Aug 5-Loni Anderson, Neal Armstrong, Marcia Brady, Dead or Alive, the Beastie Boys, Terri Clark, Braveheart

0:19 Well everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factor it's about today. Today is August the fifth. The oyser, he's the workmen of the sea, cring issue. Every applying tenons of you and me. There's nothing moister pan oyster from the shell and you're hunger heat, the spells, horrimality he quills. Today is National Oysterday. Oyster is there believed to be some of the oldest creatures on earth. They found oyster fossils the day back to dinosaur times, and they think man's always eating oysters, at least the guy's on the coast anyway. See, they found oyster shells and fire pits the day back to nine thousand BC. Omens were the first ones to start farming oysters. They did that about one thousand BC or so. Now, oysters, they're really good for you, high in protein, irons, ink vitamins. Not only one in ten thousand oysters actually produce as a pearl, and we don't eat that type. There are some deals going around today, mostly local oyster bars or seafood shacks that kind of stuff. So hit those up or you can cook them at home or even eat them. Bro Now, if you cook an yster and it doesn't open up. Yeah, I don't eat that. That means it's bad. Let's take a look on what was going on in entertainment on August fifth. Back in nineteen seventy two, the number one album was Honkey Talk Chateau by Elton John Gilbert A. Sullivan.

1:34 Now. The number one song with alone again I try to. Have stunning much judge where people same? My God, that's too she stood him No find enough strim. As well. Again truly. Charlie Prie had the number one country song with It's Gonna take a little bit longer, Baby. Gonna take a little bit along? Mean you never getting you all for my mind? Baby gonna take a little bit along. I've been loving you a long long time.

2:28 The number one book was Jonathan Livingston's Seagull by Richard Bach. Top movie was Deliverance. A group of buddies they take a canoe trip down a river that's gonna be dammed up and turned into a lake. Well it didn't work out so well. Stars John Voyd, Burt Reynolds, nd Baby All Right. What happened on August the fifth? Now, I'm just gonna guess, but I think most of you've seen the movie Braveheart. That's where Mel Gibson plays the Scottish resistance leader William Wallace. Well, it's today. In thirteen oh five, the English actually captured William Wallace. Now have you seen that movie? Yeah, you know, William's in for a bad day. Fifteen eighty three, England Humphrey Gilbert. He established the first English colony in North America, Saint John's up in Newfoundland.

3:09 Eighteen forty six, Oregon Territory was cut in half at the forty ninth parallel England. They got the north half and we got the south half. Eighteen sixty one President A. Lincoln he designed into law the first ever personal income tax. Yeah, I said that you had to pay three percent of everything you made over eight hundred bucks. Well, they repealed it a year later. Found out a lot of people in America makes seven hundred ninety dollars a year. Civil War in eighteen sixty four, at the Battle of Mobile Bay, Union Admiral David Farragutt he issued his famous order damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead, oh Worth. That led to Union victory in that battle. You know it's still used today. Yeah, it means to continue with the plan regardless of risk or dangers. Nineteen fourteen in Cleveland, Ohio, at the intersection of Euclid Avenue and East one hundred and fifth Street, saw the first electric traffic light in the United States.

4:00 Still today, no one knows how he did it. Nineteen twenty six Harry Hugh DEENI he was in a coffin, submerged underwater for an hour and a half before he escapes. I know that's impressive, but that has to be the most boring magic trick ever to watch. Now, this would freak me out. World War two in nineteen forty three over in Italy, it was the Battle of Triona eleven o'clock in the morning. During the fighting, Mount Edney erupted, sent lava and ash and everything flying all over Fla. So basically he ran from the eruption. Yeah, you had a shot of getting shot if you stayed there. Well, joke dopjke coke joke, dope, sharge thish shiverth day, we gonna page he left this shiverfday. We don't simple tage like this shivers day, and you know we don't get up.

4:47 Well. Sue was born on August the fifth Anita Colby. She was born in Washington, d C. In nineteen fourteen. She was called the Face. Yeah she was a model, but not just an ordinary model. She was the world's first supermodel. Yeah, she was the first model they ever make over one hundred dollars an hour. And like all supermodels who will follow her, she went to Hollywood to be an actress. Like most supermodels who followed her, Yeah, she couldn't act, so it didn't work out. But while she was there, both Clark Gable and James Stewart Are proposed ask her to marry him. She turned him both down. She went back to New York to become a beauty consultant. She didn't marry from nineteen seventy until the guy died in nineteen eighty four, and she died from a lung disease in nineteen ninety two at seventy seven years old. Neil Armstrong he was born Wapa Canet, Ohio in nineteen thirty.

5:34 Now he's a fighter pilot. During the Korean War, had seventy eight combat missions. Then he became an astronaut. Of course, he became the first man to walk on the Moon in nineteen sixty nine. Two years later he quitn't be an astanaut. Yeah, he quit a NASA all together. Became a professor at the University of Cincinnati. He taught aerospace engineering. Nineteen eighty five. Him and Edmund Hillary, he had the first guy to sim in Mount Everest. Yeah, they took part in the expedition to go to the North Pole. Neil said he wanted to go. He wanted to see what I looked like from the ground. He'd only seen it from the air. Neil and his first wife they divorced after being married thirty eight years. Yeah, they had three kids. He married his second wife in nineteen ninety four. Neil died in twenty twelve from cornary heart disease, eighty two years old. You own your dime of boscose. Guys, you made me understandable.

6:19 So your work body next to you, I can tell my way. That's you all. The loveliest country singer Verne Gosden was born in Woodland, Alabama, in nineteen thirty four. Released his first album in nineteen sixty seven. Well, it didn't go so good, it actually sucked, so he quit music altogether. Yep. He went ran a gas company nineteen seventy seven, he wanted to give his true love and other shots, so he went back into music. At least fourteen albums after that. Some of his biggest hits are I can see by the Way You Dance, set him up, Joe, I'm Still Crazy. That's just about does it. How He performed right up until he died. He had a stroke in two thousand and nine at seventy four years old. He was married and divorce three times and had two sons.

7:13 All Oil chas. Night. That was country singer Sammy Smith. Yeah, back in the nineteen seventies, she was about the only woman that the guys were let into their outlaw country music movement. Yeah, they all thought she was cool, Now, Sam I mean. She was born in Orange County, California, in nineteen forty three. She released one album every year from nineteen seventy to nineteen seventy nine. Then she was done. Now she had the head to help me make it through the night. Today, I started loving you again. Then you walked in. She had three children from her husband and then after they divorced. Then she had a son from Willie Nelson's lead guitarist.

7:54 Then she adopted Towo Apache, Indian boys off a reservation down there in Arizona. Sa. I mean she died in two thousand and five from you know, sixty one years old. If you ever wonder what head the king? I'm living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati wk R. Actress Lannie Anderson was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in nineteen forty five. She just died one year ago, almost to the day, seventy nine years old. She married divorce before she was actually or she married divorced and had a kid before she was twenty one years old. Yeah, she had a little girl from it. So she became a teacher to support her and her daughter. She always wanted to be an actress, though, so she finally gave it a shot. Took about ten years. She had some small rops, finally a big in nineteen seventy eight on w Karepe and Cincinnati. Some of her movies are Stroker As All Dogs Go to Heaven, A Night at the Rocksbury.

8:48 Her third husband was Burt Reynolds. They were married for six years and they had a son. She married her fourth husband in two thousand and. Eight, So. Any guesses Marie McCormick. Marsha Brady Marina is seventy today. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty six. She was thirteen when she started playing Marshall on The Brady Bunch of TV show. Of course they did all those reunion shows after that. She did get a a tighte cast some of her movies. She was in Skatedown, USA.

9:34 Yeah She's starting that with Scott Bale and Patrick Swayzey. Then returned to her high the neighborhood. In the nineties, she went into country music. That song I played Yeah It's Off for nineteen ninety five country album, did a lot of reality TV. Joe Nyder biography. It was a New York Times bestseller. Rain and She married in nineteen eighty five and they have a daughter. That band started calling themselves Nightmares and Wax. Once they changed the name We Did Her Alive. They found success in the nineteen eighties.

10:23 Founder and lead singer Pete Burns. He was born in Port Sunlight, England. In nineteen fifty nine. He helped formed Down Dead and Alive in nineteen eighty You Spin Me Right Round, brand new Lover Lover, Come Back to Me had some of their big hits. They were actually bigger than United States than were over in England. Now Pete, he ended up dying in twenty sixteen, and that's when the band broke up. They couldn't go on anymore. But Pete he didn't do a very good job with his money. His biggest rival over all those years, kind of imagine that Pete looked that was boy George. Well he didn't have any money, so Boy George actually didn't like him, but he paid for his funeral. Now Pete, he had a heart attacking yet fifty seven. He was married to a woman from nineteen eighty to two thousand and six.

11:04 Well after they divorced, he married a guy in two thousand and seven. His n was Charlie chait On missed. But we remonkey this day O loss what's been almost definitely. Got monkey. Founding Beastie Boy Adam Yack was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen sixty four. Adam Mike Diamond and Adam Horwitz. So they formed Beastie Boys in nineteen eighty one. Sold there were fifty million records some there. That's our fight for your right to party. Intergalactic brass Monkey to to check it out over the years on the side and when Adam would perform with other artists and stuff, he always use the name Nathaniel Hornbloor. He got married in nineteen ninety eight and they had a daughter. Then he died from a cancer in twenty twelve and only forty seven years old. The other two Beastie boys, Yeah, they didn't want to replace him going with that, so they said we're done, nom dumb.

12:15 Here, no more more more. Well, we're going back to country. Terry Clark is fifty eight. She's born in Montreal, Canada, in nineteen sixty eight, but she grew up in Medicine, Canada. Some of her biggest HiT's Our Better Things to Do Now that I found you, I just want to be mad and girls like to Terry. She has two times divorced and she has a son from her first husband and a daughter from her second. Okay, our quote of the day it comes to day from Alec Guinness. Yeah, he died today in two thousand at eighty six years old. He said, who's more foolish the full of the person who follows him. Wow, thank you all for listen. Don't for reet to follow us. Different kind of follow and you can always come see us at Comedia dot com. Our country underground radio artists today.

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