Oct 4-Vodka, Charlton Heston, Susan Sarandon, Triumph, Dakota Johnson, Melissa Benoist, Alicia Silverstone

0:19 He Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factor. It's about today. Today is October the fourth. It doesn't sound like a faery sale. It's Russian Bay Russian. What's what's What's what? What's what's boards? Russian? What's up? What's What's? Today is National Vodka Day? Whata hey waited? Kick off the weekend. Vodka. It's the number one spirit in America. Actually it's number one spirit in the world. Now, that's a liquor that you mix with other mixed drinks. You know that kind of stuff. Now, vodka it's ahead of tequila, and rum about tequila. It's coming on strong though. Vodka it's a Russian for water. It basically is vodka was created in Russian in the fifth century. Now it does not have a taste or smell, but it does kind of have a burn to it.

1:10 Now. It is really potent, though it can mess you up. So you got your Bloody Mary's, Cosmopolitans, screwdrivers, White Russians, Martini's long island Ized tea. I think you all know how to celebrate National Vodka Day. You don't like vodka, yes, actual national cinnamon cinnamon, butdondatad I do all right, this is going on in entertainment in October fourth, let's go back to nineteen sixty eight. Number one album was time Piece The Rascal's Greatest Hits by the Rascals. The Bills had the number one song with Hey Jude. Hey Jude, don't make it Bade. Take a side and make it Bada we to Leial, then you can start to make.

2:03 Genie c Riley had the number one country song with Harper Valley Pta and if. Your smell Shirley Thompson's bread your mind. She's had a little nipple jan And then you have the night to tell me you think that I has a mother, I'm not fit. Well, this is just a little tight place and you're all Harper Valley and Grits. The number one book was Couples by John Updike. The top movie was Night of the Living Dead. Now today it's a cult classic in Pennsylvania. A group of people they barricade themselves into an old farmhouse to try and protect themselves from fresh eating zombies. Stars Dwayne Jones, Judith o'deay, and Karl Heinzman. All right, let's see what happened in the world on October the fourth, in China, the largest naval battle in history was fought. It was the Battle of Lake Poyang, Yes, the largest lake over in China.

3:00 Now over eight hundred and fifty thousand sailors fought in the battle. Chinese rebel leader Xu yang Xing. He defeated Chang Yuling. Yep, it was a huge upset. Vegas took a really beating on that one. Sixteen seventy five in the Netherlands, Christian Higgins he invented the pocket watch. Now that was actually pretty huge. It might not sound like it today. I mean today you can get your time anywhere computer, your phone, your wall clock, wristwatch, micro wave, love and bank buildings anywhere. Back then you can get the time of day from anywhere. Eighteen seventy three, the Toronto Argonized Football Club at formed. Now they play in the Canadian Football League. They are the oldest pro sports team in North America that still uses an original name. Eighteen eighty three, the famous train, the Orange Express left on its first trip went from Paris to It's Tanbul.

3:47 Now they had had luxury dining cars, luxury sleeping cars. The trip took eighty hours, ran until nineteen seventy seven. Then people kind of thought, you, wo, screw eighty hours. I can take a plane and get there in three and a half hours. Nineteen Fifth Dinosaur National Monument it was established. It's in western Colorado eastern Utah along on the border there. It's pretty cool if you're into dinosaurs. Kind of a barren place may be for traveling. I seventy and want to take a break from the desert South Dakota GutsMan Borland. He started sculpting Mount Rushmore Today in nineteen twenty seven, kept out it until nineteen forty one when he died. Now he wasn't done with his original plans what he wanted to do, but nobody else wanted to finish it, so they just call it good. Nineteen fifty seven, in the Soviet Union they lost spud Nick one, the first man made satellite to orbit the Earth.

4:32 Now it is the size of a beachs ball, weigh one hundred and eighty four pounds. Took it ninety eight minutes to orbit the Earth. Now it orbited it for three months and then fell back to the Earth. All it did up there was send back a radio signal kind of pinged let everybody know it was there. Nineteen sixty five, Pope Paula six, he became the first pope to leave Italy since eighteen oh nine. Yeah, he came to the United States, New York City, more specific, first pope to actually go the Western hemisphere. So he gave us speech at the un He visited the World's Fair, he held massive Yankee Stadium. It sounds like he had a good time shot. Have you ever wondered with the ram song what's the frequency? Kenneth actually about Well. In nineteen eighty six, CBS newscaster Dan Rather, he was docking down the street in New York City when he was attack and knocked to the ground. Now the guy who did he stood over him. He started shouting at him, Kennez, what's the freaquing? Say Kennos, what's the frequenc Yeah, he was really irate and irrational. See, the guy believed that the TV networks were beaming signals into his brain. Now he wanted the frequency so he could block it. Well, he took off before the police showed up. Then in nineteen ninety four, that same guy he killed the stage hand when he tried to burst into the NBC studios they got in that time. Then after a lot of debate and a lot of studying the guy, the experts and authority, they all conclude that he had mental problems.

6:02 His name was William Taggart. Joke joke, joked, joke, sage dish Shibbert days gone. He left dish shivers day. We got simple carge. He left dish shibirth day. And you know we don't do day, okay. He was born in October the fourth Rutherford B. Hayes. He was born in Delaware, Ohio, in eighteen twenty two. Now he was a lawyer, then became a brigadier general for the Union Army during the Civil War. Then he became the nineteenth President of the United States, serve from eighteen seventy seven to eighteen eighty one. Now, he did not win the popular vote, and no one running that year had enough electoral votes. That man went to the US House of Representatives. Well, they picked Hayes mainly because he said he'd only serve one term he would end reconstruction and the occupation of the Southern States. Well, he did keep his word. He was married and they had eight kids. He died from a heart attack in eighteen ninety three at seventy years old. Actor Charlton Heston. He was born in Wilmette, Illinois, in nineteen twenty three. Now he isn't in over one hundred movies acted for sixty years.

7:04 He won an Oscar for being her some of the other movies He started in with The Ten Commandments, the greatest story ever told Julius Caesar midway playing into the Apes. Now he served as president of the NRA for five years. He had married Way back in nineteen forty four and they had four kids. Heston. He died in two thousand and eight, eighty four years old. From Alzheimer's writer Anne Rice. She was born in New Orleans in nineteen forty one. Sold over one hundred million books, best known for her vampire books. The big ones were Interview with the Vampire and Queen of the Damn And She was married for forty one years when her husband died and then she died Or They had a son and daughter together. Then Ann died from a stroke twenty twenty one, at eighty years old. Actress Susan Sarandon. She's seventy nine. She's born in Queen's, New York in nineteen forty six, now Susan.

7:46 She has been nominated for Best Actress Oscars for Atlantic City, Thelma and Louise Lorenzo's Oil the Client that she won one. Yeah, that's for a dead man Walking. Now. She married a guy in college. They were married eleven years when they divorced, but she didn't want to do that again, so she had a daughter from a boyfriend. Then she dated actor Tim Robbins for twenty years and they had two sons. That was Gilmore singing for the band Triumph. He also plays their drums. Now gil He's born in Toronto, Canada in nineteen fifty three, seventy two years old to day. Now Triumph. They are a really underrated band, probably because they're Canadian. But they may or may not have just finished their last tour. I quite sure.

8:41 You see, they actually retired in nineteen ninety three, but they're actually still out there. They started in nineteen seventy five. Some of their biggest hits are Laid on the Line, Magic, Power Fight, The Good Fight, World of Fantasy. Now Gil he has built one of the largest recording studio and stated the starts recording studios in the world. The last thirty years. Pretty much everybody who records goes up there, at least for a little bit to record with him. Just some of the artists who's gone up to Canada recording Gil Studio, Guns N' Roses, Erosmith, Katie Perry, Black Eyed Peace Drake. I guess Drake didn't have far to go in Canada. Now. Gilly has two daughters and one son. Actor Bill Fagerbaky. He was born in Fontana, California, in nineteen fifty seven, now that sixty eight year old grew up in Idaho.

9:25 He played defensive end for the University of Idaho football team. Yeah, then he blew his knee out, so he went in and up, graduating with a degree in drama. He got famous playing Dabbery on the sitcom Coach bigest success though. He's been voicing Patrick on SpongeBob Scriptbant since nineteen ninety nine, but since twenty twenty one he also has his own show. It's called The Patrick Star Show. Now. He was married for over twenty years when they divorced, and they had two daughters. Actress Alicia Silverstone. She's forty nine. She was born in San Francisco in nineteen seventy six. She first hit in the movie Crush. She's only sixteen years old. Then she's starting a couple Aerosmith videos, Crying and Crazy, then Clueless. She was Batgirl in Batman and Robin. She married once for thirteen years and she has a son from that. Actress Melissa Banoist. She was born in nineteen eighty eight in Houston, Texas, thirty seven to day.

10:13 First got known on TV. She's best known for TV pretty much. She was on Glee. Then she was a Supergirl for six years. So because she was super Girl, that means she had to be in appearances on Flash and Aero. Melissa. She made her second husband in twenty nineteen and they have one son. Actress Dakota Johnson's thirty six. She was born in Austin, Texas, in nineteen eighty nine. Her famous parents are actors Don Johnson and Melanie Griffith. Dakota. She was in her first movie when she's ten years old. Yeah, she had a small partner Mom's movie Crazy in Alabama. She made a name for herself though in all those Fifty Shades movies. She was also Madame Webb and Splitsville. She did a Chris Martin, the lead singer for Coldplay for eight years. They just broke up in June, something to do with wanting to have kids and not wanting to give kids. Bad subjects. Alright here Quota of the day.

10:57 It comes from Janis Joplin. Oh Lord, won't you buy me a merceedies Man's my friends all drive porces, I must make game Man's. We're hard on my lifetime. No help from my friends? Song, Lord, won't you buy me a merceies Man? Jan has died today in nineteen seventy, at twenty seven years old. She said, don't compromise yourself. You're all you've got. Well, thank you all for this today. Don't forget to follow us on you listen to his aunts We're easy to fall, and make sure you go to the show description today down there so you can sell the links out to get in touch with us and all that fun stuff our country underground radio artists. Today it comes from Trade down there in Dallas. He wants to hear Clayton Anderson song better by the day. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow this.

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