Nov 30th-Mark Twain, Dick Clark, Woody Allen, Pointer Sisters, Billy Idol, Ben Stiller, Kaley Cuoco

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. Today's November the thirtieth. It's National Personal Space Day. This actually began before the COVID pandemic. Today is to remind us that personal boundaries are good and must be maintained in a civil society. Today it's for those people who don't like to be touched. Remember, just because they don't want to shake your hand or give you a hugger cause that doesn't mean they're rude or impolite. It just means that they have boundaries they should be respected. Yeah, I agree with that. Personal boundaries.

0:56 They can reduce the spread of germs, so that's always good. So today, be shy. If someone is talking too close to you and you don't feel comfortable, just politely tell him to stand the hill back? All right? This who's going on? In entertainment? On November the thirtieth, Let's back to two thousand and two number one album was The Blueprint, The Gift and the Curse by Jay z Eminem had the number one song with Lose Yourself Holding the Music. The Moment, One Shot, Miss a Chance, the Blue on a Light Sound being the music the. Mom radscal Flat said the number one country song with these days job.

1:40 Lunch has changed crops the co chip there justin has go to bed, dream of you. That's what I'm doinging lease. The number one book was Chesapeake Blue by Nora Roberts. The top movie was Harry Pop in the Chamber of Secrets. A mysterious President is stocking the School of Magic and leaving its victims paralyzed. Stars Daniel Radcliff, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson. Nineteen eighty two. Michael Jackson at least his album Thriller. It is the number one selling album of all time. YEP that sold seventy million of them. ACDC their album Back in Black was number two. It's fifty million long way behind. All right, let's see what happened in the world On November the thirtieth. The German Beer Purity Act was installed today in fourteen eighty seven. It ordered that beer could only be brewed with three ingredients water, malt, and hops. It crushed the craft beer industry. In seventeen eighty two, Great Britain they signed the agreement that recognized the United States as an independent nation. Now technically the American Revolutionary War won't be over until next year when they signed the Treaty of Paris. But you know, in eighteen seventy two, the first international soccer game ever. Yeah, it was played in Glasgow. Now to give the world a preview for all the excitement they could expect in

3:11 the future. Scotland and England they played to a zero zero tie. Nineteen thirty nine, the Soviet Union invaded Finland. Nineteen thirty nine Finland. Carl Mennenheim. He was appointed the commander in chief of all the Finnish armed forces. Yeah, its first order of business. The Soviet Union had just invaded their eastern border and it started bombing Hill sinking that year. Typical first day on the Drum nineteen fifty four. Ann Hodges. She was sleeping on her couch in Silicaga, Alabama. I went a twelve pound, three ounce media I crashed through the roof. Yeah, the hit the entertainment console and bounced off and hit her on the side. Gave her a really nasty bruise. She is the only person in the world history recorded that had an injury from a meteorite. Now, piece of it broke off into a farmer's field nearby.

3:56 Now with all the media frenzy that was going on, the incident that it created, you know that farmer. Yeah, he sold this piece. Yeah, he paid, got a new truck and paid off his house. Now had just hern her landlord. They were fighting over who actually owned that piece that hit her. When they finally decided that Hodges could sell it, well everything had died down. Everybody had lost interest and gone on to other stories, so she couldn't get any money for it. In twenty seventeen, the world's longest recorded rainbow. I had no idea we were supposed to record him, but they did. It lasted eight hours and fifty eight minutes and Typei's yng Mingshahan Mountain Range that's in Taiwan. Co cot Co Coke co coat show this shivers day, we gonna pause. He left this shiverfday.

4:37 We gonna sit ple tag he left. This shibf day. And you know we don't get birthday. I bored. I know, I remember the thirtieth Oh yeah, long time listeners, you know that one of my favorites is writer Mark Twain. He was born Samuel Clements in Florida, Missouri. In eighteen thirty five, took the name Mark Twain because it was a steamboat pilot's term, so he had the steamboat crew yelled Mark Twain. It meant that the river was at least twelve feet deep and save for the boat to go through. Twain. He started out as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. He wanted to ride, so he started off as a journalist. He wrote some really funny columns. He did some some actual newspaper reporting, but he's most famous for his short stories and his books. He wrote a lot more than just Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn Twain.

5:18 He married in eighteen seventy and they had four children. His wife died in nineteen oh four. Now, when Twain was bored back in eighteen thirty five Hayley's comment it had just passed by the Earth, and he predicted pretty much his whole life, that he would die when Haley's comet returned well one day after Haley's comment its closest approach to Earth. When it returned in nineteen ten, Yeah, Twain was right. He died from a heart attack at seventy four years old. Hello Mada, Hello Fada. Here I am at Camp Granada. Camp is very entertaining, and they say we'll have some fun if it stops reigning. Alan Sherman he was born in Chicago and eighteen twenty four.

6:01 He's what I guess you'd call a paradise or a satirist. Some of his other hits besides Hello, Mudda, Where are the Twelve Gifts of Christmas? Crazy, Downtown Drinking Man's Diet. He was married for twenty years before they divorced. They had a son and a daughter. Alan. He died from respiratory's failure in nineteen seventy three at forty eight years old. God did Mike Rambo Hi made him? Who the hell are you? Sam Trutman? Colonel Samuel Trutman? That is actor Richard Crenna. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen twenty six. Of course, we probably know him best for playing Colonel Troutman in Rambo movies. He's did a lot of acting over the years. On TV. He was on the Real McCoy's two hundred twenty five episodes. He did fifty TV movies and miniseries. Some of the movies besides Rambo, he did Body Hate The Flamingo Kid, Hot Shots, Part Duke, Summer Rental. Yeah, he did actually a lot of comedy. He had a daughter. Then he married his second wife in nineteen fifty seven and they had a son and a daughter, Grenna. He died in two thousand and three from pink creatic cancer at seventy six years old. Actor Robert Gillome. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen twenty seven. Started out in theater, but he really got none playing the butler Benson on the sitcom Soap. Then they spun him off and gave him his own sitcom called Benson. That's what we played now.

7:26 In the movie Lion King, he was a voice of Rafficky. He was also in the movie They Still Call Me. Bruce married his first wife for thirty years and they had two sons. After their divorced, he had a daughter with a fling. Then he married his second wife in nineteen eighty six and they had a daughter. Then Lo and Behold. They found out that he had fathered a daughter back in nineteen fifty five, years before his first wife. Robert. He died of prostate cancer in twenty seventeen at eighty nine years old. We're going habin. The Philadelphia Way with. All the music they play the fans stand Wola swingings, Wazona swinging. Isn't proud of phil linging? Is it cloud? The phone's a ringing?

8:06 My mama dad so proud among bandstands. Dick Clark he was born in Bronxville, New York, in nineteen twenty nine. Start out just as a regular radio DJ. Then he got this gig ghost and a brand new TV show called The American Bandstand back in nineteen fifty six. Hosted it all the way to nineteen eighty nine. On the side, he hosted the game show twenty five Thousand Dollars Pyramid from nineteen seventy three to eighty eight. Then he started Dick Clark's New Year's Rocket Eede back in nineteen seventy two, most of that until twenty twelve. In nineteen seventy three, him and a couple buddies, they created the American Music Awards. Dick. He married his first wife for nine years and they had a son. Married his second wife for nine years and they had a son and a daughter. Married his third wife in nineteen seventy seven. Now Dick had been sick for a number of years, but he died from a heart attack in twenty twelve at eighty two years old.

8:52 Filmmaker Woody Allen's eighty eight. He was born in Bronx, New York. In nineteen thirty five. Nineteen fifty five, he started writing for a TV show called Your Show of Shows. The other writers for the show were Mill Brooks, car Reiner, and Neil Simon. After that, wood he did some stand up colmed. He finally hit big making in his own movies. He won a Best Director Oscar for Annie Hall. Then he was nominated for the interiors Broadway Danny Rose Hand and her sister Crime and Misdemeanors Bullets over Broadways Midnight in Paris. He had a three year marriage and then he had a four year marriage. Then he was actress. He was with the actress Mia Fara for twelve years. They were in thirteen movies together. During that time. They had three kids together, but me she had adopted a whole bunch of other kids. Wood He ended up marrying one of those adopted daughters in nineteen ninety seven and they have two children. She was the youngest Pointer sister and the lead singer for the Pointer Sisters. June Pointer.

10:01 She was born in Oakland, California, in nineteen fifty three. June and her sister Bonnie, they started singing together as the Pointer Pair. Then Anita joined them, so they became the Porter Trio. Then when Rip joined they just begin the Pointer Sisters. Some of their biggest hits slow Hand, I'm So Excited, Automatic Jump. June she married, and she married once for thirteen years and they got divorced. But Jim, she was really messed up on cocaine most of her adult life. Finally, in two thousand and four her sisters had to kick her out of the group. Yeah. But then in two thousand and six they found out June had breast, liver, colon and bone cancer, so of course the sisters rushed to her side, but she only lived a couple more months before she died. She was only fifty two.

10:42 In Shaded Mo Shot'll come off. All Now, Billy I had at least sixty eight. He was born in Stunmore, England, in nineteen fifty five. Started out as a punk band Generation X, then he decided to go solo. Good Call He's slowd over forty million records Some of his biggest hits are Dancing with Myself, Mony Mooney White, Wedding, Eyes Without a Face. Now, at this year's coming super Bowl in February, he will be headlighting the pregame concert. I'm not sure if that's in the parking lot or what, but he's headlighting the pregame concert for the super Bowl. Now, he hasn't married, but he does have a son from a girlfriend, and then he has a daughter from another girlfriend, Billy. He became a US citizen in twenty eighteen. Actor Ben Stiller. He was born in nineteen sixty five in New York City's fifty eight. It's famous parents for Jerry Stiller and Mira.

11:43 Ben first got known on MTV. He had The Ben Stiller Show. Now we know about the movie as he's been in, but let's go with some of the movies that he's actually directed, Reality Bites, The Cable Guy, The Zulander Movies, Tropic Thunder, The Secret Life of Walter Meti. Ben. He's a prostate cancer survivor since twenty four thirteen, so that's really cool for him. Now you're married actress Christine Taylor in two thousand and they have a son. And a daughter, then Sure Handsome Man, the Girls, Last Night, God Do It All the Time. Country singer Mindy McCready.

12:28 She was born in Fort Myers, Florida, in nineteen seventy five. Some of her biggest songs are ten thousand Angels, Guys do It All the Time, A girl's got to do what a girl's got to do, You'll never know. Now. Her career was kind of cut short. See Mindy. She had a lot of problems with drugs, which means she had a lot of problems with the legal system. She did have a son from a boyfriend, then she had another son from another boyfriend. Now that boyfriend he committed suicide nine months after the little boy was born. He used a gun. Then one month later, Mindy used a gun to commit suicide on the exact same spot. She was thirty seven even years old when it happened. In twenty thirteen, our. Holli you the first was saying a hot, tense state and nearly fourteen billion years ago, expansion started, waiting, the years.

13:12 Began to Coolie Alatros began to Julian with dulls, the Philip twos, We build the way till the bears science listen to be Unraveled. The listener started with the Team. Banks actress Kayley Cuoco. She's thirty eight and she was born in Camerya, California in nineteen eighty five. First gout known on the TV show Eight Simple Rules. Then she had huge playing Penny on The Big Bank Theory. When she was seventeen years old, she was in her first movie is called quicksand No Escape. It actually started big names, Donald Sutherland and Tim Matheson. First movie she actually started was Growing Up Brady. Yeah, she played Marine McCormick. She has twice divorced, and her and her boyfriend they had a daughter in March. All right, today's fact to it that will win you a beer over in Finland. The fine for getting a speeding ticket, it's actually based on your income. Yeah earlier, this is this year a finished millionaire.

14:01 He was fined one hundred and twenty nine four hundred dollars for his speeding ticket. Well, thank you for being here. If you get a chance to have a coolmedia dot com and see what the hell we're doing out there. All right, let's end with the forty first President of the United States, George H. W. Bush. He died today in twenty eighteen, at ninety four years old. I'm a conservative, but I'm not a nut about it. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no, no, no no no