Feb 8th-Kites, Banjo Clocks, Football, Dynamite, James Dean, Motley Crue, Nick Nolte, Dan Seals

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about to Day present by Cool Media. Happy Thursday. You know, there's really nothing special about Thursday. I guess before the drinking aids got changed to twenty one, Thursdays were big drinking nights in college in eighteen hundreds, game in they were green on Thursdays to secretly identify themselves as gay to other gay men. Now they're using more like green ties or something like that. They didn't dress up like leprechans. That wouldn't be real secretive. Now with it all right, let's see this going on on February the eighth. Let's go lie up high, Let's go lie It is National kite Flying Day. Oh if it's windy, you don't even have to run. Kites. They were invented in Asia way back a long time ago. Marco Polo. He was the first to bring a kite from China back to Europe in the twelve hundreds. Today it's a good day to put down the electronics, get outside, get some fresh air, a little bit of exercise and flag kite. You know, it takes a little bit of practice. Might be kind of a fun project to build your own kite. Now that sounds fun. I guess just watch Mary Poppins. All right, let's who's going on in entertainment On February eighth.

1:23 Let's back there two thousand and two. The number one album was Drive by Alan Jackson. Usher had the number one song with You Got It Bad Nobody Wants to Be It's It's such fa the words in the song baby it best it Steve Olli. He had the number one country song with good Morning Beautiful, Good Morning Beautiful. Your Mine was Wonderful with Hugh Bayma's side Open See Your Sweet Fish. It's a good mold beautiful. The number one book was Journey Through Heart Streamings by Maddie J. T. Stepanik. The top movie was Collateral Damage. After a firefighters family is killed by terrorists, he goes looking for her payback. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, John Leguizano and Francisca and Neary.

2:34 All right, let's see what happened in the world on February the eighth. Now, not only did the Chinese invent kites Chinese monks, they also invented gunpowder in the ninth century, but it wasn't until sixteen twenty seven and what today is Slovakia. I guess the guy's got tired of digging. It was the first time recorded history that gunpowder was ever used in mining. In sixteen ninety three, the College of William and Mary was founded out there in Virginia. It is the second oldest college in North America. Rarvard's the oldest. It was formed in sixteen fifty. It's named after England's King William the Third and Queen Mary the Second. Well, this kind of sounds a lot like a final Jeopardy question. Well, was the first opera performed in North America? Well, what is Flora? It was performed in Arleston's, South Carolina in seventeen thirty five in Roxboro, Massachusetts. In eighteen oh two, old Simon Willard he invented the banjo clock. Now it was literally a wall clock shaped like a banjo, and it was also America's first commercially successful wall clock. In nineteen eleven, President of Honduras Miguel de Villa, he was overthrown. But in the United States they really didn't have anything to do with it. Now. Actually, that's where the term banana Republic comes from.

3:44 See three American companies. Can they controlled the whole banana trade. Well, Davilla, he thought Hondura should have a little bit to say of it. Well he was wrong. Nineteen thirty three in Seminole, Texas, they set the Texas state record and negative twenty three degrees. It's on the Panhandle near the Mexican New Mexico border. Hey, super Bowl's coming up. Let's talk some football. Nineteen sixty three of the Dallas Texans, they moved and changed their name to be the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah. Last time the Dallas Cowboys are in the super Bowl was nineteen ninety six. In nineteen ninety four, in a road rage incident, actor Jack Nicholson he used a golf club on another guy's car. That costs Jack five hundred thousand dollars for the guy not to press charges. In two thousand and eight, Nebraska, they banned the electric chair as the only execution method. They said they wanted more options.

4:31 Coach co cot coke coch coat sharge this shibthday, We're gonna pause he left this shiverbthday. Were gonna siple carge he left this shibirthday. And you know we don't get that's your birthday. Oh Right, who was born on February the eighth, rid Jules Verne. He was born in Nantes, France, in eighteen twenty eight. It's one of the most famous riders of all time. He is the second most translated rider of all time. He is behind act Ata Christie and in front of William Shakespeare. Some of his most famous books are Around the World in Eighty Days, Journeying to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Mysterious Island. Got married in eighteen fifty seven and they had one son and two daughters. He died at seventy seven years old in nineteen oh five from complications from diabetes. Actress Lanta Turner. She was born in Wallas, Idaho in nineteen twenty one.

5:21 Started out as a really popular pin up model, then she turned that into a fifty year acting career. She was discovered when she's buying a soda at a Mault shop. Some of her biggest movies were Doctor Jack, Lemister Hyde, The Postman, Ards, The Rings, Twice, Peyton Place, Mada Mix Now. She divorced seven times. She did have one daughter from her third husband. The Lana had herself a boyfriend in nineteen fifty eight. He was a well known mafia gangster dude. The name was Johnny Steppinato. Well, one night they were drunk, Johnny just started beating the crap Battlelana. So her fourteen year old daughter stabbed Johnny in the in the stomach. Yeah, killed him. Well, the place they rolled that self defense. But the mob they were not happy about it at all, but say it was way too public a case to do anything about it. Atlanta. She died at seventy four years old from throat cancer in nineteen ninety five. Jackie Gleeson The Honeymooner with the Stars art Jarney Audrey Meadow actress Audrey Meadow. She was born in New York City in nineteen twenty two. Of course, she is best known for playing Alice Cramden on the TV show The Honeymooners. Now she really got type cast from it, you know. She did quite a few guest appearances on it. She couldn't get any work, so with acting roles hard to come by. For eleven years, she ran the first National bank here in Denver. Then she sat on the board of Continental Airlines for twenty years. She has married her a second cousin from nineteen sixty one in nineteen eighty six when he died. Audrey She died from lung cancer five days before seventy fourth birthday in nineteen ninety six. Actor jack lemon It was born in

6:56 Newton, Massachusetts in nineteen twenty five. She's started over sixty min He's won Oscars for Mister Roberts and Saved the Tiger. He was nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Some of his movies you'll know, The Odd Couple, the China Syndrome, Grumpy Old Men, movies, my fellow Americans. Now he now guess he didn't. Yeah, he narrated that legend of agrabams, didn't he. Yeah. He had one son from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen sixty two and they had a daughter. Jackie died in two thousand and one at seventy six years old from bladder cancer. Actor James Dean. He was born in Marion, Indiana, in nineteen thirty one. Now that's a true Hollywood legend, and he got it without even doing much work. He only made three movies East of Eden, Rebel without a causin Giant. Now he died before Rebel Without a Cause of Giant were even released, and he was nominated for Oscars for both those movies. Though, so he's the only actor ever nominated posthumously two times. He died in a car crash in nineteen fifty five at twenty four years old. Actor Nick Nottee He's eighty three. He's born in Omaha, Nebraska. In nineteen forty one, he was nominated for Oscars for the Prince of Tie It's Affliction and Warrior.

8:01 Some of his other movies with the Deep North Thoust forties forty eight hours movies. Now get this, Nick, he actually started out as a male model. Now, if you've seen any pictures of recently of Nick, you would share my surprise. He had a son from his third wife. He married his fourth wife in twenty sixteen and they have a daughter, Legs Young School All Nash Dan Seals he was born in McCarney, Texas, in nineteen forty eight. His older brother was Jim Seals of Seals and Croft Dan. He first hit as English Dan England Dan. I guess it'd be isn't that soft?

8:50 Duo? England Dan and John Fort Cohley. They had that big hit song, I'd Really Love to See You Tonight. Then he went solo and he went country. When he did that, he had eleven number one songs. Some of them were Everything That Glitters Is Not Gold Addicted Love on Arrival, Meet Me in Montana. Now that was a duet with Marie Osma. Dan had two children from his first wife. I'm married his second wife in seventy five and they had two children. He died in two thousand and nine from lymphoma at sixty one years old. Actors Mary steinberge in seventy one. She's won in Newport, Arkansas in nineteen fifty three. Her first acting job was in the movie Going South in nineteen seventy eight, her first acting job, and she was co starring with Jack Nicholson and John Belushi. Been an over eighty movies since. She won an Oscar for Melbourne and Howard l.

9:35 Noor for Back to the Future, Three Step Brothers. And she was married to actor Malcolm McDowell for ten years and they had two children. Then she married Ted Danson in nineteen ninety five. Now that is Vince Neil solo. Of course, He's most known as the lead singer for Motley Crue, but that was his solo song, Fancy's sixty three. He's born in nineteen sixty one in Hollywood, California. Vince joined Motley Crue in nineteen eighty one.

10:18 They had all their success and then they fired him in nineteen ninety one. Yeah, after ten years. Now you know you were drinking too hard. If Motley Crue fires you from drinking too much. He had a little success as a solo artist during that break. He had that song we played, You're invited, but your friend can't come, Sister of Pang can't have the cake. Then Motley Crur they brought him back in nineteen ninety seven. Now it will not be a stadium tour like it was with def Leppard, but Motley they are heading out to do some show starting May third. Neil, he has a son from a fling. Then he had a daughter from his first wife. Then he married his second wife and they had a daughter. Then he married his fourth wife in two thousand and five. Mc hammer performed the ceremony. Yeah Hammer, he's an ordained minister. That's Gary Coleman.

11:03 He was born in Zion, Illinois, in nineteen sixty eight. He was born with a kidney disease, and that's why he never grew over four feet eight inches tall and had those pudgy cheeks. He was the highest paid child television actor in the late seventies throughout the eighties, most famous for playing Arnold on Different Strokes. He made a lot of TV appearances also. Some of his movies were The Kid from Left Field, Jimmy the Kid, Kid with the two hunderdyke Q. He got married in two thousand and seven, and I don't know if they've sorted it out or not. It was really unclear whether him and his wife were still together when he died in twenty ten. They don't know if he had a seizure, if he just fell, but he hit his head falling down to a fight of stairs. He's only forty two. Actor Seth Green is fifty. He's born in Philadelphia in nineteen seventy four. First really got known playing Scott Evil in Austin Powers movies, and he's in the America's Sweethearts, The Best Man, Sex Drive on TV's What Chris Giffrin on The Family Guy since nineteen ninety nine, had done Robot Chickens in two thousand and five, He married actress Claire Grant in twenty ten.

12:01 All right, here today's fact good that will win you a beer over In England, it is illegal to fly a kite in a public place. We have a lot of dates back to eighteen thirty nine. Well, thank you for being here. We sure appreciate you. Now to answer some of your questions, Yes, you can listen to our country station, Country Underground Radio, on Facebook. It has its own Facebook page. It's just Country Underground Radio. And then we put a link on my page too, so you can go to Jeff Stampka on there and get there. All right, let's end with Del Shannon. Why she went away? Where she will stay?

12:46 Run away? Dal? He died today in nineteen ninety have fifty five years old. He said, when I was twenty, I was drinking. When I was thirty, I was drinking more. At forty, I was drinking way too much. Guys, I'll have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. No no, no, no no