Nov 17th-Hiking, Rock Hudson, Toto, Danny DeVito, Gordon Lightfoot, Rachel McAdams, Hanson

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff. Welcome to History and Factoids, About to day pasent about cool Media. Today's November the seventeenth, It is National Take a Hike Day. Might seem kind of odd celebrating hiking this time of year, but if you think about it, the summer crowds are gone, winter hasn't hit yet. Almost a perfect day to enjoy a hike. Probably have most of the trails to yourself are close to it, so make sure you dress for it. Though it is kind of a little cheerty, but have fun, get some exercise and enjoy the outdoors and take a hike. All right, Let's who's going on and entertainment. November the seventeenth. Back to Year twenty ten number one album was speak Now by Taylor Swift Keisha. She had the number one song or we Are who we Are that were moving just like the world is our art ours. We're tearing in a car part. You know we're superstars. We are we are. Zach Brown, Ben and Alan Jackson had the number one country song with as She's Walking Away and My fall On, Tell my Mom, tell my my footy shoes Sake Mayor Lost This

1:40 Battle, Live Fine Another day Now I'm falling in love as she's walking away. The number one book was Towers of Midnight by Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson. Top movie it was Harry Potter and the Deadly Hollows Part one, Harry and his friends they discover the existence of the three most powerful objects in the Wizarding World stars Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. All right, let's see what happened in the world on November the seventeenth, eighteen hundred. The US Congress they met for the first time, and their brand new capital in Washington, d C. Yeah, until the day, they'd been using Philadelphia as the capitol. Nope, Now it's Washington, d C. Capitol Worthy wasn't completed yet, but they already moved their stuff there, so they kind of had to make do with it. Eighteen twenty seven, Union College, and it's connected me. In New York, the Delta Fire Fraternity was founded. It's America's oldest continuous social fraternity. Eighteen sixty nine. In Egypt, the SWE's Canal opened up. Now it connects the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, and it saves ships from having to go all the way around Europe in or Africa in order to get to Europe saves about fifty five hundred miles. So today that saves the ship's about ten days. Can you imagine how many days it saved way back when they opened it up. Eighteen seventy three, and Hungary, the city's a Buddha and the sit pest. They didn't like each other, both competing in order to be the capital of Hungry, so they merged today. Yeah, so now the capital of Hungary was Buddapest. Eighteen eighty four. See these policemen, they were working a boxing

3:12 match at Madison Square Garden doing crowd control. Well, they decided to go into the ring and arrest heavyweight world champion John L. Sullivan in the second round. They said he was being too cruel to his opponent. Nineteen forty, NFL's Green Bay Packers became the first football team to travel by plane. In nineteen thirty four, baseball Cincinnati Rads had been the first professional team to fly the Packers. Like the Reds, they didn't fly their whole team, though, they wanted to make sure that they were okay in case the plane crashed. Nineteen seventy, America's Douglas Ingelebarton. He received the patent for the first computer mouse. Think about that, six years before people started using personal computers. Got got goat show this shibf day. We're gonna pause he left this shiverf day. We gonna simple target this shibf day, and you don't get all right? Who was born on November the seventeenth. Actor Rock Hudson.

4:06 He was born in Winneca, Illinois, in nineteen twenty five. Now he was this huge heart throb and one of the top actors in the ninth fifties and sixties. He was nominated for an oscar for the movie Giant. Then in the nineteen seventies he switched to TV, started mc millan and wife Rock. He died of AIDS in nineteen eighty five of fifty nine years old. He was the first celebrity or the first kind of anybody, big name person ever to have AIDS, let alone die from it. Now, when he died, the public was completely shocked. Yeah, they couldn't believe that Rock Hudson was actually gay. Well pretty much in Erra Hollywood, they all knew about it. The dog Toto, It was born in nineteen thirty three, in Chicago. She was born Terry, but she changed her name to Toto after she starred in the movie The Wizard of Oz. She was in sixteen movies total. She did her own stunts. She even broke one of her paws when a munchkin stepped on her. Toto never married. She died nineteen forty five at eleven years old. If you didn't know, she was a carr carrier, I can see who I am back. You're sevent well you do watch you don't confess, so you betty tickets around best it is Gordon Lightfoot. He wrote that song sun Down Back in nineteen seventy four.

5:25 It was about his mistress, Kathy Smith. In nineteen eighty two that Kathy Smith injected the overdose into John Belushi that killed him. Gordon he was born in nineteen thirty eight and Arrilla, Canada. Now he's released nineteen albums, about sixteen greatest hits album Some of his greatest hits are Me and Bobby McGee, Rainy Day People, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald If you could read my mind. He had two children from his first wife, then he had two children from different girlfriends. Then he had two children from his second wife, married his third wife in twenty fourteen. Gordon, he just died of natural causes in May at eighty four years old. Movie director Martin Scorsese, he's eighty one. He was born in Queens, New York, in nineteen forty two. First movie he directed was in nineteen sixty seven, Who's that Knocking at My Door? Okay? The movies. He's been nominated for Oscars for directing Our Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ, Good Fellows, Gangs in New York, The Aviator, Hugo Wolfe of Wall Street, The Irishman. He did win one YEP for The Departed. Martin. He had a daughter from his first wife. He had a daughter from his second wife, and he married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety nine and they have a daughter. Seventy nine year old actor Danny DeVito. He was born in Niptune Township, New Jersey, in nineteen forty four. On TV, he got known on the sitcom Taxi in the seventies. Then he's been on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia since two thousand and six. Been in ninety four movies.

6:45 First big one was Someone Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and then Romance. In the Stone movies Twins, he was a penguin and Batman Returns. He was in Throw Mama from the Train. He met Rea Pearlman in nineteen seventy one. They got married nineteen eighty two. They have three children. They separate in twenty seventeen, but they have no plans for divorcing. Say they've never been as happy as they are since they've separated. Danny is four feet ten inches tall. He has Fairbanks disease. It's a rare condition that won't allow Bone Girls. Actor Stephen Roope. He was born in Sarasota, Florida, in nineteen fifty one, seventy two year old. He's been in ninety movies. Biggest one was probably playing Milton in the movie Office Space. He was also an Oh Brother art There Dodgeball Buffet, the Vampire Vampire Slayer, probably best known though for TV's News Radio. He had a son from his first wife. He's been married to a second wife since two thousand and eight.

7:35 Actor Mary Elizabeth Master Antonio. She was born in nineteen fifty eight Lombad, Illinois sixty five started out on Broadway and then Her first movie was Scarface. Got nominated for an Oscar for the Color of Money. She's in The Abyss Robinhood, Prince of Thieves, The Perfect Storm. She's say married since nineteen ninety and they have two children. Now, she might have not won her oscar, but Mary Elizabeth Masterfingtonio is the longest name ever nominated for an Academy Award show She's got that. That's fine, sad Girlsten Damn. Trust the big buttons girl. You know what? That is possibly the greatest advice ever given in a song. Never trust a big button A smile. The devot in Bell Biv Davout is Ronnie Davout. He's fifty six. He was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in nineteen sixty seven. He was a reginal member of the group New Edition and back in nineteen seventy eight. Now, when they broke up in nineteen eighty nine, Ronnie, Ricky Bell and Michael Bevans from Bo Biv Davout. Then a New Edition got back together in two thousand and two. So they do double tours. They tour a New Edition and then they tour Bo Biv Davoux. But they only relates new material with bo biv Davout. He got married in two thousand and six and they have two sons. The actress Rachel McAdams. She's forty five. She's born in London,

9:07 Canada in nineteen seventy eight. First got known in the movie The Hot Chick and then Mean Girls, The Notebook Wedding Crashers. She was nominated for an Oscar for Spotlight. She's been with their boyfriend since twenty sixteen and they have one son and one daughter. The oldest brother, the oldest Hanson brother is Isaac Hanson. He was born in Tosa Clomb in nineteen eighty. Forty three year old I know founded Hanson in nineteen ninety two with his brothers Taylor and Zach. Isaac's their main guitar player. In two thousand and one, after years of fighting with the record company Hanson, they just started their own record label. So they've been in independent ever since. Isaaca got married in two thousand and six and they have three children now. When he was playing a show in New Orleans, he looked out and spotted her in the fifth row. Knowe He's gonna spend the rest of his life with that girl.

10:11 Alright. Today is silly fact to it that will win you have beer. A female ferret. She will die if she goes into heat and doesn't mate. Well, thanks for being here today. If you like your country music, don't forget about Country und Around Radio. It has the best independent and underground country music on the internet. You can pretty much listen to it any place that plays internet or radio stations, or go to cool media dot com or Country Underground Radio dot com. The sen today have a sculptor, August Rodin. He's a guy who sculpted the thinker. He died today in nineteen seventeen at seventy seven years old. Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. Y'all have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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