July 9-Sugar Cookies, Tom Hanks, Bon Scott, Courtney Love, Simple Minds, Soft Cell, White Stripes

0:19 Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and FACTOI it's about today. This is July the ninth. Today is National Sugar Cookie Day. It seems like you should be closer to Christmas, but okay, German Protestant settlers in Nazareth, Pennsylvania get credit for creating the sugar cookie. They did it in about the mid seventeen hundreds. Now there really isn't a meg. You just need flour and sugar, butter, eggs, vanilla, baking powder or soda, don't matter which one. They're really funny to make with kids because you make them in and shape you want. But if it's too hot to turn on the oven, yeah, I just buy some sugar cookies today. Okay? What was going on in entertainment on July ninth? In two thousand and eight, the number one album was Viva Levita by Coldplay. Katy Perry had the number one song with I Kissed the Girl.

1:19 Kiss, Let's stop chat kiss, just try so to me. Montgomery Gentry had the in one country song was back when I Knew it All, Back when God name vanes in a Bone, When I got hold I'm ring so much, the number one selling Buck was Fearless fourteen by Jennet n Ivanovitch. The top movie was hell Boy two The Golden Army. A prince of a mythical world, he starts a war with humanity to rule the earth. Now hell Boy and his team, they have to stop him. Stars Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, and Doug Jones. All right, what happened on July the ninth, Now this was a really nice guy. In seventeen ninety five, American financier James Swan paid off the entire United States National dead paid off all two million, twenty four tho eight hundred ninety nine dollars the United States ode. So you like Dennis Well.

2:40 The first Wimbledon tennis tournament ended today. Yeah, it was all men's only tournament at that time. Now, the winner, his name was Spencer Gordon, got fifteen dollars and twenty cents for winning the whole damn thing. This year's winter four million dollars, and yes, the women get the same as the men. Chicago in eighteen ninety three, the first open heart surgery has performed Doctor Daniel Williams. He performed heart surgery on a stabbing victim. Yeah, so does heart all up and everything, No blood transfusions, no penicula, no nothing. Patients still lived. In nineteen ten, over Atlantic City, New Jersey, pilot Walter brookins he was the first pilot to ever flyplane up to a mile high in altitude. Now he actually took that plane up six thousand and seventy five feet in nineteen eighteen. It's still the worst train accident in the United States history. It was outside of Nashville.

3:25 Two passenger trains were on the same track. Yeah crashed head on going fifty miles in our age. One hundred and one people were killed, one hundred and seventy one were injured. It ended up being rolled operation air or operator error. Nineteen fifty six Dick Clark, he used an American bandstand for the first time, ended up posting it until nineteen eighty nine. Nineteen eighty one, Nintendo released the arcade game Donkey Kong, but only in Japan and America. We had to wait till July thirty fourth before Donkey Kong hit arcades. Now, Donkey Kong was originally supposed to be about Popeye see blut. Oak kidnapped Olive Oil and Popeye had to go get her back by dodging objects. That Bluto was thrown at him. Well, they couldn't get the licensing for it, so Bludo became a gorilla. Popeye became Jumpman. Now see that was his name in the very first one. He didn't even come Mario until Donkey Kong Junior came out nineteen ninety three. Gary Hoy he was a lawyer and a senior partner for a huge law firm mount in Toronto, Canada. They had this great, big high rise office building and everything. Now, he really liked to demonstrate the tensil strength of the building's windows.

4:27 So he had run and jumped into the windows and bounce off. Yeah, he did a number of times. He thought it was fun. Well today when he did it, the window popped out of his frame. Yeah, Gary felt twenty four stories to his death. Joked joke show just shiverf daken. He left this SHIVERF day. We got simple targe. He just SHIVERBF day and you don't give up. Well that's suit. Born on July the ninth, after Brian Denahey. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In nineteen thirty eight. He was in o for one hundred and eighty movies and TV shows and did a lot of theater and one two. Tony's first movie, You Really Hit It, Big End was First Blood, That's where he played the Sheriff.

5:07 Was after Ramble, then Cocoon, Tommy Boy Presumed Innocent on TV. He was on the Blacklist from twenty sixteen until he died in twenty twenty. Is eighty one years old that from sepsis. He had three daughters from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen eighty eight and they had one daughter and one son. Who's the cat Who'll come out? The messings all about this cat cheted the bad compt Man, but no one understands him. Mercy's one. Actor Richard Rowntree. He was best known for playing the private detective Shaft. He was in the first He was basically the first black action hero that was in the movies now. Round Tree is born in Newshille, New York, in nineteen forty two. Start acting in nineteen sixty three.

6:01 While he has modeling for Ebony Fashion. He started in Shaft Shaft's Big Score Shaft in Africa. In twenty nineteen he was in the Shaft again. Now he did star oppics to get this Lawrence Olivier in the movie Incheng We Sure. He was twice divorced. He had two children from his first wife, then he had three children from his second wife. He died from pink creatic cancer in twenty twenty three, eighty one years old. So that was bon Scott, the original lead singer for the band ac DC.

6:46 He's born in Forfar, Scotland in nineteen forty six, moved to Australia when he was six years old. He started out with the band Valentine and then moved out the Fraternity. Then in nineteen seventy four, bonn he was at a club with his wife and some friends at the time watching the bad ac DC perform. See ac DC. They didn't have a lead singer at the time, so yeah, they were just up there rocking out and jamming and all kinds of stuff while his wife and his friends they all kept go get on stage, go sing with him, Go get up. No he didn't do it. Finally he said, Okay, he got up and sang and ac DC they were off and running some of the hit songs of Bond Sanguin where TNT Dirty Deeds done, dirt Cheap I've Got Big Ball, Highway to Hell Now Bond. He ended up drinking himself to death in nineteen eighty. He was only thirty three years old. He had divorced that woman that he was at the club with. Yeah, they were only married six years. Actor Jimmy Smith's is seventy one. He's born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty five. Now on Miami Vice, he was Sunny Krackett's original partner, but they killed Jimmy off in the very first episode, Yeah, replaced him with Michael Thomas, but Jimmy did pretty good.

7:46 After that. He started on Law La, law NYPD Blue, The West Wing, Sons of Anarchy. He played Senator Bail of Ghana in the three Star Wars movies. He married his high school sweetheart, but the only lasted six years and had two kids. And now he's dated actress Wanda Dehesus since nineteen eighty six because he's not going through divorce again. Tom Hagss seventy He's born in conquerd, California, in nineteen fifty six. Been in in quite a few of them, but his first starring role in the movie was Splash. Now his movie has made ten billion dollars Since then, he is nominated for Oscars for Big Saving, Private Ryan Castaway, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. He won Oscars for Philadelphia and for his Gump Now Tom. He was married to his first wife nine years and they had a son and a daughter. Married Actressrita Wilson in nineteen eighty eight and they have two sons. Actress Kelly mckillos was born in Newport Beach, California, nineteen fifty seven.

8:35 She's sixty nine. She first got famous for the movie Witness, then made in Heaven Top Gun The Ekidsed. She met her first husband when they were going to school at Juilliard studying acting. They graduated and then divorced just a couple of years after they got married. Now she married her second husband for thirteen years. When they divorced and they had two daughters. Then Kelly realized why these marriages weren't working out yet She was lesbian, been a lesbian ever since. Love. That was Mark Allman singing for the duo Soft Cell. Like Kelly, he's sixty nine to eight too, but he was born in Southport, England. Mark and David Ball started a soft cell in nineteen seventy eight, Mark sing and David does the music. Now they are a lot lot bigger in the UK and England and Europe and all that than there wherever here, Yeah, over here, they only had the one song, Dane's Love. Now Mark, he's at least twenty six solo albums on the side.

9:42 But not over here. Mark. He is dyslexic, artistic and gay and still very successful. Strange sloog. Jim Kerr he still sings lead for the band's Simple Minds. He's sixty seven, born in Tory, Glenn, Scotland. Helped form Simple Minds in nineteen seventy seven. Now they start out calling themselves Johnny and the Self Abusers. If they were like a punk band. They meloed out and changed the name of simple Minds. Simple Minds. It's a line from a David Bowie song, Don't You Forget About Me? Live and Kicking, Synctify yourself all the things she said, that's some of their heads. They do some shows here in the States every couple of years. They pretty much spend their time over in Europe and England, though Jimmy married Chrissy Hine for six years from the Pretenders. Yeah, they had a daughter. Then he married actress Patsy Kinsepp for four years and they had a son. I'm all I want.

10:50 A rock and study. Analogy. That was Courtney Love when she sang and played guitar for the band Hole. She was born in San Francisco in nineteen sixty four, but she grew up in Oregon. She's sixty two. Back in nineteen eighty eight in Los Angeles. She plays an ad in the Music newspaper, saying she wanted to start a band. Her influences were Big Black, Sonic, Youth and Fleetwood. Neck Hole was formed. Now, I guess they were more aut rock to me than they were grinds.

11:31 They broke up in twenty twelve. Courtney, She's done some acting. She was in the movie Sid and Nancy, The People Versus Larry flint Man on the Moon. She married Kirk Kabaine in nineteen ninety two. They had a daughter. Then Kirk killed himself in nineteen ninety four. I'm gonna find a month, I said, the nicety home in Coding Hole from Yeah, they're gonna rip it home, taking that sound roughing on my bed. Then I'm king because I can't forget him. That was Jack White when he sang for the White Stripes. Jack's fifty one. He was born in Detroit in nineteen seventy five. Now, him and his wife at the time, Meg, they formed White Stripes in nineteen ninety seven. Some of their heads I fell in Love with the Girl, seven Nation, Army Blue, Orchard Ikey Thump.

12:22 Now they actually divorced in two thousand, but they kept the band going until twenty eleven. Now, between the White Stripes, his solo work, and collaborating with other artists, Jackie's been nominated for thirty three Grammys. He's won twelve times now. When Jack married Meg White, that was back in nineteen seventy seven or nineteen ninety seven. Like I said, yeah, he took her name yeah, and then when they divorced he kept her name. Yeah. He was actually born John Gillis. He had two sons from a daughter, another two sons and a daughter from his second wife, and he married his third wife in twenty twenty two. Didn't take either one of those names after. Fred Savage is fifty. He's born in Chicago in nineteen seventy six. Started acting when he was nine at twelve at on the TV show The Wonder Years. At thirteen, he won an Emmy for Best Lead in a Comedy Series.

13:05 Youngest got to do that. Some of his movies Where Are the Princess Bride, Vice Versa, Little Monsters, Austin Powers, and Gold Member Freddy got married in two thousand and four and they have three children. Okay. Quote of the day is gonna come from the twelfth President of the United States, Zachary Taylor. He died today in eighteen fifty at sixty five years old. Zachary said, never judge a stranger by his clothes. That's pretty good advice. Well, thank you all for listening today, and don't forget to follow us on who you listen to. His own comes here us at cool media dot com and see what we're doing there with the podcast and the radio stations, all that good stuff. All right, our country underground artists today. It comes from a songwriter and is Melissa Costin. This is her new song called two Step. You guys have an Austin Day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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