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

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today is September the 12th. Yeah, you're correct. That was the game Tetris. Today is National Video Game Day. Video games, they've come a long way since the New York World's Fair in 1940. That was when Edward Condon, he created the first video game called the Nimitron. It played the mathematical game of Nim. 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. Now, while you're playing, have yourself a chocolate milkshake. It's actually National Chocolate Milkshake Day also.

1:07 You know what? Even better yet, buy a chocolate milkshake for a policewoman. Yeah, today's actually National Policewoman Day. Let's check out what happened to entertainment on September the 12th, back in 1967. Number one album was Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by the Beatles. Bobby Gentry had the number one song with Ode to Billy Joe. And Mama said it was a shame about Billy Joe anyhow Seems like nothing ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge And now Billy Joe McAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

1:50 David Houston and Tammy Wynette had the number one country song with My Elusive Dreams. So we moved. On. I know you're tired of following my elusive dreams and schemes. The number one selling book was The Eighth Day by Thornton Wilder. Top movie was Bonnie and Clyde. It's all about basically outlaws Bonnie and Clyde on their entire crime spree. Stars Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway. All right, let's see what happened on September the 12th. 490 BC, the Battle of Marathon was fought over in Greece. Now, a small Athenian army defeated the mighty great Persian army. So now they needed to get word back to Athens about the victory. Pheidippides, he volunteered for it. So he ran all the way from Marathon to Athens, delivered the news, and then dropped dead from exhaustion. Well, that's according to legend. Marathon to Athens is about 25 miles. Then in 1896, in the first modern Olympic Games, they decided to run the marathon.

3:03 They did what they thought was the exact same route that Pheidippides ran. So the race, it was about 25 miles there. But the race was really popular. The spectators loved it. So they decided to keep the marathon in all the Olympics and all the big track meets. Only problem was the marathon, it varied from wherever that was run at. It was usually around 25 miles, give or take. So in 1908, everyone just got together and decided, you know what, 26.2 miles. Yeah, that's a marathon. 1620, London, England, on the Thames River, a Dutch inventor named Cornelius Dribble. He gave a public test for something that he called a submarine. Now, it attracted a really large crowd. Even King James I was there and all his top Navy officers. They watched the sub, and it was covered in leather, and it was ore-powered. It had a crew, but he let passengers actually ride in it. Well, the thing, it worked great. It went up, it submerged.

3:51 It was able to stay in the water for three hours. Now, although they were really impressed, the British Navy, they passed on making the submarine part of the Navy. Yeah, so his invention, it just faded away. No one in the world ever bought it. Then over 200 years later, everybody was scrambling, trying. To figure out how to build a submarine. 1910, Los Angeles, they hired Alice Wells in the Los Angeles police office. Yep, she was the first female cop in U.S. history. Now, other women, they had actually worked for police departments, but they didn't have any arrest authority or any legal power or anything like that. Yeah, they pretty much just babysat female prisoners. Guess we're going back and doing some entertainment. 1959, the TV show Bonanza went on the air. Now, yes, he was on the TV show Rawhide, but in 1964, Clint Eastwood, he starred in his very first movie. It was a spaghetti western, Fistful of Dollars. Now, if you hear of spaghetti westerns, that's because they actually filmed.

4:40 Them in Italy. It was cheaper. 1966, the TV show The Monkees debuted on TV. 1978, Taxi came on the air. 1981, the cartoon The Smurfs appeared on American television. It had actually been on Belgian television since 1958. Now, back in 1485, England's King Richard III, he was killed in battle. He was actually the last British monarch to die in battle. Then they forgot where they buried him. Well, until today in 2012. Yep, they found him. Construction workers, they were digging up a parking lot in Lancaster. Yep, they noticed the body there. Said, yep, that's Richard III. No, actually, they didn't know who it was. They had to do a lot of DNA testing. 2018, in a cave in South Africa, they found the oldest known human drawings in history. No, these drawings, they date back 73,000 years. Now, what's kind of freaky about it?

5:27 There was a hashtag in those drawings. All right. Let's see who was born on September the 12th. Richard Gatling. Now, he was born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1818. He was an inventor. He invented a rice seeding machine. Then he invented a wheat seeding machine. Then he used that concept to come up with the Gatling gun, the world's first machine gun. Yeah, switched weed out with bullets. He was married and he had a daughter. Gatling, he died from natural causes in 1903 at 84 years old. He stopped loving her today.

6:09 He placed a wreath upon. His door. Country legend George Jones he was born in Saratoga Texas in 1931 now due to the shape of his nose and some of the other facial features yeah he was known as the possum no it was not an insult George just kind of liked it he released 87 albums between 1955 and 2013 charted 160 songs some of his 13 number one songs are he stopped loving her today white lightning tender years still doing time now he was one of the best harmony singers of all time He had 80 hit songs where he was singing duets with everybody from Dolly Parton to Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, Dierks Bentley. Yeah, you pretty much name it and he'd probably sing a duet with them. He had one daughter from his first wife.

7:12 He had two daughters from his second wife. His third wife was country singer Tammy Wynette and they had a son. Married his fourth wife in 1983. George, he died in 2013 at 81 years old. They said he died from hard living and old age. He actually died while he was out on tour. Actress Linda Gray. She's 86. She was born in Santa Monica, California in 1940. She's most known for playing J.R. 's wife on the TV show Dallas. Yep, she was Sue Ellen. She divorced her husband after being married for 21 years, and they had a son and a daughter. Wayne McLaren. Now, he was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1940. Now, Wayne, he was a man's man. He was a stuntman, a professional cowboy, rode Bronx, rode Bulls. Best known, though, for being the Marlboro Man. Yeah, he was featured in all the TV commercials and print ads for Marlboro Cigarettes. Wayne, he died in 1992 at 51 years old from lung cancer.

8:04 Can't get enough of your love, babe Girl, I don't know, I don't know why Can't get enough of your love, babe Lord, some things I can't get used to. No matter how I try That was Barry White. He was born in Galveston, Texas in 1944. He grew up in Watts. That's a south-central Los Angeles neighborhood. Now, his baritone voice sold 100 million records. Some of them are I'm Gonna Love You Longer, Baby, Can't Get Enough of Your Love, Baby, You're the First, the Last, and the Best, Baby.

8:44 Okay. Now, by the time Barry was 16, he had already gotten a girl pregnant twice. So he married that girl. Then they had two more kids. Of course, they divorced. Then he had four more kids from his second wife. Then he was done with wives. He said, I'm done. But he did have one more kid. You know, had to have one more baby. Barry died from kidney failure in 2003. 58 years old. I've been through the desert on a horse. With no name. Jerry Beckley, he's still the lead singer for the band America.

9:26 Been doing it since 1970. Jerry's 74. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas. Now, Jerry, Dewey Burnett, and Dan Peck, they formed America. Well, they're all living in England. Yeah, their dads were in the Air Force. Jerry and Dewey, they're still recording and touring and stuff with America. Dan, he died, though. Some of their biggest hits are Horse With No Name, I Need You, Ventura Highway, Tin Man. Jerry, he had two sons from his first wife. He just married an Australian woman a couple years ago, so they're split in time between the States and down south. Actor Paul Walker. He was born in Glendale, California in 1973. Best known for playing Brian O'Connor in a bunch of those Fast and the Furious movies also in Varsity Blues the Joyride Into the Blue he had one daughter Paul he was really big into cars he had a car collection with over 30 cars in it well in 2013 he was driving one of them he was going 80 miles an hour in a 45 yeah he couldn't make a curve 40 years old Please.

10:20 Don't worry, cause I'm alright. See, I'm playing here at the bar tonight. Well, this time. I'm gonna make our dreams come true. Well, I love you more than anything in the world. Love your baby girl. Jennifer Nettles sings for the country duo Sugarland. She's 52. She was born in Douglas, Georgia in 1974. Now, Sugarland actually started out as a trio. But when they got their record deal, this other girl, she quit. So Jennifer and Christian Bush, they just became a duo. That was a good call. Some of their number one songs are Want To, Settling, All I Want To Do, It Happens.

11:00 Jennifer and Jon Bon Jovi, they did have a number one song together too. Yeah, but who says you can't go home again? Jennifer, she married her second husband in 2011 and they have a son. Actress, singer Jennifer Hudson's 45. She was born in Chicago in 1981. She got her big break on the TV show American Idol. No, she didn't win it. She got seventh place. But she got noticed. That got her a part in Dreamgirls, and that won her an Oscar.

11:45 That really set things in motion. So since then, she's won a couple Grammys. She won an Emmy. She won a Tony. She got the E-Guide. She's the youngest one ever to accomplish the E-Guide. That's the Entertainment Grand Slam of awards. Only 20 people have been able to pull that one off. Now, she was working at Burger King when she auditioned for American Idol, so she has come a long way. She has won signs. She had it with professional wrestler David Ortega. So baby, I'll pay whatever it is you got to give. Yeah, I'm calling Debs.

12:27 Country singer Kelsey Ballerini was born in Mascot, Tennessee in 1993. 33 years old today. Grew up in Knoxville. Yeah, she did take dance lessons. Some of her hits are Love Me Like You Mean It, Debs, Peter Pan, Legends. She's kind of young, not a lot about her. She did marry once for five years. All right here, quote of the day. It comes from Johnny Cash. Johnny died today in 2003 at 71 years old. He said, success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world except money. Well, thank you all for listening today.

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14:14 We go, we go, we go, we go around in circles. Mom, mama said, honey, you shouldn't be jumping hurdles. Love ain't supposed to be this hard. Driving us apart Grapevine in my head You see diamonds, I see red You say I'm never home But you signed up when I was gone You try to change me, I'm still the same me Silver just can't be gold You should know better, we can't be together Silver just can't be gold