July 21-National Ice Cream day, Ernest Hemingway, Don Knotts, Robin Williams, The Hooters, Jon Lovitz

0:08 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Vactoid's about today present in bike cool media. Today is July the twenty first ice cream party, ice cream party, everybody. It's an ice cream poty ice cream poty ice cream pot. It's so much phone and an ice cream pot, ice cream, ice cream, ice cream, ice cream, ice cream, ice cream, ice cream party. Yes, scream. It is National ice Cream Day. Ice cream. It was created in Persia that's now Iran. It was around five hundred BC. They would have their slaves climb the top of the mountains and bring back snow. Then they would mix it with fruits and saffron, rose, waters, pistachios, whatever they liked. Now, there are a lot of writings about how they made ice cream, but not one on how they kept the snow from melting. Yeah, if you're over forty five years old, they say your favorite ice cream is most likely chocolate. Say if you're under forty five years old, your favorite ice cream will either be chocolate, mint chip, or cookie doo. Now, everybody's having deals today, Basking, Robin's, Dairy Queen, Dippin' Dots, seven to eleven McDonald's if they sell ice cream. They're probably having deals today, so enjoy.

1:19 Let's see what happened and entertainment on July twenty first, in the year nineteen fifty five, number one album was starring Sammy Davis Junior by Sammy Davis Junior. Bill Haley in the comments had the number one song with rock around the Clock one two, three o'clock, four o'clock Rock, five, six, seven o'clock, Hey o'clock Rock, nine, ten, eleven o'clock, twelve o'clock Rock. We're going to rock around two o'clock tonight. What five to live? So Joy three hundred don't beloved Web Pierce You had the number one country song with I Don't Care, I Don't Care FM lot the first love You Long, Just Solby, the last No, I Don't Care if finm Lot the first one You Kid. The number one book was Something of Value by Robert Rourke. Top movie was Not as a Stranger. An egomaniac doctor is intolerant for any weakness in any other people. Well, he finds out he's not perfect. Stars Robert Mitcham, Olivia Davlin, and Frank Sinatra.

2:40 All Right. What happened on July the twenty first, eighteen fifty three Central Park in New York was created. The New York Legislature designated seven and fifty acres of land on Manhattan Island to be used as a park. Eighteen sixty one, the first major battle of Civil War was fought. It's near Manessa's, Virginia. It was the first Battle of Bill Run. Yea. It was a really lopside of wind for the South. Yeah, they really put a whooping on the North on that one. Uh. The first, okay, a true Western showdown. That's where two men would meet in the center of town. Then they'd draw on each other. You've seen it in movies a lot of times. The first one for real actually took place today in eighteen sixty five. It was in the market square of Springfield, Missouri, while Bill Hiccock shot and killed Davis Tutt. He had Tutt He stole Bill's watch. Now, that first one on one quick drive duel made well bill of legit. Eighteen seventy three, Frank and Jesse James and the Younger Gang they robbed their first train. Yeah, they derailed the train near Adair, Iowa. They wore klu klux klan hoods when they went in and started robbing it. They were able to get two thousand dollars from the train safe, but the shipment of gold they thought were on the train wasn't there, so they stole another thousand dollars in cashing goods from the passengers. Now it was the first time in world history that a moving train had been stopped in order to be robbed, but they did. They pulled one of the rails out as the train was coming, so they eng and dropped off into a ditch.

4:00 The engineer on as firemen. They were killed. Nineteen nineteen in Chicago a blimp it crashed through the skylight of a bank. Thirteen people were killed. Yeah, I know these are getting old, but we have a couple more state high temperature records one hundred and thirty nineteen thirty. Millsborough, Delaware hit one hundred and ten degrees. Nineteen thirty four. Galopolos, Ohio hit one hundred and thirteen degrees. In nineteen sixty, Sirimavo bandi Ornki she became the first female elected as the head of a government. She became the Prime Minister of Ceylon. It's Sri Lanka today. Nineteen eighty three, at the Soviet Union's Vastek Research station. Antarctica temperature got to a negative one hundred and twenty eight point six degrees, lowest temperature ever recorded on the planet. How would you like to be a scientist and get sent from Russia down to Antarctica?

4:48 The US warship the USS Constitution at first set sellback in seventeen ninety seven, got really famous, being called old Ironside. What's sat on a dock for one hundred and sixteen years nineteen ninety seven, Yeah, it's full of restore and they set sail again to celebrate his studentother birthday. In two thousand and seven, the last book of the Harry Potter series went on sale, was The Harry Potter and then Deathly Hollers. So the eleven million copies worldwide in twenty four hours co co co co Coat goat show. This shibirth day were gonna pard. He left this shibfday. We don't sit with cars. He left its Shibf day, And you know we don't do because that's a birthday already. Who was born on July the twenty first? Writer Ernest Hemingway was born in oh Park, Illinois, in eighteen ninety nine, grew up Britch. The Hemingways were really well to do family. Now he was rejected and he tried to join the army to fight in World War One because of his poor eyesight, so he joined the Red Carross and they went over there and he was an ambulance driver. His books can did a lot of contained a lot of irony too. Now after the war, he traveled the world as a reporter, wrote some short stories. Some consider I'm one of the greatest writers of all time, but the only wrote seven novels, The Torrents of Spring. The sun also rises, a farewell to arms, the have and the have not, for whom the belt tolls across the river and end of the trees. The Old Man in the Sea. He won a Nobel Prize in Literature for Old Man in the Sea. He had when child from his first wife, two from his second wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen forty six. Himingway committed suicide nineteen sixty one, at sixty one years

6:21 old. Now he wasn't the first teaming Way to commit suicide. Seven people in his family actually killed themselves, a couple of his uncles, his grandfather, his father, sister, brother and granddaughter Margo Hemingway. No well go span WILLI fin? That was case Starr. She was born in Doerty, Oklahoma, in nineteen twenty two. She was at jazz singer, but she had her biggest success doing popping country music. One of the top singers in the late forties. Throughout the fifties, some of our big hits were so tired, Hoop de doo, I'll never be free, will of fortune.

7:12 She divorced six times and had one daughter from her second husband, Case She died in two thousand and six from Alzheimer's at ninety four years old. Come and knock on our door. Door, We've been waiting for you with a person person. His pleas coumping me to. Actor Don Knatts was born in Morgantown, West Virginia in nineteen twenty four. Hit big on TV playing Barty Fife on The Andy Grifflith Show. Then he is Mister Furley on Three's Company. He made a lot more movies than you'd probably think of. Some of them are The Ghost and Mister Chicken, The Shakiest Gun in the West, Apple, Gumpling Gang Movies, Pleasantville. He did win five his Primetime Emmy's playing Barney on Andy Griffith. He had a daughter and a son from his first marriage and married his third wife in two thousand and two. He died in two thousand and five from lung cancer at eighty one years old. Comedian actor Robin Williams. He was born in Chicago in nineteen fifty one. Started out as a really successful stand up comedian and then hit huge in the TV show Mark and Mindy that led him into movies made over Ady Movies. Was nominated for Oscars for Good Morning Vietnam, Dead Poet Society, The Fisher King won his Oscar for Goodwill Hunting. He won five Grammy Awards for Best Comedy Albums, and he even won a Grammy Award for Best Children's oub. He had a son from his first wife, a son and a daughter from his second wife. Married his third wife in twenty eleven. Then Robin committed suicide in twenty fourteen at sixty three years old. He's talking Eric Brazilia and he's

9:07 the lead singer for the band in the Hooters seventy one. Born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty three, helped form The Hooters in nineteen eighty two. Some of their biggest hits are Day by Day and We Danced All You Zombies? Where do the Children Go? They're actually touring Germany right now, but they're coming back to the United States in late August to kick off their tour. You know, I like them at all, but I don't really know if I want to pay to see seventy year old Hooters. Eric. He's married and they have three children. One of my favorite writers, Michael Connolly's sixty eight years old. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty six. If you have read his book The Poet, that's a must read. Conley's written thirty seven books and his main character is Detective Harry Bosch. That might sound familiar, So all his books are either Harry Bosch books or they are a character who was in a Harry Bosh book. For instance, if you read the book, but you probably saw the movie The Lincoln Lawyer that was played by Matthew McConaughey. He was actually brash as how brother. So they all connect. It just works now. They did do a whole bunch of the Harry Bosh books on Prime Amazon Prime. Connelly. He's married since nineteen eighty four and they have one child. Comedian actor John loves To sixty seven.

10:13 He's born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty seven. Started a stand up then he got really popular on Saturday Night Live. He was on there from nineteen eighty five to nineteen ninety been in eighty movies. Some of them are big, a league of their own. The wedding singer, he was a Quasimoto in Hotel Transylvania. He's not married yet, he's still playing the field. Let's go back to ice cream. Forty percent of all Americans tell the truth. Yep, they fess up and say that they have eaten an entire pint of ice cream at one city. Well, thank you for being with us here today. Don't forget to follow us. I know if you listened to us on come see us at cool media dot com. That's cool of Thrios. Let's end with astronaut Alan Shepherd. He was a second American and the fifth person ever to go into our second person to go into space and the fifth America. What he was a really famous astronaut anyway. He died today in nineteen ninety eighty, seventy four years old. He did say that It's a very sober feeling to be up in space and realize that your safety relies on the lowest bidder on a government contract. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no, no no no no