Nov 5-Redheads, Guy Fawkes, Art Garfunkel, Herman's Hermits, A Flock of Seagulls, Bryan Adams, Monopoly

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media. Today is November the fifth. But you think it knocking home, We're not just loose all control. Just want to see one walking back to rest. Rest, I'll just croud to the rest. Today is National Redhead Day. Yes, guys, we are celebrating you also, even though you're not as pretty as the girls. Now only two percent of the population of the world have red air. Now the rarest genetic combination in the world red hair and blue eyes zero point fourteen percent. People have that redheads.

0:57 They do not go gray, No, they're red. Pigment just fade, so they either go blonde or white. Now, female actresses, they have a better chance to win an Academy Award if they have red hair. Dude, now you have a less chance. Seven presidents have had red hair. George Washington, you were wig, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, Calvin Coolidge, and John Kennedy. Aison. Don't know what color Trump's here is. So how do we celebrate today? Well, you ask got it? Red hair? Yeah, it gives you a good excuse to do it. And then go out and have some fun. Now. Today's also election day, so I hope you're all either mailed in your ballots already, you're heading you out to the polls. Just have a great election day now. That's what's going on in entertainment on November fifth, let's back to your nineteen eighty one number one album was Tattooed You by the Rolling Stones. Christopher Cross had the number one song with Arthur's theme The Best You Can Do.

2:07 The Oakrage Boys at the number one country song with Fancy Free Jesus. Stream se. The number one buck was The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. Top movie was Time Bandits. A boy joined some time traveling dwarfs who jump around in time looking for treasure Starr Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall and John Cleese.

2:49 Al Right, what happened on November the fifth? No over in England? Today they're celebrating gave Fox Day. Yeah, it's a really big party. In sixteen oh five, after years of persecution in England, a group of Catholics decided to kill King James. First, well, they also wanted to take out as many legislators and other royalty that they could do. So. The plan was it's opening up Parliament. They were gonna put thirty six barrels of gunpowder in the cellar and then met the House of Lords and then when they all met there, yeah, they're just gonna blow it up. Well, one of the conspiracis they got cold feet at the very last minute and told so all the British authorities. They started searching the building. When they got to the cellar, they found Guy Fox just sitting on thirty six barrels of gunpowder. Now he was supposed to light the fuse and then run like hell. Well he did try and be sly and cover the barrels up with like firewood and stuff, but they didn't go for it. Now, they tortured Guy for two days before it finally gave up.

3:36 All the conspirators they were all sentenced to death by dragging by horse, and then their genitals would be cut off and burned in front of their face. Then their hearts and their bows would be removed. Then they'd be decapitated, disremembered, and they'd be fed to the birds. Well guy he didn't like that no, so when he got a chance, he was able to make a run for it. He jumped out the window. Well, he is up fifty feet, so he broke his neck. He actually got off kind of easy compared to the other guys. All right, Now back to the night that it all went down, though, say, when pot was discovered, all the peasants out in the surrounding outside of the castle, they all celebrated the King James nearly escaped death. So yep, they partied, and they had built bonfires, and they ate and they drank and they burned. Guy and all the other guys at effigy still do it four hundred years later. So now they burned bonfires and drink and party, but now they allowed off fireworks too. Seventeen eighty one, John Hanson from Maryland.

4:27 He was elected the President of the United States Congress. No, not the Continental Congress, the first United States Congress. So technically he was the first president of the United States. But the loophole is that he wasn't elected by the citizens. Nineteen eleven, pilot Calbreth Rogers. He arrived in Pasadena, California. He had left Sheep said Bay, New York. He's the first pilot to fly all the way across the United States. Yep. Coast to coast took him forty nine days. Nineteen thirty five, the board game Monopoly went on sale. It's sold two hundred and seventy five million boards since then. Now the longest game of Monopoly played seventy straight days. Now I would have bumped that board after seven hours. It was today. In nineteen fifty five, the Doc Brown came up with the idea for the flux capacitor. As we all know, that's what makes time travel passable. So Marty mcfi he went back in nineteen eighty four and let Doc know that it worked.

5:16 Gope, gop, gop, coop, dope coo, gop show dish shimmer day. Please gonna pause. He left this shimday. We want simple cause he left this SHIMMS day, and you know you don't get that work day. Let's check out. It was born on November the fifth. And by fact, I'm a mate. I started from this topic board on board this tiny ship. The main was a mighty sailor man Let's perfave and shore my messenger st sail. That day for a three hour two. Actress Natalie Schaeffer was born in Red Bank, New Jersey, in nineteen hundred.

5:57 She's best known for playing Missus Hall on Gilligan's Eye. Now. She only agreed to go and film the pilot for gilling Island because she got a free trip to Hawaii. She never thought anybody could pick up that stupid show, but it did, so then she had to scramble and move from New York to California. Now she'd lied about her age, basically her entire a doulve life. Yeah, she said she was born in nineteen hundred, I said, But she told everybody she was born in nineteen twelve. So when she died in nineteen ninety one, everyone was surprised as hell that she was actually ninety one years old. She buried for nine years back in the thirties. I wonder if that guy knew about it. There's the Yellow Rolls in Texas. I'm going there to see no other powe. I knows her, Nobody, only me, she cried. So when I left her, I'd like to row my far and if we ever meet again, we never more shall far.

6:49 Roy Rogers He's born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in nineteen eleven. Know one has the King of the Cowboys start off doing a lot of Westerns and cowboy radio shows, and he was in over one hundred movies in the nineteen fifties that had a real popular Roy Rogers TV show, best known for performing with his life Dale Evans and his horse Trigger. Now. Dale was actually his third wife. Yeah. They had three children from a second wife, then him and Dale. They had five kids together. Ro He died from congestive heart failure in nineteen ninety eight at eighty six years old. Actress Vivian Leigh. She was born in Darjeeling, India in nineteen thirteen. Both her parents were British. She won two Oscars. She played Scarlett O'Hara and Gone with the Wind, and she played Blanche Dubois in Street Car Name Desire. Now. Whenever they put on a Plate's Shakespeare play out there in Broadway, they always cast her her to star in it.

7:33 She was one of the greatest actresses of all time. But she also suffered from mental illness, so she had to take and went to long breaks over the years. You had to get things straightened out. She had a daughter from a first dozen. Then she married Laurence Olivier for twenty years until they divorced. She died in nineteen sixty seven, at fifty three years old, from to Berkeley. Oosis you women have heard of jelap as you've heard? Then they made let Me Real goold smile Rocket eighty ys. It's strange and just one. Everybody likes my rocket eighty little riding style all. Ike Turner wrote that song Rocket eighty eight nineteen fifty one.

8:15 It was sung by a Jackie Brinston and it's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. It is considered the first rock and roll song ever of all time. Now, Ike Turner, he's one of Clarksdale, Mississippi in nineteen thirty one. He's sang little, mostly wrote songs, played in the band, and managed the artist. He had his biggest success when he's married to Tina Turner. They're in the I rock and Roll Hall of Fame together. Now. Ike. He did not drink alcohol, He did not take drugs, and he would fire anybody in his bands or that worked for him, that did it well until he was thirty years old. Then he tried cocaine. Yeah. Then he couldn't stay away from drugs, alcohol or prison. He divorced six times. He had two children from his first wife, Tina. She was his third wife. They had one child. They were married for sixteen years. Then after his sixth wife, he had two more kids. Just on the side. For fun Ike died from a cocaine overdose two thousand and seven and seventy six years old.

9:06 Jumping Jay, half of Simon and Garfunkel is Art Garfunkel. He's eighty three. He's one of Forest Feels, New York. In nineteen forty one, met Paul Simon when they're going to high school together. Released their first album in nineteen sixty four. Some of their hits are Sound of Sidelines, Homeward Bound, Missus Robins, and Cecil. They broke up in nineteen seventy done quite a few reunion shows and stuff. They proleased more albums since they broke up than they did when they're together. Now already's released ten solo albums.

9:46 He's working a lot now with the one of his sons. Yeah, they're getting ready to release an album pretty quick here called Garfield and Garfields Garfunkel and Garfunkel. Now, I already married his second wife in nineteen eighty eight, and she had two sons who. Come to Tall and Lie Something Flash Last Night and tells me something good. The Herman and Herman and the Herbitts is Peter Noon. Peter seventy seven born in davy Holme, England in nineteen forty seven. Started singing for Herman Hermits when he was fifteen.

10:29 Now everybody thought he looked like Sherman in the cartoon Bullwinkle, So yeah, they were teasing about it, and that was his nickname, but people would get drunk and they couldn't say Sherman, so we ended up becoming Herman. So then they called this backup band, the Hermits. Some of their heads are you can hear my heart beating, missus Brown, You've got a very lovely diar. I'm Henry the eighth. I am. I mean it's something good. Somehow over the said lost their name. Yes, somebody else somehow owns it, so now they have to go by Hermit's Hermann start Peter Noon. That's the loophole. Now they're out on tour. They'll be out on tour until sometimes next October. They're booked for like the next year. But on the side Peter also has his radio show. He is on Serious XM Radio on their sixties station. He married nineteen sixty eight and they have one daughter. Mike Score. He is the lead singer and keyboarders for the new ad band Flock of Seagulls.

11:37 Now. He really stood out in nineteen eighties with his wild hair. If you don't remember him, he had blonde hair and it was like flat in the middle and then really big high on the side of It doesn't matter. He's completely bald now. He's born in Beverly, England in nineteen fifty seven sixty seven for him Flack of Seagulls in nineteen seventy nine. Now they're one of the first new age bands that actually hit big. I ran space age love song wishing the more you Live, the More You Love. That's some of their heads. Mikey had one child from his first wife, married his fourth wife in twenty twelve. So you're wondering, how did they get the name Flock of Seagulls kind of boring. They took it from a punk song called Toiler and the Sea and the book Jonathan Livingston seagull Brian Adams sixty five born in Kingston, Canada.

12:38 In nineteen fifty nine, he sold a runner a million records, started singing professionally with his fifteen Yeah, he took over as the lead singer for the glam band Swingey Todd when Nick Gilder left. Brian released his first solo album in nineteen eighty Some of Us. That's Our Cuts Like a Knife, I Run to you. Have you ever really loved a woman? Somewhere in sixty nine. Now he's been with his girlfriend since two thousand and nine and they have two daughters. Brian he's two years older, but he went toed school with Michael J. Fox. Sixty one year old actress Tato and Neil was born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty three. Her father was actor Ryan O'Neil. Now. She is the youngest person ever to win an Academy Award. Yes, she won Best Supporting Actress in her first movie, Paper Moon. She was ten years old. She co started the movie with her dad. He didn't win squad now and then after that the movies came Where the Bad News Bears Little Darlings International Velvet. She married to tennis player Joe John McEnroe for eight years and they had two sons and one daughter. You know what, let's talk some more about red hits now, people with red hair they have left strands of hair, but their strands of hair are thicker, so it makes it look more full. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. Whoever you listen to us on comes here as a country Underground radio dot com or anywhere they want to hear some good music. Just type in country Underground Radio and you'll hear us. That's end with mathematicians James Clark, Mathskeville. He died to day in eighteen seventy nine at forty eight years old. Axe Well said, anyone who thinks the sky is a limit has a limited imagination. You guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.