Dec 6th-St.Nicholas, Rudolph, Slavery Abolished, Underdog, Pinto, Steven Wright, Janine Turner, Ira Gershwin

0:03 Hi everyone, I'm Jeff. Welcome to history and factoids about today. Today's December the sixth, Go. Away up north Worthy argist. There's a tale about Christmas that you love him chalk and real Thames as Christ. He says the whole you were good. Just lei. It's change, it's a little scene change.

0:46 Today is National Saint Nicholas Day, also known as the Feast of Saint Nicholas. It is celebrated a lot more over in Europe. People are there to leave guests in people's shoes and socks and everything, like Saint Nicholas used to do. Sat Nicholas, Yeah, he was a real man. He is the inspiration for Santa Claus. His parents were great, but he was born in Petera, Turkey, in two seventy. He was raised a real devout Christian as parents they were really rich. Nicholas he became a bishop over in Turkey, and he sold off all his possessions, gave away all his moneys and inherents, all that just dedicated his whole life to the poor and serving them sick and the suffering. He died to day in three forty three, at seventy three years old. How to celebrate today. Don't do anything extravagant or anything. Just leave someone like a special heartfelt note or nick knack, maybe a chocolate, you know, some kind of something just simple that's heartwarming. Yeah, something they'll make their whole day, just like Saint Nicholas used to do.

1:35 All right, This is going on Entertainment On December the sixth, Back to nineteen sixty seven, number one album was Piscey's Aquarius, Capricona and Jones Limited by the Monkeys. The Monkeys had the number one song with Daydream Believer. Sunny James had the number one country song with It's the Little Things the Herby. Kiss hogget from you.

2:16 When I leave. It's a little things that make me love you. So the number one book was The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron. The top movie was Gone with the Wind. Yeah, they reissued it for the holidays. Do you know when? Gone with the Wind was first released nineteen forty. Nineteen sixty four, Rudolph the Red News Reindeer debut on TV that's been shown every year since. That makes it the longest running Christmas special now. The song came first in nineteen thirty nine. The song roote off. The red nose reindeer came out. Ah what happened on December the sixth, two forty the Mongrels, they were led by Buddha Khan Dettech Kiev. He had that down in the Ukraine. Now after eight days the Mongols they pretty much destroyed the whole city at Kiev. More of the fifty thousand people that lived there, only two thousand people were still alive. Seventeen seventeen thirty five were in London, England.

3:14 Claudia's amyard. He performed the first appendectomy. That was the first one where the patient lived anyway. Eighteen sixty five, Georgia, they voted for the thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution, so that ratified it. Yep, it was legal. The thirteenth Amendment. That's what abolished slavery. Well mostly now it's still in there on the books today. That mendment says that basically a slavery has gone, except slavery is still legal as a punishment for criminals who have been convicted of crime. Eighteen seventy six, the first crematorium in the United States began. He was in Washington, Pennsylvania. First person cremated was Baron di Palma. All we know is he is a member of the Theosophical Society and he had a lot of money. Washington, d c. In eighteen eighty four, the aluminum capstone was put on the top of the Washington Monument, made the monument five hundred and fifty five feet high. Now that that time, that's the tallest man made structure in the world.

4:06 It had passed the Clone Cathedral that was over in Germany. Now the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Yeah, it was the tallest man made objects, like four thousand years. Its four hundred and eighty one feet high. Now today it's four inn forty nine and a half feet. You had thirty one feet off the top of the gone. This is a nice story, Well not really a nice story, but it's kind of a nice thought. Nova Scotia, Canada. They sent a large Christmas tree to Boston, Massachusetts. Every year it is displayed on the Boston Commons. Say, in nineteen seventeen at the Port of Halifax, our Norwegian ship was speeding through the harbor. Yeah, I was trying to make up for time after it got delayed. Well, a French munition ship. It had the ride away, but the Norwegian ships just crashed right into it. The French ship was carrying nine and twenty five tons of explosives, so it caught fire. Twenty minutes later it exploded, largest man made explosion in history before the atomic bomb. Now. It caused a sixty foot tall tidal weight of water to hit the city of Halifax. Every building within six miles was flattened from the water and the explosion. Seventeen hundred people were killed. Hundreds of people were just watching the fire were blinded. Nine thousand people were injured. Now, the city at Boston they heard all about it, so they sent a train of supplies and relief workers up there to help them out. So Nova Scotia they still send them a Christmas tree every year and still saying thank you for your help. Have you heard of that famous psychologists called doctor Joyce Brothers. She was really big there for a while. In nineteen fifty five, she won the grand prize of sixty four thousand on the TV game show sixty four thousand dollars question. Yeah, she went it because of her knowledge of boxing.

5:36 That's right. Well, the producers they gave her the category of boxing because they knew. She knew nothing about it that they have to give to the contestants what the category is going to be about, and what they're gonna be asked about before the show. So she started studying boxing. It worn't she ended up winning that show. Yep, it made her real famous as the psychologist. Now sixty four thousand and fifty five, and they'd beat out so there in fifty thousand. Today in nineteen fifty seven, newspapers headlines all over the across the United States they read, flop Nick Kaputnik. I'll see what happened is two months earlier, the Soviet Union had launched Sputnik, the first satellite. Well, the United States they were going to be outdone by the Soviets, so they promoted the hell out of the satellite they were going to launch, called Vanguard. Yeah, it was a lot better than Spotnick. Well, they launched it today, went up a couple of feet and just blew up. Yeah, they all had a lot of egg on their faces. Now, the Yes did get their first satellite into space four months later in March, but they did not promote that at all. Nineteen seventy three, agee Ford, he was sworn in as the first unelected Vice president of the United States, Sparrow agnew he had to resign because of corruption charges.

6:40 Twenty seventeen, the United States officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel's our capital, so President Trumpey announced that they were moving the s embassy over to Jerusalem. I wonder if this hurt their tourist industy. In twenty twenty two, Indonesia, they passed the law. It outlawed sex outside of marriage, even for foreigners. Joke, dope, joke, joke, show dish Shivers day. Please gonna pause. He left this shiverday. We got simple to let this shivers day. And you know we don't give up the workday. Wellt's check out. Who's born on December the sixth? Owe me?

7:21 I love you? How I love you, my dear oldy. I give the world to. Be home on the face how you know my me? Okay, that was Judy Garland. I'm gonna talk about the guy who wrote that song. Yeah. Irack Gershwin. Ira was born in Manhattan, New York in eighteen ninety six. Now you probably heard of the Gershwin brothers. Ira and his younger brother George super super famous for Broadway. Now they wrote over a dozen musicals. Now Irate he wrote all the lyrics for the songs, and George he composed the music for Ira. He married nineteen twenty nine. He id from a heart heart disease nineteen eighty three at eighty six years old. Actress Agnes morehed. She was born in Clinton, Massachusetts, in nineteen hundred. At the end of her career, she was most known for TV. She was playing Indoorra on Bewitched.

8:13 That She was a very successful actress before that in the movies, So Now many four times for Academy Awards Now she had right off the bat. Her first movie was Citizen Kane. Over the years, she had two quick marriages. Agne she died from uterine cancer in nineteen seventy four, a seventy three years old. There is no need to hear. The voice of Underdog was Wally Cox. He was born in Detroit in nineteen twenty four. Grew up in Evanston, Illinois. His best friend was Marlon Brando, who was his neighbor. When Wally started out, He started out a stand up comedian. He did get his own TV show, he was Mister Peepers. He made over twenty movies. Now, early on in Wally's career when he was really struggling, so was Marlon Brando, and they lived together in New York City. They were roommates, stayed lifelong friends. Cox He had thick glasses. He looked really kind of meek and nerdy. He was maybe five six and really skinny. He was actually really good athlete, and he was rode motorcycles. Yeah, he was just rough and tough as Brando was well. He divorced three times and had two children throughout him. He died from a heart attack nineteen seventy three and only forty eight now.

9:15 He was cremated and Brando got the ashes. Then when Brando died in two thousand and four, their axes ashes were mixed together. Yeah, and they were spread out over Death Valley in Tahiti. Actress Joebeth Williams. She's seventy seven. She was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen forty eight. Started out on the soap opera The Guiding Light. Some of her movies were Stir Crazy, The Polterguys Movies, The Big Chill wyat Arp. She mede her husband filming Jungle, The Jungle. Yeah, he was the director. Got married in nineteen eighty two and they have two sons. Cover your Delta Town. Name is Pindo. Tom Holtz. He played Pinto in the movie Animal House. He's seventy two today. He's born in Detroit nineteen fifty three.

9:56 Now he went from. Playing a drunk frat boy. He played Mozart and Amadaeis. He was nominated for an Oscar for playing Mozart and Amadeas. He's also in Parahet Frankenstein. He voice Quasimoto in the Hunchback of Notre Danes movies. Tom Now he was rumored to be married to this really famous Italian artist and they had this daughter and all this kind of stuff. It was all over the place. Well Tom came out. I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not married or I'm gay. So no, Tom, he's single. I remember when I was a fetus, so I used to sneak out at night when my mother was safe. I thought to myself, you know, now is the time I. Should start stealing some stuff, since I don't have any finger prens.

10:39 Comedian Stephen Wright is seventy He's born in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In nineteen fifty five. One of the best stand up comedians all time, started doing stand up in seventy eight. Nineteen eighty nine, he won an Oscar for Best Short Live Action Film. It was the Appointments of Dennis Jennings. Now some of his full length movies are Desperately Seeking, Susan, Natural Born Killers, Half Baked, Son of the Mask he gave to his personal life. Yeah, you don't know anything about that. Sixty three year old actors Janin Turner. She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in nineteen sixty two. She grew up in Texas. She left home at fifteen to become a model. Then she got famous on the TV show Starring Yeah. She started on Northern Exposure. Later on she did Strong Medicine and then Friday Night Lights. Some of her movies A Cliffhanger, Leave It to Beaver. She was the mom June Cleaver, Doctor t and the Women, Bogie and Bertie Jane. And she has one daughter. Alright here Cord of the Day. It comes from Roy Orbison, Heyman walking down the street.

11:36 Really, Holmer look kinda like to me? Really, Homa. Many Still the ju. Roy died today in nineteen eighty eight, at fifty two years old, Roy said, I may be a living legend, but that sure don't help when I have to change a tire. Well, thank you, thank you off for listening. Don't forget to follow us, and now you listen to his song. Check out today's show description to find some connections and what's going on with this show? All right, our country underground radio artist today. It comes from Mickey in Austin. She wants to hear the song Knock Knock from Daryl Perry. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.

12:19 Not knock my friend. Won't you open up and let me? I've been probably sum sitting back against this dude too little pride, Mom in tears and with your ass down on the floor. You don't have to do that any evil, not not my friend. This drizzles cold and it's a chill wind.

13:07 I know you got. Bs Texas breaking wide, but I've got come sisters, and some time goes to get us through this time. Heverything before. I'm not my friend. Yeah, he just makes you know we don't deserve him. Fad chance, girl, Loud would never hurt you.

13:48 I never hurt