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

0:10 Hi there everyone, I am Jeff. Welcome to history in Factoids about today because by cool media, Today's July eighteenth. I'm sour Candy, so three, I get a little angry, Yeah, sour journey, Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, I'm super psycho crazy and went a trend lesa so candy car. Yeah, it's National sour Candy Day. In the eight eighteen hundreds, candy makers really had a bad reputation for how they were making candy, so they couldn't really experiment on stuff like sour County. Your people would think it was just a bad batch of candy. But by the nineteen fifties, candy makers have gotten the trust of the public, so they really experiment on stuff like atomic fireballs and the limit heads. And now sour candy is everywhere, So just pick your favorite. Enjoy today. She's going on entertainment on July eighteenth, Let's go back to your nineteen eighty three number one album was Michael Jackson's thriller The Police had the number one song with Every Breath You Take, Sea Baby. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard had the number one country song with Punch You On Lefty. The Ward has Gone outside is We're on the

1:40 office world punto madis my Juno on the deserts down in Mexico. Nobody heard and die. The number one book was Returning the Jedi by Joan Divenge. The top movie was Jaws three D. Police Chief Brody his son has to save everyone from a giant thirty five foot shark that gets trapped in theme park. Dennis Quay Best Armstrong and Luke Gossett Junior starting it. Nineteen seventy eight, Deaf Leppard made their first live debut performance. It was at the Westfield School in Sheffield, England. One hundred and fifty people went to see him out. All right, unless it had happened in the world. On July the eighteenth, the year sixty four, the Great Fire of Rome began, burned for six days and then reignited and burned for another three days. Two thirds of Rome burned to the ground. Now there is rumor and legend that Roman Emperor Nero played his fiddle while Rome burned. Wow, that's not true.

2:39 How do we not? Well, the fiddle won't be invented for a thousand years. But everyone does believe Nero had his hand in getting that fire started though. Of course, Nero blamed on this small Jewish sect called Christians for starting the fire, and he's able to persecute him afterwards. But as strangely that after all that area that burned down, it actually fit exactly the palace and the ardens at Nero wanted to build. All right, maybe every drug company should do this one, you know, we should get fiser and cern on all them in on it. See back in eighteen ninety two, Ukrainian Vladimir Hoofkin he created the first vaccine against cholera. Well, just to make sure nobody got sick. He tested on himself first to see if it worked. Well. It worked, and he did live. Nineteen twenty five, Adolph Hitler published his first book, Four and a half Years of Struggle against Lie, Stupidity and Cowardice. Publisher changed the name to mind Kump, which just means Mine Struggle Airplane mccanic Douglas Corgan. He helped build the airplane in the spirit of Saint Louis. That's why Lindbergh flew across the Atlantic Ocean in nineteen twenty seven. Well, Corgan, he didn't really have a lot of money, And see about this little junker airplane up and he fixed it up. But he wanted to be like Lindberg really bad. He wanted all the fame and fortune that Lindburg got. So he flew to New York.

3:53 He was gonna go fly across the Atlantic Ocean non stop by himself. But when he got to New York, the authorities there saw his crop plane and said, and you can't do that. That'd be suicide. You don't never make it across there. And Corgan said, yeah, I can make it, trust me, let me go. And they said, no way man. In fact, we should just tow your plane off our airport right now. Well, Corgan back with him. Don't toe it, don't I'll fight back to California. Well they didn't believe you'd make it back to California either, but they at least it wasn't over water, right, and so they said, okay, go ahead and take off. Then this morning in nineteen thirty eight, and an airport in Dudland, Ireland, the workers reading breakfast when this really crappy airplane came sputtering into their airport. They got up to go investigate, and Corgan got out of the plane and said, where am I I have no idea. I got in a cloud bank when I left New York going to California and lost my barns. Can you even tell me where I'm at? Well, a lot of people bought that store. It was the front headline in every newspaper in the world. Nicknamed him wrong Way Corregan. When he got back to New York City, tacker tape parade was even bigger than Lindberghs. Nineteen sixty nine, US Senator Ted Kennedy from Massachusetts.

4:59 He was at party on the island at chap Aquittock when he offered to give a ride to one of his young staffers, a twenty eight year old Mary Joe kopecni Well. Kennedy he was most likely drunk. He drove off one of the bridges getting back to the mainland. Kennedy he was able to get out of the car and swim to the surface, but Mary Joe wasn't. Kennedy said he tried several times to go down and rescue her, but he couldn't do it, so he went back to his hotel room and went to bed. When he woke up the next morning, he let authorities know that he had that accident. When they pulled the car out, they found Mary Joe. She had drowned Kennedy. He ended up getting two months of the suspended sentence for leaving the scene of an accident. Nineteen ninety four. Crayola, they introduced it scented crayons twenty nineteen. The city of West Palm Beach, Florida. They'd add it, They'd add it enough. The homeless people kept gathering along their waterfront, so they weren't gonna put it up, but then anymore so they started blasting the kids songs Baby Shark and It's Raining Tacos. Well, it worked really well. The homeless people left, but the homeless advocates they were upset and threatened to threatened to sue. But it didn't take swrain and toccos the sky toos. Don't need to ask whylose your eyes? Alrighty? Who was born on July the eighteenth, the Unsinkable Molly Brown was. She was born Margaret Tobin Brown born in Hannibal, Missouri.

6:30 In eighteen sixty seven. She married this poor miner up here on Leadville, Colorado. You know they over They endured for a number of years. They had a son and a daughter. Then her husband John Brown hit big, really big, huge about themselves as huge mansion down in Denver. You can actually go to it right now. It's still there. It's called the Molly BrownHouse. Then they Molly of course she became one of the biggest socialites in Denver. In nineteen twelve, she was actually visiting her daughter in Paris when she got word that her oldest grandson back in Denver was sick. So she went and got on the first ship she could to get back to the United States. It happened to be the main voyage of the RMS Tidentic. You guys have all seen the movies, you know what happens next. At that time, her and her husband had actually separated. They never did divorce, but he died in nineteen twenty two, so she moved to New York City to try and be an actress. She ended up dying from a brain to him or in nineteen thirty two, at sixty five years old. Actor Hume Gronin He was born in London, Canada in nineteen eleven. Best success was on stage. Some of his movies where The Seventh Circus, The Postman Always Rings Twice and did those cocoon movies. His second wife was actress Jessica Dandy.

7:34 They got married nineteen forty two, had a son and daughter, Jessica. She died in nineteen ninety four. He had married a third wife in nineteen ninety six. They were together until he died in two thousand and three from prostate cancer at ninety one years old. All men make mistakes, but married men find about out about it sooner. That's one of the legendary jokes told by comedian Red Skelton. He was born in Vicensus, Indiana, in nineteen thirteen is seventy year. Chris started out when he was ten. From nineteen thirty seven in nineteen seventy one, the Red Skelton Show ran. Started out on radio, then moved to TV, one of the biggest shows out there. After the show and had read he did one hundred and twenty five shows a year, touring, well, not really touring, most of them Marino in Vegas. He was married to a second wife from nineteen forty five to nineteen seventy three until they divorced. They had two children. Married his third wife in nineteen seventy three. They were together until Red died in nineteen ninety seven from pneumonia at eighty four years old. John Glenn he was born in Cambridge, Ohio, in nineteen twenty one. He was a fighter pilot in World War Two and then the Korean War. Then he became an astronaut.

8:37 In nineteen sixty two, he became the first American door but the Earth. Then after that he served in the US Senate from Ohio from nineteen seventy four to nineteen ninety nine. Nineteen ninety eight, he went back in space board the Space Shuttle at seventy seven years old. He's the oldest person ever to travel in the space. He got married back in nineteen forty three. They had a son and a daughter. They were together until Glenn died in twenty sixteen at ninety five years old. I spell on you. You might not believe it, but that is screaming. Jay Hawkins he was born in Cleveland, Ohio. In nineteen twenty nine. He gets created for creating shock rock. But before that, nineteen forty four, fifteen years old, he used a fake burst er to vict to join the Air Force. Then he ended up getting an honorable discharge in nineteen fifty two. Then he decided he was going to go into opera. I wanted to be an opera singer.

9:41 That didn't work out for Squat, so he turned to shock rock. He had all kind of weird maccab props on stage, fake snakes, fake trantelas, skulls and bones. He would open his show coming out of a coffin and even seeing with a big bone clip to his nose. His biggest hit was that one we heard I Put a Ell on You. Now. He was married six times, but that didn't slow him down at all. No, he still ended up with thirty three kids before he died. He died from nannurism at seven years old in two thousand and three. We'll never settle down, pretty girls, you know, same squeezing. Then my name, that's Dion de Mucci. He prefers it if you just call him Dion.

10:35 He has one in the Bronx, New York in nineteen thirty nine eighty for you. He's still out there performing. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It's part of Dion and the Belmonts. They had thirty nine top forty hits. Most are in the fifties and sixties. Some of Their big ones are run Around Soon, the Wander, Ruby, Baby Lover, Zoo Waterer Diane. He's been married since nineteen sixty three and they have three daughters. Now he's known as Barbara Streisand's husband, but he's actually actor James Broland. He's eighty three years old. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty. Most known for TV was on Marcus well By MD, Hotel Life and Pieces. Some of his movies Fantastic Voyage, Skyjacked, Ammyville, horr Peewee's Big Adventure. He had actor Josh Brolan and his sister when from his second wife, he married his third wife, Jen Smithers. Members She played Bailey Quarters on WKRAPI in Cincinnati. They had a daughter. Then he weared Ma Barbara in nineteen ninety eight. That is the Martha of Martha and the Van Drels. Martha Rees was born in nineteen forty one, and you follow Alabama eighty two. Yeah, she's still out there performing Officer her on the Vandals here in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of their hits, heat Wave, Dancing in the Street and Nowhere to Run Jimmy Meck.

12:09 Martha she has one son, but I'd rather be joy start find a horse and cart I'm just staying free. Boys. Ricky Skaggs. He was born in Cordelle, Kentucky, in nineteen fifty four sixty nine. He plays the mandolin, the fiddle, the geek dollar, and the banjo. It's one fifteen Graham. He's got him in country, bluegrass, gospel, and kids songs. Yeas twelve number one country songs. Some of those are heartbroke. I wouldn't change you if I could, don't cheat in our hometown Cajun Moon. He has a son and a daughter from his first wife. He's married to a second wife Sons nineteen eighty one and they have a daughter and a son. He is on tour. I few actually go to see him.

13:01 Actor Vin Diesel. He was born Mark Sinclair and alimed At County, California in nineteen sixty seven fifty six. Yeld most known for Way Dominic and The Fast and the Furious movie franchise. First movie was Saving Private Ryan he got killed, Then The Iron Giant, Xander Cage and the Triplex movies. Riddick and Those Guardians of the Galaxy movies. Movies are made over seven billion dollars. Now he's been with his girlfriend since twenty ten and they have three children. Okay, now this is for all my nerd friends out there. All right, you Gomer's here's what. Get this? Then he's been playing Dungeon Dragons for forty years. Yep, he's even written a book on it. Actor Kristen Bell. She was born in nineteen eighty and Hunterwood, Michigan, forty three year old. Started out on Broadway, then on TV.

13:45 She's been in Veronica Mars, Gossip Girl, All the Good Plays, Summer Movies, for Getting Sarah Marshall, Couples Retreat, the Frozen Movies. She did Pooty Tang. Yeah, she did Pooty Tang. She didn't get a word or anything for it though. She got married actor Dak Shepherd in twenty thirteen and they have two daughters. Actress as Prey Guys Chopra. She was born in jash Chapur, India in nineteen eighty two, forty one year. She went Miss World in two thousand. Then she wanted to study aeronautical engineering after that, but she got pushed into acting. Gosh turn it. So now she's wonning India's highest paid actresses. She's at married a singer, Nick Jonas. That's right for the Jonas brothers. And they got married in twenty eighteen and they have a daughter. All right, it is stupid fact too.

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