May 20-Strawberry, James Stewart, Joe Cocker, Cher, The Go-Go's, Semisonic, Jon Pardi, 1st photo of men drinking beer

0:19 Hello, one and all. I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today's May the twentieth. Pick the strawberry. Pick the strawberry that was growing in the sun. Then I washed it and I ate it. And I think an another one today is National Pick Strawberries Day. Yeah, it seems a little early in the year for me. Well maybe some of you down south now strawberries they're really healthy for you. Technically, strawberries are fruit now if you can pick them Strawberries Day, yeah, go for it. The rest of us, I guess we'll have to go to farmers' markets or grocery stores. I mean we still have to pick them out, even though we're not picking up. Hey, today's they really get excuse to have some strawberry cake. So go for it today. Okay, let's see what happened to entertainment on May the twentieth.

1:04 Let's back to nineteen seventy one. Then my album was four Way Street by Crosby Steells Nashing Young three Doc Knight had the number one song with Joy to the World. Jeromiah was a cold frog, was a good friend of mine. Never last a single word he said, But I help never drink you. Always has At. S John. Ray Price had the number one country song with I won't mention it again. But I won't mention it again. I won't think about to my role. Just let it happened.

1:58 Them huge album. The number one book was The Passions of the Mine by Irving Stone. Top movie was Escaped from the Planet of the Apes. Now the world was shocked when three talking chimpanzees arrising into spaceship starts Roddy McDowell, Kim Hunter and Bradford Dillman. All right, what happened? On May twentieth, fourteen ninety eight. Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama. He arrived over in Calicut, India, him and his man we had first Europeans arrived in India by sea. Eighteen seventy three at Levi Strauss and Jacob Davis. Patton did the first blue jeans with copper rivets on it. Yeah, there to keep your pockets from terry.

2:38 Now. Davis he did all the work. He and Venta Nam. He sold all the prototypes. He came up the whole concept, everything, but he didn't have any money. So Levi he. Paid for the patent and he paid the start having a manufactured Then he kept pretty much all the money and then named him after himself. Eighteen ninety two George T. Simpson. He was a black inventor out there in Ohio. He wanted the first clothes dryer. See, people lived pretty much hanging their clothes over and open fire. George, he came up with the rack that you could put over a stove. That way he didn't have to worry about ventilation, and the clothes they would and smelled smoky, smoky, You're have suit all over. Eighteen ninety six, Over in Paris at the Palais Gardner upper house, they had this really world famous, really beautiful six tons chandelier that hung over the crowd. Yeah, it fell, killed one person and seriously injured dozens more.

3:25 Eighteen ninety nine in New York City, they issued in America's first speeding ticket. Taxi driver Jacob German made history. Yeah, he had an electric taxi cab. Now the speed limit was eight miles an hour if you were going straight, and four miles an hour if you're going around the corner. Well, a policeman on a bicycle, yeah, he was able to pull over Jacob for going twelve miles an hour. Now that four miles an hour over the speed limit got him arrested and taken in the police station. After spending some time there at the station, it's pretty much blaved that he gave the costs a couple bucks and they let him go. See the cops didn't know what to do with him. Yeah, his first ticket and see the city they had came up with the speed limb, but they never gave any laws on what was happened if he broke the speed limits. So yeah, i'd May twentieth, in nineteen sixteen in Cordell, Kansas, it was hit by a tornado. May sixteenth. In nineteen seventeen, Cordell, Kansas was hit by a tornado. May sixteenth. In nineteen eighteen, Cordell, Kansas was hit by a tornado. No, I know. The nineteen sixteen tornado was an F two, seventeen was an F three, and then nineteen eighteen was an F four.

4:21 That one was really bad. Eight people died on that you have they haven't had one since. If you're curious, forty nine people live out there in Cordell, Kansas. Nineteen seventy nine, Old John he became the first Western music artist to actually tour the Soviet Union nineteen ninety two. Wrapper tongue twist. He was able to wrap five hundred ninety seven syllables and sixty seconds dung twisters. Yeah, that record still stands today. Twenty twenty four, over New Zealand and an auction a feather sold for twenty eight thousand, four hundred bucks, making it the world's most expensive feather. Now it's a whoa feather, h u Ia feather. It's from an extinct New Zealand bird. Joke joke, dish shibt day.

5:05 He left this shiver. David want simple tar. He like this Shibt day and you know we don't do. Okay. It was born on mid the twentieth David Octavius Hill. He was born in Scotland in eighteen or two. Now, when photographer first started out, every photographer wanted to make a name for himself. They wanted to make history. The first picture of the moon, the first picture of Jarf Pickles, you know whatever. I'm sure David probably wanted to make history too, but he pretty much just took pictures of ordinary stuff. Now that photo he used today for the cover photo. Yep, that was David. He's the guy on the right. Now. That photo made history. It is the first photo in history of men drinking beer. Hey, when'd you rather watch a photo of min drinking beer them like a flower or something like that?

5:48 David. He had one daughter and he died in eighteen seventy, sixty eight years old. Legendary actor James Stewart was born in Indiana, Pennsylvania in nineteen oh eight. It's in over eighty movies now. He was the first major Hollywood actor to actually enlist the fight in World War Two. He went from private to colonel in four years. Now nobody knows that he ended up as a bomber pilot over in England. Really highly awarded for his heroics over there during the war. Now came Home. Was nominated for the Oscars for Mister Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey Anatomy of Murder. He won an Oscar for a Philadelphia story. James got married nineteen forty nine. They had four children. His wife died in nineteen ninety four. Steward he died in nineteen ninety seven at eighty nine years old from a heart attack.

6:32 Every so beautiful. That was Joe Cocker. He was born in Sheffield, England, in nineteen forty four. Released his first of twenty two albums back in nineteen sixty nine, as Big as It Was Up Where You Belong by Jennifer Warrence. That was for the movie Officer, and Jennifer won an Oscar and a Grammy for it. Joe he performed right up until he died in twenty fourteen and seventy year old from lunng cancer. He'd been married since nineteen eighty seven. Yeah, I know that was cher but she used the name Bonnie Joe Mason when she recorded that song.

7:36 Yeah. Those the first song she ever recorded Ringo I Love You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, back in nineteen sixty two. Share is eighty. She was born Cheryl Sarkisian in El Central, California in nineteen forty six. Now her and Shesani Bono, they started performing together in nineteen sixty four, sold over forty million records. They divorced in nineteen seventy five after eleven years of marriage. They had Chaz Bono. Now as a solo artist, Chare She sold over one hundred million wreckers. Yeah she is we forget She's actually a very successful actress. Remember she won an Oscar for Moonstruck. She was in So Good Mask Mermaids. She made Greg Almond for four years and they had their son, Elijah Blue. Now that song rush Hour, it's the biggest solo hit for Jane Wheedland. Yeah. She's best known for playing guitar for the Go Gos. She's sixty eight, born in Conna Wamawaki, Sponson. She helped one of the Go Gos in nineteen seventy eight. Now they have taken some breaks over the years, but all their original members they're back together. Actually out onto it right now. Jane.

8:52 She's also the drummer for the Hex Girls. Been doing this since nineteen ninety nine. Yeah, they're kind of like the Archiees. She voices Dusk a whole bunch of Scooby Doo movies. Jane. She is three times divorced. Actor Bronson Pincho. He's sixty seven. He's born in New York City in nineteen fifty nine. He grew up over in California. His first acting job was in the movie Risky Business. Then he did Beverly Hills Cop, went to TV and started as Bouking on Perfect Strangers Came Back. Some of his other movie is Our First Wives Club. He's actually been in every Beverly Hills cop movie. Closing Time every New Weekend comes from some of the weekends I know.

9:44 Dan Wilson. He's the lead singer for the band Semi Sonic sixty four today. He was born in Saint Louis Park, Minnesota, in nineteen sixty two. Danny started out in the band Trip Shakespeare. When they broke up in nineteen eighty two, helped form Simmi Sonic because it was that one I played Closing Time. Danny wanted to Grammy. He crew were up that song someone like You Yeah with Adele both one Grammy Sport. Now he is married and they have two daughters. More rules and I'm. Good to go. We have shoving this track down. Excive me half a naf O shave and a shower and be outside your house. Might have a little turn on my boots, but I'm taking you uptown tonight.

10:24 N have a little on my wheel lea go to shine with you up me inside. Country singer John Party's forty one. He is born in Dison, California, in nineteen eighty five. Some of his number one songs are head over Boots, Dirt on My Boots, Heartache, Medicine, last Night, Lonely. Now he's actually out onto it right now. He'll be out there until November. If you wanna go party with party. Got married in twenty twenty and they have two daughters, all right. Today's quote of the day comes from Gilda Radner. She died today in nineteen eighty nine at forty two years old. Gild then says, life is about not knowing, having to change and taking him home, making the best out of it when you don't know what's gonna happen next. Thank you all for being here today.

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11:49 Here's what you do, man, step along. You gotta get out of time to get a mess far around three. Find the prettiest girl you can. Find, and buy her and drink and look riding. On in the line. Lie like here, say feel something that you ain't failed inside and you ain't never done this. Here's something about her that you can't just is and I she yes, if this is just a life life tell her.

12:33 She reminds you, Mama, don't play games. You ain't got time for dramma. You're just out here looking for something. Reason. When she rolls her eyes and says, Walter and I have a backup playing something bigger and better. You read the guy. I love to give the two ball gaps two days of living