Nov 4-Common Sense, Will Rogers, Ralph Macchio, Jeff Probst, Mathew McConaughey, Delbert McClinton

0:03 Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Today's November the fourth. Common Sense, I ain't that coming anymore, seems common sense is past tense, just like the dying. So let he go. Correctness is God along to answerble. Just common sense, ain't that coming anymore? Today? Is national use your common sense to day. Now we celebrate common sense today because it's Will Rogers' birthday. Well, he once said that common sense.

0:53 It ain't that common anymore. Now, common sense, it's inherent all of us. It helps us from making bad decision, It helps us avoid dangers. We don't always use it now, Dude to peer pressure, popular culture, social media, political correctness. A lot of people they stop using common sense. Yeah, just to try and fit in today, you know, start trusting yourself. Listen to your own common sense out there. Do what you honestly believe is right. Don't give a damn what other people thinks. It's amazing how much trouble you can stay out of just by listening to your own common sense. All right, this is going on in entertainment on nineteen eighty three. On November, the fourth number one album was Synchronicity by the Police. Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton had the number one song with Islands in the Stream.

1:36 All This Love Please Me, No Conversation that is fun deal, No want Tweet, How. Can Leave You? It was a number one country song from the number one book was Poland by James Mitchener.

2:19 The top movie was Never Say Never Again James Bond. He has to recover some stolen nuclear bombs while dealing with an assassin who was trained specifically to kill him Starr, Sean Connery, Class, Maria Brandauer and Max Man Sidral. All right, what happened on November the fourth, sixteen forty six, Massachusetts they enacted in a law that said that if you denied the Bible was the word of God, you'd be executed. Now that law it stood on the books in Massachusetts until nineteen eighty four. So why'd they take it off. Well, the state they abolished the death penalty, so they couldn't have that on there if they didn't have the death penalty. Now, this was before gold was discovered. It was back in eighteen forty one. The first wagon train arrived out in California.

3:01 It had left Missouri and traveled one thousand seven and thirty miles in five and a half months, even crossed over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, arrived in northern California. Today. It arrived at the ranch of doctor John Marsh by Mount Diablo. Eighteen forty five, the first national election day that was uniform across all the states happened, So there were twenty eight states, and before then they kind of held elections whenever. But nope, it's all uniform now and we still do it. Yep. The national elections are always held on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, so your election day will always be between November the second and the eighth. In Indianapolis, in eighteen sixty two, Richard Gatlin he invented the hand cranked Gatland machine gun. Now, I took the whole concept from a piece of farming equipment. He invented the plant seeds eighteen seventy nine in Dayton, Ohio, and James Riddy he owned a bar now in order to keep his bartender some stealing from him. And then at the first cast from register. Now that cast register it worked so well he sold his bar and just sold cash registers he except he didn't call him gass register now he called him Riddy's uncorruptible cashier. Nineteen twenty two, Over in Egypt, Howard Carter he discovered the tomb or the yeah, the tomb of the Pharaoh Toot in common, we know him better as just King Tut. Now Howard, he wasn't allowed to open it though. See this guy, Lord carnivarn He actually financed old dig so Howard had to wait for him to get their Carnavan whoanted to be there when they opened it. So basically him and his workers they just sat there for three weeks so Carnavan could make it all the way from England. So I guess we'll wait till November twenty sixth to see if they found anything inside. Nineteen twenty four, Nellie Ross

4:34 and Wyoming and Miriam Ferguson in Texas were both elected governor of their states. Now Nelly she was sworn in one day before Miriam. So Nelly and Wyoming they get credit for from the first female governor in the United States. It's kind of impressive though, because but when they got elected, women only had the right to vote for four years at that time. Nineteen seventy eight, and Iranian army and troops they started firing on anti Shah student protesters outside of Tehran University. That led to one ar year later, nineteen seventy nine, over five hundred college students they raided and took over the United States embassy in Tehran. They took ninety hostages. Well, they released all those who were kind of not in best health, and they released all the black ones, but fifty two US hostages were held for four hundred and forty four days. See, the students, they were loyal to the Ayatolla Comani, and they blamed the United States for supporting the Shah of Iran, who they'd overthrown. Now the shy I had come to the United States for cancer treatment. Now the students they wanted him brought back to Iran so they could execute him before he died from the cancer. Common Sense Day nineteen ninety three in Britain, singer Elton John. He was awarded five hundred and eighteen thousand, seven hundred bucks from the Sunday Mirror newspaper. In court, they proved that the newspaper lied.

5:41 The newspaper had run a story all about what Elton John ate and what his diets consisted of, Well, they were did wrong. In South Sudan in twenty fifteen, a passenger jet crashed on takeoff. Thirty seven were killed, one survived. It was a thirteen year old now. She was found cradled in her arms of her father. She had a broken leg that she lived with. Her dad died. Coked, joked, joke, show dish shibbert day. He's gonna he left this shiverf day. We want simple targe. He left this shibirth day. And you know we don't do A guy was born on November the fourth. I told you I'd get to him. Humor s social commentator, writer actor Will Rodgers was born in Uliga, It's in the Cherokee Indian Nation and Territory in eighteen seventy nine, basically Oklahoma today. Now Will he was, He's actually known as Oklahoma's favorite son. He made fifty silent movies and twenty one talking He was one of the highest paid actors in the early nineteen thirties. But he actually had a syndicated newspaper column that went nationwide, wrote over four thousand columns. He would make humorous political and social commentary in it. Will once said, I joked about every prominent man in my lifetime, but an never man I didn't like. He was an active guy. He traveled the world three times. Then in nineteen thirty five, when he was fifty five years old, Will was flying and in airplane with the famous pilot Widely post Yeah.

7:04 They crashed in Alaska, coulled them both well. He had married in nineteen oh eight and they had four children. Actor RK. Carney. He was born in Mount Vernon, New York. In nineteen eighteen, most manas were playing Ed Norton on the TV show The Honeymooners. He won an oscar for the movie Harry and Tonnell. Later on. His last movie that he was in was called The Last Action Hero. He married his high school sweetheart and they had three children, but they divorced after twenty five years, so he married his second wife for eleven years. Then after they divorced in nineteen eighty, he went back and married that first wife all over again. Already died in his sleep from natural causes in two thousand and three at eighty five years old. Actress Doris Roberts. She was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen twenty five. Acted for over seventy years. I think most of us know her best for playing the mom on the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond. She was Clark's wife's mom and the Christmas Vacation movie. So I guess Clark's mother in law now Doris. She had a son from her first husband. She married her second husband in nineteen sixty three. He died in nineteen eighty three dars.

8:02 She died in twenty sixteen from a stroke. Ninety years old. Actress Loretta Swift yep, she just died in May, eighty seven years old. She was born in Passak, New Jersey, in nineteen thirty seven. Most famous for playing in Major Margaret Hot lips U Lahan on the TV show Match. She went to Emmy's playing Margaret. After Mass, she did a whole bunch of game shows. She married once for twelve years. I'm giving it up. Country singer and blues rocker Double McClinton is eighty five. He's born in Lubbock, Texas, in nineteen forty. Now he plays a week every year on a party cruise. He is in January. The when this January that's already sold out? If you want to go see Delburt on the cruise. This is Real heast twenty seven album as big as Hit was with Tanya Tucker.

8:58 Tell Me about It Ye outside the Heads, giving it up for my Love, I'm with you, sending me Angels. In the early nineteen sixties, Delbert was touring Europe with a whole bunch of American artists and when they were in England, this guy came up to him. His name was John Lennon. He wanted Delbert to teach him how to play the harmonica. Oh, Delbert didn't have much going on, so he gave the guy a couple lessons. Well, Lennon, he is that training. He got to play the harmonica. Yeah, he played it in the Beatles song Let Me Do Delbert. He's married and they have a son. Actress Markey Post. She was born in Palo Alto, California, in nineteen fifty. She first got known on the TV show The Fall Guy. Then she hit really big on the sitcom Night Court. Biggest movie was There's Something About Mary. She played Mary's mom, Marky.

9:39 She married her second husband in nineteen eighty two and they had two daughters. She died from cancer in twenty twenty one at seventy years old. Actor Ralph Machio. He's sixty four, born in Huntington, New York, in nineteen sixty one. His first big movie he was in was The Outsiders. Then he really hit big playing ten yels on Karate Kid movies and he was in What Crossroads was My Cousin Vinnie. He had a Night's Run and playing Daniel Son again on the TV show Cobra Kai just ended, but it had been going on since twenty eighteen. Macchio he married in nineteen eighty seven and they have two daughters. The host of the TV show Survivor Jeff Prost. He's born in Wichita, Kansas. He's also sixty four. You know, he's been doing Survivor since it first started in two thousand.

10:20 That's forty eight seasons, seven hundred one episodes now. He is actually also an executive director and a producer. He married his second wife in twenty eleven. Actor Matthew McConaughey's fifty six. He's born on Uvaldi, Texas, in nineteen sixty nine. Now. His first paid acting job was for the music video for Walkaway Joe and was sung by Tricia Yearwood that led to the movie Dazed and Confused and we are Marshall Lincoln lawyer Magic Mike won an oscar for Dallas Buyer's Club. Matth Tew be married in twenty twelve and they have one daughter and two sons. Sean Combs, Diddy, p Diddy, Buff, Daddy, Buffy, whatever you want to call him. He was born in New York City in nineteen sixty nine.

11:01 They got the nickname Puffy because when he was a kid, he'd always huffing puff when he was angry. Right now, he's doing a fifteen month residency for the Fort Dick's Federal Correction Prison in New Jersey. Now he hasn't married yet. He has seven kids though, from five four different women. Alright, there go to the day today. It comes from the writer Michael Crichton. He died today in two thousand and eight at sixty six years old. Michael says politicians are focused as if they can do something, they never occurs to them. They should focus on if they should do something. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't get to follow us on. You listen to us on it makes it easy to find us. And don't if you can't check out today's a description and show notes yet see what we're our links are leading you to and what we're talking about our country underground radio artists to day. It comes from Katie out there Knoxville. She want to stay here.

11:47 The Bin and Hall Band, they're song Levin makes the Leaving Hard ben In All Band. There's three sisters fifteen, seventeen, fifteen and twelve. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow and enjoy the Bin and Hall Sister. On the road A sixty five. Oh La, see you're Hazel Lots smiling back in me, smiling back in me. They can go for one more day to say the thing I did again, to say why do you have to leave?

12:35 Why do you have to lead? I can't leave with about you, but I know you won't stay. It's gotta be another way. When where I get her? I know I don't all flaps. There's no future for us, only past my la song trasing my dreams. You have your plans to be done include never meant to take it this far.

13:18 Yes, a love man that may sleep hard thinking back to what we've been through. Should be easy to get over You. What am I supposed to do. I can't get over you. What if I told you I need You to stay, we could have had another day.