March 13th-Uranus, Ear Muffs, Neil Sedaka, Sha Na Na, William H. Macy, Dana Delany, Good Samaritan

0:20 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff Day's March thirteenth boy. Believe there are angels among us, send down to us from somewhere. They come to you and me in our darkest star wars to show us how to it, to teach us how to gain. Today is National Good Samaritan Day. Yeah, that Good Samaritan story. It comes from the New Testament in the Bible. It's a parable where Jesus told of a Samaritan will help the Jewish stranger who had been beaten and robbed and left for dead. Two Jewish people had passed by without helping him. Well, the Samaritan did stop helping them with his injuries and then paid to have him taken care of. Now, back then the Jews and the Samaritans they did not like each other at all. Now you don't have to do anything that big. Today is all about unselfish acts of kindness. You know, help pay for someone who comes up a little bit short. Maybe help senior citizen get their house ready for spring. If someone is pulled over on the side of the road, stop and see if you can help him out, you know, just hold the door open for someone or You can even give a stranger a friendly smile if it looks like they need one. Today.

1:37 We can all be good Samaritans now, trust me, it'll make you feel good doing something unselfish. Okay. What was going on in entertainment on Mars the thirteenth? It was back to twenty eleven. Number one album was twenty one by Adele. Lady gog I had the number one song was Born This Way. Jason al Daan and Kelly Clarkson had the number one country song with Don't you want to Stay?

2:20 Don't you want to say? Don't you want to hole other time? Don't you want to fall asleep for me? Don't you wanna side? The number one book was The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Top movie was Battle Los Angeles A Squad of Marines, They're the Last Hope against Aliens stars Aaron Eckert, Michelle Rodriguez, Bridge at Moynam and Ramon Rodriguez. All Right, What happened on March the thirteenth, seventeen eighty one? English astronomer William herschel I thought he discovered a comment.

3:01 Turned out he discovered the planet Uranus. Yeah, with the first planet discovered by using a telescope all the other planets. You can see him by the naked eye. Now, he tried to name it after England's King George the Third, and that's the world said, oh hell no. So it ended up being named after the Greek god Uranus. He is the god of all the heavens in the sky and a symbol of masculinity. Uranus has twenty eight moons. Maine. In eighteen seventy eight or seventy seven, Chester Greenwood he got a patent for ear muffs. Yeah. Chester actually created the ear muff when he was only fifteen years old. Ate his grandma saw some beaver onto it to help his prototype. Now, this was really nice of him. In nineteen hundred, over in France, they made it a law that women and children could only work an eleven hour day in baseball. In nineteen fifteen, as a publicity stunt, the Brooklyn Robins manager Robert Robinson, he said he was going to catch a baseball dropped out of an airplane five hundred and twenty five feet over the stadium. Now, the pilot they hired, he didn't have a baseball, so he used a grapefruit. Now, Robinson. He made that ca but the great food exploded all over him.

4:02 The players and the fans thought that was as funny as hell. Robinson, Yeah, he didn't. Nineteen sixty nine, near Skull Valley, Utah, at an Army training ground, a US jet was doing a test flight where he was releasing nerve gas. Now, one of the nozzles malfunctioned and didn't completely empty the tank. So as a pilot was turning around over Ranchland, the jet, yeah, it was still spewing that nerve gas. Killed six thousand sheep, and people all across the area started coming down with had nervous system diseases. The Army denied they had anything to do with that. They said they didn't do anything that could possibly killed all those sheets that made those people sick. But President Nixon quietly he immediately put a ban on an open air chemical testing. Then in nineteen ninety eight time he said, hey, sorry about that. Yeah, we knew about it all the time that we did it. Nineteen eighty six, now Microsoft stock went on sale for the first time. It was their initial public offering. It was twenty dollars twenty one dollars a share. So let's say you invested one thousand dollars in well, with all the splits and everything, that thousand dollars investment would be worth about three point five million dollars today. Twenty thirteen, Argentina is Catholic Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergogilia. He was elected the Pope. He took the name Pope Francis. He was the first pope not from Europe since seven forty one. Yeah, that was Pope Gregory, the third from Syria.

5:18 Cope Cope, cope jog dish shivers day. We're gonna he left this shiverthday. We gonna sit boutage. He left dis shivebirth day and you know you don't give up birthday. Let's just check out. It was born on March the thirteenth, creaking up his hat. Take my heart, lizard, now if you go now, breaking on this heart. Neil Sedaka he was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen thirty nine. In nineteen fifty five, he helped form the group the Tokens. Yeah, then he went solo in nineteen fifty eight. That was before the Tokens shit with their song and the Lion Sleep Tonight. But Neil, he had a lot bigger su sex than that. Neil wrote over five hundred songs for himself and another artist. He's released songs in Italian, German, Hebrew, Spanish and Japanese, sold over a hundred million records. Some of his classics are O Carol, Calendar, Girl, next Door to an Angel, breaking Up.

6:24 BIZZARDI married nineteen sixty two and they have son and a daughter and Neil. He just died February twenty seventh. He is eighty six years old. Tomorrow got a little something. I'm going a. Job that was done York singlely for Shannana, done seventy seven today. He's born in Boiseata in nineteen forty nine, Shana in nineteen sixty nine, saying lead until they call her quits in twenty twenty two. Now, they started out as this dance group that just covered nineteen fifty songs.

7:09 They were the complete opposite of everything else that was going on in the music in the late nineteen sixties. So they were kind of goofy and odd and all that. But big name artists really started becoming fans of them. Yeah, they thought, what were these weirdos? But their biggest fan, Jimmy Hendricks. Now, Jimmy, he had Seannanah play right before he went on stage to close out Woodstock in sixty nine. Now, they were in the movie Grease, and they had their own primetime TV variety showy. I did that for five years, Donnie. He's married and they have one son. Now, if you see clips of Seawana performing, yeah, he's usually wearing sunglasses. Actor William H. Macy. He was born in Miami in nineteen fifty, seventy six year old. He did a lot of theater and a lot of small parts and movies and TV shows. Finally hit big in the movie Fargo, was even nominated for an oscar for it. Then Air Force One, Boogie Knights, Pleasantville, Wild Hogs on TV, and arrated Curious George. He was on Er from nineteen ninety forty two thousand and nine and then Shameless for ten years.

8:04 William You married actress Felicity Huffmann in nineteen ninety seven and they have two daughters. Actress Dana Delaney. She was born she's seven years all today she looks pretty good. She was born in New York City in nineteen fifty six. She started out on daytime soap operas. Then she went Prime time and hit really big on China Beach and then Desperate Housewives. She is currently on Tulsa King with Sylvester Stallone. Some of her movies House Sitter, Tombstone, The Curve, Wide Wick. All right, our quote of the day. It comes from businessman one of the richest been in the world. JP Morgan died to day in nineteen thirteen at seventy five years old. JP said, whenever you expect things to happen, strangely enough, they do happen. Well, thank you all for listening. To make sure you follow us on. However, you listen to us on our country in the ground ready arts Today it comes from Scott out there, Knarkansas. He wants to hear Blacktop rodeo song. One last look around you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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