Nov 15-Uranus, The Drifters, Petula Clark, ABBA, Ellen Griswold, Nickelback, Wendy's, $450.3 Million Painting

0:19 Hi everyone, I'm Jeff. Welcome to history and factoids about today. Today is November the fifteenth. Cleaning house the fridge, Just cleaning house, the fridge. Oh this kind of house works. Well. He's the best there is. He called his buddies into health and all they did was help themselves say that home. Just cleaning house fridge. Today is National Clean your Refrigerator Day. No one likes that job. Technically you should be cleaning your refrigerator every three to four months. Wow, since hardly anybody ever does it, they recommend one day of really thorough cleaning at least once a year. That means unplugging it, cleaning underneath it, behind it, and then you can go to town on the inside.

1:05 I mean, sure it looks better, but it also runs more efficiently and it keeps the germs and smells from actually getting into food. That's the holidays. That's a pretty good time of year to do that. So suck it up and clean out that fridge today. This is going on entertainment on November the fifteenth. It's back to nineteen sixty four. Number one album was People by Barbara Streissan. The Supremes had the number one song with Baby love baby, my baby, and. You, but I do it's treat me bad d my heart lean mistad. I'm a lifted hid wrong to make you. Stay fuck go on sad.

1:49 The number country song with I don't care well. I don't care if the sun don't shine. I don't care if the bells don't chime, just this long, Oh as you love me. I don't care if. The topstone span, I don't care if the gym's old gin, Just as long as you love me. The number one book was her Zog by Saal Bellows. Todd movie was roused about Elvis. He finds a job in a struggling carnival, so he starts to date the teenage girl and her dad really gets pissed off at Elvis. All right, what happened on over Himber the fifteenth, seventeen sixty three, Pennsylvania and Maryland. They were not getting along. No, I mean they weren't getting along at all. They could not agree on the border between the two states. It wasn't even coming to blows where they were shooting at each other and everything. So the Thorty stepped in and they got Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon. They said, why don't you got to survey this and tell us where that line is. So they ended up creating the Mason Dixon Line. It took him four years though. Then after they did that, symbolically the Mason Dixon Line, it basically was a border for free states up the north and the slavery states down south. Seventeen seventy seven, the Continental Congress passed the Articles of Confederation. That was the first United States Constitution. Yeah, got sent out to the states today.

3:09 It came back ratified nineteen or seventeen eighty one. Now the consternation we used today. It replaced it in seventeen eighty nine. Seventeen ninety one, the first Catholic college in the United States opened up, Georgetown Washington, DC. Now was not named after George Washington. It was named after the two guys who donated the land. Both the names were George eighteen oh six Zebulon Pike. He first saw Pike's Peak, Yeah, from a distance, and then they took it a whole week in order to get to the base of the mountain. Now, him and his men they did try and climb it. They didn't get very far though. They were all kind of disheartened for it, so he declared that no man would ever climb this mountain. Well, now you can drive up, take a train up, take a tram up. But you know what, you can even do the Pike's Peak Marathon.

3:49 They do that to see who can run up at the festest. Now, if you don't know Colorado, it's just west of Colorado Springs. Nineteen sixty nine, Dave Thomas he opened up the first Windy's restauran. He was in Columbus, Ohio. Now he named it after his fourth daughter, Wendy. Yeah, it's her likeness of that freckle face little girl that's on the logo. Now, why didn't he name it after his first three daughters? Well, here were his options. Could have been Pam's, Lois's, or Molly's. So yeah, I think you'd rather eat at Wendy's, right, But he didn't forget about the other three girls. In nineteen seventy eight he opened up the Sister's Chicken and Biscuit Restaurants. Yeah, that was there, Dave. He always regretted in calling it Wendy's. He said that was too much pressure to put on that girl. He should have just called it Dave's nineteen eighty seven is the continental airplane crashed here in Denver, killed twenty eight of the eighty two people on board.

4:34 You know, I was actually in a local hospital at that time. Yeah, I had double pneumonia. So they brought some of those injured into the ICA. Whereas that well, I was being quarantine. But I don't remember much, but yeah, it was pretty drug done. But obviously I survised. Now I wonder how they pulled this stunt off. In nineteen ninety three, certain Cuban refugees landed in an airplane in Florida. That was after they stow the crop destining plane in Cuba. Two thousand and one, the first Xbox game console went on sale here in the Night States. Twenty seventeen had an auction Leonardo da Vinci his painting the Salvatur Monday so for four hundred and fifty point three million dollars. Now what it is is christ As the Savior of the World. Now was bought by a group from the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Culture. Seems either odd now it's still the most expensive piece of art ever solved that four and fifty million bucks. Now, that painting though it had gone on sale at auction before. Back in nineteen fifty eight, it sold for one hundred and twenty five dollars.

5:30 Joke doke co joked, joke, show this shiverf day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverfday. We got simple tage. He left this shibirth day. And you don't do God's birthday? Okay. It was born out November the fourteenth. Astronomer William Herschel, He's burned in Germany in seventeen thirty eight, pretty much lived his whole life in England. Seventeen seventy four he created the first really big telescope. Now he used in seventeen eighty one he was able to find the planet pass Saturn. See with your naked eye, you can't see pass Saturn. So he tried to name that new planet he discovered after England's King George the Third. The old rest of the world said, oh hell no, everyone just called the planet Herschel.

6:14 Now. I don't know if Herschel was an astronaut, but they ended up naming that planet Uranus. Herschel. He was married and they had one child. Herschel. He had got along illness ended up, dying from it in eighteen twenty two at eighty three years old. Now before before Judge Judy and the rest of all those courtroom shows, there is the People's Court that's presided over by Judge Wapner. Joseph Wapner. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen nineteen. Now he was a judge in Los Angeles for twenty years, and he retired in nineteen seventy nine. Nineteen eighty one, they hit him up basketball and being a new real life TV show that would take place in the courthouse. He would be the judge of the People's Court. Now Wapner. He did People's Court for twelve years when he retired in nineteen ninety three. He's married nineteen forty six and they had one daughter and two sons. He died in twenty seventeen at ninety seven years old from respiratory failure.

7:01 Actor Ed Asner he was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in nineteen twenty nine. He first got known on The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which was a comedy. They spun his character off into The Lou Grant Show, which was a drama. Over the years, Ed he won seven five time Emmys. That's the most by any male actor. Ed he played Santa Claus in eight different Santa Claus movies. Now he's been in eighty movies TOTALO. He worked until he died in twenty twenty one. He was ninety one years old and he died from natural causes. He had three children from his first wife and they divorced after twenty nine years, so Ed must have been happy. He went out and had a fling and had another daughter. Then he got married to a second wife for twenty five years when they divorced. You know the long rank tidor pail lady ring, long lost fail.

7:46 I went to the window to the line and ask him to tell me what was on. Yes, that was Clyde McPhatter singing for the Drifters. Clydie was born in Durham, North Carolina, in nineteen thirty two. When he was seventeen year old. He hit when he was a member of Billy Ward and the Domino's Band. While that inspired Clyde to start his own band, So he started the Drifters in nineteen fifty three. Now they had their heads money. Honey, such a night, honey, Love what you're gonna do? Then now he left the Drifters in nineteen fifty five. Yeah, I mean he was proud of the group he started, but he wanted to be solo.

8:26 Now he did okay solo, but he didn't do as good as a drifter he did once he left. Clyde was a major, major alcoholic. He had got him nineteen seventy two, thirty nine years old. He had one son and one daughter. Signs already Hardmunion, so much brier. Cattle, you trump cattle, your cast Petula car. She's ninety three. She was born in Oule, England, in nineteen thirty two. Started singing professionally at eight years old in nineteen thirty nine. Now she still sings once in a while, I mean not very often, but still. She's released songs in French, German, Italian, Spanish, British, American, Downtown, I know A Plays, this is my song. Those are some of her big hits over the years. Now she's recorded over one thousand songs in her lifetime, sold over seventy million records. Now she was the biggest selling female singer all time over in Britain. Yeah, Deell passed her up a couple of years ago. Now, but to Aly.

9:31 She got married nineteen sixty one and they had two daughters and one son. Her husband. He died in twenty twenty four at ninety three years old. After Sam Waterston. He was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in nineteen forty eighty five. Today been in over eighty movies Capricorn One, Hannah and Her Sisters, Heavens Gate. He was now many for an oscar for the movie Killing Field on TV. He was on line order for four hund and five episodes from between nineteen ninety four and twenty twenty four. Now he had a son from his first wife, married his second wife and nighteteen seventy six, and they had three kids.

10:23 When you look at the old music video clips of Abba the Dark Haired Girl, she was Annie Friedlinstad. Now that was old Abba. See New Alba two point zero. Yeah, she was blonde. Yes, she's coming up her great hair and she's eighty today. She's born in Norway in nineteen forty five. Now, her father was a German soldier during World War Two and her mom died shortly after Annie was born, so her grandma took her to Sweden. So you are Norwegians. They were not too nice to kids who were born from German soldiers during the occupation of World War Two in Sweden. Annie, she became very successful as a solo singer. Surprised everybody when she announced she was joining a new group called Abba called by Annie. They sold over undred and fifty million records. Abblet. It's just the first letter of each of their first names. Annie.

11:06 She married at eighteen and had two daughters. They divorced after six years. She married her third husband in nineteen ninety two. Now that husband, he was a prince in Switzerland. He died from lymphoma in nineteen ninety nine. But they can't take an Annie's tyler. She's still a princess, webe until she dies. Actress Beverly D'Angelo. She was born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen fifty one, seventy four years old today. Now. She was an illustrator at Hanna Barbara before she went into acting. So yeah, she drew cartoons. She was in any which way but Louz Hair. She played Patsy Klein and coal Miner's daughter. Best known off playing Ellen Griswold and all those vacation movies. Now, she did a really good job in the movie American History Acts. She married once for fourteen years and then she had a twin boy and girl from al Pacino. They broke up after six years.

11:54 So sorry, sorry, Chad Kroger. He's the lead singer for Nickelback. He's in fifty one today. He's born in Hannah, Alberta, Canada, in nineteen seventy four. Now, he was a trouble kid. He did spend time in juvenile detention for breaking into his junior high school, got himself a little straightened at and then he helped form the band Nickelback in nineteen ninety five. They so there are fifty million albums. That makes them Canada's all time best selling rock band. You know what, It actually makes them the best selling rock band of this century worldwide.

12:44 Oh some of their hats someday photograph rock star. You remind me now, Chad, he married Avril Levine for two years. He probably deserves combat pay for that. Alrighty quote today. It comes from country singer and the host longtime host of He Roy Clark. I still get bad honeymoon feelo. After all these shoes smart GOLs freed every time you touched me. Still I still get bad honeymoons feeling. I can still hear those webs. Radio Roy died in twenty eighteen at eighty five years old.

13:24 He said, I always played that token bumpkin On any show they would say, get that Clark guy. He's easy to work with. Well, thank you all for listening today. If we get to follow us, I who you listen to us on? Makes it easy to follow us and find us. And if you win, check out today's show description that'll give you links to some of the artists on the website's like Country Underground Radio dot com. It's our Country Underground Radio artist today. It comes from Jolie in Virginia. She wants to air I'm falling for you and yeah, could be I'm falling for you? Sorry about that, No, it could be at fallow for you. It has Susannah Colby and Alan graswell. Guys, I have an off day. We'll talk about.

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