Oct 1-Walter Mathau, Jimmy Carter, Julie Andrews, Randy Quaid, Zach Galifaianakis, Brie Larson

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's October the 1st. Now, I'm still trying to figure out what to celebrate for the National Day today. I mean, it's International Coffee Day, but we just celebrated coffee two days ago. It's National Homemade Cookie Day. There are lots of days about cookies throughout the year. It's National Black Dog Day, but I don't have one of those. National Pumpkin Seed Day. That should be closer to Halloween, I think. So, I guess I'm going to have to break down and celebrate something that I just don't have a lot of nowadays. Yes, today is National Hair Day.

1:07 I hear you, brother. Now, hair care has come a long way since Cleopatra washed her hair in donkey milk. Now, to do today right, they want you to celebrate, kind of show off how hair is your personality. You know, do something different, be something spontaneous. Maybe get a different cut. You don't have to go too wild. Just have fun with your hair. And yes, remember to do proper hair care today and all that kind of stuff. Now, I don't want to be a downer, but I just want to remind everybody that you realize, though, that for every hair that you can actually see on your head or your body, yeah, it means it's dead. That's right. The hair, it's dead as soon as it leaves the follicle. So that's a lot of money that's been spent on something that's dead. Just putting it out there, though. Okay, I'm a little jealous of you with hair. All right, it is October, the eighth month. Well, it was the eighth month. Birthstones of October are opal and tourmaline. The birthflowers are marigold and cosmos. Now, if you were born in October, that means you're either a Libra or a Scorpio.

2:04 October is full moon. It's the harvest moon. All right, let's see what happened in entertainment on October 1st. Let's go back to the year 2000. Number one album was Music by Madonna. That was the number one song was Music by Madonna. Jody Messina had the number one country song with That's the Way. That's the way it is.

2:46 You gotta roll with the punches. That's the way it goes. You gotta bang when the wind blows. You live, you learn, you crash and burn. It's hit or miss. That's the way it is. The number one selling book was The Bear and the Dragon by Tom Clancy. The top movie was Remember the Titans. Well, back in Virginia in 1971, an all-black school and an all-white school, they had to integrate. So this movie follows the football team. It stars Denzel Washington and Will Patton. All right, what happened on October the 1st? Now, during the Civil War, if you were drafted up into the Union Army, yeah, you could actually pay to substitute for it.

3:31 That's right. Back there, it was legal. The rich guys would pay another guy around $ 300 to actually go into the Army for him. Well, today in 1864, John Somerfall Staples, he was paid $ 500. Yeah, he was the substitute for U.S. President Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln, he wanted to be just like everybody else, except the guys with money. Now, in South, they used substitutes down there in the Confederacy, too. Now, some of those substitutes down South, they got up to $ 3, 000, so they. Knew they weren't coming back. Now, Staples, though, he had a pretty good filling in for Lincoln. Yeah, he didn't see any action, and he was pretty much a clerk, and then he ended up as a prison guard. Now, today is a big day for socialists out there, not just here in the United States, but worldwide. 1867, Karl Marx published his book Das Kapital.

4:15 It talked all about how he thought the capitalism system sucked. In 1890, the United States Congress created the Yosemite National Park out there in California. It was the second national park. Yeah, Yellowstone was first. 1891, Stanford University opened up. Now, Leland and Jane Stanford, they had actually donated $ 40 million or endowed it or whatever to start the university. See, they created it to honor their son, Leland Jr. Now, he died when he was 15 years old from typhoid fever. So today, it's actually Stanford's official name. Yeah, it's Leland Stanford Jr. University. Now, that $ 40 million that they granted or endowed or whatever, it'd be about $ 1. 5 billion today. 1908, Ford's Model T cars went on sale.

4:56 $ 850. $ 950 if you wanted it to come fully loaded. Now, cars at that time cost around $ 2, 000 to $ 3, 000. $ 850 back then would be about $ 29, 000 today. Big party in China today. Yep, it's a national holiday. 1949, the People's Republic of China was formed by Mao Zedong. I mean, sure, China, it goes back a couple thousand years and everything. But see, they only celebrate the current communist regime. So today in China, they consider it their 76th birthday. Yeah, they celebrate the party and not the country. 1971, Disney World opened up. Cost $ 3. 50 to get in. Today, if you want to go, the average cost is around $ 160 to get in. If you go to Epcot, that opened a day in 1982.

5:40 1989, 52-year-old U.S. Army General Colin Powell became the youngest and first black chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Now that is the highest military position anybody can hold. Okay, who was born on October the 1st. Actor Walter Matthau, he was. Born in New York City in 1920, won an Oscar for the movie Fortune Cookie. He was in over 80 movies, made 10 with his buddy Jack Lemmon. He had The Odd Couple and all those grumpy old men movies. That was some of them. Walter, he was nominated for Oscars for Koch and The Sunshine Boys.

6:23 Didn't win those. But he won two Tonys. I would never picture Walter Matthau on Bronson Radweather. He had two sons and a daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife in 1969, and they had one son. Walter, he died from heart failure in 2000 at 79 years old. Jimmy Carter, he was born in Plains, Georgia in 1924. During World War II, he was in the Navy, came home, and became a peanut farmer down there in Georgia. Went into local politics, then more local politics, became the governor of Georgia. Yeah, ended up as the 39th president of the United States. Served from 1977 to 1981. Now, he lived the longest of any president we have. He lived 100 years old, and he lived 44 years after he was president. That's the longest anybody's done that. And Carter, he was the first president born in a hospital. So yeah, those were all his major accomplishments. He didn't do much as president. Now, Jimmy married Rosalind in 1946, and they had three sons and one daughter. They were married 77 years when Rosalind died in 2023. Jimmy died a couple months after his 100th birthday in 2024. Actor Tom Bosley is born in Chicago in 1927. Best known for playing Howard Cunningham on the TV show Happy Days. Then he was the sheriff on Murder, She Wrote. And then he was the priest in The Father Dowling Mysteries.

7:32 That's kind of funny. He was Jewish. Now, he was. Before TV, Bosley, he wanted Tony on Broadway, too. He had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in 1980. They were together until he died from the staph infection in 2010. 83 years old. Actor George Pappard, he was born in Detroit in 1928. He first got famous when he co-starred with Audrey Hepburn in the movie Breakfast at Tiffany's. Then he was in Pork Shop Hill, How the West Was Wong, The Third Day. Now get this, he was cast to play Blake Carrington on the TV show Dynasty. Three weeks before it went on the air, yeah, they fired him. So they had to do all the scenes they had shot with him. They had to have John Forsythe come in and read to him. But Parr, he wasn't too bummed out about it. He just went over and he played Hannibal Smith on the TV show The A-Team. George, he had a son and a daughter from his first wife. Then he had a son from his second wife. Then he married and divorced three more times real fast. Now he died from lung cancer in 1994 at 65 years old. With songs they have sung for a thousand.

8:39 Years The hills fill my heart with the sound of music. Julie Andrews, she's 91 years old today. She was born in Walton-on-Thames, England in 1935. Now she started performing when she was 10. And she still is. She won an Oscar for playing Mary Poppins. She was nominated for Oscars for The Sound of Music and Victor Victoria. Now, she had a daughter from her first husband. Then she married movie director Blake Edwards in 1969, and they had one son and three daughters. Blake, he died in 2010.

9:34 The Herb in Peaches and Herb is Herb fame. He's been there since the beginning in 1966. Seven different women have sung as Peaches. Currently, Wanda Mackle, she is Peaches. Yeah, they're performing. They go out on tour and everything. Herb's 84. He was born in Washington, D.C. Some Peaches and Herb songs were reunited, shake your groove thing, close your eyes. Herb, he's been married since 1959. They have four kids. Actor Randy Quaid, he was born in Houston, Texas. He's 76. He is four years older than his younger brother, actor Dennis Quaid. In his first move, Randy, he just had a really small role in the last picture show. Been in 90 movies since then, though. Now, because of all those vacation movies, I always just consider him as a comedic actor.

10:15 Not even close. He has done actually more dramas than he has those. Yeah, he can actually kind of freak you in some of them, too. He was nominated for an Oscar for The Last Detail. Now, Randy, he had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in 1989. Actor Zach Galifianakis is 57. He was born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Now, he's best known for playing Alan in all those Hangover movies. He's also in Due Date, Dinner for Schmucks, The Beanie Bubble. Now, he got married in 2012, and they have two sons. Actress Brie Larson is 37. She was born in Sacramento. She won a Best Actress Oscar for Room. Yeah, never heard of it, but. Yeah, apparently. Room, okay. Now, she's also been in Kong, Skull Island. That's a pretty good movie.

10:59 Now, she's played Carol Danvers in all the, well, not all of them, but some of the Captain Marvel and Avenger movies. All righty, our quote of the day today comes from writer Tom Clancy. He died today in 2013 at 66 years old. He says, life is about learning. When you stop learning, you die, right? Well, thank you all for listening today. We appreciate you being here. Don't forget to follow us on your listen to us on. That way you can find us pretty easy. And check today's show notes or the description and all that so you can find out, connect to us and have any questions about today's show. Our country underground radio artist today comes from Cammie out there in Louisville, Kentucky. She wants to hear a Buck Ford song, I'll Never Know If I Don't Ask. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

11:43 Girl, where'd you get that accent? Are you from Tennessee? Did you come here by yourself? Are you with somebody? What's your name? What you drinking in that glass? Can I buy you the next one? Mind if I sit down? Wanna move with the music? Am I moving too fast? I'll never know if I don't ask I've got a pocket full of questions Are you looking for love?

12:40 Looking for a friend? Or just trying to catch a bus? Do you even like cowboys? Now do you want to dance? I'll never know if I don't dance. Now where'd you get that necklace? Does that say forever? Where's he at now? Oh, how long were you together? Wow, that's a long time. Do you miss what you had? Did your mom give you that grin that goes from head to ear?

13:27 Are you that happy it's over? Did you buy me that beer? Well, thanks, girl. You should have done that. Little kids get misled. I'll never know if I don't laugh.