July 28th-Waterparks, WW1, Garfield, Soulja Boy, Lori Laughlin, Elizabeth Berkley, Tupperware, Rudy Vallee

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Today is July twenty eighth. Swimming pool, water slides, wade machines. Here I come. Oh no, today is National water Park Day. Now from the youngest kids, the grandma and grandpa, everyone can find something to do and have fun at a water park. Now you've got water pool, you got wade pools, lazy rivers, rides, waiting pulls, slides. Germany they have the largest water park in the world. Now Wisconsin and Pennsylvania they're fighting out to see the biggest water park in the United States.

1:08 Now water parks, they really don't have to be big to have fun. You don't have water parking, Yeah, I just go to swimming pool or breakout the slipping slide. All right, this who's going on entertainment on July twenty eighth, It's a Bauck. In nineteen ninety nine number one album was significant other by Limp Biscuit, Will Smith, Drew Here and Cool Mody had the number one song with Wild Wild West. Now you go to call GV. Now you go call if you have a ripped with people want to bus break the house before you give bum blush aft Wow West, when I'm roping the doua, How Wow, when I'm roping Wow, when I'm bound to. Judah Lone Star had the number one country song with Amazed.

1:53 I'm most in the. Rest of. You, bomb sideever every little name due, Maybe I'm names by you. The number one book was Hannibal by Thomas Harris. Todd was Runaway Bride Richard gear He's a writer. He writes all about Julia Roberts, always leaving her fiancees at the altar. Wow, she could blaze to his editor, he gets fired. All right, Hey, what happened on July the twentieth? Now they are partying big time down. In Perue today. It's the national holiday today.

2:34 In eighteen twenty one, Preu declared their independence from Spain, unlike the United States in our July fourth Prue they so late for two days. Eighteen sixty six, United States President Andrew Johnson, he actually declared that it was legal for Americans to use the metric system. Well, that's why he was one term president, just like Jimmy Carter when he tried that in the nineteen seventies and recent ball eighty five percent of Americans do not want the metric system, the one that our entire country can agree on. Eighteen sixty eight, the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified. It gave us citizenship to all former slaves. Yeah, they'd been freed a couple of years before, but depending on where they lived, yeah, sometimes they really named the rights with all. So this made all former slaves equal citizens under the law, at least. Nineteen fourteen, in New York City, at a party at the New Amsterdam rooftop Garden, Henry Fox he busted a move on the dance floor no one had ever seen before. Everybody absolutely loved it.

3:31 They all wanted to learn how to do it. Accent became a popular dance all across the country. They called it the Fox Trot. Also in nineteen fourteen, it had been a month since Serbia assassinated Austria as Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. The other day Austria they declared war on Serbia. That was it. Ye, World War One was officially started. Now everybody in Europe has had a Pickwick side. They were on had some record high state temperatures today nineteen thirty Greensborough Kentucky. It got up to undred and fourteen degrees thirty four or a final ido they hit one hundred and eighteen degrees. Nineteen forty five United States Air Force bomber, just doing a routine flight, ran into really heavy fog over New York City ended up slamming into the seventy ninth floor of the Empire State Building. All three crew members on the plane and eleven people in the building were killed.

4:17 Twenty year old Betty Lou Oliver. She was working as an elevator operator on the seventy fifth floor. Well, with all the flying depri and shopping her shrapnel he had into. Yeah, Betty, she got really messed up from it. So when the rescue workers were finally able to get to her, they decided, you know, she needs immediate and medical attention, so we better get her down. So they put her on the elevator, hit the first floor button. What they didn't know is that all that debris and shrapntal that messed Betty up, yeah, had also cut every one of the cables to the elevator, so Betty she free fell over one thousand feet to the building's basement. Of course, everybody knew that she wasn't alive, but they went down there to you know, kind of recover her body. When they got down there, Holy crap, she was alive. Now she was kind of messed up.

5:00 I mean yeah, but what happened is those cables when they fill down that elevator. Shoot, yeah, they all when they got to the bottom, they all kind of made a little coil. So it's just enough of a spring to keep the Elepher Raider car from actually crashing down the full impact. Now, Betty, yeah, he had a broken pel that's broken back, broken neck, plus all the injuries from when she got hit in that explosion. But I think it's probably because she was twenty years old. But it took a year and Betty, she made a full recovery. Yeah, she still holds the record the longest fall down an elevator shaft and living joke. Stop joke coo joked dope, shuge thish shiver dake please Donna pause, he left this shiver. We won't simple target Thish Shivers day and you know we don't do work to Let's check out it was born on July the twenty eighth.

5:48 Oh well, already busile remade franchise n every One, a little Bit. Was un Alive and Tuba sall Low. That was Rudy Valley. He was born in Island Pond, Vermont, in nineteen oh one. Now he was the first teen idol and the first pop star. He performed in Rudy Valley and the Connecticut Yankees. Now, I see at that time microphones weren't that good. Actually, microphones absolutely sucked back then. So as band, they would play so loud that the crowd could not hear him sing, and that's who they wanted to hear, so lots of times he would just grab a megaphone and sing in the middle. Yeah, that's how he sing to the crowd.

6:35 He had the hits Stein song You Out of Being pictures when Uba does a umpah on the tuba. Rudy. He married his fourth wife in nineteen forty nine. They're together until he died from cancer in nineteen eighty six at eighty five years old. Earl Tupper He was born in Berlin, New Hampshire in nineteen oh seven. Nineteen forty eight. Earl he invented tupperware. Problem was he couldn't get him Mady to sell it. Yeah, no, retailers. Let's sell it no stores anywhere. So what he did he started having tepperware parties. Now that worked out really good and started selling a lot of temper Payer. It got really popular, so much so in nineteen fifty eighty sold this tepperware company for sixteen million dollars. Now as soon as that check claared, he divorced his wife, gave up his US citizens ships so he didn't have to pay taxes by an island off of Costa Rica. Lived there the rest of his life until he died in nineteen eighty three at seventy six years old. What do you think his casket was made of. Cartoonist Jim Davis, He's eighty. He is born in Marry in Indiana. In nineteen forty five created Garfield, one of the biggest comic strips in history.

7:35 Now that comic strips led to books, TV shows, movies, lots and lots of merchandise. Garfield made his big debut back in nineteen seventy eight. Now, Jim, he doesn't st o the strips anymore now, his longtime assistants do that, but he does write the strips that they have to draw. He had one child from his first wife. Married his second wife in two thousand and they have two children. Boy pay N like Caush, we hadn't made close. Well, that was Archie Edith. We're gonna talk about Gloria.

8:17 Actress Sally Struther is a seventy eight and she's born in Portland, Oregon, in nineteen forty seven. She played the daughter Gloria on this sitcom All in the Family. She was the original voice of Pebble Slindstone. Later on she was on The Gilmour Girls for seven years. She made Once for five years and has a daughter from it. Actress Georgie Ingle. She was born in Washington, DC in nineteen forty eight. You know, not recognize that name, but you would recognize her. She's this really petite blonde with a soft, squeaky kind of voice. She was in a lot of TV shows. I mean, she started out on Mary Tyler Moore, then she went to Coach Everybody Loves Raymond Hot in Cleveland. She pretty much always played in kind of a ditz now her Actually she voiced Bobby in all those open season movies Gloria. She died in twenty nineteen at seventy years old. Actress Lorie Laughlin. She was born in Queens, New York in nineteen sixty four.

9:04 She's sixty one today. Started acting as a teenager. She was on the daytime soapop Brdge of the Night, of course. She's best known, though, for the sitcom Full House. She was on nine oh, two and oh for three seasons. She married her second husband in nineteen ninety seven and they have two daughters. We went on Wake Up in the Morning, then the Longest Son the Laws. Don't think I'll ever make it on time. I got my mom set, I give my son. Just spend time to see the possible. This all right. Actress Elizabeth Berkley was born in nineteen seventy two in Farmington Hills, Michigan. Fifty three years old today. She's best known for playing Jesse on and that TV show Saved by the Bell. Some of her movies SUWGARLSS, The First Wives Club, Any Given Sunday Show Elizabeth. She even got married in two thousand and three and they have one son.

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