wife was actress Jessica Danny. They were married from nineteen forty two had a son and daughter, Jessica She died in nineteen ninety four. You know, he married again in ninety six, and then he died in two thousand and three from prostate cancer at ninety one years old. Astronaut John Glynn. He was born in Cambridge, Ohio in nineteen twenty one. He was a fighter pilot in both World War two and the Korean War. Then he became an astronaut. Nineteen sixty two, he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Then he went and served in the US Senate from Ohio from nineteen seventy four to nineteen ninety nine. Nineteen ninety eight, he went back into space aboard the Space Shuttle. Yeah, he was seventy seven years old, still the oldest person ever go into space.

8:31 He married back in nineteen forty three. They had a son and a daughter. Glenn died in twenty sixteen at ninety five years old. No d it around chased me die. A fellow that was screaming Jayhawks. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in nineteen twenty nine. He gets credit for creating Shockrock. Now. Before that, back in nineteen forty four, when he was fifteen, he used a fake birth certificate to join the Air Force. Yeah, ended up getting an honorable discharge in nineteen fifty five. Then he wanted to be an opera singer. Well, that didn't work out at all, so he came up with Shockrock. He would have really weird macabre props on stage, like fake snakes and fake tarantula skulls and bones, and he would open the show coming out of a coffin. He had performed with a big bone clip to his nose. He was married six times, but that didn't slow him down at all. He might have only had three kids from those wives, ended up with thirty three kids total. Died in two thousand from brain aneurysm at seventy years old. Oot, we'll never settled down.

9:43 We have a pretty girls. Well you know that I'm around kill some of me. They're all the saints. I'll come in. I squeeze him. Even though my name they called me the wer up. Eighty five year old Dion Demucci, he still just goes by Dion. He was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen thirty nine. S performs a little bit. Now. He's in the rock and roll Hall of Family with Dion and the Belmonts. They have thirty nine top forty hit so some of them are run around. Sue the Wander, Ruby Baby Lover, Zoo Wonder Deannie's been married since nineteen sixty three and they have three daughters. Nowadays, he's probably best known as being Barbara Streisann's husband. Actor James Brolin's eighty four. Born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty. On TV, he was on marcuswell BMD Hotel, Life and Pieces, had the movie's Fantastic Voids, Skyjack, Amneyville Horror Pee Wee's a Big Adventure Now. He had actor Josh Brolin and his sister from his second wife. His third wife was actress Jane Smithers, remember from w Kripe in Cincinnati. Yep. They had a daughter. They married Barbara in nineteen ninety eight Z Summer. She the the Martha of Martha and the

11:15 Van dels Is eighty three. She is Martha ray Is born and you follow Alabama in nineteen forty one. Grew up in Detroit. Now Martha and the Vanderils. They're actually in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Had the hit songs heat Wave, Dancing in the Streets, Nowhere to Run, Jimmy Meck. She actually performs a little bit too. She has one son. But I'd rather be home Cold, dream Foot Home Sun, Joni Ware the Horse and Carty. I'm just stay contree boys. Conreymoy, Ricky Skaggs. He's seventy. He's born in Cordell, Kentucky in nineteen fifty four. Now it's not just a country actually also really big in the blue, gospel and folk. He plays the mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and benjo. He's won fifteen Grammys. Some of his twelve number one country songs our Heart Broke, Wouldn't change You if I could, don't cheat on our hometown country Boy.

12:13 He has had a son and a daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty one and they have a daughter and his son, Ricky. He's on tour right now through the end of the year. If you only catch one of his shows. Actor Vin Diesel. He was born in nineteen sixty seven in Alameda County, California. Fifty seven year old girl up in New York City. His movies have made over twelve billion dollars. That makes him the seventh big inst grossing actor. He's right behind Tom Cruise. Starred as Dominic in The Fast and the Furious movies, Xander Cage and the Triplex Movies. Been the voice of Groot in a whole bunch of movies. His first big movie that he was in, Saving Private Ryan. He got killed. Vin He's been with his girlfriend since two thousand and seven and they have three children. Now, this is for all my nerd friends out there. Okay, Gomer's now Vin He's been playing dungeons and dragons over forty years. He's even written a book on it, and he still goes to the gym. Actress Kristen Bell, she's forty four when he Huntington Woods, Michigan in nineteen eighty. Start out doing Broadway, then TV started on Veronica Mars narrated Gossip Girls in House of Pain, The Good Place. Her first movie was Pooty Tang, then Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Couple's Retreat, and did the Frozen movies. She married actor Dak Sheppard in twenty thirteen and they have two daughters. Let me know, do you think that this guy's parents are proud of him? Bernard Clements he holds the world's record for the world's longest part YEP two minutes and forty two seconds. Well, thank you all for hanging out with us today. And if you can't follow us on whoever you're listening to us on and comes to this on coolmedia dot com, that's cool at three yels. Let's end with rider Jane Austen. She died today.

13:46 In eighteen seventeen, at forty four years old. Jane said, there are people that the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. It'srain and talk Gos. I'm out of the sky, Tarkos. No need to ask why, Just open your mouth and close your eyes.