9/11-The Pentagon, Styx, Harry Connick jr, Taraji P. Hansen, Ludacris, Lady A, Ford Pinto, Atari, Hideki Tojo

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today visited by Cool Media Day, September the eleventh. Have you forgot? I was felt that day to see your home land under by O our people all away. Have you forgot when those towers failed? We have neighbor still inside going through living heil. Today is the twenty third anniversary of the nine to eleven terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon and the Flight ninety three in Pennsylvania. Now, not because we don't care, we do a lot, but our thoughts and prayers they definitely go out to all those who died, all those who survived, and all those who were affected by the terrorist attacks.

0:58 But since there is so much it's nine to eleven programming and coverage going on today and most of us better than we can do, we're just gonna give you a little break and we're gonna talk about what else happened on September the eleven. So let's start out with entertainment. So it happened on entertainment on September eleventh. Let's start in the year nineteen seventy three number one album was Brothers and Sisters by the Allman Brothers Marvin Gaye had the number one song with Let's get it home, Let's. Get it all, Let's get let's love, Let's kidd it, Let's shore, Let's get it all.

1:40 Conway Twitty had the number one country song with You've never been this far before, and I can feel you fight It trembles as you want what this moment? Old and store bomb Balls. I've putting my arms around you. I can tell You've never been a far before. The number one book was Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart. Top movie was an American graffiti a group of teenagers in nineteen sixty two. There's Been One Last Night after graduating high school, cruising the strip before the other Separate Ways starred Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, and Paulamont all Right. What Happened in the World on September the eleventh. Casimir Pulaski, he was a Polish Army officer, got into a little bit of trouble back in Poland. He got kicked out of the army and told never to come back to Poland.

2:36 So he came to the United States and he joined us to help fight for independence from England. Ended up forming the United States Cavalry. He was made in general. Then today, in seventeen seventy seven, at the Battle of Brandywine in Pennsylvania, the British were just kicking the United States armies, but big time. Everything was lost. Then at the very last second, Pulaski he showed up and was able to grab George Washington and get him out of the battle into safety. Had a lot of people know about the Polish cavalry officer who saved George Washington's life. See, at the time, they didn't let word get out. They were afraid that it might make Washington seem weak. But George, you never forgot about it though. Now nowadays, when you think about the United States President's cabinet, their members, he kind of think of a bunch of just met yes men.

3:17 He'll do whatever the president says, you know, tells him to do. But today, in eighteen forty one, President John Tyler he vetoed a banking bill. His entire cabinet except the Secretary of State resigned in protest. Now Tyler he refused to apologizer and take it back. So the cabinet members there there came back to work. That's why Tyler was a one termer. All right, let's talk car racing. It was nineteen oh three in Wisconsin. The Milwaukee Mile Race Track held his very first race. William Jones won the five mile race. Still racing there today. Yeah, it is the oldest speedway in the world. Nineteen thirty nine the British submarine Triton hit torpedoed and sank the British submarine Oxley where that didn't get out until after World War Two was over. Nineteen forty one. Construction began on the Paun. It was completed in January nineteen forty three.

4:03 That's a lot of work because it's still the world's largest office building. No, not the tallest, the biggest by his square foot was the Japanese Prime Minister for mers to World War Two was a Decki Tojo in nineteen forty five attempted suicide. Yeah, so he wouldn't have to go to trial to face war crimes. See, he was at his house and the United States Army soldiers they had it surrounded and they were trying to figure out how they were supposed to go in and arrest it when they heard a gunshot, so they broke down the front door and ran in and they found him standing in the hallway holding a gun with blood and coming from his chest, and the chest went. He screamed, I am Tojo, and then he collapsed. Oh yes, soldiers. They moved him to a couch. They went and got a doctor. They were able to save his life. Three years, Lady Tojo. He was hung for the war crimes. Now, if you wanted to look really cool in nineteen seventy today, well now you're had your chance today. Today, the FOURT Pinto went on sale. Nineteen seventy seven, the Atari home video game system went on so it revolutionized the home video game industry. Well, it was the whole home video game industry.

5:00 Birmingham meying on in nineteen seventy eight. Janet Parker, she's the last person to die from smallpox. Yeah, she caught it in a lab. Coke coop coop coop coot goat shug. This shivers day, we're gonna pause. He left this shiverday. Were gonna sit ple caage he left this shivers day. And you know we don't get up because that's your birthday. Well, let's check out. It's born on September the eleventh, You are my sun shine, my only sunshine. You make me happy when skies are great. You never know how much I love you. Please don't take my son shine away.

5:45 That was Jimmy Davis. He was born in Jackson, Paris, Louisiana, in eighteen ninety nine. He was governor Louisiana from nineteen forty four to nineteen forty eight, then from nineteen sixty to nineteen sixty four. Seeing Louisiana at that time a governor, they couldn't serve back to back, No, they had to take a break between terms. Now, when Jimmy wasn't governor and he was playing country music, He's even in the Country Music Hall of Fame, had twenty six top ten songs, another four win al wept to number one. Now that song we played, you are on My Sunshine. It is ranked in the top one hundred country songs of all time. Jimmy, he had a son from his first wife. Was she was She was his first lady on both his governor terms and all that, and she died in nineteen sixty seven. Then he married a gospel singer in nineteen sixty nine.

6:25 They were together until Jimmy died in two thy and one hundred and one years old. The Dres. When You Dre, When you Know. The lead singer for the Buckinghams was Dennis Toufono. He's seventy eight. He's born in Chicago, nineteen forty six. Now, the Buckinghams, they were pretty big in the late nineteen sixties. Now everyone in the band was born in the United States. But they named themselves the bucking Aams. That sound British, yeah, because of the British invasion that was taking place over here.

7:06 Some of their head's kind of a drag. You don't care, Mercy, Mercy, mercy, Hey baby, they're playing our song. Broke up in nineteen seventy. They did get back together for some reunion shows tennis, though he's still tours regularly on the oldie circuit, playing solo and with other people. He got married three years ago for the very first time. Actress Amy Madigan. She was born in Chicago in nineteen fifty seventy four. Her biggest movie was she played Kevin Costner's wife in Fill the Dreams. She was nominated for an Oscar for twice in a lifetime. She's also on Streets of Fire. Uncle Buck she's been married. Doctor Ed Harris says nineteen eighty three they have a daughter. Yes, he usually plays guitar, but that was Tommy Shaw singing for Sticks. Tommy is one of Montgomery, Alabama in nineteen fifty three seventy one today. Now, yes, Dennis Young did sing most of Sticks as Big Hats, but Tommy he got to sing lead on Blue Collar Man, Renne Gade Fooling Yourself, Too Much Time on My Hands.

8:17 Now Dennis is gone, but Tommy's still with Sticks. Sticks. They still tour Tommy. He was also in that all star band Damn Yankees, did a couple solo albums on the side. He had a daughter from his second wife, Mert. His third wife from two thousand actors, Virginia Madson. She was born in Chicago in nineteen sixty one. She's sixty three. Her first movie. She had a small part in the movie Class and then Doom Candy Man The rain Maker. She's now I'm named for an Oscar for Sideways. She was in music videos for Kenny Loggins, Depeche Mode, Cheron, Michael Jackson. She had a son from actor Antonio Subato Junior, and then she just got married in twenty twenty former actress Christy McNichols. She was born in nineteen sixty two in Los Angeles, so that makes her sixty two. First got known on the TV show Family. Later on she was on the TV show Emptiness. Her first starring role in a movie was Little Darlings. Then only when I laughed Forgotten one. Now, I guess because she started acting so young as a kid. Yeah, she got burned out really bad. She retired from acting in two thousand and one.

9:14 Even recently she said she has no desire ever to act again. She came out as gay and said that she has actually been with her partner since the nineteen nineties. It had to be you, It had to be. I wandered around and finally found for somebody who couldn't make me be true, couldn't make me be blue. Harry Connick Junior. He's fifty seven. He's born in New Orleans in nineteen sixty seven. Started playing the piano at three years old, started playing in public at five years old.

9:54 At nine years old, he played for the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra. He actually got his big break professionally when Carl Reiner asked him to write and sing the songs for the movie When Harry met Sally that they have those mainstream songs really hit. He had those songs from the movie of that it had to be you. Let's call the whole thing off. I don't get around much anymore. He's had ten number one John's albums. Nobody else has been able to do that. Got quite a bit of acting. Some of his movies were Memphis, Bell, Independence Day, Hope, Floats, all those Dolphin Til movies. He has been married to Jill Goodacre since nineteen ninety four and they have three daughters. Actress Tarja P. Hanson. She was born in nineteen seventy in Washington, d C. She just fifty four today. First hit on the TV show Burst of Interest, and then she had huge on Empire. She was in the movie as the Four Brothers Karate Kid Hidden Figures. She had a son from her high school sweetheart. He got murdered a few years later.

10:46 You know, I got it. If you want to come and get his standing next to his money, like. Shake, shake shake your money, may good like you will shake getting there for something. Hey, your mama nine months to. Good might as swells sake, what's up my Mukyo, You're looking good int them jeans. I bess you look even better with me. And the rapper Ludacris is forty seven. He's born in Champagne, Illinois, in nineteen seventy seven. Started rapping at nine years old. Five of his eight albums have gone to number one. Some of the thirty five songs that have charted stand Up, Moneymaker, Runaway, Love, Move, Bitch how Ye also acts. He played Ted Parker in all those Fast and Furious franchise movies. It's also in the Ride American Hustle on New Year's Eve. He had two daughters from two different girlfriends, and then he got married in twenty fourteen and they have two children.

11:37 No One come, I have a little chunking. June Yes. Along with Hillary Scott, Charles Kelly sings lead for Earth Country Lady A Charles. He's forty three. He's born in Augusta, Georgia, in nineteen eighty one. He Hillary and Dave Haywood. They formed Lady Adam Bellham in two thousand and six. Now I did a political correctness. They've changed Lady A in twenty twenty. They've had twelve number one song some of them. Are I Run to You? Need You Now? Just a kids downtown bartender, Charles. He had pretty good success with a solo album released on the side. He got married in two thousand and nine and they have a son, now Charles. His older brother is a country artist, and that brother he's married to actress Catherine Hagel. All right, let's go back to the Pentagon.

12:32 Nowadays there are seventy elevators in the Pentagon, but until twenty eleven there was only one elevator and only the Secretary of Fence could use it. Well, thank you for listening today. If you can't follow us on whoever you listen to. His son comes here at coolmedia dot com. That's cool Thrills. We are going to end with Sandy Dahl. Her husband, Jason Dahl, was a pilot of the plane that went down in Pennsylvania nine to eleven. Sandy said, if we learn nothing else from this tragedy, let's learn that life is short and there is no time for right. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.