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

0:19 Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today is October the seventeenth. Now today is the first birthday since my mom died in May. So I'm going to do a little celebrating for her birthday today for you longtime listeners. You know, my mom had a favorite song. Our minsters are in the sky. I never know. What fire lies. It's a firefly never what happens to.

1:02 That was I'll never know by Elvis Presley. So happy birthday mom. Well the rest of you you can celebrate National Pasta Day. Yeah, big celebration today. Now I'm everything from angel hair to ZD say he to z. There's all kinds of pastas. Now, get this. When they rank the top ten most popular foods in America, chocolate chip cookies are number one, then lasagna is number two, Spaghetti and meat balls is number five, ravioli is seven, and mac and cheese is eight. I guess as Americans we love our pasta. Now. Big deals today of course are Carabas, Olive Garden Noodles, and companies for Zoli's pretty much everybody that's selling pasta. Yeah, they're having deals today. So go out there and have fun and enjoy some carbs today. All right, list is going on to entertainment. In October seventeenth, It's about Your twenty ten number one album was Hemming Ways Whiskey by Kenny Chesney. Bruno Mars had the number one song with just the Way You Are and Let You Stop because Josh Turner had the number one country song with all Over Me, Jump Me in.

2:18 The front Seat, Kick out your Bear, feed money, let your hear down, I Don't Stop Down and hunderneath or second more Tree, Save all your kisses up, Bring over your Street, Loveboard, all of Me All. The number one book was The Reversal by Michael Connolly. The top movie was Jackass three D. It's just a movie of the Jack Gass guys doing their stunts and stuff. Johnny Knoxville, Steve O and Bam mcgar All right, that's what happened in October the seventeenth. The London Bare Flood of eighteen fourteen now the Horseshoe Brewery. It was one of the largest breweries in London. Now one of his vats instood twenty foot tall twenty two feet actually now it was completely full of bear when one of the metal bands that held the wind vat together slipped. Well, calls, it's the whole thing to explode. So now that knocked out another vat. That knocked out another vat. That knocked out another vat. Then three hundred and eighty eight thousand gallons of beer knocked out the back wall of the brewery.

3:18 A fifteen foot wave of bear swept through the street, knocked in the out houses, killed eight people. Yeah, another person did die later from alcohol poisoning, though. So now the whole thing was all over, and they cleaned up and they went to court. Well, the court ruled that the brewery was not responsible. They were not at fault yep. They did not owe any compensation for the victims or pay any of the damage or anything. The court ruled the beer flood was an act of God. Nineteen thirty one Gangs to al Capone. He was convicted to income tax evasion. Yeah, they couldn't get him on anything else of a stick. So he was sentenced to eleven years in prison. He served seven and a half. He was fined fifty thousand dollars in court costs, and he had to pay two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars in back taxes four point two million. Today, nineteen thirty three, Albert Einstein, he arrived in the United States. He has immigration papers, said that he was a refugee from Nazi Germany. Brenton's Queen, Elizabeth the Second, Now, she was really big into horse racing.

4:08 She even owned her own horses and raced them and everything. So how would you like to have been this guy? Though? Today in nineteen fifty nine, at the very last minute, the queen she withdrew one of her horses before the race. Well, the guy had to go over and tell the queen that she was being fined one hundred and forty dollars for the late scratch. Nineteen sixty one at the New York Museum of Modern Art, now they had this huge gala celebration. They were displaying the paintings and the artwork of the great artist Henry Matisse. Now everybody with money, all the socialites of the A List, the big time celebrities, anyone who wanted to be seen at all, they had to go that Matis exhibit. Now, the star of the exhibit was his piece Lebatteaux. Yeah, the boat. So all the get this, all the museum workers all the media, all the art critics, over one hundred and sixteen thousand people who walked by the spectators and stuff like that.

5:00 Also the artist's sun. Now they all owed and odd over the Butteau. Now, after forty seven days on display in New York City, stockbroker pointed out that the Butteou it was hung upside down. So they called in a whole bunch of experts. Damn this thing. The stockbroker is right. So yeah, the boat was floating upside down the entire time. Now do you know the Blue Man group, they berety much see him in Las Vegas. Well, they played their first show today in nineteen ninety one. Yeah, it was out in clean New York City nineteen ninety eight and Nigeria. A gas pipe fine, and it ran near the town of Jesse. Well, it leaked, so the locals they would scavenge that leaked gasoline and head and sell it. Well, they think one of them might have been smoking today. Yeah, the pipeline exploated killed over twelve hundred people that were in that village in two thousand and eight, and I ran. Now, they tried to set the world record for the world's longest sandwich that was ever made. Now they needed it to get to fifteen hundred feet or fifteen hundred meters I mean yeah, that's a little short of a mile, and then they could set the record. Well before they could measure it, though, the crowds started eating the sandwich.

5:56 They don't know how long it was. Stoke choke, coot choked cojap shot dish shiver day, Please gonna he left this shivery. We want simple tag like thish shib day. And you know you don't. You well, let's check out us. Born in October the seventeenth. I Wan listened to him. Let'st worry about her. Man named Jed, the poor mountaineer Barley kept his family fail. And then one day he was shooting nets food and up the ground. Com U bu blia oil that is black and gold. In Texas team well the first singing old old Jem's a millionaire. The king folks said, Jed, move.

6:38 Away from there. Actress Irene Ryan. She was born in El Paso, Texas, in nineteen oh two. Started out in Vaudeville, then Broadway. Best known for TV, though she played Granny on The Beverly Hill Billies. Now Here's a piece of trivia. Do you know what Granny's actual name was on the show? She was Daisy made Moses. She was Jed's mother in law, Irene. She acted until she died in nineteen seventy three from a brain timors. She was seventy years old. She was twice divorced. Actress Rita Hayworth. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen eighteen. She made sixty one mother. She was a top blay actress of the nineteen forties and one of the top pinup girls during World War Two. Now, her second husband was Orson Wells and they had a daughter. Then she had another daughter from her third husband. She ended up divorcing five times. Irita. She died from Alzheimer's in nineteen eighty seven at sixty eight years old. Now, it was Rita's death that brought Alzheimer's into the opening in mainstream attention. See most people never heard of Alzheimer's before she died, so because that, yep, that's when Alzheimer's awareness actually began. Was her death after Tom Poston. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen twenty one. Tommy wasn't a star but he was the record for breiering in the most sitcomps. Was most known probably for playing George Utley on New York. Did a lot of game shows.

7:47 He had one child from his second wife, married his third wife for eight years. They divorced, then they remarried for eighteen years, and then she died. They had two children along the way. Then he married actress Suzanne Plichette, Yeah, the actress from the original Newhart Show. They had actually dated in nineteen fifty nine. Then they went their separate ways, married other people, had kids. Both their spouses died. They married each other in two thousand and one, together until Tom died from respiratorial failure two thousand and seven and eighty five years old. Country singer Earl Thomas Connelly. He was born in Portsmouth, Ohiowa, in nineteen forty one. In the nineteen eighties he had eighteen number one songs. That was third He was behind Alabama and Ronnie millsp. Some of his number one songs are your Love's on the line, holding her and loving You, Nobody falls like a fool.

8:53 What she is is a woman in love now. He married once and they had two children, and he performed right until he died. He died in twenty nineteen at seventy seven years old from a cerebro atrophy. It's that brain kind of disease. Now, Earl. He is the only country artist ever to sing on Soul Train. Yo, Get out of My mon. Eighty three year old Gary Pucket. He still sings for Gary Bucket in the Union Gap. Now they're on tour right now, and they actually have show scheduled all the way through next September.

9:38 Now. Gary is born in Hitting, Minnesota. He grew up in Yakima, Washington. Now Gary in the Union Gap they formed in nineteen sixty seven. Now, when they would be on stage, they addressed as Union Army officers in the Civil War. Some of their big hits for young Girl, Woman woman, don't give up, don't give into him, the girl is a woman now broke up in nineteen seventy one that yeah, they weren't there gether too long. And then Gary just kind of hung around, and then he decided to open up for the Monkeys on their routine Union show. Then he went and opened up from Ringo Starr on his All Star Band show. And he's like, this is kind of cool, so he brought the union gap back together. Still are now. He married his second wife in two thousand. Now for a long time, Gary, he followed Mahrishi Mahesh Yogi, and one day while he was doing his meditation, he heard the Lord tell him that there was a better path to follow. So nineteen ninety became a born again Christian.

10:30 Flesh See I like. To sink hole with my thanks. That was Michael mcken saying for spinal tap. Michael seventy eight. He's born in Manhattan, New York. In nineteen forty seven. First got known on the TV show l Vernon Shirley played Lenny. If you remember they was Leney and Squiggy. Then he co wrote starting and sang in the mocky mockumentary that this is spinal tap. Now get this. Most comedians they joined Saturday Live to make a name from themselves when they're starting in to start out well. In nineteen ninety four, Michael's career had really stalled. He couldn't get any roles at all.

11:16 He'd been a successful actor for over twenty years. Didn't know what to do. He went on Saturday Night Life for two seasons. It worked, jump started his career. That crazy been working steady ever since. He married his first wife for twenty three years and they had two children together. Married his second wife in nineteen ninety nine. I haven't known everybody playing arm what do you know? Not enough? Haven't anybody no Norman? That stuff better me a tall one. Guys, I like it. Actor George wint He was born in Chicago in nineteen forty eight. Best no, I'm playing Norman Cheers on Saturday Night if he was on The Bears. Guys, the other did that skid in the nineteen nineties. Some of George's movies are Fletched, gung O, Never Say Die, Space Truckers.

12:06 He got married in nineteen seventy eight and they had one daughter and two sons. Now, though you never saw her, his wife was actually the voice of his wife Vera on the show Cheers George. She had a lot of medical issues and stuff ended up dining in a slate just on May twentieth, seventy six years old. Actress Margo Kidder. She was born a Yellownife, Canada in nineteen forty eight. She had really big playing Lois Lane in four Superman movies. She was also in The Great Wall, Though Pepper, The Amityville Horror, The Little Treasure. Sadly, Margot, she struggled with mental illness her whole life. Yeah, she had undiagnosed bipolar disorder. She tried to commit suicide by the time she was fourteen years old. She had a daughter from her first thousand and she ended up divorcing three times, and Margot she committed suicide in twenty eighteen at sixty nine years old.

12:51 Jones, My heart on the Rule Stone. I don't feel rockets leaving sho So don't rob shoot leave your Country's song. Country singer Alan Jackson sixty seven. He's born in noon and Georgia. In nineteen fifty eight, he sold over seventy five million records. It's had twenty six songs go to number one. Now actually right now, Alan, he's really fighting this nerve disease. It's called Charcott Marie tooth disease basically CMT for short. It's screwing up his nerves. He basically can't really balance and do stuff like that's so good.

13:33 So yeah, he's performing on his last tour. They already have his last show schedule. It's June twenty seventh in Nashville at their big stadium out there. He's got a whole bunch of guests going to be there now. He married his high school sweetheart in nineteen seventy nine and they have three daughters. Comedian Norm McDonald. He's born in Quebec City, Canada, in nineteen fifty nine. Now, he was a really successful stand up comedian. His specials in won awards and stuff. There's really dry wit. He did the Weekend Up by Date on Saturday Live for six years. He had that Norm Show for a couple of years on regular TV. He's voiced a lot though. Yeah, he voiced a lot of movies. He married once for eleven years and had a son and Norm. He died from leukemi in twenty twenty one, sixty one years old.

14:15 You want the same city, co Sadio, You want the same citty city, said. Rapper eminem Is fifty three. He was born in Saint Joseph, Missouri, in nineteen seventy two. He was born Marshall Mathers Now. He sold over two hundred and twenty million records now that makes him the sixth biggest solo selling artists all time. Yep. And he is the only artist, whether solo or in a band, to have ten consecutive albums debut at number one. Now. He married Kim in nineteen ninety nine. They divorced after two years. Then he remarried her again in two thousand and six, and they divorced after a couple of months.

14:58 Now they did have one daughter along the way. But Eminem, he has adopted two children that Kim had with two other guys. So Eminem, he's raising all three of those were kids, all right there. Quote of the day comes from Tennessee Ernie Ford. Bull Lamb's meat out of muscling blood, muscling blood and skim and bones mine that's a week And the back of the song you load sixteen tons body you get another the older and deeper and death Saint Pete or don't you call me Dolls? I can't go. He died today in nineteen ninety one and seventy two years old. He said I was as nervous as long tail cat in a room full of rock and chairs.

15:39 Now you know who said it first. All right, thanks to all for listening. Don't forget to follow us. And you listen to a song, it makes it easy to find us and never get to read the description or show notes. At the bottom of the things. You can figure out how to connect with this and messages and all that good fun stuff. All right, a country and grand radio artist the day it comes from Kelly down in Houston. She wants to hear Page Rutledge's song, Ain't that bad? You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. It ain't that bad going out in its height dress, not staying and wearing mass sweats. Ain't that bad? Drinking because happy now drink it so you forget that you left me. I ain't bad about it, not have first sad about it? So I thought of deep gets the clues in you to see.

16:26 Sad. I'm turning your hands on the bar on the breaking hearts, not caring. Whyn't you day t small about myself? Don't mean that anyone else does the spots. Let me different, Thanny of her house boy, don hear this fade and fasting enough me acout like you holding me back, singlet fad that it ain't that bad, not sharing this king. Sass, not worrying, wear out tonight at that bad here and all of my friends saying colm better. I'm better than okay, comes out, turning heads down the bar, walking in and breaking hearts on here and watch you'll take t small mose films. Don't need anyone else because the alls and me different.

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