Sept 3-Memphis Slim, Beetle Bailey, The Beach Boys, Grand Funk Railroad, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Paige

0:10 Hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today. Visit about cool Media today. September the third I'm in today is telephone Tuesday. So what is it? Well, Tuesday after Labor Day. It's one of the biggest days of the year for telephone calls, fifty percent higher than your average day. Now, do you have a lot of voicemails today or you're trying and call someone? Is it harder to get through? Experts?

0:56 They say they did. Are the unmanned phones over Labor Day weekend? Well, actually most three day weekends, but unlike those Labor Day weekend, it's at the end of the summer, so the kids are back in school and people are transitioning out of summer and they're starting new projects and all that kind of stuff. So it's a very busy day. I know it's the lame day, but it's all we have today. Well, at least tomorrow we can have an extra dessert, all right? What happened in entertainment on septem The third Let's Back Here in nineteen eighty two number one album was miraged by Fleetwood Mac Survivor had the number one song with I had the Tiger. To the challenge.

1:43 Of the. Kenny Rogers. He had the number one country song with Love Will Turn You Around. The number one book was Different Seasons by Stephen King. Top movie was an officer and a gentleman, Richard Gere. He's trying to become a Navy pilot, but Lewis Gosset Junior, he's busting his balls. Then Gear falls in love with deb Winger. All right, what happened on September the third San Marino. It is a really small country, only about twenty four square miles is in northeast Italy.

2:35 Has a population around thirty five thousand people. Well, it's founded today in the year three oh one, Yeah, by a Stonemason. He went on to become Saint Marinus. Now it is the oldest republican existence. Yes, older than the United States, and yes, the United States is the republic. Seventeen seventy seven, during the Revolutionary War, the flag of the United States was flown for the first time in battle. Yeah, it was at the Battle of Coaches Bridge in Delaware. Oh, the United States lost that battle, so, uh, that's probably why we don't hear more about it. But on the bright side, it was today. In seventeen eighty three, the Treaty at Paris was signed. Yeah, over in Paris, it officially ended the Revolutionary War between the United States and Great Britain. Say, the United States might have lost some battles, we won that war. Now I would have had to take this day off. I would not wanted to have to deal with this at all. You could not have gotten me to get out of my house. Nineteen sixty seven, over in Sweden, at six am sharp, all drivers had to stop driving on the left side of the road and had to start driving on the right side of the road.

3:37 Yeah. Now that made the United Kingdom the only place in the world. Yeah, they still drive on the left side of the road. Co cot coke cop goat sharge this SHIVERBF day. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverbfday. We don't sit with targe. He left its shibirth day. And you know we don't give upday. Probably wonder who was born on September third, Well actor Alan Ladd. He was born in Hot Springs, Arkansas, in nineteen thirteen. He is one of Hollywood's top actors in the nineteen forties and fifties. Biggest movie was Shane, then This Gun for Hire, Hell Blow Zero, The Great Gatsby. Now, although he is one of the top actors, he only stood five feet six inches tall, so for a lot of his movies they co starred him with actress Veronica Lake. Yeah, she stood four eleven. Lad he had a sign from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen forty three, and they had a son and a daughter. Ladd died in nineteen sixty four from an accidental overdose of alcoholic sleeping pills.

4:33 Fifty years old. He one winner. All of Us. Fund Myself. Bluesman Memphis Slim. He was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen fifteen. During his lifetime, recorded five hundred songs. Some of his big ones where every Day I have a Blue Day, messing around Blue and Lonesome. Nineteen sixty two, Slim he got tired of things over here, just packed everything up and moved over to Paris, France. Spent the rest of his life traveling around Europe playing blues. He was married and they had one son. Slim died from kidney fallure in nineteen eighty eight, seventy two years old.

5:20 Comic strip writer Mart Walker he was born in Eldorado, Kansas, in nineteen twenty three. Nineteen fifty he created the comic stript Beetle Bailey. Then in nineteen fifty four he spun it off into Hian Lois. Lois was Beatle's sister, now at his pig Beatle Bailey. It was in over eighteen their newspapers around the world in fifty countries. Mart he wasn't an intelligence offer. Served for the United States Army for four years during World War Two, so yeah, he knew how the army worked. He divorced his first wife after thirty five years. They had seven kids, married his second wife in nineteen eighty five. There together until twenty eighteen, when he died from pneumonia at ninety four years old. It don't hurt any mold, oh my dear drops.

6:02 No more. Welcome to look over with that old burning inside. Country legend. Hank Thompson. He was born in Waco, Texas, in nineteen twenty five. He performed country music from nineteen forty six to two thousand and seven, sold over sixty million records. That's one of the most in country music history. Some of his number one songs were rub A Dub Wake Up, I Iron, The wild Side of Life, Honky Tong Girl, It Don't Hurt Anymore. Married his second wife in nineteen seventy and they had one child. Two thousand and seven, Hanky was tourned when he finally said he had retired. He just couldn't do it anymore. He was actually fighting lung cancer. Died five days after his last show, eighty two years old.

6:45 Well Lord. Help me, Ron, And that was one of the few songs the Beach Boys let Al Jardine sing. The League on Al. He's eighty two. He's born of lem Ohio in nineteen forty two. Now when you think of the Beach Boys, you think of Mike Love singing lead, and he did. Ali did a couple of times. He was pretty much the background voice that you heard from behind Mike most of the time.

7:25 And now, yeah, he plays guitar. Al Love and the Wilson Brothers they co founded the Beach Boys in nineteen sixty one. Ali left the band in nineteen ninety eight to do some solo stuff. A couple of years later he teamed up with Brian Wilson and they did some stuff together that Al Mike Love, Brian Wilson and Al Johnston. They're all back together. They're out touring. Yeah, they're scheduled at the end of the year, and then they have some show schedules all the way for next year. Ali had Wn Chotham, his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty four and they have two children. Oh that was Don Brewer is singing late for Grand Funk Railroad. Now not only does Don still sing, he is still their drummer. Donnie was born in Flint, Michigan, in nineteen forty eighty seventy six. Grand Funk Railroad they're out on tour. They're celebrating their fiftieth anniversary.

8:31 Don He split co lead singing back in the day with Mark Farner. They did that until nineteen ninety eight. Now he sings with Max carl Now, if you go see Grand Funk on their fiftieth anniversary too, I'm sure you're here their heads. We're an American band, the Locomotion some kind of wonderful bad time. Donnie married in nineteen eighty five and they have two daughters. Actor Charlie Sheen. He's fifty nine. He was born in New York City in nineteen sixty five Martin, she ain't and is his dad, and Emilio Estevez is his brother. Charlie first made a name for himself though in the movie he read Dawn, then Platoon Wall Street, Major League hot Shots. It was really big on TV's Two and a Half Men. Then he went a little goofy. In nineteen ninety he was engaged to actress Kelly Preston, but he accidentally shot at Kelly in the arm.

9:12 Yeah. She called off the engagement and then married John Travolta. Charlie had a daughter from a girl when he was in high school. His second wife was actress Denise Richard, and they had two kids. Then he had two kids from his third wife. Fifty one year old Jennifer Page was born in Maryetta, Georgia in nineteen seventy three. Had her biggest success in the late nineties early two thousand. But she's still releasing new music. Some of her heads are crushed. Sober always you. She is married and they have a daughter. All right, let's go back to telephones.

10:00 Cell phones they have ten times more bacteria than toilet seeds. Happy telephone Day. I thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. Whenever you're listening to us on and comes here, it's a cool media dot com. Let's go with three of us. Let's end with legendary football coach Vince Lombardi. You uned to day in nineteen seventy at fifty seven years old. Vince said, perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. You gonna be a Punkers from now home, every friend not You gonna be funded from now home.

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