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

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. Day is August the fifth. The oyser. He's the workmen of the sea, ting estuary, pintonins of flue for you and me. There's nothing moister and oyster from the shell and you're hunger. He the cells horrimality he quills. Today is National Oyster Day. Now oyster is there. Believe you some of the oldest creatures on earth. They found oyster fossils that date back to dinosaur times. They think man always is eating oyster since it's been here. They found oyster shells and fire pits that date back to ninety six hundred BC. Romance. They were the first star farm in oyster started doing about one thousand BC. No, oysters, they are good for you. They're high in protein, irons, inc and vitamins. Only one in ten thousand oysters actually produce as a pearl and we don't eat that type of oyster. So I don't want to celebrate your favorite mulloks today. Well, you can go to oyster bar, seafood shack, seafood restaurant, cook him at home or eat them raw. Now, if you cook an oyster and it doesn't open up. Yeah, I don't eat that. That means it's bad. Now too bad.

1:18 Today is actually on a Monday and not a date night. Yeah, oysters actually help with that, all right. What happened on entertainment in August fifth, Let's go back to your nineteen ninety eight number one album was Hello Nasty by the Beastie Boys. Brandy and Monica had the number one song with the Boy is Mine. The Dixie Chick said. The number one country song, There's Your Troubles.

2:06 Say she doesn't Jesse hold. The number one book was Proof of Origin by Patricia Cornwell. Top movie it was Saving Private Ryan. A group of US soldiers go behind enemy lines to bring back a paratrooper who's three brothers. Yeah, they were killed in action stars Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore, and Edward Burns. All right, what happened on August the fifth? Now I'm guessing, but I'm thinking you've all seen the movie Braveheart. That's where Mel Gibson played Scottish resistant leader William Wallace. It was today in thirteen oh five that the English captured William Wallace.

2:48 So if you've seen the movie, you know things only even get worse for a poor William fifteen eighty three, England Humphrey Gilbert. He established the first English colony in North America. Probably not where you think it was, in Saints in Newfoundland. Eighteen forty six, the Oregon Territory was divided into half at the forty ninth parallel United States got the southern half and England got the northern half. Eighteen sixty one, President Abraham Lincoln signed into law the first ever personal US income tax that said that he had to pay three percent on everything you made over eight hundred bucks. Yeah, they repilled it. A year later they found out that a whole bunch of people in America made seven hundred and ninety dollars. Eighteen sixty four, in the Civil War naval Battle of Mobile Bay, Union Admiral David Farragut he gave that famous order, damned the torpedoes and full speed ahead. It worked then led to a Union victory. In Cleveland, Ohio. In nineteen fourteen, at the corner of Euclid Avenue and one hundred and fifth Street, they installed the first electric traffic light. Still today, no one knows how he did it. Nineteen twenty six, Harry Henry, Here he did Harry? Who did he? He was in a coffin underwater for an hour and a half before he escaped. Think this will just freak you out. In nineteen forty three, in World War two in Italy, they were fighting the Battle of Triona. Now eleven o'clock in the morning, Mount Etne erupted, sending ash and lava miles up into the sky. So if you ran from the eruption, your risk getting shot. And if you stayed, well, got.

4:16 Coat, coat, coat, goat shoge this shiverth day, We're gonna pause. He left, this shiver day. Were gonna sit ple caage. He was like this ship birthday, and you know we don't get that birthday, all right. I was born on August the fifth, Anita Kobe. She was born in Washington, d C. In nineteen fourteen. She was called the face. Yeah she was a model, but not just any model. She was the first supermodel. Yeah, she was the first model to make over one hundred dollars an hour. Now, like all supermodels, it'll follow her. She went to Hollywood try and be an actress. Yeah, not nothing worked out there. But while she was in California, Clark Gable and Jimmie Stewart. They asked her to marry him. She turned him down and went back to New York to become a beauty consultant. She didn't get married from nineteen seventy until the guy died in nineteen eighty four, and she died from lung disease in nineteen ninety two at seventy seven years old. She's the one who we used the picture on for today's show. Neil Armstrong he has born Wapakineta, Ohio, in nineteen thirty. He was a fighter pilot in the Korean War, flew seventy eight combat missions and began the first man to walk on the Moon in nineteen sixty nine. Two years later he quit quit being an astronaut and became a professor at the University of Cincinnati, taught aerospace engineering. Nineteen eighty five, him and Edward Hillary, the guy who claimed Mount Everest, They took part in an expedition to the North Pole. Neil said he wanted to see it what it looked like from the ground. He had only seen it from space.

5:36 He and his first wife they divorced after thirty eight years of marriage. They had three kids, married a second wife in nineteen ninety four. Neil died in twenty twelve from coronary heart disease at eighty two years old. You old year Timebasco guy, you made me understand on your I can chill my. That you call love. Country singer Verne Gosden. He was born in Woodland, Alabama, in nineteen thirty four, released his first album in nineteen sixty seven. Well, it didn't do very well all, so he just quit music, went and ran himself a gas company that in nineteen seventy seven went back to his first lave went back to into music for at least fourteen albums after that. I mean, his big hits were I can See by the Way You Dance, set him up, Joe, I'm still crazy. That just about doesn't. He performed right up until he died from a stroke in two thousand and nine at seventy four years old. He was married and divorce three times and had two sons.

6:46 All takes You chas. Kill. That was country singer Sammy Smith. She was about the only women that the guys were let into their outline music movement that they were having going on in the nineteen seventies. They all thought she was cool Sammy. 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 didn't release anymore. Some of her heads were helped me make it through the night today, I started loving you again, then you walked in. She had three children from her husband, then after they divorced, she had a son from Willie Nelson's lead guitarist. Then she adopted two Apache Indian boys off of a reservation in Arizona. In two thousand and five, she died from emphasem at sixty one years old.

7:37 If you ever wonder, wonder what head of the mukim, I'm living on the air in Cincinnati, Cincinnati wk RY. Actress Lania Anderson is seventy nine. She's born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, in nineteen forty five. Now she married divorce before she was even twenty one years old. They had one daughter, so she ended up becoming a teacher to help support her and her daughter. But she always wanted to be an actress. She finally hit on TV's w k RP and Cincinnati. Then she made a bunch of TV movies. Some of her films where a Stroker Ace, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Three Ninjas. Now. Her third husband was Burt Reynolds for six years and they had a son.

8:20 She's been married to her fourth husband since two thousand and eight. Want to Travel and He Guesses. Actress Marine McCormick. She's sixty eight. She's born to Los Angeles in nineteen fifty six. She's known best I Guess We're Playing, Marshall Brady and the Brady Bunch, Brady Bunch Reunions. All those shows kind of got type class for it. Yeah, some of her movies or skatedown USA, returned to Horror High in the Neighborhood, and in the nineties she decided to go into country music. That song We Played was off for country album she released in nineteen ninety five. Her autobiography.

9:11 It was a New York Times bestseller. She got married nineteen eighty five and they have a daughter. That band started out being called Nightmares and Wax. They changed their name to Dead or Alive and that's pretty good success in the nineteen eighties. Founder and lead singer was Pete Burns. He's born of Port's Sun like England in in nineteen fifty nine, formed Dead or Alive in nineteen eighty. They were actually bigger in the United States and they were in the UK. Some of their hats you spin Me Right Round, brand New, Lover, Lover, come back to Me Together until Pete died in twenty sixteen. He had a heart attack at fifty seven years old. Now he was actually married to a woman, uh huh from nineteen eighty to two thousand and six. Then they divorced and he married a guy in two thousand and seven. This was Charlie check Wait on, miss what haven't we gonna read?

10:15 Monkey d my test Day O lost, What's it been? Almost definitely cast pro. Founding Beastie Boy Adam Yack. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen sixty four. Adam, Mike Diamond, and Adam Horovitz formed the Beastie Boys in nineteen eighty one, sold over fifty million records. Some of their heads were our fight for Your Right to Party, Intergalactic Brass, Monkey check it Out. Over the years, Adam on the side he would perform with other performers and stuff, but whenever he did, he always used the name Nathaniel Hornenbler got married nineteen ninety eight and they had a daughter, Adam, from cancer in twenty twelve at forty seven years old.

11:02 The other two Beastie boys didn't want to replace them. Some of the Beastie boys, they just stopped being who they were. Rash Norman double. Here no more. It's definitely a country, day to day. Country singer Terry Clark is fifty six. She was born in Montreal, Canada, in nineteen sixty eight. She grew up in medicine at Canada. Released her first album in nineteen ninety five. Some of her biggest it's sorry, better things to Do Now that I found you? I just want to be mad and girls like to. She's on tour right now. I fan to check her out, and then from Thanksgiving to New Year's she's doing a whole bunch of Christmas shows down in Nashville. She has two times divorced and had a son from her first husband and a daughter from her second husband. All Right, if you're celebrating oysters, they remember oysters actually start their life out as males, but they change the females as they get older. Then they have the ability to change sex whenever they want when they get older. Oh, thank you for listening today. Don't free to follow us on whoever you listen to a son, come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's school with three ohs. Let's end with actor Alec Guinness. He died today in two thousand and eighty six years old. Alex said, who's more foolish the fool of the person who follows him. Guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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