Dec 12-Pennsylvania BDAY, Frank Sinatra, Dionne Warwick, The Fixx, Sheila E, Jennifer Connelly, Mayim Bialik

0:20 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today. Today is December the twelfth. When I was a little beaty boy, my grandmother bought me a cute little toy, silver bells hanging on a string. She told me it was my dingling. Today is National Dingling Day. That might not be what you're thinking. Today is about calling people that you haven't talked to in a long time. Oh, come on, it's not that hard. No text, no emails, no shout outs on social media and media. Yep, you actually have to make a phone call and talk person to person. Now, that's not gonna hurt you to say hi to somebody that you kind of lost track of, you know, just let him know that you're still thinking about him. But today he actually has two purposes besides making some phone calls.

1:16 You're supposed to drop some money into the Salvation army kettles, you know where the people are doing the dinga ling. That's a good cause and makes for a cool day. You get to make some calls and drop some coin. You'll feel like you actually accompoyed something today. On a side note, Chuck Berry song my dingle ling that we play Yeah, it's nothing to do with today. Just put it. You know, that's Chuck's only a number one song you ever had a This is going on to entertainment on just some of the twelve. It's about twenty eighteen. And one album was asked Your World by Travis Scott, Arianna and Groan. The ad that every one's on one. Thank you, Next. On me. Kill Ki.

2:00 Poo from. Streak. Danny Say had the number one country song was Speechless. His videos looking read with those steeless. I'm just standing there in the dress. Well to do Went's homie hate a secret. Just watching you is all I can do see slaves. The number one book was Fire and Blood by George R. R. Martin. The top movie was Spider Man Into the Spider Verse. Now Miles, he becomes Spider Man of his universe. Now he has to give a five other Spider Man from their universes in order to make save reality. Basically voice by Shan mcmore, Jack Johnson and Hailey Steinfeld. Ah, what happened on December the twelfth, Happy Birthday Pennsylvania Today. In eight seventeen eighty seven, Pennsylvania became the second state. Yeah, they ratified the US Constitution Pennsylvania I means penns Woods William Penn He named it after his dad. Capital is Harrisburg.

3:30 Highest point is Mount Davis at three two hundred and twelve feet. Now the area of Pennsylvania makes it the thirty third largest state. It's the fifth largest population though. State bird is the roughed grouse, fish Brook, drought dog is a great Dane. Flower is the Mountain Laurel tree, Eastern hemlock mamm a white tailed deer. Pennsylvania state dance the Poka. Somebody were born in Pennsylvania Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Mister Rogers, Bradley Cooper, Kobe, Bryan, Taylor, Swift, Kevin Hart, Pink, Jenny and Tommy, and some of the people born in the Keystone State. So why Keystone State? Well, the original thirteen states, it was right in the middle. There were six states above it in six states below it. Eighteen seventy, representing South Carolina, Joseph Rainey became the first black man to serve in the United States House Representatives. Yep, he had won a special election. Josephine was a very successful barber for it went into politics. Served for nine years eighteen seventy four, Hawaii was an independent nation. Now it's King David klukule It became the first king to visit the United States. He was President Grant's guest at honor at the very first state dinner that was hid at the White House. Any idea what president probably held the most state dinners at the White House? Ronald Reagan up held fifty nine of them. Trump he's old three in both terms. That's why I wants to build that ballroom.

4:50 I guess he's embarrassed. Eighteen ninety nine, Boston's George Bryant. He then in the wooden golf Tea. Now before then every hole had a box of wet sand on it, and golfers would make a man too the sand. Yeah, and that's what they hit the ball of nineteen oh one. Every expert said that you could not send a radio signal over two hundred miles because of the curvature of the earth. Marconi he believed you could. He believed that the. Radio signal would follow the curvature of the Earth. So he sent a Morris code by radio. He did. The letter s went from England all the way to Newfoundland twenty two hundred miles. Yeah, Marconi was even surprised, but he said he could do it. But him and the re experts, they were all wrong. Now, the reason he was able to send that signal that far it bounced off Theonis for today. In nineteen eleven in India, Delhi replaced Calcutta as the capital of India. It became New Delhi in nineteen twenty seven. See, they had to pretty much rebuild the whole city because make it the capital.

5:43 Nineteen twenty five, in San juis Obisco, California, Arthur Heindman. He opened up the motel End. It was the world's first motel. Arthur came up with motel between combining motor and hotel. Nineteen forty six. Tied Laundryturget went on sale Sweden. In nineteen forty nine, military airplane maker Sob they began making cars. So for the first seven years that they made cars, Yep, you could only get a car in green. Yep. All the cars they sold seven years, they were all green. Yeah, they had a lot of green paint left over from World War Two. Nineteen eighty, Apple made their first stock offering, went on sale at twenty two dollars a share. Now, had you bought one share back then and held it on for twenty two dollars, yeah, today it'd be worth fifty and seventy six books. Twenty nineteen, in that Arctica they found the lowest point of Earth, or land on the Earth. So where the ground is, Yep, it's underneath the Denmark Glacier. It's eleven thousand, five hundred feet below sea level. Now they still list the Red Sea as the lowest land on Earth, at four hundred and fifty feet below seawell, because they think that if that glacier ever melts, Yeah, it's just gonna make that a big lake.

6:48 Go go cop, cop, goat shod this shiverf day. Please don't he left this shiver day. We won't simple to this shivers day. You know we don't get work for well, let's check out. It's born on December the twelfth. I traveled each and every highway. And are. Much more than this. I did it my. Way. The chairman on the board Old Blue Eyes, Frank Sinatra, He's born a whole book of New Jersey. In nineteen fifteen, one of the biggest entertainers of all time, Frank will have sold over undred fifty million records. Some of his classic kids are New York, New York, Strangers in the Night, Love and Marriage, My Way Starting Over fifty Movies, Somewhere Here to Return Today on the Town, Guys and Dolls, The Original Ocean eleven Now. Frankie had three kids from his first wife, Nancy Frake, Junior and Tina. Then he married Ava gabar Ava Gardner for six years. Then he married me At Farrell for two years, or his fourth wife in nineteen seventy six. Frank died nineteen ninety eight at eighty two years old from a heart attack. I guess you call me just a game show ho was Bob Barker. He was born in Darrington, Washington, in nineteen twenty three. Hosted Truth or Consequences from nineteen fifty six to seventy five, Then he hosted Prices Ride from seventy two to two thousand and seven. Also hosted Miss USA

8:18 and Miss Universe Pages nineteen sixty seven to eighty seven. Bobby started out just a regular radio DJ. You got pulled Ondred TV doing game shows. Biggest movie it was Happy Gilmour. If you remember he beat up Adam Sandler. Bobby married nineteen forty five. His wife died in nineteen eighty one. Bob died in twenty twenty three, ninety nine years old, from Alzheimer's. That was Connie Francis nineteen sixty. She became the first woman to have the number one song on the Billboard Pop charts. Yeah, it was that one.

9:02 My heart is a mind of his own. Connie. She's eighty eight. She's still with us. She's born in Newark, New Jersey. In nineteen thirty seven, she sold over one hundred million records. I'm who's sorry now, stupid, cupid, don't break the heart of the one who loves you. That's someone now. Connie. She was in love with Bobby Darren. They were gonna e lope and go ahead and get married, but her father found out about it. Yeah, it chased Bobby off with a gun, so they went their separate raise. But Connie never never did get over Bobby. Her first, second, and fourth marriages all lasted one year. Her third layriage it lasted seven years, and they had a son. May I say you lifore welcome and one just too well, I say you.

9:56 Dianne Warwick she's eighty five. She's born East Don, New Jersey in nineteen forty still performs start back in nineteen fifty five when she first hit the stage. Dion she is the second most charted female singer during the rock era, so that runs from nineteen fifty five to nineteen ninety five. She charted fifty six songs, walk on by, do You Know the Way to San Jose, then came you That's what Friends Are Far. Yeah, there was some of Dion's biggest chart toppers. Anyway, anyway they charted, That's all that matters. Diana Ross, she charted the most songs during that time. Now the all time most charted female artists, they have Madonna Dion. She had a sister named Didi and she was a successful singer. Her aunt was Sissy Houston, so that made Whitney Houston her cousin.

10:41 Dion. She married in nineteen sixty six. Then early in nineteen sixty seven, they thought that was a mistake and they went and got divorce. Well later in nineteen sixty seven, they thought that was a mistake, so they went and got remarried. Then they had two children, and then they divorced again in nineteen seventy five. Class Shots. You wrong, the coms to scream, I Don't Messua Sycard. And he still sings lead for the New Way band The Fix. So I was born in Wimbley, England or no Wimbledon, England in nineteen fifty seven, sixty years. Yeah, we're a co found of The Fix in nineteen seventy nine.

11:28 They were originally called The Portraits. Some of the fix Its are red skies saved by zero. One thing leads to another. Are we ourselves now? Say? He's at least seven solo albums on the side over the years. Five these things too are just interstrumental. He's married and they live in Santa Cruz, California. The Queen of Percussion. She's also sixty eight. She's born in Oakland, California.

12:14 Now she has a drummer first, then a singer. She's very adamant about that. She started playing drums professionally at nineteen years old. And she's gonna be out and going to the shows starting I think it's like January seventh or something like that. She's starting early, so you can check her out in All Spring in her early summer. Now, she first got known when she played drums on Prince's Purple Rain album. He saw her and he spun her off into her own solo career. So she had the glamorous life Love Bazaarre, hold Me Sex Symbol, and she her and Prince they dated and they were actually engaged for a little bit, but it just didn't work out. Now since then, she's actually besides touring for herself, she's actually been on Ringo Star's All Star Band. Yeah, she's done a couple of tours with him. Actors Jennifer Conley.

12:58 She was born in Cairo, New York, in nineteen seventy fifty five. She started modeling at ten. At fourteen, she was in her first movie, Once Upon a Time in America. She went an Oscar for the Beautiful Mind. She also started in the rocketeer Labyreth Hulk Top Gun Maverick Jennifer. She has a son from a boyfriend, and she married actor Paul Betting in two thousand and three and they have a son and a duffer. Actress miam Bi Alex she's fifty. She's born in San Diego nineteen seventy five. She has fifteen. She started on the TV show Blossom. She was Blossom when Blossom ended after five season. Yeah, she just went to college and got a doctorate in neuroscience. Yeah, she's a brain doctor. Well, that show she was smart, so they put her on the Big Bank Theory for its last eight seasons. She hosed said the game Jeopardy off and on for a couple of years. She was married once for nine years and they had two sons.

13:48 All right her for the day because from country singer Charlie Pride, you got. To kiss you good morning. Let her know you laying about her when years he's an angels that morning, I love her like the devil when you get back. Charlie died today in twenty twenty at eighty six years old. He said, I was always a dreamer in childhood. Especially people thought I was a little weird. Oh thank you for listening today. Don't you have to follow us? Who you listen to? Us? Sons? We're easy to find and go in and check out today's show description. Our country or ground ready artists today comes from Eli in Mississippi. He knows here. Joshua Martin song, there's no words. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

14:35 I've made some hard breaks. I failed deserve shame. I've made some major stakes and this live. And when you're going down, there's no life line. You can't leave the past behind. Consider it be rob. There's no first to express this her. Like being on the com we deserve all the good walls will get used me. All you gotta do's to be true. There's been some dark times, but I can feel the sun shine from coming through.

15:36 Now. I can feel the worms. They are standing in a line, so easy to judge someone else's life. Without those fools. There's no expressives, wyn Bill, count you some morn