Sept 22nd-Ice Cream Cone, Toni Basil, Whitesnake, Right Said Fred, Debby Boone, Joan Jett, Scott Baio, 1st Day of Fall

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's September the 22nd. Everybody wants an ice cream cone. Now you can eat it from the sides, you can eat it from the top. You can lick it round and round like you're never gonna stop. You can eat it. In the morning, you can eat it in the night. You can eat it all at once. Or take a little bite. Today is the first day of fall, so why not celebrate with National Ice Cream Cone Day? Woo-hoo! Now, there is some controversy on who invented the ice cream cone. I'm going with the guy who made it the most popular. Now, I was at the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904. Now, this guy was selling ice cream, and he ran out of cups. The booth nipped through him. They were selling waffles.

1:09 He went over and got some waffles and topped them up with some ice cream. Huge hit. Everybody wanted their ice cream and cones after that. Now, as I said, it is the first day of fall. So the Earth will have no tilt today. That's right, in respect with the sun. Our axis is not tilted towards or away from the sun. So technically, everybody on the planet should have a 12-hour day. 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness. Doesn't quite work out, though. Some places, they're off by a couple minutes. Something to do with light refraction. But it's close. So enjoy some ice cream cones and celebrate the beginning of fall. Let's see what went on in entertainment on September the 22nd, back in 1989. Number one album was Hanging Tough by New Kids on the Block. Gloria Estefan had the number one song with Don't Wanna Lose You.

1:52 I don't wanna lose you now We're gonna get through somehow Don't wanna lose you now. Forever Rodney Crowell had the Nirman Country song with Above and Beyond. Well, the poor boy's chances for a pretty girl's glances are sometimes very few. Though I've got no money, if you'll be my honey, here's what. I'll offer you. Guess I'll give you love.

2:41 The number one book was Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy. Top movie was Black Rain. Two New York City cops, they arrest a Japanese mafia guy. Now they have to take him back to Japan. Stars Michael Douglas and Andy Garcia. All right, let's see what happened in the world on September the 22nd. In the year 66, Roman Emperor Nero, he formed the Legio I Italica. Now it was a legion of Roman soldiers where every soldier was over six feet tall. Now a legion, that's between 4,000 and 6,000 soldiers. 1656 in Patatuxet County, Maryland. A court. They appointed an all-female jury. Yeah, the first time ever in the Americas that was done. Now, they were to hear the case of Judith Catchpole. See, Judith, she was accused of killing her baby and then hiding his body.

3:27 Judith's defense was she never was pregnant and she had no baby. So, what they did is they had those ladies from the jury go into a room with Judith. They had her undressed, and as soon as she undressed, the women all immediately knew unanimously, yeah, she didn't have a kid. So she got dressed, and everybody went home. The benefits of having an all-female jury. 1692, eight people were hung in Salem, Massachusetts for the Salem witch trials. That brought it up to 19 people being hung for being suspected of being witches. But that did it. The governor of Massachusetts, he had enough. He said, no more witch trials. He said, anybody who holds another witch trial, they will be hung. Well, you know what he was doing. For some reason, there were no more witches in Massachusetts after that. Today in 1776, Patriot Nathan Hale was hung by the British in New York City. Yeah, they hung him for being a spy. Well, he was. But as they were putting the noose around his neck, that's when Nathan gave his famous last words. I only regret that I have only one life to lose for my country. Now, the British are the ones who wrote that down. No, it wasn't the Americans trying to start a rallying cry or anything like that. There were no Americans around. It was just the British. Yeah, they're the ones who let it out that he said that. 1906, domestic workers, they were usually women who worked for crap money, but they worked in private homes. They did all the household chores, the cooking, the cleaning, and all that kind of stuff. Well, over in New Zealand, the domestic workers over there, they went on strike. They'd all gotten together. Now, what they were really asking for, they wanted to only work a 68-hour work week. You know what? They did not get it.

5:00 World War I in 1914, a German submarine sank three British Navy ships, killed 1,459 British soldiers. That was the first time in history that a submarine was able to sink one armored Navy ship, let alone three. 1922, the United States passed the Cable Act. Now, it said that an American woman who marries an illegal alien, she does not lose her citizenship. And women marrying men, they do not get automatic citizenship. See, what it did, it reversed the law from 1907 in that if a woman married an illegal alien, yeah, she was no longer an American. She lost all right, then she was deported with her spouse. 1937, the first International Hobbit Day was celebrated. Yeah, they were celebrating the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. Now, they still do it. Yeah, but see, I wanted to celebrate ice cream cones. So if you're a Hobbit lover, you can party hard celebrating International Hobbit Day today. 1975 in San Francisco, a former Marine, He was watching President Gerald Ford as he was walking down the street, greeting people, shaking hands, doing all that kind of stuff. Then he noticed Sarah Jane Moore. Now, good thing Ford, she pulled out a gun and got ready to shoot. He hit her arm, so she missed Ford basically by six inches, I think. Well, the bullet actually did hit a cab driver, though, so he was wounded, but he was okay. Now, the Marine was named Billy Simple. He had served two tours of Vietnam. He was seriously wounded on the second tour.

6:23 A true hero. Now, the reason that Sarah said she shot the president was she was blinded by her political views. They let her out of jail in 2007 after serving 32 years. All right, on September 22nd, a whole bunch of TV shows debuted. So here they are. 1957, Maverick, the star of James Gardner, it debuted. 1976, Charlie's Angels came on the air. 1982, Family Ties. 1987, Full House. 1989, Baywatch. 1994, Friends. 1999, West Wing. 2003, Two and a Half Men. 2004, Lost. And in 2009, NCIS Los Angeles. All those debuted today throughout history.

7:05 Okay, let's see who was born on September the 22nd. Ellen Church. She was born in Cresco, Iowa in 1904. In 1930, Ellen, she became the first female flight attendant. Now it was a flight from San Francisco to Chicago. Flight took 20 hours and made 13 stops along the way. Now, Ellen, she was a registered nurse. She wanted to be a pilot, but of course they wouldn't let her, so it was a flight attendant or nothing. Now, of course, Ellen was the first, but here are the qualifications that she and the other girls had to meet in order to be a flight attendant. You had to be a woman. You had to be a registered nurse. You had to be single.

7:55 You had to be under 25 years old to start with, and you had to weigh less than 115 pounds, and you couldn't be taller than 5'4. And also, you had to help refuel the plane, and you had to help push the plane in and out of the hangar. But those girls did make a lot of money, especially for that time period for women. 18 months after Ellen's first flight, yeah, she was in a car crash, so she had to retire from being a flight attendant. So she got married. Now, Ellen, she was killed in 1965 when she was thrown in front of a horse, 60 years old. Mountain climber Junko Tubei. She was born in Maharaju, Japan in 1939. She was kind of a sickly kid, but then when she was 10, she started climbing. By 1975, she was the first woman to summit Mount Everest. 1992, she was the first woman to climb all seven summits. That means she climbed the highest mountain in every continent. She married, had two kids.

8:41 In 2012, she was diagnosed with stomach cancer. Four years later, she led a youth group up to the summit of Mount Fuji over there in Japan. That cancer got her just a couple months later. She was 77 years old back in 2016. Now this is cool. They have named an asteroid after and the mountain range on Pluto. Yeah. It's named after her too. That's Tony Basil. She's 83. She's born in Philadelphia. She grew up in Las Vegas. Now, as a singer, she is considered a one-hit wonder. For that song, Mickey, obviously, that's all you know, right? But as a dancer and choreographer, she is a legend. Some of the people that she worked for, or with anyway, David Bowie, Elvis, Sinatra, Bette Midler, the Talking Heads, the Muppets.

9:41 Some of them. Now, she was a cheerleader in high school. Actually, she was a head cheerleader. So when you see the video for the song Mickey, that very first trick they do where they jump through the middle of the pyramid, Yep, that is banned from all cheerleading competitions. Too many kids, they were getting really hurt trying to mimic that trick. In the still of the. Night In the still of the. Night David Coverdale, he is the lead singer for the band Whitesnake. Yeah, he still is. I mean, he retired from touring in 2022, but he still wants to release another album, maybe call it a farewell album. David, he was born in Saltburn-by-the-Sea, England in 1951. 75 years old today. Now, he started out as the lead singer for the band Deep Purple. Now, he's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with them. He left Deep Purple and formed Whitesnake in 1978. He had a daughter from his first wife.

10:45 His second wife was Tawny Katayne. They were only married two years. Then he married his third wife in 1997, and they have a son. I'm too sexy for my car. Too sexy for my car. Too sexy by far. And I'm too sexy for my hat. Too sexy for my hat. What you think about that? I'm a mom. You know what I mean. And I do my little turn on the catwalk. That was Richard Fairbath singing for Right Said Fred. He still does. Yeah, they're still together. They even released new music, and they're touring England right now. Yeah, they're really popular over there. Richard is 73, and he was born in Kingston-upon-Thames, England.

11:30 Him and his brother Fred, they started Right Said Fred in 1989. I'm Too Sexy is the only song that they had that was popular in the States, but obviously they were big in England. Sold over 50 million albums. Now, before Wright said Fred, Richard, he played guitar. He did it for David Bowie and then Boy George. Richard is gay. In 2007 in Moscow, him and his partner, they were at a gay rights rally. Well, they got the living crap beat out of them by some people who didn't think the gays deserved any rights. So Richard and his partner, yeah, they were the ones who got arrested and thrown into jail. But then you fast forward to today. Richard, he is a big supporter of Vladimir Putin. Yeah, he supports Putin in the war against the Ukraine. He thinks Putin is a great man for standing up against all those in the West who are trying to get him. Go figure.

12:36 That was legendary singer Pat Boone's daughter, Debbie Boone. She's 70. She's born in Hackensack, New Jersey. Now, Debbie hit huge with that song, You Light Up My Life. It was number one for 10 weeks in a row in 1977. Won every award you can possibly think. Only song that she ever had go hit on the pop chart. After that, she went to the country charts. But she's actually spent most of her time and had most of her success doing Christian music. She's added, man, she does about a dozen shows every year. Now, Debbie, she married Gabriel Ferrer in 1979. Now, he is an ordained minister, but his mom, she was Rosemary Clooney. Yeah, Debbie and Rosemary, they even did a Christmas album together. Now, Debbie and Gabriel, they've written a lot of books together. Most of them are children's books. They have one son and three daughters.

13:20 Next, we're moving on. Here's with me. Yeah, me. Next, we're moving on. Here's with me. Yeah, me. Yeah. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member Joan Jett and the Blackhawks. Joan Jett, she was born in Wynwood, Pennsylvania in 1958. 68 today. She starred out in the all rock and roll band, The Runaways. Yeah, the ones we just talked about a couple days ago about Lita Ford. After they broke up, she formed Joan Jett and the Blackhawks. To form the Blackhawks, she actually put ads just in the local music papers. Now they're in the Hall of Fame.

14:06 Some of their big hits are I Love Rock and Roll, Crimson and Clover, Bad reputation. Do you want to touch me? Yeah. Now, Jane, she's actually done a little bit of acting and all that kind of stuff. Now, Joan, she is gay, though. But she will not discuss it, and she will not discuss anybody that she has dated. The new boy in the neighborhood lives. Downstairs and it's understood. Like he's one of the family. Charles in charge of our days and our night. Actor Scott Baio is 66. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. First got known playing Chachi on the TV show Happy Days. If you remember, Chachi was Fonzie's younger cousin.

14:56 And they spun him off into Joanie Loves Chachi. Well, he was able to recover from that disaster. And so he starred in Charles in Charge. Then he grew up after that. He was on Diagnosis Murder. Got married in 2007, and they have two daughters. Actress, comedian, Bonnie Hunt. She's 65. She was born in Chicago. She started out as an oncology nurse. Yeah, and she did improv on the side. After she did that for six years, she went into acting full-time. First movie was playing the waitress in Rain Man. That was enough, though. It got her the starring role in the Beethoven movies. The one about the dogs, not the composer. She was also in On the Yell, The Green Mile. She did those cheaper-by-the-dozen movies. Had a few TV shows. Now, she's done a lot, a lot of voice roles, though. She got married once for 18 years.

15:39 All right, our quote of the day. It comes from baseball legend Yogi Berra. Yogi died today in 2015 at 90 years old. Yogi says, always go to other people's funerals. Otherwise, they won't go to yours. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on you listen to us on, so you're easy to find. And make sure you look on today's notes and description and that kind of stuff to see all the connections to find out how to get a hold of us. They're country underground radio artists of the day. It comes from Darlene down in Mississippi. She wants to hear a Cliff Westfall song until the right one comes along. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. I can't understand the word you're saying.

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