July 31-Avacado, Lurch, Lobo, Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Siri, Wesley Snipes, JK Rowling, Zac Brown, Manny

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by cool Media. It's gone fast. It's already July thirty first, spreading on your salads anyway along the way. You can have it. You can get it on the side of sandwich, and you can fix it up anyway you want to have it. And you know what's up. Yeah, it's National Avocado Day. Avocados there native to Mexico and Latin America. People have been eating m since around eight thousand BC. In sixteen ninety nine, this guy from England, Henry Sloan, he was categorizing all the plants that were on the island of Jamaica. He named the avocado and he called it the aligator pair. Also now, avocados, they are are really really good for you. They're the healthiest fruit you can eat. Yeah, they're a fruit. Most people will probably celebrate today with guacamo. But mix things up, you know, put avocado slices on a burger, sandwich, salads, that kind of stuff. Just eat, have fun eating healthy today, all right? What happened on entertainment No On July thirty first in the year in nineteen seventy seven, and when album was Rumors by Fleetwood, mac Andy Gibb added the number one song with I Just want to be here everything just her and the Things you want to meet. Charlie Rich had the number

1:47 one country song with rolling with the flu Folks said that I would change my mind were just f I still. The number one book was The Thornbirds by Colleen mcculloff. Top movie was Star Wars. Luke Skywalker, a Princess, a cocky pilot, a Wookie and two droids. They have to save the Galaxy Stars Chewbacca, R two, D two and C three po All right, what happened on July the thirty first, seventeen oh three Over in Britain this writer named William Dafoe. He wrote an anonymous pamphlet called The Shortest Way with Dissonance. Now it was a satire of the British government, the monarchy and the Church of England. Well that really pissed them all off. When they finally figured out who wrote it. To Foe, he was sentenced to Pillary. Now Pillary it was used for kind of like smaller crimes. What they did is they tied a person up and made him stand in the center of the town. Then a crowd of townspeople would form and they could throw at them whatever they wanted. They could throw rotten fruit, dead cats, rocks, pots, pants, whatever, everything was fair gad him. Now some of the people were actually killed, others remained for life. Dafoe when he was there, the crowd threw flowers at him. Now that was going on. His buddies were actually going through the crowd. So on the pamphlets that he was in trouble for. Yes, that is the Dafoe that went on to write Robinson Crusoe seventeen ninety of the United States Patent Office and granted his first patent went to Samuel Hopkins for his improvements made to potash. As

3:22 you all know, potash is a fertilizer. Nineteen twelve. The United States government, they were so sophisticated that they thought boxing was barbaric. Now, they had been trying to make it illegal for years, but that kept failing. So they made taking pictures or filming boxing illegal. So if you did take pictures of a fight and then you showed him, yeah, you were in big trouble. Actually, it was called the Sims Act in the state on the books until nineteen forty. Then somebody realized, hey, you know what, we're televising boxing matches. Nineteen twenty two in Minnesota, eighteen year old Ralph Samuelson he invented water skis the mountain K two. It is the second highest mountain in the world. That twenty eight two hundred and fifty one feet might be the hardest to climb. Also, it's on the border of China and Pakistan. Now it's tougher to climb than Everest though even though it's shorter today. In nineteen fifty four, an Italian team they summoned K two.

4:10 First one is to do it. No one was able to do it, and for another twenty three years after that. Now to show you how hard it is. As of today, eight hundred people have summoned K two six six hund and sixty four I somemmit did Everest nineteen seventy Yeah, that was possibly the saddest day in the history of the British Navy. It's known as black Tat Day. See. Starting in seventeen forty every sailor in the British Navy was given a daily rational rum. They called it a tat After today, Yeah, no, more tots. You know what, this might have been cooler than actually being the first one on the Moon nineteen seventy one astronauts James Irvin and David Scott, they were the seventh and eighth men to walk on the Moon, but they were the first ones to get to drive that lunar rover on it. Yeah, they went seventeen point two five miles and three hours and two minutes. But it was still cool though. Now have you all seen the photograph of the face on Mars. It's the picture that we use today for the show notes. It was taken today in nineteen seventy six by the Viking one spacecraft. Nineteen ninety one. In the United States, they allowed women to fight combat. Yeah, they could fight jets and helicopters and that kind of stuff. Just last year, twenty twenty three, Phoenix, Arizona. Yeah they only hid one hundred and eight degrees.

5:19 Yep. They have a pretty sad day. Yep. They had a record streak going thirty one straight days where they got at least one hundred and ten go coat, coat, coat, coat, goat sharge. This shivers day, We're gonna pause. He left. This shiverday, we don't simple target. It's ship birthday and you know we don't get up because that birthday. Let's check out. It was born on July the thirty first, Creek Mysterious All Together actor Ted Cassidy. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nineteen thirty two. Stood six feet nine inches tall. He's not quite a few TV shows, best known for playing Lurch So on The Adams Family. He also played Injine Joe on The Huckleberry Finn And he was the narrator for The Incredible Hulk yep, and plus he did all the hoax grunts and growls and roars and stuff. Ted married nineteen fifty six. They divorced in nineteen seventy five had two children. Ted died in nineteen seventy nine at forty six years old from a tumor on his heart. Oh hell, wish we were back off the Rose Trevling. That was Lobo, not a band, as a

6:49 solo artist who goes by Lobo, the Spanish word for wolf. Lobo. He was actually born Roland Lavoie in Tallahassee, Florida, in nineteen forty three. He's eighty one years old now. He had a lot of big success in the nineteen seventies, had they It's Me and You and a dog named Boo. I love you to want me, don't expect me to be your friend. But then by the late eighties in America, Yeah, has his fame and kind of wayne. But in the late eighties he hit huge over in Asia. He toured over in Asia constantly until two thousand and eight. Now we know about the lone Wolf is that he is married to his wife, Susie. This salmon ring doesn't shown for me anymore. This salmon ring doesn't mean what you so it's true. Gary Lewis and the Playboys, they're still out there touring. Their lead singer, Gary Lewis is seventy nine, born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen forty five. Yes, Jerry Lewis was his dad. Gary Lewis and the Playboys they formed nineteen sixty four.

7:55 They've had eight gold singles, seventeen top forty hits, four gold albums, sold over four five million records. Some of their hits that you might remember were this Diamond Ring, Count Me In, Save your Heart from Me, She's just my style. Gary I had one child from his second wife, been married to his third wife since two thousand and three. One of the most famous voices in the world Susan Bennett. She was born in Burlington, Vermont, in nineteen forty nine. She's seventy five. She's same backup for Roy Orbison and Bert backerrek Well. Also, she was the original voice of Surrey. Yeah, Apple's personal assistant Surrey. She's She was working for a company called Suncraft and she was doing voice work for them for a database system. She had no idea that Suncraft sold all those recordings to Apple.

8:35 She didn't even find out she was Surrey until twenty eleven. Now she's married and she's married to her second husband, actor Wesley Snipe. She was born in nineteen sixty two in Orlando, Florida, sixty two years old to day. First really hit in the movie Major League Than New Jack City, White Man, Can't Jump, Demolition Man, played Blade in a couple movies. His career took a big hit though, when he fought the Irs and lost Bud. He's rebounded some. He's really big into martial arts guy. Yeah, he trains in all the disciplines. He's like a fifth degree black bout in karate and a secondary bathbout and what kind of note or something like that, snipes. He had a son from a good time, and he had a son from his first wife. Married a second wife in two thousand and three and they have four children. Now it's too bad he didn't have all those dependents on the irs was after him writer J. K. Rowling.

9:20 The Jay stands for Joe Anne. He's born in Yate, England in nineteen sixty five, sixty fifty nine year old. She's sold over five hundred million Harry Potter books. Twelve publishers rejected the first Harry Potter Books said it was too long for a kid's book. Now she's a billionaire. She was married to her first husband for three years and they had a daughter. She married her second husband in two thousand and one and they have a son and a daughter. No not rim actor Dean Kane. He was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan in nineteen sixty eight is fifty eight, but football Princeton University.

10:01 While he was there, he dated Brookshields for two years. Then when they both graduated, they went their separate ways. Then Dean he went and signed a free age of contract to play with the Buffalo Bills, but he blew his knee out in training camp decided to go be an actor on TV. He played Superman on Lois and Clark The New Adventures of Superman. Do you remember who played Lewis Terry Atcher Dean. He hosted Ripley's Believe It or Not, and he's been hosting Masters of Masters of Illusions since twenty fourteen. He also has one son and a little bit of chick Don't We're on Friday Night, A Guarantee's Fit Just Right and the Radio Malassie song See Love, Mamama's Precious Child and Ulmasna. Zach Brown. He sings late for the Zach Brown Band. He just so. He's opening up for Kenny Chesney on his stadium tour that's going across this summer. Yeah, they were just hearing Denver a couple of days ago. Zach is forty six. He's born Atlanta in nineteen seventy eight. Formed the Zach Brown Band in two thousand and two. They have had fifteen number one songs. Some of them are Chicken Fried Toes, Highway twenty Ride, Colder Weather. He divorced in twenty eighteen after twelve years.

11:16 They had four daughters and one son. Last year, twenty twenty three, he was able to marry a divorce a model in four months. You know, I like that show, but that theme song, I find it annoying as hell. It's kind of like fingers in a chalkboard. Rico Rodriguez He's twenty six. He's born in Brian, Texas in nineteen ninety eight, best known for Manny on The SICKGM Modern Family. Started on the show when he's eleven years old. Since it ended in twenty twenty, he's done a number of guest appearances on other TV shows. Now, if you want to celebrate today, if you want to keep your avocados or guacamole from going brown, ye some lemon on it. All right, thanks for being here today.

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