Nov 14th-Pickles, Run DMC, Yanni, Patrick Warburton, Josh Duhamel, UK 1st #1 Song, McClean Stevenson

0:19 Hi, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's November the 14th. Pickles, pickles, I like pickles. I like them better than an old fudge sickle. Pickles, pickles, I like pickles. Won't you give me a pickle? Today is National Pickle Day. Now, pickling food, it goes way, way back. All kinds of food have been pickled, basically preserved, from vegetables to fish to eggs, pig's feet. Now we're celebrating the cucumber. Yeah, the official pickle. In 2030 BC, cucumbers made their way from India to the Middle East. That's where they ended up becoming pickles. In 900, dill found its way to Europe. So dill pickles, they've been the favorite ever since. Pickles, they came to America by pretty much every ship. Yeah, the sailors would eat pickles to prevent scurvy. Now pickles, they're pretty healthy for you.

1:09 And drinking pickle juice, it's a good way to stay hydrated and prevent cramping. Nowadays, pickles come in so many types and styles and flavors. Yeah, you'll find a pickle you like. And yes, Pregnant women, they do crave pickles, but not for the taste. For the salt and for the crunchy texture. Let's see what happened in entertainment on November the 14th. Let's go back to 1966. Number one album was The Monkees by The Monkees. Johnny Rivers had the number one song with Poor Side of Town. When the last time I saw you. You wouldn't even kiss me must have put you down.

1:52 So welcome back, baby, to the poor side of town. Jack Green had the number one country song with There Goes My Everything. There goes my reason. For living. There goes the one of my dreams. The number one selling book was The Secret of Santa Victoria by Robert Crichton. Top movie was Penelope. Natalie Wood, she's a bored kleptomaniac who's married to a banker. Oh, she's bored, so yeah, she robs his bank, gets rid of the $ 60, 000. Also stars Ian Brennan, Dick Shaw, and Peter Falk. All right, what happened on November the 14th?

2:50 1666 in London, the first blood transfusion was given. Samuel Pepys, he performed it. Now he was able to save the life of a dog in a blood transfusion from another dog. Yeah, both dogs lived. Now the first blood transfusion for humans, that wouldn't happen until 1795. College football in 1888. University of Southern California, the Methodist. They played their first football game today. They won. They finished the season two wins, no losses. What? Well, see, there weren't a lot of schools that had football teams back there, and they were too far for most of the schools who wanted to travel out to California. UCLA, they didn't even have a football team until 1919. So that's why Southern Cal, they actually created the first bowl game, the Rose Bowl. Yeah, 1902, just to show that Schools, yeah, California's not so bad to come out here. Now, if you're wondering, yeah, you call them the Southern California Methodists. Well, they were formed by the Methodist Church, the ones who started the school. They didn't become the USC Trojans until 1917. Now, they say the two aren't connected, but Trojan condoms, they went on sale in 1916. That was a big day in England in 1896. 33 cars, they paraded down from London to Brighton. They were celebrating the Highway Act of 1896.

3:59 It rated the speed limit 14 miles an hour. Now before then, the speed limit was 2 miles an hour in town and 4 miles an hour in the country. Now you can go 14 wherever you want it. 1927, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They had the largest gas tank in the world. They were really proud of it too. Now if you went to Pittsburgh, you couldn't miss it. It was a prominent city landmark. Then it sprang a leak. So a team of workers went out to fix the leak. Started using acetylene blowtorches. I think you know where I'm going with that. Well, it ignited the 5 million square foot tank. Created a fireball over 650 feet high. Leveled a whole square mile of buildings. Metal, glass, and debris rained down on Pittsburgh for over an hour. Thousands were left homeless. 800 people were seriously injured. 28 people died. That's surprising. I mean, luckily, but yeah, I would have thought it would have been a lot higher.

4:46 But you know what? You live and you learn, right? So now whenever you see a gas tank, there's always a sticker on it that says flammable. United States, they've been using Billboard magazine to track their music since the 1930s. Britain, they didn't use anything. And then today in 1954, England, they decided they were going to start tracking their music, so they used New Music Express. So the first number one British song of all time. Here in my heart I'm alone. I'm so lonely Here Here in My Heart by Al Matino.

5:32 I know he doesn't sound British. That's because he's from Philly. And we actually took that song to number one here in the United States in 54 also. Now, this is a sad story. If you've seen the movie We Are Marshall, yeah, that story started today in 1970. The plane carrying the Marshall University football team had crashed at Canova, West Virginia. Now, it killed all 75 on board, all the players, the coaches, the trainers, support staff, all of them. Now, the movie is not about the crash. The movie is more about the people in the community and university who dealt with the tragedy. 1994, the first train started running in the tunnel. Yeah, that's the tunnel that runs underneath the English Channel connecting England and France. Now, it's only a train tunnel if you didn't know that. I mean, most people ride, but you can take your car on it. But you ride your car and you go on, you put your car on a train car. Then you just chill out. And then when it gets to the other side, you just drive your car off and go on your merry way.

6:22 Okay, let's see who. Was born on November the 14th. Actor Brian Keith. He was born in Bayonne, New Jersey in 1921. On TV, he got known on Family Affair and then Hardcastle and McCormick. Some of his movies were The Parent Trap, The Russians Are Coming, Hooper, Mountain Men. He had five children from his second wife. Married his third wife in 1970, and they had two kids. 1997, one of his daughters committed suicide. She was 27 years old. Well, Keith, he was undergoing treatment for lung cancer. Became really distraught and just decided he was going to join her. So yeah, he used a gun. He was 75 years old. Actor McLean Stevenson.

7:10 He was born in Normal, Illinois in 1927. Best known for playing Colonel Henry Blake on the TV show MASH. He left after three years. He felt he had gotten too big for the TV series. Well, that really pissed off the producers. They killed him off so he could never come back. After that, he was on Hello Larry and did a whole bunch of game shows. So yeah, pretty dumb career move there. He had a son from his first wife, married his third wife in 1980. They had one child. McClane, he died from a heart attack in 1996 at 68 years old. He was born Yiannis Chrysomalis in Kalamata, Greece in 1954. 72-year-old is world famous simply as Yiannis. Now, I guess he's new age. I mean, he's released 16 new age albums. Sold over 25 million of them. Now, he's performed a concert in front of 4 million people on 30 different countries and 5 different continents. Now, he has live at the Acropolis concert video. It is the second biggest selling music concert video of all time.

8:23 It's behind Justin Bieber. Now, Yiannis, he's still... He's self-taught, I guess you'd call it. Yeah, I mean, he writes all his own music and he composes it and all that kind of stuff. But he cannot write or read music. You know, just like Paul McCartney. He can't either. Yanni, he dated Linda Evans for 10 years and then he had a daughter from a girlfriend. The run and run DMC is Joseph Simmons. Yeah. He's actually a practicing minister too.

9:08 So when he does that, he's Reverend run. Now, his older brothers are Danny and Russell Simmons. They're the guys who founded Def Jam Records. Ron is 62. He was born in Queens, New York. Helped start Run DMC in 1983 with Daryl DMC McDaniels. Then they had Jam Master Jay as their DJ. Now, they were the first to take hip-hop mainstream. Walk This Way, My Adidas, UB Ellen, It's Tricky. That's some of their hits. Ron, he had three children from his first wife. He married his second wife in 1994, and they have four children. Actor Patrick Warburton. He's also 62. He was born in Patterson, New Jersey. Grew up in Huntington Beach, California. He went to college to study marine biology. Dropped out after a year to be a model. He first got known playing David Puddy on Seinfeld. I mean, he had done some stuff, but that's when he really kind of hit. That got him the job of starring on Rules of Engagement. Did that for, what, 10 years? Now, he's voiced Joe Swanson on Family Guy since 1999 when it started. Some of his movies are Men in Black 2, did the Ted movies. He's mostly done voice work, man. He's done a lot of voice stuff. Patrick, he married his high school sweetheart in 1991. They have three sons and one daughter. Actor Josh Duhamel, he's 54.

10:16 He was born in Minot, North Dakota. You know, after he went to Minot University, he went and headed out for California. 1997, he went male model of the year. Second place went to Ashton Kutcher. Started acting on the soap opera, All My Children. Left that to go prime time. He started on Las Vegas for five years. Some of his movies he starred in were, he was Tad on Win a Date with Tad Hamilton. Then he played William Lennox in some of the Transformer movies. He was married to Singer Fergie for 10 years. They had a son. Then he married a former Miss North Dakota actress. Andre Mari in 2022, and they have a son. All right, our quote of the day comes from Booker T. Washington. He died today in 1915 at 59 years old. Booker says, there are two ways to exert one's strength on other people.

11:00 One is pushing down. The other is pulling up. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on any listen to a song. Makes it easy to find. And read the show description to see any connections you want to check out with us. Our country underground radio artist of the day comes from Trish on Vermont. She wants to hear a Lee Saunders song famous. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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