Dec 20th-Sangria, KISS, Alan Parsons Project, Black Crows, Elvis Drafted, Missouri Taxes Bachelors

0:09 Happy Friday everyone. I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today, presented by Cool Media. Today's December the twentieth. Him doesn't like that novieacancy sina fruit you scanned, just begging to beat your spile. Then, so you take my hand in yours, and it's just like sangree. Lips chis like sangree. Today is National Sangria Day. If you don't know what sangree is, it's red riine with fresh fruit or fruit. Juice is added to it. Now, if you make it with white wine, then the sangria blanco so grea. It started in Spain a long time ago. Now if you use actual fruit and you eat the fruit because of a fairly healthy drink. So get together with some friends today and toast the beginning of winter tomorrow and that we have five days left in the Christmas season and enjoy some san gria. All right, this see what's going on in entertainment On December twentieth, Let's back to the year twenty seventeen. Number one album was Reputation by Taylor Swift, Post Malone and twenty one Savage had the number one song with rockstar I.

1:19 Man a fields like a rock star. Oh my brothers got that guessing they always be smoking like a rock star. Women and women called up on yes show what manem the shots? When my homies pulled up on your blood. They made that thing. Garth Brooks had the number one country song with Ask me how I know? Hold on to your bride, so Bible to love you often, never let us get inside you. Wish you ahead. That's all you know how to do in the city that you would back and not to do. Ask me how.

2:05 The number one book was Darker fifty Shades Darker as told by Christian by E. L. James. Top movie was Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle. Four teenagers are sucked into a video game to get out there to win. The game stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, and Karing Gillen. All Right, what happened on December the twentieth, eighteen oh three in New Orleans, Francis flag was lowered and the American flag was raised. That was the whole ceremony. It was official transfer of land that the United States bought in the Louisiana Purchase, and I spent State spent fifteen million dollars on that land. It was four cents an acre, but Napoleon needed the money to fight Great Britain. Eighteen twenty, the state of Missouri they imposed a bachelor tax. They decided to tax all unmarried men. So if a man was between twenty one and fifty years old, it wasn't married, he had to pay the state of Missouri one dollar every year that he was single. It's actually still in the bucks, but Missouri they don't actually enforce that particular law.

3:01 Eighteen sixty, South Carolina became the first state to secede from the United States declared itself an independence commonwealth. Then, of course all the other Southern states they followed pretty quick after that. Nineteen twenty four, Adolf Hitler he was released from a German prison early. He only served nine months of his five year sentence for a high treason. During that nine months he used it to write his book Mine Kopf. In nineteen fifty seven, Elvis Presley, he was settling in to celebrate his first Christmas at the brand new house he bought Graceland. Then he got a knock on the door. When he went and answered it, he was handed. I noticed that he had been drafted into the United States Army. Nineteen eighty nine, the United States invaded Panama. It was all over the fact they wanted to overthrow the Panamanium dictator Manuel Noriega. He was selling drugs, laundering money, all kinds of legal activities and not the kind of guy you really want in charge of the Panama Canal. They did eventually catch him after a couple of weeks, and they were able to extra died in the United States for trial. Saturday, twenty three United States soldiers were killed in the fighting.

4:01 Joke joked joke shog dish shibbs day. He left this shiver day. We want simple carge. He let thish shibts day. And you don't okay. It was born on December of the twentieth Doctor Samuel Mudd. He was born in Charles County, Maryland in eighteen thirty three. Now he's the doctor who treated John Wilkes Bruth when he broke his leg assassinating President Abraham Lincoln. Now Mud he did know Booth. I mean they weren't close or anything, but they knew each other. Mud He claimed he never knew anything about the assassination plot, though see both came to Mud after he broke his leg, and Mud he traded and he treated Booth. And then when Booth left Mud he heard about the assassination. So he just freaked out. I mean he went and hid the booth that he had cut off of Booth's leg and all that kind of stuff. Then when he was questioned by authorities, he said, oh, he never knew Booth at all. Well, they saw right through that. Eighteen sixty five, he ascents to life in prison for helping Booth. President and Johnson he pardon Mud in eighteen sixty nine. Mud he was married and at nine kids. Died in eighteen eighty three at forty nine years old from pneumonia. Actor Sunshine Sammy Morrison. He was born in New Orleans in nineteen twelve. He was the first black child star actor.

5:15 He was actually the first black actor to sign a long term Hollywood contract. So he started out in those hour Gang movies and then he went to the East Side kids movies. Then he got drafted into the army during World War Two. When he got back home from fighting, yeah, he decided he didn't want to act anymore. So he actually worked as a quality control inspector. For an aerospace company Sam. He died in nineteen eighty nine at seventy six years old from cancer. Actor John Hillerman, and he was born in Dennison, Texas in nineteen thirty most known for playing Higgins on Magnum p I I Know, I Said.

6:04 He was born in Texas. He was even graduated from the University of Texas. You're probably thinking, well, Higgins was British. Well Hillerman he was able to develop an English accent listening to records of Laurence Olivier reciting Hamlet. So that's how Texan was able to play Higgins. Johnny retired from acting in nineteen ninety nine. His last movie he was He played Doctor Whitehead in the movie Very Brady Sequel. He died in twenty seventeen at eighty years old, eighty four years old from heart disease. And we just kim on the side just now too.

6:50 That was Peter Cress singing for Kiss. He's seventy nine. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen forty five. He helped co form and then he was the original drummer for Kiss when they start out in nineteen seventy three. And that song Beth. It is the most successful kiss song all time. He also sang Black Diamond and Heart Luck Woman, not successful kiss songs, but he still had Beth. Now he was in kiss, he was out of kiss. He was in kiss, he was out of kiss. He was in and out a lot. Finally left for good in two thousand and four. So any care an he guesses on what the character was that he had in his makeup. He was the catman. He had a daughter from his second wife, and he married his third wife nineteen ninety eight. That was actually Eric Wolfson singing, but he was singing for the Alan's Parsons project Alan Parsons.

7:51 He was born in Williston, England, in nineteen forty eighteen seventy sixty. Day started out as a sound engineer. He's when who did the recording for the Beatles albums Let It Be and Abbey Road, and then he did Pink Foyd's Dark Side of the Moon. Then he started Alan's Parson project in nineteen seventy five. Now it was pretty much just him and Eric. They did so over fifty million records, though had the heads gains people play Time, Eye in the Sky. They call their quits in nineteen ninety Parsons. He still performs a little bit and he kind of produces other artists and that kind of stuff. He had two sons from his first wife. Now he's living on an organic avocado ranch out in California with the second wife and their two daughters. I've got some goodle. Love, and I got some balling stone.

8:32 When I get someone. And hotly, you got to come back. The more the thing come down, another nine the love he little thing. Lemon latch Kenna calls them, Mama, I'm so on Dona night just around Chris Robinson. He still sings lead for the Black Crows. He was born in Marrietta, Georgia, in nineteen sixty six, fifty eight years old today. Him and his brother they fored Mister Crow's Garden in nineteen eighty four. Yeah, that was when they were in high school. They took the name from a children's book. Oh, a couple of years after they got out of high school, they changed it to the Black Crows. Sold over thirty million records. Hard to handle. She talks to Angel's remedy, thorn on my side and on some of their heads. Chris's second wife was actress Kate Hudson, and they had a son.

9:14 They need a daughter from his third wife. Married his fourth wife in twenty twenty. Actor Joni Hill's forty one. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty three. First got known in the movie Knocked Up, then Super Bad for Getting Sarah Marshall was nominated for Oscars for Moneyball and then The Wolf of Wall Street. He has one child with his curtain girlfriend. All right, little Christmas trivia here, I guess it's not trivia now whether they care about Jesus or not. Eighty five percent of all Americans celebrate Christmas. I'll thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us whever you listen to his on Try and check out Country Underground Radio dot com or just go to Country Underground Radio and see the listen to the best independent country music. I is. Let's end with Bobby Darren.

9:56 Splash, splash. I was taking the bail all about it Saturday night. Up in the door, thinking everything was all right, will I stepped out the tub and put my feet on the floor. I rapped the toddle around man, I opened the. Door and then up, splitch flash. I jumped back in the ball with the hours out of him, though there was a party going on. Bobby died today in nineteen seventy three at thirty seven years old. He is born with a bad heart. Bobby said, if you don't do something for yourself, you won't get anywhere. You guys all have yourselves an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow