Oct 26-Pumpkins, Mahalia Jackson, Pat Sajak, Natalie Merchant, Keith Urban, Gunfight at OK Corral

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids, about to day pas about cool media. Today's August the twenty sixth. Big round pumpkin lying on the ground, Little fat pumpkins, orange and broun pumpkin on the vine, looking something vine, Gonna take your home. It's Halloween tongue. Pumpkin on the bottom looking some fun, Gonna take you home, mis hallowing tongue. Today is National Pumpkin Day. With Halloween only a couple of days, wait, perfect day to celebrate the pumpkin. Now, pumpkins there are more than just that Jacqueline and you throw away when you're done with Halloween. Pumpkins are really healthy for you. They're high in antioxidants, fiber, potassium, vitamin C.

0:54 Pumpkins are actually a fruit. Yeah, they're part of the squash family. Yeah, squash or fruit pumpkins. They areative to North America. Now today I just enjoy like carving your pumpkin and make sure you bake the pumpkin seeds. Yeah, it'll probably be the healthiest thing you eat all Halloween. All right. See what happen on entertainment on October twenty sixth, Go back there in nineteen sixty nine number one album was Green River by Creating's clear Water Revival. The Temptations had the number one song with I Can't Get next to You. We Wotle Castle, I'm say. I didn't make it Your. Sail, my business complet.

1:40 Jack and next to You Tammy Why Need? She had the number one country song with the Way Used to Love Them in he Is. Only Do W. Do You? And I Can't. Coach Paul Please the Love of Man. The number one book was The Godfather by Mary Opoozle. The top movie was Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in Wyoming. Butch and Sundance, they lead a gang of at eyes end up running from the law. Stars Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Catherine Ross. Okay, what happened on October the twenty sixth, eighteen twenty five, The Erie Canal opened up.

2:30 It connected the Hudson River and Lake Erie. It still does. Eighteen eighty one, The most famous gunfight in the wild West took place in Tombstone, Arizona, at the ok Crow their brothers and Doc Holliday. They went at it with the Clayton and the McClary brothers and Billy Claiborne. Now the shooting only lasted thirty seconds. Tom and Frankin McCleary and Billy Claiborne were all killed. Now, no one knows for sure who fired that very first shot that started the whole thing, But therps were charged for murder, but they got off. Let's just say that no one in none of those participants were any good guys. The Ok Corral, it was actually the old Kindersley Corral, but once it became a big tourist attraction in Tombstone, Yeah, they shortened it to Ok. Carrell nineteen eighteen and Britain Cecil Chubb he gave the prehistoric monument stoneheage to the British people. Yeah, he told him they could do with it what they want. See, he had actually bought stone pins at an auction for sixty six hundred pounds is a gift for his wife.

3:21 Well his wife she wasn't impressed at all. She didn't want anything to do with that damn thing. No, she said, get rid of the bloody damn thing. Well, he couldn't find anyone to buy it from him, so he just donated to the Prettish nation. Now sixty six hundred pounds in nineteen eighteen. That would be one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars today, So she was pissed about receiving a one hundred and thirty five thousand dollars present. I think I would have kept the rocks and got rid of her baseball. In nineteen thirty four, the Washington Senator's manager, Joe Cronin now He was on his honeymoon with his new wife, Mildred now Mildred. She was also the daughter of Clark Griffith, who owned the Washington Senators. Well, they found out that their father had so Jolder of the Boston Red Sox. Nineteen seventy two, the Park Service started giving tours of the former prison Alcatraz. It was closed in nineteen sixty three. In twenty eighteen, Catholics around the world celebrated Woo singer Sinad O'Connor. She announced she had converted to Islam.

4:14 Joppe jpe co joke jope sharge thish shiverthday. Please gonna pause he left this shiver birthday. We gonna simple tag like this shibirthday. And you know we don't get that don't work to you Let's see It. Was born in October the twenty sixth Mahelia Jackson. She was one of the greatest, if not the greatest, gospel singer of all time. I'm going to move me, oh man, that call me.

4:54 Shifted up my hey li. She was born in New Orleans in nineteen eleven. She sold over twenty two a million records, which was big nowadays for gospel music. So it was huge for gospel records during her lifetime. That song we played, I Will Move On Up a Little Higher, got it at number two on the pop charts. In nineteen forty eight. She sang at John Kennedy's inauguration. She sang at Martin Luther King's funeral, did a bunch of sold out tours all over Europe. She had two short marriage. She died in nineteen seventy two during surgery to remove a battle obstruction. Sixty years old. Yesterday we celebrated at Minnie Pearl's birthday. Minnie Pearl and Mahala Yep. They owned a chain of chicken restaurants together. After Bob Hoskins. He was born at bury St, Edwards, England, in nineteen forty two.

5:37 He played the band manager in Pink Foyd's movie of the Wall, and he's in Mona Lisa who framed Roger Rabbit Mario Brothers. He had two children from his first wife. Second wife he married in nineteen eighty two, and they had two children. Bobby died in twenty fourteen from pneumonia. Once upon a time, there were three little girls who went to the police academy and they were each assigned very essiveist duties. But I took them away from all that, and now they worked for me. My name is Charlie.

6:18 Now, if you want to talk about aging, well, seventy nine year old the actress Jacqueline Smith. She's one in Houston, Texas. In nineteen forty five, started out studying to be a ball arena, found out that modeling paid a lot better. Then. She had huge on TV's Charlie's Angels. She's made a whole bunch of TV movies over the years. She's been a very very successful business owner. Yeah, she had her own fashion line, her own line at Home Apparel. Now on The Simpsons, they even had an episode where they made fun of her business success, So I guess you know you made it. Then. She had two children from her the third husband. She made her fourth husband nineteen ninety seven. Now, if that doesn't sound familiar, that was from the nineteen eighties. Pat say Jack. He's seventy eight.

7:12 He's born in Chicago in nineteen forty six. He was a radio DJ. Then he got drafted in the army, sent to Vietnam. Then he ended up following Adrian Knaur. Yeah, Adrian conaw he is the DJ that Robin Williams played in the movie Good Morning of Vietnam. So when Adrian came home, Pat he took his spot on Armed Forces Radio Vietnam. Then when Pat came home, he went back to work as a DJ. Then he got a job as a TV weather man. MERV Griffin saw him. Yeah, game in the job of hosting Wheel of Fortune in nineteen eighty one. Yeah, he just retired not too long ago. Patty's been married to his second wife since nineteen eighty nine and they have two children. Actress Rita Wilson. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty six, sixty eight years old today. Her first acting job was nineteen seventy two. Yeah, she had a guest appearance on The Brady Bunch. She was going against Marsha for head cheerleader.

7:59 Sm Rid. His movies Volunteers, That Thing You Do, run Away Bride, Jingle All the Way. She married actor Tom Hanks in nineteen eighty eight and they have two sons. Actor Dylan McDermott. He was born in nineteen sixty one in Waterbury, Connecticut. He's sixty three. His first acting job was in the movie Hamburger Hill, and he's in Twister Steel Magnoia is The Cowboy Way. Biggest success has been TV You Start on the Practice in an American horror Store. Been doing FBI Most Wanted since twenty twenty two. He got married once for fourteen years and they have two daughters from it. That was Natalie Merchant singing for Ten Thousand Maniacs. She's sixty one. She's born in Jamestown, New York, in nineteen sixty three. She joined Ten Thousand Maniacs in nineteen eighty one. Now she joined just to be a backup singer. Ended up singing lead on their first seven hours albums. Yeah, she sang the heads like the weather, what's the matter here? Because the night she went solo in ninety three. It's at least nine solo albums since she married once for ten years and then they had a daughter, Natalie. She spends a lot of her time nowadays teaching arts and crafts to underprivileged kids out there in New York. Now you can see some of her own paintings. She displays them pretty good on her website.

9:34 Go to second So Kiss a Girl. Country singer Keith Thurban. He was born on Wing Gerray, New Zealand, in nineteen sixty seven. It makes him fifty seven a day. But have his family to Australia when he was two. Then he moved himself to Nashville in nineteen ninety two. He did some songwriding, he played guitar lot of other artists records. Finally got his first album, released it in nineteen ninety nine. All nine of his albums have gone platinum. He just released his tenth one not too long ago. Some of his twenty two number one songs are better Live, Somebody like You, you look Good in My Shirt, Sweet Thing. Married actress Nicole kidd Been in two thousand and six and they have two daughters now. Keith he had a lot of trouble with Alcoholling cocaine over the years, finally got sober for Nicole.

10:24 So he's been Clay since two thousand and seven. Pretty cool. What a day this has been. What a rare mood. I'm you why, It's almost like Beard. Hell, there's a smile on my face for the whole human race. Animator, actor, singer, writer, producer Seth MacFarlane's fifty one. He was born in Kent, Connecticut in nineteen seventy three. Start out as an animator for Hanna Barbera. He went out on his own and hit big on TV. The Family Guy, American Dad, The Cleveland Show. He created a TV show that wasn't animated, it was The Orville. Then he's done the movies, The Ted's Movies, both of them. He's a Million Ways to Die in the West. He hasn't married yet.

11:15 Actor John Hyder. He was born in Fort Collins, Colorado, in nineteen seventy seven. He's forty seventy. He grew up in Oregon. He had big starring in the movie Napoleon Dynamite, then The Benchwarmers, Blades of Glory, Mama's Boy, done a lot of voice work. Met his wife and they were both going to Brigham Young University. They graduated and got married in two thousand and two. Now they have four kids. Let's go back to Halloween. Now, there are either three or four full moons on Halloween every century. Well, thank you for listening today. We appreciate you coming. Now, don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on it comes. Here's a coolmedia dot com that's cool with three y ohs. Let's end with actress Haddie McDowell. She died today in nineteen fifty two, at fifty nine years old. She said, I did my best and I did the rest. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow