Sept 13-Bald is Beautiful, Tyler Perry, Megadeath, Peter Cetera, Mel Torme, Milton Hershey, Velcro Invented

0:10 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by COOL meeting today September the thirteenth. He said, it's. Today is National bald is Beautiful Day. Hi here your brother. I don't know why they put it on a Friday the thirteenth, but hey, today is to remind everybody that everyone's beautiful, whether you have hair or not. Baldness it does can't cause a lot of anxiety, and not just men cause it even more so than women. Baldness it is genetic. It's not like you did something wrong. Now they have come up with products to stop or even reverse balding, if you should want to try and partake in that. Now, let's talk about the best bald story ever told is in the Old Testament the prophet Elijah.

1:07 He was being teased by a group of young Philistines about being bald. They were really giving him a hard time, really sticking it to him. So he cursed him. Then a bear came and killed all forty two of them. So think about that the next time you decide to come in on somebody's bald head. Actually, nowadays baldness is pretty much accepted. You have the stigma and past have pretty much gone away with all the big names who've done to chrome dome. Now, if you're bald today, yeah, just celebrate being bald. Don't even wear a hat. Just make sure you have some sunscreen and remember the bald is beautiful. If you're not bald, just remember Elijah. All right, let's sae. It happened in entertainment on September the thirteenth. It's about year twenty thirteen. Number one album was Crashed My Party by Luke Bryan, Robin Thick, t I and Pharrell had the number one song with blurred lines.

2:13 Look. Brian had the number one country song. But that's my kind of night, the glass. To take it way out where the down the planet river. Catch yourself, a little caff. Gonna sound like a win on I lay you down and love you right. Yeah, that's my kind enough. The number one selling book was How the Light Gets In by Lewis Penny. The top movie was Insidious Chapter two. The Lamberts. They thought they beat the evil spirit that was haunting their house. Not so fast. Stars Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, and Barbara Hershey. It was Today in nineteen sixty nine. At a Toronto rock and roll festival that a rock tradition began. See their host, Kim f She asked the crowd to hold up their lighters during a ballot. That's how it all started. Of course, now everybody holds up their phones. It's also In nineteen sixty nine, the Scooby Doo Where Are You? Premiered on TV?

3:11 All right, what Helping? What house? Happened on September the thirteenth. In the Mexican American War in eighteen forty seven, the United States troops under Winfield Scott were able to capture Mexico City. Eighteen sixty one, the first naval battle of Civil War took place off of Pensacola, Florida. The Union Ship to Colorado sink the Judah nineteen oh six, and over in France, Alberto Santos dumont He was able to make the first airplane flight over in Europe. Wow kindness. See he had tasked his playing to a hydrogen balloon in order to help him take off. It's stuck baseball. In nineteen oh nine, ty Cob He won the American League home run title hit his ninth home run of the season. That's not it all nine home runs. We're inside the park. That's even more impressive. Nineteen fifty five in Switzerland, George D. Mastraw he invented vill crow. He came up with the idea from velcro when he was trying to get burgers out of his dog's coat. Nineteen seventy seven and the TV show Soap, It became the first TV show to have a viewer discretionary warning put on it.

4:08 Diesel engines. They had always been put into trucks from basically when they first started, but it was staying. In nineteen seventy eight, the General Motors started selling the first car with the diesel engine. It was a Oldsmobile eighty eight. United State's President Jimmy Carter now he was a big fan of country singer Willie Nelson. In nineteen eighty Carter he invited Willie to come put on a show on the south line of the White House. Willie, you accepted, He came and did the show. Everybody just had a great time Willie. He even saying he had done duet with the first Lady Rossland Carter. Then that night, after the show, Willy went to the roof of the White House and fired up at marijuana cigarette and it's called the Big Fat Austin Torpedo smoked it with one of Carter's sons. Ah, that kind of pissed off the Secret Service. When word finally leaked out about it, Carter said he had no idea what those two were doing up on the roof. It's called plausible deniability. Go coke, co coke, goat show.

4:57 This shimmerday were gonna pause. He left this sub day. We don't simple Corge. He was like, this Shuburs day and you know, we don't get. So. Who was born on Septeer of the thirteenth, Milton Hershey. He was born in Dairy Township, Pennsylvania, in eighteen fifty seven. Now he first started out he started a really successful Carmen caramel company. Now it employed over thirteen hundred workers and two factories. See Hershey he believed that chocolate would be more successful, but not just any chocolate, and he believed milk chocolate would. Be more So. He sold the caramel company for like a million bucks, which was a lot of money back then. He bought a whole bunch of land northwest of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. See, he needed a place that had lots of cows for his milk chocolate, so he built a factory there. Then he built the town there for the workers to live in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Now he has all accept except he had one problem. No one had ever made milk chocolate.

5:47 See over in Europe, they'd used powdered milk in order to make their chocolate, but no one had ever done it with real milk. No recipe existed. So the factory was built, the town was built, the workers were hired. No recipe for milk chocolate. Hershey had hired a whole bunch of Ivy League chemists to try and figure it out. After a whole bunch of trialing area, Yeah, they finally came up with the recipe for milk chocolate. That's what's being used still today. Now. The first Hershey Chocolate bar finally went on sale and there in nineteen hundred. Milt then he married nighteen ninety eight. His wife died in nineteen fifteen. He died in nineteen forty five, at eighty eight years old, from pneumonia. So what kind of student do you think Milton Hershey was, Well, he quit school in the fourth grade.

6:28 Kentucky keep Shine Shine, the. Kentucky keep Shine That was the father of bluegrass music. Bill Monroe. He was born in Rosine, Kentucky, in nineteen eleven. Now he was a mandolin player, and him and his band they were called the Bluegrass Boys. Now, no one had heard the kind of music that those guys were playing. So when anybody's sat and kind of like him, yep, they just call it bluegrass music. Billy's in the Country and Rock and Roll Hall of Fames and of course the Bluegrass Hall of Fame before from nineteen twenty seven. In nineteen ninety six he played at the White House four different times for four different presidents. I don't think he went to the roof though.

7:15 He was married. And when he died in nineteen ninety six at eighty four years old from a stroke. Caerla's hands spoke my heart in two you held my dream like worthless greens of sound, carless hands don't care when dream slip through. That was the velvet fog. Mel Tourmet. He was born in Chicago in nineteen twenty five. He was a crooner, but I guess you could probably call him a jazz singer. Also released thirty four albums biggest success was in the nineteen forties early fifties, but he had a real big resurgence. He got really popular again in the nineteen eighties and early nineties. His biggest song was actually a Christmas song, Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire.

8:01 He wrote over two hundred fifty songs over the years. He had two children from his first wife, one child from his second wife, two children from his third wife. Married his fourth wife in nineteen eighty five. They were together until mel died from a stroke in nineteen ninety nine at seventy three years old. Actress jaque Line Bassett. She is eighty years old. She was born away Bridge, England, in nineteen forty four. She first got known in the James Bond movie Casino roy Al. She played Giovanna in Good Thighs. Then she's in Bullet Airport, The Deep Class Murder on the Ratingspence. She is Angelina Jolie's godmother. Oh Peter Staire, He's also eighty. He was born in Chicago.

8:55 Start out in the band Chicago Yeah. I sang lead well kind of from nineteen sixty seven and nine teen eighty five Chicago. They kind of traded around who got a single in but he's saying most of their biggest hits, like it's hard if you leave me now, baby, what a big surprise. Old days hard to say I'm sorry. Then they didn't like each other at all when he left, but they all got inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, so they just suck it up one night, even though they wouldn't let him play on stage with him. As solo hits, he had Gloria Love The Next Time, I Fall in Love, Restless Heart, Big mistake. He had a daughter from a second wife, and then he had a daughter from a fling Peter. He just retired not too long ago, earlier this year. Actress Geene Smart. She was born in nineteen fifty one in Seattle. She's seventy three.

9:38 She's done a lot of Broadway. She's made some movies. Her biggest mainstream success has been TV. She started on Designing Women. She had a recurring character on Frasier. She voiced in Kim Possible. She was on twenty four, She was one what was it five Primetime Emmys or something like that. She got married nineteen eighty seven. They have two sons. Her husband died in twenty twenty one. He's what is still my eyes? Half with said the last good advice, see you gotta love it?

10:23 Where else could you possibly hear Bluegrass, mil Tormet and Mega Death all in five minutes? Dave Mustaine he sings lead from Megadeth. He's sixty three, born in La Mesa, California, nineteen sixty one. Now he actually started out. He had a short run with Metallica, then they kicked him out, and they kicked him out before Mega Death in nineteen eighty three. It's a litot. There were fifty million albums. They want to Grammy for Best Heavy Metal Band in twenty seventeen. Mega Death's actually on tour right now until the end of September, so if you want to see him, you better hurry. Dave, he had throw cancer, but he beat it in twenty nineteen, so that is awesome. He married nineteen ninety one and they have one son and one daughter. Actor, writer, filmmaker, director pretty Sir Tyler Perry's fifty five, born in New Orleans in nineteen sixty nine. Started out renting out theaters and putting on his own plays. Now he has a three hundred and thirty Acre studio complex with twelve sound stages.

11:11 Now that is actually bigger than Disney's movie lot. He first hit big with the Media character. I think they'd made like fourteen media movies. Then he's hit huge on the House of Pain. On TV, He's worked on sixteen different TV series, not acting. He's been in this series nine episodes as a writer, producer, director of that kind of stuff. Some movies where Tyler actually just acted and didn't do anything else star Trek Alex Cross and Advice Tyler. He has one son. Let's go back to Vilcrow. The original name for Velcrow was zipperless zipper velcro. It's actually from two French words vlure and crochet. Well, thank you for being here and don't forget to follow us whenever you listen to us on come see as a cool media dot com that's cool through us.

11:54 Let's end with wrapper Tupac shakure got him, nickel boot and thistle. Badam about the past iping pulling a tig. You can't even lamp out of bay me just leave me, get your clothes on the flop out, catch you cloth. She got me cleaning body, talking the ship to me. But I can comfort him. The music that you gonna road with me, conditions, chance to plays catch me you can't. Tubac was killed today in nineteen ninety six, at twenty five years old. He said, I don't see myself as special. I see myself as having more responsibility than the next guy. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow