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

0:10 Well, hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, presented by Cool Media. It is December the twelfth. When I was a little beady boy, my grandmother bought me a cute little toy silver bells hanging on a string. She told me it was my dingling ing. Today is National dingling Day. I might not be what you're thinking. Today is about calling up people you haven't talked to in a long time. Go oh, come on, it's not that hard. No texting, no emails, no shout outs on social media. Actually make a phone call. You know, it's not hard spinning a couple of minutes, saying hi to someone you had a lost track of and letting them know that you so think about him.

1:03 Now. Today is actually two purposes. Besides making some phone calls, you're supposed to drop some money into those salvation army kettles that you have the people out there doing their dingling on. Yeah, that's where it gets his cause and it makes a cool day. You get to make some calls and drop some coin. You feel like you actually had many difference today. Now, on a side note, that song by Chuck Berry my dingling It has nothing to do with today, but that is Chuck's only number one song. All right, let's see it happened Entertainment nine December the twelfth, Let's go back to two thousand and six. Number one album was Kingdom Come by jay z A. Cone and Snoop Dogg had the number one song with I Want to Love You and I'm gonna. Give me get shot for the end of the night because Sophian Baby, don't be. One run No. You see me looking at you and You'm already know you, already know ona love.

1:58 Rascal Flats add the number one country song with My Wish for You. Wish you. Want your dream stay, you want to stay so never. Even carry where you get to. The number one book was Crossed by James Patterson. The top movie was The Pursuit of Happiness, a broke salesman takes custody of his son and his career. Ben's take Off stars Will Smith, Jane Smith, and Sandy Noon Hi proably wonder what happened on December the twelfth, Happy Birthday Pennsylvania Today. In seventeen eighty seven, Pennsylvania Canyon. Yeah, they became the second state when they ratified the US Constitution Pennsylvania. It means Pennswood's William Penn named it after his dad. Capital is Harrisburg.

3:14 Highest point is Mount Davis at three two and thirteen feet. Pennsylvania state bird is the ruffled grouse. State dog is the great Dane. State fish is the brook trout. Flower is the Mountain Laurel mammal, white tailed deer tree, eastern hemlock. Some people born in Pennsylvania Grace Kelly, James Stewart, Mister Rogers, Bradley Cooper, Kobe Bryant, Taylor Swift, Kevin Hart, Pink, Tommy and Jenny In though it's just some of the people born in the Keystone State. Why Keystone State, Well, it's because it's right in the center. There was six states north of it and six states south of it when they first started with the original thirteen eighteen seventy A Republican from South Carolina, Joseph Rainey. He became the first black man to serve in the United States House Representatives.

3:58 They won a special election back home in South care Line in a fill of vacancy. Joseph, he was a very successful barber before he went into politics, served for nine years in eighteen seventy four Hawaii, it was an independent country. Now they're King David and Kala Kakaboea. He became the first king to ever visit the United States. Then he became president. You listen as Grand's guest of honor at the very first White House dinner or a state dinner. Yeah, now, a little sidivy. What president do you think held them out White House State dinners while he was in office? Ronald Reagan held fifty nine of them in Boston in eighteen ninety nine. George Bryant, he invented the wooden golf tea. See before then each hole had a box of wet sand on it, and the golfers would make a mound out of the sand with their hands, and that's what they hit the ball off of nineteen oh one, all the experts they said that you could not send a radio signal over two hundred miles. Yeah, because of the curvature of the earth. Marconi he believed that you could. He thought the radio signals would just follow the curve of the Earth. So he took himself out of five hundred foot antenna and he sent radio signals for from Cronwell England over to Newfoundland, Canada, twenty two hundred miles away. It kind of surprised him and everybody else but him and the experts. They were wrong on how he was able to do it. The reason he was able to send those signals that long, Yeah, they would bounce off the ionosphere. India nineteen eleven, Delhi.

5:16 It replaced Calcutta as the capital of India. It became New Delhi in nineteen twenty seven. It's still the capitol. Nineteen twenty five and sam luis a Pisspo, California. The Motelian opened up the world's first motel, Arthur Heinman. He created the motel by combining the words motor and hotel nineteen forty six. Tied laundry detergent went on sale in nineteen forty nine. Over in Sweden, military airplane maker Sob they started making cars. Now every car that they made for the first seven years, yeah, they all everyone was sold in It was painted green. Why well, they had a whole bunch of green paint left over. After the end of World War Two. In nineteen eighty, Apple went public with its first stock offering, went on sale for twenty two dollars a share. So had you bout one shriff stock for twenty two dogs. He kept it all these years, with all the splits and all that kind of stuff that went on. That one sheriff stock today would be worth fifty and seventy six bucks. In twenty nineteen, in Antarctica they found the lowest point of land on Earth.

6:13 It is under that Denman Glacier. It's at eleven five hundred feet below sea level. But I see they still have the dead sea half of the record. Is the lowest place on Earth at four and thirty feet because they think of that Denman Glacier ever melted. Yeah, I would just fill that thing with a big ass lake dopp dope. Thish Shivers Day were gonna tag he left this shiver day. We won't simple tage like this Shivers Day. And you know you don't get that Earth. Well, let's check out. It's born on December of the twelfth. I traveled each and every highway. And more.

6:56 Much more than this. I did it my way. He was called the Chairman of the Board. He was called old blue Eyes. Frank Sinatra. He's born in Hoboken, New Jersey, in nineteen fifteen. One of the biggest entertainers of all time. He dominated in the forties, fifties, and sixties. Frankie sold over one hundred and fifty million records. Some of his classic hits are New York, New York, Strangers in the Night, Love, and Marriage My Way. Starting over fifty movies. Some of those were Here to a Returnity on the Town, Guys and Dolls, Ocean's eleven. Frankie had himself three kids from his first wife, Nancy, Frank Junior, and Tina. Then he married Ava Gardner for six years.

7:36 Then he married Mia Farrell for two years. Then he married his fourth wife in nineteen seventy six. They were together into frank died in nineteen ninety eight, eighty two years old, had a heart attack. Whew. One of the first four contestant called the Price is Right and now here's the Star of the Price Is Right. Bye fucker, Bob ker. He was born in Darrington, Washington, in nineteen twenty three. He hosted the game show Truth or Consequences from nineteen fifty six to nineteen seventy five, hosted Prizes Ride from nineteen seventy two to two thousand and seven. Now He also hosted Miss USA and Miss Universe of Pages from nineteen sixty seven to nineteen eighty seven. Bob he started out just as a regular radio DJ before going into game shows. Biggest movie it was Happy Gilmour.

8:23 He beat up the crap out of Adam Sandler. Bob got married nineteen forty five. His wife died in nineteen eighty one. Bob, he just died last year at ninety nine years old, from Molzheimer's. It was nineteen sixty Connie Francis who was singing there. She became the first woman to have the number one song on the Billboard Pop chart. It was that one. My Heart has a Mind of its own. Connie. She's eighty seven to day. It's born in Newark, New Jersey. In nineteen thirty seven. She sold over a hundred million records, had fifty three hit songs. Now.

9:07 Connie's first, second, and fourth marriage is all ast at one year each. Her third marriage that lasted seven years, so she had a son from that one. Connie. She never could get over Bobby Darren. You hear and Bobby Darren tried to get married, but her dad forbid it. Yeah, never could replace Bobby. The moment. My bag, I say your little prefore. Welcome and. Wons too well, Hell, I say you little. Dione Warwick she's eighty four. She was born in East Orange, New Jersey, in nineteen forty. Deane. She kicks off a world tour on January eleventh in Australia. Yeah, it ends in the UK in May. She is the second most tried a female singer during the rock era, that's from nineteen fifty five to nineteen ninety five. She tried at fifty six walk on by do you know the Way to San Jose? Then came you That's what friends are for, Yeah, some of them. Diana Ross she actually charted the most songs during that era, all time most charted female and Madonna Deon. She had a sister, Didi, who was a very successful singer. Her aunt was Sister Houston, so that made Whitney Houston her cousin. Diane. She married nineteen sixty six.

10:20 Then they divorced really early in nineteen sixty seven, which was cool because that game time. Later in nineteen sixty seven they remarried, had two children. They divorced again in nineteen seventy five. Shots You Commas to scream I Don't Mess You set. Side Kurta and he still sings late for the New Way Ban The Fix. He was born in Wimbledon, England, in nineteen fifty seven. Sixty seven year old co founded The Fix in nineteen seventy nine, originally called The Portraits Some Fix, It's our Red Sky saved by zero. One thing leads to another. We are our sales now, so I usually seven solo albums on the side over the years.

11:12 He is married and they live in France. The Queen of Percussion. She is also sixty seven. She's born in Oakland, California. Now she is a drummer first and then a singer. She is very adamant about that. She started playing drums professionally when she was nineteen. Then she played drums on Princess Purple Rain album and he spun her off into her own solo career. Some of her heads were The Glamorous Life, I Love Bizarre, Hold Me Sex Symbol. Now over the years, she's not the drump for ringo stars.

12:01 I'll start band when they've gone out on tour a few times. But she's getting ready to go out on her own. At the end of January, with her own band, Our and Prince. They were engaged for a little bit and it just didn't work out. Actress Jenny fir Connolly. She was born in nineteen seventy in Cairo, New York, makes her fifty four years old. She started modeling at ten. At fourteen, she was in her first movie, Once Upon a Time in America. She went an Oscar for a Beautiful Mind. She also started in a rocketeer Labrath Hulk, top Gun Maverick. She had a son from a boyfriend and she married in two thousand and three and they have a son and a daughter. Don't know. Any about his jo. The reason bum getting all your.

12:41 Tensil. I give you my opinion, Nations, this son is only shit holdesh. Actress mayam Biallack is forty nine. She's born in San Diego, California. In nineteen seventy five. When she was fifteen, she started on the TV show Blossom. She was Blossom after five years on Blossom, and she did like most child actors. Yeah, she went to school and got her doctor at neuroscience. She's a brain doctor. And after that, I guess she was smart. So she went to the big bank there she coasted the game show Jeopardy for a couple of years. She was married for nine years and they had two sons. In Pennsylvania, it is the only original colony that was never bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. When you have beer, all right, thank you for listening today when we were appreciate it. Never get to follow us on whoever you listen to us on. Never get out Country Underground Radio, the top independent country music radio station there is in the home whole world. We're actually really big in Denmark for some reason. All right, let's end with Charlie Pride.

13:44 You got to kiss Angel good morning. Let her know you think about her when year ago, kiss an Angel. I love her like the devil. When you get. Charlie died today in twenty twenty at eighty six years old. Charlie said, I was always a dreamer in childhood, especially people thought I was a little weird. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.