May 7-Brahm, Tchaikovsky, Eddie Rabbitt, Gary Cooper, Lusitania Sank, Largest Pearl, Breckin Meyer

0:10 Hello there, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today present a Bay Cool Media. That is May the seventh. With the school year almost over, we are celebrating National Teacher Appreciation Day. We celebrate teachers, mentors, and coaches today and we want to thank them all for the lasting contribution they've made our lives and what the contributions they're making to those lives coming up now, if you're able to show some gratitude appreciation to your favorite teacher or teachers. All right, let's happened in the world the entertainment on May seventh. It was back in nineteen eighty five. Number one album was We Are the World by USA for Africa. USA for Africa had the number one song with we Are the World. We Will MacIntire She had the number one country song where Somebody should Leave.

1:36 Somebody should leave, But which should it be? You need they need me. The number one book was Thinner by Richard Buckman. The top the movie was Code of Silence, a Chicago cop gets caught up in the middle of a gang war stars Chuck nurs That's all you really need. So what happened in the world on May the seventh seventeen eighteen, the city of New Orleans was founded by a French explorer named John Baptiste la Moydy Bevinhil. He named it for Francis, Duke of Orleans eighteen sixty seven and Swedish chemists out for Noble. He padded it dynamite. Now later in life he felt so guilty about it. Yeah, he founded the Nobel Prizes. Nineteen fifteen. Out the southern coast of Ireland, the passengers ship, the RMS Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine. Of the one than nine hundred and fifty nine people on board. One one hundred ninety eight died. One hundred and twenty eight were Americans. Now Germany.

2:41 They said the British were transporting using the passengership to transport weapons of war. Brenton vhemently denied it. No, we were not America. They used it for a reason to get into the fight. Then after the fur turned out, Germany was right. The ship was carrying one hundred and seventy three tons of war munitions. That's why I had exploded and sink so quickly. Twenty eighth United Kingdom. They lowered their aide for women to vote if from thirty down from thirty to twenty one. Nineteen thirty four, a fisherman off the island of Palawan in Philippines found the largest pearl of all time, seventy five pounds, was two point two feet long. Now, the fisherman, he really didn't know what he had, so he kept it under his bed for ten years. He just believed that God in real good luck. But he ended up haathing to move, so he gave it to his aunt. Now it is on display at the city hall on Palowe. It's estimated the pearl is probably worth around a hundred million bucks.

3:30 But like I said, that pearl weighs seventy five pounds. Second biggest pearl ever fourteen pounds. Nineteen forty five, German General Alfred Jodel he had great to an unconditional surrender of all German army YEP to go int effect at midnight, so the World War II in Europe was officially over. Nineteen fifty three, Lewis Marn and his wife they were fishing off the coast of Chile. They got the world's largest swordfish with one thanehundred and eighty two pounds. The record still stands. Coat got goat show this shubarth day. We're gonna pause. He left this shumarday. We want simpletae. He left this shubirth day. And you know we don't do.

4:13 All right. Let's check out who's born on May the seventh. The three bees of classical music are Beethoven, Bach, and Brahms. Johannes Brahms. He was born in Hamburg, Germany, in eighteen thirty three. Now that's that's regular people. He isn't as well known as Beethoven or Bach, but apparently he's just as good. He composed sympathies orchestras. Really known for his conducting, and I guess he was a great pianist. Now, if you really want to sound smart, say that you believe that Brahms Symphony number three was his best work, followed by his piano Concerto number one, and it song Candle or Cradle, that's what we actually played.

5:03 Now. He never did marry, but after he died they found out that he was in love with Clara Schuman. Now she was the wife of his very bestest friend in the entire world, Robert Schumann, the composer. Now they found a whole bunch of poems and songs that he had written about her. Now no one knows if anything happened between him or nine. Eighteen ninety seven, at sixty three years old, he died from cancer of the liver. Composer Peter Tchaikowski.

5:45 He was born in vad Kinks, Russia, in eighteen forty. Now he actually wrote some stuff. We know swan leg the Nutcracker eighteen twelve overture. You know, a need to put cans in their symphony, It has to be pretty cool. Now, he mostly did orchestras, but he did a little over prett much. He married in eighteen seventy seven, but that was just high the fact that he was gay. In eighteen ninety three, when he was fifty three years old, he died. They think it might have been because of cholera, but they think he might have committed suicide too. Actor Gary Cooper. He was born in Helena, Montana, in nineteen oh one. He is considered one of the greatest actors of all time. Started out in silent movies in nineteen twenty five, acting until he died in nineteen sixty one. During that time, he had a span of twenty three straight years where he's one of the Hollywood's top burning actors.

6:28 Nominate for four Oscars, won one for Sergeant York. Gary married nineteen thirty three and they had one daughter. Now. When word got out that Gary was dying from Pott State cancer, he received messages of encouragement from President John F. Kennedy, Queen Elizabeth the Second, and Pope John the twenty third. Gary was sixty when he died in sixty one. Actor Darren McGavin. He was born in Spoke in Washington in nineteen twenty two. Started off having some success on Broadway, but I think most of us know him best for playing the dad on the movie at Christmas Girl. Now, he was actually in over one hundred movies and TV shows. Some of his other movies were Airport seventy seven, Rod Deal deady eight, Billy Madison. He had four children from his second wife. He was three times divorced.

7:09 Now. He died from heart disease in two thousand and six at eighty three years old, So if you do the math, he was sixty one years old when he played Ralphie's dad. Melinda Dellan, who played the moms She was forty four with those dreams. Every main and they turned around. Were we jo. John t because we got him on the Scott Welcome. Mathractor Robert Head. Yes. He was best known for playing a sweat hawg Juan Epstein on the TV show Welcome Back Godter. He had appearance isn't over thirty TV shows. He did a lot of theater. He was born in Perth and Boy, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty one. Grew up and lived close to his cousin John bon Jovi. Robert had two children from his third wife. He died in twenty twelve at sixty years old from a heart attack.

8:00 Had lay on his same tonight, fight to Break Done, Come to Fight to Break af Done Come. That was Eagle Eye Cherry. Yeah, that was the name he was born with. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden, in nineteen sixty eight and fifty six year old singer. His half sister is singer Nina Cherry Eagle Eye. He came to the United States to go to high school. He was in the High School of the Performing Arts in New York City. He was in the same class with Jennifer Aniston and Chad Bono. He started out wanting to be an actor. He had some small parts in some movies. When his dad died in nineteen ninety five, he moved back to Sweden and concentrated on music. He is a lot bigger in Europe than he was over here in the States. All he had was that hit Saved Tonight. Then he had a couple of smaller ones like falling in Love Again and are You Still Having Fun?

8:55 He still actually performed over in Europe. He hadn't married yet. Actor Breckon, he's fifty. He's born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in nineteen seventy four. His first movie was Freddy's Dead, The Final Nightmare. First actually kind of got known though for Clueless and then road Trip, did a couple of Garfield movies, Ghosts of Girlfriends, passed on TV Boy. He voiced Joseph Gribble for ten years on King of the Hill. He's been on Robot Chickens since two thousand and five. He's also a writer and producer. He's even won an Emmy for it. He was Franklin and Franklin and Bash Brecca and he married for once for thirteen years and has two daughters from it. Alright, Hey, today's fac to it. That will win you a beer. One two, three, four, five six. That is the most common password in the entire planet, so he might not want to use that one. Well, thank you for being here today. If you get a chance, stop by and see us at coolmedia dot com. This cool three of us. Let's end today with country singer Eddie Rabbit.

9:52 Sho wash all my wa, I wake up too minutes son ain't tay was? I love. Yeah, I love. Love Eddie. He died today in nineteen ninety eight, at fifty six years old. Eddie said, we all have to dance with our devils, but I leave you guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no, no, no no no no