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

0:10 Happy Monday. I am Jeff, and welcome to history in factor, It's about today, present, about cool media. Today's October the twenty eighth. All the things that I love this there's nothing near It's nice. Sell ch you'll see you well, ity. I think it's great. I like to think the person who invented chocolate its ch you'll see you well itty. I just can't wait to get my hungry mouth around that lovely chocolate it. Today is National Chocolate Day. We have absolutely no idea why they would have Chocolate Day so close to Halloween. Maybe you're supposed to eat that fancy gourmete chocolate. Now, I guess our Halloween candy isn't chocolate, So what the hell?

0:51 Enjoy some chocolate today. This is going on in entertainment in October twenty eighth. Let's about your nineteen ninety numb one album was Please Ham or Don't Hurt Him by Him See Hammer. Janet Jackson had the number one song with Black Cat Sands. By You and I Just. Breathe. McIntyre had the number one country song with You Lie Baby, Do.

1:47 The Way to Say. You Love. The number one book was The Planes of Passage by Gen m w top. He was graveyard shift at an old mill. Deadly accidents start to happen. The boss just tells him to keep working. Then they find there's a deadly secret in the basement. Stars David Andrews, Kelly Wolf and Stephen mack al Right, what happened on October the twenty eighth, fifteen thirty eight on the island of Hespanolia. That's where the Dominican Republican Haiti yar today the Spanish they opened up. The first university in the New World was Universitydad Tonto Tomas di Aquino. Had a pretty good run and closed in eighteen oh one. Do you like shopping over at Macy's Department store? Was today?

2:32 In eighteen fifty eight, the first rh Macy's store opened up was on Sixth Avenue in New York City. Sales for that day were eleven dollars and six cents. Now, when Grover Cleveland was the Governor of New York, he vetoed the bill that would have New York pay for the pedestal that the Statue of Liberty was supposed to stand on. Yeah, so then they had to have all kinds of fundraising events. The pedestal is basically paid for by private donations. Well, in eighteen eighty six, Grover and he was now the President of the United States and the Statue of Liberty was opening up today, so he was at the dedication ceremony for it. Oh, he made a big deal. I don't like he has something to do with it all. But you know what, New York City, they really won out, won out out celebrating that though. Yeah, they even held their first ticker tape parade yesterday. In nineteen nineteen, President what Drooe Wilson he vetoed the Volstead Act that meant that there would be no prohibition of alcohol.

3:23 But today Congress they overwrote his veto, so a prohibition was back. On nineteen sixty two, to are on the Cuban missile crisis, the Soviet Union later at christ Jeff he sent a letter to President Kennedy. He said that they would tear down their missile bases if that they were building over in Cuba. But to say face, the United States had to say that they were doing a bunch of stuff too. Yeah, but none of it really mattered. Now, ask woke and politically correct as our universities are here, don't you kind of wish one of our leaders would just do this. In nineteen ninety three in the country of Columbia, their president, and he was speaking at Columbia National University. That's their large school they have in the country. Now, the students kept interrupting him as he was trying to talk, so finally he just stops me, you know, cut his speech off, turn around and moon them all. Now I take it back. I don't want to see any of our politicians but.

4:13 Joke, jokes, joked, goat shot this shimth day. Please gonna pause. He left this shiverthday. We want simple charge. He left this shibth day. And you know you don't do good that the birthday. Let's check out. It's born in October the twenty eighth. The boy said, my name's Johnny, and it might be a sin, but I'll take your bet you're gonna regret because I'm the best as everything in Johnny. Her eyes and up your bowl and play your fiddle. Hard calls hailsboat blues in Georgia, and the devil dealsing Harts. And if you and you get this shining little lead of gold, but if you lose. The devil get your soul country singer Charlie Daniels was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in nineteen thirty six, and That's song and the Devil Went Down to Georgia. It was a huge crossover hit. Charlie Now, he was actually part of the band, that Charlie Daniels band. Yeah, he wasn't a solo singer. They formed in nineteen seventy. Before then, Charlie he was a professional fiddle player since the middle of the nineteen fifties. Some of their biggest hits were in America Drinking My Baby, Goodbye, Boogie Woogie, fiddle, country blues, simple Man. Charlie married nineteen sixty four and they had one son. Charlie died from a stroke in twenty twenty at eighty three years old. Actor Dennis Franz is eighty.

5:26 He was born in Maywood, Illinois in nineteen forty four. Hit big starring on NYPD Blue. I guess he was on Hill Street Blues before that, though. His biggest movie Diehard Too. He got married nineteen ninety five, three. Times on the ceiling and he he's the answers Oh my sleeves means you meet me in the hall. That was Tony Orlando and Don now Don. Now that was actually two women, Joyce Wilson and Toma Hopkins. Tell Me. She's seventy six today. She's born in Louisville, Kentucky, in nineteen forty eight. Now, they were so hot back then.

6:08 They even had their own Variety TV show. Some of their number one songs were Ty Yellow Ribbon, Around the Old Oak Tree, Knocked three Times, he Don't Love You, Lack I Love You. Then in nineteen seventy seventy, I decided, yeah, let's just go our own ways. Tell Me. She went into acting. She was on the sitcoms Give Me a Break, Family Matters. She was in all those Transfers movies, all four of them, Love Guru, Matrix Resurrection. Now, every couple of years they would all get together and go back out on and do reunion tours. But earlier this year, Tony Orlando and Don played their very last show. Tell Me. She had a son from a seven year marriage back in the nineteen seventies. Actress Annie Potts. She was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in nineteen fifty two. She's seventy two now. Her first big movies with Ghostbusters, then Pretty and Pink.

6:51 She voiced bo Peep in all the Toy Story movies on TV. She started on Designing Women Young Sheldon. Now she's in the spinoff Georgie and Mandy's First Marriage. But I think it's more not really a starring role. I think she has more of a recurring role in that thing. She had one son from her third husband. She married a fourth husband in nineteen ninety and they have two sons. Actress Daphne's and Inga. She was born in nineteen sixty two in San Francisco, sixty two year old. Started out on YEAH doing slasher films, The Dorm of That Drip, Blood, The Intuition. Then she had in The Sure Thing, Spaceballs, Gross Anatomy on TV, she played Joe and Milrose Place. She finally settled down and got married in twenty nineteen. Actress Lauren Hawley. She was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in nineteen sixty three. At sixty one year old, start out on the daytime soap Pop for All My Children, Then she went prime time for Picket Fences. She did three years on NCIS. Some of her movies are Dumb and Dummer Down Periscope, What women want the Cuban. Her second husband was Jim Carrey for a year. Then she married her third husband for thirteen years and they had three children.

7:53 Actress Julia Roberts is fifty seven. She's born of Smythe Georgia. In nineteen sixty seven, she was nominated for Oscars for Steve Magnolia Pretty Women. In August, Osage County won her Oscarr for Aaron Brockowitch. First movie that made her famous, Mister Pizza, Remember That Not in nineteen eighty eight on TV. In twenty seventeen, she did Running with Bear Girls. They went to Kenya. Her first husband is country singer Loud love It for a couple of years, and then she married her second husband in two thousand and two and they have three kids. Like to Kiss You Back In, Like to Walk You Through, Wow.

8:35 I like. Country. Singer Brad Paisley was born in nineteen seventy two in Glendale, West Virginia, fifty two today. Start performing when he was eight, but he still went to college and did all that right stuff the right way. He released his first album nineteen ninety eight. It's twenty one number one songs. Some are I'm Gonna miss her The Phishing Song. Now that's the actual title. I'm gonna miss her the Fishing Song and mud on the Letter to Me. I'm still a guy start a band that was with Keith Thurban. Brady married actress Kimberly Williams in two thousand and three and they have two sons. Actor Joe Quinn Phoenix is fifty. He's born today in Piedres, Puerto Rico, in nineteen seventy four. His acting family his brother was River. Sisters are Liberty Rain and Summer Phoenix. He first got none for the movie Space Camp when he was a kid. He grew up.

9:22 He's been nominated for Oscars for a Gladiator, Walk the Line the Master, won an Oscar for Joker Phoenix. He's been married or they don't. I guess they're married. He's been with actress Rooney Morris since twenty sixteen and they have two kids, and they're supposedly married, but all they did was change names. Nobody actually knew. They had a ceremony here. Twenty six year old actor Nolan Gould. He was born in New York City in nineteen ninety eight. Best known for playing Luke Dumpy on the TV show modern Family. Now that's a really smart guy there. He is a member of MENSA. You know that Brainy Act Society has an IQ of one hundred and fifty. I guess he doesn't have an excuse for forgetting his lines, does he. Let's go back to chocolate and fifteen seventy nine the first shipman of chocolate went to England. Yeah, it was from West Africa. Now the English they thought it was all a ship full of sheep, sheep boop, so they threw it over the side. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. I know you listen to us on it comes. Here's a cool media dot com. Let's end at the second first Lady of the United States, Abigail Adams. She was married to John Adams, the second President of the United States. Abigail she died it in eighteen eighteen at seventy three years old.

10:25 She said, great actions call for great virtues. You guys have an awesome dad. We'll talk tomorrow.