Aug 13-Filet Mignon, Annie Oakley, Alfred Hithcock, Dan Fogelberg, Danny Bonaduce, South Park

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, present, about cool media. It is August the thirteenth. Flemenon. He's so yummy. I like to order it. Wa to go out to eat fleaminon. It's kind of expensive. I cannot always afford it when I. Go out to eat. It is national Filet mignon day filet mignon. It is French for keith filet or dainty filelet. Technically it's called the tenderloin now. If you have a t bone steak, the bigger side that's your New York strip, the smaller piece that's your tenderloin.

0:57 Now. Because of the small amount of fat on the tenderloin, lots of people wrap bacon around it in order to make the bacon fat keep it dry so it won't dry out when you're cooking. Now is the most expensive cut of beef. They're small and really good, so you have to pay for him. The only national deal we could find today was for Omaha Steaks if you want to order it from them, But a lot of your local steakhouses they're having deals today, so you can go out or cook it home and enjoy your own Filet Mignon or You're cute, little fillet? All right? What happened in entertainment on August the thirteenth, Let's go back to your nineteen eighty nine number one album was the Batman movie soundtrack. Richard Marx had the number one song with right here Waiting. I fussy you.

1:39 How can we say for me? Over wherever you go, whatever you doo. Wait for you. The number one country song was Sunday in the South by Shinnandoah. He lives in sweep. I can only steer my mama. Prelorful givers win win now set. In so.

2:19 The top book was Polar Star by Martin Cruz Smith. Top movie was Parented Four kids from the same family now has to try and raise their kids. Stars Steve Martin, Mary Stein Bergin, Murck, Morandis. And a whole bunch more all right? What happened on August the. Thirteenth, fifteen twenty one and teno Chichilan that is Mexico City today, Spanish conquistador hermer Cortez his men were ad with a capsule az Tech emperor kaiwa toomick Now that ended the Aztec Empire as it was yep they did keep him in prison until fifteen twenty five. Then Cortez had him executed, so no rebellion can start. Eighteen eighty nine up in Hartford, Connecticut, William Gray he invented the coin operated telephone. Also in eighteen eighty nine in Illinois, Handsome good Rich he invented the first stove top coffee pot.

3:04 Now it was the first coffee maker that had a percolator. So basically designed that and still use it all today. Nineteen oh seven Harry Allen, he invented the first taxi cabs over to the United States. He had gone from England. He used him in New York City nineteen thirty five in Chicago at their Chicago Collis and they have the world's first roller Derby nineteen forty two, under the direction of US General Leslie Groves, the Manhattan Project began. It's one goal to create an atomic bomb. Now Groves he just oversaw the project. Robert Oppermimer, Yeah, he's the one who really was in charge of making the bomb, especially if you saw the movie. Nineteen sixty one. In the middle of the night, East German soldiers started building the Berlin Wall. See before then it was just a bob wire fence. Nineteen ninety seven, the TV series South Park debut.

3:49 Now they extended it. They wanted to go at least till twenty twenty seven so it can end it in even thirty years. Coch coach Coat show, This shibbirf Day, were gonna pau he left, This shubfday. We gonna sit with Targe. He was like, this shibirth day. And you know we don't get that's the birthday, all right. It was born on August the thirteenth. Wow. Sharp shooter Annie Oakley. She was born in Drake County, Ohio in eighteen sixty. She had to learn how to hunt and shoot at a really young age. Yeah, she had to help put food on the table for an extremely poor family. Then in eighteen seventy five, a professional marksman or a professional shooter. The name was Frank Butler. He came into town. He bet the town one hundred bucks.

4:31 It's about twenty four hundred dollars a day. Yeah, he said he could outshoot anybody in the town. Well, the town they took his bet, and then they went and got fifteen year old and any to shoot for him. Now she outshot that bro the town is pretty happy with their money. Frank, he was so impressed. Yeah, he married Annie. Then they went went on the road yet, putting on exhibitions all across the country. Then they hooked up with Buffalo Bill Cody, and Annie became the star of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Crowds just loved Danny. She could shoot a card sideways, yeah, and cut it right half. She could shoot balloons out of her husband's mouth. People in the crowd would toss dines and she'd shoot him out of the air. And when they were touring Europe, the kais are Germany will on the second he had to shoot a lit cigarette out of his mouth. Chief Fnsley just got bored and retired. Then she was sixty two years old, she decided to put on a shooting demonstration for neighbors. She had one hundred clay pigeons in a row without missing. Yeah, no one's done it since Annie.

5:22 She died from anemia in nineteen twenty six, at sixty six years old. Her husband was so great and so distraught he quit eating. He ended up dying sixteen days later. Actor Burt lar He was born in New York City in eighteen ninety five. Now he is a big star in vaudeville, then on Broadway, but he's best known for playing the cowardly Lion on The Wisdow of Oz. He had one son from his first wife one daughter from his second wife. He died in nineteen sixty seven and seventy two years old from pneumonia. Yeah, it was all he was filming a movie on the set. Any idea who said television has brought murder back into people's homes where it belongs, that'd be the master of suspense. Alfred Hitchcock. He was born at Leyton's, England, in eighteen ninety nine. Hitchcock was not only one of the most famous but one of the most influential movie.

6:05 Makers of all times. Career lasted over sixty years, made over fifty movies. Actually started out in silent movies. Some of his big ones were Dial In for Murder, Rear Window, Psycho, the Birds. He also had the TV show Alfred Hitchcock Presents for about a decade. He got married nineteen twenty six and they had a daughter. Thinks she liked him to tell her bedtime stories. Alfred He died nineteen eighty and eighty years old from kidney failure. Oh his to the Golden Moves and his shule Silversee and mostly here's a toast to you and me Timey Bubble.

6:52 That was Don Hooe. He was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in nineteen thirty. Now he released twenty one albums, most known for that song tiny Bubbles. He pretty much milked that one song for forty years, even at his own TV show for a couple of years. He married his high school sweetheart in nineteen fifty. They were married for forty eight years, had six children. Then when she died in nineteen ninety eight, Don he became a player. Over the next nine years, he had five kids and three different women. He died from two thousand and seven from art failure seventy six years old. Got him a bummer. He had just gotten a brand new pacemaker, So that's a crappy way to find out it didn't work. But his blood around Struman, instrument and desong is in my soul.

7:33 My life is mad Aboor trimanate the man, I'm just Studyinggacy to. The Leader the Man. Dan Fogelberg. He was born in Pure, Illinois in nineteen fifty one. He had four double platinum, two platinum, and two gold albums. Some of the heads were that one Longer Hard to Say. Leader of the band Rhythm of the Rain. He married his third wife in two thousand and two and then Dad died from prostate cancer in two thousand and seven at fifty six years old. Were hey, we get an end with one that's still alive. Danny Bonaducci, he's sixty five.

8:34 He's born in brum Off, Pennsylvania in nineteen fifty nine. Start acting when he was eight, and he's best known for playing Danny on The Partridge Family. Did a lot of guest appearances on TV shows after that, done quite a bit of reality TV. He beat up Greg Brady in a celebrity charity boxing match. Then he beat Peter Brady in a professional wrestling match. Danny had asked syndicated radio show for a while up there, and I think it was out of Sick Seattle where he based. It was on for I don't know ten years. He met his second. Wife on a blind date and then they went and got married yep, the same day, but they were married sixteen years and had two children before they divorced. He married his third wife in twenty ten. Now they had dated like three years before, so you know that one's gonna last. Then Danny, he was always in really good shape, you know, just up until a couple of year ago.

9:17 He was even a black belt in karate. I mean, somebody should have told those Brady guys. But and then last June he had to have brain surgery because he's having trouble with his balance and walking and stuff. So he survived the surgery, but in December he just retired from pretty much everything. So good luck to him and whatever he's got ahead of him. Let's go back to pay phones. In the nineteen nineties, there were over two million pay telephones. Today, one hundred thousand and twenty thousand of those are in New York City. Well, thank you for being here with us today. Get a chance. Don't forget about Country Underground Radio, the best station about what independent country music there is anywhere. Let's end with Nurse Florest Nightingale. She died today in nineteen ten at ninety years old. Florence said, I had tribute my success as to the fact that I never gave or took any excuses. Well, you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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