Nov 7th-Billy Graham, Johnny Rivers, Joni Mitchell, Lorde, Peter Brady, Marcus Luttrell, Adam LeVine

0:19 Hi there, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Fact Toys About Today. Today's November the 7th. Well, a hug can chase any frown away, like the sunbeams chase away a rainy day. There's so much good that a hug can do. Here, I got a. Big hug for you. Bear hug. Give your neighbor a bear hug. Well, give them all a little squeeze or two. Today is National Hug-A-Bear Day. Today is to raise awareness for the advantages of hugging. Hugging, it makes us feel warm and comfortable and loved. So give a big old bear hug to those that you love today. If no one's around, yep, use your teddy bear. Now hugging, it releases oxytocin. That makes you feel good and it relieves stress.

1:06 So if, guys, I know some of you aren't huggers out there, so it might make you feel uncomfortable. So if you're not going to hug today, yeah, you can celebrate men make dinner today. It's up to you. Okay, let's see what happened in entertainment on November the 7th. It was back in 1965. Number one album was Help by the Beatles. The Rolling Stones had the number one song with Get Off of My Cloud. Sonny James had the number one country song with Behind the Tear.

1:51 Behind the tree, there's a fool. Behind the fool, a wasted love. You broke my heart, and I'm the fool behind the tear. The number one selling book was The Source by James Michener. The top move was King Rat. See, Corporal King, he is stuck in a Malaysian POW camp during World War X. Well, Corporal King, he's quite the con man. He ends up taking control of the camp in a de facto kind of way. Stars George Segal, Tom Courtney, and Patrick O'Neill. Okay, what happened on November the 7th? Now, when Catherine of Argonne, she returned to London from Africa, she brought some Africans back with her. Now, one of them, his name was John Blank. Now, she named him. She couldn't pronounce his African name. Now, John, he could play the trumpet. He played it so well that King Henry VII, they paid him to play at his palace pretty much every day. Now, John was paid three times what the servants made and twice as much as the people working the fields made. Today, in 1507, the king, he had that trumpet player sit for a portrait. Yep, John is the first black man or woman to ever be mentioned by name in the history of England. That starts around 927 AD. In Paris, France in 1800, they made it illegal for women to wear trousers, basically pants. They wanted women to wear dresses. Now, women, they could wear pants if the chief of police, yeah, he'd have to give them a permit. Yeah, then they

3:22 could wear their pants. These are the ones who had to ride horses. Any idea how long that law outlawing women to wear pants was in effect? 2013. That's right. The Parisians finally voted to get rid of it. Get this, the bikini, it was actually invented in Paris in 1946. 1861, Union General Ulysses S. Grant fought his first battle as a general. It was the Battle of Belmont in Missouri. He won. Now, he had fought in this, though, as a regular soldier in the Mexican-American War, but yeah, he wasn't in command. 1874, Thomas Nast. He printed the first cartoon using the elephant to depict the Republican Party. Republicans, they weren't mad at all. No, they thought it was cooler than being depicted by a jackass like the Democrats. 1910 in Dayton, Ohio, a department store owner. His name was Max Morehouse. He had to get 200 pounds of silk to a factory up in Columbus, Ohio, ASAP.

4:15 But that was 65 miles away and trucks hadn't been invented yet. So as he was waiting on a train, he ran into Wilbur and Orville. So yeah, he asked the White Brothers if one of those fancy airplanes they had could actually get there faster than a train. Well, Wilbur, he flew that 200 pounds of silk to Columbus in 57 minutes. Yeah, he did it before the train even got to the station. Now by 1914, yeah, regular air freight service. Yeah, it was in effect all across the United States. 1916, Jeanette Rankin, she was elected the United States House of Representatives from Montana. No, she couldn't vote for herself, but she got elected. Now, Jeanette, she would go on to become the only member of Congress to vote no for going into World War I, then vote no for going into World War II. See, when she voted no for World War I, Montana, they kicked her out and said, you're out of here. 20 years later, they said, all right, you can come back. Well, then she voted no for World War II. So yeah, her political career was done. They asked her why she voted no.

5:09 She said she was a lifelong pacifist, and so she didn't believe in war. We would have thought that would have come up in the campaign. 1983, a bomb exploded in the Senate chamber of the United States Capitol. It caused a lot of damage, but no one was hurt. The Arms Resisting Unit, they claimed responsibility, said it was payback for the United States' involvement in Grenada and Lebanon. They were a nonviolence organization. In the middle of the night in 1993, thieves, they were able to cut a hole in the roof of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. They stole six Picassos and two Bosch paintings. Total about $ 52 million. Still today, no one knows who did it, how they did it, or where those paintings are.

5:50 In 2000, DEA agents, they found the largest LSD lab ever in the United States. Yeah, it was in an old missile silo that had been decommissioned. It was outside of Wamego, Kansas. Go, go, go, go, go, go. Go, go, shawty. It's your birthday. We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going to sip a card like it's your birthday. And you know we don't give up because it's your birthday. Okay, I was born on November the 7th. Marie Curie. She was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. Now, she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, and she's the only woman to win two Nobel Prizes. Her and her husband, Pierre, they were pioneers in researching radiation.

6:31 Won a Nobel Prize in physics for it. Now she won her second Nobel Prize in chemistry. Now Marie and Pierre, they married in 1895, had two daughters. Then he died in 1906, but not from radiation exposure, like you'd think. No, he got run over by a horse-drawn carriage. But she did die an agonizing death because of the radiation in 1934. 66 years old. Now her notebooks and the clothes that she wore in the lab and some personal items, they are so contaminated by radiation that they're actually stored in a lead box. They think they might be able to open it up and see what she wrote in her notebooks in about 500 years. Christian evangelist Billy Graham. He was born in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1918. He was one of the most influential Christian ministers of the 20th century.

7:12 From his crusades, he preached to over 210 million people in 85 different countries. Billy, he was a spiritual advisor to 12 U.S. presidents. Yep, he started out with Harry S. Truman and ended up with Obama. Now, this is how honest he was. He would even tell him if he voted for the other guy. They still wanted his consultation. He married his wife Ruth in 1943 and they had five kids. Ruth, she died in 2007. Billy died in 2018 at 99 years old from natural causes. That was Dee Clark. He was born in Blytheville, Arkansas in 1938. Really popular in the late 50s, early 60s.

7:53 Some of his hits are Probably Nobody But You, Hey Little Girl, Raindrops. D, he was playing on the oldie circuit when he died from a heart attack in 1990 at only 52 years old. Another night, I long to hold you tight Cause I am so lonely Baby, I need. Your lovin' Time to have.

8:36 All your lovin' 84-year-old Johnny Rivers retired three years ago. Said he started when he was 15 and 81. Yeah, that was long enough. Born in New York City in 1942. Grew up in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Mountain of love, secret agent man, poor side of town, baby I need your love. That was some of Johnny's big hits. He divorced twice. He had a son from his first wife and three children from his second wife. Paradise, put up a parking lot. With a pink hotel, a boutique town.

9:21 That was 83-year-old Joni Mitchell. She retired back in 2007. But she was able to beat a whole bunch of health issues. Yeah, she unretired in 2022. Joni, she was born in Fort McLeod, Canada in 1943. That's in Alberta. She's won nine Grammys. Now that song I played is actually called Big Yellow Taxi. Some of her other hits are Help Me, Free Man in Paris, You Turn Me On, I'm a Radio. Yeah, she's a folk singer. Joni, she's divorced twice and she has one daughter. Actor Christopher Knight, he's 69. He was born in New York City. He's most known for playing Peter Brady on The Brady Bunch. Now, after The Brady Bunch, he left acting. He went into the computer business. Now, he's been very, very successful in the computer business. But he has gone back and acted in the Brady Bunch reunion shows and done a little reality TV. Christopher married his fourth wife in 2016. Now, his sister Lisa, she is married to Mark Miller. He's the lead singer for the country band Sawyer Brown. Now, if you've ever read the book or watched the movie Soul Survivor, Then you know about the Navy SEALs in Afghanistan fighting the Taliban in Operation Red Wings. The only SEAL that survived the fight was Marcus Luttrell. He's 51 today.

10:29 Born in 1975 in Houston, Texas. Served as a Navy SEAL from 1999 to 2007. He received the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, the Purple Heart, along with a whole bunch of other medals. He got married in 2010 and they have a son and a daughter. Actor Adam Devine was born in Waterloo, Iowa. He's 43. On TV, he got known. He had a recurring role on the sitcom Modern Family. He played Andy. Then he was in the movie, well, he was in all the Pitch Perfect movies. And he was in Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates. He married in 2021. They have a son. Now, as a child, Adam, he was run over by a cement truck. Somehow, he survived. Spent a lot, a lot of time in the hospital. Now, he is a huge supporter of the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals.

11:12 They have children's hospitals all across the country. Yeah, he wants to pay them back for all the help that they gave him when he really needed their help the most. We live in cities you'll never see on screen Not very pretty, but we sure know how to love me Living in ruins of a place within my dreams And you know we're all each other's. Demons She is known simply as Lorde. She was born in Auckland, New Zealand. She's 30. Now, after being together 30 years, her parents married in 2017. They thought that Lorde was in an impressionable age. She released her first album when she was 16. She's had the hits Royals, Team, Greenlight, Yellow Flicker Beat. Now, she's a really private young lady.

11:59 Don't know much about her personal life, only that she is single right now. All right, our quote of the day. It comes from Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin's wife. She died today in 1962 at 78 years old. Eleanor says, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on how you listen to us on. And make sure you check out today's show's description so you can see any connections that you want to hook up with us on or any of the artists we connect you to. Our country underground radio artist of the day comes from Ellie out there in South Carolina. Ellie wants to hear Peyton Howey's song, Never Go Home. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I'm here to party. Yeah, it's time.

12:45 To get it started. Let's go. you can so get that drink in your head we could call it a night but you know that we won't.

13:26 The party don't stop if we never go home Every Tuesday night starts feeling just like the weekend You know there's no hangover, we just. Keep on drinking If. You ain't having fun then come on over to our way. Of thinking We can call it a night But you know that we won't Cause the party don't stop If we never go home