Oct 31-Halloween! Nevada Birthday, Darryl Worley, Bow Wow Wow, Beastie Boys, Vanilla Ice, Ace of Bass

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Isn't about cool media? Day's October the thirty first. I'm the one night on the young Man Jeez, grown sharp and glowing red. I am the. Spiders hair. Happy Halloween. It goes back to the fifteen hundreds. In Scotland, Halloween it means Hallow's Evening, which is the night before All Hallow's Day. That's when they would honor all the Catholic saints. By the late eighteen hundred's kids in Scotland and Ireland, they would dressed some costume and go door to door getting food. Trick or treat. That started in Canada in nineteen twenty seven. By the nineteen thirty is trick or treating was pretty much common all across the United States. Now today, forty eight percent of you will wear a costume, forty six percent of you will carve a pumpkin, sixteen percent, Yeah, you're gonna dress up your dog, twenty one percent of you. Yeah, you're gonna pretend like you're not home. Everybody, Just have a fun end safe Halloween?

1:15 Did it all right? This is going on entertainment in October thirty first, let's go back to your two thousand. Number one album was Rule three thirty six by Josh Rule. Christina Aguileary had the numb one song with come on over Baby, All I want is you. I'm only hand baby. Then you know this baby, don't be shocked that apples. John Michael Montgomery had the number one country song with the Little Girl Your. First day Sunday School. The teacher balpte and a small stared and injure of she said, I know that man there, that Crouch. I don't know his name, but I know he got al.

2:14 The number one book was The Last Precinct by Patricia Cornwell Todd. Movie it was Charlie's Angels. Three hot women detectives. They solve crimes using martial arts, text skills and basically sex appeal. Stars Cameron Diazdrew berrymore on Lucy lou all Right. What happened on October thirty first, fifteen seventeen Martin Luther He started the Protestant Reformation. He nailed his ninety five thesises on what was wrong with the Catholic Church to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Well, it took a while for it to make his way to Roman then the pope. But when he got it, yeah, Luther was excommunicated and forced to go height for his life. Now the Protestant Reformation that ended up splitting Europe at half. Northern Europe went Protestant and Southern Europe they pretty much relamed Catholic. It was today in eighteen forty six, the donner part. He realized that dude, to have you snow, they weren't getting over those Sierra Nevada mountains. So yeah, they just set up a basically a winter camp. I don't want to spoil the whole story for you, but it's not going to turn out good. Happy Birthday, Nevada today.

3:33 In eighteen sixty four, Nevada became the thirty sixth state. Spanish named it Nevada for the snow covered mountain range. Even though most of the state is desert. Eighty six percent of Nevada is uninhabited, but where people do live it's pretty cool though. Capital is Carson City. Highest point is Boundary Peak at thirteen forty seven feet. Nevada state tray is a bristle combe pine. State bird is a mountain blue jay fish cutthroat trout flower is the state. Brush reptiles the desert toward it state. Mammal is the desert big horn sheep. Some people born in Nevada or tennis player Andre Agassy, baseball as Bryce Harper. Actress Don Wells, she played Marianne on Killigan's Island now race car Drivers Curtain Kyle Busch Yep born in Nevada. Former First Lady Pat Nixon, imagine ter Agins, lead singer Dan Reynolds, and the guys from the TV show Pond Stores Yippa born in the Silver State. Nineteen thirteen, the first paved coast to coast highway in the United States opened up. They called it the Lincoln Highway. It was three three hundred and eighty nine miles long. Now it wasn't like the Interstate say. It was only two lanes and it meandered from town to town, starting in New York Time or New York's Times Square, and ended in San Francisco. Nineteen seventeen.

4:43 In World War One, it was the last time in world history that calvary charts was actually successful. It was in Palestine in the Battle of Beersheba. The Australian calvity was able to pull it off. Nineteen twenty three and Marble Bay, Australia, the temperature hit one hundred grays. So well the temperature roh had one hundred and grades for the next one hundred and sixty days. Nineteen forty one, the United States was still six weeks away from joining World War Two, you know, after Pearl Harbor, but off of Iceland. In the United States warship the Buchanan James, It was sunk by a German U boat. It was helping to escort a convoy of merchant ships to Europe. One hundred and fifteen US sailors were killed. They were the first U s serviceman killed in World War Two. Nineteen eighty three, Roun Grant he became the first person to run all the way around Australia. Took him two hundred and seventeen days to run the eighty three hundred and sixteen miles from Brisbane to Brisbane. Nineteen eighty four, the Prime Minister of India in Dereck Gandhi. She was assassinated by her two bodyguards. They killed her as she was walking in the garden at the Prime Minister's residency.

5:42 It was while she was being interviewed for a documentary on an Ireland TV station, shot her over thirty times and then they didn't run or anything. They just stayed there until the police got there. They ended up being executed nineteen ninety two. Pope John Paul the second he had to take one for the team man. He ended up being the Pope who had to come clean. He had the public announced that the Catholic Church was wrong. They should not have treated as stronomer Galilee as badly as they did. Took him three hundred and fifty seven years. But John Paul two, yeah, he said Galileo was right. The Earth does revolve around the sun, and Galileo should not have been tortured and forced to live last last eight years of his life in house arrest. I've guess that most of you have either seen or heard about the movie Soul Surfer two thousand and three. Thirteen year old surfer Bethany Hamilton had her arm bitten off by a charco she was surfing off of Hawaii. Twenty eighteen, the world's largest statue is unveiled. It's called the Statue of Unity. It's in guys. You're at India. The five hundred ninety seven foot statue is of Indian independence leader Sardar Patel.

6:43 Joke joke joat show this shibf day. Please don't pause. He left this shiver day. We don't simple tage. He let this shibirth day and you don't. How about we check out? It was born on Halloween. Dale Evans. She wrote that song for her and her husband, Roy Rogers, in nineteen fifty one. Dale she was born in Uvaldi, Texas. In nineteen twelve, when she was fourteen, she loped and they had a son, and then the guy just abandoned her and the boy, sixteen year old Dale, she went to Memphis to try and make it him music.

7:35 She told everybody the son and that was her brother. She was just raising him. Now. She got radio jobs, she got job playing the piano. She had two more marriages and divorces. She had a little minor success, but nineteen forty seven she married Roy Rogers. They had five kids together. In the nineteen fifties they started on the Roy Rogers TV show. They made a bunch of movies together, released a lot of songs. Roy. He died in nineteen ninety eight. Dale. She died in two thousand and one from heart failure to eighty eight years old. Actor Michael Landen. He was born in Forest Hills, New York in nineteen thirty six.

8:19 Best known for TV. Started out playing Little Joe Kurtwright on Bonanza. Then he was Paw on Little House on the Prairie, then Jonathan on Highway to Heaven. He was on the cover of TV Guy twenty two times. That is second behind Lucille Balls thirty nine times. Land And had two sons from his first wife, two sons and three daughters from his second wife, son and a daughter from his third wife. They were married from nineteen eighty three until he died from cancer in nineteen ninety one. He's fifty four years old when then Pink pink reattic cancer got him. Actor John Candy is born in Toronto, Canada in nineteen fifty first got known in the movie Stripes, then National Lampoon's Vacation, playing trains and Automobiles the Great Outdoors Uncle Buck. He married nineteen seventy nine and then had two children. According to all those around him, he really tried, but he could not lose weight. He ended up dying from a heart attack in nineteen ninety four at forty three years old. Actor comedian Rob Schneider is sixty one, born in San Francisco in nineteen sixty three.

9:14 He started out on Saturday Night Life for four years. Then he's been at every Adam Sandler movie now. Some of his own movies were Deuced, Big Low Male, Jigglow Movies, The Animal, Hot Chicks, Bench Warmers. He had a daughter from a Good Time then he married in twenty eleven and they have two children. I said, Lord, please could give me for my scene? Why going in to kill me? But she tried to save me first. You're knowing if I have to drag you a budget. I love this crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful. Country. Singer Daryl Worley is sixty. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen sixty four. Some of his hits are I Miss my Friend, Have you forgotten? Awful? Beautiful life? If some thing shit happened? Darryl here has a couple podcasts you can listen to on him out there. Just search for Darryl Whirley. He got married to his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have a daughter.

10:09 He celebrated getting married in two seven, one thousand and seven. Yeah, pose nude for Playgirl magazine. He's fun, he can't be so fire? Is that the perfect Halloween song? Or what that was? Annabella Elwen singing for bow Wow Wow. She was born in Rangoon, Burma in nineteen sixty six, fifty eight year old today. Now, when the band Adam and the Ants broke up, the Ants went and formed Bow Wow Wow. Then they got thirteen year old annabel to sing lead for him. That was in nineteen eighty. Then they broke up, got back together, broke up, so she just went solo.

10:57 Then they got back together with a different lead singer. Well, she didn't like that, so now she started her own version of bow Wow Wow. So there's actually two bow Wow's out their tour. So if you go to bow Wow Wow, that's good the guys from the band, or you can go to Annabelle's bow Wow Wow and that's with her singing. I'd rather go with the singer Smoke. Next morning we. Finished the. Charlie Cha as a Beastie boy. He was known as ad Rock. He was born Adam Horowitz in New York City and he's also fifty eight years old Adam. He started out in the punk band. It was called the Young and the Useless. They would open up for the Beastie Boys, and then nineteen eighty two the Beastie Boys had an opening, so they picked ad Rock. They picked they were. They hit pretty big right after he joined them too, So there were fifty million records now when Adam Yach died in twenty twelve. Yeah, the Beastie Boys decided place and they just didn't want to go on without and they call their quits. Ad Rock's first wife was Actress. I owned Sky for seven years. Then he married his second wife in two thousand and six.

12:08 Speak of that booze, some relation your brain like a boys, this mushroom dead lead. Wh're not playing to Melach. Anything less than the best is a fella And he loved it. So leave it, you bet, I can't wage you bet, I get bulls out a kid don't play. If there was a problem, Joe, I'll solve it. Chick got the hook on DJ for Boston. Now the name Robert van Winkle, that doesn't sound like a hardcore rapper, so he changed it to Vanilla Ice. Fifty seven years old today, born in Dallas, Texas in nineteen sixty seven. You know, he started out as a professional motocross racer and then he broke his ankle, so I was recovering. He got really into big into hip hop, so he quit motocross and went into music. His song Ice Ice Baby was the first hip hop signed to go number one. Now he tours quite a bit and he uh does all those loved the nineties tours and that kind of stuff. He had two daughters from his first wife. As one child with this second.

13:00 Life, She's Jones. She won, She's jon. She That was Lynn Bergran and singing lead for Ace of Bass. She's fifty four, born in Gottenburg, Sweden in nineteen seventy. She had farm Asa Bass in nineteen eighty seven. They took their name from a Motorhead song, Ace of Spades. Some of their hits are All That She Wants, the sign Don't Turn Around, Beautiful Life soldo over fifty million records. That makes them third most successful artists in Sweden of all time, behind Aba and Roxhead. In two thousand and seven, Lynn she dropped out of the band. Well, Lynn, she basically dropped out of live. She did not want anything to do with anyone or anything at that time. So she just went off and did her own thing. Now she still talks to her sister, and she tells her sister that she is living a great life as a recluse and she's perfectly happy. It's good for Lynn. Okay, let's talk a little more about Halloween. Number one selling Halloween candy of all time is Reese's Peanut butter Cups.

14:11 You know what the number one selling candy of all time is, though, yeah, Eminem's. Well, thank you for listening to us today. Don't forget to follow us. Wherever you're listening to is on come by Coolmedia dot com. That's cool through this, and don't forget to go to Country Underground Radio dot com to get the best independent country music. Let's end with the first James Bond actor, Sean Connery. He died to day in twenty twenty at ninety years old. Sean said love may not make the world go round, but it makes it the ride worthwhile.