Oct 10th-Angel Food Cake, David Lee Roth, Tanya Tucker, Mr. Big, Mario Lopez, Mya, Exploding Cue Balls

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids About Today presented by Cool Media. Today's October the 10th. Angel food cake, angel food cake, the best darn thing my mama can make. On my birthday, make no mistake, I get. Angel food cake. Angel food cake, angel food cake, the best darn thing my mama can make. Today is National Angel Food Cake Day. Woo-hoo! This light, fluffy, airy cake. It got its name because it's what's believed that angels might be eating. Angel Food Cake. It was created in the United States in the mid-1800s. No one gets credit for it. It's low in carbs, so that's cool.

1:02 Pretty simple to bake. Beaten egg whites, flour, sugar. No butter. So it's baked in a tube pan. That's the pan with the hole in the center. Now that allows the cake to rise when it's baking. See, if you cook an Angel Food Cake just on a regular pan, all you get is a big cookie. Yeah, it won't rise. And then you get to top your angel food kook however you want, so that's all up to you. Let's enjoy some angel food cake today. Do you know anyone named Kevin? I can honestly say I do not. But if you do, it's National Hug of Kevin Day. So you might be asking yourself, huh, I wonder what happened on October 10th back in, let's say, 1961. Well, Judy Garland had the number one album, was Junie at Gardner Hall. Ray Charles had the number one song with Hit the Road, Jack.

1:43 Leroy Van Dyke had the number one country song with Walk On By. I belong to another. It wouldn't look so good to know someone I'm not supposed to know. Just walk on by. Wait on the corner. The number one selling book was Agony and Ecstasy by Irving Stone.

2:34 Top move was King of Kings. It's about Jesus living under Roman rule. Stars Jeffrey Hunter and Siobhan McKenna. Howard Hatfield. 1977. Aerosmith. They were playing a concert in Philadelphia when someone threw an M-80 on stage. When it exploded, it hurt the singer Steven Tyler's cornea and hurt guitarist Joe Perry's hand. So, of course, the concert was over. Yeah, they had to take those two to the hospital. Now, to show that there were no hard feelings against the people of Philadelphia, Aerosmith, they went back and played a concert there next year. Steven Tyler got hit in the face with a beer bottle. Ah, let's see, it happened on October the 10th. It was today in 1780, the deadliest hurricane ever in the Atlantic Ocean. It was called the Great Hurricane in 1780. It hit Barbados. Yeah, it had wind speeds of 200 miles an hour. It destroyed Barbados. Then it did some island hopping, took them all out. Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia, yeah, all of them.

3:26 Pretty much when it got up to Bermuda, though, then it veered east. Yeah, it never did make landfall in the United States, but it had killed over 27,000 people on all those islands. Remember, that was 1780, not populated like today. Now, do you like shooting pool? In the 1800s, billiard balls, they were made from ivory, from elephant's tusks. Yeah, they were expensive and kind of hard to get. Then in 1865 in Albany, New York, John Wesley Hyatt, he solved that problem. He took this new invention called plastic, and he modified it into a celluloid. He used this thing called celluloid nitrate. Now, if you looked and felt them, you could not tell the difference between the celluloid and the IV balls. Got really popular. There was one difference between them, though. The celluloid ones, yeah, they turned out to be flammable. If you hit the balls just right, boom, they would explode. Today, billiard balls are made from phenolic resin. Now, don't you honestly think pool would be more exciting if the balls would explode? 1886, Griswold, Lowerland. Dude was a rebel.

4:24 He wore a short black dinner jacket to an autumn ball in Tuxedo, New York. Now, when he walked in, everybody thought, what a goofball. No one had ever seen anything like that. But as they watched him through the night, he was just talking to the ladies and he was dancing and he was having a good time. By the end of the ball, everyone thought that jacket was pretty cool. So the tuxedo, it's been worn to fancy events ever since. This would really be embarrassing. 1957, President Eisenhower, he had to apologize to the finance minister of Ghana. See, the guy was visiting the United States and he'd been refused service at a Dover, Delaware restaurant because he was black. 1973, United States Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned over allegations of tax fraud. Gerald Ford replaced him. 1978, Congress. They approved a silver dollar with Susan B. Anthony on it. When it came out, everybody just thought it was a really ugly representation of Benjamin Franklin.

5:15 Go, go, go, go, go. Go, go shawty, it's your birthday. We gon' party like it's your birthday. We gon' sip a card like it's your birthday. And you know we don't give a, cause it's your birthday. Okay, so he was born on October 10th. Earl Dixon. He was born in Grandview, Tennessee in 1892. Now, Earl, his wife, Josephine, she was a real klutz around the house. She was constantly hurting herself. So much, though, that in 1920, Earl invented the Band-Aid. That's right. It made him easier to fix her up. See, before then, all you had was some cotton gauze pads and some not-so-sticky tape. So Josephine's klutziness ended up making them a lot of money. Earl, he died at 68 years old. Josephine, she actually outlived him.

5:59 Considered to be the first lady of American theater, Helen Hayes. She was born in Washington, D.C. in 1900. She was the first actress to win the Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, and Tony Awards. Yep, the EGOT. She won her first actress Oscar in 1931. Then she won her second Oscar in 1970. Yeah, that was for the movie Airplane. Now, she didn't win any awards, but she's also in Herbie Rides Again. I just wanted to give you something that most of you had actually seen. She married once for 30 years before they divorced. They had two children. She died in 1993 at 92 years old from heart failure. Okay, now this is a rock star. This is not a rock star.

7:16 David Lee Roth is 72. He was born in Bloomington, Indiana. The original lead singer for the band Van Halen. They had it from 1974 to 1985. Now, they gave him the lead singing job because he owned a lot of sound equipment. That's right. By making him lead singer, they didn't have to rent or buy any of it. Now, when David was with Van Halen, they sold 57 million records. They sold 27 million with Sammy Hagar. David, he's really six solo albums on the side. Like I said, you can't call him rock. Van Halen, they did screw Rop over a couple times, though. They'd announced they're getting all back together, then pull out at the last minute. David has two daughters and one son. Delta don't watch that flower. That was 13-year-old Tanya Tucker with her first hit song, Delta Dawn, back in 1972.

8:08 Tanya was born in Seminole, Texas. She's 68 today. Now, she is one of the few child singers who ever really made a smooth transition into being a really successful adult music singer. She released 25 albums, 89 singles. Some of her number one songs are Just Another Love, One Love at a Time, I'll Come Back as Another Woman, It Don't Come Easy. She had a son and a daughter from a boyfriend. Then she got engaged to another guy. Then she found out she was pregnant, so she canceled the wedding. Yep, she did not want to walk down the aisle pregnant in her wedding dress. So then she had a baby girl. Then she never married the guy.

8:55 Wake up, who cares about little boys that talk too much? I've seen it all go down. The game of love was on and down. So come on, baby, come on over. Let me be the one to hold. I'm the one who wants to be with you. That was Eric Martin singing lead for Mr. Big. He was born in 1960 in Long Island, New York. 66 years old. Now in the late 1970s, he started out singing in punk bands. Then he'd just go from band to band to band. Finally joined Mr. Big in 1988. Now that song, Only Wanna Be With You, that was their only really big hit here in the United States.

9:36 But Mr. Big, huge in Japan. Eric, he got married in 2002. Actor is Jody Benson, 65. She was born in Rockford, Illinois in 1961. She's mainly a voice actress. She was the voice of Ariel in the Little Mermaid movies, that whole franchise. And she was also Barbie in the Toy Story movies. She got married in 1984 and they have two children. Mario Lopez. He's 53. He's born in Chula Vista, California. California first got known playing Slater on TV Saved by the Bell then all those reunion shows on Dancing with the Stars he got second place he lost to Emma Smith nowadays he's pretty much mostly just a TV host he did Extra for nine years he's been on Access Hollywood since 2019 he was married to actress Allie Landry for two weeks Then she found out that he cheated on her at his bachelor party. So he didn't have a bachelor party, married his second wife in 2012. They have one daughter and two sons. She's so cool. She just goes by Maya.

10:49 Maya is 47 today. She's born in Washington, D.C. Started out studying to be a dancer. Then she switched over and became a singer. But I'm sure she still dances at her shows. Now, as popular as she is here in the United States, she's even bigger worldwide. She's over 20 million more records worldwide than here in the United States. Some of her hits are It's All About Me, Moving On, Case of the X, Lady Marmalade. That was with Christina Pink and Lil' Kim. Maya, she married in 2013. She married herself. Yeah, sometimes I don't ask. Let's go back to pool. Now, billiards is one of the oldest games of all time. It dates back to the early 1500s. Now, of course, we talked about it. So what they make the balls of, they've changed over the years. But the cloth on the table, it has not changed. The cloth they used on the table in the 1500s, it was made of wool. Today, the cloth on pool tables, made of wool. Well, thank you for being here with us today.

11:42 Let's end with actor Orson Welles. He died today in 1985. He's 70 years old. Orson says, my doctor told me to quit having intimate dinners for four, unless there are three other people there. Today's artist of the day. It's another request from Grace and Grit, the Christian country station. Goes from Lila out there in Spokane. She wants to hear Harry Love and the Hill Stompers and their song Fire in the Air. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Preacher had the room in the palm of his hand We were young and hungry, waiting And every hour was fixed, every seat was filled Till that altar called Preacher had been preaching everything that he got There was pressure building up, it was starting to get hot There was something in the air that night From the top of my head.

13:27 from the top of my There was fire in the air.