NEW Dec 17th-Maple Syrup, The Temptations, Bad Company, Eugene Levy, Tracy Byrd, Milla Jovovich, 1st Airplane Flight

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today present and buy cool Media. Today's December the seventeenth. In the hoods finding maple hang up a bucket on the tent, drifting out looks like water slightly sweet. We call it sound paple sir rub, maple sir rub, maple sirup is a tree. Today is National Maple Syrup Day. Native North Americans they were eating the sap out of maple trees for as long as they've been here pretty much. Then when the Europeans arrived, they saw what they were doing, they kind of perfected or improved a little bit. Yeah, they started boiling off the excess water to make the maple syrup that we live today. Now, if you want to make maple syrup, you need to have maple trees and they grow only in the colder climates. So that is why Canada is the number one producer of maple syrup in the world. Vermont, they're the biggest maple syrup producer in the United States. So I to celebrate maple syrup today, we need to put it on something. So break out the French toast waffle pancakes, whatever you prefer and enjoy that maple syrup now tapping a maple tree for its up. Yeah, it doesn't do any damage to it does leave it a little scar though. All right, this is going on in entertainment nine December seventeenth, It's Back. Nineteen eighty seven.

1:24 Number one album was the Dirty Dancing Movie soundtrack. George Michael had the number one song with faith. Because I Gotta Half Thing. I Got a kat Asla, And she had the number one country song with do you. Do You Still? I'm text, well, I guess what I'm masking?

2:12 Do you steal? The number one book was The Tommy Knockers by Stephen King. The top movie was Eddie Murphy Raw. A lot of you younger listeners you probably don't realize just how big Eddie Murphy was in the nineteen eighties. Now Raw, it was just Eddie Murphy doing his stand up live and they filmed it and then released it in theaters. It is still the highest grossing stand up comedy concert movie of all time. In nineteen eighty nine, it was no longer just a skit on The Tracy Ullman Show. The very first episode of The Simpsons debut. Now, as you know, it's the longest running TV show and of all time. All right, that's it. Happened on December the seventeenth in thirteen ninety eight in what today is India, a Turk named Tammer Lane. He captured and sacked the city of Delhi.

2:57 Now they thought it was going to be this big, bloody bealley. But him and his men they loaded up their camels with hey, then they lit them on fire and they charged those camels at the city. Sultan's armored elephants, all those armored elephants. They didn't like it. So when the elephants took off, yeah, so did all the soldiers. So it really wasn't that bloody of a battle back. In fourteen seventy nine, around the Mexico City area, the Aztecs they carved a twenty five ton stone calendar had a fifty two year cycle. Then around fifteen twenty they had to keep the calendar from falling into the Spanish hands. They buried it. Then everybody forgot about it. So in seventeen nineties some workers were repairing a cathedral and they found it again. Yeah, you can go see it. It's simply called the Aztec calendar. Stone, Yeah, kind of anti dramatic.

3:38 Seventeen ninety one, in New York City, they were trying to figure out what to do with their massive traffic problems. They had horses, horses and carriages, pedestrians, pedestrians pulling carts, everyone going in every wist way direction, total chaos. So they created the world's first one way streets. I mean, intersections were still a bitch, but hey, it was better. Eighteen sixty two, Union General your list, He's as Grant, she'd Order number eleven. It expelled all Jews from his military district that was Tennessee and Mississippi and Kentucky. He said the Jews they were involved in black market trading of the southern cotton well in Washington, d c. When word got back there, the Jews, the press, Congress, and most importantly President Abe Lincoln, they all went back crab crazy.

4:20 So Grant he revoked the order number eleven. He said that it was written by a subordinate officer and he hadn't read it before he signed it. Yeah, I'm sure everybody believed him. In France, in nineteen hundred, they offered one hundred thousand franc reward for anybody who could communicate with extraterrestrials. That reward is still out there, so you can if you can communicate with et yeah, you can get one hundred thousand francs. But there is an exception. Martians are excluded. Yeah, they thought Martians would be too easy to communicate with. Nineteen oh three, in Kittioch, North Carolina, Oorver and rober Wright, they set out to become the first to fly a motorized aircraft. So I had ten thirty five in the morning. Or of all, he flew for twelve seconds, achieving the first controlled heavier than air flight in his Now, before they started, they flipped a coin to see you go first. Wilbur actually won, but he stalled the plane three times, so Orfel was up and he ain't made history. Now, they just didn't make that one fight and then go home. They took turns flying it all throughout the day. On the last flight of the day, Wilbur he actually flew for fifty nine seconds. Now, this sounds more lack of battle in that took place in the Old Testament than it did in nineteen twenty five today. In nineteen twenty five, Sultan Abdulaziz Bin sad he conquered Jetta. Yeah, that was the last stronghold of the hash Mites, and that's how the Saudi Arabia became one country. Nineteen sixty five, in Houston, Texas, they wanted to celebrate building the world's first dome stadium, the Houston Astronom So they wanted to sell bear by throwing just a huge concert. So it's today. The Supremes opened up for Judy Garland in twenty fourteen and Sarasota Floida at Gus Andreoni. He had a hole in one on the

5:50 night fourteenth all at Lake's golf Course. Now, Gus, he was one hundred three years old. He's little as golf. Forever it hit hol in ones, he was more impressive. That was his eighth hol on and then he hit throughout his lifetime. Twenty eighteen, in Missouri, a poacher. He was convicted for illegally killing hundreds of deer. Now he was sentenced to one year in prison with conditions. See during that entire year in his cell, he had to repeatedly watch the movie Bambi. Yeah, twenty they would just keep burning. Yeah, they put it on a twenty four hour loop Jopp Jopp joke dope shog dish shivers Day. Please gonna pause. He left this shiverday. We got simple target dis shivers day.

6:31 And you know we don't get up. Work to you, okay. I was born on December of the seventeenth. Bob Francis. Yeah, he's eighty eight today. He was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in nineteen thirty six. Again feel this week. Talking. That was Eddie Kendrix singing lead for the Temptation. He's born in Union Springs, Alabama, in nineteen thirty nine. Co found of The Temptations in nineteen sixty, he was the main songwriter and co lead singer. Some of the hit songs that he sang were the Way You Do, the Things You Do, get Ready, just Me and My Imagination, My Girl. Eddie went solo in nineteen seventy one. He had some success Keep On Trucking and Boogie Dwan, Where Something Was It. He divorced once and had one child from it. Then he had another child from a girlfriend, Eddie.

7:28 He died in nineteen ninety two from lung cancer, fifty two years old. Actor Ernie Hudson He's seventy nine. He was born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, in nineteen forty five. First got known in the movie Ghostbusters, then Airheads, the Basketball Diaries, the miscongeniality movies. On TV, he was on OZ and then Grayson Frank. Ernie had two sons from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty five and they have two sons. Actor comedian Eugene Levy's seventy eight is born in Hamilton, Canada in nineteen forty six. First big movie is In with Splash, then Best in Show Do You Win? All those American pie movies on TV? Started on Ship's Creek. Now Eugene. He won a Grammy Award for Songwriting Serious He won a Best Song for a movie he co wrote A Mighty Win and is Blowing for the song A Mighty Win. Eugenie got married in nineteen seventy seven and they have a son and a daughter. Both his son and his daughter started with him in the TV show Ship's Creek.

8:42 Mama Came to the Dome with a g daughter, Joonas and Don't Cry, Mama, Smile and Wait. The Bad. That was Paul Rogers singing lead for the Bad Band Company. He was born in middlesbro England in nineteen forty nine. Seventy five year old started out singing for the band Free. Then he helped form Bad Company in nineteen seventy three. There's a little over forty million albums. Some of their heads can't get enough. Bad Company feel like making love fan rock and roll fantasy and that song I played, the Shooting Star. It was never released as a single, Nope, it was just got popular by word of mouth and enough people started liking it, or they just started playing it on the radio. Now Bad Company they call it quits in twenty nineteen. Paul, he had one child from a fling, two children from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and seven. Actor Bill Pullman.

9:43 He was born in Hornhell, New York, in nineteen fifty three, seventy one. Bill. He started out as a professor at Montana State University in their School for Film and Photography. His students persuaded him to go give Hollywood a shot. First movie was Ruthless People and Spaceballs, the Independence Day Movies, Lake Plasia, the equal iSER Movies. Got married in nineteen eighty seven and they have three children. Dude, we'll go see a small downland. Allen. He raised one seem so little Ways don't time dude? Watermelon Cross country singer Tracy Byrd is fifty eight. He is born in Vydor, Texas, in nineteen sixty six. First did in nineteen ninety three. Some of the biggest h's are Hold in Heaven, Keep Her of the Stars, don't take her. She's all. I got ten rounds with Jose Queerver Truth About Men. Now he still does a little touring if you want to check. Tracy Young got married nineteen ninety one and they have three children. Actor Giovanni Ribissi.

10:46 He's fifty. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy four. Start acting when he was nine. I had done a bunch of acting. He first actually got known on TV when he played Feet. He's really weird younger brother on the show Friends. He's been in some big movies, Man Saving Prize, Ryan Gone in sixty Seconds, Lost in Translation, the Ted's movie, the Avatar movies. Now he had a daughter from his first wife, divorced the second wife after just a couple of years. Now him and his current girlfriend they have fraternal twins, which is really interesting because Giovanni is a fraternal twin. Yeah. His twin sister is actress Marissa 'busy. Yeah, she's fifteen minutes younger. She also started acting when she was nine. Her first big movie was Dazed and Confused, then the Brady Bunch movie Pleasantville. She was married to the singer Beck for sixteen years and they have one son and one daughter, Marissa. She's pretty much just retired from acting though.

11:35 Actress Milla Jovivich is forty nine. She was born in Kiev, Ukraine in nineteen seventy five. Now, when she was five, her family fled the Ukraine. That's when the Soviet Union was in charge of the Ukraine at that time. She grew up in Los Angeles start out as a model. She was also in Dazed in Confus and then The Fifth Element, Resident Evil Movies, Zulander Movies. Mila. She married her third husband in two thousand and nine and they have three daughters. Okay, now, with Christmas almost air, have you been able to be romantic and get that someone special underneath the missiletoe for a kiss? Now? The name mistletoe, it's German. It literally means dung on a twig, So smooth away. Well, thank you for listening, and don't forget to follow us. I know you listen to us on and go forget Out Country Underground Radio the best independent country music you can find anywhere. Let's end today with actor director Penny Marshall.

12:25 Fine Chance, taking. It Penny, she died it in twenty eighteen at seventy five years old. She says, Now, if you're not having a good time, find something else that gives you joy in your life. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk to you tomorrow. Installer Ston star Sta