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

0:19 Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff. Welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Today is October the ninth. Hey everybody, it's Leif Erickson Day. King. Oh, hi, Kendrick, It's leish Erickson Day. There's a note SpongeBob went to get more giant paper. Patrick hes happy leif Erickson Day. Well, today is National leaf ericson day Leith. He was a Viking. His dad was Eric the Red. Around the year one thousand leaf in his career, they landed in Canada. Now they were actually sailing to Greenland. Yeah, we got blown off course there, possibly the first Europeans actually set foot in North America. Now now he named it Vinland because of all the grape vines 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 just had 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 wh would listen about this new place that they found called Vindin. Now, quite a few of those Norwegians Vikings. Yeah, they went out and checked it out.

1:26 So how are we supposed to celebrate leaf a Perrikens today? Well, I guess we can go all Nordic and Viking. We can eat pickled herring and smoke salmon. We can pillage our neighbors. It's a good excuse to drink though. So there we go. Now, Leaf he didn't get to North America five hundred years before Columbus, so we should celebrate him. And then we were celebrating Columbus on Monday. All right, less he's going on in entertainment on October ninth. It's about to two thousand and nine. Number one album was The Blueprint three by Jay Z. Black Eyed Peas had the number one song with I got a feeling, jump off, Let's get it. I know we'll have a ball and to get down and just get it up. Still dress down a wall, Let's go, Let's go away, Sank Down, Northern.

2:13 Knocking Toby Key that number country song with American Ride, Gotta. Love this American Ride into the House, funny, how the world keeps turny? I Love this American. The number one book was The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown. Top movie was Couples Retreat for a Couples They go to a tropical island for vacation. Wow, it turns out that island is actually a marriage therapy place. Stars Vince Vaughn, Jason Bateman, and Kristin Davis. Yeah, I hope a bunch more. All right, what happened on October ninth, eighteen o nine, American eye singer He invented that sewing machine motor. Now, it was a big deal back then.

3:04 Remember pretty much everybody had a sewing machine that 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 eighteen sixty four, the Union cavalry and Confederate out Confederate Calvary. 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 that were watching it, they called it the Woodstock Races. See, the Confederates got on their horses and they ended up running the Turning Tail like you would not believe, with the Union right on their boats. Now, it was not a significant battle, but what makes it really interesting when the two officers that were in charge, See they were roommate at West Point. Now the Confederates, they were led by Tom Razier and his former roommate that was leading the Union soldiers. Yeah, George Armstrong Custer.

3:49 Nineteen thirty pilot Laura Ingall Loria Ingles, first woman and to make a trans continental airplane flat across the United States. Nope, not the Red Nineteen thirty six, the Hoover Daan began sending electricity to the Los Angeles. Today fifteen percent of all the electricity produced by the Hoover dam Yeah, it still goes to Los Angeles. Nineteen forty six, the first electric blankets went on sale thirty nine dollars and fifty cents. Oh, do you think that's not bad for electric banking? Remember that was nineteen forty six. That today if you want to blat about an electric bank for that six hundred and fifty bucks. Nineteen sixty one, members of the United States Communist Party, they were told to report themselves to their local police. Today they just throw things at the local police. Nineteen eighty three. In Rangoon, Burma, it's me and Marty Day, North Korea. They tried to assassinate South Korea's president. Well, they didn't get in, but they did kill twenty one people. That included nine South Korean government officials and presidential advisors, security team members, three reporters. Nineteen eighty nine, Penthouse maggot and started selling a Hebrew edition. Yeah, hit news stands today. There's a lot of kosher jokes on that one. I didn't know this, but Penhouse they actually stopped printing the Hebrew edition in two on twenty three, along with oh yeah, all additions. Now, if you want to go to Penhouse, you apparently you have to go to their website only. Nineteen ninety two, 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 where it.

5:19 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 Nap family's nineteen eighty Chevy Melibou. 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. Twenty twenty three in Oka, Minnesota, trav Is Geiner. He grew the largest pumpkin in history. Weighed two seven and forty nine pounds. If you wanted to, he could have made six hundred and eighty seven pumpkin pies from the joke joked, joked. Joke, sharge thish shiver odayle gonna he left this shiver day. We gonna simple cars. He's like, is s birthday? You don't.

6:04 Let's check out. It was born in October the ninth. I was to join The Meaning of Success. John Lennon. He was born in Liverpool, England, in nineteen forty and he's fifteen. He started the band called the Quarrymen. After a couple of years of that, Paul McCartney joined. Of course, that led to the Beatles. Beetles, they are right behind it, They're not right behind there behind Elvis for the all time most records sold Beatles. This all around six hundred million records. As he's like a billion.

6:47 John he sold between twenty three and twenty five million records solo. Now, he was married to a first wife. They were married six years and they had that son, Julian Leonard. Then John married Yoko Ono in nineteen sixty nine and they had their son, son SHAWNA Wow. Today is Shawn's birthday. Yeah, Shawn was also born on October the ninth. Said he was born in nineteen seventy five. So I mean Sean's fifty years old today. He was five when his dad was murdered in nineteen eighty. At forty years old, she's got so she's so shine. Probably Jackson Brown, he's seventy seventy. He was born in Heiderberg, Germany, in nineteen forty eight. His dad was in the military.

7:40 Jackson actually grew up in California. Started out in the nitty gritty birt ban not for LOWNDO. He's more of a songwriter for him than anything else, at least his first album in nineteen seventy two. Some of his hits are Running on Empty, Somebuddy's Baby, Lawyers in Love, Tender as the Night. He had a son from his first wife and then she died. He had a son from his second wife. He dumped her for Darrel Hannah Daryl Hannon dated for ten years and then they broke up. So yeah, Jackson. He's been with his girlfriend now since like the mid nineteen eighties. Actor Tony Tony Shaloub. He was born in Greenway, Wisconsin in nineteen fifty three seventy two today now Tony first got known on The Second Wings, then he hit big on TV's Monk. Some of his movies were A Galaxy Quest, Man in Black two, his voiced Luigi in the Cars movies. He married actress brook Adams in nineteen ninety two and they have two daughters.

8:29 Actor Scott Bakula. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen fifty four, makes him seventy one years old. He's most known for TV. First start on Quantum Leap and then Star Trek Enterprise n CIS 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 two thousand and nine and they have two children. Actor Michael Parr sixty seven. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen fifty eight. He was really popular in the nineties that nineties. He was really popular in the eighties. He had Eddie and the Cruisers Streets of Fire Philadelphia experiment. Yeah, really big in the eighties. But he's been busy. You might not realize it, Michael. He's been in over one hundred and sixty movies.

9:10 Now. He married his third wife in nineteen ninety two and they have one child. Killing the man. You know one have always been. You came even. To love your songs? Now ever to one come song. Country singer Scotty mccrarry's thirty two. He was born and Garner Knew, North Carolina in nineteen ninety three. Now he was sixteen years old in the auditioned for American Idol. He was seventeen years old when he won the tenth season of American Idol. 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.

9:57 Win that debut so number one, Scotty mc songs are five more minutes? This is it in between? Damn straight. Yes, he did finished high school after he won American Nino. Now he's actually going on on tour November sixth, Jack and we'll be out there until the middle of March. I'm married in twenty eighteen. Now their second son was just born on September eighteenth, So congratulations to the McCleary family. Says Leazer. He says, and he's he's far, he's good. Host, he really happy.

10:38 Say that is twenty eight year old country singer Megan Maroni. She was born in Savannah, Georgia, in nineteen ninety seven. Now she's released two albums. He's just kind of starting out and she has the hits Tennessee Orange, I'm Not Pretty six months later, am I Okay? Now she's just finishing up her to her she's only got a couple shows left. So but I have to wait till next summer when she goes like, yeah, alrighty. Our quote of the day it comes from Oscar Schindler, Yeah, the Shindler's List guy. He died to day in nineteen seventy four. It says sixty six 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, and you listen to his on so we're easy to find and if we want to connect with us or see what we have little notes.

11:23 Check out the show description on the bottom of the podcast. Today our Country Underground Radio artists of the Day. It comes from Kelly in Madelibu, California. She wants to hear Tiffany Grace the song drown My Requit drown my Regrets. It's a brand new song, so you're almost hearing it. This is the first week goes out. I don't know how Kelly even knew it was out, but hey, cool, we do play it on Country Underground Radio. Do you guys have an awesome day. We'll talk to you marrow and make sure you come mind a Country Underground Radio and you can hear Tiffany's new a song, Baby, I think the news. In the mind The line him lasts. She told me that you love makes me blind. I said, yell on me and.

12:09 The rest of me. You knew, girl seems to really hate me. I couldn't tell you why I didn't see because you look me in the eyes and light you listen to it and now I think a last wine. But to her, trummrrygret, I'm bad, I said, I love. He asked me to be it, but you don't miss me anymore. You're the one that could have staid.

12:51 Baby. Maybe I miss you at times, but I'd rather throw up. Thank you. Tess asked me to drive you home last night. I said, does your girlfriend need lift? Funny that she seems to really hate me. I have to tell you why I did, and I'm honesty because you'll look me in the eyes lightiness cigarette and now I think the last one but into her Traumlarry gret I find out said lovely asked me to be it's but you don't miss me anymore.

13:38 I only ever wanted you while you seeing a girl, little gay