Oct 9-John Lennon, Jackson Browne, Tony Shaloub, Scott Bakula, Scotty McCreery, Megan Moroney

0:10 Well, hi, I am Jeff and welcome to the history in Factor is about today visited by Cool Media. Today's October the ninth. Hey, everybody, it's Leif Erickson Day, King the Danger. Oh hi, Patrick, It's Leif Erickson Day. There's a note SpongeBob went to get more giant paper. Patrick, he is happy. Leif Erickson Day. Today is National leaf Ericson Day. Now, he was a Viking, his dad was Eric the Red. Around the year one thousand, Leaf and his crew landed in what today is Canada. They were assailing the Greenland, but they got blown off course, possibly the first Europeans to set foot on North America.

0:55 Now he named it Vinland because of all the grape vines that were growing there. Now, it was too late in the year to try and get back to Greenland, so they just made camp for the winter, then headed back to Norway in the spring. When they got there, they told everybody all about it. When they hit Norway. Yeah, the Norwegians. Then they all started checking over to Vinland to check it out or Canada. Now, I know that's cool and all, but how do you celebrate I guess you go Nordic, you know'd be all Viking. He pickled herring, smoked salmon. Just remember this guy got to America five hundred years before Columbus and the rest of the guys have followen in, so he's worth celebrating. Alright, this is going on in entertainment in October the ninth. Let's go back to your nineteen seventy seven number one album was Rumors by Fleetwood mac Mecho had. The number one song was Star Wars theme The Kindles. They had the number one country song with Heaven's Just Sent Away Church.

2:17 Church. The number one book was a Silmarillion by J. R. Tolkien. The top movie it was Oh God, God, He came to Earth as an old man and makes a young grocery store manager his messenger to the modern world. Stars George Burns, John Denver, and Terry gar All Right, what happened on October the ninth? During the Civil War in eighteen sixty four, the Union cavalry and the Confederate cavalry went at it at the Battle of Thomas Brook in Virginia. Now the Union they whooped up on the rebels. Locals watching the fight call that the woodstock races the Confederates on their horses just turned till and ran with the Union's chasing them. Now, it was not a significant battle at all, but what makes it interesting and the two officers that were in charge, they were moved roommates back at West Point. The Confederate officer his name was Tom Roser.

3:04 His former roommate, General George Armstrong Custer. Nineteen thirty, lor Ingles became the first female pilot to complete a trans cotton on a flight across the United States. No, not that, lower Ingles. Nineteen thirty six, the Hoover Dam began sending electricity to Los Angeles. Today, fifteen percent of all the electricity generated by the Hoover Dam it still goes to Los Angeles. Nineteen forty six, the first electric blankets went on sale, thirty nine dollars and fifty cents each. That would be six hundred and fifty dollars for an electric blanket today. Nineteen eighty nine, Penthouse Magazine they started printing a Hebrew edition. He Brew edition. You know, there are so many Kosher jokes. I don't even know where we're to start. Nineteen ninety two, a fireball blazed across the sky over Peakskill, New York scared the hell out of a stadium full of people watching a high school football game, especially when they heard allowed boom and crash while everybody rushed to see what would happened. Luckily, they found out no one was hurt. It was just a meteorite the size of a bowling ball. It had taken out out the Nap family is Chevy Malibu. They had it parked in their driveway, and that mean her I was actually seen from Kentucky all the way to New York.

4:07 Joppe Jopp jop dope shot dish shimth day. Please don't pause. He left this shiver day. We want simple tag. He let dish shibirth day and you know you don't do. Let's check out it's born on October the ninth. I try to expre joine the meaning of success. John Lennon he was born in Liverpool, England. In nineteen forty.

4:49 When he was fifteen, he started the band called the Quarryman. After a couple of years, he let Paul McCartney join the band. That of course led to the Beatles. Dido so six hundred million records, that's second behind Elvis time Now, lenn And he sold around twenty three million on his own when he was solo. He was married to his first wife from nineteen sixty two to nineteen sixty eight and they had their son, Julian, and he married Yoko Ono on nineteen sixty nine and they had their son Sean. Today's also Sean's birthday. He was born in October ninth in nineteen seventy five. He's forty nine to day. Sean. He was five when his dad was murdered in nineteen eighty. At forty years old, She's. Got the leasceive she so fu. Probably Shine. Probably Jackson Brown. He's seventy six. He's born in Heidelberg, Germany, in nineteen forty eight. His dad was in the military. Jackson actually grew up in California. Started out in the Nitty Gritty Birt band Yeah. He was pretty much just a songwriter back then. Released his first album in nineteen seventy two. Some of his biggest hits are Running on Empty, Somebody's Baby, Lawyers Love, Ten Years of the Night. He had a son from his first wife and then his wife committed suicide. He had a son from his second wife, then he dumped her for Darrel Hannah He was with Darrow Hannah for ten years.

6:09 They never married, They just broke up. Jackson's been with his girl current girlfriend since the mid nineteen nineties. Actor Tony Shaloub. He was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in nineteen fifty three. Seventy one year old Tony first got known on the sitcom Wings. Then he hit pretty big on that TV show Monk. Some of his movies were Galaxy, class Men in Black two. He voiced Luigi in the Cars movies. He has been married to actress Brooke Adams since nineteen ninety two and they have two daughters. Actor Scott Baculage seventy. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri in nineteen fifty four. Best known for TV. He first hit pretty big on Quantum Leap. Then he'd had Star Trek, Enterprise, and NCIS New Orleans. Some of his movies are Necessary Roughness, Major League, Back to the Minors, The Informant. Scott has two children from his first wife. Married his second wife in two thousand and nine and they have two children.

6:55 Actor Michael Parr. He was born in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen fifty eight. Six six, hit really big in the eighties, he had Eddie and the Cruiser, Streets of Fire, Philadelphia Experiment now Party that those are his big ones. He he's been busy though. He's done one hundred and sixty movies throughout ever since then. He's been married to his third wife since nineteen ninety two and they have one child. Killing man. You know I've always been You. Can't even listen sonto this love your songs now ever time one come song. Broken. Country singer Scott mccrarry's thirty one. He was born in Garner, North Carolina, in nineteen ninety three. He was sixteen years old when he auditioned for American Idol. He had turned seventeen when he won the tenth season of American Idol. After winning, he released his first album. He became the first country artist whose debut album debuted at number one on the pop chart. He's the least six albums now. Some of his number one songs are five more minutes, This is it in between, damn straight. Yes, he did finish high school after he won American Idol.

8:04 Scott he got married in twenty eighteen and they have one son. He says what he means leaser. He says, and he's smart, he's good. Host, really happy, say my god. Okay, that's twenty seven year old Megan Maroney. She is a country singer. Was born in Savannah, Georgia, in nineteen ninety seven. She just released her second album in July. She's had the heads Tennessee Orange. I'm not Pretty, Can't break up now? She did that with Old Dominion. Now we played our current song, am I. Okay. She is kicking off her tour in March and it'll run all next year if you want to go see Megan today in twenty twenty three. So we had last year. Travis Geiner, he was in Anoka, Minnesota, set the world record for the largest pumpkin ever grown, two thousand seven and forty nine pound pumpkin. Yeah, that pumpkin is big enough to make six hundred and eighty seven pies. Well, thank you for joining us today, and we don't forget to follow us on whoever you're listening to us on. Come see it's at cool media dot com. That's cool Thrills. That's end with Oscar Schindler. Yeah, Schindler from Schindler's List. He died to day in nineteen seventy four, at sixty six years old. He says, if you saw a dog was going to be crushed by a car, wouldn't you help him?

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