Oct 28-Chocolate, Charlie Daniels, Tony Orlando & Dawn, Julia Roberts, Brad Paisley, Joaquin Phoenix

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to history in factor. It's about today. Day's October the twenty eighth. All the things that I love this, there's nothing near is nice. Sells it? You'll see you well, Ltty. I think it's great. I like to think the person who invented chocoal it see it, you'll see you well, Letty. I just can't wait to get my hungry mump around and lovely chocol it. Today is National Chocolate Day. I have no idea why Chocolate Day is so close to Halloween. Now, some high end candy and chocolate stars they are having deals today, you know the places where it's too expensive to hand out for Halloween candy. Now, they asked to actual they discovered chocolate twenty five years ago. That the chocolate most of us like that really started in eighteen sixty eight by Cadbury. Twenty five years later Milton Hershey, he created the milk chocolate. That's the chercolate we I love. Yes, dark chocolate is good for you, it just doesn't taste as good. Now, not gonna sound all Halloween candy's chocolate.

1:16 So yeah, I go ahead and indulge in some chocolate today. In fifteen seventy nine, the first shipment of chocolate. It arrived in England. It came from West Africa. Well, the Brits they thought it was a ship full of sheep poops. They pushed it all over the side. All right, this is going on entertainment. In October twenty eighth, It's back. In nineteen eighty two, number one album was American Full by John Cougar. John Cougar had the number one song with Jack and Die. In little Jitty about Jack Die, American kids growing up in the Heartland, Jacket Combee, Oh Foo, Bollster, Dane's Dead, the top Backseat Milk Jack Bees Come.

2:00 He didn't use Mellencamp until nineteen ninety one. Alabama had the number one country song was close Enough too perfect. Drinking Butcher Round just like everyone knows she's not an angel, but she'd really like to me. And that's close enough to. Perfect all me. The number one movie. It was our First Blood. That was the first Rambo movie. It's where Rambo he had to take on the whole Northwest Sheriff Department in the National Guard. Sol Vester Stallone, Richard Grenna and Brian Dennyhe they started it nineteen ninety four. I'm right care actually released their Christmas album, you know, the one that has the song all I Want for Christmas Is You? Yeah, that was nineteen ninety four. That song All I Want for Christmas Is You didn't go number one until twenty nineteen. Take it twenty five years they get to the number one spot.

2:54 All right. What happened on October the twenty eighth, fifteen thirty eight on the island of Hespianola. It's where they Dominican Republic and Haiti Yar. Today, the Spanish opened up the first university in the America's University Dad Santo Thomas Diachino is in Santo Domingo. Where do you think they went for spring break? You know it closed in eighteen oh one. Yeah, but the oldest university in the world is still open. Yeah, it's the University of Bologna in Italy. Yeah, it started in ten eighty eight. Do you have a shop at Macy's? Eighteen fifty eight, R. H. Macy and Company opened their first department store on Sixth Avenue in New York. First day sales were eleven dollars and six cents. Now, when Grover Cleveland was Governor of New York. He vetoed the bill that said that New York could pay for the pedestal for the Statue of Liberty. Yeah, needed his big pedalfield to stand on. Since he vetoed that, they had to hold a whole bunch of fundraising events and it all came down to private donations. But yeah, they finally were able to build that pedestal so I could build a Statue of Liberty in eighteen eighty six. Now Grover he was President of the United States. Now now the Statue of Liberty opened up today. Yeah, it made He made a really big spectacle of the thing. He was so proud he was dedicating it. And you would have thought he actually did something to help it out. No, he didn't do squad, but New York City did. They really went all out to celebrate the statue. They held their first ticker tape parade nineteen oh six. A Belgian and British mining company. They created what today is the Democratic Republic of Congo now yesterday. In nineteen nineteen, President Woodrow Wilson he vetoed the Volstead Act, so that meant there would be no prohibition of alcohol today in nineteen nineteen,

4:30 Congress override his veto, so there would be prohibition of alcohol in football. And let's go to the NFL. Nineteen thirty four. Yeah, these are actual NFL football teams, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Pittsburgh Pirates. They played the first penalty free game in NFL history. Now, the Dodgers, they won twenty one to three. Now, if you're one of there have been four penalty free games in NFL history. That one then won in nineteen thirty six, one in nineteen thirty eight, and one in nineteen forty. I think we know when the rest started getting paid. Keupan missile crisis. In nineteen sixty two, the Soviet Union leader Chris jeff He sent a letter to President Kennedy. It said that he would tear down all those missile bases in Cuba that they were building. But in order to say faced the United States, they had to say that they were doing a whole bunch of stuff too. Now, the United States didn't have to do it, but they had to say they were going to do it. So okay. Now, I don't know if the Jewish people really cared. But in nineteen sixty five Pope Paul the six, he proclaimed that Jews were not collectively guilty for the crucifixion. I guess he wanted to ease some of that Jewish guilt. Tacoma, Washington, in nineteen eighty eight, a jury awarded a woman one hundred and forty seven thousand dollars of being seduced by our church minister. So since she got paid when that being a prostitute. Now as politically correct and woke as our universities are today, don't you kind of wish Trump would just do this? Back in nineteen ninety three, in the country of Columbia, their president, he was speaking at the Columbia National University, as the largest school in the country. Well, the students kept interrupting him as he's trying to talk, so finally he just stop talking, turn around and moon

6:01 them on. I take that back. I don't want to see Trump's butt joke joke joke, joke, shot dis shivers day. Please gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We want simple targe. He left this shims day, and you know you don't give good was check out a born in October the twenty eighth. The boy said, my name's Johnny and it's mine be a sing. But I'll take your bet you're gonna regret, because I'm the bsiness everything in Johnny. Here eysing up your bowel and playing fiddle hard cause halls Proclus in Georgia, and the Devil deals and hards And if you and you get this shining little lead of gold, you lose.

6:42 The Devil gets your soul. Country singer Charlie Daniels He's born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in nineteen thirty six. Now that song the Devil went down to Georgia, it was a huge gross overhead. Charlie he was not a solo artist. No, he was in the band Charlie Daniels Man. Yeah, they formed in nineteen seven. But before then, Charlie he had been a professional fiddle player since the nineteen fifties in America. Drinking My Baby, Goodbye, Boogie Woogie Fiddle Country Blues has some of their other big hits. Charlie married nineteen sixty four and they had a son. Charlie died from a stroke in twenty twenty at eighty three years old. Actor Dennis franz He retired in two thousand and five. I guess that's why we haven't seen him for a long time.

7:23 Dennis was born in Maywood, Illinois, in nineteen forty four. We got famous for the TV show NYPD Blue. He was not Hill Street Blues before that biggest movie, Diehard Too. Dennis married nineteen ninety five. Three times on the ceiling and he. He's the answer is. Sleepiness. He means you meet me in the hall. That was Tony Orlando and Don now don, that was actually two women. It was Joyce Wilson and Tema Hopkins. Tell me she's seventy seven to days. She's born in Louisville, Kentucky, in nineteen forty eight, torn near Orlando and Don. They were so big in the seventies they had their own TV variety show. Some of their number one songs are tie Yellow Ribbon, Around that old Oak Tree, Knock three times, he Don't Love You like I Love You nineteen seventy seven.

8:18 They out the side, take a break and just go and do their own things. Tell me she went into acting. She has. She start on sitcoms. Yeah, first Forgive Me a Break, and then Family Matters, and then she was in all those transfer movies. I don't know don't. I guess they were pretty big and I don't know them now. Every couple of years, though, tell them what Tony and Joyce they would all get back together and go out on tour together. Did that all that time from the seventies on up until March twenty second, twenty twenty four. That's when they all played the last show for Tony Orlando and don tell me. She was married for seven years in the seventies and she has a son from it. Acts Any Potts. She was born in Nashville in nineteen fifty two, seventy three years old today. Our first big movie was Ghostbusters, then Pretty and Pink. She lays bo Peep in the Toy Story movies on TV. She started on Designing Women, then Young Sheldon. Now she has a recurring role on that spinoff from Young Sheldon. Georgie and Mandy's first marriage. She had a son from her third husband.

9:11 She married her fourth husband in nineteen ninety and they have two sons. Actress Daphanie Zinga Zaniga. She's sixty three. She's born in nineteen sixty two in San Francisco. Started out doing slasher films. She did The Dorm and The Dip Blood and The Intuition. Then she went mainstream. She was in The Sure Thing, Spaceball's Gross Anatomy. Now she's currently filming Spaceball's two Health these years later. Now it'll be coming out in twenty twenty seven. Besides Daphne who was filming it, ninety nine year old Mill Brooks is filming it. Bill Pullman and Rick moranis Get this, Mirick. He hadn't done a movie since nineteen ninety seven. Then I think most of the other original cast members all died on TV. Daphne she played Joe on Milroe's plays Daphne.

9:51 She finally settled down and got married in twenty nineteen. Actress Lauren Hally. She is born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in nineteen sixty three. Sixty two year old started out on the soap op For All My Children. Then she went prime time Picket Fences in Cis. She's been on a Family Law. It's a show on Canadian TV. She's been in that since twenty twenty one. Some of her movies are Dragging The Bruce Lee Story, Dumb and Dummer Down Periscope any given Sunday. Her second husband was Jim Carrey for a year. Then she married her third husband for thirteen years and they had three kids together. Now that husband he was Canadian, so she got a Canadian citizenship, which explains why she is now on Canadian TV. Actress Julia Roberts is fifty eight. She was born in Atlanta in nineteen sixty seven. Grew up in shmern At, Georgia. Julia.

10:36 She was nominated for Oscars for a Stell Magnoia's Pretty Woman august Osage County. She didn't win an Oscar for Aaron Brockowitch. Now she has a movie. It's sin theaters right now. It's called After the Heat. It's a psychological thriller. I don't even think I've seen it advertised. Julia. She married country singer Loud Love It for a couple of years, and she married her second husband in two thousand and two and they have one daughter and two sons. Back in like to walk you through Wow. I'm like to day. Country singer Brad Paisley. He's born in nineteen seventy two in glenn Dale, West Virginia, fifty three today.

11:21 Now. He started playing the guitar and singing in public when he's eight years old. Yeah, but he still went to college and everything. Released his first album nineteen ninety eight. Some of his twenty one number one songs are I'm Gonna miss Her, the Fishing Song, Mud on the Tires, Letter to Me, Still a Guy start a band that was with Keith Urban Now she married. He married actress Kimberly Williams in two thousand and three and they have two sons. After Joekine Phoenix is fifty one. He's born in San Juan, Puerto Rico in nineteen seventy four, so the Phoenix acting family. His brother was River. His sisters are Liberty Rain and Summer Phoenix Now. As a kid, he first got known on the movie Space Camp. Since then, he's been nominated for Oscars for Gladiator, The Line The Master.

12:01 He did win an Oscar for Joker. He is married to the actress Rooney Mara and they have a son and a daughter. Twenty seven year old actor Nolan Gould. He was born in New York City in nineteen ninety eight. Best now for playing Luke Dumpy and the TV show Modern Family. Now on the show, Luke was not very smart, don't Nolan though? Very very smart kid? He's actually a member of MENSA. He has a n i Q of one hundred and fifty now as big as his movie with Space Buddies. You know how you can tell that Nolan is really smart though, Yeah, he hasn't married yet. Alright. Here quote of the day. It comes from the second first Lady of the United States, Abigail Adams. She is married to John. She died today in eighteen eighteen, at seventy three years old. Abigail says, great actions call for great virtues. Well, thank you all for listening. Don't forget to follow us, and you listen to us on to make use He's a fine and I always read the show descriptions. He can connect with us, kind of like Troy did out in Grand Junction, Colorado. We went to Country Underground Radio dot com and said he wanted to hear Brinley Addington song Goodbye Darling. So you guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

13:03 Will you hit me with one of them? Man? Ain't you? It's me kind of things might have been born to night, budd it wasn't last night. I know what that means. She made a cup drip. To the trunk of her car that she handed me back my raim. Yes, she made it pretty clear she was out of here. I can only say. One thing good about doll then, goodbye Dolling. Well, it was what it was, what it was now it is what it is. Goodbout Darling, Goodbye doll Then even wrote a little something about it goes lived, something like, well I heard it through the old gray found that she got another man on him mine, damn you girl, you turned my world upside down.

14:05 Swim more time. Hey, I could go out of Plaine in the town, or I could just go out of my mind. Wouldn't change the pain gave the way. The fact is win mine. It's a good boy. Darn goodbye doll then, Well, it was what it was, what it was Now it is what it is good about Darling. Goodbye doll In