July 28=Water Parks, Tupperware, Garfield, Soulja Boy, Metric System, Longest fall down an elevator and live

0:10 Hi there, I am Jeff and it is July twenty eighth, and welcome to history and facto. It's about today. Swimming pool, water slides, wave machines. Here I come, no, right. It is National Water Parks Day. You are not wearing a speedo. Now, from the youngest kids to grandma and grandpa, everyone can find something to do at a water park. You've got wade pools, lazy rivers, rides of splash slides.

0:51 Germany has the largest water park in the world. Now Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, Yeah, they're fighting it out for the biggest one of the United States. Now, even if. There's not a water park near you, I'm sure you can find someplace nearby where you can go swimming in the water and cool down. Worst case scenario, there's always the slipping slide. All right, let's see happening entertainment on July twenty eighth. Let's go back to their nineteen fifty six number one album was My Fair Lady's Broadway Play album. Elvis Presley had the number one song with I Want You, I Need You, I Love you. OL make me thrill with the light, let me know we're a stand around the store.

1:34 I want You, I Love You. Ray Price said the number one country song with crazy arms. Hurrysy Arms and reads two hold Somebody New, are my Yarning Hearty, Save. Trouble? Noson too one. Will. The number one book was The Last Hurrah by Edwin O'Connor. Top movie was High Society, when a socialite is about to remarry her ex husband has forty eight hours to convince her that she still loves him. Stars Ben Crosby, Grace Kelly, and Frank Sinatra. One of the most visually stunning movies of all time was released today in nineteen seventy eight, Animal House. They made it for two point eight million, made one hundred and forty one million. All right, What happened on July the twentieth? They are partying in Peru today it's national holiday.

2:37 Today. In eighteen twenty one, Peru they declared their independence from Spain. Now, unlike our July fourth, they celebrate for two days. Eighteen sixty six, US President Andrew Johnson signed the Metric Act of eighteen sixty six. It made it legal for Americans to use the metric system. But just like Jimmy Carter who tried to make Americans use the metric system. In the nineteen seventies, Johnson was all a one term president. Eighteen sixty eight, the fourteenth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. It granted US citizenship to all former slaves. Yeah, they'd been freed a few years ago, but they really didn't have any rights. This legally made x slaves equal citizens under the law. Nineteen fourteen, in New York City, at a party at the New Amsterdam Roof Garden, guy named Henry Fox busted a move on the dance floor no one had ever seen before. Everybody absolutely loved it, and they really loved learner know how to do it?

3:31 They ain't at the Fox Truck. Also in nineteen fourteen, it had been one month since a Serbian had assassinated Austria's Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. Austria declared war on Serbia. Today made it official. So now was on. World War One officially began. Everyone now just had to pick what's side you were on. Nineteen forty two, the United States being coffee rationing, every family could get one found of coffee every five weeks. That wasn't because of a coffee shortage. Actually, Latin and South American company Copanies. They had more coffee than they knew what to do it. The problem was transportation. Yeah, they just weren't many ships available. All the ships were being used for military purposes. But exactly one year later, in nineteen forty three, they got her all figured out and coffee rationing was over. Nineteen forty five, the United States Air Force bomber it was just on a routine flight when it got into heavy fog over New York City and got itself lost, 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. Betty Lou Oliver, she was working as an elevator operator on the seventy fifth floor. Flying shop metal had injured Betty pretty bad, so when rescue workers they finally got it, they decided she needed to get down there for emergency medical attention right out, So they put her on the elevator and then sent her down. What they didn't know was all that flying shop metal that had injured Betty. Yeah, it also cut all those elevator cables, so she free fell over one thousand feet to the building's basement. Rescuers knew that she wasn't alive, but they did go down to try into the basement to recover her body. Hotly crap, Betty, she was still alive. Even all those cables fill down that ship. It kind of ended up in almost like

5:03 a coil, so it was just enough of a spring to really keep the elevator car from crashing and winking too hard, Betty, she was twenty years old. That she was really messed up, broken, peale was broken, back, broken, next, you name it. It was broken. But it took a year and she made a complete recovery. I'm betting this because she was twenty years old now, Betty, Yeah, Betty Lou. She still holds the world record for longest fall down an elevator. Shoot that lived co cot coot coat coat goat shuge. This shiver day. Were gonna pause he left this shuverday. We gonna siple car like this shivers day, and you know we don't do because that's her birthday. Let's check out it was born on July the twenty eighth.

5:43 Oh well, already bomb simple Remaine friend sise. I didn't have every one little bit. It was Alive and the Tube. That was Rudy Valley. He was born in Island Pond, Vermont, in nineteen oh one. He has getting here, the first teen idol, first pop star, and one of the first crooners in history. Performed in Rudy Valley and the Connecticut Yankees. Now at that time good microphones really hadn't been invented yet. Some most microphones kind of sucks, and his band would play so loud that the crowd couldn't hear him sing so often he was just using megaphone, all right. Some of his ads the Stein song You Outed Me in Pictures when Uber played the rumba on the tuba. He married his fourth wife in nineteen forty nine. There together until he died from cancer in nineteen eighty six at eighty five years old. Earl Tupper He was born in Berlin, New Hampshire, nineteen oh seven nineteen forty eight, oh Earl.

6:44 He invented tupperware. Yeah, but he didn't get any retailers to sell his tepware, so he started selling them at Tupperware parties got pretty big, and then nineteen fifty eight he was able to sell the Tupware company for sixteen million bucks. Now, as soon as that check cleared, he divorced his wife, gave up his US citizenship so naturally taxes, and bought an island off of Costa Rica. He lived there until he died in nineteen eighty three at seventy six years old. Don't you wonder what this casket was mean of? Cartoonist Jim Davis is seventy nine. He's born to marry in Indiana. In nineteen forty five. He created Garfield, one of the biggest comic strips in the world. It's been the comic strip in the bucks, TVs, movies, lots and lots of merchandise. Garfield started out. In nineteen seventy eight. Jim, he didn't draw the strips anymore though, No, he gives that to the long term assistance.

7:28 But he does write the strips that they have to draw. He had one child from his first wife, married a second wife in two thousand and they have two children. Boy No Way Glynn look playing. Songs. I made per Way. Nicey gosh, we hadn't made close. Actress Sally Struthers, she was one of Portland, Oregon in nineteen forty seven. She's seventy seven, best known for the Glory on the sitcom All in the Family. She was the original voice of Pebbles Flintstone. Yeah says She's got that. She was on The Gilmore Girls for seven years. She married once and has a daughter from it. Actress Georgia Ingle.

8:12 She was born in Washington, d C. In nineteen forty eight. Now, I know you probably don't recognize her name, but you'd recognize her. She was a petite blonde with a really soft, squeaky voice. Her characters were usually really ditzy. She started out on the Mary Tyler Moore show Coach, Everybody Loves Raymond, Hot in Cleveland and Really. She voiced Bobby in the open season movies. She died in twenty nineteen at seventy years old. Actress Lori Laughlin is sixty. She's born in Queen's, New York in nineteen sixty four. First acting gig was on as a teenager Yep. She was on the daytime soap op for the Edge of the Night. Most known for the sitcom Full House and Fuller House, she was on nine oh two one oh for three seasons. She's been married to her second husband since nineteen ninety nine and they have two daughters.

8:54 Win on, wake up in the. Morn't think I'll make it all time. I got no buckst I give myself just in time to see the possible. It's all right, I'm saying. On the. Actress Elizabeth Berkeley. She was born in nineteen seventy two and Farmington Hills, New Michigan. No, she's fifty two, Like I said. She's most known for playing Jesse on the TV show Saved by the Bell Stent some movies, Sure Girls, First Wives Club, Any given Sunday. She got married in two thousand and three and they have one son. Man Oh yeah, why me cracked that road? Walk up brien? Now, why me jock jockey and on him? Hate him?

9:35 Mane? When I do that? Sold your boy. I leant to lift there. Crank that night. No on jacket on your jockey know and if we get to fighting, then on cocking on? No cock on. You can't be at your local party. Yes, I crank in every day. Sold your boy. He's thirty four, born in DeAndre Wing in Chicago in nineteen ninety now and even six he moved his family to Atlanta. Some of his biggest hits are cranked that old your boy kissed me through the phone, turned my swag on soldier and his girlfriend. They have one son. Alright, hey, here's a pretty interesting factory. Today. Ninety five percent of the world uses the metric system. Eighty six percent of Americans have no desire to use the metric system. Now, remember ninety five percent of the world.

10:19 I also love soccer A thank you for being here today. We appreciate it. Don't forget to follow us. I know you listen to us on it comes here. It's at Coolmedia dot com. That's call at three US. Let's end with composer Johannes Sebastian Buck. He died today in seventeen fifty at sixty five years old. Johannes said, I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally as well. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. I don't know, no