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. It is October the fourteenth. I am today, I. Think I'm going. Today is National be Bald and Be Free Day. Today is for both men and women. Chrome numbers. Today is not just for the follically challenged. It's also for those who choose to shave their heads and they're sort of ball because of medical reasons. Now, back in the Stone Age, menway shave their heads using sharpened clamshells. Then during Roman times, men shave their heads in order to show class status.

1:08 They've even found shaving tools over in Egypt that were made from golden copper. Now, get this, guys. Subconsciously women find bald men more viral, confident, tougher, and more discipline. Now, if you're bald because your grandfather and your mom's side, or you're bald because you're going through chemo, or have other metal questions, you know what, take that hat off today, remove that scarf, beat bald and be free today. Unless you got side, then try some sunscreen because that really hurts. All right, this is going on entertainment on October the fourteenth. Back to nineteen eighty number one album was The Game by Queen. Queen had the number one song with another one bites the dust, another. One bust the dust, another one the dust, and another one go, another one goes, another one buys the dust.

1:53 Day get another. One, Don William, I'm said the number one country song with I believe in You. But I believe even. I believe in Belay, I believe in Moman and I believe believe you. The number one book was The Key to Rebecca by Ken Filett. Top movie was Private Benjamin, a spoiled rich debutpant She joins the Army on a whim. Stars Goldie Han and Eileen Brennan now both Goldie and Aileen. Yeah, they were both nominated for Oscars for that movie.

2:39 All right. What happened on October the fourteenth, six point eighty King Wamba He was a king of Hispania, that's Spain in Portugal. The game, Well, the king he got really sick that he was gonna 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 founds out that Erwig had actually poisoned him. But due to the lot at the time, once he anointed Irwi the king, yeah, he couldn't take it back. So Irwing 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. The pierd Ends they had fled England because they were being persecuted for their religious police. 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. Sixteen fifty eight, the pierod Ends they banned Quakers from entering Massachusetts. Any Quaker came into Massachusetts would have an air cut off. They came back a second time, they'd cut the other ear off.

3:35 They came back a third time, they would bore a hole in their tongue with a hot iron. Now, even the non Puruitents thought that was a little harsh, So the Puritans recanned on that. They said, Okay, we won't bore a hole in your tongue, we'll just kill you. Nineteen twelve, 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's shrink he shot him in the chest at point blank range. Now, the bullet went through is eyeglass case and his speech, which was like fifty ages long. Yeah, so that I mean they did slow the bullet down a little bit, but obviously Roosevelt he was still really bleeding right out of his chest on that. Guess what. He just got up went on stage and gave that entire ninety minute speech, still bleeding, and when he was done, he went in the hospital. The doctor said that removing that bullet it was gouse more damage than just leaving it end. So Teddy lived the rest of his life with that bullet in his chess. Asked 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.

4:37 They figured out that the shrink was crazy and he had to spend the rest of his life in the mental institution. Nineteen twenty six, the book Winning the Pooh went on sale. Now, by nineteen forty seven, pilots they'd broken the sound bear but always doing it in then a dive well, Chuck Yeger. Today he became the first pilot to break the sound pair. The sound bearer on a level flight mocked one point zero six nineteen sixty two of the United States spy plans. They photographed Soviet Union missile launchers being built over in Cuba, so it started the own Cuban missile crisis. Nineteen eighty seven, in Midland, Texas, one and a half year old Jessin McLear fell twenty two 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.

5:18 They did. It took him fifty eight hours to get her out, though. No, she's perfectly fine today. In twenty twelve, Felix Bombgartner he was the first sky diver to break the sound bearer. He jumped from a balloon twenty four miles above earth. Joke, dope, joke, joke, shage, just shibbert day. We're gonna page he left this shiver day. We gonna simple coage. He like this shibirthday. And you know you don't give up birthday, Okay. He was born in October the fourteenth, five hoys an hour. He was born in Dennison, Texas in eighteen ninety grew up in Abilene, Kansas. After graduating from West Point, he went on to workings with have to be a five star general don World War Two. He was in charge of all the forces in Europe they left the army.

6:02 Became the thirty fourth President of the United States, served from nineteen fifty three in nineteen sixty one. Now he was the last president born in the eighteen hundreds. He married maymy Back in nineteen sixteen and they had two sons. Ike died from congestive heart failure in nineteen sixty nine at seventy eight years old. The first Lady of America Cinema Lilian Gish. She was born in Springfield, Ohio in eighteen ninety three. Lili and she acted for seventy five years. Started in silent movies in nineteen twelve and retired in nineteen eighty seven. Now she never married, so that's my why she lived to be ninety nine years old. She died in nineteen ninety three from art failure. You used to say live man ifty seven change in Wold, which we living.

6:50 Zi Living. Then Let Die. That was the first movie that Roger Moore played James Bond. Moore He was born in Stockwell, England in nineteen twenty seven. Started acting in England in the mid nineteen forties. He got pretty well known, but not in the United States. United States didn't about him until nineteen seventy three 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. If he was three years older than Sean, he's started the whole thing. Roger. He married his third wife for twenty seven years and they had three children. Married his fourth wife in two thousand and two. They were married un til two thousand and seven or twenty seventeen. Yeah, Roger died at eighty nine years old lung and liver cancer. So see drinking and booze and smoking, but always catches up with you.

7:43 Comedian magician actor Harry Anderson was born in Newport and Rhode Island in nineteen fifty two. Started out as a street musician and he turned that into a comedy routine. That guy on some episodes of the TV show's Cheers and that guy in the starring in his own show Night Court. Yeah, if you remember, he played the judge. He is married to his first wife twenty two years and they had a son and a daughter. Married his second wife in two thousand. Harry he died from heart failure, sixty five years old. Twenty eighteen.

8:27 She led twis side. That was Thomas Dobie. He's sixty seven. He's born in London, England, in nineteen fifty eight. He had big during the new wave days in the nineteen eighties. You Rope Bah and the pirate trends. She blinded me with science hyperactive Airhead. Yeah, some of his big hits now You're right score from movies now days. And he's out on tour. Yeah, he'll be on in tour till the end of November. Now he's coming here to Denver in about three weeks. I'm kind of intrigued, not so much for the music, but I'm gonna see what the new wave girls of the eighties look like now forty years later. 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 nineteen eighty eight and they have three kids already. Karl White. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty five, sixty years old today now. She was hot in the late eighties early nineties. She had the Superwoman Secret Rendezvous, The Way You Love Me, that song that went to number one Romance.

9:42 She had two children from her first husband. She married another guy for two years. She's been with I'll be sure since twenty twelve. I know mine, you want them? She's showing them that company. That sound familiar? That was fifteen year old Usher. I'm serious. It was nineteen ninety three Call Me a Mac. That was the first song he released, made it up to number fifty six. He's done pretty good since then. He sold over one hundred million records. He's born in Dallas, Texas, in nineteen seventy eight. Forty seven year old. Biggest hit is Yeah. It was with Little John and ludicrosson Yeah.

10:31 I sold thirteen 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, and not too long ago, and they have a daughter and a son. Also. All right there, cod of the day. It's gonna come from Bing Crosby. What was July? It was a swing long star, carry moon beams home in the jar and be better off than you are? Or would you rather be of? A mule is an animal with long, funny ears. Kick up about anything you hear.

11:12 I guess we couldn't find white Christmas now. Being he died today in nineteen seventy seven, is seventy four 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 fore to follow us and you listen to us on makes it easy to find us and check out the show description or show notes. I was listened on. How you listen to us, you'll find out how to connect with this and what we have going on our country underground radio artists today. It comes from Christina up in Detroit. She wants to hear Donnie Lee song anyone else you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. It ain't always easy loving sobody that you can't live his own.

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