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

0:10 Well, hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today, present it by cool Media. Day is August the ninth. Say that something today is National Hold Hands Day. Yeah it sounds pretty elementary school to meet too, but today is to encourage touching and showing affection towards your loved ones. Kind of an important footnote there, Now, hand holding it's believed to be inborn in part of human nature. It's in every culture throughout the entire planet, and it has been for as long as anybody knows. Now, holding hands it releases the hormone oxytocin that helps relieve stress and anxiety. So whether it's plutonic or ramona or a metic yeah, I just hold someone's hand today, all right?

1:03 What happened in entertainment on August the ninth, let's go back to there. Twenty eighteen number one album was Scorpion by Drake. Drake had the number one song within My Feelings. Kicking be love Me? Are you writing see you never have leeve from a SIM? Because I want you and I need you dal for always KB be love me? Are you writing say you never have a leave from a Siming's that all choke and I Need You and I'm dal. For you always. Jake Going had the number one country song with I was Jack, You were Diane, he turning You sing long? Every time you hear that song.

1:46 Lapping did When. Do you close your eyes? Does a mag you laugh? Do the memories take you back? Just six packs and the ship shining way back when now it was Jack. The number one book was The Other Woman by Daniel Silva. Top movie was The meg Scientists exploring the Marianas Trench find the largest ocean predator that has ever existed. The Megaladon stars Jason Stratham, Bing Bingley, and Rain Wilson. All Right, what happened? On August the ninth, eleven seventy three, a construction on the Leaning Tower of Pisa began. Took them two hundred years to complete it. Then when they were done, they realized they built it wrong. Why it wasn't supposed to be called the Leaning Tower at Pisa. In seventeen ninety of the ship the Columbia I read via it sailed into Boston Harbor after three years to see it was the first United States ship to sail around the world.

2:40 This captain was Robert Gray when you get yourself into an elevator. Most of the time, if you look up near the control panel, you'll see Otis say Otis toughs Today. In eighteen fifty nine got a patent for the first passenger elevator. Now the Otis Company, it's the largest maker of elevators and escalators in the entire world. Every day, two point three billion people around the world ride on an Otis elevator, escalator, or moving hawked way. Nineteen forty four, the United States Forest Service it launched his Smoky Bear campaign to help prevent forest fires. Smoky Bear was actually named after a New York City fireman, Smokey Joe Martin. Now you can Smokey Bear is the actual campaign, but they don't care if you caught Smoky the Bear. Nineteen forty five, Fat Man was the second atomic bomb that was dropped. It was more powerful than Little Boy that had been dropped a couple of days ago. Fat Man was originally supposed to be dropped on the Japanese city of Kilkira, but due to heavy clouds, they switched over to Nakasaki. Now around seventy five thousand people were killed. Now, even though the bomb was a lot bigger. It wasn't quite as catastrophic, I guess you'd say because se Hiroshima was a lot flatter Nagasaki. It was kind of hilly, so I kind of gave him a little bit of protection.

3:52 But it's still pretty bad. Nineteen sixty nine, even more carnage. Hilter Skilter happened. Now Followers of Charles Manson killed actor US eight and Hunt months eight and a half month pregnant Sharon Tate and her baby and four others that were staying at her home. Now, like you said he would do yesterday, in nineteen seventy four, United States President Richard Nixon resigned. Vice President Joe Ford was sworn in as a thirty eighth United States President. Nixon's resignation later, Yeah, it was pretty simple. It was addressed to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, and the just read jarre, Mister Secretary, I hereby resigned the office of President of the United States, sincerely, Richard Nixon. Now, yesterday we talked about the year nineteen eighty eight and how the date was eight eight eighty eight.

4:35 Well they missed it by one day. Today, the New York Lottery came up eight eight eighty eight. Coke coke, coke, goat sharge this shiver birthday, We're gonna pause. He left this shiver birthday, we gonna simple caage. He was like, this shib birthday and you know we don't. Get up birthday Okay. Who was born on August the ninth. Actor Robert Shaw. He was born west Houghton, England, in nineteen twenty seven. Start off doing Shakespeare. The biggest role was in the movie Jaws. He was the boat owner that gave that famous speech about the sinking of the US Indianapolis. Now he actually wrote the speech himself. He asked me to put it in the movie they did.

5:15 Some of his other movies were From Russia With Love, The Sting, Black Sunday, The Deep. He was married three times and had ten kids from him Now. He died in nineteen seventy eight, right at the peak of his career. It was right after Jobs and his career was going great. Yeah. He died from a heart attack at fifty one years old. Dogs That was one of young singing from the Marvelette's.

5:55 She was born in Inkster, Michigan, in nineteen forty three. Ear and her girlfriends Farm, Thet's WHI. They were in high school, they graduated and got signed by Motown. Now their song Please Mister Postman. It was the first number one song by a Motown act. Some of their other hits were A Playboy, I Keep Holding On, Don't Mess with Bill. Now when the Marvel Lts. Broke up in nineteen seventy one, were she really had a tough time with drugs and alcohol. She had four kids during that whole time. She finally got herself cleaned in nineteen ninety. She was able to live until she was seventy eight years old, and he finally died from lung disease in twenty twenty one. Actress Sam Elliott. He's eighty. He was born in Sacramento, California, in nineteen forty four. One of the coolest voices of all time. Now, he didn't always have gray hair. No, he didn't get his gray hair until his late thirties. Now, first big movie he made, he just had a small party and it was Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. But he did meet his wife in it. Then he started in The Quick and the Dead Road House Tombstone. We were soldiers.

6:48 He was nominated for an Oscar for a Star is born on TV. Started at eighteen eighty three a couple of years ago. He married actress Katherine Ross in nineteen eighty four and they have a daughter Sam. He first grew his mustache and teen sixty eight, twenty four years old. He's worn a mustache in twenty six movies. He did shave it off nine for nine movies, but he usually has like scruff on his face. Though actress Melanie Griffli she's sixty seven, she didn't have any scruff on her face. Though she was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen fifty seven. Her favoue mom is actress Tippy Hedron. Melanie is you guys from high school at sixteen years old when she is seventeen, and she started opposite Gene Hackman in the movie Night Moves, then The Body Double, Working Girl, Something Wild, Nobody's Full. Nineteen seventy six, she married actor Don Johnson for a couple months, then she married another guy for eight years and they had a son. Then she went back and married Don Johnson for seven years.

7:39 That time they had daughter, Dakota Johnson. Then she married Antonio Bendaris for almost twenty years, and they had daughter, Stella Benderris Whitney Houston. She was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen sixty three. Her mom was famous singer Sissy Houston. Now forget about female. Whitney is one of the biggest selling artists of all time. She sold over two hundred million records, and her singing in the national anthem before the Super Bowl in nineteen ninety one my hands down by far, the best version ever done.

8:27 She acted. Some of her movies were A Bodyguard, Waiting to Exhale, That Preacher's Wife. She's married Bobby Brown in nineteen ninety two. They had a daughter, and they divorced in two thousand and seven. Sally Whitney she can never get past the drugs, though they finally got her in twenty twelve at forty eight years old. I think we all put you to sleep with that one. Actress Jillian Anderson. She's fifty six. She was born in Chicago in nineteen sixty eight. Most known for playing Scully on The X Files. Besides the xfl movie is, her biggest movie was Last King of Scotland. She had a daughter from her first dousand, She Marrie another guy for a couple of years. Then she had a boyfriend for six years and they had two kids together. Actress Annie Kendrick.

9:23 She was born in nineteen eighty five and Portland, Maine. She's thirty nine. Started acting on Broadway when she was twelve. She's been nominated for a Tony, an Emmy, and an Oscar. She was accomplished that by the time she was thirty four years old. That made her one of the youngest actors to ever pulled that off. But she's also one of the fewest actors ever to pull that off and not be win any of them. But she's still young now. Our Oscar nomination was for Up and Air. She's also been in the Twilight movies, Perfect Pitch movies, She Boys, Poppy, and all the Trolls movies. Now, guys, get this, she hasn't married yet, So you're telling me there's a chance. Yeah, Now, whether it's Anna or somebody out. If you're really worried about your hands sweating when you're holding hands today, experts say that putting antiperspriant on your hands at night when you go to sleep, yeah, it helps your hands be not so sweaty because it gives the anti personent time to seek into your hands.

10:14 That and don't eat spicy foods. Well, thank you for. Being here today. We sure appreciate you. Can follow us on whoever you're listening to us on and comes to us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three os. That's end with Bernie Mack. He died it in two thousand and eight at fifty years old. Bernie said, I can't build myself up by beating somebody else down. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I