Aug 9-Sam Elliott, Melanie Griffith, Whitney Houston, Anna Kendrick, Fat Man dropped on Nagasaki, Helter Skelter

0:19 Well, hello there, I am Jeff and welcome to history and fact too. It's about today. Day is August the ninth. Say that something. Hold Today is National Hold Hands Day. Yeah, it sounds pretty elementary. School Today is to encourage touching and showing affection towards your loved ones. Now that's kind of an important footnote there. Hand holding. It's inborn. Yeah, it's just part of human nature. It's in every culture all around the world, and it's been there as long as anyone knows. Holding hands it releases the hormone oct that els really stress and anxiety. And now whether it's a plutonic or a romantic thing, YEA hold somebody's hand today, especially if they need it. Yeah, you'll know, all right, this is going on in entertainment On August the ninth, nineteen sixty No.

1:14 One album was a Button Down Mine of Bod Newheart by Bob Newhart Brian Island. He had the number one song with It's he Bitsy teny Weeny Yellow pooka dup bikini. She was as nervous as she could be. She was afraid to come out of the lot. She was afraid that somebody would. Say two three, four, tell the people what she wore. It was that bitsy bitsy ten weedy yellow poky dot bikini wore for the first. Day, Hey Lacla. And he had the number one country song with please help Me, I'm falling. Please help Me, I'm falling in love with you. Close the door to dam don't plant me all three.

2:10 The number one book was Hawaii by James Mitchener. Top movie it was Ocean's eleven. Remember this is nineteen sixty, so Danny Ocean. He puts together a bunch of criminals and the eleven planned to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night. Starred Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Junior, and a whole cast full of people. All right, what happened On August the ninth, eleven seventy three, construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began. That's gonna take him two hundred years in order to complete the Leaning Tower Pisa. When they were done, they realized they did something wrong. It just wasn't right. Yeah, See, it wasn't supposed to be called the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Seventeen ninety of the ship Columbia Red Viva sailed into Boston Harvey three years at sea. It was the first United States ship to sail all the way around the world, captain by Robert Gray. That didn't sound like a fun trip. Now, when you get into an elevator, most of the time, if you look up with like the control panel or somewhere, you'll see the word Otis on there. See Otis toffs.

3:04 Back in eighteen fifty nine he got a patent for the first passenger elevator. Now, the Otis Company is still the largest maker of elevators escalators in the entire world. Every day two point three billion people ride on an Otis elevator, escalator or walking sidewalk, you know what. That's something like that. Yeah, you don't want to mess with that and take a shot as some of you who doesn't know what they're doing to you. Eighteen ninety eight, Germany's Rudolph Diesel he got a patent for his internal combustion engion. Yeah, we call it the diesel engine. Nineteen forty four, a the United States Forest Service it launched a Smokey Bear campaign to help prevent forest fires. Smokey Bear was named after a New York City fireman. It was the name Smokey Joe Martin. Now it is a smoky bear, but they don't care if you call it Smokey the Bear. Just call if you see smoke Japan and nineteen forty five Fat Man was a second atomic bomb that was dropped on Japan. Now that was actually more powerful than Little Boy, you know, the Little Boy that was dropped a couple of days ago.

4:00 Man. It was originally supposed to be dropped on the Japanese Seria Kira Kira, but due to heavy clouds, they had to switch over to Nagasaki. Seventy five thousand people were killed instantly. Now, even though the bomb was more powerful than the one that was dropped on Hiroshima, Hiroshima is really flat Nagasaki though it had a lot of hills, so that's pretty much. Yeah, it showed it a little bit. I mean, it was still horrible. I mean, seventy five thousand people. But California nineteen sixty nine Hilter Skilter happened. Followers of Charles Manson killed actor Sharon tate her and she was eight and a half months pregnant, so the baby got killed too. And then for the people who were staying at her house. Now, yesterday we said he was going to do it today. In nineteen seventy four, United President Richard Nixon did it. He resigned YEP. Vice President Joe Ford was sworn in as a thirty eighth the United States. President Nixon's resignation letter was really pretty simple.

4:50 It was addressed the United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. Simply read, Dear mister Secretary, I hereby resigned in the office of President of the United States, Sincerely Richard Nixon. Okay, yesterday, if you remember I talked about the date eight eight eighty eight. Yeah, well they missed it by one day. Zee. On that day the New York lottery came up eight eight eight. Joke dokejke, joked, joke, shag dish shibf day. We're gonna tau he left this shibthday. We don't simple tage. He like this shibirth day. And you know you don't give up. Well. This is born on August the ninth. Actor Robert Shaw.

5:30 He was born in West Hotton, England, in nineteen twenty seven. Start off doing Shakespeare. The biggest memory roll was Jaws. Now he was a boat owner that gave that speech about the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War Two. He actually wrote that speech for the movie by himself. Some of his other movies were from Russia. Would Love the Sting, Black Sunday, The Deep. Now he was married three times and had ten kids from those wives. Now Robert right after jos he was hot, he was into mand He finally broken through in The Partial Roads. It's gonna get a whole bunch of starring movies. Sadly, he died from a heart attack in nineteen seventy eight to fifty one years old. Don't Do Mess.

6:26 That was young Wanda Young singing for that marvel Lets. Wanda She was born in Inkster, Michigan, in nineteen to forty three. Now her and her girlfriends they formed the marvel Lets while they were still in high school. After they graduated, they got signed by Motown. Now their song please Mister Poetown Postman. Yeah, it was the first number one song for the Motown Recording Company. Now. Some of their other big hits are Playboy, I Keep Polding On, Don't Mess with Bill. They broke up in nineteen seventy one. Then run Her. She really had a really tough time. There had a lot of drug and alcohol be She had four kids during that time. She finally got cleaned in nineteen ninety then Wanda. She lived until twenty twenty one when she died from a lung disease at eighty to seventy eight years old. Actor Sam Elliott. He's eighty one.

7:08 He's born in Sacramento, California, in nineteen forty four. Now, he'd always didn't have gray hair. No, he didn't have great hair until he was in his late thirties. Now. His first movie was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. He just had a really small rule in but he did meet his future wife. Then he starred in The Quick and the Dead Roadhouse, Tombstone, We were Soldiers. He was nominated an Oscar for Stars Born back in twenty nineteen. He has a new movie coming out sometime later this year early next year, so he's still working. He married actress Catherine Ross in nineteen eighty four and they have a daughter. Sam. He first grew a mustache nineteen sixty eight when he was twenty four years old, so he's worn a mustache in twenty six movies. Shaved it off for nine but he says he make sure they always let him have a scruffy face. Actress Melanie Griffeather. She's sixty eight. She's born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen fifty seven. Her mom is actress Tippy Hedron. Tippy is still alive. She's ninety five now. Melanie she got She was from high school sixteen years old. When she was seventeen, she starred opposite Gene Hackman in the movie Night Moves.

8:05 Then she started in the Body Double, Working Girl, Something Wild, Nobody's Full. Nineteen seventy six. She married actor Don Johnson for a couple of mons. Then she married another guy for eight years and they had a son. Then she went back and married Don Johnson again. They were married for seven years this time and they had daughter, Dakota Johnson. Then she married Antonio Bandaries for almost twenty years and they have daughter, Stella Beenderris Whitney Houston she was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen sixty three. Her mom was singer Sissy Houston. Now do not just female Whitney.

8:58 She is one of the biggest selling singers of all time and sold there two hundred million records. Then when She's sang in the national anthem before the Super Bowl in nineteen ninety one. Yeah, It's hand down then considered the all fine best version of our National Anthem. She acted. She was in the movie Is the Bodyguard Waiting to Exil That Preacher's Wife. She's married Bobby Brown in nineteen ninety two and they had a daughter. They got divorced in two thousand and seven. Saldy Whitney. She can never get past the drugs. Yeah, they caused her to doren in a bathtub in twenty twelve. Forty eight years old.

9:38 Actress Jillian Anderson and she was born in Chicago in nineteen sixty eight, fifty seven year ods. She grew up in England, though now she's best known for playing Scully on The X Files on TV. Besides the X File movie is her biggest movie was The Last King of Scotland. She had a daughter from her first husband, then she had a two year marriage, and then she had two kids from another boyfriend. Actress Annie Kindrax. She's forty born in Portland, Maine in nineteen eighty five. Started acting on Broadway when she was twelve, and she's been nominated for a Tony and Emmy and Oscar. He's still young. She should build a win one. What'd you think the movie was for her? Up in the air. She's best known though for the Twilight movies, the Pitch Perfect movies, voicing Poppy in the Trolls movies. She is currently filming a movie right now with Chris Rock. Alright here. Quote of the day. It comes from Bernie Mack. Remember him in the comedian He Died to Day in two thousand and eight, at fifty years old, Bernie said, I can't build myself up by beating somebody else down. That's true. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us.

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