Oct 14th-Be Bald & Free, Usher, Roger Moore, Dwight Eisenhower, Teddy Roosevelt shot, Thomas Dolby

0:19 Well, hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's October the 14th. I looked in the mirror today. My eyes just didn't seem so bright. I've lost a few more hairs. I think I'm, I'm going bald. I think I'm going bald! Today is National Be Bald and Be Free Day. Woo-hoo! Today is for both men and women, chrome numbers. Today is not just for the follicly challenged. It's also for those who choose to shave their heads, and they're bald because of medical reasons. Back in the Stone Age, men would shave their heads using sharpened clamshells. Then during Roman times, men shaved their heads in order to show class status.

1:08 They've even found shaving tools over in Egypt that were made from gold and copper. Now, get this, guys. Subconsciously, women find bald men more virile, confident, tougher, and more disciplined. Now, if you're bald because your grandfather and your mom sighed, or you're bald because you're going through chemo or have other medical issues, you know what? Take that hat off today. Remove that scarf. Be bald and be free today. Unless you go outside, then try some sunscreen, because that really hurts. All right. Let's see what happened to entertainment on October 14th. It was back in 1972. Number one album was Chicago Five by Chicago. Number one song was Been by Michael Jackson. We both found what we were looking for With a friend to call my own I'll never be alone And you, my friend, will see You've got a friend in me You've got.

2:09 A friend in me That was Michael's first solo hit. He'd gone to number one with the Jacksons, but that was the first time Michael had gone in it. Now, Ben, what he was singing to was a rat. Yeah, it was from the horror film Willard. Donna Fargo had the number one country song with Funny Face. Funny face, I need you. These are the sweetest words I've ever heard. Don't leave me, funny face. Believe me, my whole world's wrapped up in you.

2:53 The top-selling book was Jonathan Livingston Siegel by Richard Bach. Top movie was Lady Sings the Blues. It's the story of jazz legend singer Billie Holiday. Stars Diana Ross, Billie Dee Williams, Richard Pryor. All right, what happened on October the 14th? 680, King Wamba. He was the king of Hispania. That's Spain and Portugal. Well, the king, he got really sick. Thought he was going to die. So he named Erwig the new king. Then Wamba, he fell into a coma. Then he came out of the coma and made a complete recovery. Without knowing it, it turns out that Erwig had actually poisoned him. But due to the law at the time, once he anointed Erwig the king, yeah, he couldn't take it back. So Erwig, everybody knew that. He thought Wamba would just die. But he didn't. But it didn't matter. He was still king, even though it didn't work.

3:38 The Puritans, they had fled England because they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs. All they wanted was religious freedom and tolerance. So they came to the New World, settled in what is Massachusetts, built some nice colonial towns. 1658, the Puritans, they banned Quakers from entering Massachusetts. Any Quaker who came into Massachusetts would have an ear cut off. They came back a second time, they'd cut the other ear off. They came back a third time, they would bore a hole in their tongue with a hot iron. Now, even the non-Puritans thought that was a little harsh. So the Puritans recanted on that. They said, okay, we won't bore a hole in your tongue. We'll just kill you. 1912 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Teddy Roosevelt, he was running for president for the Bull Moose Party. Now, as he was walking on stage to give a speech, John Shrink, he shot him in the chest at point-blank range. Now, the bullet went through his eyeglass case and his speech, which was like 50 pages long. Yeah, so that, I mean, it did slow the bullet down a little bit. But obviously, Roosevelt, he was still really bleeding right out of his chest.

4:41 Guess what? He just got up, went on stage, and gave that entire 90-minute speech. Still bleeding, and when he was done, he went to the hospital. The doctor said that removing that bullet, it would cause more damage than just leaving it in. So Teddy lived the rest of his life with that bullet in his chest. As for Shrink, he said he did it because the ghost of William McKinley told him to go kill Roosevelt. So they got a whole bunch of experts together. They did a bunch of tests on him. They figured out that shrink was crazy and he had to spend the rest of his life in a mental institution. 1926, the book Winnie the Pooh went on sale. Now by 1947, pilots, they'd broken the sound barrier, but always doing it in a dive. Well, Chuck Yeager today, he became the first pilot to break the sound barrier on a level flight. It hit Mach 1.06. 1962, the United States, U-2 spy planes, they photographed Soviet Union missile launchers being built over in Cuba. That's what started the whole Cuban Missile Crisis. 1987 in Midland, Texas, one-and-a-half-year-old Jesse McClure fell 22 feet down a well. And if you were around, that was such big news. Everybody in the whole country was watching to see if they got that little girl out. They did. It took them 58 hours to get her.

5:47 Out, though. Nope, she's perfectly fine today. In 2012, Felix Baumgartner, he was the first skydiver to break the sound barrier. He jumped from a balloon 24 miles above Earth. Okay, he was born on October the 14th. Dwight Eisenhower. He was born in Denison, Texas in 1890. Grew up in Abilene, Kansas. After graduating from West Point, he went on to. Work his way up to be a five-star general. Then World War II, he was. In charge of all the Allied forces in Europe. They left the Army and became the 34th President of the United States, served from 1953 to 1961. Now, he was the last president born in the 1800s. He married Mamie back in 1916, and they had two sons. Ike, he died from congestive heart failure in 1969 at 78 years old.

6:45 The First Lady of America Cinema, Lillian Gish, she was born in Springfield, Ohio in 1893. Lillian, she acted for 75 years, starred in silent movies in 1912, then retired in 1987. Now, she never married, so that's why she lived to be 99 years old. She died in 1993 from heart failure. You used to say, live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did. But if this ever-changing world in which we live in makes you give in and try. Say, live and let die.

7:27 Live and Let Die. That was the first movie that Roger Moore played James Bond. Yeah, Moore, he was born in Stockwell, England in 1927. Started acting in England in the mid-1940s. He got pretty well known, but not in the United States. The United States didn't know about him until 1973 when he became that third actor to play James Bond. He played Bond in seven movies. Now, he was three years older than the original James Bond was. Yeah, Sean Connery. Yep, he was three years older than Sean. He's the one who started the whole thing. Roger, he married his third wife for 27 years, and they had three children. Married his fourth wife in 2002. They were married until 2017. Yeah, Roger died at 89 years old. Lung and liver cancer. So see, drinking and booze and smoking, yep, it always catches up with you. Comedian, magician, actor, Harry Anderson was born in Newport, Rhode Island in 1952. Started out as a street musician, and he turned that into a comedy routine. That got him on some episodes of the TV shows Cheers, and that got him to starring in his own show, Night Court. Yeah, if you remember, he played the judge. He was married to his first wife, 22 years, and they had a son and a daughter.

8:30 Married his second wife in 2000. Harry, he died from heart failure at 65 years old, 2018. ¶ ¶ ¶ ¶. She blinded me with science. That was Thomas Dolby. He's 68. He was born in London, England. He hit big during the new wave days in the 1980s. Europa and the Pirate Twins. She blinded me with science. Hyperactive. Airhead.

9:11 Yeah, some of his big hits. Now he writes scores for movies nowadays. And he's out on tour. Yeah, he'll be out on tour until the end of November. I'm kind of intrigued. Not so much for the music, but I want to see what the new wave girls of the 80s look like now 40 years later. Now, he's made a lot of money outside of music. Yeah, he started his own Silicon Valley software company, so he's got a lot of cash. Got married in 1988, and they have three kids. Oh, because when the night falls, I can still hear. Voices, romantic.

9:54 Karen White. She was born in Los Angeles. She's 61 today. Now, she was hot in the late 80s, early 90s. 90s. She had that Superwoman, Secret Rendezvous, The Way You Love Me, that song that went to number one, Romance. She had two children from her first husband. She married another guy for two years. She's been with Al B. Scherr since 2012.

10:35 That sound familiar? That was 15-year-old Usher. I'm serious. It was 1993. Call Me a Mac. That was the first song he released. Made it up to number 56. He's done pretty good since then. He sold over 100 million records. He was born in Dallas, Texas in 1978. 48-year-old. Biggest hit is Yeah. It was with Lil Jon and Ludacris. Yeah, it sold 13 million copies. That means it was diamond. On TV, he was a judge on The Voice for four years. I guess they're not judges. They're coaches, aren't they? Now, he had two sons from his first wife, married his third wife not too long ago, and they have a daughter and a son also. All right, our quote of the day. It's going to come from Bing Crosby. Would you like to swing on a star? Carry moonbeams home in a jar?

11:21 And be better. Off than you are? Or would you rather be a mule? A mule is an animal with long, funny ears. Kicks up at anything you hear. I guess we couldn't find White Christmas. Now, being he died today in 1977, at 74 years old, he says, listen a lot and talk a lot less. You can't learn anything from talking. Well, thank you, Bing. And thank all of you for listening today. And don't forget to follow us on You Listen to Us On. It makes it easy to find us. And check out the show description or show notes I've listed on how you listen to us. You'll find out how to connect with us and what we have going on. Our country underground radio artist of the day, it comes from Christina up in Detroit. She wants to hear Donny Lee's song, Anyone Else. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

12:10 It ain't always easy loving somebody that you can't live without. You can drive me crazy, but somehow, baby, you pull me back around. Even on a worst day when we're fighting like we're enemies. Sometimes I hate you, at least I want to, but I just can't stay mad. I love you enough to take off my gloves and just reach out my hand. I make it far enough to let the dust settle down. Taste your kids, yeah, you

13:59 know damn well.