Oct 7-Frappe Day, John Mellencamp, Toni Braxton, Radiohead, Yo-Yo Ma, Simon Cowell, Michael W. Smith

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today visited by Cool Media. Day's October the seventh. Your cavay on Away, Emmy Away. Today is National frat a Day. Frapees. They were created in Greece in nineteen fifty one by accident. Now, they didn't start getting popular until the late nineteen eighties. Now, frappuccino, that's just a frat bae. It's just Starbucks name for it. Frat bae is if you don't know. They are ice splinterid coffee that comes in a whole lot of different variations, served with whipped cream and shirp. Most popular pumpkin spie, salted caramel moch and chocolate mocha. Now no matter how you out earth though, Yeah, not healthy for you. A lot of fat calories in there, but I guess that's okay if you want to celebrate today. There are deals today, but not really any good ones. I mean everybody that sells frap bays they're doing something like Starbucks, McDonald's dunkin Donuts. Yeah, so if that's your thing, enjoy a frap bay today, all right? See what happened entertainment in October the seventh, Let's go back to nineteen ninety seven. Number one album was Butterfly by Mariah Carey. Boys the Man had the number one song with four Seasons of Loneliness.

1:35 No Man, When I get into college, up to Somebody. You always those The. Podcast Diamond Rio has the number one country song with how Your Love Makes Me Feel. It's My Dumb Sound All the free, honest, fighting city Round.

2:15 The number one book was Flood, tied by Clive Klesler. Top movie Let's Kiss the Girls Place hunting as serial killer. They finally get a break when a potential victim is able to escape. Stars Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd and carry Always all Right? What happened in October the seventh. Now we all know the Christomer Club has never set foot on or even saw America, But according to his long books, it was today. In fourteen ninety two, he changed his original course. Now he had kept on that course, he would hit Florida. Seventeen fourteen, one of the biggest riots in the history of the Netherlands took place in the city of Alkmar. Yeah. The people they were told the government was gonna start taxing bear. Yeah, the city went that crap crazy. Seventeen thirty seven, a cyclone hit Calcutta, India, caused forty foot ways to come in short, killed over three hundred thousand people.

2:59 In college foot ball in nineteen sixteen Georgia Tech. They were coached by John Heisman, Yeah the guy. The trophy is named after. They beat Cumberland College two hundred and twenty two to nothing. That is the most lop side of scoring football history. Nineteen fifty nine, the Soviet Union spacecraft Lood of three took the first pictures of the back side of the moon, or the far side of the moon. I mean, some people call it the dark side of the moon, but it gets just as much sun light as the side that we see now, the two sides of the moon. They are different though in appearance wise anyway. That far side of the moon it is just covered in craters of all different sizes of the whole thing. It doesn't look anything like the side that we see. This record still stands. In nineteen sixty five and Omaha, Nebraska, on the tenth hole at the Miracle Hills golf Course, a fifty mile an hour wind gus to help Robert Mittierra. He had a four hundred and forty seven yard hole in one. It's the longest straight hole in one ever still standing. Nineteen ninety six, Fox News went on the air. In two thousand and three, Arnold Schwarzenegger was elected governor of California and served eight years.

3:58 It was just last year that Humus attack the Israeli's Yeah, I killed almost twelve hundred people and took two hundred and fifty one hostages. It was Israel's equivalent to the United States is nine to eleven. Now they're still fighting. There's still like one hundred hostages be in helld that Israel. They're getting pretty clse to pretty much wiping out hummets from the Gaza. Strippe Dope dope, dope shug this shivethday, we're gonna pu he left this shiverthday. We don't simple target this shiver birthday. And you know we don't get that birthday. Well, let's just check out it's born in October. The seventh story I Need a Lever. That was the first hit song for John Mellencamp. He recorded and I eeteen seventy eight, but back then he was going by John Cougar see Mellencamp. He's seventy three today. He was born in Seymour, Indiana, in nineteen fifty one. He started out as John Cougar because his record company didn't like Mellencamp, but John liked it, so when he got big enough, he changed it to John Cougar Mellencamp. Then nineteen ninety one, just John Mellencamp sold over sixty million records. Jack and Diane hurt so good pink Ows was rocking in the USA.

5:22 That's someone he has three times divorced. He had one child with his first wife, two from a second, and two from his third. And he guesses, yeah, you're right, that was pretty obvious. Yo Yo Ma He is an American cellis who was born in Paris, France, nineteen fifty five and he's born to Chinese parents. Sixty nine years old today. Now, if you ever wondered what Yo Yoma's Chinese name is, is Ma Yo Yo probably the most famous cellis of all time. He was a child prodigy.

6:02 He was performing by the time he's four and a half years old. He's recorded ninety two albums, one nineteen Grammy. His music it kind of goes from traditional Chinese melodies to American bluegrass, then over to Argentina and tango and everything in between. But of course he does the classic orchestra music too. He is currently on tour if you want to check it out. He's got dates always scheduled till June. He's been married since nineteen seventy eight and they have a son and a daughter. Looking for Me. Nine five Places World. That was Michael W. Smith. He took that song Place in This World up to number six on the Pop chart. Michael is a contemporary Christian singer.

6:52 Born nineteen fifty seven in Canovo, West Virginia. Sixty seven years old. He's won forty five Double Awards, three Grammys, and thirty three songs go to number one on the Christian chart. It's also written fourteen books. Now he kicks off his yearly Christmas tour November eighth. He's doing it, kicking it off up in Greeley, Colorado. It runs till December twenty fourth, doing a whole bunch of shows at the end of the third in Nashville. Michael and got married nineteen eighty one and they have five children. Simon cow He's sixty five, is born in London. England in nineteen fifty nine. Now he was a semi successful record producer in Talent scott Then he hit huge when he came up with the idea of TV talent shows start Off and Breton with the X Factor and then Britain's Got Talent. Then of course American Idol. Now that Idol franchise.

7:36 It's in countries all over the world. It goes from like Iraq Idol, the Croatia Idol, Pakistan Idol, India Idol, Vietnam Idol, Australia Idol. Yeah, you get the fight all over the world. Simon. He's been with this fiancee since twenty thirteen and they have one son to come walk down the. Door, one down. These quite the many nights. Tony Braxton she was born in nineteen sixty seven and seven Maryland. She's fifty seven. It's all over seventy million records.

8:18 Some of her biggest hits Sorry You Make Me High and Break My Heart He Wasn't man enough, Breathe Again. She had a reality TV show that ran from twenty eleven to twenty twenty two or twenty twenty. It was called Braxton Family Values. She was married for twelve years when they divorced and they had two sons, now Tony. She does a lot of shows on Las Vegas, so if you want to check her out, you can probably just find one. She'll be doing a residency out there somewhere. They're beautiful. I wish how special, so fully special.

9:01 The lead singer for Radiohead is Tom York. He was born well in Berlin, England, in nineteen sixty eight. That makes him fifty six years old today. Heh form Radiohead in nineteen eighty five. This will over thirty million records. Some of their biggest hits here in the United States are creep, high and dry, no surprises new now. He releases a lot of solo alfroms on the side of from Radiohead, but it's nothing like Radiohead. His solo stuff, it's all electronic music, no instruments. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in twenty twenty. All right, let's see what kind of weird fact to it we can give you today that'll make you maybe possibly win a beer in a bet. Do you know that you do not have to be a lawyer to be in the United States Supreme Court Justice? No, you just have to get nominated. Anybody can do it. Well, thank you for listening today. Don if we have to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on, it comes.

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