Oct 28th-Chocolate, Charlie Daniels, Annie Potts, Lauren Holly, Julia Roberts, Brad Paisley, Joaquin Phoenix

0:10 Hi there, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In factor it is about today, visit by cool meeting. Today's October the twenty eighth. All the things that I love this there's nothing near. It's nice sell ch shall see you well, ity. I think it's great. I like to think the person who invented chocolate its ch shall see you well itty. I just can't wait to get my hungry mouth around that lovely chocolate. It's it 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 sophisticated chocolate, but you know what, not all Halloween candy is chocolate. So I guess enjoyed some chocolate today. So it's going on in entertainment in October twenty eighth.

0:53 It's back yere. In nineteen sixty seven, number one album was Diana Ross and the Supremes The Supremes Lulu. She had the number one song with Tousir would Love If you wanted the Sky would run across the sky, that would Suns of Seed? When tell me why? Ned had the number one country song with I Don't want to play House? I know all the play I know I've watched Mommy and if that's the wad done. The number one book was The Gabriel Hounds by Mary Stewart. The top movie was The Jungle Book. The Panther and the Bear have trouble convincing the boy to leave the jungle and spend time with humans. It was voiced by Phil Harris, Sebastian cabint In, Louis Prima. Let's see what happened in the world On October twenty eighth, fifteen thirty eight, on the island of Hespanola, that is where the Dominican Republic and Haiti yar today the Spanish they upened the first university in the New World, University Santo Thomas Diachino. It closed in eighteen oh one. Any you like shopping over at macy'son was today? In eighteen fifty eighth, the first rh macy store opened up on Sixth Avenue in New York

2:25 City. Sales on that first day eleven dollars and six cents. Now, when Grover Cleveland was the governor in 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, so they had to have all kinds of fundraisers and they had. Yeah, they basically had to pay for the pedestal through private funds. In eighteen eighty six, Grover Cleveland was now the President of the United States, and he was all happy about the opening of the Statue of Liberty, like he actually did something for it. But he did dedicate the Statue of Liberty when it opened. Today, now New York City, they really celebrated that opening of that staff. Yeah, they held the first tick or tape parade yesterday. In nineteen nineteen, President Woodrow Wilson he vetoed the Votestead Act, that meaning that there was no prohibition of alcohol. But today at Congress they overwrote his veto, so prohibition was back on dumbasses all right.

3:16 During the Cuban Missile Crisis in nineteen sixty two, the Soviet Unions Nikita kris Chef, he announced that the Soviet Union would disassemble their missile bases that they had put in Cuba. But to say face, the United States said had to say that they did a bunch of stuff that really didn't matter. Now, don't you kind of wish our leaders would do this. Everybody knows how politically crack and woke college and universities are. Well get this. In nineteen ninety three in the country at Columbia, the Colombian president, he was given a speech at Columbia National University at Columbus largest school. Well, the students, they kept interrupting him, so finally he just stopped his speech, turned around and moaned them all, I'd take that back. I don't want to see any politicians, buts got Cooke goat show this shib day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We gonna simple carge he left this Shibbs day. And you know we don't get both, because that's worth Daniel.

4:12 All right, let's see what's born in October the twenty eighth. And 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. Here's up your bowl and playing fiddle hard because hailsbro Blues in Georgia and the devil deals the cards. And if you and you get this shining did little lad of the Gold. But if you Lose The Devil Gets Your Soul. Country singer Charlie Daniels was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in nineteen thirty six, known for that country and crossover hit The Devil Went Down to Georgia. Now Charlie He was actually part of the Charlie Daniels Band. He actually wasn't a solo arbanst. He started that band in nineteen seventy.

4:53 Before then, he had been playing fiddle professionally ever since the late nineteen fifties. Some of Charlie daniels bands Biggest Head, long Haired country Cowboy in America, Drinking My Baby, Goodbye Simple Man. Charlie got married nineteen sixty four and they had a son. He died from a stroke in twenty twenty at eighty three years old. Played fiddle almost right up until the very end. Actor Dennis Franz He's seventy nine. He was born in Maywood, Illinois, in nineteen forty four. Hit big starring on the TV show NYPD Blue. He was on Hill Street Blues before that. His biggest movie was Die Hard Too. He was also in Dressed to Kill Pop Eye Body Double. He got married nineteen ninety five three times on the ceiling and he he's The answer is oh last weekness means you meet me in the hall. That was Tony Orlando and Don now Don. It was actually Joyce Wilson and Teloma Hopkins.

5:59 Tell me. She was born in Louisville, Kentucky, in nineteen forty eight. She's seventy five now. They had been doing They had their own variety show in the mid nineteen seventies. They were so big. They had sixteen top forty hits. They had the number one songs, Ty Yellow Ribbon, Around the Old Oak Tree, Knock three times, he Don't Love You Like I Love You. Then they went their separate berets in nineteen seventy seven. So she didn't quit her she didn't keep singing. No, she decided to switch into acting. She was on the sitcoms Give Me a Break, What was It? Family Matters. She's been on something called Family Reunion since twenty nineteen. Now. They have come back and forth and done some other reunion concerts over the year. They've actually been back together since twenty eighteen. The only break was when Telma went and did the movie Matrix Resurrection. She was married for seven years in the nineteen seventies and has a son from it.

6:46 Actress Annie Potts. She's seventy one. She was born in Nashville, tennef c. In nineteen fifty two TV, she starred on Designing Women, Then she played Mema. Yeah. She's been playing Mema on Young Sheldon since twenty seventeen. Of her movie is were Corvette, Summer, Pretty in Pink, The Ghostbuster Movies, Boys Bo Peep, and The Toy Story Movies. She had one son from her third husband. She married a fourth husband in nineteen ninety and they have two sons. Actress Daphne's Aninga. She was born in nineteen sixty two in San Francisco, sixty one year old. She started off doing slasher flicks. Yeah. The first two movies were The Dorm That Dripped Blood and The Initiation. Then her third movie is a big one, she Hitting The Sure Thing, Spaceballs, The Fight to Ghosts Anatomy. On TV, she's best known for playing Joe and Melrose Place. She finally settled down and got married in twenty nineteen. Actress Lauren Hawley. She's six day.

7:35 She was born in Bristol, Pennsylvania, in nineteen sixty three. Started out on the daytime soap opera All My Children. Then he had on the primetime in Pickup Fences. She did three years on NCIS after that. Some of her movies The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, Dumb and Dumber, Any Given Sunday, What Women Want? She has three times divorced. Her second husband was Jim Carrey for one year. Then she had three children from her third husband. I think they're there together like thirteen. Actress Julie Roberts is fifty six. She was born in nineteen sixty seven and shmer My Georgia. She was nominated for Oscars for Still Magnolia's Pretty Woman in August in Osage County. She did win an Oscar for Aaron Brockowitz. Her first movie Satisfaction, back in nineteen eighty eight. It was an all girl band movie. Now her movies, they've made four billion dollars. Her first husband was country singer Love Love It. She married her second husband in two thousand and two and they have three kids. And yes Eric brother Eric Rodgers, that is her older brother.

8:31 Like I like to kiss you way back in, I like to walk you through Wow, I'd like to check you. Country singer Brad Paisley was born in Glendale, West Virginia, in nineteen seventy two, fifty one year. He's released twelve albums. Since he started in nineteen ninety eight, he's had forty six is going to the top twenty twenty one of them hit number one. Some of those are that fishing song, I'm Gonna miss You, Mud on the Tires, Letter to Me Waiting on a Woman Brad. He's doing a tour of Europe in February and March. Don't know anything about when he's doing the United States. He married actress Kimberly Williams in two thousand and three and they have two boys. Actor jok in Phoenix. He is forty nine. He's born in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in nineteen seventy four.

9:24 His acting brother and sisters are River, Rain, Liberty and Summer Phoenix Joking. He first got known as a kid in the movie Space Camp. Then he grew up and did Gladiator, walked the Line, won an Oscar for the Joker. He has a son from his fiance. They've been engaged since twenty sixteen. They named the boy River after Joking his late brother actor River Phoenix, actor Nolan Guild. He's twenty five. He was born in nineteen ninety eight in New York City. Most known for playing Luke Dumpy on the TV show Modern Family. Now he's actually a member of MENSA. You know that brainiac society. So I guess he had no excuse for not re remember in his lines, Nolan, he has an IQ of one fifty. All right, today, stupid fact toud lit win you beer, candy corn.

10:07 It was originally called chicken feed. Well, thanks for being here. Don't forget about our companion podcast of this. Let's win you beer. Find that entertaining. It's everywhere that you'll hear this show. Let's end today with the former First Lady Abigail Adams. She was married to the second President of the United States, John Adams. Abigail died in eighteen eighteen. Is seventy three years old. Great actions call for great virtues. You have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No