Sept 17-Apple Dumplings, Country Music, Hank Williams, John Ritter, Anne Bancroft, Anastacia Kyle Chandler,

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Media. Today's September the seventeenth. Legend. Yeah, I know, but that is the only song we could find anywhere that mentions apple dumplings. Yeah, Today's National Apple Dumpling Day. A tasty little dessert. They go back to the seventeen forties. They were created in the New England States in the northeast part of the United States. Now they're actually pretty easy to make. You just peel and core some apples, sprinkle MBAs cinnamon and sugar, wrap them in little pastries and bake them. It's like eating a bunch of little apple pies. Good time of year to enjoy us some apple dumplings. Today is also International Country Music Day. Ah, I know. Country music it is popular world wide. It is global and international. It really wasn't until the nineteen nineties. That's when Garth Brooks and Shania Twain and that whole crowd they got the world wide attention to it get's more popular every year now.

1:14 As you've heard me talk about. We have an internet radio station called Country Underground Radio. We play independent and up and coming country radio. Our countries artists. Now, we don't mention listeners though we have listeners from all over the world. Every month, we have over eighty countries that listen to us now, most popular in Europe and South America. Yeah, we're really big in Brazil and don't know why, but for some reason we're like the number one internet country radio station over in Denmark. But we have listeners all over Africa, Russia, China, Japan, Australia. Yeah, pretty much all over the world. So you want to celebrate international country music today, we're a good place. We also play international artists though too. It's mostly American artists, but we two play some actually played quite a few country artists from Canada.

1:56 I was just a whisky told said, I want you back following up that's your wrongly to best time. We haven't played some from England. You don't even know man, So okay. Because I'm not gonna give the love, not fright down, still say it' man of fun marries them pay quite a few country artists from Australia. No, I do crazy things and I'm down.

2:38 The guys care I'm the are he keep ritching? Know me? We don't play a guy from Ireland and I. Frown the pond. Money you'd been too nice and you're afraid I'm musty. All right, let's see this happening on entertainment on September the seventeenth, b nineteen eighty four number one album with Purple Rain by Printing The Revolution. Tina Turner had the number one song with What's Love Got to do with It? What Love Start to do?

3:22 What Love? What a second handy boy? Why Love start to do? A hundred? Brother? Merle Haggard had the number one country song with Let's chase each other around the room. Let's chase each other around the room tonight. Let's play the games we played off our wedding line to lock and bolt the door is only right. The number one selling book was The Fourth Protocol by Frederic Forsyth. Top movie was All of Me, a dying millionaire.

4:08 She has her soul transferred to that of a younger body, but he gets all screwed up, and her soul ends up in her lawyer's body, and he's still in there with her. Stars Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin. All right, what happened On September the seventeenth, sixteen eighty three, a Dutch scientist, Antonio van Lewinhooken. He made his own little microscope and he was looking at some pond water when he saw some little animals in there. He called them little animal cules. Now we know he discovered bacteria. The United States Constitution, it was written at the Constitutional Convention in May of seventeen eighty seven. Well, they got it back from the printers today, seventeen eighty seven. Yeah, so all the delegates signed it, sent it off to the States to be ratified, came back ratified two years later.

4:50 In seventeen eighty nine. Nineteen oh eight, Orville and Wilbur Wright, they were at a US Army base in Fort Myers, Virginia. The army was interested in buying some of the airplanes. Now it was Vol's job to show the army how safe and practical airplanes would be. So he took a twenty six year old Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge up there with him. They demonstrated it on a fight above the crowd over two thousand people had gathered at the plague grounds. They washed in cheers, and they flew over him and did all kinds of stuff. Then the propeller broke off. Yeah, they're about one hundred and fifty feet high and went hitting those first into the ground. Orville and Thomas, they were both thrown from the airplane. Thomas hit his head and fractured a skull and died. Orville he had just been a month and a half in the hospital and broken leg, hips, ribs, all kinds of stuff. Now, Thomas Selfridge, he was buried with honors at Arlington National Cemetery. He has the honor of being the first person ever killed in air plane crash. I guess it's kind of an honor.

5:39 Now. The Army they did an autopsy on him and it turned out that he had not hitt in his head, he would have lived, Yeah, and none of his other injuries were life threatening. So the Army did go ahead and buy some of those airplanes. They just made other pilots were humans. Rember I told you not too long ago about how Germany invaded Poland in nineteen thirty nine from the west, and that's what started the whole World War two. Well today, a couple of days later, Uh, the Soviet Union attacked Poland from the east. Now they weren't trying to help Poland out, you know, you think they might try and stop Jermy No, the Soviets. They wanted Eastern Poland and they didn't want Germany to get their first. Nineteen sixty seven, both The Doors and The Who made their first appearances on American TV. See the Doors. They went on Ed Sullivan. Now Jim Morrison, he didn't change the lyrics on a song like he promised to, so he isn't never allowed back on that network. Then over on This Mother Brothers Comedy Hour when they were port from My Generation, The Who's drummer, Keith Moon, Yeah, he blew up his drum kit that deafened Pete Hounes. Yeah, they were near allowed back on that network either. Nineteen ninety two and an election primary for a New York City congressional stint Ted Wise won. Ted. He died three days earlier.

6:44 Cop Co Coke Coach show. This Shibf Day, We're gonna pause. He left this Shibf Day. We gonna simple targe. He left this Shibirf Day. And you know we don't get. Because let's check it. It was born September the seventeenthhad. Wi him? How about cook him something me? Hay, sweet baby. Country legend Hank Williams. He was born in Butler County, Alabama, in nineteen twenty three. Started singing professionally at fifteen years old.

7:30 Some of his classic hits are I'm so lonely, I could cry, You're cheating heart, rambling man, There's a tear in my beer, Jambalaiah. Now, Hanky is born a spinning diffida, so he had a whole bunch of back problems. He was sore, his back hurt his whole life, so he decided to self medicaid. Well, he over self kept medicated with alcohol. He became a major alcoholic. The guy know Opry. They wouldn't even let him perform there anymore because of his unpredictability. He got married in nineteen forty four and they had Hank Williams Junior. They divorced in nineteen fifty two. Then Hanky he had himself a little fling there. The resulted in her daughter. She was born five days after he died. It was New Year's Eve in nineteen fifty two and Hank had a college to didn't drive him up to do a show that he was going to perform on New Year's Day in Katin, Ohio. Well, they had to drive all night in order to make the show kids. Stopped for gas during the night at oak Kill, West Virginia. When he went and checked on Hank in the backseat, Yeah, he realized he had died. Yeah, that alcoholic is shot in his heart. Yeah, that alcohol got him in twenty nine years old after Roddy McDowell. He was born in Hernie Hill, England in nineteen twenty eight.

8:29 Some of his movies that you might know The Longest Day, The Greatest Story Ever Told, The Poseidon Adventure, Cliff patra Now he played Courtneillis and all the Planet of the Eights movies, the original Planet of the Eights movies. Rod He was gay in a confirmed lifelong bachelor. Actress Anne Bancroft. She was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen thirty one. She was a triple Crown winner. She won Twotoni Awards. She won an Oscar for The Miracle Worker. She was a two time Primetime Whimmy Wimmer. For most famous role was probably playing Missus Robinson in The Graduate. She was nominated for an Oscar to Katherine Hepburn and she was also in The Kid from Left Field, The Elephant Man, and she was the voice of the Queen in Ants. Her second husband was Mel Brooks. They got married in nineteen sixty four, had a son. They were married until and die in two thousand and five at seventy three years old from uterine cancer. Come and knock on our door. We've been waiting for you.

9:21 With kiss is a person person his company to. Actor John Ridder was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen forty eight. His dad was a singing cowboy text Ridder. John made a name for himself though on the TV sitcom Threes Company. Later on on TV he voice clipped for the Big Red Dot, and then he was on Eight Simple Rules. Some of his movies Americathon, did The Problem Child movies, Sling Blade, Briday. Chucky Rider is married to his first wife for twenty years. When they divorced, they had three kids. Married a second wife in nineteen ninety nine and they had one child in two thousand and three. On the set of Eight Simple Rules, he just dropped over dead. Yeah, he had an unknown arkin. He had no clue he had it. It's five days before his fifty fifth birthday. Comedian Reader Rudner, she's seventy one.

10:06 She's born in Miami, Florida in nineteen fifty three. Started as a Broadway dancer, so then she made the logical move and went into stand up comedy. She's been done residencies in Las Vegas since about two thousand and one. She does two of the country a little bit still. She's reading five best selling bucks. She got married in nineteen eighty eight and they have a daughter. Actor Kyle Chandler is fifty nine. He's born in Buffalo, New York in nineteen sixty five. First hit on the TV show Home Front. Best known for Friday Night Lights and then Blue Line. Some of his movies that he was in were Pure Country, King Kong, Zero Dark thirty, Wolfe of Walstein been married since nineteen ninety five and they have two daughters. She is big enough for she just goes by Anastasia. She sold over fifty million albums all in Europe.

11:09 Yeah. In the United States, yeah, it hardly sold anything. Now she's been She was born Anastasia Nwkirk in Chicago in nineteen sixty eight, fifty six year old. She still lives here in the United States and other than Europe, she's also very big in Australia. She even won the third season and mass singer over there, but she's never had a hit album here in the United States now. Only one of her songs actually got up to that made the charts and only got up to number ninety two in two thousand. Can't figured it out. She's pretty and she can sing, but no no success in the United States. So she makes albums over here, they release them, and she goes in promotes them over in Europe. But yet I guess whatever works right now. She is a tough, tough lady though. That's right. At thirteen, she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. When she was thirty four, she fought breast cancer and she fought it again at thirty nine she won, So that's cool. So she's been happy and healthy for over fifteen years. She did marry once for three years. You know what, Let's talk some apples. Twenty five percent of an apple's volume is just their that's why they float. Well, thank you for listening today. We appreciate you. Now, if you can get a chance and you want to celebrate International Country Music Day, don't forget about Country Underground Radio. Got a Country Underground Radio dot com, Coolmedia dot com. Are you just type in country Inderground Radio. Yeah, it'll pop up on all those people who play it.

12:23 Let's end with comedian Rit Skelton. He died it in nineteen ninety seven and eighty four years old. Rahd said all men make mistakes, but married men find him out about him sooner. You guys, have a great day, and we'll talk tomorrow.