Oct 12-Gumbo! 1st Oktoberfest, Pavarotti, Sam & Dave, the Smithereens, Hugh Jackman, Kirk Cameron,

0:10 Well, Happy Saturday. I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, dude's about today. It presented by Cool Media. It is October the twelfth. Today is National Gumbo Day. Gumbo it is a West African word for okrah traditionally gumbo. It's a strongly flavored stock that it has me chicken, selfish, vegetables and all that kind of stuff added to it.

0:52 Vegetables they're usually celery, belt peppers and onions. Then you're thicken it up with okra or sassafras, you know, to make sure it's good and mixed together, and then you serve it over ice. Really good stuff came to be in the seventeen hundreds down Louisiana. You'll find deals down there. Today up Northia not so much, but you can try and make it yourself today. Yeah, have some fun and enjoy some op some gumbo today, all right, let' see it happening entertainment. In October twelfth, let's back to nineteen sixty seven number one album with Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. Fox Stops had the number one song with the letter. Listen mister, can't you see I got to get back to my fever get away. It's a ticket for an aeroplane.

1:34 Ain't got time to take a fast train. Nos ag, Oh my God, home my baby. Tell me why Ed had the number country song with I don't want to play house. I know all the play. I know. I've watched Mommy Hune. The number one book was Topaz by Leon Euris Todd. MOVI was Bonnie and Clyde. It's all about the violent crime spree of killing cops and Robin Banks by Bonnie and Clyde star as Warren Beatty and Fate Dunay. All right, what happened? On October twelfth, sixteen oh nine, in London, the children's nursery rhyme Three Blind Mice was published for the first time.

2:30 Now. Although it's set as a children's nursery rhyme, it actually was readen with a hidden and subliminal message to it. It's actually about three Protestant loyalists who were accused of plotting against Queen and Mary as she had him burned at the steak. Suet, Blind and Rice Suet, Blind and Rice. See how they run? See how they run? They all run after the farm his wife who come off that tales with a coughing knife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life as suet, blind and mice? Yeah, not so coope, but now you know. Eighteen ten the first Octoberfest was held in Munich, Germany. Now it was held to celebrate their future King Ludwig. He was a Prince of Bavaria at the time. Yeah, he was getting married. He married what threes Now the party, it went on for a week and they had lots and lots of drinking and lots of lots of food. Everybody had so much fun they decided just to do it every year. But they decided to move it up till September when it was a little bit warmer in the days were a little longer.

3:29 So what do you think the groundbreaking inventions that Charles Macintosh invented today? In eighteen twenty three he called it the Max. No, it wasn't computers. It was eighteen twenty three he created the first the world's first raincoats. Nineteen hundred had the first modern submarine went into service. It was an America in US Navy submarine. The USS Holland was named that after John Holland. He's the guy who designed it. Nineteen oh one, President of Theodre Roosevelt, he officially renamed the executive mansion the White House Oval Office someone we built in the nineteen oh nine. Now, I have never been to Brazil, so I've only seen pictures of the Christ the Redeemer statue. It's the one that stands on the top of that mountain overlooking the city of Rio junis genial. It opened itda in nineteen thirty one.

4:12 It's almost one hundred feet tall and it's arms that are outstretched. They're almost ninety two feet long. Catherine Missionaries they paid for it nineteen sixty. Over in Japan, any hero Asunuma. He was the leader of Japanese Socialist Party. He was a big support of the Chinese Communist Party. In fact, he wanted Japan to be modeled after the Chinese Communist Party. Now, during a live debate on in Japanese TV, while he was speaking, seventeen year old Otoya Yamaguchi, he killed him with the traditional sami samurai ward. Yeah, the kid ran him through, said he was a nationalist and he wasn't gonna put up with any of that COMMI talk now, although nobody liked Asinuma. They still had to rest the kid. You know, he did it on live TV. Then he hung himself in jail three weeks later, dis Shibbert Day.

5:02 We're gonna he left this Shibthday. We got simple tag. He left this shibirth Day. And you know you don't. Let's check out. It was born in October the twelfth he I know, of course. That was Dolla Caruso, sung by Luciana Barbaratti. Barbarati was born in Medina, Italy in nineteen thirty five, the most famous tenor of all time.

5:45 As a kid, he wanted to be a soccer player, but he wasn't good. He sucked, so his parents enrolled him in a school for seven years for vocal training. Well it worked. He got famous for his opera performances and then went mainstream when he formed The Three Tenors Ravaratti and sold on hundred million records. Now he has married his first wife almost forty years. When they divorced, they had three kids. Married his second wife from two thousand and three and they had one child, po Variety. He died from patreatic cancer in two thousand and seven and seventy one years old.

6:26 Man so. The Sam in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Duel Sam and Dave sam More. He's eighty nine today. Born in Miami, Florida in nineteen thirty five. Samy got today together with Dave Prader. Nineteen sixty one, Sam saying the high notes, Dave sang the low notes. They had they head soul man hold on, I'm coming when something is wrong with my baby, I thank you, and they called the quits. In nineteen naty one, Sammy did success touring solo. I'm playing with other artists. He has retired though hope even eighty nine. He says he'll come sing if you want him to. He didn't care. He married Joyce back in nineteen eighty two.

7:06 Foxes At. That was Pat Denisia singing lead for the band of Smitherings. He was born in Plainville, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty five. He formed the Smithereens in nineteen eighty. Now they got the name the smither Rings from the Simney Sam cartoons. Yeah, where you Simmey Sam would go around and say, maybe he's gonna blast him the Smitherings. Yeah, I probably wouldn't have told that story. Now, some of our hits are only a meaning Girl like You blues before and after Pat.

7:47 He was in the band until he died in twenty seventeen and sixty two years old. They had all kinds of health issues. He divorced once and had a son from it. I'm sure I made the same mistakes that I can make it through the pain Joy's age back then, I would do it all. I do it all again before I go. That was actor Hugh Jackman performing on Broadway and The Boy from Aunts. Hugh. He is fifty six. He's born to Sydney, Austoliy in nineteen sixty. He's won a Primetime Emmy. He's won a Grammy in Twotoni Awards. That means he's an oscar away from achieving the Grand Slam the Egut Now. He was nominated for an Oscar for Le mis Rob, but he lost to Daniel D. Lewis for Lincoln. Jackman I said he's best known for playing Wolverine. He's played him in nine different movies. Got married in nineteen ninety six and they have two children, but they are separated right now.

8:44 They've been separated for about a year now. BJ Thomas and Dusty Springfield saying that theme song for the TV show Growing Pains Now one of it stars as Kirk Camera and he's fifty four. He's born in Panorama City, California, in nineteen seventy. It's a suburb of Vla a Now Kirk. He's best known as as an actor anyway for playing Mike sever on the Growing Pains. He grew up atheists and when he was seventeen he became a born again Christian.

9:27 So after Growing Pains left yep, he left mainstream Hollywood all behind and went and did his own stuff. He has his own ministry. There's a whole bunch of Christian movies and TV shows. He's really popular on Christian TV. His younger sister is actress Candice Cameron. Burt. Kirki married actress Chelsea Noble in nineteen ninety one. They have six kids. Actor Josh Hutcherson. He was born in Union, Kentucky in nineteen ninety two. He's thirty two. Started out in the movie He started Journey to the Center of the Earth and then Journey to Mysterious Island. Then he hit he he was playing Peta in the Hungry Game. You know, let's go back to Brazil. Now that statue of the Christ of the Redeemer I talked about earlier, it gets struck by lighting three to six times every year, never does any damage to it. Well, thank you for listening today.

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