Nov 14-Pickles, Nerds at Yale let in girls, Yanni, Josh Duhamel, Patrick Warburton, Run DMC, Chunnel opened

0:09 Hello everybody, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today Pavis in a by cool Media. Today's November the fourteenth. Pickles. Pickles. I like pickles. I like them better than an. Old food sickle. Pickles. Pickles. I like pickles. Won't you give me a pickle? Today is National Pickle Day. Pickling food it goes way way back now. All kinds of food are pickled in order for to be preserved, from vegetables to fish, eggs, pigs feet. But we're gonna celebrate the cucumber, the official pickle. Back in the year twenty thirty BC, cucumbers made their way from India to Mesopotamia Messel Todamian. They quickly came up with the pickle.

0:53 And then in the year nine hundred, yeah, deal, it made its way to Europe. So the pickle it really changed for the better. Pickles. It came to the America by Columbus and pretty much every other sea captain. See the sailors. They would eat pickles to try and prevent scirvy. Pickles they are good for you now drinking pickle juice. It's a good way to prevent cramping. Pickles they come in so many different types and styles and tastes, and it you'll find out pickle you like today, and then you can celebrate the pickle. And yes, pregnant women, they do great pickles, but not so much for the taste, more for the salt than the crunchy texture. All right, this is going on entertainment. On November the fourteenth, back the year two thousand and two, number one album was Shaman by Santana Eminem had the number one song would lose Yourself, Miss a.

1:38 Chance the Blue, the music, the move shine, not miss a Chance the Blue. Keith Thurman had the number one country song with somebody like You give. Slo Mistakes sounds mean now long thing, all the thing on all of dude, somebody. Somebody like. The number one buck was answered prayers by Danielle Steele.

2:20 Todd movie was Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets. Harry, he's in his second year at Hogwarts. Now him and Ron and Harriman. They have to say the school by facing. The Chamber of Secrets stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Gentt and Emma Watson. All right, what happened on November the fourteenth, sixteen sixty six in England, the first blood transfusion was performed a doctor. He was able to save a life. Of a dog by giving him a blood transfusion from another dog. Yeah it worked. Now the first human blood transfusion, it won't happen until seventeen ninety five. In college football, in eighteen eighty eight, the University of Southern California Trojans or the USC Trojans, played their first football game Today beat the Lions Athletic Club sixteen to nothing. They finished that first series or that first season, two wins, no losses. Say they couldn't get any other colleges with football teams would travel that far.

3:09 You know, even UCLA they didn't have a football team until nineteen nineteen. That's why they created the first college Bowl game in nineteen oh two of the Rose bull They wanted to show other schools that traveling to California wasn't so bad. But back in eighteen eighty eight, they weren't even the USC Trojans. No, they were the USC Methodists. Their school was founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church. They began the Trojans in nineteen seventeen. And they say it's not related, but the Trojan condoms. They went on sale in nineteen sixteen, so yeah, sure. In England in eighteen ninety six, really big day, thirty three cars they paraded from London to Brighton. Yeah, they were celebrating the highways active eighteen ninety six. It raised the speed limit fourteen miles an hour. Nineteen twenty seven, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, they had the largest man made gas tank on earth and they were really proud of it. Those are really prominent city landmark. Then it's Spring of Lake. So that team are workers went to fix the leak. They were using a settling blowtorches. Yeah, I think you know where we're going here. Somehow the flames ignited the five million cuban square foot natural gas tank, blew the whole thing to pieces, created a fireball over six hundred and fifty feet high, leveled over a square mile metal glass, and to prey, it rained down on the city at Pittsburgh for over an hour. Thousands were left homeless, eight hundred people were seriously injured.

4:22 Surprisingly, only twenty eight people died. Would have thought it had been bigger, but now whenever you see a gas tank there's always a sticker on it. That says flammable. You know, why not go back to England? Nineteen fifty four, now they released their first music chart. Now we years Billboard, but they were using something called New Musical Express though. The first number one British song of all time that was Al Martine Here in My Heart, the first British number one song. I know Al then sound British. That's because he's from Philly. He actually took that song to number one the United States. Also nineteen sixty eight, Yale University, they went all in, what do you do when a bunch of you guys can't pick up girls?

5:19 You go co ed? Yeah, way to go yea. So how did it go? Well? Remember in the movie Ange Revenge of the Nerds when the Nerds invited a sorority over to their party at their house and they'll just sit there looking at each other. It's kind of like that, except the Yale guys never broke out the pot. This is actually a sad story. The movie We Are Marshall, what it was based on, took place today in nineteen seventy. They are planing care in. The Marshall University football team crashed in Canova with West Virginia killed all seventy five on board, all the players, coaches, trainers, support staff. Now, if you watch the movie, it's not so much about the crash, It's more about the university and the community on how they had to fight and rally to overcome it. Nineteen ninety four, the first train started running at the tunnel. Yeah, that's the tunnel that runs their nath the English Channel between England and France.

6:06 Joke, joke, joke, shog dish Shiburt day, please gon tar. He left this shib day. We want simple tag. He left this shiburt day. And you you don't work for you? All right, let's see. He was born on November the fourteenth. Actor Brian Keith. He was born in Beyond, New Jersey in nineteen twenty one. On TV, he first got known on Family Affair and then Hardcastle McCormick. Some of his movies where the Parent Trap, the Russians are coming, Hooper Mountain Men. He had five children from his second wife. Ried his third wife in nineteen seventy and they had two kids in nineteen seventy nineteen ninety seven. One of his daughters committed suicide when she was twenty seven years old Keith. He is fighting lung cancer at the time, so he decided to join her.

6:48 He used a handgun. Seventy five years old actor McLean Stevenson. He was born in Normal, Illinois in nineteen twenty seven best novel. Playing Colonel Henley Blake on the TV series masch Now. He left after three seasons. He felt he was too big for the TV series Match, so they killed him off so he could never come back. He really pissed off the producers. After that, he was on Hello, Larry, and a whole bunch of game shows. He had a son from his first wife, married his third wife in nineteen eighty and they had one child, McLean. He died from a heart attack in nineteen ninety six at sixty eight years old. He was born Jannis Chrisomalis in Klamada, Greece, in nineteen fifty four. Seventy years Oh, this is real famous simply as Yanni. I guess he's a new age singer because he's had sixteen New Age albums so sold over twenty five million of them. Now he's performed concerts in front of four million people in thirty different countries and five continents. Now his Live at the Acropolis concert video that is the second best selling live concert video of all time.

8:18 It's behind Justin Biever. Now Yan he's self taught. I mean he composes his own music, but he cannot read or write music, just like the Beatles. Now he dated Linda Evans for ten years and then he had a daughter from a girlfriend. The Run and Run DMC as Joseph Simmons. He's sixty. He is one of Queen's New York in nineteen sixty four. He's also a practicing minister.

9:00 Also goes by Reverend. He All start running DMC in nineteen eighty three with Darryl dmc McDaniels and jam Master J. He was their DJ. Now they were the first to really make hip popping and go mainstream. Decides Walk This Way and my Adidas You Be Illing It's Tricky has some of their big hits. Ron he has three children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety four and they have four children. How Many Ways, How Many Ways? Side Thou Right?

9:41 Actor Patrick Warburton. He's also sixty. He was born in Peterson, New Jersey. He is first guy known playing David Putty on Seinfeld. Then he started on Rules of Engagement. He's voiced Joe Swanson on Family Guy since nineteen ninety nine. Now he has done a lot a lot of voice working TV and movies. Some movies that he actually acted in where Men in Black, two Get Smart, the Ted movies. He married his college sweetheart in nineteen ninety one and they have three sons and one daughter. Actor Josh Duammel. He's fifty two. He was born in Minor in North Dakota. In nineteen seventy two. Nineteen ninety seven he won Male Model the year. Second place went to Ashton Kutcher. Joshi then got a job on the Daytime Shop Opera All My Children left that after a few years ago Primetime onto Las Vegas. Then he went into movies. He played Tad and Went a Date with Tad Hamilton. Then he played Captain William Lennox and some other Transformer movies. He married singer Fergie for ten years and they had a son.

10:35 In twenty twenty two he married a former Miss World, Audra Mauri. Now she is from North Dakota also, so they have a lot in common and they also have a son. Okay, when you're out celebrating pickles today. Remember Americans on average eight nine pounds of pickles every year. Oh, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you're listening to. His son, let's same with Booker T. Washington. He died day in nineteen fifteen at fifty nine years old. But Kers said there are two ways to exact one's strength over people. One is pushing down, the other is pulling up. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow