May 31-Smile, Clint Eastwood, Tom Berenger, Lea Thompson, Corey Hart, Brooke Shields, Colin Farrell

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today, presented by Cool Media. This is May the thirty first. Smile see you ay right? Shit, shut up through the way you SMI really see you smile. It is National Smile Day now. Of course, today is brought to you by Dennist the whole Dental Association. But smiling is cool now. There are two types of smiles, the genuine and the pity smile. Our brains can detect if the smiless, fake or nut. Now, smiling and photographs, they nearly didn't start until about the nineteen fifties. Say, before then, people really didn't have good teeth plus to pose for a picture.

1:00 It took a while, and it's kind of hard to hold a smile for that long. So celebrate today by smiling. You know, people might think you're drunk, but just walk around and smiling and everybody today. You never know, a genuine smile just might make somebody else's day. And remember to make an appointment to see your dentist. All right, let's see what happened in the world of entertainment on May thirty. First, let's go back to the Air twenty eighteen Number one album was Bear Bongs and Bentley's by Post Malone. Try All This. Gambino had the number one song with This is America. Don't got your slipping though, put I'm whipping them. This is America, Don't got your slipping on? Look home living though police be tripping off.

1:42 Yeah, this is America. Bongs in my area. I got this trap. Hey, I gotta carry him. Kane Brown, he had the number one country song with Heaven. Everybody's talking about Kevin like they just can't wait to go, saying how it's gonna be so good, so beautiful, lying next seal In this Bad with You, Dan convinces cut. I don't know, I don't know how it'll be better than the Number one book was The Seventeenth Suspect by James Patterson and Maxing Fate Droum. Number one movie it was Ocean's eight Debbie Ocean, She gets an all female crew to pull off an impossible highs Sorry Sandra Bolla, Kate Blanchett and Hathaway A whole bunch More.

2:34 Nineteen seventy six, the band of Who, they were doing a concert in London, England, set the record for the loudest concert of all time. It was one hundred and twenty decibels at fifty meters. Now, the Guinness Book of World Record, they got a little worried about that one. Yeah, they were worried about hearing damage. So they stopped that record right there and then there, and they will not acknowledge anyone who tries to break it. All right, says going on in the world on May the thirty first, eighteen sixty eight, and he guesses were the first one. Oriol Day Parade was held Ironton, Ohio in eighteen seventy E. J. Just Schmidt. He got a patent for his invention that changed the world. Yeah, it was asphalt pavement. Now, two months from then they paid the very first street with it. It was Williams Straight in Newark, New Jersey.

3:15 Three months later they had to fill in the first bothole. Now I'm just joking. It was probably four months. Eighteen ninety the Olm Germany. In Olm, Germany, they completed the building the Old Minster. It is the tallest church in the world that has a steeple. Still is five hundred and thirty feet high. Now, I said they completed it in eighteen ninety, right, Okay, they started building it in thirteen seventy seven. Nineteen nineteen, businessman Conrad Hilton. He went to buy a bank, but the deal fell throughout the last minute. Since he has some money with them, you and head and bought the Mobli Hotel in Cisco, Texas. That's the beginning of the Hilton Hotel franchise. Nineteen twenty one, the Tulsa Race Rides broke out. It is the worst active race violence in American history. Now. The black community of Greenwood is in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was the wealthiest black community in the United States. A black man in Tulsa, he was arrested for raping a white woman who was an elevator operator. A white mob gathered at the jail. The lynch that guy. Well, the blacks gathered to protect him. Well, gunfire rang out and ten whites were killed and two blacks were killed. Well, the white community they went back crap crazy on Greenwood. Over the next couple of days, they killed over three hundred Black men and women, burned thirty five blocks of Greenwood, of homes and businesses all to the ground. They were even dropping firebombs from airplanes.

4:29 So how did the whole thing actually start well, the black man trip getting into the elevator, falling into the white female elevator operator. Yeah, a white man saw and thought that the man was assaulting her. So when it was all over, they talked to her about it. She refused to press any charges against the man. She said he literally tripped. In nineteen eighty five, the United States made the drug ecstasy illegal. In twenty thirteen, the whitest tornado ever recorded. Yeah, it raised hell outside of Reno, Oklahoma. It was two point six miles wide. Tim Samarn he became the first storm chaser ever killed back tornado. He had two people with him. They were also both killed. Coop Coop Coop Coop Cool Goat show. This shivers day, were gonna pause. He left this shiverfday. We gonna sit with cars. He left. Its Shibs day. And you know we don't do both because that's the birthday. It was bornin May that thirty. First actor Doni Michi. He was born in Kenoshi, Wisconsin, in nineteen to eight. Acted from nineteen thirty five to nineteen ninety three. Was in over sixty movies. He's actually the leady man in forty of them. Won an Oscar for Cocoon. He was also in Trading Places Harry and Anderson Cocoon in the Return. He married in nineteen thirty two. They're together to His wife died nineteen eighty six. They had six kids. Don He died nineteen ninety three from prostate cancer at eighty five years old. Deal old, buddy and all pull the beer. There's always some lady alone at the bar. Yeah, and you always let her know just who you are. I know a couple of gals in a weekend, Carl damn there, shake a picture right

6:00 all from the wall. We're barroom buddies. And that's the best kuyoos with buddy of mine. Burroom buddies. The song was by Merle Haggard and Clint Eastwood Clinton. He's ninety four years old today. Born in nineteen thirty in San Francisco. First got known starring on TV's Raw Hide. Then he went over to Italy and hit big, starring a whole bunch of Spaghetti Westerns. Started directing in nineteen seventy one. For directing, he's been nominated for Oscars for a Madgistic River Letters from Yewajima, an American Sniper. He won Oscars for directing for Unforgiven a Million Dollar Baby. Now, he actually just finished directing a movie a couple months ago. If he directs in it, ninety four Clinton. He will not tell how many children he's fathered, but everybody knows there's eight for sure. He had two from his first wife, one from his second. Five, and he's had at least five from four other women. Take this job and Chovey ain't working. Oh, he just took all I was working at ball. He did not stand in my ways.

7:08 Almost out of the door. That was country singer Johnny Paycheck. He was born in Greenfield, Ohio, in nineteen thirty eight. Now he was a big part of the outlaw country movement back in the nineteen seventies. Before then, he was a backup singer in the nineteen fifties and sixties for all the big names in country music. Now, take this job and shove it was his biggest hit. He also had the heads She's all I got, mister lovemaker, I'm the only hell that Mama ever raised. Now he took that out low image to heart. So he did time in prison, and he got in trouble with the I R S. And then he got more trouble with the law. He married nineteen sixty nine and they had a son. Johnny died in two thousand and three at sixty four years old from emphysema. Act Tom Berenger. He's seventy five. He was born in Chicago in nineteen forty nine. Worked as a fight attendant until he made enough money to just be an actor. First got known on the daytime soap opera One Life to Live. Then the movie is The Big Eddie and the Cruisers Do the Major League movies. Nominated for an oscar for Platoon. Been in over seventy five movies. He had two children from his first wife, three from his second wife, and one from his third wife. Married number four in twenty twelve.

8:13 Actress Leah Thompson. She's born in nineteen sixty one in Rochester, Minnesota. She's sixty three. Started off as a professional ballet dancer Yep, then Mikhale Brishnikoff. He told her she was too stocky to be a ballerina, so she said okay, So she quit ballerreta and became an actress. First hit in the movie All the Right Moves and then Red Dawn, The Back to the Future, movies, Casual Sex on TV. She started on Caroline in the City. She still acts me she does a lot more directing. She's been directing since around two thousand and six. She got married in nineteen eighty nine and they have two daughters. Well So Kim Sheep track Confusions Shut sixty two year old Corey hard He was born in Montreal, Canada, in nineteen sixty two. Now he is a lot bigger than Canada than the States, but he's not hits down here. Some of them are Sunglasses at Night, Never Surrender it ain't enough. I can't help falling in love now.

9:22 His song that Sunglasses at Night. It has been covered over one thousand times in every single type of music genre. Corey. He's been married to a second wife since two thousand and they have four children. Actors Brooks Shehales. She's fifty nine. She was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen sixty five. She began modeling at eleven months old. Then when she was twelve, she was in the movie Pretty Baby. Then at fourteen, She's still the youngest model ever to be on the cover of Voke magazine that had more movies. The Blue Lagoon, Endless Love running on Wild on TV. She starred in Suddenly Susan. She was married to tennis player Andre Agassi for two years, then she married her second husband in two thousand and one and they have two children. Actor Calling. He was born in Castle Knock, Ireland in nineteen seventy six. He's forty six. His first starring role in the movie was American Outlaws, then Minority Report, Pham Booth Swat Horrible Bosses.

10:11 He was nominated for an oscar for the Banshees of Inny Shearing. It was his last year. He had a son from an ex girlfriend, then he had another son from another ex girlfriend, and he's still single. All right, Today's fac toy that will win you a beer. Ninety four percent of all the roads in the United States are made with asphalt. So that's enough asphoal to circle the earth ninety six times. Oh, thank you for being here today. We appreciate you again. Stop by Coolmedia dot Com. That's cool, three of them. See what's going on on the other podcast, the cool Cast and the radio station. Let's end with heavyweight boxing chap champion Jack Dimpsey. He died today in nineteen eighty three, at eighty seven years old, Jack said, a champion is somebody who gets up when he can't. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Even none