Nov 28th-French Toast, Jon Stewart, Judd Nelson, Randy Newman, Ed Harris, Barry Gordy jr

0:10 Hey, hello there, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about today. Pisent about cool media. Today's November the twenty eighth. The French toast, French toast? Whoa the French toast? Whoa French teste? It is National French Toast Day. Yeah, one of my favorites. Now the Romans. They came up with French toast is a way to not let stale bread go to waste. They dipped it in milk and then cooked it in the fourteen hundred is French toast? It was all over Europe, but they started using eggs in cineam milk. So why is it called French toast? Well, in seventeen twenty four, an innkeeper in Albany, New York, Joseph French, he introduced French toast to America. See he called it French's toast, but on his menu they left off the apostrophe and the s, so it just said French toast. Huge hit and the name stuck. That's why we have French toast.

1:07 But it is something different in every single country across the planet. No big deals today, but that's okay. You can just enjoy some French toast. Just something to ponder as you're getting ready to eat your French toast. Day in Louisiana, Creole cooking. Yeah, they spiked their French toast with alcohol. It's usually whiskey. It's going on and entertainment nine November twenty eighth, Let's Back to nineteen eighty two. Number one album was Business as Usual by mintework Line. Richie had the number one song with Truly Yeddi Rabbin.

1:52 Crystal Gale have the number one country song with You and I Just. Hiving. Helloime Donald, We'll build the trees, Sweet Chert. The number one book was Space by James Mitchener. The top movie was Et the Extraterrestrial, Some nerdy kids helping alien escape Earth and return to his own planet stars Henry Thomas, Drew Blurrymore and Peter Kyu. All right, let's see what happened in the world. On November the twenty eighth, fifteen twenty. Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan. He discovered that straight at the tip of the South America that's named after him. Today, he and his two other ships they'd made it through there successfully, and today they started out across the Pacific Ocean.

2:45 They had no idea how big it was. Took him three months and twenty days to get across that thing. When they got to their side, they landed in the Philippines. Now Magellan he was killed by the natives. His second in command, Jan O'Connell, he wasn't about to go back across that big ass ocean again. Screw that, We're just going to keep going forward. That's how they ended up having the first circumnavigation of the Earth. In seventeen twenty, Notorious Pirates and Bonnie and Mary Reid. They went on trout for pirracy in Jamaica. Both were found guilty and sentenced to death. Well then the Spanish found out they were both pregnant, so they received stays of execution. Reach He ended up dying in prison, but Bonnie she was relieved after the baby was born. Eighteen ninety three, for the first time in world history, women were allowed to vote in a national election. That was in New Zealand.

3:30 Eighteen ninety five, the first automobile race was run in the United States. Went from Chicago to Evanston, Illinois, and back fifty five miles. Around trip eighty three vehicles actually registered for the race, but only six showed up to actually run the race. Frank Durya he won. His motorized wagon sped through the race in seven hours and fifty three minutes. He averaged a blustering seven miles an hour. A German car driven by Carl Binns got second place. He finished an hour and a half later. Those were the only two that actually finished the race to a British pilot, Cyril Turner. He performed the first sky riding in the United States, Yeah ten thousand feet over Times Square in New York City. He wrote with his airplane Hello USA, called Vanderbilt seven two zero zero, so it was obviously a publicity, but forty seven thousand people called Vanderbilt seven two zero zero. Nineteen thirty six, during Spain's Revolution, Spanish comic and playwright Pedro Seca he was arrested and sentenced to death. Was not supporting the side of the that was fighting for independence. He was actually supporting the monarchy. Well, they didn't like that, so they sentenced him to death, and then they asked him if he had any last words.

4:35 Pedro said, I'm starting to believe you're not intending to count me as one of your friends. Well, everybody laughed and they killed him. In nineteen forty two, a sixteen year old bus boy he was using a match as a light and learner to try and change the light bulb at the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston, Massachusetts. Well, the match he caught the Tropical the Core on fire and burned it to the ground. Four in ninety two people died. Still the deadliest nightclub fire in the US history. Now it's been twenty five years, but it's still one of the saddest days in entertainment. Yeah, nineteen ninety seven, in his last episode of Beavis and Budded. Coat Coke Coach goat shage this shibirth Day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverthday.

5:16 We gonna sit pletarge. He like this shibirth day. And you know we don't give up because that's the birthday. Who was born on November the twenty eight. Music executive and music pioneer Berry Gordy Jr. Is born in Detroit, Michigan in nineteen twenty nine. He's ninety four today, most known for founding Motown Records. Now, he didn't just produce produce the accent on that. He wrote a whole bunch of those hit songs. Just some of the acts that he actually made big where the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, The Temptation, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Stevie Wonder, Jackson five Barry. He had two sons and a daughter from his first wife. Then he had a son from his second wife. Then he had a daughter. Then he had a son. That guy, he's the one who sings says rockwell. Then he had a daughter. He had daughter was actually from Diana Ross.

5:59 Then he had the child, another son. Then he decided to get married for a third time. They were only together three years. They would take off the tris. Yes Yes Head ho. Kileyhead. Randy Newman's eighty years old today. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty three. Some of his hits short people. Now he sings about hating short people. He is only five to eleven, and he had I Love La. You can leave your hat on, You've got a friend in me. He has that huge success writing music for movies. Some of them were The Toy Story Movies, Monsters Inc. Movies, Cars Movies, The Natural Meet The Parent, Seabiscuit, and a whole bunch more. He had three sons from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety and they have one son and one daughter. Actor Ed Harris.

6:54 He was born in nineteen fifty in Inglewood, New Jersey. Seventy three today he's been an over eighty movies nominated for Oscars for Apollo thirteen, The Truman Show, Pollock and The Hours. You know, it's always nice to be nominated. He met his wife, actress Amy Madigan, filming the movie Places in the Heart back in nineteen eighty three. They have one daughter, My yeast. They got Time, I Got to get Away, and James once did that and again on Everyone Knows. When the Neighbors they pulled up the streets. When the sun goes down, Knockers, the son. Said time the country Deal. Sweethearts of the Rodeo they were sisters. That one was Christina Arnold. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty six. Sixty seven year old.

7:42 She formed Sweethearts with the Rodeo with their sister Janice in nineteen eighty five. Some of their biggest hits Wears Since I Found You, Midnight Girls, Unset Down Chains, the Gold satisfying. You know what, they decided to insture to start hating each other. They just go do their own thing. Back in nineteen ninety six, Christine, she got married nineteen eighty. Actor Jeded Neilson. He was in sixty four. He was born in Portland, Maine in nineteen fifty nine. First dead in the movie The Breakfast Club and then Saint Elmo's Fire, New Jack City Airheads on TV. He was on the sitcom Suddenly Soon. Actress Jane Sebitt. She's sixty one. She was born in Berkeley, California, in nineteen sixty two. She started out on the daytime soap opera Santa Barbara. Then she had on the sitcom Herman's Head. She played Ross's lesbian ex wife on Friends, and she got married for twenty four years before they divorced them. They had three children now Jane. She was originally cast to play Rachel on Friends, but when they found out she was pregnant, yeah, they replaced her with Jennifer Aniston. TV hoast and actor John Stewart was born in New York City in nineteen sixty two. He's also sixty one. First got known a really big knowing I guess you say, hosting The Daily Show did it from nineteen ninety nine to twenty fifteen two thousand, five hundred and seventy nine episodes. Some of his movie is Big Daddy, Death of Smoochy Half Baked.

8:57 He's been married since two thousand and they have two children. Now, whether you agree with this politics or not, you know he really does actually a great job as an advocate for the nine to eleven first responders, testifies in front of Congress, and all kinds of stuff to help them out. All right, Today's fact to it. Heaven. It is not mentioned in the Old Testament. Nope, first time you'll read about heaven in the Bible, yep in the New Testament. Well, thanks for being here today. We appreciate you. It's always good to hear from you. If you go to Coolmedia dot com Cool with three Us, you can always just click a button and leave us messages if you want. Sometimes I even respond. That's in today with the inventor of basketball, James Natesmith. He died to day in nineteen thirty nine at seventy eight years old. Be strong in body, clean in mind, and lofty and ideas. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow