May 26-Memorial Day, John Wayne, Marshall Dillon, Stevie Nicks, Hank Williams jr, Lenny Kravitz, South Park

0:19 Well, hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and factor it's about today. Days May the twenty sixth, all gave, so, some gave all, some stood through for. The red White Boon song at the ball. And if you everything got me, think of all you liberty recall. So today he is Memorial Day. Now it might be the unofficial start of summer. But most importantly today is to honor those who died serving us in the United States Armed Forces. The first Memorial Day was May thirtieth and eighteen sixty eight. They called it Decorations Day because they decorated all the graves for all those soldiers who died.

1:18 Now it was to honor the six one hundred and twenty thousand soldiers killed on both sides fighting in the Civil War. Now, it took until nineteen seventy one for it to become a federal holiday. Then he declared that he'd be the last Monday of every May. Now, remember, Memorial Day is to honor those who were killed. So today you are not to wish somebody a happy Memorial Day, and you do not thank active duty military for their service today. Now that takes away from those that were killed. So what you do do is you keep Memorial Day and your thoughts and prayers and you enjoy the three day weekend. That is why it was originally put on a Monday anyway, so you can enjoy what other sacrifice for. All right, this is going on entertainment on May twenty sixth. Let's go back to nineteen ninety. Number one album was I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got by Nat O'Connor.

2:01 But Donna had the number one song with Vogue. And. Clint Black had the number one country song was walking Away. It's the people Love People Love line on the way. I'm right and I'll lock in Way.

2:50 The number one book was The Stand by Stephen King Todd. Movie it was Back to the Future three, Marty and Doc. They go back to eighteen eighty five. Now that's trying to figure out how to get back home stars Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, and Mary Steinbergeon. All right, what happened on May the twenty sixth, sixteen thirty seven? There? What is New Haven, Connecticut today? The First War between European settlers and American Indians began the Pequot tribe to be more specific, so the first battle the Pequot War. It's called mystic massacre. See, only the English settlers had guns, so you can kind of see how this is going to go. Five hundred Peacots were killed in that first valley, or of that first battle. Now, even though the Peaquads did not stand a chance, the fighting actually went on for a year. Sadly, when it was all over, the last seven hundred Peaquat soldier or people who lived there, you know, men and women and children whatever, they were sold into slavery and sent to the Bermuda and the West Indies. Sixteen forty seven, the Puritans, who had left Europe due to religious persecution, they banned Catholic priests from entering Massachusetts. The penalty was death. Ah, the priest just stayed away. Eighteen ninety seven, Bram Stoker published his book Dracula.

3:56 So would you trust an elevator? Back in eighteen ninety nine, Today the Eiffel Tower they opened up and they said you were giving your chance. You could walk up the one thousand, seven hundred and ten steps to the top, or you could take a lift. You know had walk. Have you ever taken a long car ride with a bunch of kids? Nineteen oh eight, mister and missus Jacob Murdoch and their three kids who were all under ten. Again, the first family did drive across the United States. They had left Los Angeles and arrived in New York City. Took them thirty two days, five hours and twenty five minutes. Drove the little family packard. Now in France, they have a car race called the twenty four Hours of La Mon's and you probably heard about. It's pretty famous. So it's what they do is they used tema drivers and they raced for twenty four hours and you know, alternating. Well, the first one was out today in nineteen twenty three.

4:41 Now not the racetrack that they used today, see, that was being built and they didn't have it done yet. So that very first one, Yeah, they just raced through the streets to the Lamans for twenty four hours. Andrea Lagosh and Renee Leonard. He won. Nineteen twenty seven. Ford Motor Company, they built the fifteenth million Model T. Yeah, it was the last one they made it too. Yeah, they discontinued it. He placed it with the Model A. Yeah, I know team comes after A, but I wasn't there. Nineteen seventy seven Mountain climber George Wheelike. He climbed the South tower of the World Trade Center. Now, police tried to stop him, you know, they lowered some officers down in one of those window washer things. He just moved over and went around and there's nothing they could do. Took him three and a half hours to climb from the street up to the top. And when he got up to the top, he was in a lot of trouble.

5:22 They arrested him, had to pay a fine one dollar and ten cents. They fined him one penny for every four that he climbed. Nineteen seventy eight, legal casino gambling actually started in Atlantic City. Yep, that's a New Jersey if you didn't know. So. Yeah, Atlantic City wasn't always the gambling mecca it is today. Nineteen ninety eight, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island that immigate immigration gateway for all those millions of immigrants who came to America. It's actually in New Jersey, not New York. In twenty twelve, the butler for Pope Benedict the sixteenth, he was arrested, Yeah, for Lincoln confidential documents. How do you think he thought he was going to get away. With that joke. Dope dope coop dope joke show dish shivers Day.

6:07 We're gonna pause. He left this shub day. We want simpletage. He's like dish shivers Day, and you know we don't give that's a birthday. Let's check out who was born on May the twenty sixth. Bird not singing? It is Hongti. Marum shopping. I know that you you're Holly cool Way. You're calling me swanny. Oh, I love y'all. How I love your min You're old swannee. That was out Jolson. He was born in Lithuania in eighteen eighty six. Moved his family in the United States when he was five. Now he did vaudeville. He's saying he danced. He acted. In nineteen twenty seven, he started the movie The Jazz Singer.

6:51 Yeah. That was the first talking movie picture. Now he was the highest paid and most known entertainer in the world in nineteen twenties. Now he was known as the King of blackfaced. It is considered extremely racist to see how he would perform in blackface to show the white audiences that he was performing black music. He wanted the white audiences to know that, you know, the black artists and writers deserve the credit for what he was singing about. He actually thought that if he performed in blackface, the white audiences would actually kind of accept black entertainers after him. Now, yeah, they just think it's just racist. How he had a son from his third wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen forty five. They had a son and a daughter. Died in nineteen fifty at sixty four years old from a heart attack. The Duke actor John Wayne. He was born in winter Set, Iowa, in nineteen oh seven. Weighed thirteen pounds when he was born. Grew up in California, and he got the nickname Duke.

7:39 Yeah. As a boy, he never went anywhere without a great big dog named Duke. Someone stuck with him. Now. He got a football scholarship to USC, the University of Southern California, but he did a no no, he actually broke his collar bone bodysurfing, so he lost his football scholarship, had to drop out of school. Well that's football, coach. He was able to get him a job working in a movie studio. So starting in Silent Movie, John Wayne made a hundred seventy movers. Now. He was actually nominated for Oscars for sanza Ebo, Jima and The Alamo. He actually won an Oscar for True Grid. He had four children from his first wife. Married his third wife in nineteen fifty four and they had three children Wayne. He died nineteen seventy nine from STEMI cancer, seventy two years old.

8:19 Never know how much I love you, never know how much I can't. When you put your arms around me, I get a fever. That's so hard. Bang, you're giving me a fever when you kiss me, fever when you hold me tight. That was Peggy Lee. She was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in nineteen twenty. Now, I was a kid. She really got known all across North Dakota singing on the radio. So when she turned seventeen, she grabbed your stuff and moved to Hollywood. I took her eight years, but she did hit really big. She wrote over eleven hundred songs, recorded two hundred and seventy em She did pretty well as an actress. She was nominated for an Oscar once did all the singing in the Disney movie The Lady in the Tramp. She divorced four times. She had a daughter from her first husband. Now she was still performing in the nineteen seventies, but when she went on stage, yeah, they had to push her out through a wheelchair so she could sing Beggy. She died from diabetes and heart failure two thousand and two, at eighty one years old.

9:28 That TV show Gun Smoke ran from nineteen fifty five to nineteen seventy five, six hundred and thirty five episodes, the only primetime show with more the Simpsons. James arnasts He was born in Minneapolis in nineteen twenty three. His younger brother was actor Peter Grace. In World War Two, James, he wanted to be a fighter pilot. Well, he stood six feet seven inches tall, so, yeah, he was too tall to be a fighter pilot, So they made him a rifleman in the infantry over in the Pacific. At the Battle of Anzio, the landing craft was got to hit the shore of the beach. Yeah, they didn't know how deep the water was, and since he was the tallest one, they ordered him to get out and see how deep it was. Yeah, he got shot up really bad. Yeah, obviously he lived, but it took him a long time, like over a year. In the hospital before he could come back home. He did suffer from lake pain for the rest of his life. Of course. He's best known is starring as Marshall Dylan on gud Smoke Ardest. He had two sons and one daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy eight. James died in twenty eleven from natural causes eighty eight years old.

10:43 Se Stevie Nicks, she's seventy seven now. She's going out on tour August eighth through the Fall Field the Zechsteedia. She's born in Phoenix, Arizona. Now. Her boyfriend at the time was Lindsay Buckingham. They were out in California and playing coffee at shops and then that kind of stuff. Well, Lindsey he got asked to join the band Fleetwood Mac said he would do it, but only if they took Stevie. Oh, they did, but they broke up shortly after they joined the band, but Fleetwood Mac so there were one hundred and twenty million records with those two in it. Now, Stevie she did some solo stuff all along the years. Some of her biggest hits are Edge of seventeen, stand back talk to me, I can't wait. She did take seven years off in the nineties, but she was with Fleetman Mac other than that from nineteen seventy four until they call her quits in twenty twenty two.

11:29 Fucking ball. I had a guitar in my hand. I had my own man. I went on the road when I was eight years old, when. I was dealing the shows. One of the burn and the girls didn't take me long to learn it. I was born the boot. Hank Williams Junior, he's gone out on tour June sixth. Yeah, didn't last so throughout the whole summer. So she's to be able to check out Hank Junior if you want. He's seventy six. He's born in Shreveport, Louisiana. Now he is three years old when his legendary dad country singer Hank Williams died. Now his dad gave him the nickname Bo Ciphas. Say where'd you get that? Well? Both Ciphas was a ventriloquist dummy that he used to perform at the Grand ol Opera. Nineteen seventy five. Junior, he was climbing a Jack's Mountain out there in Montana, fell over one hundred feet, hit his head on some rocks, got all messed up. Took him a couple of years to get somewhat back to normal. But because of the stars, she will never see Hank Williams Junion without a cowboy hat on, sunglasses or a beard.

12:23 Now. He sold over seventy million albums Whiskey Bent and hell Bound, Dixie on My Mind, Born to boogie family tradition, all my rowdy friends, that's some of their biggest hits. Now. He had one child from his first wife, two from his second wife. His third wife, he married her in nineteen ninety and they had tea children, and she died in twenty twenty two. He married his fourth wife twenty twenty three. Actress Pram Greer. She's seventy six. She's born in Winston Sale in North Carolina. Yeah, she was a military bratch. He moved all around the country, but I ended up settling out here in Denver, Colorado. Went to high school there, then college at Metro State. After she graduated for Metro she left Denver for Hollywood. It big ring in those blaxplitation movies and women in prison movies. Biggest one you might heard it was Foxy Brown. Later on she did mainstream movies Above the Law, Escape from La Mars Attacks, Jackie Brown Now she was on the l Word for five years on TV. Nineteen eighty eight, she was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer. They gave her eighteen months to live. Thirty seven years later, she's living on a ranch out there near Santa Fe, New Mexico.

13:23 Comedian Bobcat Goldthwaite. He was born in Syracuse, New York. He's sixty three. Started out as a stand up comedian. Then he did The Move, three Police Academy movies, one Crazy Summer Blow. He had one daughter from his first wife. He had a daughter from a second wife, married his third wife just last year to. Tom want to see your Face? No Mama, I got Mom brought him things to spend and. With your. Lenny Kravitz sixty one. He's born in New York City.

14:04 His mom was actress Roxy Rooker. She played missus Willis on The Jeffersons. Now Lenny's sold over forty million noms. He holds a Grammy Award record Yeah for one artist, winning the same award the most consecutive years. He was Best Male Rock performer Four Years in a Row nineteen ninety nine or two thousand and two. Some of his biggest hitter, it ain't over till it's over? Are you gonna go? My way? Fly Away? American woman now Lindsay or Lindy. He married actress Lisa Bonet for six years and they had daughter, Zoeys. She's pretty famous Lenny. He's going out on tour on June first. If you want to go check out some Lenny Kravitz. Actress Helena Bonham Carter was born over in Islington, England. She's fifty nine. Some of her movies that actually we got to see on this side of the pond were Fight Club, Playing Into the Eights, Lay Member, Robs four, Harry Potter movies.

14:51 She was nominated for Oscars for All the Wings of a Dove and The King Speech. She was with Tim Burt for thirteen years and they had two children. I'm going down sound out myself to the May days we were. Day No One man South. I'm going to leave my wold bad. Day, me and my fady. I know I'm South. I'm going to see if I can't a wind. Matt Stone. He is born in Houston, Texas. He's fifty four today. Grew up in Littleton, Colorado, went to the University of Colorado. That's where he met Trey Parker. They created South Park in nineteen ninety seven. Now mad He voices. The main characters were Kyle and Kenney, and of course a bunch of the smaller ones. Besides South Park, they did the movie Basketball and the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon. I went nine Tony and warrens in one Grammy Dad. He got married in two thousand and eight and they have two children.

15:42 Three weeks we're looking for your friend when you left, and the calling to begin. But when he told you people's bother the friends of man who like him, they give them ala tramps and begin you think you really going for tend like you wasn't down. Then you called him again pure you give it up so easy you went. He pros only him if you did it. Rapper singer songwriter Laurenell. She's fifty. She's born in East Orange, New Jersey. She's won eight Grammy is that's the most of any female rapper. She started out on the daytime soap op ras The World Turns, and then she did the movie Sister Act too, but back in high school she had helped form the band The Fujis. Now that band finally hit when he was doing Sister Active, so she didn't have to act no more. She left the Fugies and did her album The Miseducation of Laurenell. They had the big heads do Wop that thing X Foxter Everything is everything now Laurence. She hasn't married yet, but she does have six kids. Five of them are from Bob Marley's son Rohan. All Right, Today's quote of the day, it's gonna come from actor Eddie Albert. He died today in two thousand and five at ninety nine years old.

16:42 Eddie said, courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding. Well, thank you, Thank you all for listening. Neverget to follow us on who you listen to us on and come check us out at cool media dot com. That's Cool of three us. Now in order, in honor of Memorial Day, our country underground artist of the day is Shane and this is his song nineteen perfect Memorial. They song you guys have an awesome day, We'll talk tomorrow. Nineteen the number on his backboard to Captain mors High school football team. He took us so on the way to stay, got a scholarship to play down of Tennessee. Now he could catch, he could throw, he could run, he could go like he never seen nineteen.

17:32 But on the bay, those twin. Towers came down his whole turn rain. He tore the mall. I can't play ball in the war. He must ride in with a few good men, join the range in nineteen. Now he's the boy next door they used to carry your bags at the grocery store. He's somebody's son in a whole weather gone, and a poor riend lane trying no hold on. There has American drinking nineteen.

18:19 There's a snapper out there in the dark somewhere, and a soldier damn, and he needs someone who can dug and run and get him mouth on with help. One one good man raise his hand and take one for the team, how about you? Nineteen Now he's the boy next door. They used to carry your bags at the grocery store. He's somebody's song, and a whole weather gone, and a poorn lane trying no hold on. There has American drinking nineteen.

19:22 They brought him home today with a big parade down on Main Street. He got a purple hard and a silver star. Soldier gave a speech, said he could catch, he could throw, he could run. He's the one that rescued me. He could have played for Tennessee. He was only nineteen.