July 9-Sugar Cookies, AC/DC, Tom Hanks, Soft Cell, Simple Minds, Courtney Love, The White Stripes, Fred Savage

0:09 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Factoid's about today, pusent about cool media. It is July the ninth. It's National sugar Cookie Day. I don't know why it isn't closer to Christmas. German Protestant settlers in Nazareth, Pennsylvania created the sugar cookie in the mid seventeen hundreds. Now they're really easy to make. You just need flour, sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, either baking powder or baking soda. Fun to make with kids because you can make them in any shape you want. Now, I it's too hot to turn on the oven. Yeah, just go and buy something. Enjoy some sugar cookies, all right, let's see it happening. Entertainment. July ninth and the Air nineteen eighty four number one album was born in the USA by Bruce Springsteen. Prince had the number one song with Win Dove's cry chand can Shut Good God Loss Silence Blues the most take Jimmy Saturday Exile. They had the number one country song with I Don't want to be a memory. I don't want to be a not gen your handle Another love casualty Man Down and It's talking over because I don't want to be

1:49 a miss. The number one book was and Ladies of the Club by Helen Hooven sent Meyer. That movie was Ghostbusters, three parapsychologists. They started ghost removal service in New York City stars Bill Murray, Dan Acker Wright, Sigourney Weaver, and Harold Raymonds. All right, what happened on July the ninth, Now, this is a really nice guy. In seventeen ninety five, American financier James Swann paid off the entire United States national debt, paid off all two million, twenty four thousand, eight hundred ninety nine bucks Chicago. In eighteen ninety three, doctor Daniel Williams he performed surgery on the heart of a stabbing victim. Yeah, he sowed it back up. Now he did it without blood transfusion or penicilin or anything. The patient lived. Is considered the world's first successful heart surgery. Nineteen fourteen over Atlantic City, Walter Brookings, he began the first pilot to get an airplane up to a mile high in Altadu actually went up to six one hundred and seventy five feet. Nineteen eighteen is still the worst train accident in the United States history. It's outside of Nashville. Two passenger trains hit head On going about fifty miles an hour.

2:58 One hundred and one people were killed, one hundred and seventy one injured. Final conclusion was it was operator error. Nineteen fifty six Dick Clark, he hosted an American bandstand for the first time. Hosted until nineteen eighty nine. Nineteen eighty one Nintendo really stark game Donkey Kong, but only in Japan, so here in America we had to wait till July thirtieth, nineteen ninety three. Gary Hoy he was a lawyer and a senior partner in a law firm in Toronto. Now he really liked to demonstrate the tensil strength of the building's windows. Yeah, run and jump into the winter and bounce off. Yeah. He had a good old time doing it, and he did it a number of times. But today, yeah, the window popped out of its frame. Gary felt twenty four stories to his death. Co coke coke coke goat show. This Shiver birth day, were gonna pause. He left this shubfday. We gonna sit with Targe. He like this Shire birthday, and you know we don't get up. That's the birthday. Probably Wonder who was born on July ninth. Actor Brian Denahey. He's born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Getting nineteen thirty eight. He was in over one hundred and eighty movies and TV shows. Did a lot of theater. Yeah, I won two. Tony's first hit in the movie First Blood, and he's played that sheriff and he was on Cocoon Tommy Boy presumed in his on TV. He was on the Blacklist in twenty sixteen, did it until he died in twenty twenty and eighty one years old from sepsis. He had three daughters from his first wife. Married a second wife in nineteen eighty eight and they had a daughter and a son. Who was the cat. We'll come out when messing all about You see this cat chef as a mad mo I'll come about church.

4:40 She was a complicating man, but no one understands him. Bush's one actor Richard Rowntree. He was best known for playing the private detective Shaft. He was the first movie black action hero round Tree. He was born in New Rochelle, New York, in nineteen forty two. Started acting in nineteen sixty three, he did some modeling for Emony Fashion and like I said, he's best known for the Bax Boy Station movies, Shaft, Shaft By, Shaft's Big Score, Shaft in Africa, Shaft again in twenty nineteen. Now he did Stir oposite Laurence Olivier in the movie Engine. He was twice divorced. He had two children from his first wife, three from his second, right Richard. He died just last October from pancreatic cancer at eighty one years old. So here bun Scott. He was the original lead singer for the band ac DC. He was born in Fourfair, Scotland. In nineteen forty six moved to Australia and he was six now so he had some success down in Austria with the band's Valentine and then Fraternity. Nineteen seventy four, Bond was at a club watching ac DC perform. They didn't have a lead singer, no, they were just up there playing, rocking out jamming. Now Bond's wife and some of his friends they kept pressuring him go up and sing

6:10 with him, go up and sing. He finally did. Ac DC was often running some songs of Bond sang and row where TNT Dirty Deeds Done, dirt Cheap, I've got big balls, Highway to Hell. He drank himself to death in nineteen eighty at thirty three years old. He married that one time for six years before they divorced. Actor Jimmy Smith's is sixty nine. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen fifty five. On Miami Vice, he was Sonny Crockett's original partner, but in the first episode they killed him. They went on to star in La Law in New York NYPD Blue the West Wing played Senator Baie Ogana in three Star Wars movies. He married his high school sweetheart for six years, then they divorced. They had two kids. He has dated actors Wanted DeJesus since nineteen eighty six. Actor Tom Hanks born in Concord, California, in nineteen fifty six. His movie has made ten billion dollars. His first starring role in the movie was Splash, but he was actually in He Knows You're a Lot or Alone. Yeah, that was before he was a slasher flick. First TV appearance was on an episode of The lib Boot. Nominee for Oscars for Big Saving Private Ryan Castaway, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. He won for Philadelphia and for his Gump Now. He won those back to back years. The only other actor to pull that off was Spencer Tracy. Tommy is married to his first wife for nine years, and they had a son and a daughter. Married actres Rita Wilson in nineteen eighty eight and they have two sons. Actress Kelly McGillis. She was born in Newport Beach, California, in nineteen fifty seven.

7:43 She's sixty seven. She first got famous for the movie Witness, and she was in Made in Heaven Top Gun They Accused Now. She studied acting at Juilliard. When she graduated, she married another student from Juilliard in nineteen seventy nine. They divorced in nineteen eighty one. Then she married her second husband for thirty years. When they divorced in two thousand and two. They had two daughters, Kelly. She's been a lesbian since Mark Allman. He sings for the heavy metal dual Soft Cell. Mark Slso sixty seven born in Southport, England. Mark and David Ball found in Soft Cell in nineteen seventy eight. Mark and Dave Mark sings and Dave does all the music. Now they're a lot lot bigger in Britain than there ever were in the States.

8:41 Over Here, all they had was that one hit song, tainted Love on the side. Mark actually was twenty six solo albums, but all in Britain. Mark. He is dyslexic, autistic and gay and still successful. Strange scoo gee again. Jim Kerr. He is the lead singer for Simple Minds. He's born in Tory, Glenn, Scotland in nineteen fifty nine sixty five today help form Simple Minds in nineteen seventy sevens They took their name from the David Bowie song Geane Genie, I Have no Idea. They sold over sixty million albums. Some of their thats don't you Forget about Me? Alive and kicking, sanctify yourself, all the things she said Jim. His first wife was Chrissy Eines Christy Ein from from the Pretenders. They divorced after six years.

9:41 They had a daughter. Then he married actress Patsy Kinsett for four years and they had a son. I'm all I want to be a rock. His study in maalogy that is Courtney Love. She was the lead singer for the band Hole. She was born in San Francisco in nineteen sixty four. She's sixty today, nineteen eighty eight in Los Angeles. She plays an ad in the Music newspaper saying she wanted to start a band. Her influences were A Big Black, Sonic Youth and Fleetwood Mac. That's how Hole formed.

10:26 I guess they were kind of more of an alternative rock band than the grunge. Some of their hats are doll parts, Celebrity skin Malibu all broke up in twenty twelve. Cordney, She's done some actings. She was in the movie is Sitting Nancy the People versus Larry flint Man on the Moon. Her second husband was Kurt Cobain, lead singer for Nirvana. They married in nineteen ninety two, had a Donner, and then Kirk killed himself in nineteen ninety four. I'm going to find a month, I said, the Nicey Home and Counting whole. Yeah, they're gonna reap it all, taking that sound right behind my bed. Then I'm talking to the first Silicon nine because I can't forget him. That was Jack White singing for the duo White Stripes.

11:13 He's forty nine, born in Detroit nineteen seventy five. He and his wife at the time, Meg, they formed White Stripes in nineteen ninety seven. They had the hits I Fell in Love with a Girl, seven Nation, Army Blue, Orchid, Ikey Thump Now. He and Meg they divorced in two thousand, but they stayed in the band together until twenty eleven. Between the White Stripes, his solo work, and collaborating with other artists, Jackie's been nominated for thirty three Grammys, one twelve of them. When jack married Meg White in nineteen ninety seven, Yeah, he took her name. When they divorced, he kept it. He was born John Gillis. He had a son and a daughter from a second wife, and married his third wife in twenty twenty two. Actor Fred Savage is forty eight. He's born in Chicago in nineteen seventy six. Started acting at nine. Starred on the TV show The Wonder Years when he was twelve. At thirteen, he won an Emmy for Best Lead in a Comedy Series Youngest Want to Do That Now.

12:07 He has directed a lot of TV shows over the years. Some of the movies he was in where the princess bride vice versa little monsters. Austin Powers and Golden Member Freddy married in two thousand and four and they have three children. Okay, all you cat owners, you know that cat's jobs cannot move sideways. No, it's been about an hour to day trying with my little clouder. They really can't. Well, thank you for joining us today, and we appreciate you. We're glad you always are here. Get a chance to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on comes here's a cool media dot com. That's cool with three years. Let's end with the twelfth President of the United States, Zachary Taylor. He died in nineteen eighteen fifty at sixty five years old. Taylor he said, never judge a stranger by his clothes. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No, don't they have been