July 18th-Sour Candy, Wrong way Corrigan, Molly Brown, Vin Diesel, Molly Brown, Dion, Ricky Skaggs

0:19 Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today is July the eighteenth. I'm soo candy sore and I got a little angry and sour candy ca Yeah, yea, I'm super psyched, Grace. You want to turn the lessle so Manny Carr. Today it is National Sour Candy Day. Now, back in the eighteen hundred, it's candy makers. They really had a bad reputation about how they went into making candy. Yes, they couldn't experiment at all. See if they came up with something like sour candy, Yeah, everybody think it was just a bad bats they were trying to sell. About the nineteen fifties, the public started trusting candymakers. Know, they started playing around, came up things like atomic fireball, the limon heads and all that good stuff. Now, sour candy it's everywhere. So pick your favorite one and puck her up today. She's going on entertainment on July the eighteenth.

1:11 It's a bat your twenty seventeen Them one album was greatful by KG Khalid. It was Phonzie and Daddy Yankee had the name one song with de Posito. Yes, spa to wiggle this pacito, you got those? This seems tsking me go spa, see though, Okadito, that's that's what that s pasito. That means slowly. Sam aunt to have the number one country song with body like a back road. Way, man like Cadillac scenes. Body lack a back traveling curve, lock the back of my fifteen. I know.

2:04 I'm gonna take this song just as. Fast as I came. The number one book was Camino Island by John Grisham. The top movie was Dunkirk, British Belgium and French soldiers there completely surrounded by the German army in World War Two. That epic evacuation takes place stars Fion, Whiteland, Barry Kiegun and Mark Rylands. All Right, what happened on July the eighteenth, in the year sixty four, The Great Fire of Rome began, burned for six days and then reignited and burned for another three Two thirds of Rome were burned to the ground. The legend is at the Emperor Niro he played his fiddle as he watched Rome burn. Well, that can't be true. The fiddle won't be invented for another thousand years. But it makes a good story, and everyone does believe Nero had a part in that fire. See Naro. He blamed the fire on this really small religiou sect called Christians. Yeah, that gave him the full authority to go persecatee those Christians after that. Now it's rather odd. See that area of Rome that burned. It happened to fit exactly into the blueprint that Nero had drawn up for a new palace and garden. Maybe every drug company should start doing this.

3:09 I don't think the people at Pfizer, Eli, Lilly, Certain and all that wouldn't go for it. Eighteen ninety two, Ukrainian signing to Vladimir Hifkin. He came up with the first vaccine against cholera. Wow. To make sure he didn't make people sick, he tested on himself. Yeah, he loved something. They put the vaccine on the market. Nineteen twenty five he Hadolf Hitler. He published the book that he wrote while he was in prison four and a half years, A struggle against lies, stupidity and cowardice. Wow, the publisher changes to mind confidence, it means my struggle. Douglas Corgan he was an airplane mechanic. He actually helped build the Spirit of Saint Louis. That's the plane that Charles Lindberg flew across the Atlantic Ocean in nineteen twenty seven. Well, Corgan, he didn't have a lot of money. He had just enough money to buy a really junker plane, but he was able to get the fly. But Corgan, see, he really really wanted to be like Lindberg. Yeah, he wanted all that fame that Lindberg received when he flew across Atlantic Ocean. So Corgan decided he was gonna go for it.

4:03 So he flew that junk airplane from where he was in California out to New York City. Then after he gassed up before he could take off, the authorities at the airport they saw that crappy airplane and found out what he was gonna do. They grounded him. Yeah, they said it was suicide. They weren't gonna let that plane try and make it across the Atlantic Ocean. Cork and he argued with him, said, hey man, just let me do it. I can make it orthor No, not only we're not gonna let you do it, We're gonna actually tow that piece of crap off our airport. Now Corgan was desperate, so he really started to bag. He said no, no, no, no, don't tell the way by plane, and he promised to fly back to California. Well, they didn't think it'd make it to California, but at least it would be over land and not water, so they said, all right. This morning in nineteen thirty eight, at an airport in Dublin, Ireland, the workers, they were all eating breakfast when this crappy airplane came sputtering in for a landing. Wow. They all went over to investigate what was going on Cork and he climbed out of the parane. He acted all confused, like where was I? He said, I have no idea where I'm at. He had a cloud bank when I left New York City on my way to California and I lost my bearings. Please tell me where I'm at. A lot of people bought that. Yeah, it was on the front page of pretty much every newspaper in the world.

5:11 The headlines are read wrong way. Corgan. Now he had to take a boat back to the United States. But when he got in New York City, they did all the parade for him. It was actually bigger than Lindberg's When. Each Weary. Home To That recording is from nineteen fifty three. Eighteen year old Elvis Presley went into Sun Records in Memphis. He paid him three dollars and ninety eight cents to make a record for his mom for her birthday. Now that song was my happiness. On the other side of the record, it was your heartaches again. Now you're in that money to make the record. Driving a truck nineteen sixty nine, the United States senator from mass Chooses Ted Kennedy.

6:01 He was at a party on the island of chap Equittick. It's off of Martha's Vineyard. Well. He offered to give a ride to one of his staffer's twenty eight year old Mary Joe Kopeckney. Well, Kennedy, yeah, is most likely drunk when he drove off of one of the bridges that lead to the mainland. Kennedy he was able to get out of the car, Mary Joe wasn't, Kennedy said. He tried severl tries to dive down to rescue her, but he just couldn't do it. So he went back to his hotel room went to bed. When he woke up the next morning, he took a shower and then called the police tell him about his accident. When the police pulled his car out of the ocean, Marry Joe, she was inside. She had drowned Kennedy. He ended up getting a two months suspended sentence for leaving the scene of an accident. Knows It nineteen ninety four at Crayola and they started selling scented crayons. Twenty nineteen. The city of West Palm Beach, Florida. They had had it. Enough was enough, they were done. They were not going to tolerate homeless people gathering on their waterfront wharf anymore. So to keep the homeless way, West Palm Beach started blasting the kids songs Baby Shark and It's Raining Tacos. It worked really, really well. Yep. The homeless people they all left.

7:02 But the homeless advocates they were irate. They tried to sue the city. No court would take that lawsuit though. The strain and Talcos fell out of the sky. Talk goes, no need to ask why, just open your mouth, close your eyes, and strain and Talker say. Okay, let's see. It was born on July the eighteenth, the unthinkable Molly Brown. She's born in Hannibal, Missouri. In eighteen sixty seven, she married a poor miner up in Leadville, Colorado. Now they scrap by for a few years. They had a son and a daughter. Then her husband, John Brown, hit big. Now we are talking really big. It was in eighteen ninety three. They were instant millionaires. Got a big mansion in Denver. You can actually tour. It's called the Molly Brown House. Molly. She became one of the biggest socialites in Denver. In nineteen twelve, she was over visiting her daughter in Paris. She received word that her oldest grand back in Denver was sick. So she was desperate, so she bought a ticket on the first ship that could get her back to the United States. Just so happened to That ship was the Maine Voyage of the Titanic.

8:09 Aw you've lost seen the movies. After that, her husband died in nineteen twenty two, so I'm Mary moved to New York City to be her socialite. She died from a brain tumor in nineteen thirty two at sixty five years old. Actor Hume Cronin. He was born in London, Ganada, in nineteen eleven. His biggest success was actually on theater. Some of his movies were The Postman Are Resierings twice and he did those cocoon movies. Now. His second wife was actress Jessica Tanny. They were married from nineteen forty two until she died in nineteen ninety four. They had a son and a daughter. Heet Me married again in nineteen ninety six. They were together until he died in two thousand and three from prostate cancer. Ninety one years old. Asternaut John Glynn. He his wh in Cambridge, Ohio, in nineteen twenty one. He was a fighter pilot in both World War Two and then the Korean War. Then he became an astronaut. Nineteen sixty two, he became the first American to orbit the Earth. After that he went into the US Senate. He was from Ohio. He represented them from nineteen seventy four nineteen ninety nine nineteen ninety eight.

9:02 He went into space again. Yeah, I bore the Space Shuttle. He's seventy seven years old. He was the oldest person to go into space and took a couple of years ago. Now two ninety year olds have gone. William Shattner the actor. Yeah, a guy named Ed Dwaight. Glenny was married from nineteen fifty three and they had a son and a daughter, Glenn. He died in twenty sixteen at ninety five years old. Son. Yeah, I'm not gropening too, but I hit the wrong damn button.

9:48 No right it around, tasting it to me down, s fellow you that was screaming. Jay Hawkins. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in nineteen twenty nine. Now. He started out wanting to be an opera singer, but that didn't work, so he created Shock Rock. Yeah, I see. He would put weird macab props on the stage, like fake snakes and fake spiders, have skulls and bones. He opened the show coming out of a coffin and a big old bone clam to his nose. They got married six times. He had three kids from his first wife.

10:28 That was it for kids from all those wives, but he ended up fathering thirty three kids total. Jay He died from two thousand from brain aneurysm seventy years old. Boom, We'll never settled down. Were pretty girls long? Well you know that I'm around. I kiss me. They're on the Saints don't come in I'll squeeze him. Even though my name, they called me the wander up eighty six year old on Madoucie, he still goes by just Dion. He was born in the Bronx, New York. Now he's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Dion and the Belmonts. They had the big hits, run Around, Sue, the Wander Ruby, Baby Lovelers who Wander just some of those hits. Now Dion. He's been married since nineteen sixty three yep, and they have three daughters. Nowadays, he's probably known best for being Barbara Streisand's husband. Actor James Brolin is eighty five born in Los Angeles. On TV, he was on Marcus Wilby MD, Hotel Life and Pieces. Some of his movies are A Fantastic Voyage, Skyjacks, Amneyville, Horror, Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Now. He had actor Josh Brolin and his sister from his first wife. Then he had a daughter from the second wife. She was actors Jens Smithers, and he married Barber in nineteen ninety eight. US Some Boy,

12:01 the Martha Martha and then Vandellas Yeah, Martha Reeves. She was born in you Follow, Alabama, eighty four years old today. She grew up in Detroit. Martha and Vandala is there in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. They had the biggest nowhere to Ron heat Wave, Jimmy Mack dancing in the streets. I went their separate directions in nineteen seventy three. Martha, she still kind of performs every once in a while. She has one son. But I'd rather be here o Color, Jan Good Home, so Joonie Ware, Carden Horse and Carty. I'm just saying. Huntrey born Conremoy Ricky Skaggs, he's seventy one. He's born in Cordell, Kentucky.

12:56 I can't really call him a country singer because he's also really big and blue g ass and gospel. He plays in mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and banjo. He's one fifteen Grammys. Some of his twelve number one country songs our Heart Broke, Wouldn't change You if I could, don't cheat in our hometown country boy. Ricky's going out on too July twenty second, and John sim He'll be out until the end of October. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen eighty one, and they have a daughter and a son. Actor Vin Diesel. He was born in Alameda Counda, California. He's fifty eight today. You grew up in New York City. Now. His movies have grossed over twelve billion dollars. That makes him the seventh highest grossing lead actor of all time. He's right behind Tom Cruise. It's one of Scarlet Johanson's number one on that list. Now, Vin, in his first movie, he got killed trying to save Private Ryan. Now, Vin, he Okay, all my nerd friends, this one's for you now. Vin is a huge Dungeons and Dragons geek yep. He's been playing it for forty years. He's even written a book on it. They had him and his girlfriend. They've been together since two thousand and seven and they have two sons and one daughter. After Kristen Bell's forty five. She was born in Huntington Woods, Michigan. Started out doing some Broadway and then she started on TV's Ronica Mars. She narrated a gossip girl. She was in a good place.

14:10 She is currently on on a Netflix show called Nobody Wants This. Her first movie was Pooty Dang, then forgetting Sarah Marshall Couples Retreat the Frozen Movies. She married actor Dax Sheppard in two thirteen. They have two daughters. Okay, Quota to Day comes from writer Jane Austen. She died a Dane 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. Thank you all for listening today. Don't we have to follow us on and you'll listen to us on comes here as at coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three oh. You can see what's going on in the other podcast and the radio station all that fun stuff. Speaking of the radio station, our country underground radio artist of the day. It comes from Jan up there in Cheyenne. She wants to hear Clay Rigg and song Living ninety eight proof. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Friends. Here's an empty stoom, it's got your name and we nom you all about a drink? Hey, Joe, can you make them too?

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