Feb 4th-St. Jude's, Rosa Parks, Alice Cooper, Clint Black, Natalie Imbruglia, Gavin DeGraw, George Washington

0:19 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today's February of the fourth. I'm no bail man. Grab your knucker, ring your bells. Oh, she thinks that's kind of swallow those you fail man, I kept calling any got away as we call my second is made of lesson here those locks. I'll stick my bag him, boss. I'm no mail. Today is National thank a Merril Carrier Day. Okay. So if I gave you a letter in seventy eight cents and told you to deliver it whatever I wanted to do, would you do it?

1:00 Well? Okay? Then now if you still have a mail care who actually delivers to your house, yeah, you got to thank them today. Yeah, let them know what you appreciate. Now, before eighteen forty seven, the person who received the meal, they had to pay the postage. I know that would suck with junk ban, wouldn't it all right? Thank you men and women who deliver our mail stuff. We I sure appreciate. It's going on entertainment On February fourth, it was back to nineteen seventy six. Number one album was Gratitude by Earth Wind and Fire. The Ohio Players had the number one song with Love roller Coaster. Bill Anderson and Mary Lou Turner had the number one country song with sometimes tell Me Are You happy? Yes?

2:00 Sometimes? But sometimes I feel like I've just got to get away from the same old existence day after day. The number one book was curtained by Agatha Christy. The top movie was next up, Greenwich Village. It's about a group of aspiring artists in New York City in the nineteen fifties. Stars Lenny Baker, Shelley Winners, and Ellen Green. All Right, what happened On February of the fourth, seventeen eighty nine, It was official George Washington was the first president of the United States. Yeah, the votes from the Electoral College had been counted. George, you received every one of them. He also reads one hundred percent of the popular vote. Now he is the only president he ever do either one of those, and he did it twice. Well, that kind of helped that he ran unopposed though George, he was independent, no political party. Now, the voter turned out for that first election was eleven point six percent of the people voted. Twenty eight thousand and nine people voted, so twenty eight thousand and nine white guys voted. Yeah, they had to be twenty one years old. They had to own a property. Their religion had to be approved of. Yeah, they couldn't come from some weird sect. They couldn't be retarded, they couldn't be a felon. They had to live here in the United States before the Revolution. They had to be able to read and write English, and they had to pay all pole taxes. Now he went on to make tires, But in eighteen twenty four J. W. Goodrich, you started selling rubber goloshes United States. They won the Philippines from Spain in the Spanish American War.

3:31 Yeah. Well, the Philippines they didn't want anybody controlling them back then. So today, in eighteen ninety nine, yeah, they just went ahead and declared war on the United States. So the Philippino American War began, and it did not work out for the Filipinos. Over the next three years and five months, forty two hundred American soldiers were killed, twenty thousand Filipino soldiers were killed, but a lot worse for two hundred and fifty thousand Filipino people died from famine disease during the fighting. The Philippines actually remained under americanntrolto right after World War Two. Nineteen forty now with Danny Thomas was a struggling actor. He vowed that if he ever got successful, he would build a shrine to the patron Saint Jude. Saint Jude, he's the patron saintan for lost causes. Well, Danny Thomas, he ended up being very, very successful. So in nineteen sixty two he kept his word. With the help of doctors Manuel Diggs and Anthony Abram, He's opening the Saint Jude Children's Research Hospital out there in Memphis that focuses on children's with cancer and other diseases. That's still going today. Now there's no cost to the kids who go there or their families, well the whole time they're being treated for it. I'm sure you've seen. There are tons of commercials about it. Nineteen seventy one, in New York City, the Nasdaq Stock Exchange was founded. Today it's the second largest stock exchange in the world, behind the New York Stock Exchange. Nineteen seventy three comic strip Hagar The Horrible Debut. It was written by Dick Brown. Now, if you remember the comic Strict Hyan Lois. That's where Dick start out writing on In two thousand and four, Facebook launched Yeah you can only get it if you were going if you were a student at Harvard.

5:00 Joke joke, joked, joked, joke, show dish Shivers days, gonna pause. He left this shiver day we got simple Carge. He like Thish shibirth day. You you don't giday? Okay? Who was poor in February of the fourth astronomer, Clyde Tombaugh. He was born in Streeter, Illinois in nineteen oh six, but he grew up on a farm in Kansas. Now. When he was finishing a high school, a hailstorm took out the entire family farms crops. Yeah, so Clyde wasn't able to go to college, so he built his own telescopes and using him he made very detailed drawings of Mars and Jupiter. He sent him off to the Low Observatory in Arizona. They were so impressed on him, Yeah, they offered him in jobs. After Arizona Clyde went. While he was there twenty four years old, he discovered the planet Pluto. After that, he discovered over eight hundred different asteroids.

5:48 Glydy was married and they had two children. He died in nineteen ninety seven at ninety years old. Rosa Parks. She was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in nineteen thirteen. Of course, Rosa. She first got known when she refused to move back farther on a bus of Montgomery, Alabama. In nineteen fifty five, Rosa. She was arrested and that led to the year long Montgomery bus boycott. Rosa. She'd married nineteen thirty two. Her husband died in nineteen seventy seven. Rosa died in two thousand and five and ninety two years old, from natural causes. Some of you might be wondering writing and going to more detail. I talked all about Rose on December first. Yeah, that's the day it all went down. After Conrad Baine. He is best known for playing the rich white guy who adopted Willison Arnold on the TV show Different Strokes. Conrad.

6:30 He was born in rest Ridge, Canada in nineteen twenty three. First guy known on the TV sitc on Maud. It's from there they spun him off any Different Strokes off of Mud. Some of his movies are Cougan's Bluff, The Sandbox, Postcards from the Edge. Married nineteen forty five and they had two daughters in one son, Conrad, He died from a stroke twenty thirteen, eighty nine years old. Alice Cooper, he's seventy eight. They're gonna be doing a residency out there in Las Vegas in March and April. Then he toured Europe over the summer. He was born in Detroit nineteen forty eight. Back in Nashgolle helped form the band Spiders and NAS. Well, after they graduated, they just became NAS.

7:24 A couple of years later they found out Todd Gunnant Rendgren he already had a band called NAS, so they had to change their name. They went to Alice Cooper. Why why they choose Alice Cooper. Well, it sounded really wholesome and pure, and that was the complete opposite of the shock rock that they were playing. They got discovered by Frank Zappa. Now, once they got successful, he was born Vincent Furnier. That's when he legally became Alice Cooper. Now, some of their songs I'm eighteen No More, Mister Knight's Guy, School's Out Poisoned, some hits. Now he got married nineteen seventy six and they have three children. Chillens Kills.

8:13 Up see country singer Clint Black. You'll be going on tour on February twelfth and check Clint out all the way to the end of the summer. Clint sixty four. He is born in Long Beach, New Jersey, grew up in Katie, Texas, moved his family there. When he has one Clint, he has twenty two songs that went up to number one, Better Man, Nobody's Home, Put Yourself and my Sha, Summer's Coming that summer. You married Lisa Hartman in nineteen ninety one and they have a daughter now, and Clint's on stage during Yeah. Lisa and the daughter are both on stage with him. I'm corns Changed Naked on the Store, US Change Single, Wild Weekend You singing the classics.

8:56 Guys, You're Natalie and Bergerlie. She's fifty one. She was born to Sydney, Australia in nineteen seventy five. Start act out. She started out acting on Australian soap operas and she moved to London to concentrate on singing. Some of her heads are a big mistake, wish and I was there wrong, Impression Torn Now She was married for five years in the early two thousands. She had had son in twenty nineteen. But I go out man, sitting down at a table set too fast.

9:40 No matter what I say, I'm not over you. Forty nine year old Gavin de Grau was born in South falls Brook, New York, in nineteen seventy seven. His first hit song was the theme song for the TV show One Tree Hill. I Don't Want to Be He was nominated for an Oscar. No, he's nominated for a that's right now, he doesn't not any for a Grammy with Kobe Kalay for their song We both know you want to see Gavin. He's gonna go out and do a little bit of tour and conute all right. Quote of the day It comes from Karen Carpenter jam to. Us to watch.

10:35 Karen died today in nineteen eighty three at thirty two years old. That's the first time most people had ever heard of anorexia. Now Karen wants that I am determined to be content and making lots of money by working makes it easier for me to be content. Well, thank you all for listening. FORGID to follow us, check out the show description for any questions or if you want to hit some of the links like the country underground radio, our country and our gun radio. The other day it goes are Brad out there in Phoenix. He goes their blacktop radio song. One last look around. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Note on the door, leavy keys on the counter. There's a beer in the fridge, empty box in the hall.

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