April 14th-Ex-Spouse Day, Lincoln shot, Loretta Lynn, Brad Garrett, Adrien Brody, Sara Michelle Gellar

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today's April the fourteenth show. Lostings. It is National xpouse Day. Now, I'm not over half of you out there. Yeah, I have one of those running around out there. Just got to keep that gate closed so they can't get back in. Now. Today is to encourage those who have gone through it of ours to forgive their X and move on. Now. It might not seem like it, but given someone it's for you, it's not for them. Forgiveness it's the only way to get past the anger of bitter miss that you might have towards them. Yeah, and if you do, that'll hold you back later on in life. Just moving forward, Yeah, that's easier said than done. Just realize your ex is your ex and your life it's ahead of you. That's all ahead of you now. If it helps. They came up with a mantra for today. It says, I'm good your history. I'm living my life with someone better. I put that last part in now, truly make an effort today to try and get over your ex wife, our ex husband, and just say good riddance and enjoy your life from now on. I think they have xpouse day of the one day before your income taxes due for any particular reason. All right, what was going on entertainment on nine Pril fourteenth. Let's go back to nineteen eighty six.

1:42 Number one album was Whitney Houston by Whitney Houston. Falco had the number one song with Rockney Amadas. To You, because. Ricky Skaggs had the number one country song with Cajun Moon. That's why, just.

2:28 To Eleving shut on me. The number one book was The Born Supremacy by Robert Ludlam. The top movie was The Money Pit. Now Tom Hanks and Chili Long they buy a really crappy house and they're gonna have a great time well fixing it up, and it doesn't go so well. All right, let's see what happened in the world. On April the fourteenth, eighteen twenty eight, the first American Dictionary was published by Noah Webster. You called that the American Dictionary of the English Language. Now you might have not notice this, but see we talk a little different than they do over in England. Yeah, but we still used Webster's English Dictionary today. Yeah, no one looks at the book though, I don't even know after people could look it up. Yeah, just go online that original dictionary seventy thousand words. The dictionary that came out this year, four hundred and seventy thousand words. Now, don't you hate it though, when you go into spell check and you type into words so bad that he doesn't even know what you're trying to spell. Eighteen sixty five, President Nave Lincoln was shot by John Wiggs Booth while he was watching a play at the Fourth Theater. Lincoln, He's gonna die tomorrow. United States Secretary of State William Seaward. Yeah, he was attacked by some of Brute's conspirators also, but he lived. Eighteen ninety six, Battle Creek, Michigan. Doctor James Kellogg he patented machine for making flake cereal and for actually flake cereal. Well, he made this really crappy healthy cereal stuff. His brother Will Kellogg, he said, screw that.

3:51 He started making corn flicks. Nineteen oh two, the first DC penny store opened up. That was in kemera or Wyoming. Still there, so if you're passing through, yeah, stop and see some history. And they turned Tar Party into a museum Kemer. If you're not sure, it's between Diamondville and Frontier, that's in the southwest part of the state. Nineteen ten, President William Howard Taft, he started the tradition of the president throwing out the first pitch on opening day of the baseball season. Every president after him, they followed that tradition well until Biden and Trump. But you know they probably they are the oldest presidents we've ever had, so yeah, who knows, they might have seen Taft throw that first pitch. Nineteen twelve, at eleven thirty seven pm, the unsinkable ship the Titanic hit an Iceberg. I guess we'll have to wait till tomorrow and see how it turns out. Nineteen thirty five, known as Black Sunday, one of the worst dust storms in the United States history hit the Great Plains, I mean eastern or Colorado and southern Kansas they got it bad. But Oklahoma and the Texas Panadel they just got crushed by now after us all over, that whole area was called the dust Bowl. Four years later, to the day, John Steinbeck's book The Grapes of Wrath it was released. It pretty much detailed the tragedy and the mass exodus of that entire area nineteen sixty Barry Gordy you foind Moretown Motown Records, Georgia. In nineteen sixty five, Stone Mountain opened up. It's the largest released sculpture in the world that features Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson all riding their horses. Started making it back in nineteen fourteen. But the original sculptor he actually left in the nineteen twenties. Yeah, he's the guy who did Mount Rushmore. Now Stone down. It is actually larger and

5:24 carved area than Mount Rushmore. But if you ever said, yeah, it's kind of hard to see what the hell it is. Stop dooked, go doked, dope show thish shibt day. We're gonna page he left this shiver day. We got simple caage like this shibirf Day. And you know we don't give up the birthday. Okay. It was born on are for the fourteenth actor John Gilgad. He was born in South Kingston, England in nineteen oh four, performed in there from nineteen twenty one to nineteen ninety what every acting award there was. He is considered the greatest Hamlet of all time. So he's got that he didn't win an oscar for when Butler in the movie Arthur. He died in two thousand from natural causes, ninety six years old. Actor Rod Steiger. He was born in West Hampton, New York in nineteen twenty five.

6:09 He played a lot of really weird, crazy, violent type guy. He went an oscar for Heat of the Night. You probably remember him from Crazy in Alabama or The Hurricane. He had a daughter from a second wife, a son from his fourth wife, been married to his fifth wife for two years when he died from pneumonia in two thousand and two at seventy seven years old. Laying I'm something. One that was country legend Loretta Lynne. She was born in Butcher Hollow, Kentucky, in nineteen thirty two. She was the second oldest of eight kids. Now the youngest of those kids. A singer at Crystal Gale, Yeah there was.

7:00 Crystal is nineteen years younger than Loretta. Now pretty much Loretta Lane. You want to see her story, just see the movie Cole Miner's Daughter. That pretty much details her whole life. Now. Some of her classic songs are you Ain't woman enough to take My Man, Don't come home from drinking with Loving on your Mind. Cole Miner's daughter stand By Your Man, Loretta. She married when she was sixteen years old. By the time she was twenty, they had three kids. She ended up with six kids. She stood by her Man. They were married from nineteen forty eight until he died in nineteen ninety six. The Loretta she died in her sleep in twenty twenty two. Ninety years old. Comedian actor Brad Garrett sixty six. He's born in Oxnard, California, in nineteen sixty. Now he was doing his stand up back in nineteen eighty four. He was the first grand champion of the TV show Star Search. Yeah, he's only twenty three years old now he is still a great stand up comedian.

7:48 Not only is he funny, but he can do some pretty awesome impression. Still in Las Vegas at the MGM, he has his own comedy club in there. He has called Brad Garrett's Comedy Club. Now he performs there, of course, but he also has hop stand up comedians could come and performed there also. Then there's a lounge and they play like gold jazz and stuff. It's pretty cool. If you get a chance to swing by the MDN. As an actor. He's probably best know i'fin playing Robert on Everybody Loves Riemon. Then he did What Till Death and then single Parents or something like that. Braddy had a son and a daughter from his first wife. He married his second wife in twenty twenty one. If you've ever wondered, Braddy has six feet eight inches tall. Actor Anthony Michael Hall's fifty eight. He's born in Boston in nineteen sixty eight. Started acting when he was eight. We first got to know him and the He was Rusty Griswold in That National Lampoon's Vacation, then sixteen Gandals, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Edward Scissors in Yeah, This is pretty cool. He has it's called the Anthony Michael Hall Literacy Club. He services right risk kids with their reading. He got married in twenty twenty and they have a son. Actor Adrian Brodie.

8:50 He was born in Queens, New York in nineteen seventy three fifty three today. He first hit in the movie The Thin Red Line. Now Adrian, he got second billing on that. Yeah, the big star of the show with Sean Penn. But look at some of the other people that were in that movie. Jim Caviezel, George Clooney, John Cusack, Woody Harrelson, Jared Leto, Nick Nolty, John c Riley, and John Travolta eat Big Name Adrian. He's won two Oscars, first for The Pianist and then The Brutalist. That was just last year now when he won his Oscar for the Pianis He is twenty nine years old. That is the youngest any actor has been to win Best Actor Oscar. And Nope, he hasn't married yet, but he has gotten in finally in himself in a serious relationship for the last four years. Actress Sarah Michelle Geller's forty nine. He was born in New York City in nineteen seventy seven.

9:37 She was on the daytime soap oper All My Children as a teenager for a couple of years. She ain't really big and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Some of her movie is I Know what You did last Summer? You know, it kind of sucks that they kill you in the original because you can't do any of the sequels. She was also in Cruel Intentions. She was daphing in a couple of the Scooby Doo movies, so she met her husband. She married actor Freddy Prince in two thousand and two and they have one son and one daughter. All Right, for our quote today, we're gonna go with Burl Ives. Christmas. It's the best time all over here. I don't know if there will. Have a puppets here.

10:19 Christmas. Burl. He died today in nineteen seventy five, at eighty five years old. Burl said, if you set goals and dreams, you never feel old. Well, thank you, bro, Thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on who you listen to us? Huh? Remember everyone to hear the best independent country music. Yeah, check out country nderground radio. It's everywhere now our country underground radio artists. Today, we're gonna go with Page Retlegge. I'm gonna play hers on break Up Roofs. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I don't ask. Don't ask my mom. We don't say name out out anymore because she knows you did hit me wrong.

11:01 No happy birthday. We just stop talking to my friends. The Browne's. How hard love you reaching out just to ask them how happened? I know, you'll say that you're just check in, but you don't get call me, baby. Pina crying round the phone. He went in late, and I get drunk and high and feel it a little lonely. I'm a baby. You won me. I'm already little bit on And then if you're come, you don't tell me. And he's on break gun and