Oct 21-Apples! Kane Brown, Old Dominion, Carrie Fisher, Manfred Mann, Dizzy Gillespie, Alfred Nobel

0:10 Happy Monday, everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today visited by Cool Media Day's October. The twenty first. Apples were men to taste just dandy apples were men for us too. Eat after you try, and there's just no deny and that apples can make the most tasty treat. Today is National Apple Day. Apples they originated around ten million years ago in Central Asia. The only apples native to the United States are crab apples, and those really suck unless you're throwing them at somebody. Now, I do not condone that. Now there are twenty five hundred different types of apples that they grow in the United States, so everybody shall be able to find one type of apple that's to their liking.

0:57 Today. Now you can just eat them as they are. You can and dip them in caramel or candium, or put them on the salads or vest is, baking them and putting in desserts and that kind of stuff. Whatever you do, just enjoy the mighty apple today. One of the healthiest foods that you could eat. And just you know, the skin of the apple is the healthiest part. All right, this is going on in entertainment. In October the twenty first, Let's back in nineteen ninety nine. Then one album was Human Clay by Creed Right Carry and jay Z had the number one song with Heartbreaker. Tim McGraw had the number of country song was something like that.

1:50 I had a barbecue stained on my white T shirt. She was chilling me, running mean, sir, skipping rocks on the river by the real Roots. She had a suns in line and lipste I work so hard that. One. For years, the number one book was Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J. K. Rowling. Todd Mooley was the best man. Just before a rider's best friend's wedding, the groom guesses that the writer's new book is about his fiance as wild Past, and he is right. Stars Ty Diggs, Nea Long and Morris Chestnut. All right, what happened on October the twenty first. Let's start off with a really nice guy Roman Emperor Constantine the Great?

2:35 Now why was he great? Well's today? In three thirty five he told the Jews they could no longer buy and circumcise Christian slaves. Fifteen twenty, fernand Magellan and his five hits reached the Cape of Virgins that's on the tip of South America. That made them the first Europeans to sail into the Pacific Ocean. They were going through what is now Magellan Strait. Now, in baseball, the World Series it wasn't played until nineteen oh three, but in eighteen eighty seven baseball they decided they needed a World Championship, So Detroit and Baltimore went out it Detroit one, eight games to three in the best of fifteen series. So Detroit they became the first baseball World champions. Now, at the time, no other countries were playing baseball except a couple of people in Canada. Nineteen seventeen, for the first United States troops to see action in World War One, they started fighting in the front lines over in France.

3:24 Twenty twelve, Cattererrari Czech Oria. She was canonized by Pope Benedict the sixteenth. She became the first Native American saint. Now, if you want to know more about Gagery, she just got to the Catholic One on one podcast, I do a short show about her, telling what a great woman. She really was. Twenty nineteen, in Abu Dhabi, scientists announced that they discovered the world's oldest pearl eight thousand years old. I have no idea how they aided that thing. Joke joke, joke, show this shimmer day. We're gonna he left this shub day. We want simple tage. He dish suburb day. You don't okay.

4:05 He was born in October the twenty first. Alfred Nobel. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden in eighteen thirty three. Big time chemist and inventor, got three hundred and fifty five patents. Biggest one though, was dynamite. Now he figured out a way to harness natrig glycerin in eighteen sixty seven. Now, I invented dynamite for mining, but it didn't take very lord off for everybody else in the world to figure out that you could use dynamite as a weapon. Made a lot of money off it, and then he got conscious. Basically, he didn't like the fact that he was going to go down as a legacy for creating a death device, so when he died, he left most of his fortune to creating the Nobel Prizes. He died in eighteen ninety six from a stroke at sixty three years old. Never had time to Marry, Come Off, Come Off Big bandleader, trumpet player, singer, Dizzy Gillespie. He was born in Tierro, South Carolina, in nineteen seventeen. Famous for his puffy cheeks, still the greatest trumpet player of all time, especially jazz trumpet now. He was instrumental in creating both scat and bebop music. He was a bandleader from nineteen thirty seven in nineteen ninety two, got married nineteen forty. They didn't have any kids, but Disney went ahead and had a daughter on the side. He died from pink greatic cancer nineteen ninety three, at seventy five years old. He performed right up until he died, even though he's going through cancer treatments.

5:37 Jackie Gleeson a Honeymooner with the stars art Connie Landri Meadow and Joyce Randolph. Joyce Randolph. She was born in Detroit nineteen twenty four. Most known for playing Trixie was Ark Carney's wife and the TV show The Honeymooners now Honeymoon Has It might be one of the most famous shows of all time, but it's only on the air for one year. You had thirty nine episodes by Joyce. She was really tight cast as Tricksy. She couldn't get work acting no matter what. She got married in nineteen fifty five. Her resume died in nineteen ninety seven. They had one son, Joyce. She died just last year at ninety nine years old. Thirty years before Tom Cruise started starring in Mission Impossible movies he have but a huge hit on TV. He started actor Peter Graves. He's born in Minneapolis in nineteen twenty six.

6:45 He was born Peter Arness, but he wanted to go. He want to by Graves. He didn't want to be compared to his older brother James Arnest, you know the guy who played Marshall Dillon on Gunsmoke. Peter. He started a Mission Impossible from nineteen sixty seven to seventy three, later on on TV from nineteen ninety six to two and seventies on seventh seven. It isn't over seventy movies, probably most known though as The Pilot and the Airplane movies. He got married nineteen fifty and they had three each other. He died from a heart attack four days before his eighty fourth birthday in twenty ten. That she was just walking down the street singing things and struggling home sea singing you look good she looked fine.

7:33 Yes, that was Manfred Man, but actually Paul Jones sing lead for Manfred Man. Man for Man. He was actually born Manford Lubowitz in Johannesburg, South Africa, nineteen forty eighty four years old today. He changed his name and started Manfred Man in nineteen sixty four. They had that doua Diddy Shah La La the Mighty Quinn. Then they broke up in nineteen sixty nine. Twenty fourth Manfred Man Earth Band in nineteen seventy one. Now their biggest song, Blinded by the Light. It was the only song that he sang lead on in his entire career. Yeah. The rest of the time he just normally hung out backstage playing guitar or the piano like yeah, kind of like Jay Giles Man for Man earth Band. They still tour. He had two children from his first wife, then he had one child from his second wife, actress Carrie Fisher.

8:18 She was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen fifty six. Her parents were singer Eddie Fisher and actress Debbie Reynolds. Carrie was twenty one years old, and she started playing Princess Lee in the Star Wars movies. Other than Star Wars, she was also in Blues Brothers, The Man with One Red Shoe, Hanna and her sisters. She wrote a novel. It was called Postcards from the Edge. It was the best seller, so she turned it into a screenplay. Now, the movie Postcards on the Edge huge hit that Carrie, Yeah, they didn't let her act in it. She married singer Paul Simon for one year. Then she had a daughter from a boyfriend. In twenty sixteen, Carrie was on a commercial airplane flight when she had a heart attack. Yeah, they tried CPR and everything, but no. See she had been really hardcore drugs for years, and drugs finally her sixty years old.

9:02 Bringing a. Straight alone and a Girl's Just West and Christ Time, you knowing can wait. All just like a band waiting me or you can't retell I love you Waane in love with him, bring up with him. Matthew Ramsey. He sings lead for the country band Old a Million. Matthew is forty seven and he's born in Buchanan, Virginia in nineteen seventy seven. He was a very very successful songwriter in Nashville before he formed Old Dominion in two thousand and seven. Took him eight years and they finally got a record deal. They've done great since. Some of their number one songs are written in the sand Hotel Key one man band, break up with him, Matthew, He's married and they have two daughters.

9:50 Minute's Out Annowntown, Mississippi to Mississippi's Whiskey? Are you whit you see wayby Come kiss Me? I Killing Kill Simmy two mississim Three in the. Morning will be on how Country singer Kane Brown is thirty one. He was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee. In nineteen ninety three. He got discovered by posting himself singing cover songs on Facebook. Well it worked. In twenty seventeen, he became the first artist to have the number one song on five different Billboard charts at the same time. That song was what ifs It's the song he sang with Laura and Lana. Now see it was on his album, That's why he gets credit for it.

10:32 Some of his other number one country songs are Famous Friends one Mississippi Lack I Love country music, Thank God? Now that was with his wife. They got married in twenty eighteen and they have two daughters and one son. They just had that son in June. Let's go back and talk some more about apples. Now, apple seed's there poisonous yep. If you eat between one hundred and forty and two undred apples, says yeah, it can be fatal. And whatever you do, don't eat the stem of your apples. See the stem. It contains bacteria and also make you sick. Oh, thank you for listening today, and we get to follow us on whoever you listen to us on come says at coolmedia dot com. This cool thrieous writer Jack Kerouak. He died day in nineteen sixty nine, forty seven years old. Jack said, offer people what they secretly want and they will immediately become panic stricken. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow