May 2nd-Red Baron, Engelbert Humperdinck, Leslie Gore, Larry Gatlin, Foreigner, Dwayne Johnson "The Rock"

0:10 Well, hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. It was honest sweet Thursday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday ball. I hope you are having a fabulous Thursday and watching the basketball and hockey playoffs. Well, the Denver Nuggets in Colorado Avalanche they've advanced the second round. Now, if you're still your team is still playing, I wish them the best, unless they're playing the Aves and the Nuggets. Now, today is World Password Day. It is to kind of encourage and make you aware of the importance of a strong password for whatever you need it for. You know, you don't just use your cat's name every time. Now, honestly, passwords are starting to piss me off.

0:58 For years and years we were told never to down your password, and now the computers are asking us every time we create a new one if they can store it for us. Then when you want them to use it, then you have to come up with another password so the computer can actually fill in your first password. That's as stupid as when they try and you have to convince the computer that you're not a robot. Yes, passwords are important, but all those technology is now boarding on stupid. Okay, that's my rant for the week. Let's go ahead and celebrate May second a little more serene. I'm going to whisper I love my sister. You will discover I love my brother. And it is National Brother and Sister Day. Now we've had Brother's Day, we've had Sister's Day, we've been had siblings Day. Today was created by a woman who lost her brother. Then she realized that she never really let him know how much he meant to her. So today is about brothers and sisters connecting, reconnecting, just appreciating each other so they don't have regrets like she did. Oh that's cool, but their relationships are all unique. So you know how to celebrate best and having the best time with your brother or sister. She's going on in entertainment on May second, let's go back to your two thousand and four number one album was Confessions by Usher Usher Little John Lutlecrafts. They had the number one song with Yeah. Keith

2:43 Thurman had the number one country song with You'll think of Me. Take your records, take your feet, take your end, take your space, and take your reasons, but you think me take your cats. Wells we have nothing left too well. In fact of Phil Holston. Would you think then? The number one book was Glorious, appearing by Tim Lahay and Jerry B. Jenkins. The top movie was Me and Girls, A new girl in Skull she falls for the ex boyfriend and one of the most popular girls in the school, stars Lindsay Lohan, Jonathan Bennett, and Rachel McAdams. All right, let's see it happened in the world on May the second, seventeen eighty, one year before he discovered Uranus. Astronomer William Herschel he discovered the first binary star ursa Mayjoris. In eighteen sixty three, in the Civil War, Confederate general Stonewall Jackson was shot by his own men. No, no, not on purpose, say, During the Battle of Chancellorville in Virginia.

3:46 Jackson and his staff were switching positions when they were mistaken by Northern soldiers. He has men opened up on him. Jackson. He died eight days later. Eighteen seventy eight. Minneapolis, Minnesota. They were the leading processor of flower and the entire world. Their largest mill was the Washburn Mill. At seven pm, it exploded, killed eighteen people. Debris landed eight blocks away. Destroyed five mills that were nearby. They did discover that you need ventilation to keep grain dust from building up. They also discovered that flour dust is more explosive than gunpowder and thirty five times more combustible than cold dust. Now, if you go to Minneapolis, you can actually see the ruins. They made it a historical landmark. Eighteen eighty five, the magazine gud Housekeeping went on sale for the first time. It was just published, still being published today. In the latest edition you can read about legos, pillows, hands free faucets, weighted blankets, beach styles, and windows sheets. World War Two, in nineteen forty five, the Battle of Berlin ended German soldiers.

4:44 They surrendered to the Soviet army that was surrounding the city. Now, when word got out about it over in Italy and Austria, one million German soldiers surrendered to the Western Allies. Now the many believe that this is just make believe. They believe it's a government cover up to kind of deny the it ever happened. Nineteen ninety eight, the Battle of Hogwarts ended with the right I can't even say that straight in the book. Yeah, Hogwarts ended and twenty eleven Navy seals. They killed Osama bin Laden in the Bad Bad Pakistan. Twenty nineteen in Baltimore, Maryland, for the first time a drone delivered a kidney for a transplant surgery. I think they'd be able to do bleats by that. By now, got coat coat, coat coat, goat shage.

5:29 This shivers day, We're gonna pause. He this shuverday. Were gonna sit ple targe. He was like, it's shiver birthday. And you know we don't give up because that's birthday. All right, let's check out. U's born on me the second try together on the country. The most famous pilot probably in history, Manfred von Richtovin, better known as the Red Baron.

6:10 He was born in nobility. He was actually a baron. He was born in what today is roe Clap, Poland, in eighteen ninety two World War One. He actually started out as a German cavalry officer, but I bought him so he transferred over to be a pilot. Now, to be an ACE pilot you have to shoot down five enemy planes. He shot down eighty. He shot down twenty two planes in one month. Actually, for one time he shot down four and one day now when the when the baron was shot down, Yeah, the credit went to a Canadian pilot, but he was actually shot down by Australian troops that were on the ground firing up at him. That was over in France. He was only twenty five years old. Shoe way. This would be release me and let me love again.

7:02 He was born Arnold Dorsey in my Address, India in nineteen thirty six. He's eighty eight years old today now. His parents moved to England when he was ten, so that's where he grew up. Nineteen sixty five. Dorsey was a struggling singer when someone suggested, maybe just try and change in your name, so he did. He changed it to the German composer named Ingolbert Humperdinck and Ingolbert Humperdinck. His career took off big time. It swort. He became one of the most popular singers in the world in the late sixties. Throughout the seventies, sold over one hundred and forty million records. Some of the big hats, where there Goes My Everything, the Last Waltz released me. He is kicking off a world's tour in Australia May thirteenth, Yeah eighty eight years old in the world Tour. Married nineteen sixty four and they had fourty children, and his wife died in twenty twenty one. To l Time Leslie Gore. She was born in New York City in nineteen forty six. She recarded It's my party when she's sixteen years old. She followed that up, but Judy's turned to cry, you don't own me where the boys were? Then she graduated from high school. She went to Sayah Lawrence College and she graduated from there. But when she was in college she became more of a folk singer than a pop artist. Leslie. She was with her girlfriend for thirty three years and Leslie died in twenty fifteen at sixty eight years old from lung cancer. I had to take about that little lot about

8:35 you never fear good. You know my planet the flames College different from she used to be solved Modesta Saldy Girls. She used to be salved so modest. Lena Country singer Larry Gatlin is seventy six. He was born in Seminal, Texas in nineteen forty now. He served over in Vietnam, came home and played football at the University of Houston. Then he joined the gospel group The Imperials. Toddy West heard him singing and told them he needed to move to Nashville and go country, so he did. He started off singing backed up for Chris Christofferson. Then he got his own record deal, released his first album in nineteen seventy three. Nineteen seventy six, his two younger brothers started singing back up for him. Nineteen seventy nine, they became Larry Gatlin and the Gatlin Brothers. Some of the hits are I Just Want, I Just wish you were someone that could love all the gold in California. She used to be somebody's baby. They are actually currently on tour right now if you want to go see them. Larry married nineteen sixty nine and they have three children. That was Lou Graham singing lead for the band Foreigner. Lou was born in Rochester, New York in nineteen fifty. Seventy four year old

10:05 started out in the Bad and Black Sheep. Then when they broke up, he joined this new band called Trigger that was back in nineteen seventy six. Trigger. They ended up changing their name to Foreigner. Some of their biggest hits are Feels Like the First Time, Hot Blooded, Jukebox, Zero Urgent. Then they went really soft rock in the late eighties. They sold over sa eighty million records, though now Lou He went solo in nineteen ninety He had the hit Midnight Blow, and then he went back to Foreigner in nineteen ninety two, left for good in two thousand and three. He's actually still out there touring solo. He had four children from some of his previous wives. Then he married his current wife in twenty seventeen and they have a daughter. Actress Christine Baranski. She was born in nineteen fifty two and Buffalo, New York, seventy two y old. She started out doing theater in nineteen seventy two, still doing it and she's won two Tony's. She's on TV.

10:52 She's most known for Sybil the Good Wife. She played Leonard's mom on The Big Bank Theory. She was currently on HBO's The Gilded Age. Some of the movie she was in We're in nine and a half Weeks, Adam's Family Values, The Burt Gage, The Mama Mea Movies Now. She was married from nineteen eighty three until her husband died in twenty fourteen, and they had two sons. She Don't how You Feel on the Tip of Mato No No, something tails me and must be country singer Ty Hernda And he's sixty two. He was born in Meridian, Mississippi, in nineteen sixty two.

11:37 Start out singing for the band Diamond Rio, but he left to go solo before Diamond Rio ever hit Some of his hits are what matters most. I want my goodbye back, living in a moment it must be leugh Ty. He goes out on tour June fourth. If you want to check out his show, Ty. He was married to Renee Posey for nine years. They divorced in twenty twenty or two thousand and two. Now after their divorced, he came out that he was gay. Yeah, he's the first major country singer to state that. Ty. Then he married his husband eight months ago The Fir he first got famous simply known as the Rock. Now he goes by his given name, Dwayne Johnson. He's fifty two. He was born in Hayward, California, in nineteen seventy two by a defensive tackle at the University of Miami for their football team. Then he followed his father and his grandfather went into professional wrestling. The Rock became one of the top professional wrestlers of all time. Then Dwayne Johnson went into movies. It was a good college movies that made almost four billion dollars. First movie was The Mummy Returns.

12:37 He's at least fifty more cents. Now, if you've already been the top wrestler and you're already one of the biggest movie stars in the world, what the hell you might as well go into singing, right, dude, it's a lot of the hell a lot when you say that to me, God, what can I say except to welcome one of the tides, the sun, the skuy. Hey, it's okay, it's okay to welcome. I'm justin to the guy. Yeah, that was your welcome by the Rock. In twenty sixteen, married her up all the way to number eighty three on the pop charts. Now he has a daughter from his first wife. His daughter is a professional wrestler too, so that's four generations. He married a second wife in twenty nineteen and they have two daughters. Actress Ellie Kemper.

13:26 She was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in nineteen eighty. She's forty four. She played field hockey at the University of Princeton. On TV, she was in the Office and The Unbreakable Kimmy Smidt. Some of her movies Bridesmaids, twenty one, Jump Street, Sex Tape done quite a bit of voice work. Actually, she got married in twenty twelve and they have two sons. All right, today's fact to it. That will win you a beer. The only difference between kosher salt and table salt. Yeah, the grain sides. Well, thank you all for being here today. Let's end with Leonardo da Vinci. He died to day in fifteen nineteen, at sixty seven years old. He said, time stays long enough for anybody who use it. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. No no, no, no no no no no no no no no no