Sept 15-Double Cheeseburger, Marco Polo, Oliver Stone, Night Ranger, Tommy Lee Jones, Little Willies

0:10 He Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today present about cool media. Today is September the fifteenth. Jee bron hold DOMI brons on, no seeds on the lumby be, I'm gonna drove through all I got the Greeman mollum on lock mos. We need somethinging up in here. This Mama is a election, A little my mom brother another for your mother. Double numble Superza, then don't forget the rise. That's about it. I'm sorry, I only caught the doubleburger. Today is National Double Cheeseburger Day, not Cheeseburger Day that's coming up on Wednesday the eighteenth. Today is Double Cheeseburger Day.

0:55 Nineteen thirty seven. Out in California, Bob's Big Boy Burgers came up with as they get credit for the first double cheeseburger. Now, most restaurants they aren't having deals today, Nope, they're waiting till Wednesday for Cheeseburger Day. Then they're going all in. So it sounds like a good excuse for you to grow up your own double cheeseburgers today. All right, let's say that happened in entertainment on September the fifteenth's Back to Last Year twenty twenty three number one album was Zach Brian by Zach Brian. Zach Brian and Casey Musgrave had the number one song with I Remember Everything. Cole sl Coles The. Time You need to stay till the. Strange rooms, cool out the bone man's mouth when his funds pictures and pass the time. You only start like that when you drink King. I wish up didn't.

1:49 Luke Colembs had the number one country song with love You Anyway lack of Compensate. It's true, Damn thresonless hard ring you Anyway. The number one book was Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros. The top movie was The nune To two in nineteen fifty six in France, a priest is brutally murdered, then sister Iran comes face to face with a demon nun stars Tsa Pharmaga doing his bookt and Storm Reen the photo of the Ford Car Company. They were the first ones to do it. Back in nineteen sixty five they started selling their cars with factory installed eight track tape players. Now, if you're too young, you missed out the eight track tape player. That was the ease and convenience of a compact disc combined with rubik scube. Now at the time, you can pretty much only get your eight track tapes, though, if you wanted to buy them from auto part stores and forward dealerships. Now, before a concert in nineteen sixty nine, Cosby Steals Nashing Young, they were backstage in Big Circle, Well Stills, he got into a fistfight with a Heckler. Now, after everybody scattered around and they finally broke up the fight, the guys decided, you know, we'll go ahead and go on stage and play anyway. You know, it is a benefit concert. Yeah, it was a benefit concert for the Institute for the Study of Non Violence. All right, let's see what happened on September the fifteenth, now today's New York.

3:20 Back when the Dutch founded it, it was New Amsterdam. In sixteen fifty five, they had the Peach War. The Munseie Indians. They attacked New Amsterdam and killed forty of the colonists. It was in retaliation for a Munzie woman who was killed picking peaches. Eighteen twenty one, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua. They all declared their independence from Spain. Now at that point in time, Spain they were in no position to stop them, so that only left Cuba and Puerto Rico as the only Spanish territories in the Americas. Now, I'm just curious, what would your reaction be if you heard that a whole bunch of little Willies were coming for you. Nineteen sixteen is scared the hell out of a bunch of German soldiers. In World War One and one of the battles of the Somme Breton, they used tanks for the very first time in world history. Now they were nicknamed Little Willie's the tanks.

4:07 They had a crew of eight. They could get her up to four miles an hour. But they were really heavily armored and they could go over anything, barbed wire, trenches and anything. Nowadays, you really don't think of an army that doesn't have tanks. In nineteen twenty eight, in Saint Mary's Hospital in London, a bacteriologist named Alexander Fleming, he was studying influenza. Yeah, he's working on the flu ended up discovering penicillin. It is considered one of the greatest discoveries in human history. I think this guy got fired. In nineteen fifty eight, in Bayone, New Jersey, forty eight people were killed. Their commuter train crashed off and opened drawbridge that someone forgot to close. Nineteen eighty two, the first issue of the newspaper USA Today was published. I didn't know, but it's still publishing. Yeah, you can get it either online or in print. Nineteen ninety seven, Google dot com was registered as a domain name. In twenty fourteen, President Barack Obama he announced that he was sending three thousand US troops to Africa. He wanted to help with the spread of the Ebola virus. That's pretty much word for word what he said. But no one could figure out why did he want to help spread the Ebola virus.

5:10 Coke coke, coke coat shage. This shivers day, We're gonna pause. He left, this shuver day. We gonna simpletage. He was like, this shiverbirth day, and you know we don't give us birthday. Okay who was born on September the fifteenth, Marco Polo. He was born in Venice in twelve fifty four. Now he was a merchant. He traveled the Silk Road to Asia to get his supplies. Now, he wasn't the first European to go to China, but he was the first one to write detailed descriptions of it and provide maps and that kind of stuff. Then on one of his journeys, he met Mongo leader Kopla Khan Khan he was so impressed with Marco that he made him as foreign ambassador. He sent Polo on diplomatic missions throughout the Southeast Asia, Go Burma, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, all those areas. Polo, he was also granted access to all over China. He gotta go places that no white guy had been before. Now, after he had served for Koopa Khan for seventeen years, he was asked to escort Mongo princess over to Persia so she could get married or Persia that's Iran today. Now, after Polo dropped her off, he just kept going decaid.

6:12 He wanted to go home to Venice. When he got back he'd been gone for twenty four years, he found out that they were at war with Genoa. I remember Italy didn't become one country until eighteen sixty one. It was all a bunch of different kingdoms. Well, Polo, he decided, Wow, I guess i'm here, I might as well fight for Venice. That's where I'm from. He was immediately captured and spent the next three years in prison. Now, while he is in prison, he dictated his adventures to a cellmate, and when Polo was released, he became a very very rich merchant. He married and had three daughters, and his cellmate he did pretty well. Also, he actually wrote all those stories from Marco Polo down. Yeah, one of the best selling books in history called Marco Polo, So everybody came out of winter Paulo. He died from an illness in thirteen twenty four at seventy years old, and we looked it up.

6:54 The swimming pool game Marco Polo, Yeah, started in the nineteen sixties, but no one knows who started it. William Howard Taft He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in eighteen fifty seven. He started out as a judge. Then he was the first US governor to Cuba. Then he was Secretary of War, then the twenty seventh President of the United States, served from nineteen oh nine to nineteen thirteen. Now he was a big guy, but he never did get stuck in the White House bathtub. That's kind of an urban legend, but he did have an oversized bathtub installed in the White House. Now, he was the first president to throw out the first pitch at the baseball game. After he got out of office in nineteen twenty one, he's appointing Chief Justice to the US Supreme Court. Served until nineteen thirty when he died from heart disease at seventy two years old. He was married and had three children.

7:37 Writer Agatha Christie. She was born in Torquay, England, in eighteen ninety. She is the best selling and most translated author of all time, sold over two billion books, and she wrote all kinds of genres, but her sixty six detective stories, Yeah, those are by four of the most popular. She did write a play. It's called The mouse Trap. It's the world's longest running play. It's been performed in the West End of London since nineteen fifty two. I got that she had a daughter from her first husband, married his second husband in nineteen thirty. Their together until she died in nineteen seventy six, eighty five years old. That from natural causes, the graded landing motion to the wine sitting shore from the green blowing Mountain to. The Southville by the Shore. She's made pauland handsome man Mine.

8:23 She's a combinational lo Hanball. That's the king of country music. Roy Acuff Roy. He's credited with moving country music from hodown music to the country music that became popular. He was a fiddler and a singer. Roy He was born in Maynardville, Tennessee, in nineteen oh three. Some of his classic songs are blue Eyes, Crying in the Rain, Wabash Gannonball, I Saw the Light Now is It's were actually before they had the charts, So no one knows exactly how popular he was, but what they do know is yeah, Roy was a mega popular guy. He married in nineteen thirty six. His wife died in nineteen eighty one. They had two children, performed right up until he died. He died of heart failure in nineteen ninety two at eighty nine years old. Actress Faye Ray. She was born in Cardston, Canada, in nineteen oh seven. She is most known for the nineteen thirty three movie King Kong. He had the Big Eight to the top of the Empire State Building. Fay is considered Hollywood's first scream queen. Yeah, she mostly did horror films.

9:20 I mean she acted for almost sixty years, but by doing all those low budget horror films in the nineteen thirty yeah, she was pretty much typecast. She never really had a shot for good movies. She had one child from her first husband, two children from her second husband. He died after thirteen years, so she married a third husband, he died after twenty years, and Fay. She didn't dine until two thousand and four, ninety six years old, from natural causes. Filmmaker Oliver Stone is seventy eight. He's born in New York City in nineteen forty six. Now, he joined the Army and requested to go sent to Vietnam. So the Army said okay. So he served in Vietnam in nineteen sixty seven. In nineteen sixty eight, he was awarded the Bronze Star for Valor, two Purple Hearts, and six other awards for his service in the war. Came home and graduated from New York University with agree in film.

10:05 His movies have been nominated for thirty four Academy Awards. They went nine. He's won two Best Director Oscars for A Platoon and born on the fourth of July. Some of his other movie is Wall Street, JFK, Natural Born Killers, Any given Sunday Nixon. Now. He had two sons from his first second wife, and then he had one daughter from his third wife and they're still together. Actor Tommy Lee Jones. He's also seventy eight and he was born in San Saba, Texas. First hit in the movie cole Miner's Daughter. Then he won an Oscar for The Fugitive, been nominated for Oscars for JFK in The Valley of Ela, and then Lincoln never got any awards for the Men in Black Movies though that was a total snub. Tommy had two children from his second wife. He married his third wife in two thousand and one. Mom S.

11:03 Don't Shoowhill Chime. That was Kelly Kingy's singing for the band Night Ranger. He's seventy two, born in Eugene, Oregon, in nineteen fifty two. Helped form Night Ranger in nineteen seventy nine. They're on tour right now until mid December if you want to go check them out. Kelly he's their drummer, but he did sing lead on their hit songs that one Sister Christian and Sentimental Street. He had two children from his first wife, then he divorced two more times. Actress Wendy Joe Sperber. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty eight. She first got out of the movie Bachelor Party. Then she played Martin mcfire's sister and a couple of the Back to the Future movies. On TV, she was on Boozom Buddies and then Private Benjamin. She's married once for nine years before they divorced and they had two children.

11:48 Wendy Joe she was diagnosed with breast cancer in nineteen ninety seven. She continued to work though she worked up until two thousand and five. That's when the breast cancer Friendly got hers. She has forty seven years old. Let's go back to King Kong, the original King Kong movie in nineteen thirty three. Kong. He was eighteen inches tall and covered in rabbit for well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. I know eever you're listening to us on and come see he's at coomedia dot com. That's cool. Three ohs. Let's end with Rick Ocasik is all right, It's all right, the lead singer for the Cars, died today in twenty nineteen and seventy five years old. Rick said, refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow