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

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today Pasion by Cool Media. Today's July the twenty third, it is National Gorgeous Grandma Day. What a cool day. Now, if you're lucky enough to still have a grandma that's still in your life, I have fun celebrating with her today. Now today actually start out in nineteen eighty four, it was to break the old stereotypes about grandma's. Grandma's thought it to be old fashioned sweet demure had outdated styles and clothing and hair. They like to spend their days knitting and baking goods. Well grandma's. They wanted to get rid of that ridiculousness. So today, for all you women over fifty who like to live it up, go out, get drunk, go dance and dress how you want, go out on a date. If you're still single, crank up the music in your car. Just celebrate the gorgeous grandmother you are today, and don't cook for anyone. All right, this is going on and entertainment.

1:19 On July the twenty third, let's go back to nineteen eighty six. Number one album was Winning You by Patti LaBelle Genesis had the number one song with Invisible Touch. Randy Travis had the number one country song. On the other hand, good All other hand, There's cold not Understand. Their number one book was Wonderlust by Danielle Steele Todd movie was Aliens Ripley. She's sent back out and has to fight an alien queen starts Sigourney Waiver, carry Inn and Michael Bean. All Right, what happened On July the twenty third, eighteen twenty seven in Boston they started offering the first swimming lessons in the United States. Must have been in the ocean, though, because the first swimming pool won't be both for over the next forty years. Eighteen eighty sac Steve Brody, Now he really, really badly wanted to open a bar in New York City. Probably Steve didn't have any money. Well, one night he was at the bar drink and he met a liquor distributor. Oh, they got pretty liquored up, and the liquor distributor finally said, you know what,

2:50 I'll back your bar, Steve if you'll jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. Oh. The Brooklyn Bridge is one hundred and thirty five feet high. It's almost as tall as a fourteen story building. Steve started thinking about it. He realized, you know what, he really didn't have anything going on in his life, so what the hell he said he had doe? Well, he jumped off the bridge, first person ever to do it and live. Then he opened his bar. Then it catch phrase started. It spread all across the country. It was called do it brody, which means to do something, you know, take a chance, or to make a leap. In Leaf of Faith, nineteen oh four, at the Saint Louis World's Fair, Ernest Tomoay he invented the ice cream cone. Now see, he was selling ice cream in little paper cups like everybody else was. But he ran out of the cups. We went over to the waffle stand next door, bought some maffels, and wife's ice cream cone was born nineteen sixty seven.

3:37 Doctor Starzy in the University of Colorado Hospital before the first successful liver transplant, did it on nineteen month old Julie Rodriguez. She lived thirteen more months and after that, but she didn't die from the liver. She ended up getting cancer and died from that. When she died, the liver was fine. Nineteen eighty three, Air Canada Fly one forty three L was flying from Montreal to Edmondton, had sixty one passengers on board am members. Now seemed like just a regular routine flag cruising along forty one thousand feet. Then the pilots noticed that no one had gashed up the plane before they took off. They ran out of gas over Red Lake, Ontario. Luckily, the pirate Bob Pearson, he was actually an expert glider pilot, and he saw on the map that there was a decommissioned World War two airport, you know, Jimmy Jimmy Lee, Manitoba. So he was able to glide the plane over there.

4:23 He landed it. He led it hard enough where the front landing gear collapse, but that's probably about as good as you can do under the circumstances. No one has hurt or anything like that. So everyone's out there catching their breath, you know. And they opened up the doors and those emergency shoots shot down so everybody could slide out of the plane. They looked up, they realized that, you know, that decommissioned airport over and jim Jimmily, Yeah, I'd been turned into a drag racing strip. Yeah, the stands were just full of people and the racers were all sitting around, sitting on their cars. Yeah, the plane was kind of in the way, go coat, goat, coat coat goat showing this shimmer day. He left this Shuver birthday. We don't simple tage. He's like this shub birthday, and you know we don't get because that's your birthday, all right. It was born on July the twenty third. Actor Ronnie Cox. He's eighty six, born in Clouds Craft, New Mexico, in nineteen thirty eight. That's none for playing Lieutenant Boga Mill and all those Beverly Hills Cop movies with Eddie Murphy. It's actually been in quite a few movies, Deliverance, Harper Valley, BTA, RoboCop. Now he's mainly a musician. Yep. He has a band and everything tours round is about a hundred shows a year at different festivals. So he wanted something to do after his wife died in two thousand and six. They've been married since nineteen sixty and had two children. Oh makes you look like an ass is what he does. Ed, thank you, Grace. I think you're wrong. Oh well, he's very popular at the sportos and motor hits, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, thweebees, bickheads. They all adored. They think he's a righteous dude. That

5:56 was Actress Eadie mcgerg. She's seventy nine, born in Kansas Cityssouri, in nineteen forty five. Her first movie was Carrie. Then she did a couple of cheaching chogs movies, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, Ferris Bueler's Day Off. Done a lot of voice work. Some of them are The Little Mermaid, A Bugs Life, The Cars, movie is Frozen. She hadn't married yet. Actor Woody Harrelson. He was born in Midland, Texas in nineteen sixty one. What he's sixty three today. Graduated in nineteen eighty three from Hanover College. When he was there, he became kind of casual friends with the future Vice president Mike Bince. I don't think they partied together though, Whatdy first hit on the sitcom Chairs. Done a lot of movies since then. White Man can Jump, Natural Born Killers. Now I'm not being sarcastic, honestly think his best acting job was in the movie The Cowboy Way. He has been nominated for three Oscars for the People Versus Larry Flint, The Messenger, and three billboards outside of Edning, Missouri Weddy. He married his second wife in two thousand and eight and they have three daughters.

7:12 You probably know the The lead guitar player for the band Guns and Rosen is Slash. That's fine. His mom named him Saul Hudson when he was born in Hempstead, England, in nineteen sixty five. It's fifty nine today now. He moved to Los Angeles from England when he was six years old. He brought his mom with him. Now he is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time. He joined Guns and Roses in nineteen eighty five. He left Guns and Roses in nineteen ninety six and vowed never to come back. Came back to Guns as Roses since twenty sixteen now. When he wasn't with Guns and Rosen, he had the super groups Slash, a Snake Pit and Velvet Underground. He's a list six solo albums. He released. The last one just in May is called The Orgy of the Damn. He has a lot of really big names singing for him on it. He has two times divorced and has two sons. From his second wife. Our actor Philip se war Hoffmann won in Fairport, New York in nineteen sixty seven. Now he won every award on the planet for the movie Capoti. He was nominated for Oscars than three other movies. But you never heard of him. Some of his movies that you have heard of, or Twister, Boogie Knights, The Big Lebowski, the Hunger Games movies. He had a longtime girlfriend.

8:16 They were together over fourteen years and had one son and two daughters. But see Philip, he always had a lot of trouble. Drugs, Yeah got him. He had an accident for overdose in twenty fourteen at forty six years old. A touch of says you catch me and you say this when you say loving All. Bluegrass slash country singer slash fiddler Alison Krause. She was born in nineteen seventy one and Decater, Illinois. She's fifty three. She's won twenty seven Grammy Awards. That's second all time behind Beyonce. She's the last fourteen albums, most of those are with her band Union Station. Some of the heads are when You Say Nothing at All, The Lucky One, Whiskey Lullaby, Now do you remember this big hit that crossed over into the pop charts the night in two thousand and seven. I because you walk down the street, bless you are you walk here? Just say him gone go on gone wrong. Yeah, that was gone, Gone gone. Allison was singing with Robert Plant. Yeah, that Robert Plant that used to be the former singer for led Zeppelin. Now they kept in touch and they've done some singing together since then. Actually out on tour now. Their tour is called

9:46 Can't Let Go to Her and they'll be touring until September. If you want to go see a rock and roll icon and at twenty seven times Grammy Wimmer singing together Allison. She married once for four years and she has a son from it. Actor Omar He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen seventy three fifty one. Today some of his movies Juice in the Deep, Loving Basketball on TV is on er House and then Shooter. Those are two different movies. Okay. He had a daughter from a girlfriend he married in two thousand and five and they have one daughter and one son. In high school, Omar's best friend in the world, Marlon Wallins made didn't tell Me Juice. Destiny's Child is one of the best selling girl groups of all times, so there were sixty million albums. One of their founding members was Michelle Williams born in nineteen seventy nine in Rockford, Illinois. She's forty four.

10:54 Since Destiny Child broke up in two thousand and six, she's released a few solo albums. She's at the Break the Dawn the Greatest Say Yes, she was engaged once but it didn't take. Actor Daniel Radcliffe is thirty five. He's born in London, England in nineteen eighty nine. Best known as starring as Harry Potter and all those Harry Potter movies. Then he later on he did a couple More Than You might have heard of, Now You See Me Too and The Lost City on TV. Since twenty nineteen, he's been in Miracle Workers Now Danielle. He has a daughter and his girlfriend. They've been dating since they were in since twenty twelve. I was getting to this next part. It's kind of interesting. See when Daniel was making all those Harry Potter movies, the only teenager in Great Britain that made more money than him Prince Harry all Right. Earlier I said that the ice cream cone was debuted in the nineteen oh four Worlds Fair. Also debuting in the nineteen and oh four Worlds Fair were Doctor Pepper Hamburger's iced Tea in Next Ray Machine. Well, thanks for joining us today. If he can't follow us on, whoever you're listening to us on, We're on. Everybody, come see us at cool media dot com. That's cool at three years. Let's end with the four general in the eighteenth President of the United States, Ulysses S. Grant.

12:03 He died to day in eighteen eighty five at sixty three years old. Grant said, in every battle, there comes a time on both sides consider themselves beaten. Then whoever continues to attack wins. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no, no, no