Sept 12-Video Games, 1st Marathon, George Jones, Barry White, Paul Walker, Sugarland, Jennifer Hudson, Kelsea Ballerini

0:10 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids about today, visited by Cool Meeting this September the twelfth. Yes, that was Tetris. Today is National Video Games Day. Video games They've come a long way since the World's Fair in New York City in nineteen forty. That's when Edward Coundon he created the first video game, called it Nimatron. Now, if you're a gamer, go old school today. If you're not a gamer, go old school today. Just have fun playing classic video games. But down there it was high fancy, high tech games and get it on with Donkey Kong, Frogger, Asteroids, Gallica, Batman.

0:58 This goes on and on for you to have fun today and hey, today is a legitimate excuse and actually to play video games. All right, let's see it happened on Entertainment on September the twelfth. Let's back here. Two thousand and three number one album was Loving Life by Mary J. Blige. Nellie p Didiot, Murphy Le had the number one song with shake your tail feather, Shaken tail feather, I'll say some shake it girls getting down on the floor. Alan Jackson and Jimmy Buffett had the number one country song with it's five o'clock somewhere. I think I'm just calling it today. O miss something tall and strong. They did the World Caine before Ile and so the song they had pass twelve. I don't care. It's five o'clock somewhere. Thought.

2:03 Number one book was The Teeth of the Tiger by Tom Clancy. Top movie It was Once upon a Time in Mexico, a hit man. He gets caught up with the psycho Cia agent and a crypt Mexican general. Stars Antonio Bandera, Samahayak, and Johnny Depp. All Right, what happened? On September the twelfth, four ninety BC. The Battle of Marathon was fought over in Greece. Now the small Athenian Army they defeated the mighty Persian Army. Needing to get word to Athens about the victory, fidipity is he voluntaried, so he ran all the way from Marathon to Athens. He delivered the news and then dropped over dead from exhaustion. Oh that's according to legend. Marathon to Athens that was about twenty five miles. In eighteen ninety six, in the First Olympic Games, they ran the marathons bosly on the exact same route that Phidipities ran. Well, the race was such a big hit that they decided to keep the marathon in all Olympic Games. But depending on where the race was run, yeah, it had a different distance each time, so it was always around twenty five miles. But nineteen Zino eight, everyone just agreed twenty six point two miles as a marathon. Nineteen ten, Los Angeles they hired Alice.

3:08 Nineteen ten, Los Angeles hired Alice Wells as a Los Angeles police officer. She was the first female cop in US history. Now, other women they had worked for police departments, but they didn't have any like arrest authority or legal power or anything like that. Yeah, they just basically babysat female prisoners. Now, although it had started on the TV show Raw Hide, it was nineteen sixty four when Clint Eastwood starting his first movie. He It's a spaghetti western called A Fist Full of Dollars. Then in nineteen sixty six, the TV show The Monkeys premiered, Then Taxi premiered in nineteen seventy eight. Nineteen eighty one, we all got see the smurs for the first time. All right back in fourteen eighty five, England's King Richard the Third, he was the last. He was killed in battle. Now he was the last British monarch to die in battle. But then they forgot where they buried him. It was today in twenty twelve, construction workers they were digging up a parking lot went, oh, hey, we found him, found King Richard the Third. Go go goat, coat coat coat, goat shot this shiver day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverarday.

4:10 We won't simple target this shivers day. And you know we don't do bay. Let's see who was born on September the twelfth, Richard Gaaling. He was born in Hartford, Connecticut in eighteen eighteen, now Richard. He was an inventor. He invented a rice seeding machine and then a wee wheat seeding machine. So he used that whole premise for the galling gun, the world's first machine gun switched out wheat for bullets. He was married and had a daughter, Gallon. He died from natural causes in nineteen oh three, at eighty four years old. He stopped loving Today plaster and sil carried. He stopped country legend. George Jones. He's born in Saratoga, Texas in nineteen thirty one. Now did in the shape of his nose and some of his other facial features. Yeah, he's known as the Possum. No, it wasn't an insult. George liked it. He released eighty seven albums between nineteen fifty five and twenty thirteen, charted one hundred and sixty songs, had thirteen number one songs. Some of those were He Stopped Loving Her Today, White Lightning, Tender Years, Still Doing Time Now. He is considered one of the greatest harmony singers of all time. He had over eighty hits, doing duets with basically everyone. Dolly Parton, Whalon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Dirk's, Bentley, you name. He probably sang a duet with him at some point. He had one daughter from his first wife and two from his

5:41 second wife, Stirred wife was country singer Tammy Whynette. They had one child, married his fourth wife in nineteen eighty three. George he died in twenty thirteen at eighty one years old. They said he died from hard living in old age. He actually died while he's out on tour actress Linda Gray. She's eighty four. She's born in Santa Monica, California, nineteen forty. She's most known for playing Jr's wife, Suellen on the TV Joe Dallas. She was married twenty one years when they got a divorced, and they had two children. Wayne mccarlan he is. He was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in nineteen forty. Now, Wayne, he was a man's man. I mean he was a stuntman. He was a professional cowboy, Rode Bronx, wrote bulls. But he's best known for being the Marlborough Man. Yeah. He was featured on all the TV commercials and print ads for Marlborough cigarettes. Wayne died in nineteen ninety two to fifty one years old from lung cancer. JO don't know, I don't know. Barry White he was born in Gallaston, Texas in nineteen forty four.

6:55 His baritone voice sold over one hundred million records, some of them are I'm Gonna love you just the longer, Baby, can't get enough of your love. Baby, You're the first, the last of my best baby. Now, by the time Barry was sixteen, he already had two kids or two babies. So he went ahead and married that girl and then they had two more kids. Then they divorced. Then he had another four kids from a second wife. Well after that divorce he has done with having getting married. So he did have another kid from a fling. Barry died from kidney failure in two thousand and three and fifty eight years old. The Desert all the horse you name, they felt good to be out of the rain in the desert. You cant reme them the own names the name no. Jerry Beckley he's the lead singer and songwriter for the Grip of America. He's born in Fort Worth, Texas, in nineteen fifty two. It makes him seventy two years old today. Now. Jerry and two other guys they formed America over in England in nineteen seventy. See their dads are all in the Air Force now. Jerry and Dewey Burn they're still performing as America. The other guy he quit, but if you go see him there out on tour, so I'm sure you'll hear the songs horse with no Name, I need you vent You're a highway ten men. Jerry had two sons from his first wife, one of those sons is actually Katy Perry's touring band, and Jerry made Is Sitt married a second wife just a couple of years ago after. Paul Walker was born in Glendale, California, in nineteen seventy three, most known for playing Brian O'Connor and The Fast and the Furious movies. He is also

8:26 in Varsity Blues, Joy Ride Into the Blue. He had one daughter, now, Paul. He was really in the cars. His car collection had like over thirty cars. Then in twenty thirteen he was driving one of them. He's going eighty and a forty five. Yeah, couldn't make a curve. He's forty years old. Please don't worry, Samary, I'm playing here in the far wall sys time. I'm on to make guardy. I'm true. Well, I love you more than in his thing in the world. I your baby. Jennifer Nettle, she sings late for the Country Deal sugar Land. She's born in Douglas, Georgia, in nineteen seventy four, fifty years old today. Sugar Land actually start out as a trio, but when they got their record deal, the other girl quit, so Jennifer and Christian Bush they just made it a due good Call. Some of their number one songs are want to Settling, All I want to do It happens now sugar Land. They're actually on tour right now with a Little Big Town Yep. Be touring until mid May if you want to go see him. Jennifer. She had a number one song that she did a duet with John bon Jovi. It was who Says you Can't Go Home Again. She's been married to her second husband since twenty eleven and they have one son. Don't Like You, Deven London like just because you say time like this fusome Don't like You. Actress and singer Jennifer Hudson's forty three.

9:58 He was born in Chicago in nineteen eighty one. She first got her big break on the TV show American Idol. No, she didn't win, she only got seventh place accident, but she got noticed and that got her apart in Dreamgirls and that won or an Oscar. She was also just won a couple of Grammys over the years. She won an Emmy. She just won a Tony a couple of years ago, and that made her the youngest ever to win the Egot that is the Grand Slam of Entertainment Awards, Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. Yeah only had twenty other people have ever done that now. She was working at Burger King when she actually auditioned for American Idol, So she's come a long way. She had a son from a professional wrestler, David otunga Congos country singer Kelsey Ballerini. She's thirty one.

10:56 She bought a mascot Tennessee in nineteen ninety three. She's love me like you mean it DIBs legend. Yeah, baby, she didn't know how much about her. She's pretty young. She was married once for five years, but she's single. Guys, if you want to take your shot, let's go back to video games. Minecraft is the best selling video game of all time. So there are three hundred million copies the Auto Grand Theft Auto two or Grand Theft out of five. I mean, it's the second biggest sung game. It's so one hundred million. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't free to follow us on whoever you listen to. Money it Comes. Here's a cool media dot com. Let's end him today with Johnny Cash. I well and turning ring on the fire. I went down, down, down, and the flames went out of the fire, and then the ring of flyre the ring of fire. Johnny died today in two thousand and three, at seventy one years old.

11:52 Johnny said, success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world except money. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. Missus