Nov 12th-Happy Hour, Grace Kelly, Neil Young, Blue Oyster Cult, Ryan Gosling, Anne Hathaway, Leotard

0:19 Well, hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factory. It's about today. Today's November the twelfth, Please don't make me. Today is National Happy Hour Day. People have gotten together for drinks after work for a long time, but it was the United States Navy that actually created happy Hour nineteen thirteen. Yeah, they would celebrate a hard day's work with boxing matches, dancing, drinking boost Now the alcohol had to be smuggled on the ships illegally say it was against regulations, but during happy hour the officers they just looked the other way. Now it's spread to the mainland after that. So whether you want to just bond with co workers or meet up with friends happy hour that's a great time. You had cheap appetizers, drink specials, and you still get home early enough for it's not so hard to get up in the morning. So go ahead and hit up your local watering hole enjoy some happy hour. You don't want to do that. It's also National French Dip Day. Okay, what happened? Not entertainment on November the Twelfth's back in nineteen seventy four, number one album was Wrapped around Joy by Carol King Bocmer Journal Overdrive had the number one song with he Ain't seen nothing yet, I think that any of us? Yes, nothing yet,

2:00 do something that your number again, Tom T. Tall He had the number one country song with Country is Contrey Knowing New People. Knowing New. Condrie Ma Contry. The number one book Wes Centennio by James Mitchener. Top movie was Earthquake, A huge earthquake. It's Los Angeles. It stars Charlton Heston, Ava Gardner, George Kennedy, Lauren Green, Richard Roundtree. Yeah, a whole bunch more.

2:46 All right? What happened on November the twelfth, eighteen fifty nine, over in Paris, France. Jules Leotard he performed the first fine trappee circuits actor. Yeah, even designed his own costume. He called it Leotard. Now, those first leotards, they were actually made from knitted wool. In Australia eighteen ninety five, Lawrence Hargrove he invented the box kite. So he connected four boxes together. Now, not only did he get him off the ground, he was able to fly used piano wire for a string. Now, box kites they are harder to fly, but you can get him a lot higher than you can just a regular kite. Nineteen twenty six and southern Illinois. Two gangs, the Sheltons and the Bergers. They were selling liquor illegally, you know, because of prohibition. But they just absolutely hated each other. Now, because it was in rural southern Illinois, yeah, I didn't get a lot of press coverings.

3:31 You know, it was all up north in Chicago. And yeah, so they were pretty but it was a serious gang. Or they did drive by shootings, they set up bombs, they used homemade armored trucks. But today the Sulting Gang, they used an airplane to drop homemade dynamite bombs on the Burger's house. Yeah, well, the bomb's missed, but it goes down in history. The first air airplane bombing in the United States history. Nineteen thirty three over in Scotland. You gray, he took the first photograph of the luck this monster. Now, photoshop won't be invented for another sixty so it that has to be true. Nineteen forty two, President Franklin Roosevelt. He changed the age for men to be drafted into the military. Now, he lowered it from twenty years old and then he raised it from you could be drafted up until you were forty four from thirty five now nineteen forty six. In Chicago, a branch of the Exchange National Bank opened up as the first bank deb drive up, tell her windows, you know, I still figured out why to drive up ATMs. They actually have braille on the keypad. Nineteen fifty four and Lis Island Immigration Station, Yeah, they closed it. It wasn't send New York Harbor. Twelve million immigrants had passed through Elis Island over the year since it opened up in eighteen ninety two. The first immigrant to pass through, Yeah, it was a fifteen year old girl Nabe anymore. She was from Ireland. She was actually coming to the United States to see her parents, who moved to New York City the year before that. She got like a big gold she got. They really hit her up, not like our southern border, and she got like all kinds of props and stuff and all that kind of stuff. September twelfth and nineteen fifty five, at exactly ten oh four pm, lightning struck the clock tower and hill stop that town's

5:01 clock tower cold right at ten oh four nineteen sixty six, buzz all of them took the first selfie from space. He's doing a spacewalk. So all of you out there who feel inclined to send me pictures of yourself if you have a selfie with the Earth in the background, yeah I'll feel like, Yeah, I'll be impressed. And what today is Bangladesh? In nineteen seventy the tropical cyclone Boda it made landfall, killed over five hundred thousand people. It's the deadliest topical cyclone in history. In England. In nineteen seventy four, a salmon it was caught in the Thames River. The last time somebody caught a salmon in a things liver eighteen thirty three. Nineteen eighty eight, the world's first commercial budget jumping company opened up. It was in New Zealand.

5:43 Twenty fifteen. Out magazine they named brock Obama their Man of the Year. Brocki is the only US president they ever posed for the cover of a gay magazine. Cop cooked joke show Shiverday. Please don't she left this shibd We more simple tage like this Shibirthday. And you know we don't give birthday ook sis born? I no remember the twelfth actress then Princess Grace Kelly. She's born in Philadelphia in nineteen twenty nine. She's one of the top actresses of the nineteen fifties. She went an oscar for a country girl and she started high noon dial in for murder rear window to catch a thief. Twenty six years old, she gave it all up to become a real life princess. She married Prince van Near of Monaco, spent the rest of the her life as wealthy. Now they had two daughters and a son. Nineteen eighty two, Grace she had a small stroke which she was driving her car. Yeah, I crashed it and she was killed fifty two years old. Now, after Grace had married the Prince, he banned all her movies being shown in Monaco. So what well in her movie she always had this good looking leading man with her. Yeah, Prince didn't like that at all. I get this. Grace and her family they paid two million dollars in for a dowry. Yeah, in order to marry the prince. Hell. Hello, that is Brian Highland.

7:14 He's eighty two. He's one of Queens New York. In nineteen forty three, Brian, he was sixteen years old. And that bikini song went to number one made him an instant ten idol. Now it's the bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini. That's not even the longest song title that he sings. Dope Help, He's lopsided, overloaded, and it wiggled when we wrote it. Yeah. Also I had to head Genny come Home and uh, what's sealed with a kiss? Now. In the early sixties, when the British improvasion hit, Yeah, they switched Brian over. He did country after that. He still releases new songs now if you go to his website and all that new songs and lots of times he takes his old songs and kind of makes them like they're more hip to today's kind of crowd. Now he just kind of stopped touring now, not because of age and not because of health. In twenty twenty one he married his second wife. See when he plays live, his first wife sings backup and his son plays drums.

8:06 Kind of made a awkward on the road. Now. In the early nineteen nineties, when the Soviet Union collapsed, they found some top secret documents. It showed that the Soviet Union they would play it's the bitsy teeny weeny yellow polka dot bikini when they were torturing prisoners A. Minor sixty six fresh I never keep mis searching for. Well. He's eighty Neil Young. He was born in Toronto, Canada in nineteen forty five. Started out in the band Buffalo Springfield. That's where he met Steven Stiles. Then he went solo with his band Crazy horse Man, off and on over the years it was Cosby, Stills, Nash and Young. Now Neil.

8:54 He does want to do another tour with Crazy horse if everybody can be healthy enough for it. He had a son from a girlfriend. He was married to a second wife for thirty six years. They had a son and a daughter. He married actress Dann Daryl Hannah twenty eleven or twenty eighteen. I'm sorry, Devil Murder. The lead singer for Blue Yster Cola is Buck Dharma, seventy eight years old, born in Queen's, New York in nineteen forty seven. He helped form Blue Eyester Colt nineteen sixty seven. They started out calling himself soft white under Billy.

9:41 They changed it to Blue Eyster Colt nineteen seventy one. But when they would go and play in their seventies and eighties when they do like small gigs and they do small clubs just for fun. Yeah, they always went under white arm. Yeah, soft white under Billy kind of a code for people to come and see him. Now his manager, their manager. Yeah, they he was a weird guy. He's the one who picked their names for him. So Blue Eyster Cult hits. Sorry, don't fear the Reaper Godzilla burning for you now. They only have a couple of shows left in here, a couple and another month or so for this year, but they're doing a complete tour next year. You're gonna go see Blue Easter. Colt Ryan, he's yeah, he's married. By Listen to the rock dancing to the middle.

10:24 Of that was Les McCowan singing for that Bay City Rollers. He's born in Edinburgh, Scotland in nineteen fifty five. He joined the Bay City Rollers in nineteen seventy three. He replaces Nabby Clark. Sounds like a big thing, but hey, the Bay City Rollers had their been success with less singing. They had the songs rock and roll, so oh, rock and roll song. I only want to be with you money honey Saturday Night. Now he married in nineteen eighty three and they had one child less. He died in twenty twenty one from a heart attack. Sixty five years old.

11:07 Actress Megan Maloli. She was born in Los Angeles nineteen fifty eight. Sixty seven year old, that big playing Karen on the sitcom willand Grace. Now, granted, these are small roles, but check out the first four movies that she was in risky business, Once Bitten, Last Resort, and About Last Night. She's been married to her third husband since two thousand and three. Actor Ryan Gosling. He was born in London, Ontario, Canada, in nineteen eighty. Forty five year old started out in The Mickey Mouse Club. Yeah, he was with Justin and Brittany and Christina and that whole crew. His first big movie was Remember the Titans. Been nominated for Oscars for Half Nelson, Ella, La La Land and Barbie. Now he's been married, well, he's been with actress Eva Mendez since twenty eleven. They have two daughters, and they just got married in twenty twenty two. Actress and Halfaway. She's forty three.

11:55 She was born in Brooklyn, New York. In nineteen eighty two. She started in her very first movie, The Star of the Princess Diaries. She's been nominated for an Oscar for Rachel Getting Married. She won an Oscar for Lammi's Rob Now. She has five movies in pro s production right now. Four of them will be released next year. If you're a big and Hathaway fan, she got married in twenty twelve and they have two sons. Alrightyre Quote of the day. It comes from three time Olympic gold medal sprinter Wilma. Rudolph Wilma died today in nineteen ninety four at fifty four years old. She said, the doctor told me I'd never walk again. My mother said I would. I believe my mother. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on who you listen to this son check out. Make sure you read the show description to find out the links to hook up by It said Country Underground Radio dot com, coolmedia dot com, all that fun stuff our country underground radio artists today. It comes from Bryant in North Platt, Nebraska. You want to hear Chris Gutther song. This sound Taoe ain't big enough for the two of us. You guys have an awesome day.

12:51 We'll talk tomorrow. Everybody's watching when I walk in by and me for all of your sins. They don't know the story about what you did. Don't have to explain myself to you all of your friends. This down ain't big enough for the both of us. Everybody knows what's good and all. Why can't we just settle this and get all? I'm tired of going out and feeing wrong. You were the one who walked out on me. Bind your own business, saying let things be. It's far the better. Now all I must say, go, leve you wrong.

14:04 I fan you out of my way. This nown ain't big enough for the both of us. Everybody knows what's going Why can't we just settle this and get along. I'm tired of going out and feeling wrong.