Sept 2-Labor Day, Lili' uakalani, Mrs. Puff, Mark Harmon, Keanu Revves, Salma Hayek, London fire of 1666, 1st ATM

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factor. It's about today, visn't about cool meeting this September the second, Oh, this is. All the one we wine, the hammer, driving home and nail, all the one day time, the counter ringing out the same, all the one way, fine, the fire, wa range, the labor for everyone who works behind see. Today is Labor Day. Summer. It may have twenty one more days left on the calendar, but most of us consider Labor Day the unofficial end of summer. Hope you had fun. The first unofficial Labor Day took place in eighteen eighty two. Eighteen ninety four became a national holiday. Now we celebrate it the first week of September, so does Canada most of the countries in the world, though they separate Labor Day the first week of May. So enjoy here three day weekend and have a great fall. All right, this is going on and entertainment non steptem and the second let's back there.

1:12 In nineteen ninety two number one album was Some Gave All by Billy Ray Cyrus. Boys to Men had the number one song with end of the Road. Fins Gil You had the number one country song with I still believe in you. Will so strong true.

2:06 The number one book was Gerld's Game by Stephen King. Top movie was Honeymoon in Vegas, Jack and Betsy. They could have last Vegas to get married. Jack, you lose the sixty five grand and Boker. Now the guy will forgives Jad Jack sixty five grand dead if he can spend the weekend with Betsy. Stars James Kahn, Nicholas Cage and Sana or Jessica Parker. All right, what happened on September the second, sixteen sixty six, The Great Fire of London happened Thomas Fargner. He was a baker. Now he's supplied bread to the Royal Navy and he baked personally for King Charles. The second well, his house with a bakery attached, was on Putting Lane over in London. One night, is of it? Well? His other one was always the state burning. You know it made a lot easier in the morning to start the day. Well, it shots and sparks out and caught his whole house on fire.

2:52 The family they. Were getting able to escape the upstairs out of a window. The mate she was downstairs, Yeah, she didn't make it. Now the fire. It quickly spread to his neighbor's houses and fire ended up burning for four days. Eighty percent of London was burned to the ground. Seventy thousand of eighty thousand people who lived there Nip were left homeless. Surprisingly, only six people died, and that include the fire news made. Now medieval London it was no more. Well, it turns out that was a good thing. See medieval London. It was a crap hole. It was absolutely gross, disgusting and filthy. The river, the runs there it Yeah, it was just nothing but ross sewage. The streets are just covered in trash and animal poop. But it all burned up. Yeah, so they could all start over again. Now with everything burned, the river was actually cleaner than they had been in over one hundred years. They redesigned the whole city. When they rebuilt it, it had fire brakes in the system to remove waste and excrement and all that kind of stuff. Now, outside of the six people, after the night, London it became better than it ever been before.

3:49 You know. Let's stay in Great Britain seventeen fifty two. All of Great Britain, even in its territories, the colonies here in America, everything that belonged to Great Britain went from the Julian calendar to the Gregarian calendar, so they had to skip eleven days. So tomorrow it'll actually be September fourteenth, and then New Year's Day it'll actually be on January first instead of March twenty fifth. Now that created riots. All over the British Empire, from London, all over England, here in America, the Caribbean Islands, people were all pissed. They believed that the British government stole eleven days from their lives. Yes, the world still uses the Gregarian calendar. Eighteen oh seven, as Francis Napoleon was raising hell all over Europe, Denmark they were preparing to surrender to him.

4:34 Then all of a sudden the British Navy showed up in Copenhagen. Well, the Danes they were estatic. They thought, wow, Britain has actually come to save them. Then the British warships they let loose with all their cannons, firebombs, foster bombs, sank the whole Denmark, entire navy. England they didn't want in Poland get all those navy ships. Nineteen oh one. Theodore Roosevelt. He's given a speech. It was all about having a strong foreign policy. He said his famous quote in there speaks softly and carry a big stick. I think you know. They always didn't name hurricanes, like in nineteen thirty five, they simply named a hurricane the Labor Day Hurricane. See, it made landfall in Florida day as a category five. It is still the strongest and most intense hurricane ever to make landfall in the United States. Now, it really didn't hit a very populated area, but it's still killed four than thirty two people. Hurricanes, No, hurricanes has been stronger since nineteen forty four. Future President George H. W. Bush, the Dad. He was a Navy pilot. He had to parachute out of his plane.

5:30 Today. Yeah, got shot all up and caught fire over the Pacific Ocean when he's on a bombing run during World War Two. Now, after floating in the water for four hours, he was rescued by the U. S submarine the USS Finback. Now, George, he was just fine, but he didn't stay on the finback form a whole month before they could get him back to his ship. Nineteen forty five, aboard the battleship the USS Missouri, Japan officially signed their surrender papers YEP. That officially ended World War Two. Same day, over in Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh he declared Vietnam's inn from France. Ah, we know how that turns out. In nineteen sixty nine, the first ATM machine started dispensing cash to customers of a chemical bank in Rockville Center, New York. ATM it just stands for automatic Teller machine.

6:14 In Egypt, in twenty twelve, they ended the law that required female TV reporters to wear veils. I know there's a bunch of jokes there. Cope Cope coat sharge this shiver day. We're gonna pause. He left this shuverday. We want simple car like this shub day. And you know we don't do because oh okay, let's check out us. Born on September the second. No cannyug.

7:00 That was Tia Carrera singing the song A Lot Hot Way. It was the song. It was written by Lily Ukilani. She was the last Queen of Hawaii. She wrote it while she was being held in prison. She was overthrown in eighteen ninety three. The Coud overthir Yeah, I was led by the United States. Now, once she was out of the way of the United States, they were quickly able to annex Hawaii and make it a territory of its own. She was in prison for eight months, then she was given a full pardon as a regular citizen. Yep, no monarchy, privileges or nothing. She was born in Honolulu in eighteen thirty eight. Now she only regained from or from queen. Yeah, she only was in charge from eighteen ninety one eighteen ninety three. See, your brother had been king, but he died unexpectantly, so yeah, she had to take over for him. And that's from the United States. Yep, they decided to make their move Lily Yukulani. She did marry a white guy from the mainland in eighteen sixty two. He died in eighteen ninety one.

7:51 She died from just overall bad health in nineteen seventeen at seventy nine years old. Now, after she was overthrown, she did take the United States the court for taking all of her land. She received one and fifty dollars a month lifetime pensing. It's about forty grand and nowadays Rick Laus he was the lead singer for the group The Silhouettes. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen thirty three. Now that song get a Job. It was their biggest hit.

8:31 They performed from nineteen fifty six to nineteen sixty eight. They got back together and performed on the OLDI Circuit Wreck in the nineteen eighties and nineties. Ricky died in two thousand and five at seventy one years old. Actress Mary Joe Catlit She's eighty six. She was born in Denver, Colorado, in nineteen thirty eight. She's most known for voicing Missus Puff on Spongebox SquarePants. She's done that since nineteen ninety nine. She voiced on The Smurfs from nineteen eighty one to nineteen eighty nine. She was actually on the TV show Different Strokes from eighty two to eighty six. Some movie shoer was in were Semi Tough, Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and Let's beat Cops. You gotta half something.

9:16 Being from nothing nothing, you gotta half. Hum there, you won't be me. That was Billy Preston. He was born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen forty six. In the nineteen sixties, Billy. He was the top recording studio keyboard player that there was. He played on albums from everybody from the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Little Richard, Everly Brothers, you name him. He probably played keyboard on one of their albums. Now he had a little success as a solo artists in the nineteen seventies. He had They had nothing from Nothing stretton fancy lady. Now. The only person in the music industry that Billy told that he was gay was Keith Richards. You have from the Rolling Stones. Probably figured that Keith would remember it in no way. Well, Keith remember it, and he actually didn't tell anyone Billy. He had come out as a as gay a couple of years before. He died in two thousand and six and fifty nine years old from kidney failure. Actor Mark Harmon He's seventy three. He was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen fifty one. In college, he was a starting quarterback at UCLA for two seasons, graduated cum laude, and then went into acting. First got done on the TV series Saint Elsewhere, then Chicago ho then NCIS. He's on NCS from twenty three. At twenty one some of Marx movie is where a summer school wietar Freaky Friday. You know they actually just got done and film in another Freaky Friday. It'll be out next year. Yeah, that's got Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis and him all in it. Mark and actress Pam Dowber married nineteen eighty seven.

10:38 They have two sons. Mark's dad he was a really famous sports broadcaster named Tom Harmon Tomm. He actually won a Heisman Trophy in nineteen forty one. Actor Keanu Ray is a sixty today born in Broot, Lebanon in nineteen sixty four. Grew up in Canada. He first hit playing Ted and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventures made over seventy movies since they've made almost five billion dollars. Now. He has one of the most. Private, reclusive celebrities that the air is. He shocked everybody in twenty nineteen he let it out that he had a girlfriend and they've been together since two thousand and nine. Fifty eight year old actress Alma Hyak. She was born in Gotzacolcoa in Mexico in nineteen sixty six. She started out acting in Mexico and she got really famous note starting in at TeleNova. Then she came to the United States in nineteen ninety five head in the movie A Desperto Then from Dusk Still Dawn when Fulls Rush in Wild Wild West, she was nom an a for an oscar for her freedom Saama. She got married in two thousand and nine, so actually she does go by Samahayak Panulta and they have one daughter.

11:38 You know what. Let's talk some more about ATM machines. In twenty nineteen there were four hundred and seventy thousand ATM machines in the United States. That's the most of all time. Gone down every year since a lot too See, people just aren't using cash anymore, and every year gets less and lesson. It's gonna go like that for a long time. Well, thank you for listening. I hope you had a great three day holiday weekend. Don't forget to fo. Heow us on towever you follow us on and come see us at Comedia dot com. Cool with three us. Let's end with Rider j R. Token Yeah, the Lord of the Rings guy. He died today in nineteen seventy three, at eighty one years Old Jr. Says shortcuts they make long delays. Well, you guys have yourselves an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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