July 23-Gorgeous Grandma Day, Woody Harrelson, Slash, Alison Krauss, Destiny's Child, Harry Potter, Gimli Glider

0:19 Hi everyone, and welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today is July the twenty thirdday. Today he is National Gorgeous Grandma Day. Now what a cool day. Now, if you're lucky enough to still have a grandma in your life, have fun celebrating the third today Gorgeous Grandma Day. It started in nineteen eighty four. It was to break the stereotype of what grandmas were. You know, they were thought to be old fashioned, sweet demure, that they had outdated styles and clothing and hair, that they would spend their days baking and knitting and well grandma's. They wanted to get rid of all that ridiculousness and they wanted to celebrate. They wanted to. So all your grandma's out there live it up today. Go out, get drunk, well at least then buy it, do some dancing dress however you want. Now for single, go out on a date.

1:20 If you're driving in your car, criak up that music. Here's some dran drand Deaf Leopard, Motley Crew, George Straight, whatever you like. Just celebrate the gorgeous grandma that you are today and don't cook for anybody. Now, do you realize for the first time in human history. There are some Grandma's out there with tramp stamps. Let's go to the year two thousand to see what was going on in entertainment. On July twenty third, number one album was the Marshall Mathers Album by Eminem match Box twenty. He had the number one song with Bent Just Told. Men Do We Helped Me? Duns So Scae.

2:03 With Leanne Wilmack had the number one country song with I Hope You Dance. We Never Wonder Close is a hope on for promise me that Juliet thirty, the firty change and when you get the choice to set it down, dance I Hope You jan. The top selling buck was The House on Hope Street by Danielle Steele. The top movie was What Lies Beneath and At Michelle Pfire. First, she's not sure if her house has haunted or she's just going crazy. She tries to figure it out with her husband, Harrison Ford. All Right, what happened? On July the twenty third, nineteen twenty seven, in Boston, they started offering the first swimming lessons. Yeah, that must have been out in the ocean though. The first swimming pool in the United States didn't open up until eighteen sixty eight. Yeah, that was in Boston too, but it was actually more of a public bath. Yeah, kind of gross. Eighteen eighty six, Steve Brody, Now Steve, he really really really wanted to open up a bar in New York City. Problem us, Steve, he didn't have any money. Well, one night he was at a bar drinking when he met a liquor distributor. Well, they had a good old time. They got good and liquored up. Well, that liquor distributor and he said, hey, Steve, I'll back your bar if you jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Well, the Brooklyn Bridge that's undred thirty five feet high, almost fourteen stores. Steve thought about it and kind of realized,

3:35 you know what, I don't have anything going on in my life, so what the hell? He said he could do it. Well, he jumped off that Brooklyn Bridge. Steve was the first person to do it and live. Two weeks later we opened up that bar. Now today we would call it going viral, but it went nationwide that story about it. It became a catchphrase all across the country. People would say, do a Brody. It's kind of a cool thing, though it actually meant to take a chance or make a leap of faith. That worked out pretty nice. Nineteen oh four, at the Saint Louis World's Fair, ear in his homway, he invented the ice cream cone. See, he was selling ice cream in little paper cups like everybody else did. Well, he ran out of the little cups, so he went next door to the waffle stand and bought some waffles. Yeah, ice cream cone was born. Nineteen sixty seven Doctor Starzy at the University of Colorado Hospital before on the first successful liver transplant. Yeah, he did it on nineteen month old Julian Rodriguez. Now she lived thirteen more months. Now she didn't die from the liver.

4:27 She ended up getting cancer and died from the cancer. When she died, they looked, Yeah, the liver is perfectly fine. Nineteen eighty three Air Canada Fight one forty three. It was flying from Montreal to Edmonton. Had sixty one passengers on board and eight crew members. Now it seemed just like a regular routine flight, cruised along at forty one thousand feet. Well, then the pilots noticed, Yeah, no one had gassed up the plane before they took off. They ran out of gas over Red Lake, Ontario. Luckily the pilot Bob Piris, and he was an expert rider. Somehow he was able to start gliding the plane. Then he looked on the map and he saw that there's a dec commissioned World War II airport near Gimli, Manitoba. Now he was able to glide that plane in there. He landed the plane, but he landed it really hard, you know, broke off the front landing gear. But that you could do under the circumstances, right, I mean, no one has hurt or anything like that. So everybody on the plane, you know that, they's all catching their brain thanking. God opened up the door, the emergency shoots deployed so everybody could slide down. They looked up and realized that decommissioned airport.

5:24 It had been turned into a drag recent strip. It was lined with stands full of thousands of people. The racers were all sitting on their car. So yeah, the plane was right in middle of the red drag strip. Got in the way. Now in the headline and every paper in the world the next day I read Gimley glider joke. Joke, joke, joke shot this shim day, he left, this shiver day. We don't simple tar, this shibf day, and you know you don't do. Well. It's born on July the twenty third after Ronnie Cox is eighty eight and he's born in cloud Craft, New mexs Go. In nineteen thirty eight, made his acting debut in the movie Deliverance Hey. He's best known for playing Lieutenant Bogamil and all the Beverly Hills Cops movies with Eddie Murphy. He is also in Harper Valley, PTA, RoboCop, Total Reco. Now he's pretty much just a musician. Yeah, him and his band they travel around play about one hundred shows at festivals every year. Recently he's doing it.

6:19 He wanted something to do after his wife died in two thousand and six. They had actually started dating when she was fifteen and he was eighteen. They got married in eighteen sixty. They have two sons. Oh makes you look like lass is what he does. And thank you, Grace. I think you're wrong. Oh well, he's very popular at the sportos and motor hits. Geeks, sluts, bloods, wasteoids, three bees, dickheads. They all adored. They think he's a righteous dude. That was Actress Eadie McClure. She's eighty one. She's by in Kansas City, Missouri. In nineteen forty five. Her first movie was in Carrie Yeah, and then she did it a couple of Teaching Chong movies, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, of course Ferris Bueller's Day Off. He's got a lot of voice workers over there. She retired in twenty twenty two. Actor Woody Harrelson was born in Midland, Texas in nineteen sixty one. He's sixty five. What he first hit on the sitcom Chairs, then he got his first starring role in the movie was White Man Can't Jump, and then he's done over ninety movies since then.

7:19 Something. He's been nominated for Oscars for Where the People Verse, Very Larry Flint, The Messenger, Three Billboards Outside Hit Edding Minister, Now Whatody. He married his second wife in two thousand and eight and they have three daughters. That guy is considered one of the greatest guitar players of all time. He is the league guitar player for the band's Guns N' Roses. Just goes by Slash sixty one today now his mom. She named him Saw Hudson. Yeah. He was born in London, England in nineteen sixty five. Grip in Los Angeles. He joined Guns n' Roses in nineteen eighty five.

8:04 He left Guns and Roses in nineteen ninety six and swore he'd never go back. Went back to Guns and Roses in twenty sixteen. While he was away, he had slash his snake Bit and Velvet Underground Slash. He's two times divorced. He had two sons from his second wife. Actor Philip Seymour Hoffmann. He was born in Fairport, New York in nineteen sixty seven. He won every award on the planet for the movie Capoti. He is also nominated Made for Oscars for three other movies, but you've probably never heard of them. Some of his movies that you have heard of were Twister, Boogie Knights, The Hunger Games movies. Now him. He was with his girlfriend for fourteen years and they had a son and a daughter. To see Philip. He always had a really bad drug problem. Yeah, I finally got him. He had an accident overdose in twenty fourteen and only forty six years old.

8:47 Says, you catch me, you see when you say the thing it. Bluegrass slash country singer slash fiddler Alison Kraus is fifty five. She was born in Decater, Illinois, in nineteen seventy one. She's won twenty seven Grammy Awards. That is second all the time she's been on Beyonce, who has a thirty five Now she's on least fourteen hours. Most of them were of her band Union Station. They're actually out on to her right now. If you go see him, you'll probably hear the songs when you say nothing at All, the Lucky One, Whiskey Lulby. Do you remember when Allison had a really big crossover hit with the singer from led Zeppelin, We have Robert Plant. They had that hu was Going Going Gone Allison. She married once for four years and has a son from it. Actor Omar Epps remember him, I think you should. He's fifty three, born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen seventy three. He first got done in the movie Juice that was a Tupac.

9:53 Then he did the program Love Him Basketball on TV. He was on House for eight years, then he did The Shooter for a couple of years. He had a daughter from a girl friend that he married his wife in two thousand and five and they have one daughter and one son. Back in high school, Omar's very bestest friend in the world was Marlon Walliams. Didn't tell me, Destney Child. They're one of the best selling girl grips of all time, so there were sixty million records. One of their founding members Michelle Williams. She was born in nineteen seventy nine in Rockford, Illinois. She's forty six today.

10:41 Now since Destney's Child's broke up in two thousand and six, she's got herself busy. She's list really solo album. I think her biggest hits are probably what We Break the Dawn and Say Yes Now Michelle. She was engaged once, yeah, but it didn't take. Actor Daniel Radcliffe was thirty seven. He was born in Hammersmith, England, in nineteen eighty nine. He got famous for playing Avery Potter and all ours Harry Potter movies. After that. He is also and now you've seen me Part two Jungle the Lost City. Now he's been dating his girlfriend's twenty twelve and they have a son. Now. When Daniel was making all those Harry Pottery movers. Yeah, the only teenager and all the great Breton they made more money than him. Yeah, Prince Harry, All right, let's do our quote of the day today. It comes from General and the eighteenth President of the United States. He listened as Grant. He died today in eighteen eighty five, at sixty three years old. Grant says, in every battle, there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten.

11:33 Then whoever continues to attack wins. Well, thank you all for listening today. Never we're going to follow us on. You listen to a son comes. He's a coolmedia dot com cool le'st three yeh's our country underground radio artists today. It comes from Patty at the Minnesota She wants to hear Alison Marie Coon and her song Can't Be Friends. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. They're coming to all your shirts. I guess your son too, he's coming. I'm Lewis thinking there's something else I gotta know. Didn't think I have to go walking in any crowded space. Always hear me you on the name. I don't want to play this game, thinking I'm gonna lose you and maybe not Ski day. I don't want to kiss you the name. They don't want a pupany of thinking the Gardian.

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