Dec 9th-Redd Foxx, The Commodores, Worf, John Malkovich, Sylvia, Donny Osmond, Felicity Huffman, The Wallflowers

0:19 Hi everyone, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. There's the Simmer the ninth. Christmas cards, Christmas cards. I love to see the pretty Christmas cards, bringing you sweet regards, wishing you the best of happeness. Love to write to someone I'm thinking. Of Today is national Christmas Cards. Today, Christmas cards. They start in England in the eighteen forties. Queen Victoria, she sent the first Christmas cards out in eighteen forty three. Yeah. Now with all of today's technology, Christmas cards they're more important than ever. They're the only former Correspondence requires any thought or effort. So I'll spend a little time and connect or reconnect with people in your life. Hopefully you remember how to write and spell. Remember that most people under forty yeah, they can't recursive. All right, this is going on entertainment on December the ninth, It's back to nineteen eighty eight. Number one album was Rattling hum by You Two Will the Power had the number one so on with baby I Love Your Wady. George Straight he had the number one country song with if you ain't loving,

1:49 you ain't living. You've you got a Cadillac More handing the forty room shack more Imo Mon had treat. No spoons in r mode. The number one book was The Sands of Time by Sidney Sheldon. Top movie was twins Arnold Swarzenegger and Danny DeVito. They are created in a Petri dish. Together. Now Arnold wants to find his long last brother Deani. All right, what happened on December than ninth, eighteen sixty eight, Lendon, England, They installed the world's first traffic light. It was outside the Palace of Windsor. Now it looked like a railroad crossing today. It had the arms and everything. At night they had lamps that lit up of green and red from the gas lamps and all that kinds of stuff. Now, I know what you think. And cars hadn't been invented yet, that's true, but they were for horse and carriages. Nineteen oh seven, the first cause of well, basically the number one cause of death in the United States was tuberkeleyosis.

2:58 So to help fight it, they started selling Christmas seals. Yeah, the first ones went on sale at the post office in Wilmington, Delaware, cost you a penny apiece. Now today, if you buy Christmas sales the money goes to fight asthma and lung cancer and all kinds of lung conditions. Eastern Seals are different. They go that money goes for like autism and adults with disabilities. Boxing. Nineteen thirteen, in the World Heavyweight Championship of the World, it was fought between Jack Johnson and Jim Johnson. The Johnson and Johnson fight ended in a draw. Baseball, in nineteen thirty one, the National League get voted to continue as policy that players could not have numbers on their uniforms. Nineteen thirty five, in college football, the first Heisman Trophy was handed out went to Jerry Burwanger. He was a running back from the University of Chicago. He gave he didn't go to professional football. No, he tried to go to the Olympics, but he didn't make the Olympic team and they wouldn't let him back in the NFL. Nineteen sixty one. Denknika it got his independence from Great Britain. It immediately changed his name over to Tanzania. Nineteen ninety two. After U N Security Council Resolution, United States Marine and other Allied nations, they all arrived in so Maya. It was try and restore order to that war touring country. Yeah, it didn't work.

4:07 That's why the movie Black Hawk Down happened twenty twenty one over in Saudi Arabia at the King Abdulazase his Camel Festival. Over forty camels were drest qualified from the camel beauty godess so that the camels were using botox. Joke, doke co joked, joke, shage thish shivers day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We got simple carge like this shivers day. And you know we don't give up birthday. Let's check out. It was bart on December the ninth. How got you mine? Pretty? And your little dog too? That was actress Margaret Hamilton. She's born in Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen o twel best known for being the Wicked Witch of the West and the Wisdom of oz Now. When they were filming her Fiery Exit from munchkin Land, she got secondary burns all over her face and hands. She had just spent six weeks in the hospital and recovering at home. After she got all better, yeah, brought it back and she finished filming her scenes nineteen thirty. She married for seven years and they had one child, Margaret. She died in her slate nineteen eighty five at eighty two years old. Actor Kirk Douglas. He was born in Amsterdam, New York in nineteen sixteen. Kirky started out as a professional wrestler, then he went into acting. He was nominated for three Academy Awards, he didn't win. And you never heard of those movies.

5:21 Some of his movies you did hear of, though, or twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Gun Fight at the Ok Corral, Spartacus, The Final Catdown, Tough Guys Kurky. He was married to his first wife eight years. They had two sons. One of them is actor Michael Douglas. They married his second wife in nineteen fifty four and they had two sons. Kirky died in twenty twenty at one hundred and three years old. Did you ever go to the movies? Let out win him with quiet farts and sit down and watch people move these things happening? He is a nice looking gentlemen here class and ask you a question. Did you have a fight and blame it on the dolls? Comedian Red Fox. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in nineteen twenty two. One of the greatest stand up comedians all time on TV, he started on Sandford and Son now Red. He was so famous for faking heart attacks that nineteen ninety one he was on the set of his TV show The Royal Family, he actually had a massive heart attack. As he was lying on the floor. Everyone thought he was goofing around and just ignored him. He was sixty eight years old.

6:27 He had a daughter from a second wife. Married his fourth wife in nineteen ninety one. That was three months before he died from that heart attack. Actor Bou Bridges, he's eighty four. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty one. His dad is Lloyd Bridges, and we talked about it a his younger brother Jeff, just five days ago. They only acted together once and that was in the movie The Fabulous Baker Boys. But he started acting when he was eight. He was on his dad's TV show when he was eleven. Some bow Bridges movies are two minute Warning, Norma Ray, The Five Musketeers On the Other Side of the Mountain. He had two sons from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty four and they have three kids. She's just reading it all. She's a bread. Wowing the house, the browser to death.

7:19 Everybody knows this is how the story going. That was Walter Orange. He was born in Florida in nineteen forty six. He joined the Common Ores in nineteen seventy two. Now from nineteen seventy two to nineteen eighty two Lionel Ritchie. He sang all the love songs and ballads for the Commodore's. Walter. He sang all the upbeaten dance songs like night Chef, Prick Cass Lady, you bring Me up, Too Hot to truck Now Walter. He just retired from the Commodore's last year. I left his two sons in the band and they took his place. Now. Their mom and Walter's wife, her name is Anne, said he get it well. Her name is Anne Orange. Sometimes it just makes me laugh. Actor Michael Dorn He was born at Lowing, Texas in nineteen fifty two. Seventy three year old's best known for playing That on Wharf in the Star Trek franchise. He has done more Star Trek stuff than any other actor, been in five movies in two hundred and seventy seven TV episodes. Now Dorn he's a pilot. Not only does he fly, but he sits on the boards of several aviation organizations. Actor John Malcove.

8:15 She's seventy two. He's born in Christopher, Illinois in nineteen fifty three. His first movie was Places of the Heart, nominated for an Oscar. Yeah, nominated for Oscar the first movie. That's pretty good. Later on he was nominated for an Oscar for Line of Fire. Some of his other movies where the Killing Fields Connair being young malcovic That's kind of funny because he wasn't even the star of that one. He married once for six years, and I guess he didn't like that marriage at all because he's been with his girlfriends in nineteen eighty nine and they have two children. Today. Loves when name. Does. She thinks she.

9:00 Ye. Country singer Sylvia. She was born in Cocomo, Indiana, in nineteen fifty six, so he's sixty nine to day. Some of her biggest It's Our Drifter, Nobody Like Nothing Never Happened, Falling in Left Now she still performs and releases new music and stuff. Her video for the song Matador it was the first music video ever played on CMT. That's Country Music Television. Yeah, they used to be kind of cool. Now she is three times divorced. I'm alive, so sleeep Oh this snavery.

9:47 That was fourteen year old Donnie Osman. Now he took that song go Away Little Girl, the number one in nineteen seventy one. Donnie's sixty eight today. He's born in Ogden, Utah, in nineteen fifty seven. Now, he was the seventh Ozma's Boy. He is old than Marie and the youngest one Jimmy. Donnie. He performed a little bit with the Osmond You know, his older brothers mostly did solo stuff, and he did a lot of stuff with Marie. In nineteen seventies, they had their own TV show. They were in the movie Going Coconuts, Him and Marine. Now they had an eleven year residency in Las Vegas from twenty eight to twenty nineteen. Marie's not doing it, but Donnie he's doing a solo residency in Las Vegas. Yeah that there, Harris. He's gonna be doing it until May. If you want to go check Johnny Donnie out. If you do, I'm sure you'll probably hear Hey girl, Puppy Love, sold your Love, Sacred Emotion.

10:30 Those are his solo hits, Donnie. I don't never ask him, but I think maybe his biggest accomplishment of life he won Season nine and Dancing with the Stars. I'll have to ask him. He got married nineteen seventy eight and they have five sons. Actress Felicity Huffman. She was born in Bedford, New York, in nineteen sixty two. Sixty three year old. She got first known on the TV show Sports Night, hit Huge on Desperate Outslaves, and she's on American Crime. Nominated for an Oscar for trans America. Felicity. She married actor William ates Macy in nineteen ninety seven and they have two. Scott.

11:22 That was Jacob Dylon singing for his band The Wallflowers. Jacob's fifty six, born in New York City in nineteen sixty nine. Yip. His dad is Bob Dylan. Jacob formed The Wallflowers in nineteen eighty nine, sixth Avenue, Heartache, One, head Light, The Difference Hero. That's some of their hits. Originally, The Wallflowers are called the Apples. It's pretty bad that those are the only choices, but okay, Jacob, he got married nineteen ninety two and they have four sons. Actor Simon Hilberg. He's fit forty five. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty got famous playing Howard Wallowitz on the TV show Big Bank Theory. Now they were small parts, but he's seen some pretty cool movies. He's in Mumford Van Wilder Old School, Evan almighty. So I haven't be married in two thousand and seven, and they have a daughter and his son already here. Quote of the day. It comes from Ree Frederickson.

12:27 Marie. She was the lead singer for the man Roxette. Yeah, she fought cancer for seventeen years when it got her today in twenty nineteen. She's sixty one years old. Maray says, without daring to make any means, you have no real friends. At the end, well, thank you all for listening. Don't forget to follow us, and you listen to a song. Check out the day's show description and our country and ground radio artists. The day. It comes from Annie after in Orlando, she wants to hear the Promised and there are songs snow day. You guys have an awesome day. And we'll talk tomorrow. Stream came alone, scream together, I astarla fire. Hey, you let the I surround us underneaed the bank. Justitu, lot of snowdies men with you. In the morning, I look outside and the spirelights bias doesn't know that you're gonna be head and bowing through the snow and outside you will play. Want to go to keep you warm. Let's make a coach shelter from stone worm. Hey you're going on to speed. Hey you're going at that. Hey you're gonna squeeze together on the mean, startup fiure. Hey, let the anserund us on the the bank. Justitu, our snowdies men get you.

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