May 12th-Katharine Hepburn, George Carlin, Billy Squier, Brooks & Dunn, Emilio Estevez, Jason Biggs

0:20 Hey, hello everyone. I am Jeff and welcome to history and fact to It's about today. This is May the twelfth. May I can see something, maybe you change your mind, May me. My little more time? I got. Yeah, I got nothing again today. Well, I guess if you want, you can celebrate limericks or you can celebrate nutty fudge. Now we use nutty Fudge Day as I spot the difference puzzle in our May Puzzle book. Yeah, we came out with a puzzle book of all the national days. It's got over seventy plus puzzles in there. Yeah, it's got some interesting facts and little birds about the day. So that's kind of a fun little book. Is that on Amazon. I'll get you a link to it in the next couple of shows or so. Or you can go to cool media dot com. You know what. Let's go see what happened on entertainment on May twelve. Let's go back to nineteen eighty. The number one album was Against the Wind by Bob Sieger and the Silver Bullet Band.

1:17 Funny he had the number one song with call Me Eddie Rabbit. He had the name on country song with Gone Too Far. Gone I'm going Wick in.

2:05 The number one book was The Born Identity by Robert Ludlam. The top movie was The Long Riders. Now it's Jesse, Frank James and the Younger Brothers, all that kind of stuff. Talks about after the Civil War, how they formed their becoming outlaws by basically revenge stars David Keith and Robert Carraday, James and Stacy Keach and Dennis and Randy Quaid. All right, let's see it. Thatpp in the world. On May the twelfth, fifteen fifty one, San Marcos University in Lima, Perux opened up. Yeah, it's still there. It's the oldest continually operated university in the Americas. Now, I'm sure you've all seen track and field events, and you know how that when sprinters get ready to race, they get in their crouch. That started in eighteen eighty eight Charles Churell from the University of Yale. Yeah, he's the first one to do it. He won the race, so everybody started doing that after him. Before then, they just start off standing. Eighteen ninety six, New York City they banned spitting in any public place or transit system.

3:02 It was a one to five dollars fine and up to a year in jail. Now, spinning's the least of their problems. Now we've talked about the kidnapping a pilot, Charles Lindberg's twenty month their old son in nineteen thirty two. Well, two months after they found the little guy's body. Yeah, a truck driver had gotten pulled over. He pulled over to p four miles away from the house and found it. Bruno Hopmann. He was arrested for it after he tried to spend some of the money that was used in the ransom. Nineteen thirty seven in Britain, the BBC, they did the first worldwide radio broadcast. Yeah, it was for the coronation of King George the sixth and Queen Elizabeth in broad daylight. In nineteen forty two, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, a German U both sank an American cargo tanker. It was carrying one hundred and eighty thousand barrels of gasoline. Twenty six sailors were killed. Nineteen forty nine, India's Vijaya panded. She became the first foreign ambassador who was a woman to be an ambassador to the United States, and they did it on mother's dve and that's cool.

3:59 Co coach shows this shibf Day, were gonna pause, he left this Shuverfday. We don't simple calls like this shibirth Day. And you know we don't give up because that's. Her birthday, all right. Hood Borlin May the twelfth legendary actress Catherine Hepburn. She was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in nineteen oh seven. She acted from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen ninety five. She won four Oscars for Best Actress. Now that's the most for any lead actor to ever win. She won her first one in nineteen thirty four from Morning Gore. Then she got nominated eight more times. Then she finally won again for Guests Who's Coming to Dinner, then The Line and Winter and on Golden Pond in nineteen eighty two. So she won her first one at the sixth Academy Awards, and she won her last one at the fifty fourth Academy Awards. Now, she was a very very private person. She seldom gave the interviews. Rarely saw her out and socializing, your partying and that kind of thing. She's dead marry one from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty four, but the love of her life was actor of Spencer Tracy. They did it from nineteen forty one until he he died in nineteen sixty seven.

5:01 I mean Tracy. He was married that whole time, and him and his wife didn't live together. Catherine. She died from a heart attack in two thousand and three at ninety six years old. Comedian George Carlin. He was born in New York City in nineteen thirty seven. One of the best stand up comedians of all time. He had this bit seven words you can never say on TV. Well, he did the bit and got arrested. Well that case and went all the way up to the Supreme Court. He lost. The court ruled that the government has the right to censor obscene material. George. He had fourteen HBO specials. He was the first host of the guest host of started in that live on the very first show. Released twenty comedy albums. Some movies that he was in were A Car Wash, Outrageous Fortune, The Prince of Tides, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Movies. He was married his first wife thirty six years when she died, and they had one daughter. Married his second wife in nineteen ninety eight, and they were together until he died in two thousand and eight, a seventy one years old. Died from heart failure just one week after what became his last performance out in Las Vegas. Steve Winwood he's seventy eight. He's born in Hansford, England. In nineteen forty eight. When he was fourteen, he joined the Spencer Davis Group. Then he helped form the band Traffic. They're on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Steve went solo in nineteen seventy seven.

6:29 Some of his biggest hits are while You See a Chance, Valerie, Roll with It, Higher Love. He married his second wife in nineteen eighty seven and they have four kids. Good but It Won Too. Billy Squire he's seventy six. Born in Wellesley, Massachusetts in nineteen fifty. Started out in the band Piper, went solo in nineteen eighty had the Big Heads The Stroke. Now he says the Stroke is all about music industry. Executive is not what everybody else thinks. It's about. He had in the dark, Mike dind of Lover Rock Me Tonight, Everybody Wants You. He start released his new music and can catch it on his website. He married a German professional soccer player in two thousand and two. For over twenty years, he has lived in an apartment across from Central Park in New York City. He actually physically maintains twenty acres of that park around the Brooks Brooks Undone as Kicks Brooks. He's the one who rarely sings Kicks.

7:54 He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in nineteen fifty five, seventy one today. Kicksy started out as a songwriter her out there in Nashville. He couldn't find any success as a solo artist. I mean, he did release an album, but it didn't do very well. Then in nineteen ninety a record company and they teamed up with Ronnie Dunn. Now Brooks and Dunn are the most successful country duel of all time, one of the most successful duels period of all time. Twenty of their songs have gone to number one. Someone Were Brand New Man, My Next Broken Heart, She's Not the Cheating Guy, Neon Moon, Bootscoot and Boogie. Brooks and Dunn. They're opening for Morgan Wallen on his stadium tour right now. Kicks He married nineteen eighty one and they have one son. Now I'm betting a lot of you probably most of you think is James rope Jones that voices all those RB's commercials. No, it's actor Ving Raims. He was born in Harlem, New York in nineteen fifty nine, sixty seven a day. He graduated from Juilliards and you know he's a good actor. Hit big playing mister Wallace in the movie Pulp Fiction. He's played Luther Stickwell and all the Mission Impossible movies. He did the Death Race movie is the Piranha three D movies he voiced Cobra, Bubbles and Lee Loan Stitch Ban. He married his second wife in two thousand and they have three kids. Actor Emilio Asterds. He's sixty four, born in New York City in nineteen sixty two. Now that's their real family name. Yes, he was his dad and his brother.

9:09 They're the ones who changed their names to Martin and Charlie Sheen. Emilio he first hit in the movie The Outsiders and then the Breakfast club sant Amos, Fires and Steakout movies, Young Gun movies. He had a son and a daughter from a girlfriend. Then he married Paula Abdul for a couple of years. So do you know who was in the brat pack of the nineteen eighties. Let's say there was Emelio of course, Judd Nelson, Sean Finn, Anthony, Michael Hall, Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Molly Ringwall, Ali Sheety, and Andrew McCarthey. Actor Stephen Baldwin. He is the youngest of the four acting Baldwin brothers. Steven. He was born in Massapico, New York, in nineteen sixty six sixty today. First starring role in the movie was at eight Seconds and then The Usual Suspects Biodome. He played Barney Rowell in The Flintstone. Married nineteen ninety and they have two daughters.

9:53 Youngest one is Haylee Bieber. Yeah, she's married to Justin Bieber. He might have heard of that guy. Actors Kim Phils. She's fifty nine. She's born in New York City in nineteen sixty nine. Now, when she was dead, everybody knew her as Tuty. Yeah. She played twoty on different Strokes and then Facts of Life. Facts of Life actually ran for ten years, so when it was over, she was pretty much grown up. So she started in living single. She is currently on The Upshaws. I think it's on Netflix. She's done quite a bit of directing over the years. Actually, she married her second husband in two thousand and seven and they have two sons. Actor Jason Biggs. He was born in Pumpton Plains, New Jersey in nineteen seventy eight forty eight today. He first sound for success on the daytime soap opera As the World Turns, But of course he's best known for the American Pie movies. He was also in Saving Silverman, Loser, My Best Friend's Girl Now. When he was filming that, he met actress Jenny Mullen.

10:43 Yep. They ended up getting married in two thousand and eight and they have two sons now. Although Jason he has played a Jew eight times, he is actually Catholic. Actor Remy Mallock. He's forty five. He was born in Torns, California. In nineteen eighty one. He had a small recurring role in the Night at the Museum movies. He finally hit on the TV show Mister Robot. Then he went an Oscar playing Freddy Mercury in Bohemian Rapidity. Then and he was in the mirror miniseries The Pacific. He hasn't married yet, Okay. Our quote of the day today it comes from Perry Como. Catch your falling Star, run. Put it in your pocket kit. Never let it fade away. Catch your falling star, run. Put it in your pocket kit, Save it for ready day.

11:28 Perry died today in two thousand and one, at eighty eight years old. He said, for all the talent I had, I mean, I couldn't act, I couldn't dance, I couldn't tell a joke. I really enjoyed a tremendous career. Well, thank you for being here today. I don't read to follow us on whoever you listen to us on our country and a ground artist. Today it comes from Mark out in Sacramento. He wants to hear buck Ford and his son cold beer. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. It all started with a cold beer in stoky atmosphere. Few words whispered in Eryar and him. To get on out of here. And it was down some back road in the back seat of close. We been together the wrong most year. It all started with the cold beer.

12:21 I remember that night the plainest day I dropped the top on my Chevrolet, and I'm pickture up. I was sweet on her, she was leary of me. I was on arms, she was uncleased. You did not touch. I alled how and my gown and brave the eyes with the girl that's so hurting and so nice. It all started with a cold fer in smoke, the atmosphere of your words, whispered enery.

13:05 Can't we get on now here? Then it was down some back road in the back seat, up close, beginning together almost a year. It all started with the cold. Can be talking texts? Then I'm thinking, if this love goes right well, tither not. We're looking at a little piece of ground about ten miles outside of town on the mountain side, maybe a couple kids down the road, if it keeps going like I think it's going to go.

13:58 It all started with the cold here, in smoky atmosphere of your word, whispered interview. Can we get on down here? Then it was down some bac road in the backseat, up close again together almost year. It all started being the cold