Nov 11th-Veterans Day, George Patton, Marshall Crenshaw, Demi Moore, Calista Flockhart, Leonardo Di Caprio

0:00 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factor it is about today, there's November the eleventh. I will love it to my duty, no matter what the price. I'm counted up. The calls hello, the second offs, boy, don't all the time for you? What are times asking me?

0:42 The child there and cross with other s. Freedom don't count free and that I'm American soul and I am American. Today is Veterans Today. So today we honor all our men and women who have served in the United States Armed Forces. Veterans Day. It's on November the eleventh, because that's today that World War One ended. You'll also hear it called Armistice Day. Now that just celebrates the endo World War One. So it's really big over in Europe. Here in the United States. Yeah, we combined the two. Yes, it's a federal holiday, no schools or no meal. Now the name changed to veg Veterans Day nineteen fifty four. Now for all you veterans out there, there's a lot of restaurants giving you free meals today. Some of the national ones that I've heard of are Buffalo Wild Wings, Cracker Barrel, da've Em Busters, Denny's, Fazzole's, Freddy's Golden kraw I, Hop Out Back, Red Robin Shake Shack TGI Fridays and Texas roadhous Wendy's White Castle. Yeah, there's a lot more too of it and you all deserve it. Thank you all your veterans out there, all right, lis He's going on entertainment on November the eleventh, Let's Got There. Nineteen eighty four number one album was Purple Rain by Prince Billy Ocean had the number one song with Caribbean Queen.

1:55 She said almost at tyn pon it. No Ship. One, No. Exile. I had the number one country song with Give Me one more chance? Won't you give me this chance? Maybe read can make in the moments, don't reason why you met me, can't get it back to get like it used to be, sam Me, give me give it just another can't you I want to die? Give me one more chance?

2:36 Forgive it one more. The number one book was The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straum. Top movie was Oh God, You Devil George Burns. He plays God and he plays the devil and they both battle over the soul of a young rock star. Okay, what happened I November the eleventh. There was. Dance book and there. He got down in ken Cato. Half later you. Shoes free Stone Greek Stone. Seventeen fifty the first college secret society was formed. The FHC stands for the Flat Hat Club, founded at the College of William and Mary in Virginia. Now it would be the first college fraternity, but they're based on Latin and not Greek. FHC. It stands for Fraternitius cognius and humanitarius means brotherhood, knowledge and humanity. Now it's the most famous member Thomas Jefferson. Yeah, he was FAHC in the early seventeen sixties. Now, the first fraternity actually was Phi Beta Kappa, formed in seventeen seventy six, also at William and Mary. So do you like concurs aanthemums? Do you think they're pretty well? They're native to China seventeen ninety the first chrysanthemums. They arrived over in England.

3:57 Yep. Came the United States and seventeen ninety eight Mary Walker she graduated from Syracuse University Medical College. She was one of the first women to get a medical degree. Then she married a guy that she went to school with and they started a medical practice in Roman, New York. Then, when the Civil War broke out, Mary she volunteered to work as a surgeon in a Union hospital in Washington, d C. Then when did she ended up getting caught by the Confederate Army. Yeah, she would have gone across the lines and over to help treat some just some regular people. Well, they nailed that. They thought she was a spy. See the rebels, they didn't think the Yanks had them no women doctors. She was eventually released in a prisoner exchange. Today, in eighteen sixty five, doctor Mary Walker, she was ardered the middle of the Medal of Honor.

4:38 Yeah for her roks for treating Union soldiers during the war. Mary, she is still the only woman to have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Happy birthday, Washington Today. In eighteen eighty nine, Washington begain the forty second state. Now started out being called Columbia. The Congress didn't like that, so they changed the name to Washington after George Washington. It is the eighteenth biggest state by area, thirteenth in population.

5:23 Capital is Olympia. Highest point is Mount Rain here at fourteen thousand and four to nine feet. Washington state bird is the American goldfinch. Fish is a steelhead trout. Flower is a noted endem and the mammals are Olympic marmot and the orca. Now It's tree is a Western hemlock. Vegetable is a sweet onion. Food is apple. Washington state sport is pickleball. It was invented in Washington in nineteen sixty five. Some people who were born in Washington Bing Crosby, Jimmy Hendrix, Kurt Cobain, Bill Gates, Bob Barker, John Elway, Jim Coviezel Ginnison, Diane Cannon, then Kenny g and all those other guys from the grunge movement of the early nineteen nineties. Yep, some of the people born in the Evergreen State. Now, as I said earlier, World War One ended today in nineteen eighteen at the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Over sixteen and a half million people died of it and never killed during World War One. Nineteen twenty one, President Warren G. Harding, he dedicated that two of the unknown soldiers in Arlington National Cemetery. Yeah, but then it was only one soldier.

6:28 Now it has three, one from World War One, one from World War Two, and one from Korea. Now, there was a tomb for an unknown soldier from Vietnam that DNA testing they were able to figure out how it was was Lieutenant Michael Blesi. So his remains a return to his family. So now the crypt that he was in, yeah, it's just a memorial. It raids honoring and keeping faith with all American missings and servicemen. Nineteen fifty eight to nineteen seventy five. Nineteen twenty seg its Route sixty six opened up, ran from Chicago to Santa Monica, California, two four and forty eight miles. Yeah, really meandered around there. Now you can still drive on more quite a bit of it, but you know, not really a main road or anything, and lots of parts of it. And yeah, they've actually just been abdupted into other eye highways. Nineteen sixty one, yes, nineteen sixty one and Strapport, Netherlands. A couple was caught committing adultery. Now the villagers they decided they need to be punished. Well, there's no law against it, so the villagers they drove them around down in a wagon film and the newer humiliate them.

7:30 Jp CO joke doat sharge thish shivers Day, We're gonna pause he left this shiverfday. We gonna simple tage like this shivers day, and you know we don't give up. Okay, that's just born on November the eleventh, Old Blood and Guts General George Patten. He's born in San Gabriel, California, in eighteen eighty five. Now he was a brilliant tactician and strategist. Yeah, it wasn't around Brooks Marth though. Now see he had to repeat his first year at West Point because he had trouble reading and writing. Nineteen twelve and the Olympics in Stockholm, he got fifth place in the pentathlon, came a four star general. Now he gets credit for modernizing take warfare, his tactics. They're still taught in army is all around the world. Basically married in nineteen ten and they had two daughters and one son. Then in nineteen forty five, after Germany surrendered and then ended World War two, bad inside, He's gonna go out and do some pheasant hunting in the German countryside. Well, the Carr. He was riding was hit by an army truck. George died twelve days later from the injuries, staying sixty years old. But now after investigations and new research, pretty much historians all the great that George. He was taken out, he was killed.

8:43 You can't tell me all day. Ye. Now that's Marshall Crenshaw. He's seventy two. He was born in Detroit nineteen fifty three. Now. He started out in the musical Beatlemania. Yeah, he played John Lennon, then released his first album in nineteen eighty two. Some of those hits are some Days, some Way, Cynical Girl, Whenever You're on My Mind. They weren't heads. But he's got Mary Anne and the usual thing. Now. In the movie l Bamba, he played Buddy Holly.

9:24 Crime Wish. You Come, Not thinking about you. All the time. Marshall, he's out on the road now. I think his tour ends right before Thanksgiving, though it's been married since nineteen seventy eight. Now get this, Marshall. He went to high school with Curtis Armstrong. Yeah, he's the actor who played Booger in Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah, Okay, actors Demi Moore. She was born in Roswell, New Mexico, in nineteen sixty two sixty three year I'll start out on a soap General Hospital. Then she gained part of that brat pack and came famous for Saint Almos, Fire About Last Night, Ghosts, a Few good Men. She was nominated for an Oscar for the substance that was just this year.

10:12 Everything's pretty surprised she didn't win that. It was kind of an upset. Now. When Demi was eighteen, she married Freddy Moore. Now they divorced after three years. She kept his last name. She liked Moore a lot better than Guyness. That was her maiden name. She married Bruce Willis for thirteen years and they had three daughters. And she married Ashton Kutcher for eight years. It says Bruce Willis man he went to their wedding. Actress Callista Flockhart. She's sixty one. She's born in Freeport, Illinois in nineteen sixty four. She first found some fame on Broadway, and then she hit really big on the TV show when she started his Allymeke Bial Later on, she's on Brothers and Sisters two thousand and one. She adopted a baby boy. Then she married Harrison Ford in twenty ten. Actress Alison Dudy, she's fifty nine. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in nineteen sixty six. She made her movie debut playing Jenny Flex. Yeah, she was the bond Girl and to a Kill. She was only eighteen years old. She is still the youngest bongirl. She was Elsa and Indiana Jones and the last cru said.

11:08 She's also a major league to King Solomon's mind. She has two daughters from a twelve year marriage after Leonardo DiCaprio. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy four. That makes him fifty one today. Now. As a kid, he was on the TV series Parenthood and Growing Pains, and then he hit huge in the movies. Been nominated for Academy Awards for What's Eating, Gilbert, Grape, The Aviator, Blood Diamond, The Wolf of Wall Street, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Now that was his best movie, but he actually won his Oscar for The Revenant. Now, Leonardo, he hadn't married yet. See he's always lived by one rule. He will not date a woman over twenty five years old. That's what I love about these high school girls. Man, I get older, they say the same age.

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