Oct 8-Chevy Chase, Sigourney Weaver, Kool & the Gang, CeCe Winans, Matt Damon, Bruno Mars, Nick Cannon

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it is about today, isn't it about cool media? Today's October the eighth. Today is National Fluff Nutter Day. I think you had to grow up back east to enjoy fluffer nutter Now. What is flaff for Nutter? Well, it was created in Somerville, Massachusetts, around nineteen seventeen. Basically whip marshmallows.

0:51 Now instead of puting jelly on your peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Yeah, they use peanut butter and fluffer Nutter. I guess you don't have to have grown up back East to be in New England. You know. Try some fluff for noder today, Give it a shot. Who knows, maybe it'll be a fluffer nutter arian. All right, listen, it happened in entertainment in October the eighth. Let's back to nineteen eighty seven number one album was Bad by Michael Jackson. Whitney Houston had the number one song with Didn't We Almost Have It All? Didn't We All Have it All? We had working. R When You Loved My Rose and Cash had the number one country song with the Way We Make a Broken Heart. You'll get used to tell the last feeling sorry when she cries down.

1:51 Down the strings all that shoe Catchum, We've done a hall. Since. In The number one book was Patriot Games by Tom Clancy. The top movie was Fatal Attraction, A Married Guys One Night, Stan comes back to haunt him Big time stars Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, and An Archer. Alright, what happened on October the eighths today? In eighteen seventy one, it was a really bad day for fires in the United States. In northeastern Wisconsin, they had the deadliest fire in US history. It's called the Pestigo Fire. A small fire was set to clear some land for railroad construction.

2:35 The area had been going through a drought all summer. Then a front came through and that wind just whipped that small fire into a firestorm. Pistigo and twelve towns that surrounded it all burnt to the ground. The fire burnt oney eight hundred and seventy five square miles. That's bigger than the state of Rhode Island. Now they know for a fact that between fifteen hundred and twenty five hundred people died, but they don't know for sure exactly how many though, because all the records saying who was living in the area at that time, Yeah, burnt up in the fire. Now, you would think that the deadliest fire in the United States history would be a lot more popular. Well, no, see that same day, the Great Chicago Fire of eighteen seventy one. It burnt three and a half square miles of Chicago to the ground. Three hundred people died, three hundred thousand people were left homeless, seventeen four hundred and fifty buildings burnt to the ground.

3:20 Now that's a lot closer to a population, a lot more media, so you hear a lot more about that than up in Wisconsin. Now, the initial story was that a cow kicked over at lantern at Missus O'Leary's barn ah. That was just made up. It was. A reporter wrote that it was pretty yeah, fake news. No one knows what started that damn thing. Nineteen oh six, over in London, England, Carl Nessler he invented the first machine that was able to put waves on curls in women's hair. He demonstrated today in the women they wore a dozen brass curlers. Each curler weigh two pounds. Then they had to sit there for six hours. World War One, in nineteen eighteen, United States soldier Private Alvin York. He became a legend. York and his fellow soldiers, they were behind enemy lines when the German machine gun open fired on him. Immediately, six US soldiers are killed. All the rest of the people the soldiers they doeed for cover and started to care for the wounded. York he single handedly charged that machine gun, killed twenty five German soldiers and six more charged him with bayonets. When they thought he was out of AMML, he just pulled out his pistol and took those six out. Now the German officer was in charge, he ran out of ammal shooting at York, so he just surrendered himself and all his men. So then York he just marched that one hundred and thirty two German prisoners back to the American lines. Private Alvin York was now were here. Sergeant York nineteen forty five, Piercy Spencer.

4:34 He patented the microwave oven. Yeah, it was six feet tall, weighed seven hundred and fifty pounds and cost five grand, not a lot in college dorms. Probably nineteen sixty two North Korea that reported a one hundred percent election turnout. What's miracos about that, though, is the entire one hundred percent all voted for the same guy. Nineteen seventy eight in Australia Ken Warby he got his jet boat up to three hundred and seventeen point fifty nine miles an hour, all the fastest anyone's gone on water. Since then, thirteen people have tried to break that record. Seven of them died. No one's even actually gotten close. Joke, jokes, joked, joke, shog just shibirth day. We're gonna pu he left this shibirthday.

5:16 We want simple cage. He's like this shibirth day. And you know we don't earthday. So you want to know who was born in October eighth, Well Eddie Rickenbacker. He was born in Columbus, Ohio in eighteen ninety. During World One, he was a fighter pilot. His twenty six are ol combat victories. That's dog fights. That's still the most of any US pilot. He was the most awarded United States serviceman for valor during the entire war. Now, before the war, Eddie he was a race car driver, so After the war he had a little cash yea, he bought the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He sold her about twenty years later. Now Eddie. He remade a consultant of the United States Air for US his entire life after the World War One. Got married nineteen twenty two and they had two sons, Eddie. He died from pneumonia nineteen seventy three, eighty two years old at Paul Hogan's eighty five.

6:01 He was born in Parramatta, Australia, in nineteen thirty nine. Now that is a suburb of Sydney. He never lived in the outback of the Bush. Buddy is best known for starring as Crocodile Dandee and all those Crocodile than Knee movies. He was also in Almost an Angel. He was in the movie Flipper. Between nineteen fifty eight and nineteen eighty nine. He married his first wife twice. They had five kids between the two marriages. Then he married actress Linda Koslowski for twenty four years. They had one child, Actor Chevy Chase. He's eighty one. He was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen forty three. First guy known on Saturday Night Live. He was only on to though for a year and a half. Then he went to movies Caddy Shack, The Fletch Movies, Vacation movies, spies like Us Three, Amigo's Chevy. He had a son from a flang. Then he married his third wife in nineteen eighty two and they have three daughters. Writer R. Al Stein. He's also eighty one. He's born in Columbus, Ohio. Now he is the Stephen King of children's books. Yeah, he wrote all those Goosebump and fair Street book series sold over four hundred million bucks. He married nineteen sixty nine and they have one son. They thought little boy like to have his dad telling bedtime stories. Actress Sigourney Weaver. She was born in New York City in nineteen forty nine. That managed her seventy five. She first got famous in the movie alien themed Ghostbusters. I think her best movie was Galaxy Quest. Now she was nominated for Oscars for Aliens, Gorillas in the Midst and Working Girl Sagarnea. She married nineteen eighty four and they have a daughter. How are you gonna do it?

7:23 If you really don't wanna day by standing? Tell men, how are you gonna do it if you really don't wanta da by standing saying come on you wanting. He has never sung late, but the group is named for him. Robert Coolbell. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in nineteen fifty seventy four today now Cool in the gang. They formed in nineteen sixty four. Robert and six of his friends in high school. They formed it in New Jersey. It took him a few years before they finally found Ain't that stuck? Yeah, they picked Cole in the game. They just took his nickname.

8:03 Now. He gave himself a nickname Cool when he was a little boy. Some of them because that's our celebration. Get down on it, Ladies night. Too Hot sold seventy million records. Now Cool. He married in nineteen seventy one. Was high school sweetheart. Yeah, they had one son together. She died in twenty Eighteenllo Urabo and you. That was CC Wine And she's sixty years old today. She's born in Detroit in nineteen sixty four. She is the best selling, a most awarded gospel singer of all time. Started singing in public when she was eight years old. She has one of ten winings kids. She's had a lot of success sing in duets with his brother BIB. I know CCMBB, but that family is really successful in music, really talented musical family.

9:03 So you see. She married nineteen eighty four and they have two children. Actor Matt Damon. He was born in nineteen seventy in Cambridge, Massachusett. It's fifty four year. Been nominated for acting Oscars for Goodwill Hunting in Victa's and The Martian. He won an Oscar for writing Goodwill Hunting. I think his best movie he might have been The rain Maker. I just saw that not too long ago. He did a good job in that. Now was The Ocean. Eleven movies. They're the movies of his that have made the most money. He got married in two thousand and five and they have three daughters. TV personality Nick Cannon was born in San Diego in nineteen eighties forty four. He says he's a comedian and rapper. We're just gonna say. He's a TV host, hosted America's Got Talent and Lip Sing Battles, been hosted in the Mass Singer since twenty nineteen. He was married to singer Mariah Carey for eight years. They had a boy, and a girl. They were twins. Since they're divorced in twenty sixteen, Nick has had ten more kids from five women Jamie Walla.

9:55 It's hosted in the Trash Shit's Hausted in the Trash said give me your Love, mir Song, Have cuz wat shout song on the standing Sidechatch and collect log on the plane Yea. Thirty nine year old Bruno Mars was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in nineteen eighty five. Bruno and his band The Hooligans. They are well known for their live shows. Now the Juligans. They've been with Bruno since he started in twenty ten. Some of their heads just the way you are Gnade uptown Funk. You did that with Mark Ronson. Bruno. He's been dating Jessica Caban since twenty eleven. Bruno and the Huligans, they will be doing a bunch of shows in Las Vegas and December, kind of like a mini residency. Now earlier, I told you about the heroics of Alvin York now originally York. He tried to get out of the Army.

10:48 He claimed he was a CONSCIENCT objector and didn't want to kill anyone. Oh, thank you for listening today, don't forget to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on comes Here's at cool media dot com. That's cool three years. Former owner the Oakland Raiders Alan al Davis. He died today in twenty eleven, eighty two years old. Al says one lie has the power to tarnish a hundred truce. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.