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

0:19 Hello, everyone. I am Jeff. Welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today is October the 9th. Hey, everybody. It's Leif Erikson Day. Hinga binga bergen. Ahoy, Patrick. It's Leif Erikson Day. There's a note. SpongeBob went to get more giant paper. Uh, Patrick. P.S. Happy Leif Erikson Day. Well, today is National Leaf Erickson Day. Leaf, he was a Viking. His dad was Eric the Red. Around the year 1000, Leaf and his crew, they landed in Canada. Now, they were actually sailing to Greenland. Yeah, though we got blown off course. They're possibly the first Europeans to actually set foot in North America now. Now, he named it Vinland because of all the grapevines that were growing all over the place. They were on the northern tip of Newfoundland. Now, it was too late in the year to try and get back to Greenland, so they decided to build shelters and camp there for the winter. Well, when spring hit, they headed back to Norway. When they got home, they told everybody who would listen about this new place that they found called Vinland. Now, quite a few of those Norwegians, Vikings, yeah, they went out and checked it out. So how are we supposed to celebrate Leaf Americans today? Well, I guess we can go all Nordic and Viking. We can eat pickled herring and smoked salmon.

1:34 We can pillage our neighbors. It's a good excuse to drink, though. So there we go. Now, Leaf, he did get to North America 500 years before Columbus, so we should celebrate him. I mean, we're celebrating Columbus on Monday. All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment on October 9th back in 2011. Tony Bennett had the number one song with Duets 2. Maroon 5 had the number one song with Moves Like Jagger. Toby Keith had the number one country song with Made in America. Made in America. The number one selling book was The Affair by Lee Charles. The top movie was Real Steel. Now, in the future, robot boxing is a top sport. One ex-boxer, he tries to win the championship by getting a discarded robot. Stars Hugh Jackman, Evangeline Lilly, and Atom. I guess he was the robot.

3:00 All right, what happened on October 9th? 1809, American Isaac Singer, he invented the sewing machine motor. Now, it was a big deal back then. Remember, pretty much everybody had a sewing machine. They sewed their own clothes. But see, they had to pump it with their foot in order to power the sewing machine. Yeah, kind of like the Flintstones. Didn't have to do that anymore, thanks to Isaac. The Civil War in 1864, the Union Cavalry and Confederate, Confederate Cavalry. Yeah, they went at it at the Battle of Tom's Brook. It's in Virginia. Now, the Union whooped up on those rebels. Yeah, the locals, they were watching it. They called it the Woodstock Races. See, the Confederates got on their horses and they ended up running, turning tail like you would not believe with the Union right on their butts. Now, it was not a significant battle. But what makes it really interesting were the two officers that were in charge. See, they were roommates at West Point. Now, the Confederates, they were led by Tom Rezier and his former roommate that was leading the Union soldiers, George Armstrong Custer. 1930, pilot Laura Ingalls was the first woman to make a transcontinental airplane flight across the United States. Nope, not the writer. 1936, the Hoover Dam began sending electricity to Los Angeles. Today, 15% of all the electricity produced by the Hoover Dam still goes to Los Angeles. 1946, the first electric blankets went on sale. $ 39.

4:15 50. Now, you think, that's not bad for an electric blanket. Remember, that was 1946. Today, if you bought an electric blanket for that, $ 650. 1961, members of the United States Communist Party, they were told to report themselves to their local police. Today, they just throw things at their local police. 1983, in Rangoon, Burma. It's Myanmar today. North Korea, they tried to assassinate South Korea's president. Well, they didn't get him, but they did kill 21 people. That included nine South Korean government officials, some presidential advisors, security team members, three reporters. 1989, Penthouse Magazine started selling a Hebrew edition. Yeah, but hit newsstands today.

4:57 A lot of kosher jokes on that one. I didn't know this, but Penthouse, they actually stopped printing the Hebrew edition in 2023 along with all, yeah, all editions. Now, if you want to go to Penthouse, apparently you have to go to their website only. 1992, a fireball raced across the sky above Peekskill, New York. Scared the hell out of a stadium of people watching a high school football game, especially when they heard the loud boom when it crashed. Now, the whole town basically rushed. We want to see what in the hell happened. And luckily, no one was hurt. Yeah, it was just a meteorite the size of a bowling ball. Now, it took out the Knapp family's 1980 Chevy Malibu. Yeah, it was parked in the family's driveway. Now, the meteorite, it was seen all the way from Kentucky. Yeah, all the way to New York, people have been watching it. 2023 in Oka, Minnesota. Travis Geinger, he grew the largest pumpkin in history. Weighed 2,749 pounds.

5:47 And if he wanted to, he could have made 687 pumpkin pies from that. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, shawty. It's your birthday. We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going to sip a card like it's your birthday. And you know we don't give up. Because it's your birthday. Let's check out who's born on October the 9th. I'm a woman. I will try to express my inner feelings and feelings.

6:33 John Lennon, he was born in Liverpool, England in 1940. When he was 15, he started a band called the Quarrymen. After a couple of years, he let Paul McCartney join. Of course, that led to the Beatles. Beatles, they are right behind, they're not right behind, they're behind Elvis for the all-time most records sold. Beatles, they sold around 600 million records. Elvis, he's like a billion. Now, John, he sold between 23 and 25 million records solo. Now, he was married to a first wife. They were married six years, and they had that son, Julian Lennon. Then John married Yoko Ono in 1969, and they had their son's son, Sean. Well, today is Sean's birthday. Yeah, Sean was also born on October the 9th. Except he was born in 1975. That means he's 51 years old today. He was five when his dad was murdered in 1980 at 40 years old.

7:16 She's got to be somebody. Jackson Brown, he's 78. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany. His dad was in the military. Jackson actually grew up in California. Started out in the Nitty Gritty Burt Band. Not for long, though. He was more of a songwriter for them than anything else. Released his first album in 1972. Some of his hits are Running on Empty, Somebody's Baby, Lawyers in Love, Tender is the Night. He had a son from his first wife, then she died. He had a son from his second wife.

8:02 He dumped her for Daryl Hannah. Him and Daryl Hannah dated for 10 years, and then they broke up. So, yeah, Jackson, he's been with his girlfriend now since like the mid-1980s. Actor Tony Shalhoub. He was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin. He's 73 today. Now, Tony first got known on the sitcom Wings. Then he hit big on TV's Monk. Some of his movies were Galaxy Quest, Men in Black 2. He's voiced Luigi in the Cars movies. He married actress Brooke Adams in 1992, and they have two daughters. Actor Scott Bakula. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1954. Makes him 72 years old. He's mostly known for TV. First starred on Quantum Leap and then Star Trek Enterprise, NCIS, New Orleans. Some of his movies were Necessary Roughness, Major League Two, The Informant. He had two children from his first wife. Married his second wife in 2009 and they have two children. Actor Michael Parr is 68. He's won a Brooklyn, New York. He was really popular in the 90s.

8:59 He was really popular in the 80s. He had Eddie and the Cruisers, Streets of Fire, Philadelphia Experiment. Yeah, really big in the 80s. But he's been busy. You might not realize it. Michael, he's been in over 160 movies. Now, he married his third wife in 1992, and they have one child. You know I've always been your biggest fan. Country singer Scotty McCreary is 33. He was born in Garner, New North Carolina in 1993. Now he was 16 years old when he auditioned for American Idol. He was 17 years old when he won the 10th season of American Idol.

9:50 Now after he won, he released his first album. He became the only country artist in history whose debut album actually hit number one on the pop chart when it debuted. So I'm one Scotty McCurry songs are Five More Minutes, This Is It, In Between, Damn Straight. Yes, he did finish high school after he won American Idol. Got married in 2018. Now, their second son was just born on September 18th, so congratulations to the McCleary family. And he's funny and he's smart and he's good. And love ain't always what it was. Now I'm crying and dying and messing me up.

10:30 I think I'm really happy. I think I won't stay. Oh my God, am I okay? That was 29-year-old country singer Megan Maroney. She was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1997. Now, she's released two albums. She's just kind of starting out. She has the hits Tennessee Orange, I'm Not Pretty, Six Months Later, Am I Okay? Now, she's just finishing up her tour. She's only got a couple shows left, so probably have to wait until next summer when she goes out again. All righty, our quote of the day. It comes from Oscar Schindler. Yeah, the Schindler's List guy. He died today in 1974. He's 66 years old. He says, if you saw a dog was going to be crushed by a car, wouldn't you help him? Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on your listen to us on, so we're easy to find.

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12:52 I said, does your girlfriend need a lift? Funny that she seems to really hate me. I could tell you why in all honesty. Cause you'll look me in the eyes and light me a cigarette. Another glass of wine, bartender, drown my regrets. I cried outside. The club, they asked me to behave. But you don't miss me anymore. I only ever wanted you I was your secret little game