Jan 4th-Spaghetti, Happy Birthday Utah, Boss Hog, Talk Talk, Patty Loveless, R.E.M, Deana Carter

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today, presented by Cool Media. It is January the fourth. I love spouchetti. It's my favorite food. I love spoketty. Do you love it too? I'd eat spaghetti every day, kills me up so I can play. I love spoghetti. Do you love it too? Today? He is National Spaghetti Day. Most people think Italy when they think spaghetti, It's actually originated in China. Marco Polo. He brought spaghetti recipe back with him when he returned to Venice from China. Spaghetti it is an Italian word.

0:50 It means string or twin. Now spaghetti that you love today? It wasn't like that all along. No, it wasn't until the eighteen hundreds that they got that way. Why well, because of the tomato sauce. See, tomatoes weren't native to Europe and Italians didn't start using tomatoes to make the tomato sauce until eighteen hundreds. Now, every single guy or guy who's been single, he knows that spaghetti is one of the easiest dishes to make. But if you don't feel like cooking, there are deals today. Some are Crabas, Noodles and Company, Olive Garden, Romano's Macaroni, Girl, Who Know Pizza and Girl pf Chains. Yeah, going old school. Oh, just enjoy some cards today and enjoy some shoot spaghetti as you chowed down? All right? This Who's going on in entertainment? On January the fourth, it was back to nineteen sixty nine. Number one album was The White Album by the Beatles. Marvin Gay had the number one song with I Heard It through the Grapevine with some.

1:38 Of them before two of us, Gosh, you know I love you more? Boss Johnny Cash he had the new every one country song with Daddy sing bass. It's just four people's that's all. We were trying to make a living out of black land. That we'd get together in a family's circle singing love Daddy singing base, showing right and singing seems to help aut trouble.

2:20 So. The number one book was The Salzburg Connection by Helen McGinnis. Top movie it was Oliver. It was a music all about the book Oliver Twist. It's where an orphan and sold a mortician and he runs away and joins a group of boys trained in pickpocketing. All right, what happened on January the fourth during the American Revolution. Everyone thinks that the winner has been at Valley Forge was just so brutal. Now that was kind of tough, but it was actually just normal winner for that part of Pennsylvania. It's just that they were so poorly supplied that that's what caused it. But today, in nineteen eighty George Washington and his army, they were camped at Morristown, North New Jersey, Yeah, for the winter when a snowstorm hit. That led one of the worst winners of the entire Revolution. I mean, they still weren't that supply supplied that well, so they were low on food, low on clothing, and didn't have very good shelter. But now they were trapped. And it's still today listen as one of the worst winners they've ever had in that area of the country. But luckily they prevailed force. In New York in eighteen sixty three, James Plimpton he invented the four wheeled roller skate. Before then on wall rollerskates had three wheels and they were a bitch to turn.

3:25 I owe. In eighteen eighty five, doctor William Grant he performed the first appendectomy in America, where the patient lived. Twenty two year old Merritguard's side made a complete recovery. She kind of complained about her scar though. Happy Birthday. Utah eighteen ninety six became our forty fifth state. Utah. It's a ute word. It means people of the mountains. Capital Salt Lake City. Highest point is King's Peak at thirteen five and thirty four feet. That's a tough climb. Is twenty eight miles around Triump. Utah State tree is the aspen flower is the Sego lily bird is a California gull fish.

4:18 Bonaville cutthroat trout. Mammals, elk reptile, Gila monster. Utah State firearms the Browning m nineteen eleven. Some people born in Utah James Woods, Butch, Cassidy, Loretta Young, Roseanne Barr, Steve Young, Jewel, Julianne and Derrick Kuff, Donny Marine in about a thousand other Osman's all born in the Beehive State. Now, I wouldn't have picked Idaho for this being the first, but nineteen fifteen Mosaics Alexander He became the first Jewish man elect the governor of the United States a state in the United States. Yeah, he's sworn in as the governor of Ido. Nineteen sixty one, life could finally get back to normal for the people in the Netherlands. The longest workers strike in world history ended. Yeah, it took him thirty three years, with the Danish barber's assistance. The kingdo terms.

5:01 Nineteen eighty seven, Reverend or A. Roberts he said that God would call him back to heaven if he didn't raise four point five million dollars in the next three months or all. He lived another twenty two years. The next year, in nineteen eighty eight, Reverend Jesse Jackson, he gave this really tearful and emotional interview where he announced the world that he had once been addicted to painkillers, but thanks to God. Yeah, he's only addicted for one day. Joked joke, shoge Thish shivers day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We don't simple tage he let Thish shivers day, and. You know we don't give up worth to you, Okay. He was born on January the fourth, Lewis Brigel Louis Broll.

5:44 He was born in coop Very, France in eighteen oh nine Lewis. He was blinded when he was three years old. He was cutting through his dad's harness making shop. Yeah, tragedy struck. Now. He invented the Braille communication system for the blind when he was fifteen years old. That's pretty much the same today as it was when he invented it tw hundred years ago. They didn't really change it much. But when he came up but no one would use it, they thought it was kind of weird. Then when he was forty three years old he died from perclosis in eighteen fifty two. As people were kind of going through his office and seeing them stuff that he did, kind of realized that you're not that braille system. That's pretty damn good, so they started promoting it. It's been a blessing and an asset to bind people all over the world ever since.

6:25 Actress Sterling Halloway. He was born in Cedartown, Georgia, in nineteen oh five. He was in over one hundred movie It's best known for being the voice well Winnie the Pooh. He is also the voice of the Stork and Dumbo, Jess Shire Cat, and Alice in Wonderland. His voice a Ki and a snake in Jungle Book. Sterling is a lifelong bachelor, but he did adopt his son. Hallie died from a heart attack in nineteen ninety two at eighty seven years old. Just a good old lord, never a meaning, no harm, He's told you, never sold in in trouble. Were the own setty, they would bold. Actors sorol Buck. He was born in Buffalo, New York in nineteen thirty. It was best known for playing boss Hog on the TV show dukesa Hazard. He actually wore a padded suit to make him look that fat. Yeah, he was kind of a little guy.

7:13 Now. He got the accent for playing boss Hog from watch listening to Southern politicians. He graduated from Columbus University when he was nineteen years old, started out doing Shakespeare. He married once for twenty five years and they had two children, Sorell. He died from Crohler rectal cancer in nineteen ninety four at sixty four years old. Actress Diane Cannon's eighty eight. She was born in Tacoma, Washington, in nineteen thirty seven. Started acting in nineteen fifty eight. She still is. She was nominated for Oscars for Bob Carroll Ted Nawas and then Heaven Can Wade. She was also in the movie His Love Machine Death Trap Caddy Shack too. She married actor Kerry Grant for three years and they had a daughter. After they divorced, she married another guy for four years. No, Gwen Stefani did not write that song. Mark Hollis did.

8:16 He wrote it and sang it with his band Talk to Talk. Marky was born in Tuckingham, England, in nineteen fifty five. He co wrote or co founded Talk Talk in nineteen eighty one. Now they were a lot bigger in England, but they had a nice run here in the United States in the nineteen eighties. They had the HiT's Talk Talk, It's my life Such a shame, Life's what you make it now? And Talk Talk broke up in nineteen ninety one. He just retired from singing. Yeah. His wife was a school teacher, so she went and did that and he just stayed home and raised their two sons. Marky died from cancer in twenty nineteen at sixty four years old. I really what athans to have? Your true little never found you.

8:56 Lead wanted July hurting. In a real good way. Country singer Patty Loveless the sixty eight. She was one of Pikeville, Kentucky in nineteen fifty seven. Since nineteen eighty five, she's at least twenty one albums fifty two singles. None of those went to number one. Some of them are Timber, I'm Falling in Love, Hurt Me bad in a real good way, you can feel bad, Lonely too long. She's in the Country Music Hall of Fame. She got inducted in twenty twenty three. She's been married to her second husband so in nineteen eighty nine. Now her first husband, his name was Loveless, love Lace I mean, but she changed her name to love Less because she was being confused with porn actress Linda Lovelace. That was Michael Stipe singing for RIM. He was born in Decatur, Georgia, in nineteen sixties. That makes him sixty five today. Co found at RIM in nineteen eighty. They still over ninety million records.

10:13 Some of them are the One I Love, It's the end of the world as we know it, stand, losing my religion, Shiny Happy People, Aria and they call her quits in twenty eleven. Since then, Michael, He's done a lot of photography. He lives with his longtime boyfriend who happens to be a photographer, so it works out fine. Actor comedian Dave Foley. He was born in Edobico, Canada in nineteen sixty three sixty two. Co founded the comedy troope New Kids in the Hall. Then he had on America in America on the TV show News Radio. In the movie The Bugs Life, he is the voice of Flick. Then he was also voiced in Toy Story Two, Monsters, University, Cars, a whole bunch more. He had two children from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and two and they had a daughter. After they divorced in two thousand and eight, they hung out and then in twenty sixteen they thought, what the hell they got remarried.

11:00 We were so sun in the day, songs Awa, never the week, danced anyway never still No. We just signed. And we danced away. Country singer Dina Carter is fifty nine. She was born in Nashville in nineteen sixty six. Now she goes out on tour January nineteenth, and she's also going to be opening a whole bunch of shows for Blake Shelton over the course the next year if you want to see her there. Dina. Her dad was a songwriter in Nashville, Dean Martin. He recorded one of his songs that was the same time that she was born, so he named his little girl Dina in honor of Dean Martin. Some of her heads are Strawberry Wine, we Danced Anyway, Count me in? How do I get there? She had a son from a boyfriend.

11:52 She's been married to her third husband since twenty eighteen. Let's go back to Utah. Utah, it is the youngest. It has the youngest population of any state in our nation. Yeah. The average agent of people in Utah thirty one point nine years old. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on. Come see I sa at coolmdia dot com. That's cool for us. It's going on on the other podcast in the radio station. Let's endway, Jerry Rafferty. Well done. I give you to night. I've had them feel something right. I'm so scared. I gets off all of my chair. I don't want to get down this.

12:34 Clowns to let me meet joke us to the right here. I am not getting a little in you. That was when Jerry stayed Lea for the lead for the band Steeler's Wheel. Jerry died today in twenty eleven at sixty three years old. He said, if you fail, the truth will set you free. He guys, I'll have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow