Dec 1st- Rosa Parks, Madame Tussaud, Playboy Magazine, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, Twenty One Pilots

0:19 Well, welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today's December. The first animal. Round amimble, red apple, juicy apple, sweet apple apple, I love you, hal sweet, I love to eat. Today is National Eater Red Apple Day. Yeah, that seems a little out of the season. You know. Green apples are actually a little healthier than red apples. Red apples. They taste better though, now the old saying an apple a day will keep the doctor away. It's your elves. They're eye and fiber, magnesium, potassium, Vita McKay.

1:00 They have cholesterol learning benefits. So what have you do enjoying apple today? I probably wouldn't put in a pyrup pastry though. All right, this is going on in entertainment nine December. First, let's back to nineteen ninety seven. Number one album was Higher Ground by Barbara Streysan Elton John had the number one song with Candle in the Wind, the nineteen ninety seven version Goodbye the Truths. May you ever grow in a hot You are the grest place to seven. We'll lives would turn apart. You called out to our country, and you whispered to those in pain.

1:40 Now you belong to heaven. Shania Twain had the number one country song with Love Gets Me every Time. Have No One. Stagan single Wasn't Didn't leave a stead of Man. I had it coming until I had discovered the. Tall Don Gunn. And did it. The number one book was The Ghost by Danielle Steele. The top movie was Flubber. Now Robin Williams, He's an absence signed to Professor. His fiancee is Marsha gay Harden. Now Robin accidentally invents Flubber. So now Christopher McDonald, he wants to steal Marsha and the secrets to Flubber. All right, what happened on to some of the first eighteen forty two Phillip Spencer, Now he was a spoiled rich brat.

2:33 His dad was the United States Secretary of War. So to try and settle Philip down, they put him in the Navy as an officer. They first put him on the ship to North Carolina, so twice he got drunk and assaulted another officer, so they transferred him over to the John Adams. Then on Shortlean he got in a big drunken brawl and beat up a British officer, So then they transferred him over to the USS Summers. Now they didn't tell that captain of the Summers. Yeah, they didn't tell who his dad was. So then Philip and two of his other sailors, of course, they got drunk, and then they came up with a plan to take over the Summers and sail it as a pirate ship. Well, the captain found out about it had all three men hung. So nineteen year old Spencer, Philip Spencer, became the first United States Naval officer ever executed for mutiny and the last. Yeah, it's the only mutiny in US naval history, was that one.

3:18 Nineteen thirteen, for the first time in world history, Ford they began using a moving assembly line to make their Model t cars. Now it reduced the time to make one car from twelve hours to two and a half hours. Over the next year and a half, they got it down to about ninety three minutes for every Model TA. So they wondered, how long does it take to make a car today, Well, between seventeen and thirty one hours. Also in nineteen thirteen in Pittsburgh, the first drive up gas station opened up, I guess to service all those Model tastes. Now it was specific to sell fuel and other automobile products. Gas twenty seven cents a gallon, so today that'd be six dollars and fifty cents a gallon. So I want to win with gas the cheapest nineteen thirties, Yeah, gasoline cost ten cents, well, little under ten cents of Gallon nineteen forty one, Japan's Emperor Herihido he signed a declaration of war on the United States. I didn't tell the United States still after Pearl Harbor though, so one year later to the day, in nineteen forty two, the United States but gas and tire rationing into effect. Because of the war Japan, they had taken over most of the countries that produced rubber. So if you had more than five tires in the United States government, they would confiscate the extra tires. Then once you proved that you only had five tires, then you can get a gas card. Now, regular people, you can only get three gallons of gas a week. Now, if you worked for the defense industry, you can get eight gallons of gas. If you were a trucker, a doctor, policeman, and clergy something essential workers, yeah, you could drive all you wanted. Nineteen fifty three, the first issue a Playboy magazine was published first Sintler Centerfold Maryland, Monroe now Maryland. She did not pose nude for those pictures in Playboy. Nope, she posed nude for those pictures

4:50 four years earlier for a photographer who offered a fifty bucks so she could make her her car payment. He got his money back. In Montgomery, Alabama, in nineteen fifty five, Rosa Parks she was arrested for her not giving up her seat on a public bus to a white passenger. Rosa she was seated in the black section of the bus, but the white section filled up, so Rosa and the other black riders they were told to move farther back on the bus. The other black riders actually did. Rosa she didn't. She stayed were put. She said she's had enough. Now that rest of Rosa. It led to the year long Montgomery bus boycott. Now that boycott, it led to the Supreme Court decision that ruled that bus segregation was unconstitutional. Added Rosa get out of jail while civil rights leader Eating Nixon and two of us white friends. Yeah, they posted Roses one hundred dollars bail, about twelve hundred dollars today in twenty sixteen, the UN or the United Nations, they admitted that it was their peacekeepers that were responsible for the Collar of epidemic in eighty back in twenty ten. Yeah, that collar epidemic killed over thirty thousand nations. Now in on our I guess it was in honor of Red Apple Day in twenty nineteen. I knew Red Apple came out that they created called the Cosmic Crisp went out to sell today. We just had one of those not too long. Ag they're actually pretty good. Okay, we'll talk about COVID nineteen. So what they think was the first patient to get COVID nineteen He got sick today in Wahoon, China.

6:10 He was a fifty five year old man in the first one to show symptoms woman twenty twenty four. Just last year, President Joe Biden Barton, his son Hunter. Joked, joked, joke, charge dish shibirf days. He left this shibirthday. We want simple potage like this shibirth day. You you don't give birthday. Okay. He was born on December the first. Well, she's famous as Madiam Tussard, but Murray Tussar. She was born in Strasburg, France in seventeen sixty one, now when she has six years old. In Paris, she started working as an apprentice for a well known wax model maker. By the time she was seventeen, she was the top wax sculptor in Paris. She was rich and during the French Revolution she was sentenced to death for hanging out with the other French royalty people. At the very last minut though, they gave her a stay of guest or state of execution right before she got guillotine. They decided they wanted to use her talent, so they did well. They made her make wax deaths masks of all the people they were guillotating, oh even Marie Antoinette. Now, after the Revolution Tassars, she went to London. She opened up Madame Tussard's Wax Museum in eighteen thirty five. Now her wax sculptures they instant became world famous. She had married back in seventeen ninety five and they had three kids. She died in her sleep in eighteen fifty and eighty eight years old.

7:29 Today Madam or Madam Tusar's wax Museum. Yeah, they're all over the world. Excellent. Now those life size wax figures, they're actually scolped to two percent bigger than the actual person. That makes up for the shrinkage of the wax win At cools and hardens. Actor David Doyle. He was born in Lincoln, Nebraska in nineteen twenty nine. Best known for TV, he played Bosley on Charlie's Angels. Him and Jacqueline Smith were the only two that were in every episode. Now after Charlie's Angels, Doyle, He've always Grandpa Pickles in the Rugrats. The biggest movie was Capricorn one. He had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife nineteen sixty nine. He died from a heart attack in nineteen ninety seven, sixty seven years old. No matter year.

8:13 About it would be so cool to talk like Lou rawls a deep, very tone. Boys. Lou is born in Chicago nineteen thirty three. So there were forty million records. Some of our love is hurting thing? You good? Are your good things about to end? Lady love, You'll never find another love like mine. He had three children from his first wife. Married his third wife in two thousand and four and they had a son. Yeah, he was seventy one, but it's okay. She was only thirty four now.

8:53 Lou died from lung and brain cancer in two thousand and six at seventy two years old. LOUI He actually started out singing backup for Sam Cook. Yeah, they went to high school together holding. Why would you stop to play Missus Joe, Missus Jones, Missus Jones. That was Billy Paul. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen thirty four. Billy started releasing songs in nineteen fifty two. Then he did a short stint in the army, came back and picked up right where you left off. Some of his big as hits are thanks for saving my life, Let's make a baby, Let's clean up the ghetto, Me and Missus Jones. That was the biggest one. Billy married nineteen sixty seven and they had two children. He died in twenty sixteen from paintcreatic cancer, eighty one years old.

9:49 Richard Pryor He was born in Pure, Illinois in nineteen forty One of the greatest stand up comedians of all time at Richard He was born in a brothel now. The brothel was run by his grandmother. His mom was a prostitute and his dad was a pimp. His grandmother ended up raising Richard. Now, he did a couple of years in the army. When he got out in nineteen sixty three, he started doing stand up in New York City. That didn't work out good at all. So in nineteen sixty seven he said they ol with it. He just started to using profanity in his act. He used the F word, the N word, in any other word he felt like using. Well, it worked. His career of skyrocketing, released twenty comedy albums, seven concert movies within over forty films. We did a bunch of Gene Wild, Theer's Silver Street ex Stir Crazy, he see no Evil Here, No evil that was on the toy Bust and Loose Brewsters, Million and Richard. Okay, this is just an overview of Richard's life.

10:38 Richard he was married seven times to five women, and then he had seven children from six women who weren't all his wife. Now, after a lifetime of smoking, drinking and doing dragons, Richard he died from a heart attack two thousand and five, sixty five years old. You all win. The singer actress Bethe Miller is eighty years old. She's born in Honolulu, in the Territory of Hawaii in nineteen forty five. See Hawaii didn't become a state until nineteen fifty nine. She says she grew up in the only Jewish house in an all Asian neighborhood. Now, Bet she was discovered when she's singing at the Continental Baths in New York City. Yeah, it was a gay bathhouse, so they knew talent. Some of her songs that are most known are The Rose, win Beneath My Wings, Do You Want to Dance? Boogie Woogie, Buckle Boy. She was Nominy Froscars for the movies The Rose and then for The Boys.

11:42 She's won three Grammys and two Tonys. Bet. She married nineteen eighty four and they have a daughter. Actress Charlette Tilton. She was born in San Diego nineteen fifty eight. She's sixty seven, best known for playing Lucy Ewing on the TV show Dallas. Her first TV rolls on the sitcom Happy Days, her first movie She Had a Small Heart, and Freaky Friday. Now she's twice divorced. Her first husband is country singer Johnny Lee. They had a daughter, to the Good No Names One, The Mom say now what's stressed out? The good. When the mom must. Say, now, what's stressed out?

12:25 The singer for the due twenty one Pilot says Tyler Joseph. He's thirty seven, born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen eighty eight. Now twenty one pilots. They started out as a four piece band in two thousand and nine. Now it's just Tyler and Josh Dunn name twenty one Pilots. It comes from the play All My Sons. They've released eight albums now they are the only artist in history to have every song on two different albums. Go Gold, Stressed Out, Ride Level Concern. That's some of their heads. Tyler he married in twenty fifteen and they have two girls and a boy. All right here Code of the Day. It's gonna come from one of the greatest second basemen in the baseball histories, Nellie Fox, died to day in nineteen seventy five at forty seven years old. Nelli says, if you're satisfied, you're gonna slip. You have to keep fighting to improve. True. Well, thank you all for listening today.

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