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 pret I get a little angry and sour candy. Yea, yeah yo, I'm super psychoed, Gracy, 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 it 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's everywhere.

1:06 So pick your favorite one and puck her up today. Okay, let's see what happened in entertainment now on July eighteenth. Let's back in nineteen sixty nine, the Hair movie soundtrack was the number one album. Zigar and Evans had the number one song with twenty five twenty five. In the five thirty five, He ain't gonna need to tell a true tell lies everything you bet you and same is in the field. You should douday in five forty five, he gonna need CUTCHI walt me job. Conway Twitter, you had the number one country song with I Love You More Today. Now he's with you.

1:53 And thank you Tom. We've done well for so long today. Then he came from. The top selling book was The Love Machine by Jack lind Susan top movie was The Wild Budge in nineteen thirteen, Texas. A gang of aging outlaws they look for one last big score. Stars William Holding, Ernest Borg nine, Robert Ryan. 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.

2:38 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 Niro had a part in that fire. See Naro. He blamed the fire on this really small world they just set called Christians. Yeah, that gave him the full authority to go persecate those Christians after that. 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. I think the people at Pfizer, Eli, Lilly, Certain and all that would go for it. Eighteen ninety two, Ukrainian signing to Vladimirhifkin. He came up with the first vaccine against cholera.

3:22 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 The Hadolf Hitler. He published the book that he wrote while he was in prison. Four and a half years of struggle against lie of stupidity and cowardice. Ah, the publisher changes to mind conference means mind 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 airplane. But he was able to get the fly. But Corgan, see, he really really wanted to be like Lindbergh. Yeah, he wanted all that fame that Lindbergh received when he flew across the Atlantic Ocean. So Corgan decided he was gonna go for it. 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.

4:24 I can make it. No, not only we're not gonna let you do it, we're gonna actually toew that piece of crap off our airport. Now Corgan was desperate, so he really started to back. He said no, no, no, no, don't tell way By plane and he promised to fly back to California. Well, they didn't think he'd make it to California, but at least it would be over land and out 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 He said, I have no idea where I'm at. Hit 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.

5:07 A lot of people bought that. Yeah, it was on the front page of pretty much every newspaper in the world. 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. 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. Teen sixty nine.

6:00 The United States Senator from Massachusetts, Ted Kennedy. He was at a party on the island of chap Equittock. It's off of Martha's Vineyard. Well, he offered to give a ride to one of his staffers, twenty eight year old Mary Joe Kopecney. Well, Kennedy, yeah, is most likely drunk. He drove off in 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 silverl 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, telling 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. That was it. Nineteen ninety four at Crayola, they started selling scented crayons. Twenty nineteen, the city of West Palm Beach, Florida, they had had it. Enough was enough. They were done.

6:50 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, But the homeless advocates they were irate. They tried to sue the city. No court would take that lawsuit though. The strain and tacos fell out of the sky. Talk goes, no need to ask why, just open your mouth, close your eyes, and strain and tay. Okay, let's see.

7:32 It was born on July the eighteenth, the unthinkable Molly Brown. She was born in Hannibal, Missouri. In eighteen sixty seven. She married a poor miner up in Leadville, Colorado. Now they scrat 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 an eighteen ninety three. They were instant millionaires about 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 dog her in Paris. She received word that her oldest grandson 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 made voyage of the Titanic. Wow, 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.

8:22 After 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. He got 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. Astronaut John Glenn. He is worn 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 to nineteen ninety nine. Nineteen ninety eight 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.

9:12 William Shatner, the actor, Yeah, a guy named ed Dway. 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, No d it around taste went to me down a fellow news 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 golls and bones.

10:01 He had opened the show coming out of a coffin. He and a big old bone clam to his nose. They got married six times. He had three kids from his first wife. That was it for the kids from all those wives, but he ended up fathering thirty three kids total. Jay died from two thousand from brain aneurysm seventy years old. You got never settled down. We have a pretty girl, so well you know that I'm around. I'm call me. They're all the same. He'll come in. I'll squeeze him. Even my name. They called me the wander up. Eighty seven year old Dion Deo Mucci. He's in that rock and roll Hall of Fame with the Belmonts. He's famous simply as Dion. He's born in the Bronx, New York.

10:45 In nineteen thirty nine, they had the Big Hats run Around, Sue the Wanderer, Ruby, Baby Lovers who Wander not just some of those hits now Dianne. He's been married since nineteen sixty three yep, and they have three daughters. Nowadays, he's probably known best for being Barbara Stressan's husband. Actor James Brolin is eighty six born in Los Angeles. On TV, he was on Marcus Welby MD, Hotel Life and Pieces. Some of his movies are A Fantastic Voye, Skyjacked, Amnyville Horror, Peewee's Big Adventure. Now. He had actor Josh Brolin and his sister from his first wife. Then he had a daughter from his second wife. She was actress Jans Smithers, and he married Barbara in nineteen ninety eight Ny The Martha Martha and the Vendellas, Yeah, Martha Reeves. She was born in you Follow, Alabama, eighty five years old today.

11:56 She grew up in Detroit. Martha and Vandala is there in the Rock Hall of Fame. They had the big ESTs nowhere to Ron heat Wave, Jimmy Mack dancing in the streets. All went their separate in 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 ho Shwam Cood Home So. Jonie Wabs Harden to Horse and Carty. I'm just tay country. Boy Conray. Ricky Skaggs. He's seventy two. He's one of Cordell Kentucky in nineteen fifty four. I can't really call him a country singer because he's also really big and bluegrass and gospel.

12:40 He plays a mandolin, fiddle, guitar, and banjo. It's one fifteen Grammys. Some of his twelve number one country songs are heart Broke, Wouldn't Change You if I could, Don't cheat in our hometown country Boy. 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 Ali County, California, in nineteen sixty seven. He's fifty nine 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 Scarlett Johanson's number one on that list. Now. Then, 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.

13:27 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. Actress Kristin bellis forty six. She's born in Huntington Woods. It's Michigan nineteen eighty. 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. She is currently on a Netflix show called Nobody Wants This. Her first movie was Pooty Tang, then Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Couples Retreat, the Frozen movies. She married actor Dax Sheppard in two thirteen. They have two daughters. Okay today, it comes from writer Jane Austen. She died at 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 to the other podcast and the radio station all that fun stuff.

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