May 8-Ricky Nelson, Captain & Tennille, Earth Wind & Fire, Van Halen, Flounder, Enrique Iglesias

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. Now we get to celebrate some of our listeners. It is National Night Shift and third Shift Workers Day. Now, if you've ever worked overnights, yeah, you know how tough and hard that is to do. So we're sure glad you guys do it and appreciate what you do. That's a tough life there. Now it's not my favorite, but we can celebrate with some pie today. Nothing better comes It is National Coconut Cream Pie Day. Really not a lot, tun man, not much do it. Custard made from coconut milk, sugar, egg yolks, cornstarch, butter, topped with whipped cream and coconut been around since the late eighteen nineties. Coconut cream it is an excellent source of potassium that helps with high blood pressure and muscle cramps. Now, people who are lactose in tolerance, yeah you can have coconut cream. Now. I'm not a fan of coconuts, so I'm gonna sit these calories out. But if that's your thing, enjoy us some coconut cream by today and thanks someone who works overnight, We'll see what's going on in entertainment?

1:28 I'm May eighth was back there in nineteen seventy five number one album with Chicago eight by Chicago. Tony Orlando and Don had the number one song, Well. He Don't Love You Like I Love You Garry Stewart. He had the number one country song with She's acting single and I'm Drinking Doubles is right like the Tinyes Bubbles.

2:16 She's acting sy I'm drinking the The number one book was The Money Changers by Arthur Haley. The top movie was The Day of the Locust in nineteen thirties Hollywood. An art director tries to make a young blonde bombshell a star Hollywood. They don't want anything to do with her because of her past stars Donald Sutherland, Karen Black, and Burgess Meredith. All right, let's seit. It appened in the world. On May the eighth, thirteen forty eight, a ship from Bordeaux, France, landed in Wayworth, England. Yeah, I was carrying the plague. So that was the beginning of the Black Death in England. Scouraged England for about ten years. In fifteen forty one, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto he left his ships over and Larder and him and his man were traveling overland became the first Europeans to see the Mississippi River. Yep, they were a little below what today is Natchez, Louisiana. Eighteen forty six, the first major battle of the Mexican American War was fought near Palo Alto, Texas.

3:14 Today it's about five miles from Brownsville. Now. The US Army was led by future President Zachary Taylor. Him in his twenty three hundred trips when agains thirty seven under Mexican soldiers, nine Americans are killed, one hundred and two Mexicans are killed. That was officially, but it was actually a lot worse for the Mexican soldiers. Now, if you want to see that battlefield is actually maintained by the Park Service. So yeah, it's called the Palo Alto Battlefield and Historical Park outside of Brownsville. Now, I think you all know the story of Coca Cola. How a pharmacist named John Pemmerton was wo we did fighting in the Civil War. Then he became addicted to morphine. To get out the morphine, he created Coca Cola where he is cocaine instead of morphine. Today. In eighteen sixty six, eighteen eighty six, I'm sure he started selling coca cola it is pharmacy in over Atlanta to his customers. Yeah, cocaine and all how much cocaine, Well, not a lot. Each glass contained around nine milligrams of cocaine. Now, if you were to snort a line, he'd be snorting around fifty to seventy five milligrams. Nineteen oh two, on the island of Martinique, in the city of Saint Pierre, Ludger Silbaris, Silbaris, he was drinking, got himself in a fight and got thrown into jail. Now the jail it was half burned into a hill and didn't have any windows and only had a small slit on the door. Now, while Sibaris was sleeping, it off Mount pele A volcano it erupted, wiped out the entire city of Saint Pierre. He had killed all thirty thousand people who lived there, well except for sil Baris. But even with that small slit in the door, he still received severe burns on the back, on his back, his hands, his torso, his face, all

4:45 that kind of stuff. Yeah, it was ared eighteen hundred degree wave of volcanic gas that basically trashed that town. He was the only one to survive. It took rescuers four days to find him in that jail cell. Though after he got out, guess what he did. He joined the Barnum and Bailey circus. Yeah, he was a freak who people would come look at to see all the scars about some guy who survived a volcano. Now, we talked about this yesterday when the German army agreed to ceasefire and a surrender. Yeah, today the Paperko signed, so was victory in Europe was official. Nineteen fifty nine in Garden City, Michigan, Mike and Marianne Illitch they found a Little Caesar's Pizza nineteen seventy six for steel roller coaster with a vertical loop, opened up at six Flags Magic Mountain, California.

5:27 Nineteen eighty small box. It was officially certified as eradicated. It is the first and only disease ever to be eradicated by men. Nineteen ninety three in New York City, sixteen year old Karen Thomas the guy. He disguised himself as a motorman and then he took a subway train on a three hour ride. Now, during that time, around two thousand passengers got on and off the train. Yep, he made all the stops. Now and they finally caught him. Yeah, they didn't put him in jail, and he did get in a lot of trouble. You think he could put that on his resume. Coat coat, Jake, show this shibf day. We're gonna pause. He left this shivert day. We gonna sim pletage. He left this shibirth day.

6:08 And you know we don't get up because that's your birthday, all right. It was born on me of the eighth Harry S. Truman. Now the S doesn't it's not short for anything. They just gave him the S for the middle name because it was the first name of both his grandfathers, So Harry S. Truman. He was born in Lamar, Missouri, in eighteen eighty four. He is a current politician. Became Franklin Roosevelt's third vice president nineteen forty five. Not even three months later, Roosevelt died, So Truman became the thirty third President of the United States, Sir. From nineteen forty five to nineteen fifty three. He married nineteen nineteen and they had one daughter, Truman. He died from multiple organ failure in nineteen seventy two at eighty eight years old. Comedian Don Rickles he was once asked about his good friend Frank Sinatra, so Don said, whenever you agreed him, you have to kiss his ring. Now, I wouldn't mind it, but he keeps in his back pocket.

6:55 Don. He was born in New York City in nineteen twenty six. One of the most popular stand up comedians of all time. Guess he's considered an insult comic now. He did a lot of Vegas, hung out with the rack Pad even though he went in the Inner Circle, Voice Mister put Hay to Head and four Toy Story movies. He's also in Run Silent Run, Date, Kelly's Heroes, Casino. He went on The Tonight Show Johnny Carson one hundred and thirty one times. Got married in nineteen sixty five and they had a son and a daughter. Don He died from kidney fallure in twenty seventeen at ninety years old. His bestest friend in the whole world was Bob Newhart. I'm a traveling man, laid a lot of stuffs all over the world. He in Ever and Lord Hard at least one lovely girl. I have a pretty senior Rita waiting for me. Ricky Nelson. He was born in t Neck, New Jersey, in nineteen forty three. At the age of eight, he started starring with the rest of his family on the TV show The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett. By nineteen fifty seven, he was a total teen idol. He was in the John Wayne movie He's Real, Bravo and Hondo, but he's most known for his singing, sold over sixty million records. Some of his hits were a teenage romance Bebop Baby, Poor Little Fool, Traveling Man. He married nineteen sixty three until they divorced in nineteen eighty two. They had four kids. Two of them were the twin boys, Gunner and Matthew. You are the ones who make up the rock band Nelson. Ritchie died in a plane crash in nineteen eighty five at forty five years old. I'm

8:25 sweet talking girl comes along singing a song. Don't mess around, You've just got up. He's home to stop, used to stop, I'm playing love you look you to. He busterok It. Tony Taniel. She was a singing half of Captain Antonil. She was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in nineteen forty seighty four today now her and her future husband Darryl Dragon or the Captain. They were backup musicians for the Beach Boys. They left the Beach Boys and for him Captain and to Neil. Some of their big hits were love will Keep Us Together, Shop Around, Muskrat, love, do that to Me one More time Now. They stopped performing in twenty thirteen. Yeah, they divorced. They'd been married since nineteen seventy four now.

9:16 Actually he was her second husband, Tony. She'd been married for ten years before him. Now after her and the Captain divorced, yeah, they remained really good friends. In fact, she actually took care of him when the Captain got sick. He ended up dying in twenty nineteen from kidney for here. This will kind of be a side fact to it that I was surprise you, Tony. She sang backup on Pink Foyd's album The Wall. Do you remember when it. Changing? Wow? Chasing Geesus singing?

9:58 That was Philip Bailey. He's singing lead for Earth Wind and Fire. Bailey was born in Denver, Colorado, in nineteen fifty one. He's seventy three. In nineteen seventy two, he's going to the University of Colorado when he was asked to join the band as a co lead singer. He's still there. Yeah. Some of the hits that he sing Our Devotion, keep your Mind on the Sky, Shining Star, September, Earth Wind and Fire there in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Now they're going out on tour on May twenty third, and then in July they're teaming up and touring with Chicago. Then in October they're gonna do a residence in Las Vegas. Yeah, the Venetian. So you have plenty of chances to see the Earth, Wind and Fire if you would like Bailey. He's released a dozen albums on the side. His biggest hit was Easy Lover with Phil Collins. He has two times divorced and has five kids from his first wife and two from his second wife. Now you know he's still touring. He's start only overroa you Sound living at us. The drummer Alex van Halen is seventy one. He's born in Amsterdam, Netherlands, in nineteen fifty three. He is Eddie van Halen's older brother now his kids. Alex actually played guitar and Eddie played the drum. After a few years they figured out they were both better at the other one, so they switched and Alex went to the drums and Eddie to the guitar. They firmed their fourth band and first band in fourth grade. Then in nineteen seventy two, Alex, Eddie, and David Lee Roth formed Van Halen Mike l Anthon.

11:29 He joined him in nineteen seventy four, sold over seventy five million records. Then when Eddie died in twenty twenty, Alex just retired. He wasn't going to play without him. Alex has one son from his second wife. Married his third wife in two thousand and they have one son, Alex. He is an ordained minister. He actually performed both second eddies for Eddie and for Vali, Burt and Elly. What's My Delta Talk doors Lynn given us a lot of thought now on Flounder actress Stephen First. He was born in Norfolk, Virginia in nineteen fifty four. Best known for playing Kitten Dorfmann or Flounder in the House movie and then the TV shows. Delt Out is also in the movie It is Midnight, Madness Up the Creek the day After and TV is on Saint Else Mary for My Years.

12:21 Got married in nineteen seventy six and they had two sons. First, he died from complications from diabetes in twenty seventeen at sixty three years old. Actress Melissa Gilbert. She's sixteen. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty four. First got known when she was ten. She starred as Loura Ingalls on Little House on the Prairie. In TV movie, she played both An Frank and then Helen Keller. She did get fifth place on Dancing with the Stars. She had a son from her first husband. Her second husband was actor Bruce box Sleitler and they had a son. Since twenty thirteen, she's been married to actor Timothy Budsfield. Actress Sarah Gilbert is her sister.

13:03 I can kiss, so. I will still buy You Forever. That is Enrique Iglesias. He's forty nine. Born in nineteen seventy five in Madrid, Spain. His father is Julio Iglesias. Enrique he was the best selling Spanish artist in the world. In the nineteen nineties, crossed over to English in two thousand. Now, between the two he sold over seventy million albums, most of them are Spanish, though some of his English HiT's our Hero Escape, Tired of being Sorry, be with you Now. He has been with a tennis player and a corner Covia since two thousand and one. Yep, they have a twin son and daughter and then another daughter. All right, today's fact tood that will win you a beer. It's the Portuguese.

13:50 They're the ones who named the coconut. Yeah. In Portuguese, coco means monkey face and with those three little dark circles, they think it looks like a monkey face. That's oh God, it's knick. Oh thank you you for joining us today. Don't forget about Country Underground Radio, the best independent country music there is. You can go to a Country Underground Radio dot com or anywhere that they play internet radio and listen to some great country music. Let's send today with country singer Eddie Arnold. Come here to me my lot a chicken tea, because I think it's time you new that you're the kind of girl I've had in mind. Then I want to play house with you. To care of everything, and I'm ready to see. I Do you be the Mamo and I'll be I want to play a house with.

14:34 You, Eddie. He died it in two thousand and eight, at eighty nine years old. He said, don't be afraid to fall flat on your face. That's great advice, Eddie. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow