May 9-Lisa Simpson, Depeche Mode, Billy Joel, Candice Bergen, John Corbett, Little Richard

0:10 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, pensented by Cool Media. It's May the ninth. Hell choice, it is National Sleepover Day. Now it's nothing romantic or sexual. It's just to have fun and be silly. So you get with some friends or family and act like kids again, play games, watch movies, tell ghost stores, enjoy some pillow talk or pillow fights. Sleepovers actually came popular in the nineteen fifties. Now today it would be a lot better if it was on the weekend. So I just enjoy a change in your routine and have fun sleepovers. Number party or a pajama party, whatever you want to call it. She's going on in entertainment on May ninth. Let's back here. Two thousand and five. Number one album was something to be by Rob Thomas. When Stefani had the number one song with hollobut girl, you're talking like that getting liver b up so many two its I to lead the fight till it get a touch down, gonna take you out. That's right when you pump pumps down, getting over the.

1:25 Talks me around that Jackson was gone, Stop happing likexause, it ain't no Haloway No Haloden. Jody Massina had the number one country song with Mike give a Damns Busted. I give a Damns. Let's you can call back home? Answer you. Stand down the yard, come home, water alone. I give a Damn Busted. The number when book was True Believer by Nicholas Sparks. The top movie was Monster in Law Jennifer Lopez. She meets the man of her dreams and his mother will do anything to destroy that relationship. Stars Jane Fonda as the mean mother. All Right, what happened in the World on May the ninth The oldest treaty in the world that's still in effect. It goes back to thirteen eighty six. It's the Treaty of Windsor. It's between Portugal and England. It says that they will be nice to each other and engage in fair trade. Well, I guess it works. Sixteen seventy one Thomas Blood he was an Irish colonel. Now he dressed up as a minister, and then he had a female companion pretending to be his wife. They went to the Tower of London into view the England and Scotland's crown jewels. Well, you could do that back then. Well then his pretend wife, she hit it off really good with the jewel keeper's wife and they all became good friends. Blood he eventually offered a fake nephew to marry the jewel keeper's daughter. The joe keeper was so happy he had a private showing

2:56 for Blood, his friends and the fake nephew. When they got there, they clubbed and stabbed and gagged the joe keeper. Then they grabbed all the crown jewels and took off running the joke keeper. He was able to get out of the gag and just started screaming. So yet they were all caught. Now you would think England's King Charles a second would be pretty pissed off. Well not at all. No, he said he admired Blood's daring, so he gave him a full pardon, gave him some landover in Ireland and a pension. Sounds kind of weird. Well, eventually they found out that, yeah, King Charles, he was getting a little low on cash, so him and Blood actually put the whole thing together. Seventeen fifty four, the first newspaper cartoon in America was printed. Benjamin Franklin printed it in his newspaper The Pennsylvania gaz it. It was a snake cut up into thirteen pieces, and underneath it read join or die now. Each piece of the snake had initials of a colony on it. Eighteen sixty four, in the Civil War, at the Battle of Spotsylvania in Virginia, the Confederacy launched a massive counter attack. Union soldiers told their commander, General Sedgwick, hey take cover. Sedgwick loudly prayed they couldn't hit an elephant from this distance. He was immediately shot and killed by a Confederate sharpshooter. Eighteen ninety six, in London, they hosted the first horseless carriage show. Saw that first car show had had ten models on display. They didn't have any classic cars though. Nineteen twenty seven and ken Berra he replaced Melbourne as the capital of Australia. Nineteen sixty, the United States became the first country in the world to legalize a birth control pill.

4:24 Coke coke, coke, coke coat shage. This SHIVERBF day, were gonna pause. He left this shubf day. We gonna sit with Carge. He was like, this shirebirth day and you know we don't get up because that's the birthday. Who was born on May of the ninth, Well, archiellis Howard Carter. He's the guy who discovered King Tut's tomb. He was born in Kensington, England, in eighteen seventy nine. Now it sounds like a guy's gone of an ass. I mean, he never married, he didn't socialized, he didn't have any friends. But I guess that's kind of perfect for a guy who just wants to dig in the desert. Now do you hear about the curse of King Tut's Tomb where people would die from mosquito vi and car crashes and unexplained to illnesses, all that weird stuff. Help coward.

5:04 He kind of escape the curse. He did die in nineteen thirty nine at sixty four, but it was from Hodgkins lymphoma. Now, this guy, William Marston, he was kind of an interesting guy. He and his wife are both psychologists, and they wrote health books, self help books. Then they invented the light detector machine. Yeah, so what do you do after you invent the light detector machine? You go into comic books and create Wonder Woman. Kind of makes sense. She did have that lasso that made you tell the truth. Well. Yeah, he was born in Osago, Massachusetts, in eighteen ninety three, married his wife in nineteen seventeen, and then in nineteen twenty five. Now it wasn't legal, but he took a second wife. She was actually four, both of them. Now he had a son and a daughter from the legal wife, and they had two sons from there. I guess you call him partner now. The wife worked and the partner she raised the kids. William. He died from cancer in nineteen forty seven, at fifty three years old. The two women they lived together all the way up until one died in nineteen ninety and the other one died in nineteen ninety three.

6:03 And don't hurt any more, Oh my dear, drums urder, normal, walking the floor, will Land burning inside. Country singer Hank Snow. He was born in Brooklyn, Nova Scotia, Canada, in nineteen fourteen. Yeah, Knew known for his joveln he was even called the Yodlin Ranger. Now. He went from Nova Scotia to Nashville when he was thirty five years old and started singing professionally. Ended up releasing forty six albums and seven number one songs. Performed all the way up until he was eighty two years old. He had gotten married in nineteen thirty five and they had a son. His son actually started out as a really popular country singer, but he left kind of early to become a minister. Hank died in nineteen ninety nine at eighty five years old from respiratory failure. Actor Albert Finney.

6:56 He was born in Saltford, England in nineteen thirty nine, did a lot of lunch in the theater for he finally hitting it big in the movie Tom Jones. Some of his movies you might know where Scrooge Annie Aaron Brackowitch, did a couple of Jason Bourne movies. Last movie was a bond flick, Skyfall. He had a son from his first wife, married his third wife in two thousand and six. He died in twenty nineteen at eighty two years old from a chest infection. Now I know what you're thinking, but that was actually the theme song for the TV show Murphy Brown. Actress Candrisbergen. She's seventy eight. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty six. Her mom was a famous model and her dad was a famous ventriloquist.

7:52 She grew up in Beverly Hills, Ganda. She started out as a model. As an actress, she's known for her TV played Murphy Brown and then Boston Legal. She's hosted Saturday Night Live eight times. She was nominated for an Oscar for Starting Over and then she started in oliverr Story, Gandhi, Miscongeniality, The Book Club Movies. She was widowed from her first husband after fifteen years of marriage and they had a daughter. She married her second husband in two thousand. She's gone away about her. I don't know what it is, but I know that I can't live without her. She's got away. Please, I don't know what it is.

8:36 She's got away. That was the first song Billy Joel ever released. Released it back in nineteen seventy one. It didn't even chart. Then he re released it in nineteen eighty two and went up to number twenty three. Belly was born in the Bronx, New York, in nineteen forty nine. He's seventy five today now. He really did start out as a piano man. As a teenager, he played in a piano bar to support his mom and sister. Now he sold over one hundred and fifty million records. He sold eighty five million albums now that is fourth all time for solo artists for album sold, He's behind Elvis, Michael Jackson, and Garth Brooks. Billy's second wife was Christine Brinkley for nine years and they had a daughter. Married his fourth wife in twenty fifteen and they have two daughters. If you want to see Billy, he's done in the stadium.

9:17 He didn't tour. He does shows, but he's doing stadium shows this summer. I know it's coming to Denver in July. So you want to go check him out, I'll mean check a stadium near you. After Devin Parrott Hall Devin Peter Hall. He was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nineteen fifty five. He stood seven feet two inches tall, so he was usually cast to play monsters in movies. He was Harry and Harry and The Henderson's. He was the Predator in both the Predator movies. Then he was Big John and pe Big Top Peewee. On the TV show two two seven, he met actress Elena Reid. He married her on the show and in real life in nineteen eighty eight. Kevin he got HIV from a blood transfusion during surgery after a car accident. He ended up dying from AIDS related pneumonia in nineteen ninety one at thirty five years old.

10:00 I'm married in. Mom there some of the cools friends you could ever have some ethon on everythine. I can't believe this lives mine. And I'm not playing. I'm leaving you what the truth is. You just never know. If this is as good as it. Yeah. That was actor John Corbett. That's when he went into country music back in two thousand and six. Johnny was born in Wheeling, West Virginia. In nineteen sixty one and sixty three, first got none on the TV show Northern Exposure. He was Carrie's boyfriend for a couple of years on Sex in the City. Some of the movies he was in were Tombstone, My Big Fat Greek Wedding one, two and three, Sex and the City Too, Kiss Me Now.

10:43 After meeting on a blind date in two thousand and two, John started dating actress Bo Derek. They finally married in twenty twenty. The lead singer for Depeche Mode is Dave Gone. He's sixty two born in Epping, England in nineteen sixty two, helped him form Depeche Mode nineteen eighty. They got their name from a French fashion magazine. They've sold over one hundred million records and in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of their heads are New Life people are people personal Jesus just can't get enough. Davey released a couple albums on the side. He had a son from his first wife, married his third wife in nineteen ninety nine and they have a son and a daughter.

11:41 Lisa Simpson, she turns eight years old today. She's born to Springfield nineteen eighty one. How does that add up? Well, ow does it add up that she's still in second grade? It just works. Actually, they're supposedly updating all their birthdays this year. Lisays she will be born in twenty sixteen, but still on May the ninth. All right, today's fact to it. That will win you a beer. More people are killed every year from donkeys and their plane crashings. Well, thank you for being here. If you get a chance. I've at colemedia dot Com. That's cool with three of us, see what we're doing over there. All right, let's and with little Richard. Calling this long, I can't.

12:31 Little Richard died today in twenty twenty at eighty seven years old. He said, Elvis may be the king of rock and roll, but I'm the queen. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. No