Oct 30-Candy Corn, Grace Slick, Henry Winkler, The Temptations, T. Graham Brown, Kevin Pollak, Bush

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It is about today. Today's October the thirtieth. Cons yellow orange whites. Can anybody just treats me? Rice Jilly Cover yellow orange white, just walz. Today is National candy Corn to day. Now. I like the ones that come in the bags with the little pumpkins in it. Now. George Rdenawer he created candy corn in Philly in the late eighteen hundreds. A candy corn. It is made from sugar corn syrup, marshmallow syrup and carubo wax. Obviously it's not healthy for you at all. I chucked skittles is actually less healthy than candy corn. You can have fun with candy corn, especially with your kids. You can put them on cookies and cupcakes and all that kind of stuff.

1:12 So what you do today is eat some candy corn. They eat the good stuff tomorrow, all right? This he's going on In entertainment October thirtieth. Let's back to two thousand and two Number one Elva. The album was Elvis thirty number one hits by Elvis, Presley, Nelly and Kelly Rowland had the number one song with Dilemma Till Me was it. Going to be? She said, you don't know what. You Keith Urban had. The number one country song was something like You.

1:53 There's a. Lack of never No, I'm breathing he Brew. Then I've ever heard them and sure feels good. The filing Few Way new, I won't. Love somebot It love song bad. I Like You. The number one book was Qs for Corey by Sue Grafton Todd. Movie was Santa Claus two Santa He Has to Find a Missus. Santa stars Tim Allen, Elizabeth Mitchell, David Crumholtz, and Jege Reynolds. All right, let's see what happened on October the thirtieth, eighteen sixty four. Helena, Montana was for him. Yeah, it's a slow day, Helena. It's the capital of Montana. It's got a population about thirty two thousand people, has a semi arid climate. Eighteen sixty six, Jesse James and his gang they robbed a bank in Lexington, Missouri.

2:48 Got away with two grand. That'd be about forty one thousand dollars today. Now The Greatest Show on Earth P. T. Barnum Circus AD debuted in New York City today. In eighteen seventy three. Now Barnum he had had this it's really weird Macob Museum out there in New York. So it's about nine eighteen forty one, all kinds of freak shows and really weird stuff. You had to take it down the road. You have then me see him burn down. Nineteen forty five the gun in the United States government started. They ended shoe rationing. That's right. See up till then civilians they could only have two pairs of shoes a year. Yeah, the leather and rubber they were needed for the war. So how would you know, Well, like all the rashing that was taking place, you got these little bucks and they had stamps in it, and you couldn't go buy a pair of shoes with if you didn't have one in the stamps. So like if you had a family of four, you'd have eight stamps. So your kids who were actually growing through their shoes, Yeah, the parents would have to give the kids basically one of their stamps to get a bigger size of their shoe. Back in nineteen twenty four, Clarens Bird's Eye, he came up with the idea and he patented freezing food. Problem was, no one had any freezers back then. Nineteen fifty two, Bird's Eye.

3:52 So this first frozen food. Yeah, so the first frozen peas. Nineteen sixty one, the Soviet Union detonated zar Bamba. It was a fifty eight megaton hydrogen bomb. It's still the most powerful nuclear bomb ever. After that, all the scientists kind of, we don't need to go any bigger than that. Nineteen seventy three, the Bosphorus Bridge you'd opened up, and it's in Bold, Turkey. See half of Istanbul it's in Asia and the other half of Istanbul is in Europe. It's separated by the Bosphorus River. Now, this was the first time that the two sides of Istanbul had been connected since the Pontoon Bridge ran across the river in four sixty BC. Joke, joke, joked, joke, shug this Shibbert day, Wenna, he left this shiverfday.

4:38 We got simple tage. He left this shibirf day. And you don't. Okay. He was born on October the thirtieth. John Adams. He was born in Braintree, Massachusetts, in seventeen thirty five. Now his second cousin, Samuel Adams, he's the one who was raising hell with the suns of liberty. You have to starting that whole US independence movement. John on there. Then he took the diplomatic approa she was behind the scenes guy. He was a lawyer and administrator and all that stuff. Got didn't be the first vice president though, then the second US president, Serre from seventeen ninety seven to eighteen oh one. He married Abigail in seventeen sixty five and they had six kids. His oldest son, John Quincy Adams, was the sixth President the United States. Now John Adams and Thomas Jefferson they hated each other. They couldn't even in the same room together. Then over the years, as they got older, they became kind of cordial. Eventually they became very good friends. Then on July fourth and eighteen twenty six, on the fiftieth anniversary, that's signing the Declaration of Independence. John he died at ninety years old, just a couple hours before Jefferson did. Actress Ruth Gordon.

5:38 She was born in Quincy, Massachusetts, in eighteen ninety six. Most of us all probably know her best for the Clint Eastwood movies any which way, but loose in any which way you can. Yeah, that's kind of our generations were younger. But she had a really big acting career before that. She was on Broadway when she was only nineteen years old. She went an Oscar for the movie Rosemary's Baby. She was nominated for three Oscars for writing. Now she had a son from a boyfriend. She married her second husband in nineteen forty two. There together to Root die from a stroke nineteen eighty five, at eighty eight years old. I wanna be a Coliborn. I wanna learn old man ride. I wanna ride all the planes. Rember never Im went on the Way Divine.

6:25 That was Patsy Montana Now. That song I Want to be a Cowboys Sweetheart. It was the first country song, that's for It was the first country song that was sung by a woman to sell a million records. Nineteen thirty six. Patsy Now she'd gone to college the UCLA to study violin. While she was there, she entered a talent contest she won for Jodlin. So she ditched the violin and went into country music. Now, she pretty much retired in the nineteen fifties. She's this wife and a mom and that kind of stuff. But she did release one more album in nineteen sixty four. She had this young guy played guitar for her on the album. It was the first time that Waylan Jennings ever got paid for music. Patsy she was born in Badre, Arkansas, in nineteen oh eight. She married nineteen thirty four. They had teach other. She died in nineteen ninety six at eighty seven years old.

7:10 Two two. That was Gray Slick singing for Jefferson Airplane. Grace, She's eighty six. She was born in Highland Park, Illinois, in nineteen thirty nine. Now she's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Jefferson Airplane. Now not Jefferson's Starship or Starship, Nope, They're not in there, just Jefferson Airplane. She half formed Jefferson Airplane in nineteen sixty five. They had The Big White Rabbit and Somebody to Love. Broke up in nineteen seventy three. In nineteen seventy four are Grace and most of the guys they all got back together and wanted to go back together. Legal reasons they couldn't use Jefferson Airplane though, so Jefferson's Starship. It was then in the nineteen eighties, just starship Grace. She retired nineteen nine. She's been selling her art ever since. About I guess our painting's really hit in nineteen ninety five somewhere around there. Yeah, she paints.

8:07 Now. She was married for ten years. Then after they divorced, she decides she will to have a daughter, so she had one with Paul Kentner, he was in Jefferson Airplanes. Then she married another guy for eighteen years after that. Now great. She had a lot, a lot of trouble with drugs and now call over there, and she couldn't quit no matter how hard she tried. Finally in the nineties she went to rehab with her daughter. Well, it sounds like it work. They're both still alive and they're both out of jail. It's on the fun tell me. Henry Winkler is eighty years old. Henry was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty five. He got famous as the Fawns or Arthur Fawns are really if you prefer, on the TV show Happy Days. He's done a lot of acting. First got known in the movie The Lord's of Flatbush. That was with Sylvester Stallone. His best movie is night Shift. I know you younger generation are going to go with water Boy. No, it's night shift now. Besides directing and producing, he's also written twelve books. He married nineteen seventy eight and they have a son in a daughter.

9:02 Everyone and they kill me. Ever, that was Otis Wilson. It was Wolfson. That was Otis Williams singing for the Temptations now. He is the only original Temptation that's still alive. Yep, he's actually out in tour with the guys are from the Temptations now. Now, I don't know how old the guys who are filling in for the Temptations are Otis. He's eighty four. He was born in Texarkada, Texas, in nineteen forty and he grew up in Detroit. Helped form the Temptations in nineteen sixty.

9:43 Since he's the only one still alive, he owns the name, the Temptations and all that royalties, So I guess, yeah, everybody, it's all used. Notice he's sing the baritone, so he almost always sang backup. He only sang lee like on that one sign played and that was about it. He had a son from his first wife and then he divorced two more women after that. Actor Harry Hamlin. He's seventy four. He was born in Pasadena, California, in nineteen fifty one. Now he found fame in the movie The Clash of the Titans, but he's best known for tv LA Love Ronica Mars Madman. He dated actress Ursula Andrews for four years and they had a son. His second wife was actress Nicole Sheridan. They were married for a year and he married his third wife in nineteen ninety seven and they have two daughters.

10:39 I'll You. For You country singer t Graham Brown. He was born at Ribi, Georgia, in nineteen fifty four. He's seventy one today. The tea is Stansored Tony. His first name is actually Anthony. Some of it is It's our come Hell or high Water. Don't go to strangers, Darling, if you could see me now. Now he is a king of advertising jingles since nineteen eighty two. These are only a few of the companies that he's saying jingles for McDonald's, Budweiser, Taco Bell, Coca Cola, KFC, dodged Ford, Mountain Deuke. It's a long list. He's been Mary since nineteen eighty and they have one son, actor comedian Kevin Pollock. He was born in San Francisco in nineteen fifty seven. Sixty eight year old is was a very successful stand up comedian. They started doing this tend up when he's only ten years old. You haven't seen Kevin.

11:29 He does really good impersonations. He doesn't everything from Woody Allen to al Pacino, from Sylvester ster Loon to Arnold Schwarzenegro. Yeah, he still got those tours and all kind of stuff. You wanted to catch his show. He's pretty good. Been in over eighty movies. Some of them are a few Good Men, the Grumpy Old Men movies, The Whole nine Yards, Whole ten Yards, the usual Suspect Kevin. He was married to comedian Lucy Webb for almost fifteen years. To.

12:12 Gavin Rossdale. He's the lead singer for the band Bush. Gaviny's sixty is born in marily Bone, England in nineteen sixty five. Helped co found Bush in nineteen ninety two. Now their original name, Yeah, they were the baby animals that changed it to Bush. It was from the town they lived in. It was called Shepherd's Bush English little things come down glycerin the chemicals between us some of the bush hits. Gaviny had a daughter from a flag. Then he married singer Gwenn Stefani for thirteen years and they had three sons. All right here Court of the Day. It comes from Steve Allen. He died it in two thousand and seventy eight years old. Steve says, one of the nice things about problems, many of them do not exist accepting our own imaginations. Well, thank you for listening today.

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