Nov 19-Monopoly, Pop Tarts, Gettysburg Address, Jodi Foster, Billy Currington, Adam Driver, Allison Janney

0:19 Well, I am Jeff. Welcome to history in factor. It's about today. Today's November the nineteenth. Else, Oh oh, come, Monopoly is Monopoly? Otell roll the paradise? What if you fell? Today? Is National Play Monopoly Day? Now if you have an extra five to seven hours to come, yeah, why not play a game of Monopoly? Nineteen oh three Lizzy Maggie. She created a board game that she called the Landlord's Game. Parker Brothers. They bought her out in nineteen thirty five. I've changed the name of Monopoly.

1:01 Now. There are over three hundred versions of Monopoly. He can't even get one in Braille. Monopoly. It does help with math and analytical skills. So have your kids put down that video game once in a while and grab some family and friends and play a rousing game of monopoly. All right, what do you like to be when you play Monopoly? What game piece do you choose? Now? The number one choice is the little dog, it's the most popular. Then they have the race car, the thimble, and the top hats. All right, let's see what's going on in the entertainment. Not November the nineteenth, It was back to nineteen seventy five. Them when the album was Rock of the Westies by Elton. John Elton had the number one song with Island Girl.

2:00 Dicky Lee had the name on Country Song with Rocky with Till. Each Other Close at Night and. Trade dreams each dayson. In Love You Get Through. The number one movie was The One Who flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Criminal. He kind of fakes it, but he gets into a psychiatric hospital. Then he rarely stirs things up. Stars Nack, Jack Nicholson, Christopher Lloyd, Louise Fletcher, Danny DeVito, whole bunch of people. Now the movie One Who flew Over the Cookouzness. Yeah, I got the Oscar for Best Picture that year, and Jack Nicholson and Louis Fletcher, they both won Our Academy Awards for her Best Actors nineteen ninety Millie Vanilla, they had their Grammy Awards taken away from see the Grammys. They were being real stricklers.

2:54 They said that he actually had to sing on your record in order to win the award. Now, I can see how you can lip see like in live concerts, so I don't see how you could lip sync in a record through yo though, all right, what happened on November the nineteenth today is also national discovered Puerto Rico Day, fourteen ninety three. Columbus and his men, they were the first Europeans at land on Puerto Rico. Now that is what it was. On his second trip over here, he named it San Juan Bautista, so in honor of Saint John the Baptist. But the Tiana people who actually lived on the island, they said, no, no, it's God bory Can. Yeah, he didn't care. But that's why the capital, San Juan, it is named after Saint John. Sixteen twenty, the Mayflower had found Cape Cod and then it started going up and down the coast trying to find a place of land.

3:39 Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now that wasn't him, but it was today. In eighteen sixty three of the President Abraham Lincoln gave the Gettysburg Address that's only two hundred and seventy two words long, still one of the most famous speeches in American history. Now, he gave the speech four and a half months after the Battle of Gettyberg was fought in Pennsylvania. That battle side he was just being turned down a national cemetery. Thirty two hundred Confederate soldiers were buried there, but not with the honors. So in the eighteen seventies, Southern veteran groups they removed their remains to Confederate cemeteries in Georgia, Virginia and like the Carolinas and that kind of stuff, But they didn't move them all. There are still some Southerners who are buried in get his Burg along as their northern brethren.

4:30 So do you know how long. Four score in seven years is eighty seven years? Yeah, it's course twenty years. Eighteen ninety five in Philly, Frederick blaizew He invented the self sharpening paper pencil. Today we caught the China marker. It's the one with the string on it. Nineteen sixty five pop tarts were invented. Yeah, Kellogg's invented him. Now sixty one percent of all people they eat their pop tarts without toasting, and the toaster just take all the box of their package and show down. Nineteen sixty nine, twelve hours tonight, it's Charles Conrad and Alan Bean became the third and fourth people to walk on the moon. Now as Conrad he stepped out onto the Moon's surface. He yells, whoopy man. It might have been a small step for Neil, but it was a big one for me.

5:12 Whooo. Now see that that is cool. See that is emotion. Yes, he's on the moon for crying out loud. That's a lot better than one mo. Yeah, you get the point. Nineteen ninety seven in Des Moines, Iowa. Name was Betty mccaffee. She gave birth to the first steptuplets, this fight infancy. That's seven babies now, the four boys and three girls. They're twenty eight years old today. So happy birthday to the mccaffee sept tup Let's call, hey, might as well go do birthdays. Joke doke, doke, co joked joke, sharge thish shiverthday. We're gonna pause he left this shiverthday. Were gonna simple target this shi birthday. And you know we don't give birthday.

5:56 So it was born on November the nineteenth. Well. James Garfield is and Moreland Hills, Ohio in eighteen thirty one. Now he was a lawyer, then became a Union general during the Civil War. Garfield he was a twentieth United States President Sir from March fourth, eighteen eighty one to September nineteenth, eighteen eighty one. On July second, Garfield he was waiting for train at the station in New Jersey. His net job walked up and shot him in the back of the arm. Garfield didn't suffer for two months before he actually died. Now, the net job that shot him, now, he had never met Garfield. They did not know each other, didn't have any common friends. And this guy had absolutely no experience in working in the government. While he had written Garfield the letter though, and in the letter he asked for a job in governments there in Garfield's government, whoa Well, then he didn't get an interview. Yeah, so he just went and shot Garfield. Garfield he is forty nine years old, left wife and seven kids. Now, the guy who shot him, they did rule that he was crazy, so you know, yeah, they executed him anyway. They didn't care.

6:52 Ted Turner he's eighty seven. He's born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in nineteen thirty eight. Started out in billboards hip, took over his dad Billboard Company, and he became a medium mogul, started CNN, TVs, T and TTNSA. He did a lot. Ted is the fourth biggest landowner in the United States. He owns over two million acres owns land in New Mexico, Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana. Raises bison mostly. Yeah, it's fifty thousand heard of bison. It's the largest private bison were heard in the entire world. Teddy had two children from his first wife, three children from his second wife. Then he married Jane Fonda for ten years after that divorce. Yeah, Teddy's pretty much put off on marriage. Can't blame him. Act Dan Haggerty. He was born in Pound, Wisconsin in nineteen forty one. Now he has this big, burly bearded guy.

7:37 Now helped build the motorcycles for the movie Easy Rider. So when he's done that, he kind of liked that entertainment thing, so we went into acting. That's none for playing Grizzly Adams on the TV show Grizzly Adams. He had two daughters from his first wife. He had two sons from with his second wife. Now his second wife, she died in a motorcycle accident in two thousand and eight. Dan He died from spinal cancer in twenty sixteen at seventy four years old. That doesn't sound cool. Actors Scott from Clinton, Kathleen Quinnlandy. She had seventy one. She's born in Pasadena, California, in nineteen fifty four. She grew up in Mill Valley, California. Now she's eighteen. She was in Her first movie was American Graffiti, then Airport seventy seven The Hills Ovis. She was nominated for an Oscar for Apollo thirteen. She was married to her second husband for twenty eight years when they divorced in twenty twenty two and one son together. Actress Alison Janney. She was born in Boston in nineteen fifty nine. She's sixty five.

8:28 On TV, she started out in the West Wing and then hit really big on Mom Bending over sixty movies. I personally think her best movie was Drop Dead Gorgeous, but she did win an oscar for Ititania. Drop Dead Gorgeous is still a lot better. Now she's been nominated for two Tony's also. Actress Meg Ryan sixty four. She's born in Fairfield, Connecticut in nineteen sixty one. Meg. She started out on the soap opera As the World Turns, and she got famous as the movie top Gun when Harry met Sally sleepless in Seattle, You've Got Mail. She married actor Denis Quad for ten years and they had a son now after her and Dennis Devorice Meg. She's adopted a daughter in two thousand and six. Now get this Meg. She turned down the role in the movie Silence of the Lamb that Joni Foster won an Oscar for playing. Now you speak of the Devil Jody Foster.

9:13 She's sixty three today. She was born in Los Angeles nineteen sixty two. Jody. She started out as a model when she was three. She was nominated for an Oscar when she was twelve for the movie Taxi Driver. Now she was nominated for also later on for Nell and Nyad, but she won her Oscars for obviously Silence of the Lambs and The Accused. Now. I think her best acting was in the movie Maverick. I think that's a miss Jody Foster movie. Now. She had two sons with a longtime girlfriend. Then she married her wife in twenty fourteen. Well leave see the pet Old Things. It is true. Won't you to live me like my? Don't me I come home? Won't you just go crazy?

9:56 He never looks to me like he. No. Country singer Billy Currington was born in Savannah, Georgia, in nineteen seventy three. He's fifty two, still lives in Savannah too. Some of his dozen number one songs I must be doing something right, good directions, pretty good at drinking beer? Do I make you want now? Billy? He hasn't married yet, but he does have a dog after Adam Driver is forty two. He was born in font Dana, California, in nineteen eighty three. Grew up in Indiana. After high school he went to the Marines. Yeah, he was a marine. Then after that he went and graduated from Juilliard, So that means he can act. He was a nomine three years in a row for Primetime Emmys for the HBO show Girls. Then he really hit big playing Kylo Wrenn in the Star Wars movies trilogies. Been nominated for Oscars for Black Klansman and Marriage Story Adam. He married in twenty thirteen a girl who met in Juilliard. They have a son and a daughter now Adam. He founded Arts for the Armed Forces. This is really cool. It's a nonprofit that performs theater for all branches of the military in the United States and abroad. Okay, our quote of the day it comes from Mil tillis As.

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