Oct 31st-Halloween, John Candy, Bow Wow Wow, Beastie Boys, Vanilla Ice, Ace of Bass, Nevada Birthday

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Visit about Cool Media Day is October the thirty first. I am the one nighting on the young man jeep ground sharp and the eyes glowing red. I am the one light spiders in my hair. Halloween. Happy Halloween. Halloween. It goes back to the fifteen hundreds. In Scotland, Halloween it meant Hallows Evening, which is the night before All Hallow's Day. That's when they honored all the Catholic saints. Obviously, it's changed a lot over the years.

0:52 By the late eighteen hundreds, kids in Scotland and Ireland they would dress up and go in costumes from door to door and from their neighbors getting food. The phrase trick or treat. That's starting Canada in nineteen twenty seven. By the nineteen thirty is tricker treating was common all over the United States. Now today, forty eight percent of you will wear a costume, forty six percent of you will carba pumpkin, sixteen percent of you will dress up your dog, and twenty one percent of you, yeah, you'll pretend like you're not home. Y'all have a safe and happy Halloween. All right, this's going on in entertainment. In October thirty first, let's baut your nineteen eighty eight number one album was New Jersey by Bon Jovie. Phil Collins had the number one song with Groovy Kind of Love Control Shoe. T. Graham Brown had the number one country song with Darling Darling, sit down and need to talk to you. Then you do what you won't not do. Just you me through stun You don't know the guy. Third number one book was The Queen of the Dan by Danielle Steele. Todd movie was They Live. They

2:25 control the world without us knowing it, and you need a special pair of sunglasses in order to see them. Stars Roddy Paper, Roddy Pepper and David Keith and Meg Foster. All right, let's see what happened in the world. 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 on the door of the Catholic Church Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany. Now it took a while for the ninety five thesises to make their way to the poem. But when the Pope got it, yeah Luther, he was excommunicat Luther had to go hide for his life. Now. The Protestant Reformation ended up splitting up Europe into two. Northern Europe went Protestant and Southern Europe pretty much state Catholic. Eighteen forty six, due to heavy snow, the Donner Party they realized that they weren't gonna make it over that Sahara Nevada Mountains, so they decided to build themselves a winter camp. Kind of a spoiler alert that won't turn out good for them. Well, Happy Birthday, Nevada, it was today. In eighteen sixty four, Nevada became the thirty sixth state. The Spanish named Nevada for a snow covered mountain range. Now, even though most of that state is desert, they named it after the Sahara Mountains, so eighty six percent of the Nevada It's an inhabited by people.

4:00 The capital is Carson City. Highest point is Boundary Peak at thirteen and forty seven peak. The Nevada state tree is the bristle cone pine. State bird is the Mountain blue jay fish, cutthroat trout flour, sagebrush, reptile, desert tortoise, state mammal. That's a desert bighorn sheep. Some people born in Nevada. Tennis player Under Agacy, baseball player Bryce Harper. Actors is Don Wells. She was Marianna on Gilligan's Island Race car drivers Kurt and Kyle Busch, former First Lady Pat Nixon, Imagine Dragon's lead singer Dan Reynolds, and all the guys from the TV Showpond Stars yep all born in the Silver State. Nineteen thirteen, the first paved coast to coast highway in the United States opened up. It was called the Lincoln Highway. It was three thousand, three hundred and eighty nine miles long. Now it wasn't like the Interstate.

4:51 No, this thing neandered through town to town and all that kind of stuff ended up going from New York's Times Square to San Francisco. Eighteen seventeen and World War One, it was last time in world history at calvary charge was actually successful. It was in the Battle of Bersheba in Southern Palestine. The Australian Calvary was able to pull it off. Nineteen twenty three, Marble Bay, Australia, temperature hit one hundred grades, so what well, that's going to hit one undred reeace for the next one hundred and sixty days. Nineteen forty one, the United States was still six weeks away from joining World War Two. After Pearl Harbor so off of Iceland, the United States warship the Reuben James was sunk by a German U boat. It was helping escort a convoy of merchant ships to Europe. One hundred and fifteen US sailors were killed, so they were the first US serviceman killed in World War Two.

5:39 Nineteen eighty three, Ron 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 averaged thirty eight miles a day. Started and ended in Brisbane. Nineteen eighty four, the Prime Minister of India in dear Gandhi. She was assassinated by her two bodyguards. They killed her and well, she was walking in the garden of the Prime Minister's residence. She's actually been interviewed for a documentary on an Ireland TV station. They shot her over thirty times and then they didn't run or anything. They just surrendered and they were both executed for it. Nineteen ninety two, Pope John Paul the Second bless him. He had to take one for the team. That's right. He was the Pope. We had to come out and publicly announce that the Catholic Church was wrong. Yeah, they shouldn't have treated astronomer Galowaya the way they did. Pope John Paul the Second said Galileo was right. The Earth does rove around the Sun, and Galileo shouldn't have been treated. He shouldn't have been tortured and have to spend the last eight years of his life in her house arrest. Now, I'm sure most of you have seen or heard about the movie Soul Surfer. It was two thousand and three today that thirteen year old surfer Bethany Hamilton had her arm bitten off by a shark which she was surfing in Hawaii. In twenty eighteen, the world's largest statue was unveiled.

6:49 The Statue of Unity is what it's called, is over in India and the state of Gujarat. Five hundred ninety seven foot statue is of the Indian independence leader said, ar Patel go goat, coat coat goat shows this shiver day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverday. We don't simple to let this shiver birthday. And you know we don't get because that's her birthday. Well, let's check out it was born on Halloween. Dale Evans wrote that song for her and her husband in nineteen fifty one, Happy Trails. Her husband was Roy Rogers Dale. She was born in Yuvalde, Texas. In nineteen twelve, when she was fourteen years old, she eloped. They had a son, and then the guy just abandoned her and her baby boy.

7:50 So a sixteen year old singer, Mom Dale, she went to Memphis to try and make it as a musician. She got jobs on the radio and gigs them playing on the piano. She told everybody the sun her brother and she was taking care of him. Now. Over the year she had some minor success. She married divorce two more times. In nineteen forty seven, she married Roy Rogers. They had five kids together. In the nineteen fifties, they starred on the Roy Rogers TV Show. They made a lot of movies, released a lot of songs. Roy died in nineteen ninety eight. Dale She lived in two thousand and one from her heart failure at eighty eight years old. Actor Michael land And. He was born of Forest Hills, New York in nineteen thirty six. Best known for TV first hit Big playing Little Joe Kurtwrighte on Bonanza. Then he was Paw on Little House in the Prairie. Then he was Jonathan on Highway to Heaven. He was on the cover of TV Guy twenty two times. That's second only the Lucille Balls thirty nine. Land And He had two sons from his first wife. Then he had two sons and three daughters from his second wife. He had a son and a daughter from his third wife. They had married nineteen eighty three until he died in nineteen ninety one at fifty four years old from pink creatic cancer.

9:07 Actor John Candy. He was born in Toronto, Canada, in nineteen fifty first got known in the movie Stripes, then Splash, Spaceballs, The Great Outdoors, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Uncle Buck. He got married in nineteen seventy nine and they had two children. He tried over the years, but he just could not lick the weight nope. He cannot lose weight to save his soul. Ended up dying from a heart attack in nineteen ninety four at forty three years old. Actor comedian Rob Schneider's sixty. He was born in San Francisco in nineteen sixty three. Start out on Saturday Night Live for four years. Then he's been in every single Adam Sandler movie. Some of his own movies where Reduced, Bigelow, Male Jigglow. He did both of those, The Animal, Hot Chicks, Benchwarmers. He had a daughter from a fleeing back in the eighties, and he got married in twenty eleven and they have two children. I said, Lord, please forgive me four my scene. My whit phone in to kill me, but she tried to save me. You're going if I have to drag you a budget. I love this crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful, beautiful country singer Darrel World. He's fifty nine. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen sixty four. Some I mean his biggest hits. I missed my friend. Have you forgotten? Awful beautiful life? If something should happen now he is having a home for the holidays, Christmas concert series out there in Nashville, and it's pretty much every day from now until Christmas if you want to check that out if you're in Nashville. Darrell he married his second wife in two thousand and seven and they have a daughter. So he celebrated back

10:37 in two thousand and seven getting married. Yeah, he posed nude for Playgirl magazine. He's so fun. He can bed you sign yes. Six side on Fire. That was Annabellawn singing lead for Bow Wow Wow. She was born in Rangoon, Burma in nineteen sixty six. Fifty seven year old now in the band Adam and the Ants broke up the Ants, they went and formed Bow Wow Wow. Then they got thirteen year old Annabella to sing lead for him. That was back in nineteen eighty. Well, they broke up, got together, broke up, got together. Then in two thousand and three, Annabella she was off doing her solo stuff bow Wow Wow. They just got back together without her and they just said we're gonna go. So later on she created Annabella's Bow Wow Wow. And so so you have your choice, do you want to go with the original Bow Wow Wow band or go with the lead singer. I'll take the singer Annabella. She hasn't married yet, Mokey next morning we pass finished to come out and Charlie. As a Beastie Boy, he was known as ad Rock. He was born Adam Horovitz in fifty seven year old was born in New York City in nineteen sixty

12:09 six. He actually started out a punk band called Young and the Useless. Now they would open up for the Beastie Boys. And then in nineteen eighty two, the Beastie Boys had an opening, so they picked ad Rock to fill the spot. Sold fifty million records since then. When Adam Yach died in twenty twelve, the Beastie Boys they decided not to replace him. They just called her quits. Yeah, they didn't want to go on without him in the band. Ad Rock. His first wife was actors i own Sky for three years. Married his second wife in two thousand and six. Speak of that booze um relation your brain like a boys, this's a mushroom dead. League would not play it. Don't Melich anything less than the best as a fella. He loved to leave it. You bet I can't wage, You bet I get pulls out a kid don't play. If there was a problem, Joe, I'll saw it. Chick got the hook for my DJ for Bolls. No, that wasn't Nwa No, that was Vanilla Ice.

13:01 Now he's back to using his born name. He was born Robert van Winkel, but of course he became famous for Vanilla Ice. Born in Dallas, Texas, in nineteen sixty seven, fifty six, Yell started out as a professional motocross racer and he broke his ankle. As there's recovering from his ankle, he got into really hip hop big so when his ankle recovered, yeah, he just quit motocross went into music. Now that song we played Ice Ice Baby, that was the first hip hop song to go number one. He's released eight albums over the years, but that only other funk play that funky music. That's his only other real big hit though. Now he is on a Love the Nineties tours right now if you want to go out and see him on that. He had two daughters from his first wife. He has a child from his second wife and they're still together. I guess she's done, she's done, she wants That was Lynn Bergrean singing lead for the band Asa Bass. She's fifty three. She was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, in nineteen seventy. She hap form Asa Bass in nineteen eighty seven.

14:13 Some of their biggest hits are All That She Wants, the sign Don't turn Around, Beautiful Life. They sold over fifty million records. That makes them the third most successful Swedish band of all time. They're behind Abba and Rosette. Now in two thousand and seven, Lynn she just dropped out of the band kind of. She basically dropped out of life. She didn't want to have anything to do with anybody anymore. She just went and did her own thing. She talks to her sister and she's having a really good life. There's been a reck loose out there and she says she's perfectly happy. So good for her. I guess right, alrighty, some little how Hollywood Halloween trivia here. What do you think the number one Halloween candy of all time is? That's Reese's Peanut Buttercups. The number one is selling candy of all time? Those actually M and M's. Well, thank you for being here today. We have appreciate don't forget about coolmedia dot com so you can see what's going on on the podcast and the radio station and stuff. Let's send it out with actor Sean Connery. He died in twenty twenty at ninety years old. Love may not make the world go round, but it makes the ride worthwhile. You have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. No. No,