Nov 26-Cake! 1st Thanksgiving, Peanuts, Tina Turner, Linda Davis, Joe Nichols, Natasha Bedingfield

0:09 Well, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. Today's November the twenty sixth. I like cake. I like cake, I like chake. I like cake and there's nothing you can do about it. Today is National Cake Day. That works out well. Today's my niece Aaron's birthday. Now, the basic concept of cake, it's pretty simple. Flour, eggs, buttermilk and a cake. It comes from the Viking word for cucaf Yeah, it was just a bread with honey, basically is what they started with.

0:51 Coca became cake. Now there are so many types of cake that even if you're don't into sweets, yeah, you'll find a cut of cake that you like. Today. There are some deals, but in some local bakery is nothing national. Now if this is cold where you are today, as it is here in Colorado, might be a good day just to have your bake your own cake. Now you don't have to go our old school and bake it from scratch. Yeah, cheet use the box. We won't tell. Just enjoy some cake today. We don't know how long it's gonna be until we have a reason to eat sweets again. All right, this Who's going on in entertainment On November twenty sixth Back to nineteen eighty four, number one album was Purple Rain from Prince Way I'm Ad. The number one song was wake Me Up Before You Go Go I.

1:36 I'm sad, Wake Me Up, Sleepy Change Jojo. Jenny Fricky. She had the number one country song with your Heart's Not in It but. Your Hearts Talking Stock. He's a level your line that you just can. Shit. The number one book was The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter strub Top movie was Missing in Action. Chuck Norris.

2:21 He goes deep into the Vietnam Jung woke to the pow camp that he escaped from. Now he's going to free American soldiers, still being old there. Nineteen thirty six, Frank Sinatra, he was arrested in hacking Sack, New Jersey. It's a little Frank dude. Well, yeah, sex with a woman. Then he didn't marry her like you said he would, so Frank k had to spent a little time in jail. They finally just dropped the charges. They found out that the woman was already married. Alright. This had happened on November the twenty sixth seventeen sixteen, the first exotic animal ever was exhibited in America. It was in Boston. They showed off an African lion. Now that not seemed like very impressive thing, But back then the only thing they had heard about about a lion was in the Bible. I mean there weren't any photographs or anything, so no one had any idea what a lion in the Bible actually looked like. Well, now they knew, and they knew that it really did exist. Seventeen eighty nine, it was the first Thanksgiving that was ever celebrated in America.

3:09 It had nothing to do with Pilgrims. It was in honor of the United States Constitution being ratified President George Washington. He decreed today as a national holiday of Thanksgiving. Now it was the first national holiday too. Eighteen thirty four, the first street cars in America started running in New York City. They were pulled by horses. It cost you twelve cents to ride him. Four dollars and forty cents today not bad. Eighteen sixty five the book Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carle. Yeah, it was published for the first time. Nineteen twenty two. Now, although he found it three months ago, it was today that Howard Carter is finally allowed to open up King touch to him. Yeah, Lard Carnivarn, he's the guy who financed the whole thing. He finally arrived in Egypt now, as we all know. Yeah, the tomb was completely untouched and intact. Nineteen forty eight, the Polaroid instant camera went on sale cost you eighty nine dollars and seventy five cents. Today that would be one thousand dollars and sixteen nine one thousand, sixty nine dollars and sixty nine cents. So what do you think The first picture is probably taken to somebody's ear. Nineteen sixty one, Major League Baseball, they voted three to one against legalizing the spitball say, the umps weren't having any good luck with catching the pictures known this, so let's legalize it. Oh, I said, no, we're not going to do that. Nineteen seventy and Bassi Terry Guadaloupe one point five inches of rain fell in one minute. Now, that is still the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.

4:27 Yeah. Now, Guadaloupe's an island in the Caribbean is between Puerto Rico and Barbados. In two thousand and three, the supersonic jet the Concord, made his very last flight went home to Bristol, England. Twenty twenty two, on Australia's Bonday Beach, twenty five hundred people pose naked for a picture to raise awareness for skin cancer. I would think that being in the sun naked on a beank with cosskin cancer dope, joke, joke. Just shibf day. He left this shubfday. We got simpletae. He like just shivers day. You don't. Okay? Who was born on November the twenty sixth Mary Edward Walker or doctor Mary Walker. She was born in Oswego, New York in eighteen thirty two. Now She earned her doctor's degree from Syracuse University and then during the Civil War she worked for the Union Army. She was the first female surgeon in army history, and one night she crossed over enemy lines to treat some civilians. She got caught by the South. They arrested her as a spy.

5:24 See the South didn't believe the Yanks had them no women doctors. She was held in a pow camp for four months when she was released in a prisoner swap. She released the Congressional Medal of Honor for it. Yeah, she's still the only woman to ever receive the Medal of Honor. Now. She married a fellow classmate up there at Syracuse. They had their own medical practice together, Mary. She died one year before women got the right to vote, nineteen nineteen, at eighty six years old. She had had a long illness. Cartoonist Charles Schultz, he was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in nineteen twenty two, created the comic strip Peanuts. He had featured Charlie Brown and Snoopy in that whole Gang did it for fifty years. Drew seventeen eight hundred and ninety seven Penis comic strips from nineteen fifty to two thousand.

6:25 Now the name Charlie Brown it came from a former coworker of his, but the character Charlie Brown that was based on Schultz himself. Now the strip that was turning in forty six TV specials. He was married to his first wife for twenty years and they had five kids. Married his second wife in nineteen seventy three. They were together and he died from corectal cancer in two thousand, at seventy one years old. What a sudden. He brother the queen of rock and roll, Tina Turner.

7:06 She was born in Brownsville, Tennessee, in nineteen thirty nine. She and her husband I Turney. They had been from nineteen sixty to nineteen seventy six at least twenty two albums. Some of their heads were Proud Mary River, Date, Mountain High, A fool in Love. Now after Tina couldn't take irony anymore, she finally divorced him, went solo, Good Call. She hit really big, sold over one hundred million records. Solo, what's love got to do at that? Be good to me? We don't need another hair. That's someever it is. She's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once with Ike and went solo Tina. She had a son from a fling, Then she had three sons from Ike. She married her second husband in twenty thirteen. Now they lived over in Switzerland until Tina died just last year, at eight three years old. Yeah, she'd been sick for a long time.

7:47 He suggested. Country singer Linda Dave. That's the sixty two she's one of Dodson Texas in nineteen sixty two. Biggest head was with Reuben McIntyre Does He Love You? Some of Linda's solo hits are all the good ones are taken. Some things are meant to be a love story in the making. She married nineteen eighty four and they have two daughters. One of those girls is Hillary Scott. Yeah, the co lead singer for the country band Lady. A Now and Then when she shied being lead down by men. You can give her line, but it's not want you name. Everybody knows she only dranks so home and she only smokes when she drinks.

8:53 Country singer Joe Nicholls. He's forty eight. He was born of Rogers, Arkansas in nineteen seventy six. He's nineteen when he signed this his first record deal. Some of his number one songs are Brookenheartsville, Tequila, makes her clothes fall off, Give me that girl, Sonny in seventy five. Joe, he's going on her tour January thirty. First, we want to check out his show now. He had a daughter from a girlfriend and he married in two thousand and seven and they have two daughters. Rains On she's just layups beginning chill.

9:37 Forty three year old Natasha betting Field. She was born in Hays word Heath, England, in late nineteen eighty one. Now she's a lot bigger than your but she's had pretty good success over here. Unwritten love is like this pocket full of sunshine. That's some of her hits on this side of the pond. Natasha, she married in two thousand and nine and they have a son now. Earlier I told you that today it was my niece Aaron's birthday. It was the Egyptians. Yep, the Egyptians were the first people that ever celebrate birthdays, started celebrating in three thousand BC. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't free to follow us whenever you listen to this on and forget our Country Underground Radio, the best internet radio station for country under music or independent country music. Now let's end with a composer and lyricist, Stephen Sondheim. He died to day in twenty twenty one at ninety one years old. He said, the two hardest words in the English language to rhyme are life and love. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.