Oct 16-Sports, Pope John Paul II, Barry Corbin, BTO, Suzanne Somers, Tim Robbins, Wilson Phillips, John Mayer

0:10 Well, hi everybody, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. Day is October the sixteenth. If you don't blow, hey. Now you're a shaw. It's your game on. Go play Hey now you're as Get the show on. Get shooting star swings on lo. Today is National Sports Day. That's goose with baseball playoffs going on, and football it's hitting a stride on every level. Hockey and basketball are starting. Yeah, sports, they're in full swinging. There's been something that you like, and you know what, it's even nice enough to go out sign and by eighteen holes of golf. Now, whether you want to celebrate your favorite sport of your team, or go out and play your favorite sport, just enjoy a national sport. It's to day, all right. What happened on entertainment on October the sixteenth, that's about to nineteen seventy eight number one album was Grease movie soundtrack. Exile had the number one song with kiss You all Over I want to Kiss you all over.

1:17 Overgy I want to. Kiss you. Till the night closes, Till the line CS. Exile is actually a country man Dave and Shuga. They had the number one country song with Tiartime Oh Smaller.

2:03 The number one book was Chesapeake by James Mitchner. The top movie was Boys from Mozelle. A Nazi hunter, he uncovers a plot to bring back the Third Reich, stars Gregory Peck, Lawrence Olivier, and James Mason. So what happened On October the sixteenth, thirteen eighty four, Juedwiga was crowned the King of Poland. I guess the Poles didn't clare that their king was a woman. Eighteen thirteen the Battle of Leipzig. It was the largest battle ever fought in Europe before World War One. Napoleon won y m and his French army. They beat the Prussian, Austria and Russian armies. Eighteen fifty nine Abolitions John Brown. He wanted to start a slave revolt. John he was a white guy. Now him and twenty two men. They were able to capture and take over the US Arsenal Army. Arsenal and Harpers Ferry Virginia, US Marines and state militia were able to counterattack and retake. The Arsenal killed ten of Brown's men, including two of his sons. Brown he escaped. He was later caught by US Army troops led by Roberty Brown was then hung. Nineteen oh one, Booker T. Washington and his family and they were invited to have dinner at the White House with President Teddy Roosevelt and his wife Edith.

3:10 They were the first black people to dine at the White House. Nineteen sixteen, Margaret Sayer, she opened up the first birth control clinic in the United States. It was in Brooklyn, New York. Now it eventually became Planned Parenthood. In the nineteen forties she opened up basically the private abortions for Blacks, Jews, Italians, and Polish people. Margaret she was very racist. She's thought those people should be eradicated. In twenty twenty, Planned Parenthood they said they didn't support her racist beliefs, so they disavowed their founder. It is It was believed to be impossible to make a light bub that was frosted on the inside. Yeah, it just wouldn't work. So ge they hired this young engineer named Marvin Pipkin. As a practical joke. They were told him, Marvin, Hey, for your first assignment, you had to create a light bulb that was frosted on the inside today. In nineteen twenty eight, Marvin gave the supervisor the first light bab frosted on the inside. Nineteen forty six, ten Nazi leaders.

4:01 They were hung for their crimes of war, for war crimes. Yeah, they'd been found guilty at the Nuremberg Draughts. Most of the really big names had already committed suicide though. Nineteen seventy eight, Polish Cardinal Carol Woshataia He was elected pope became Pope John Paul the Second. He was the first non Italian pope since fifteen twenty three? Do you like doing that? Where is Waldough? You know I would have loved to have done it today. In nineteen ninety two, and that one that was printed as people were looking for Waldough they could find a topless female son bather and show the shoulder boobs. Joke joke joke joke, shog thish shibbert day, Wenna, he left this shibf day. We want simple tage. He left this Shimbirth day.

4:42 And you know you don't oh good. He was born on October the sixteenth, no Webster. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut, in seventeen fifty eight. Now before speltcheck, you actually had to look up words in a book. It's usually Webster is American Dictionary of the Lean English Language. Now, the first edition was published back in eighteen twenty eight. Took Webster almost forty years to put that thing together. So he didn't want people stealing his stuff, so he lobbery Congress to pass copyright laws. They passed one in eighteen thirty one. Now that is beating was pretty much the formation of all the copy light Ross we still have today. No, he married and had eight children. He died in eighteen forty three at eighty four years old. Poet playwright Oscar Wilde.

5:23 He was born in Dublin, Ireland in eighteen fifty four. By the mid eighteen eighties he was, if not the one of the most popular play rights over in London. His players were actually very big here in the United States. Then he had married and his woman and his wife they had a son and a daughter. But eighteen eighty six he met and fill in love with Ross. Yeah, Ross became his longtime boyfriend. But once Ross was found out about Oscar had to go do two years of hard labor in prison. Yeah, have his sentence for gross indecencies for homosexal activities. Now, after two years of hard labor, Oscar his health wasn't so good. Then his wife died and he was pretty much blackball from anybody buying any of his writings and that kind of stuff, and then he became an alcoholic. He died nineteen hundred at forty six years old. Around fifteen years later Ross he ordered a tune be built for Oscar. Now Ross's family had actually had money. That's why Ross didn't go to prison.

6:12 So today Ross and Oscar, Yeah, they're both interred in that tone. Actress Angela Lansberry was born in London, England, in nineteen twenty five. Active for eighty years, he's won five Tony Awards. She was nominated for three Oscars, nominated for eighteen Prime Time Emmys. That gets pretty prestigious a career. But here in the United States, she's most known for playing Jessica Fletcher on Murder. She wrote. She married her second husband in nineteen forty nine. They had a son and a daughter. Her husband died after fifty four years of marriage in two thousand and three. Angela she died in her slate twenty twenty two, ninety six years old. God damn it I fiss on a spark plug. If I thought it's doing it good, Let the boy in there. Major. That was Barry Corbin in the movie War Games Barry's eighty four. He was born in La Mesa, Texas, in nineteen forty on TV probably big success was probably Northern exposure.

7:00 He was later on One Tree Hill and The Anger Management. First movie was Urban Cowboy, then War Games, Beer for My Horses, Last Man's Club. He had one ChIL from his first wife, two from his second wife, married his third wife in twenty fifteen. Yesaba, not yet see something, Baby, not yet. Around? That was Fred Turner singing for Bachman Turner Overdrive or bt O. They're still tour Freddy's Anyone. He was born in Winnipeg, Canada in nineteen forty three. Helped form bt O in nineteen seventy three. Some of their heads are I let it ride, you ain't seen nothing yet, taking care of business, rolling down the Highway. Freddy started out in the band Pink Plum. Then Neil Young suggested that Fred and Randy Bachman play together, and that's how bt O became Susan summers. She was born in and sam Bruno, California, in nineteen forty six. First hit big on the TV show Atree's Company. She played Chrissy Snow. Later on she was on Step by Step with Patrick Duffy. Her first movie was American Graffiti. She didn't have any lines. She was just the blonde and the tee birt. Pretty memorable, see if he's seen the movie. Though she wrote twenty five Bucks. She was an Infomerciall queen, both nude for Playboy I twice and she had a son from her first husband, married a second husband in nineteen seventy seven.

8:25 So then she died from breast cancer just last year, one day before seven to seventh birthday. Actor Tim Robbins is sixty six. He's born in West carrene At, California, in nineteen fifty eight. First starring role in the movie was Howard the Duck. Then he actually got big in Bull Durham and Shashank Redemption Mission to Mars, won an Oscar for Majestic River. He was nominated for an Oscar for Best Directing Oscar for a Dead Man Walking. He dated Susan sarand And for twenty years. They had two sons. Then he married a Romanian actress and that lasted five years. Around you knows you change thinks, so going away.

9:17 Wendy Wilson was born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty nine. She's fifty five today. Her dad is Brian Wilson from The Beats Boys nineteen eight and nine. Wendy, her sister Karney, and their childhood friend China fell It's born Wilson Phillips. They have the big ass hold on, release me Impulsive, You're in love now. They still perform sporadically. Wendy. She got married in two thousand and two and they have four sons. Actress Kelly Martin's forty nine. She's born in Riverside, California, in nineteen seventy five. Her first acting job was when she was seven years old. She was on the TV show Father Murphy with Michael Landon. Then she voiced Daphney on a pup called Scooby Doo. Think Us Today was the TV show Life Goes On. She did er for a couple of years. I guess she did a bunch of the Mystery Woman Murdered TV movies. She was what Becauesse.

10:05 Her biggest movie is probably true. Beverly Hills. That was when she was little. She graduated from YAlO. She didn't even though she was acting. She still went to school. Married nineteen ninety nine and they have two daughters. Now we sit in and then that's going wrong. What's the world? No, just feact. We don't have a meet surprisive feet, it give way, waiting, wait on the world and change. We keep out a waiting waiting the world. Check. That was John Mayer. He was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut in nineteen seventy seven. I mean, as hets are no such thing. Your body is a wonderland waiting on the world to change. Say now, John, he's actually touring with debting company.

10:51 What that is? As three former members of The Grateful Dead and John, let's go back and talk about sports. Now. They're not positive for sure, but it is believed that wrestling might be the world's oldest sport. I've actually found cave paintings that are date back over fifteen thousand years old depicting wrestling. Well, thank you for being here today and we sure appreciate you, and come see us on coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three us and if you want to make sure you listen to the best independent country on Country Underground Radio. Let's end with Marie Antoinette. She was beheaded today in seventeen ninety three. Now she was thirty seven years old. And her last words that she said, I mean she said him in French, but what she actually said her last words, pardon me, sir.

11:33 I did not do it on purpose. She had accidentally stepped on her executioner shoe. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.