Jan 8th-Battle of New Orleans, Elvis Presley, Little Anthony, Stephen Hawking, David Bowie, Loverboy

0:18 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. This is January eighth. Splish splash. I was taking the bath on about a Saturday night, thinking everything was all ride will. I stepped out. The tuble, put my feet on the floor, I rapped the toddle around man, I opened. The door and then uh, splitch flash. I jumped back in the bath with the hours out and know there was a. Party going on. Today is National bubble bath Day now, and you're a kid taking the bath gun it sucks. Then when you get older and you only take showers, you forget how relaxing soaking in a bubble bath can be. Bubble bass they do relax your muscles, they refresh your skin, and they can help if you're congested. Plus it's just kind of nice to enjoy a little meat time. So slow down today and just enjoy a bubble bath. All right, this is going on entertainment on January eighth. That's back to two thousand and two. Number one album was Weathered by Creed Nickelback had the number one song with how You Remind Me Lock.

1:21 You Say Sorry? A ball open storry this time to sing. Every mile The Stop was. Alan Jackson at the number one country song with where were You? And the world stopped turning? Where were you in the world stopped turning? Well, that's it too, teaching a classes full of anc We're driving down.

2:01 Some cold in her stones. Did you feel guilty? Calls your Survival. The number one book was Skipping Christmas by John Grisham. Top movie was The Lord of the Rings. The Fellowship of the Ring now one Hobbit and eight others set out to destroy the One Ring and save Middle Earth. Stars Elijah Wood, Ian McKellen, Orlando Bloom, Live Tyler a lot more. All right, what happened on January the eighth, sixteen fifty six, and Harlem, Netherlands started printing their newspaper. They still are and still this newspaper still in print. We took the. Little Bacon, and we took the little bean. Send me caught the bloody British in the town in New Orleans to fired. Come send the British chip for Comman. There wasn't n as many as there was Obama.

2:46 The fired one small world and they began to run it down to Mississippi. To the gup of Mexico. In eighteen fifteen and the War of eighteen twelve, the Battle of New Orleans was fired American General Andrew Jackson. He was defending New Orleans. Now that was vital. Whoever controlled New Orleans controlled the Mississippi River. But Jackson, he didn't really have much of an army. Yeah, most of the US soldiers were kept up north to fight. So Jackson he had to go scrounging for some men to fight for him. Ended up with forty five hundred men when they didn't have any military experience, but they could shoot, and they knew the area very well. But Jackson realized he still was way outgunned by the British, so he made a deal with one of the notorious pirates, John la Fetite.

3:26 Yeah. The deal was that if Lafitte and all his men helped fight the British, Jackson guaranteed they would all receive a full parton for any of their past transgressions. Pyras said, duel Oh, the British attack, like everybody knew they were going to. Now, the British came ashore with over eight thousand well armed and well trained soldiers. Jackson is forty five on his squirrel hunters and some pirates put a whooping on those British soldiers like you would not believe most lapside of battle in the entire war. Who one of the biggest lopside of battles in US history. Now, in that first half hour, the British lost three generals, seven colonels, seven other seven hundred other troops were killed, fourteen hundred were wounded, in five hundred were taken prisoners, seven fighting for America were killed.

4:07 Yeah. Now an interesting side note here, Now the War of eighteen twelve, Yeah, it actually ended two weeks before that. That's right. Word hadn't come back from Europe butt and everybody know in New Orleans that the war was over. So oops. Today in eighteen thirty five, Andrew Jackson was now President of the United States. Now he had a check cut that paid off the entire United States national debt. It is the only time in US history that our national debt read zero dollars. Washington eighteen okay, Washington, d c. In eighteen fifty three, the first bronze equestrian statue was unveiled. It was of Andrew Jackson. We're done with Andrew. Nineteen oh two at New York State assembly man. His name was Francis Landon. He got a bill pass that made it illegal for men who are walking down the street in parentheses to turn around and look at a woman in that way. So basically a man could be fined five hundred dollars for flirting in public. You know that, dude to the dork. Now, it actually remained in law nun till twenty seventeen when they found it was still in the books.

5:07 Now they won't tell her. They don't know if any guys were ever ticketed for it. Well, not to be outdone. In nineteen oh four, Pope Pious Attens he banned women from wearing low cut dresses in front of churchmen. Now everybody knew what he was talking about. But what makes it kind of funny? In nineteen oh four, men who were Episcopalia had they were called churchmen, that's what they named. Yeah, Catholic men didn't describe themselves that way. Nineteen thirty seven and San Jacinto, Nevada, they hit the negative fifty degrees. Yeah, that's still the Nevada state record for colds temp. San Jacinto it's a ghost town nowadays. It's on the Oregon border. Nineteen seventy three, it was announced that secret peace docks were going to be taking place in Paris. Yeah, between the United States and North Korea. Nineteen ninety two, the Prime Minister Japan, he invited outgoing US President George H. W.

5:55 Bush and his wife Barbara to come over to his pan They're gonna have a big old state dinner honoring George and Barber and all that kind of stuff. They accepted well. Today during the dinner, Bush he vomited on the Prime Minister's lab. Twenty twenty four. Are the United States Army veteran? This is cool? Ninety eight year old Robbie Robinson. During World War Two, he worked as a scout behind enemy lines. He fought in the Battle of the Bolds. He helped liberate the Mathausend and the Goosen concentrations camp. Then he worked as a guard during the Nuremberg Trials. Today in France, he they awarded him their Medal of Honor. Yeah, they said that Robbie, they wanted to honor his service that he did during the war. Got an next lot. Robbie was not forgotten. Joke, joked, joke, This Shibbert day, We're gonna pu he left.

6:42 This shiver day. We don't simple caage like this shibirf day. And you know we don't give. Okay. It was born on January the eighth. Gypsy rose Lee She was born in Seattle, Washington in nineteen eleven. Now she was the burlesque entertainment queen, which means she's the most famoustrip in history. Now, she was world famous in the nineteen thirties and forties. She couldn't sing and she couldn't dance, but she could strip like no other. I mean, if you ever wondered, yeah, I mean we're still talking about it ninety five years later, if you're just wondering. The stripper pole was actually invented in the nineteen twenties. And I don't know if Gypsy rose lea he was one, but whatever she did, it must have been something special. Now, she did get a couple of small roles in some movies, but she wanted to be the star of a movie, so she wrote her own movie.

7:27 She called it The g String Murders. Wow. The movie a studio they thought that was a little risque and kind of blunt for nineteen forty one, so they changed the name to The Lady of Burleska, and then they had Barbara Stanwick star in the movie Really Pissed Gypsy Off. Gypsy divorced three times. She had a son during her second marriage, but not to her husband. It's from another guy. And between stripping and marrying she was very very well off. She owned a ten bedroom penthouse apartment in Manhattan. Gypsy. She died from lung cancer in nineteen seventy at fifty nine years. Olds are in the sky. I'll never no what fire lie, So fire fly, what happens to? It's time.

8:30 For you longtime listeners, you know that was my mom's favorite Elvis Presley song, I'll never know the King of. Rock and Roll. He was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty five Elvis. He had an identical twin brother, Jesse. Jesse was still born thirty five minutes before Elvis was born, now Elvis. He was married to Priscilla for five years. He fought for their divorce on his thirty eighth birthday. Of course, they had Lisa Marie, now Elvius. He sold over a billion records, made thirty one movies. Died nineteen seventy seven and forty two years old from a heart attack. They think he had it because he was constipated and couldn't poop. Bob, you bangs. He's eighty eight. He was born in Flint, Michigan, in nineteen thirty eight. Grew up in Pasadena, California. Started out as just regular radio DJ. Then he hit big on TV hosting The Newlywed Game. Now, Bob, he was allowed to say making love on the show. He's the one who changed it to mak him whoopie. Now, all those years, he only got in trouble one time with the censors. He's accidentally said the word penties. Now, when Bob wasn't hosting The Newlywed Game, he was managing country artists.

9:28 So the artists that he managed were Dolly Parton, Barbara Mandreau, Marty Robbins, Merle Haggard. Bob had three children from his first wives. She died after thirty three years of marriage. Married a second wife in two thousand and four, and they have a son. Yeah, she's almost thirty years younger than he is. You, Dollymber Memember. Twenty You. Je in my that was Little Anthony of Little Anthony in the Imperials. Little Anthony was born in nineteen forty one in Brooklyn, New York. He's eighty five today.

10:11 I don't know. He must have been a small kid because he was like five ten, so it's not he was really lethal now sold over fifty million records, though some of the hits are Tears on My Pillow, Shimi Shimi, Coco Pop, going out. Of my Mind. Now everybody says that little Anthony his voice has not changed in the last sixty years. That's cool because of him in some more new Imperials. Yeah, they're gonna go do some shows this year. I guess they played some shows every year. He had four kids from his first wife, then he had four kids from his second wife. I guess that'll keep you turning until you're eighty five. Choll Okay, Now, technically that was from the movie War Games, but it sounds like Stephen Hawking. He was born in Oxford, England, in nineteen forty two. He was a theoretical physicist, diagnosed with als in nineteen sixty three. His most famous buck was Brief History and Time, fourteen academic books. They were ate five children books. Okay, I think they could figure it out. Steven and he had a small recurring role on the TV show The Big Bank. There he was a good sport about that, making fun of him. He married his first wife in nineteen sixty five and they had three children. They divorced in nineteen ninety five, but Hawkins was the player.

11:18 Yeah. Later on that year, in ninety five, he went married another woman. They got divorced in two thousand and seven. Now, most people at als they lived maybe five years. He lived fifty five years with it. Died in twenty eighteen at seventy six years old. His ashes in Westminster abbeue there between Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin. How much too fast to take that test? The change. Of the. Change? Now. He was born David Jones in London, England, in nineteen forty seven. When he were at start singing, there was a little problem. See there was another singer who went by Davy Jones. He was singing for the monkeys. Saw that Davy Jones. He had to change his name to David Bowie. And yes he did actually pick boy for the Bowie Knife. He thought they were cool. Now David Boy sold one hundred and forty million records. I always would think it would have been ziggy Stardust or Young Americans.

12:19 That would have been his best all time selling album. Now it was Let's Dance, which kind of blued now Boie. He married his first wife in nineteen seventy and it was only so he could come live in the United States. But they messed out a little fun because they had a son. But when they divorced in nineteen eighty they hadn't seen each other over sixty years. He married super model mon in nineteen ninety two and they had a daughter. Boie died from cancer in twenty sixteen at sixty nine years old. His last album is called Blackstar. It was released after he died. It's his only album, thoughing to number one in the United States. Mike Careen Now he's still the lead singer for the band lover Boy. Seventy one years old. He was born in New Westminster, British Columbia, nineteen fifty five. A form lover Boy in nineteen seventy nine, Turn Me Loose. The kid is hot tonight working for the weekend Hot Girls in Love Love And every minute that's some o their heads. They'll probably here and they're going out on to her. They're gonna be hitting the road starting off an Albuquerque on January the sixteenth.

13:38 Mike. He married once and has a son from it. Actress Gabby Hofflins. She's forty four. She's born in New York City in nineteen eighty two. Started acting as a kid. She was seven. In her first movie, It was Filled the Dreams that Uncle Buck Sleepless in Seattle. As a teenager, she was in a volcano and all I wanted to do. Earlier this year, she played Bruce Steinstein's mom in the Brinstein movie called Springsteen Delivered Me from Nowhere. Now Gabby and her longtime boyfriend, they have a daughter alright here. Quote of the day. It comes from the astronomer Galileo. He died today in sixteen forty two at seventy seven years old. Galileo says, I. Have never met a man so ignorant. I could not learn something from him. He should wait four hundred years. Well, thank you all for joining us today and listen to go follow us. I know who you listen to us on and check out the show description so you can see any links that you want to connect to our country inderground radio artists. Today, I just added her song to the station's playlist today. It's called Three Wise Men.

14:35 Her name is Tyra Madison, and I think you'll like it even if you're not in the country music and you don't listen to the country underground radio normally. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I've been Julien lesson fresh. Co last we learn to lesson on it, Shoan Sunday cow and bless. I swear I hain't a saying o Lord, but I've got a confession. I went out with the Three White Men. Just something about Johnny Jack and Jim I'm back. He can't blacked out. That bad too big pot drinking holy water Hill. I'm seeing.

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