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

0:19 Hi, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today's December the fourteenth. The monkey, the monkey, the monkey, Monkey, I'm. Not so. Today is National Monkey Day. Yeah. The difference between monkeys and apes are apes do not have tails, and monkeys are smaller. Smallest monkey is a pygmy marmoset five inches long ways about three point five ounces. Largest monkey is a mandrel. Males they get up to hundred pounds, females around thirty. I do we celebrate monkey Day? Well, we go to the zoo, all right, we can read some Curious George books. All right, we can just have fun acting silly like monkeys do. Now, No, monkeys do not make good pets, so don't even think about asking those for Christmas, especially the hour monkeys. Yeah, they have one of the loudest calls in all the animal kingdom.

1:16 You can hear a how our monkey call three. Miles or away? All right? This this is going on to entertainment. On December the fourteenth, It's back to nineteen fifty eight. Number one album was sing Along with Mitch by Mitch Miller. The Teddy Bears had the number one song with To Know Him Is to love him. No, no, no. Him, he is too long. Love chos to see him Small. Ray Price the number one country song with City Lights all Right, City Live.

2:00 As far as iide can Seelie shines through the nine only God Like. The number one book was Doctor Chivago by Boris Paserneck. Top movie was had Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Now. A drunkex football player ignores his wife and then he's forced to actually spend time with his terminale help father. Stars Paul Newman, Burl Lives and Elizabeth Taylor. Alrighty, what happened on December of the fourteenth, twelve eighty seven's in the Netherlands and northern Germany The Zuazee seawalk collapse because the Saint Louisa flood that is the seventh worst recorded flood in history. Between fifteen eighty thousand people were killed from it actually changed the whole coastline up there Scotland fifteen forty two, King James the fifth had died, so they made his daughter, Yeah, she was crowned queen. She was Queen Mary, the first Queen Mary. She was six days old, sixteen fifty six. In Paris, fans they figured out how to make fit pearls. Yeah, they use gyps and bellets and cover them with fish scales. Now today actually looked at what they are. They still use like a fish's scale. Oil extract on your fake pearl stake.

3:11 But the easiest way to tell if a pearl is fake rubody against your teeth. It feels rough, Yeah, then it's real. If it's fake, then you know. Or it's smooth, yeah, then you know it's fake. The first military engagement in the American Revolution took place today in seventeen seventy four, four hundred New Hampshire militia man. They attacked the British Fort William and Mary. Now the New Hampshire badasses. They did overtake that. For it, they got a bunch of small arms and a whole bunch of gunpowder. Happy Birthday, Alabama today. In eighteen nineteen, Alabama began the twenty second state Alabama. It's a Creek Indian word. It means tribal town.

4:06 Capital is Montgomery. Highest point is Mount Chia at twenty four and thirteen feet Now, it is the thirtieth largest state in area and the twenty fourth largest in population. Alabama State bird is the wild turkey fish, largemouth bass, mammo, black bear, insect, monarch, butterfly, trey is a long leaf pine. Alabama state liquor is wild turkey. Some people born. In Alabama Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Jesse Owens, Hank Williams, kind Of Lisa Ris, Charles Barkley, Courtney Cox, Lino, Ritchie Hank, Aaron bo Jackson, just some of the people born in the Heart of Dixie. Nineteen eleven, in Norway's Rolled Almason, he became the first person to stand on the South Pole.

4:49 Now to celebrate him and his team, they pitched a tent right on top of the South bawl and had the tenth and a big Norwegian flag hanging. Nineteen forty seven in Daytona Beach, Florida, Bill Frown. He organized the meeting that formed the National Association for Stock Car Racing. Today we just call it NASCAR. Nineteen sixty two the United States aircraft Mariner two. It became the first interplanetary spacecraft when it flew by Venus. Yeah, it passed by Venus at twenty one thousand, six hundred miles. That was actually close enough for it to take Venus's temperature said nine hundred degrees. Now scientists they're still kind of surprised how accurate that was. Yeah, with the limited technology they had, we know today that Venus' temperatures eight hundred and sixty seven, eight hundred and seventy degrees.

5:30 Yeah, it doesn't really vary. Not even at ninety nineteen seventy two United States astronauts Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt, they left the Moon on their Apollo seventeen at the spacecraft. No one's been back to the Moon since twenty twelve at Sandy Hook Elementary School and Newtown, Connecticut, got in, fired one hundred and fifty six shots in five minutes, killed twenty kids who were six and seven years old and ate adults. They shooter then killed himself. They still don't know why that jud did it. Twenty sixteen, scientists at the University of Toronto they announced that they had found the oldest water on the planet. They found it deep in a Canadian mine. Water data back to two billion years old. I bet it tasted funny. Now. A very successful British surgeon his name was Simon Bramhill.

6:13 He was a successful worldwide for his organ transplant today. In twenty seventeen, O Simon, he had to fess up, He had to come clean. He admitted that, yeah twice when he performed liver transplant. Yeah, he etched his initials into the livers. Now it didn't really damage the liver, but everyone agreed that's just wrong. So they came up with some yess charge and made him pay a ten thousand pounds fine. Joke, doke, co joked, joke, sharge, This shiverf day's gonna he left this shiver day. We got simple target this shivers day. And you you don't give up word okay. He was born into simb of the fourteenth America in general and study by Jimmy Doolittle. He's born in Alameda, California, in eighteen ninety six. In nineteen twenty seven and Jimmy, he made the first blind airplane flight. See, they blacked out his cockpit so he had to just use instruments the whole flight, from the time he took off all the way till he circled around and leny landed again.

7:07 Then in World War Two he was ordered a Medal of Honor because see four months after Pearl Harbor America. It was pretty down getting attack like that. But Japan, they were on top of the world. They believed they were untouchable. Well, Jimmy, he led sixteen bombers on a one way bombing mission. They took off from aircraft carriers and dropped their bombs on Tokyo. Of course they didn't have enough gas to get back, so they. Just kept going. Yeah, they disched their planes off in China. Sixty nine in the minlive three died. Now Japan, they freaked out. They could not see how that was absolutely possible. United States. Yeah, she got a little bounce back in her step. Jimmy married in nineteen seventeen and they had two sons. He died from a stroke in nineteen ninety three at ninety six years old. Actress Francis baby Air. She was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen oh two. She was best known for playing at b on The Andy Griffith Show and then Mayberry RFD. Don't know for sure, but it sounds like she married for a couple of years in the nineteen thirty Francis died from congestive heart failure nineteen eighty nine, eight days before her eighty seventh birthday.

8:03 Now she lived in this really small town called Silver City in North Carolina. Now in her will, she left a one hundred thousand dollars trust fund for the town's entire police force. She wanted to make sure that they all received Christmas bonuses every year. Comedian actor Maury Amsterdam and he was born in Chicago in nineteen oh eight, started out doing vadevelven radio that's now ever being Buddy on the Dick Van Dyke Show. Now, when Moore did his stand up act, he was called the human joke Machine. See people in the audience, they would just yell out a subject and he would turn it into a joke. He got married to a second wife in nineteen forty nine. They're together until he died in nineteen ninety six at eighty seven years old from a heart attack. They had two children. Hey didn't you happen to see the most beautiful the world?

8:50 And she cried Hey. Now that was country singer Charlie Rich. She was born in Colt, Arkansas, in nineteen thirty two. Started releasing the song in the nineteen sixties. He hit really big in the nineteen seventies. Some of his number one songs are Behind Closed Doors Most Beautiful Girl. That one went up to number one on the pop chart, A very special love song, I Love my Friend Now. Even though he was still really successful and popular, he retired in the nineteen eighties, just got burned out. He married nineteen fifty two and they had four kids. Charlie died in nineteen ninety five at sixty two years old. He had pulmonary embolism.

9:32 Oh My Darling nine three times on the ceiling and you love easy answers. Oh my sleepiness means you meet me in the hall. Joyce Vincent Wilson. She was half of Dawn in Tony Orlando and Don. Joyce and Thoma Hopkins were Don Joyce. She's seventy nine to days. She's born in Detroit nineteen forty six. Now Joyce and Thoma they became Don Tony's backup singers in nineteen seventies. Now they had their final Pharewell tour last year. They are completely done. The nineteen seventies Tony Orlando and Don they were really big. They haven't had their own TV show. Then they had the hits Candida Knocked three times, ty Yellow Ribbon around the old Oak, Jay Tree, he don't love you like I love you now joyous. When she wasn't with Tony and Orlando and don she was do her all the time with all different kinds of artists, you name him. She was like with supremes and all of them. So she stayed really busy over the years. Actress Patty Duke. She was born in New York City in nineteen forty six.

10:39 When Patty was fifteen, she went an oscar playing Helen Keller and the Miracle Worker on TV. She started on The Patty Duke Show. She played two identical cousins. Nineteen eighty two, Patty, she was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder. At that time, no one talked about mental e ones. Yeah, Patty, she didn't care. She made it public, first celebrity to talk about mindal illiness, gave a huge ad at for it and raised a lot of money for it. She had a son then her third husband. He actually adopted him. That son is actor Sean Austin. Then her and her third husband they had another son. They did divorce. Then she married her fourth husband in nineteen eighty six and they had a son, now Patty. She died from sepsis in twenty sixteen at sixteen nine years old. Actress Dee Wallace.

11:19 She's seventy seven. She's born in Kansas City, Kansas, in nineteen forty eight. Started out doing horror movies The Hills Have Eyes, The Howling, Then she played the mom on Et. Then she went back to horror movies Kujoe, Critters, Alligator, to the Mutation, House of the Devil. Now not just for horror films, but she was in over hundred forty movies. She had a daughter from her second husband, that was CJ.

12:03 Snare. He sang for the band Firehouse CJ's one in Washington, d C. In nineteen fifty nine, help form Firehouse in nineteen eighty four. Now he's singing and wrote all our hit songs. Some of their hitsits that the Road Where, Don't treat Me bad? Love of a Lifetime all She wrote when I Look into Your Eyes. Twenty twenty, CJ was diagnosed with colon cancer. So he took a little break from it and then dealt with it. Then he went to go back on tour with the guys YEP. Colon cancer got in last April with twenty twenty four sixty four years old. CJ had two sons and a daughter. All right here, Court of the Day comes from the father of our country, George Washington. He died today in seventeen ninety nine at sixty seven years old. George says, a freedom of speech is taken away, we shall all be led like sheep the slaughter. Well, thank you all for listening today. We get to follow us and all you listen to us on so it makes it easiest for us till for you to find us. Yeah, check out the day's show description. Answer any questions you might have.

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