Oct 17-Beer Flood of 1814, Eminem, Alan Jackson, Norm, Lenny, Granny, Lois Lane, Gary Puckett, Earl Thomas Conley

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today, presented by Cool Media. Today's October the seventeenth. Now today's national day sucked, So we're just gonna celebrate my mom seventy eight birthday today. Happy birthday, Mom. I love you and hope you have a great day. Now, are you regulars? You know that my mom has a favorite song.

0:52 Oh, misters are in luska. I never know what fire lie, so fire fly of what happens to. Happy birthday Mom? For those of you who don't know, that is Elvis with I'll never know. All right, let's see happened in entertainment in October seventeenth. It's back seventy eight years. In nineteen forty six, number one album was The Ink Spots. By The Ink Spots. Frankie Carl and his orchestra had the number one song with Rumors Are Flying.

1:36 Rumors are flying and I'm not denying the people are shot and I'm falling in love with you. Couse for a change, Darling. The rooms. True. How Dexter he had the number one country song with wine Woman in song I. Have faly in the North in the South, I worked in the city a fly in the house. I made good money, but he did play as long as that would wear and women in. So I've got him.

2:17 I've had him, lod load loady, I've got him now. The number one book was The Hucksters by Frederick Wakeman. Top movie was Blue Skies fred Astaire. He's a famous dancer on Broadway. Well, he falls in love with big band singer Marino Era. She falls in love with nightclub over in Bean Crosby, who's a total dirtbag. All right, let's see what happened on October the seventeenth, the London beer flood of eighteen fourteen. That's what happened the Horseshoe Brewery. It was one of the largest breweries in London. Now one of us vats to twenty feet to twenty two feet tall, and it was full of beer. Now, one of the metal bands that held the wooden barrel together slipt caused the entire barrel to explood, but that knocked out another vat, thatcked out another vat, that knocked out another vat. Three hundred and eighty eight thousand gallons of beer then knocked out the back wall of the brewery.

3:06 A fifteen foot wave of bear swept through the straits, knocking out houses as went and killed eight people, four of them were kids. One person died later from alcohol poisoning. Now after us all over and he went to court. The court ruled that the brewery had no responsibility. They were not at fault and did not have to pay any compensation for the victims or any damages. The court ruled that the beer flood was an act of God. Nineteen thirty one gangster al Capone. He was convicted a tax evasion. Nothing else would stick. He got eleven years in prison, yes served seven and a half. Nineteen thirty three, Albert Einstein arrived in the United States. His immigration papers said that he was a refugee from Nazi Germany. Breton's Queen Elizabeth the Second, she was really big into racing horses.

3:48 She even owned and raced her own horses. So how do you like to have been this guy? In nineteen fifty nine, At the very last minute, the queen withdrew one of her horses right before the race, while this guy had to go tell the queen that she's being fined one hundred four for the late scratch at the New York Museum of Modern Art. In nineteen sixty one, they had this huge gala celebration. They were displaying the paintings of the late great artist Henry Matisse. Now, everybody with money, every a list of celebrity, everyone who wanted to be seen, They all went to the Matias exhibit. But the star of the show was his painting Leboteaux, which is the boat. Well, all the museum workers, one hundred and sixteen thousand visitors, the artist's son, even they all owed and odd and raved all about Labatau. Well, after forty seven days, a New York stockbroker he pointed out that Labatow was on upside down. So they brought in some expert and damn if that stockbroker wasn't right. Yeah, this boat was hung upside down the entire time. Two thousand and eight, over and Iran, they tried to set a new world record for the longest sandwich ever made.

4:48 The sandwich had had to be fifteen hundred meters long in order to set the record. That's just under a mile. Now before they could measure the thing, Yeah, the crowd started eating the sandwich too early. Goat show dish shivers day. We're gonna pause. He was like, thish shiver day. We want simple car. She's like dish Shivers Day, and you know we don't. That's her birthday. Okay, let's check out who it's born in October the seventeenth and. Listen to him. Le'st worry about a man named Jed. The poor him outain near Barley, kept his family fed, and then one day he was shooting nets and food and up fool the ground coma bubbling oil that is black and gold. Texas team well the first singing old old Jebs and millionaire the canning full said, Jed, move away from there.

5:38 Actress comedian Irene Ryan. She was born in El Paso, Texas, in nineteen o two. Start out on vaudeville, then she did some Broadway. Of course, he's best known for playing Granny on the Beverly hill Billies. You have any idea what Granny's name was? Daisy made Moses. Remember she was Jed's mother in law. Irene she was only six years older than the Jed, so I guess they really were Hillbillies. She acted up until she died in nineteen seventy from a brain tumor at seventy years old. She had divorced twice during her life. Actress Rita Hayworth. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen eighteen. She acted from nineteen thirty one in nineteen seventy two, made sixty one movies. She was the top actress of the nineteen forty She was also one of the top pin up girls during World War Two. Her second husband was Orson Wells and they had one child. Then she had a daughter from her third husband. She ended up divorced in five times.

6:22 Rita she died from Alzheimer's in nineteen eighty seven and sixty eight years old. That was her death that brought Alzheimer's out into the open. Most people had never heard of alzheimer before she died, So yeah, that's how the awareness for alzheimer actually came into the mainstream. After Tom Poston. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen twenty one. Tom he wasn't a major star, but he holds the record for appearing in the most sitcoms. He also did a lot of game shows, best known for playing George Uttley on Newhart. He had one child from his second wife, then he married his third wife for eight years. They divorced. They'd be married for eighteen years and then she died. They had two children along the way. Then he married actress Suzann Pelit remember her from the original New Heart Show. They actually dated back in nineteen fifty nine. Then they went their separate ways, married to other people, had kids, got remarried, or got married in two thousand and one.

7:10 They were married until Tom died from respiratory failure at eighty five years old in two thousand and seven. So Zan died one year later. That was country singer Earl Thomas Conley. He's going to Portsmouth, Ohio in nineteen forty one. In the nineteen eighties he had eighteen number one songs. That was Third beyind Alabama and Ronnie millsp Some of his number ones are your Love's on the Line, holding her and loving You. Nobody follows like a fool. What she is is a woman in love. He married one and they had two children. He performed right up until he died in twenty nineteen at seventy seven years old.

8:05 He died from subrebral atrophy. It's our brain disease now, Earl. He is the only country artist to ever sing on Soul Train. Yo, Get out of My Mom. Eighty two year old Gary Puckett sang for the Gary Pucket in the Union Gap. They're out touring. Yeah, that's pretty impressive, right. They actually have show schedules all the way through two five. What's really impressive that they in fact they broke up in nineteen seventy one. Now, Gary, he was born in Hipping, Minnesota in nineteen forty two.

8:49 Back in the day, on the stage they would dress up like Union Army officers during the Civil War. I'm guessing they probably took those off when they went down South though. Some of their HiT's Our Woman, Woman, Young Girl, Lady will power over you. Gary Mary. He's been married since two thousand and they have two children. Going to flesh out see I like to sink hole with my Thanks too. Tall. That's Michael mckeinnon singing it for Spinal Tap. He's seventy seven today. He's born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen forty seven. He first got known on the TV show la Vernon Shirley. He played Lenny, Remember Lenny and Squeaky He Squeaky's Friends. Then he co wrote, starred and sang in the mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap. Now most performers they joined Saturday Night Live in order to make a name from them selves, and they're starting out. In nineteen ninety four, Michael his career had really stalled. He couldn't get any roles for anything, you know. He'd been a successful actor for twenty years and nothing. So he went on Saturday Night Live for two seasons. It worked, did jump start his career. Done a bunch of TV and movie ever since. Married his first wife for twenty three years and they had two children. Married his second wife in nineteen ninety nine.

10:06 Haven't everybody playing un arm? What do you know? Not enough? Haven't anybody no Norman? That stuff? Better give me a tall one, guys. I like it. Actor George Wentt. He was born in Chicago in nineteen forty eight. He's seventy six, best known for playing Norman on Cheers. He was one of the Bear's guys on Saturday Live in the nineteen nineties. Some of his movies are Fletch, Gung Ho, Never Say Die, Space Truckers. It's been married since nineteen seventy eight and they have a daughter and two sons. Although you never saw his wife, she was actually the voice of his wife's vera on Cheers.

10:50 Actress Margo Kidder. She was born a Yellowknife, Canada in nineteen forty eight. She first really hit big playing Lois Lane in The Superman and Its Free Sequels. She was also in The Great Waldo Pepper, The Amityville Horror, The Little Treasure. Sadly, Margo, she struggled with mental illness her whole life. Yeah, she had undiagnosed bipolar disorder. Yeah, she'd already attempted suicide by the time she was fourteen years old. She had one daughter from her first husband, ended up divorcing three times. She committed suicide in twenty eighteen and sixty nine years old. Oh here's Jones. It's my heart on the Rule Stall. I don't feel so rocking.

11:32 She's leaving shone, So don't rock shoot pods. Leave me your country's song. Country singer Alan Jackson sixty six. He is born in Noon in Georgia. In nineteen fifty eight, he sold over seventy five million records, had twenty six number one songs. Now, Alan, He's on his last call one more for the road tour. It's gonna run through twenty twenty five, then no more touring from Allen. He married his high school sweetheart in nineteen seventy nine and they have three daughters. Comedian Norm McDonald. He was born in Quebec City, Canada in nineteen fifty nine. He was a successful stand up with his dry wit. He turned that into a successful run on Saturday Night Live during the Weekend Update. He did it for six years on TV. He had The Norm Show for a couple of years, did a lot of voice rolls in movies, married once for eleven years and had a son from it.

12:19 Normy died in twenty twenty one. Is sixty one years old from leukemia. You want a slim city, the real slim Shitty said up sad signal Sadio. You want the same saties, just the real slim Citty Up, he said, yum. Stand up the rapper Eminem. He's fifty two. He was born Marshall Mathers in Saint Joseph, Missouri in nineteen seventy two. Sold over two hundred and twenty million records. That makes him the sixth best selling solo artists of all time. He is the only artist solo or in a band to have ten consecutive album's debut at number one. He married Ken I'm in nineteen ninety nine. After a couple of years, they divorced, took a little break, then they got remarried again in two thousand and six, this time just for a couple months. Then they divorced again. They did have one daughter along the way, Eminem. Though he adopted Kim's two children that she had from other guys, and he is raising all three of those kids right now, let's go back to birthdays today. Well, I was trying to figure out what kind of birthday cake to get my mother. I looked it up. The number one flavor of birthday cake, Yeah, you guessed it is chocolate, then red velvet vanilla, and carrocake. Well, I want a cheesecake.

13:29 That's kind of one of our favorites. So thank you all for listening today. We sure appreciate you being here. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on, It comes here at coolmedia dot com. That's cool, three of us. Let's end with Tennessee Ernie Ford. Bull Lamb's meat out of muscling blood, muscling blood and skim and bones, a mine that's. A week, and the backup that's strong. You load sixteen tons, wuody, you get another, the older and deeper and deth Saint and Pete or don't you call Megalls? I can't go. Ernie died today. In nineteen ninety one at seventy two years old. He said, I was as nervous as a long tail cat in a room full of rock and chairs. I know where it came from. You guys, have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow.