Oct 6-Plus Sized Women, Super Soaker, Reo Speedwagon, Los Lobos, Elizabeth Shue, Instagram, Pink Power Ranger

0:19 Hi everyone, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's October the 6th. Today is National Plus Size Appreciation Day. Today, we celebrate the beauty of all women. Ladies, you don't have to starve yourself or live at the gym to be beautiful. You already are. Now, today, we're going to remind you of that. Now, in the modeling world, a model is considered plus size if she's a size 6 or bigger. Well, the average American woman, she wears about around a 14, give or take. So guys, no matter what size of woman in your life is today, yeah, just make sure you let her know how pretty and beautiful she really is.

1:18 You know what? Guys, take her out for some noodles. Today is also National Noodles Day. Woo-hoo! That's right. Lots of deals today. Big ones are Fazoli's and Noodles and Company's. Yeah, they're having big deals today. So that's a fun way to start the week. All right. What happened in entertainment on October 6th back in 1981? Number one album was Tattoo You by the Rolling Stones. Diana Ross and Lionel Richie had their number one song with Endless Love. And your eyes Your eyes Your eyes May tell me how much you care Oh yes You will always be My endless love.

2:08 T.G. Shepard had the number one country song with Party Time. The number one book was Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. The top movie was Paternity. A single guy, he wants to find a woman who will have his baby, no strings attached. Stars Burt Reynolds, Beverly D'Angelo, Norman Fell. The guy played Mr. Roper. 1927, the movie The Jazz Singer was released into theaters. It was the first talking motion picture of all time. Now, two years later, all movies will be talking. So the end of silent movies was with The Jazz Singer. Alright, what happened on October 6th? 1866!

3:07 brothers john and simeon reno they made history in jackson county indiana they were the first to rob a train while it was running that's right see other train robbers they waited till the train stopped at the depot but not the reno brothers nope as the train was chugging along across indiana yep they stole thirteen thousand dollars be about four hundred thirty thousand dollars today so i'm sure mama reno was pretty proud of her boys but then her other two boys frank and william they decided to join them too so they just they weren't real creative they just called themselves the reno brothers In 1893, Nebraska, they invented cream of wheat cereal. Yeah, that wasn't very creative either. Chicago in 1945, a bar owner, he was nicknamed Billy Goat Sianis. He bought a ticket for him and his real goat to go to game four of the World Series. It was between the Detroit Tigers and the Chicago Cubs in Wrigley Field. Well, it's the security there escorting him out.

3:58 Yeah. So as they were outside the stadium, he cursed a goat curse on the Chicago Cubs. Well, did the curse work? Well, the Cubs lost that World Series, which they were favored to win. Then they didn't win the World Series again until 2016, so 71 years later. Now, I don't think this is really what you want to hear from your president. 1961, with tensions running really high between the Soviet Union and the United States, President John Kennedy told Americans to start building fallout shelters to help themselves in a nuclear bomb war. 1966, LSD was declared an illegal drug. Kind of a buzzkill. 2010, two nerds launched Instagram. Yeah, the first post was a picture of a dog in Mexico at a taco stand.

4:39 That's how I know they were nerds. Now, I do not understand how this is possible, but in 2018, in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 50 people were killed and over 100 people were severely burned after an oil tanker hit a car. Okay, who was born on October the 6th? Actress Janet Gaynor. She was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania in 1906. Now, she won the first. Best Actress Oscar. It was given out in 1928.

5:21 Now, at that time, they just awarded it to the best actress that year. See, Jane, she had actually starred in Seventh Heaven, Street Angels, and Sunrise, a song of two humans. And the Academy, they thought, well, she did the best acting job this year, so let's give it to her. Now, the next year, they decided to give it for individual pictures. So one movie, one nomination, that kind of thing. But you know what? She didn't have any trouble going over from silent movies to talkies like others did. Nope, she was still just a huge star. And in 1939, she retired, 33 years old. Yep, she wanted to just be a mom and go raise her son. So she had married her second husband. Now, he was a costume designer, and they only got married to hide the fact that he was gay. Well, they hid it really well because she got pregnant with that little boy.

6:04 They stayed married for 20 years until her gay husband died from a stroke. Then she married her third guy in 1964. They were together until she died in 1984. Yeah, she got in a really bad car accident. She died from injuries from it. She was 77 years old. Actress Carol Lombard. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1908. Now, as big as Janet I was talking about was, Carol, she was bigger. Yep, she was the top actress in the world. And she was married to the top actor in the world, Clark Gable. Now, during World War II, she was out on a tour for promoting war bonds. You know, that helped support the United States in World War II. Well, when she was done with the tour, she was flying back home. They had a plane crash, killed all 37 people on board. It was 1942.

6:44 She was 33 years old. Lonnie Johnson, 77. He was born in Mobile, Alabama. Back in 1966, Lonnie, he was representing his high school at the Alabama State Fair on like a technology contest. He was the only black student who was entered. Well, he won. See, he had made a robot that was powered by compressed air. So that caused him to go in and be an aerospace engineer for NASA. Now, he did some great work for NASA. He didn't think it was challenging enough, though, so he quit. Then he went out and he invented the super soaker water gun and then the Nerf gun. Yeah, both use principle of compressed air. Now, he made a lot more money from those inventions than Madison was ever going to pay him. Now, he's in the Inventor Hall of Fame.

7:25 He is married, and they have four children. Yeah, that was Kevin Cronin. He was the lead singer for REO Speedwagon. Yeah, they just called their quits earlier this year. Kevin's 75. He was born in Evanston, Illinois. He joined REO in 1975. Sold over 40 million records. Take it on the run. Keep on loving you. Time for me to fly. Can't fight this feeling. That's some of their biggest. Kevin, you were back in 1992, and they have six kids.

8:10 Ba-la-la-la-la-la-la. Ba-la-la-la-la-la. No, that was not Richie Valens. Nope, that was David Hildago. He is the lead singer for the band Los Lobos. David's 72. He was born in Los Angeles. Helped form Los Lobos in 1973. That means the Wolves. Now, they actually have shows all the way scheduled through April. So if you want, you have plenty of time to go see Los Lobos and consoles. They won four Grammys, been nominated 12 times. Now, David, he sings and plays the drum for the band. But he also plays in the studio for other artists who are recording records. So in the studio, David has played on other people's albums. He's played the accordion, the violin, the banjo, the cello, drums, guitar. Yeah, all on other artists' records. He does have two sons, and they're both drummers in their own bands. Actress Elizabeth Shue.

9:15 She was born in Wilmington, Delaware in 1963. 63 today. Actor Andrew Shue. Yeah, that's her younger brother. Now, her first movie was Karate Kid, then Cocktail, Back to the Future 2 and 3. She was nominated for an Oscar for the movie Leaving Las Vegas. On TV, she was on CSI for a couple years. Now, she got married in 1994, and they have one son and two daughters. Actress Amy Jo Johnson's 56. She was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts. She's most known for TV. She played Kimberly Hart on the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. Yeah, she was the pink one. Later on, she was on Felicity and then Flashpoint. Now, she still acts, but she does more directing. Now, she was married for eight years and they had a daughter. Now, she gets mistaken a lot for actress Jennifer gardner so much so that now i mean she just goes with it yeah somebody asked she just gives them jennifer gardner's autograph yeah she doesn't know what jennifer gardner's autograph looks like but she gets it from him anyway all righty our quote of the day it comes from eddie van halen The greatest guitarist of all time. He died today in 2020 when he was 65 years old. Eddie says, it makes me feel kind of weird, but obviously the man upstairs has given me something and it touches people.

10:45 I am just so, so blessed. Thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on any of your listening to us on so we're easy to find. Make sure you look down at today's show notes or description or however they write it down so you can figure out the links to us and what's going on and all that kind of stuff. Our Country Underground Radio Artist of the Day comes today from Kayla down in Pueblo, Colorado. She wants to hear a Jesse Lynn song, Keepin' the Ring. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. He's gone, he's history It was fine at the start till he trampled on my heart and cheated on me. Looked me in the eye and lied like some guy on an unread country song. Now he's gone for so long.

11:43 Maybe I'll cry tomorrow, but tonight I won't. I keep in the rain. Now I ain't no material girl. But it warms my heart and shines brighter than the stars lighting up. My whole world.

12:23 If he tries to take it back, he's gonna see what happens. When a country girl gets real mad. Real mad. Maybe I'll cry tomorrow, but tonight. But it's alright You'll never be one good thing