Dec 29th-Texas Birthday, Mary Tyler Moore, Jon Voight, Ted Danson, The Offspring, Toad the Wet Sprocket

0:09 Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It is about today presented by Cool Media. Today's December the twenty ninth. Today is National TikTok Day. No, we're not talking about the social media app. No, it's the TikTok sound that clocks make. Yeah, it's reminding you the year is almost over. Sah, you better get to it. If you have any projects that you wanted to complete this year. Now, some they may be unattainable, like losing fifteen pounds in the next two days or rebuilding that nineteen sixty seven gto engine. Just move those until next year. Then check off what you can and celebrate the rest of this year. Just don't make next year's list. So hard, all right? Lits? Who's going on? Entertainment? One December of the twenty ninth spect year nineteen fifty eight number one album was Singing Along with Mitch by Mitch Miller, The Chipmunks and David Savell had the number one song with the Chipmunk song Great Price side the number one country song with City Lights. God Like the caval Rais said hum their flashing signs and by hard to Lose Itself Timberical.

1:51 Number one book was Doctor Chivago by Boris Pasternak. The top movie was Anti Mame An Orphan. He goes to live with this free spirited ant well. The ex secuter of his father is a state doesn't like the way that she's raising The boy stars Rose Lynn Russell, Forest Tucker, and Carol Brown. All Right, what happened on December of the twenty ninth? Happy Birthday, Texas? It was today? In eighteen forty five, Texas became the twenty eighth state. Texas has come from the Cato Indian word. It means friend.

2:40 Capital is Austin. Highest point is Guadaloupe Peak at eight seven fifty one feet high. Texas state bird is the Northern mockingbird. Fish is the Guadaloupe bass, mammal is the longhorn, steer, tree is a peak on. Flower is a blue bonnet. Texas state food is chinny, and the Texas state sport is rodeo. People born in Texas Matthew McConaughey, Patrick Swayzee, Dwight Eisenhower, Jamie Fox, Claily Clarkson, Pharah Fawcet, Beyonce, Selina Gomez, Patrick Mahomes that's just some. There are so many. That's just some of the people born in the Lone Star State now Texas's when he got us independence from Mexico in eighteen thirty six. They're flagg only had one star in it. That's why they're called the Lone Star State.

3:22 Eighteen fifty one, the first YMCA opened up the United States, opened up in Boston. If you don't know, YMCA stands for Young Men's Christian Association. Now. The next year in Boston, eighteen fifty two, Amma's Nodgrass. She was arrested for wearing pants. Yeah, women weren't allowed to do that. They had to wear dresses. Now, am she was a really pretty seventeen year old. She was the daughter of a New York City police officer. So she was mocked, arrested, and sent back home to her father. Today, in South Dakota, it's the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, but back in eighteen ninety it was the site of the Wounded Knee massacre. United States Cavalry was disarming the Lakota tribesmen when a gun went off, so the calvary decided to just open up on the entire try killed over three hundred of them, two hundred were women and children. What made it even worse is twenty of those soldiers actually received medals for their actions during the massacre. Back on July sixth in nineteen thirty, fred Newton, he started swimming the Mississippi River. Jumped in at the foe damn in Minnesota. Today. Over five and a month and a half months later, Freddy crawled out of the Mississippi River in New Orleans. Yeah, swam the whole damn thing one eight hundred and twenty six miles. It has the record for world's longest swim. Nineteen forty, Germany launched his worst air raid on London, England. Germany dropped over ten thousand bombs on London and part of their blitz nineteen seventy YOSHA the Occupational Safety Healthy Actor, Yeah, I was signed into law by President Nixon. Nineteen ninety seven.

4:43 Hong Kong, they started slaughtering all their chickens. Yeah. They wanted to prevent bird flu from spreading. It didn't work. Dokejke shug this Shubarday. We gonna he left this shubf day. We want simple tage. He was like s birthday and you know, we don't, oh God. Who was born on December of the twenty ninth. Andrew Johnson. He was born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in eighteen oh eight. He grew up really poor. He never even went to school. Then he started out as a tailor's apprentice, then became a career politician. During Abraham lincoln second term for president, they wanted to kind of balance the ticket a little bit, so they picked Andrew Johnson to be his vice president.

5:24 Since Johnson was from the South, they never thought he'd ever be president. Welly his vice president for one month when Lincoln was assassinated. That made him the seventeenth President of the United States, Sir. From eighteen sixty five eighteen sixty nine. He married back in eighteen twenty seven. They had five kids. He died from a stroke in eighteen seventy five at sixty six years old. He's each Glass Juan. Actress Mary Tyler Moore was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York in nineteen thirty six. She was twenty four years old and she started playing Laura Petrie on The Dick Van Dyke Show. After that she got her own show, The Warry. Tyler Moore Show. She won one Emmy playing Laura and two Emmy's playing Mary. She was nominated for an oscar for the movie Ordinary People. She had a son from her first husband. She married her third husband in nineteen eighty three. They were together until she died in twenty seventeen at eighty years old from pneumonia. Actor John Voight, He's eighty six. He's born a Yonkers in New York in nineteen thirty eight. He first hit big playing Joe Buck in the movie Midnight Cowboy, who was even nominated for an oscar for it, and he is also nominated for Oscars for The One Ran Away Train and Allie. He didn't win an oscar for Coming Home.

6:41 I think his best movie was Deliverance. Now. Johnny married a second wife for nine years. They had a son and a daughter. Daughter is actress Angelina and Joe Lee. You're the best grave, the shoul your role. He never spolen out of love again, do the best. Country singer and songwriter Ed Bruce. He was born in kaiser Arc, Arkansas, in nineteen thirty nine. He first got known really when he wrote the song Mamas, don't let your babies grow up to be cowboys? After that they let him sing.

7:27 He had the hits, You're the best break this horrild heart ever had ever, never loving you after all, you turn me on like a radio. On TV, he co starred with James Garner on the show Maverick. Eddie was two times divorced. He had went cho from his first wife and three from his second wife. He died from natural causes in twenty twenty one at eighty one years old. Sometimes you want to go where everybody knows your name, always match a case you want to be you can seems you want to be with everybody proles your name.

8:07 Actor Ted Dance in his seventy seven today. He was born in San Diego nineteen forty seven. Cheddy first had playing Sam Alone on the TV show Cheers. Then he's on Becker CSI in the Good Place. First movie was Onionfield, then Three Men and a Baby Dad Made in America. Daddy had two daughters from his second wife. Then he married his third wife, Mary Steinbergen in nineteen ninety five. Now we googled how many times how many consumer cellulair commercials Ted's been in? Came back just at Julian who no, wo, No, that's o. Jacob Dexter Holland. He sings late for the band That Spring. Dexter. He's fifty nine. He was born in Garden Grove, California, in nineteen sixty five. Now Dexter.

9:05 He is a very very smart guy. He was valedictorian in his graduating high school class. Then he wanted to get a doctorate in molecular biology. Now while he was doing that, in nineteen eighty four, he founded the Band's Manic Subsidal changed their name to The Offspring in nineteen eighty six. Some of their hits are come Out and Play, self Esteem Gone Away, Why don't you get a job? Pretty fly for a white guy. Now they're doing a world tour this year, but no shows in the United States. Dexter he had a daughter from a girlfriend. Then he married his second wife in twenty thirteen and they have two kids. Seals Seal. That was Glenn Phillip singing lead for Toad the wet Sprocket. Glenn. He's fifty four. He's born in Santa Barbara, California. In nineteen seventy, him and some friends they formed Tone of the Wetsprocket when they were fifteen years old in high school. Took the name from a Monty Python skid. Some of their hits are all I Want, Walk on the Ocean, fall Down. Some things are always wrong Glenn. He was married for eleven years and they had three children. Now whenever he performs on stage, he always performs barefoot. Actor Jude Law He was born in nineteen seventy two and lewis Ham, England.

10:29 He's fifty two now. He first had in the movie That Talented Mister Ripley. He was the name nominated for an Oscar for it. Then he got nominated for an Oscar for a Cold Mountain, but since two thousand and three, no no more Oscar nomination. He has starred in the movies The Aviator Sherlock Holmes. He played Albus Dumbledore in the Fantastic Beast movies. Jodey had two daughters and one son from his first wife. Then he had a daughter from a girlfriend. Then he had a daughter from a girlfriend. Then he married a second wife in twenty nineteen and they have two children and then forty one year old country singer Jessica Andrews was born at Huntingdonas, Tennessee, in nineteen eighty three. She released that song we just played who Who I Am? Yes, she is fifteen. Then she hit with you Go First, Unbreakable Heart, There's more to Me than you. She is married and they have a son and a daughter. All right, let's go back to Texas.

11:38 The state of Texas is bigger than any country in Europe. Wow, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on, and come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three of us. See what we're doing on the other podcast and the radio station and all that. Fashion designer Pierre Cardin, he died today in twenty twenty at ninety eight years old. He said, my name is more important than I am. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow