Dec 14th-Monkey, Alabama BDAY, Aunt Bea, Charlie Rich, Tony Orland & Dawn, Patty Duke, Firehouse

0:09 Well, hi there, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Factoids about today, visited by Cool Media. Today's December the fourteenth. The monkey, The monkey, the monkey, Monkey. I'm not so Today is National Monkey Day. The difference between monkeys and apes. Apes do not have tails, and monkeys are smaller. The smallest monkey is a pygmy marmoset is five inches long and three point five ounces. The largest monkey is a mandro. Males they can get up to about one hundred pounds. Females a little old less than thirty. I do just celebrate monkey Day. Why you go to the zoo? You can read some Curious George books.

0:58 You know you can't use that fun being silly like a monkey would. Now, No, monkeys do not make good pets, so don't even think about that for Christmas. All right? This is going on in entertainment on December the fourteenth, and the year nineteen sixty six. Number one album was The Monkeys by the Monkeys. That's just a coincidence. The Beach Boys had the number one song with good vibrations. I'm taking. She's getting me excitations.

1:42 Jack Green had the number one country song, but there goes my everything. Oh, my dreams. There smile. The number one book was the Secret of Santa Victoria by Robert Crichton. The top movie was A Man for All Seasons. It's the story of Sir Thomas Moore. He stood up King Henry the Eighth when the king got rid of the Catholic Church so he could divorce and remare stars Paul Schofield, Wendy Hiller and Robert Shaw.

2:24 Okay, what happened on. December of the fourteenth, twelve eighty seven in the northwest Netherlands, The zuitter Ze seawall collapsed during the Saint Lucia Flood. It's the seventh largest recorded flood in world history. Fifty thousand, eighty thousand people were killed. Fifteen forty two In Scotland, King James the fifth had died, so his daughter took over as ruling at Scotland. She was Queen Mary, the first Queen Mary was six days old. In Paris, France, in sixteen fifty six, they figured out how to make artificial or fake pearls. They'd used gypsum pellets and cover them with fish scales. Now, after all these years and all the technology, the easiest way to tell a pearl is real and yeah, it just robe against your teeth. If it feels rough, it's real. If it feels smooth, it's fake. And what is considered the first military engagement of the American Revolution seventeen seventy four a fore under New Hampshire Militia min they attacked Fort William and Mary.

3:15 It was a British fort. Yeah, the militia men they were able to take over the fort, got a whole bunch of small arms and about one hundred cask of gunpowder. Happy Birthday Alabama is today in eighteen nineteen Alabama in the twenty second state Alabama. It's a Creek Indian word. It means tribal town. Capital is Montgomery. Highest point as Mount Chee had twenty four and thirteen feet. Alabama state bird as wild turkey, fish is the large mount bath, mammal is the black bear insect, monarch, butterfly, trey, longleaf, pine liquor, wild turkey, and Alba. Alabama they had three state foods peach, BlackBerry, i'm pecan unofficial state food well turkey.

4:15 Some people born in Alabama Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Jesse Owens, Hank Williams cond Lisa Rice, Charles Barkley, Courtney Cox, Lina Ritchie, Hank, Aaron bo Jackson, Channing Tatum, and is some of the people born in the Hearted Dixie. Nineteen eleven in Norway's rold Umson, he became the first person to stand on the south Pole. Nineteen forty seven in Daytona Beach, Florida, the National Association for Stock Car Racing was formed. Yeah, we all just call it NASCAR. Nineteen sixty two of the United States spacecraft, the Mariner two, became the first interplanetary spacecraft when it flew past Venus. Yeah, passed Venus by twenty one thy six hundred miles. That was actually close enough to take Venus's temperature in nine hundred degrees.

4:57 Nineteen seventy two United States astronauts Hamilton Schmidt and Eugene Cernon they crawled back into their lunar spacecraft. That ended the Apollo seventeen trip to the Moon, and no one's in back to the Moon since. In twenty twelve, at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut, a gunman fired one hundred and fifty six shots in five minutes, killed twenty kids who were six and seven years old and seven adults murderer. He ended up killing himself. They still don't really know why the net job did it. In twenty sixteen, at the University of Toronto, their scientists announced they found the oldest water on the planet. They found it deep in a Canadian mine. Now the water dated back to two billion years old. I bet it tasted funny. A very successful British surgeon. His name was Simon Bramwell.

5:40 He was famous worldwide for successful organ transplants. Yeah, he performed him all over well today in twenty seventeen. Yeah, he had to come clean. He fessed up. He had to admit to the fact that twice while performing liver transplants, he etched his initials into those two livers. Yeah. I really didn't damn with the liverage. But everybody knew that it was just wrong. They didn't know how to punish him, so finally they just charged him with as salt and made him pay a ten thousand pounds fine joke, joke. Joked, joke, shote Thish shivers day. Please don't he left this shiverfday. We want simple tags. He left this shivers day and you don't do to Okay.

6:21 It was born on December of the fourteenth American General and stead Byley Jimmy Doolittle. He was born in Alameda, California, in eighteen ninety six. Nineteen twenty seven, Jimmy he made the first blind airplane flight. Now, they blacked out his entire cockpit and so he had to make that entire flight from takeoff the landing with just his instruments. Then during World War Two he was awarded the Middle of Honors see four months after Pearl Harbor happened. America, Yeah, they were pretty down, But Japan they were on top of the world. They didn't think anybody could touch them. Well anyway, Doolittle he led sixteen bombers on a one way mission bombing mission. They took off from an aircraft carrier, dropped their bombs on Tokyo. They didn't have enough gas get back, so they just kept going and dissed their planes in China. Sixty nine men lived, three died. Now Japan they were freaked out. They thought they were intougible.

7:08 America I got a little bounce back on her step Jamie. He married nineteen seventeen and they had two sons. He died from a stroke in nineteen ninety three at ninety six years old. Actress Francis BeVier. She was born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen o two. She was best known for playing MP on The Andy Griffith Show and then Maybe RFT No. I wasn't sure, but they think she got married for a couple years in the nineteen thirties. Francis she died from congestive heart failure in nineteen eighty nine, eight days before eighty seventh birthday. She lived in this early small town called Silver City, North Carolina. In her will, she left a one hundred thousand trust fund for the town's entire police force. She wanted to make sure they received Christmas bonuses every year. Comedian actor Maury Amsterdam. He was born in Chicago in nineteen oh eight. Start out on vaudeville, then radio. Best known for playing Buddy on The Dick Van Dyke Show. Now, when Maury would do his stand up act, he was called the human joke machine.

8:13 See he would just have people in the audience yell out a subject. Yeah, he can make a joke out of everything. He married a second wife in nineteen forty nine and they were together until he died in nineteen ninety six at eighty seven years old from art attack. They had two children, Hey did you happen to see the most Beautiful the World? And fifteen. She cried, Hey, Hey. That was country singer Charlie Rich. He was born in Colt, Arkansas, in nineteen thirty two. Started releasing songs in the nineteen sixties, but he you get really big in the nineteen seventies.

8:56 Some of his number one songs were behind closed Doors most Beautiful Girl. That actually was the number one on the pop chart. He had a very special love song, I Love my Friend Now. He pretty much. Retired in the nineteen eighties, though. Yeah, even though he was having a really big success, he kind of got burned down. Got married nineteen fifty two and they had four children. Charlie died in nineteen ninety five and sixty two years old from a pulmonary embolems embolism. Old three times on the ceiling and he he's the answer is my sleeves means you meet me in the hall.

9:41 Joyce Vincent Wilson. She is half of Don in Tony Orlando and Don Joyce and Thema Hopkins were done Joyce, she's seventy eight. She's born in Detroit nineteen forty six. Now Joyce and Thoma became his backup singer Don in nineteen seventy. Now supposedly this last year they ended at They're All Done. They had their fail War tours and all that kind of stuff. So we'll see Tony, Orlando and Don. They were really big in the nineteen seventies. They even had their own TV variety show. Some of their heads for Candida Knock three times, Ty Yellow Ribbon around the old Oak tray, he don't Love You like I Love You. Yeah. When she wasn't performing, she'd do other reunion tours with other acts from. The nineteen sixties and stuff. Yeah. She even sing with Us Springs for a little bit. Yeah, she stayed really busy. Actress Patty Duke. She was born in New York City in nineteen forty six. When she was fifteen, she went an oscar playing Helen Keller and the Miracle Worker. Then she started on her own TV show, The Patty Duke Show, but she actually played two identical cousins.

10:36 In nineteen eight and nineteen eighty two, Patty she was diagnosed with bipolar disilder and no one talked about mental illness back then. Patty, she came out public with it. Yeah, she was the first celebrity to talk about mental illness. She was really groundbreaking. I mean she would advocate for it and try and raise money for it and all that kind of stuff. She had a son then when she married her throat husband, that guy he adopted him. That son is actor Sean Austin. How her and that husband had another son and they divorced. Then she married her fourth husband in nineteen eighty six and they had a son. They were together till Patty died from sepsis in twenty sixteen and sixty nine years old. Actress Dee Wallace is seventy six. She was born in Kansas City, Kansas. In nineteen forty eight, she played the mom on the movie Et. Then she did a whole bunch of horror films, The Hills Have Eyes, the Howling Kujo Critters, that was just some of them. D She had a daughter from her second husband. Her second husband died and then she married her third husband in nineteen ninety eight.

11:53 That was C. J. Snare singing for a Firehouse. He was born in Washington, d C in nineteen fifty nine, helped form Fire Our House back in nineteen eighty four. He sang and wrote all or hit songs. Some of those hits are Don't Treat Me Bad, Love of a Lifetime all she wrote when I Look into Your Eyes Now. He had two sons and one daughter. In twenty twenty A c J. Yeah, he was diagnosed with colon cancer. He took a little break from the band, but he's gonna go back out on tour with him this year about the colon cancer had got him. On April fifth, at sixty four years old, all. Right, let's go back and talk about monkeys. How our monkeys. They have one of the loudest calls of any land man animal. You can hear a hower monkey car roar three miles away. Oh, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on comes see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool, three others and see what's going on the radio stations.

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