Sept 7-Beer, Raggedy Ann, Grandma Moses, Buddy Holly, Marge Simpson, The Pretenders, Easy E, Shannon Elizabeth

0:10 Hello, one and all. I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids about Today, presented by Cool Media Today, September the seventh. I like weird. It makes me a jolly good. I like beer. It helps me on wine and then sometimes it makes me you me. It is National Beer Lovers Day, and it's on a weekend. Today is just kind of a why not day? I mean, the kids are back in school, summer is unofficially over, but the weather is still really nice, So why not just celebrate beer? Now? If you love beer, you know how to celebrate. If you don't love beer, you're gonna be designated driving today, all right?

0:58 Listen. Happened in entertainment on September The seven That's been back to nineteen sixty two. Number one album was Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music by Ray Charles. Tommy Rowe had the number one song with Shila Sweeden. Little Sheela. You'll know her if you see her blazing a pony tail. She saw it. Rosy shoots a little nosy man. This little girl is firm, having. You look at Sheila came in dress mean insane. Marty Robbins had the number one country song with Devil woman. Mary is waiting and weeping down in our shack for the sea. Even after I've heard her, Mary stood in love with me, Devil b It's sober trapping no more by your charms because I don't want to stay. I want to get away.

1:57 That number one Bookwet Ship of Fourth by Katherine M. Porter. The top movie was The Music Man. A con artist. He goes to a small Iowa town around nineteen ten. He pretends to be a band leader. He's trying to raise a bunch of money, but once he raises the money, he's gonna skip town. Stars Robert Preston, Shirley Jones, and Buddy Hackett. All Right, what happened? On September the seventh, sixteen thirty Boston, Massachusetts was founded. It's named after the town of Boston in Lincshire, England. Now was founded by a group of English pertins eighteen twelve. In the Battle of Borodino, it was fought between the French and that Russians. It was the bloodiest battle that Napoleon fought in that was part of his Russian invasion.

2:38 Seventy thousand soldiers were killed in that first one day of fighting. Now Napoleon's French army did win, but not decisively. The Russians were able to make an orderly retreat. Eighteen eighty eight, Geo Legowski invented the device to throw clay pigeons for trapshooters. Eighteen eighty eight. A baby named Edith McLain, she made history. Now she was the first baby to be put into baby incubator. Yeah, in a hospital in New York. She was a premature Yeah she lived. Nineteen oh two, a horrible drought was hitt in Australia, hard the entire country. Now, it was just wiping out all their crops and livestock. So today they made it a day of national prayer. The entire nation got together and prayed for rain all at the same time.

3:20 It rained. Three days later, on September the tenth Yeah, no rain was in the forecast. Nineteen fifty eight, A guy created the raggedy nd doll he has. His name was Johnny Guill nineteen forty. In World War two Germany, he started bombing London, England. Now they bombed London fifty seven Straight Knights. Nineteen sixty eight. Led Zeppelin played their first show, but they weren't going by led zepne Let Nope, they were going by the new Yardbirds. Now. It was in front of about twelve hundred students that at Denmark College. Nineteen seventy seven, United States President Jimmy Carter he signed the Panama Canal Treaty. It said that even though the United States paid for it, even though the United States built it, Panama you can have it. In nineteen ninety nine, ESPN went on the air.

4:01 Today in nineteen seventy nine stood for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, but since nineteen eighty five, ESPN has stood for ESPN. In twenty twenty one, and l Salvador. Became the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as their legal currency. Co cot Co coch Coat show. This shibth day were gonna pard. He left this shiverfday. We don't simple card. He left this shibirthday. And you know we don't do let the birthday you all right? It was born on September the seventh. Artists Grandma Moses. She was born Anna Robertson in Greenwich, New York, in eighteen sixty, just twenty seven years old. She married Thomas Moses. They lived on a farm. They had ten children, only five actually survived infancy. Then Thomas died in nineteen twenty seven, so Grandma Moses and one of their sons ran the farm now pretty much all of her life.

4:53 She had so embroidered pictures for her family and friends. She got around seventy six years old, though arthritis is so bad in her hands. Yeah, she couldn't brainer anymore, so she started painting. She painting landscapes and scenes of rural American life. Painted over fifteen hundred painting so decided to start selling them. Started selling them for three and five dollars apiece. Later on she sold him for eight thousand and ten thousand dollars a piece. A couple of years ago one of Grandma Moses's painting so for one point two million dollars. She died in nineteen sixty one at one hundred and one years old. Actor Peter Lawford. He was born in London, England, in nineteen twenty three. He was in the Original Ocean's Eleven and The Longest Day movies. He was actually in quite a few movies, but he has best known for being part of that rat pack. You know, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin and that whole group. Peter, though, he really got famous when he married Patricia Kennedy. See that meant that John and Bobby Kennedy were his brothers in laws. They were married for twelve years and had four kids.

5:45 Peter. He married his fourth wife just a couple months before he died in nineteen eighty four, sixty one years old. All those years of hard. Drinking got him. He has getting your livers quit working now. You might not recall knowing Don Messick, but you will recall his voice. Don. He was born in Buffalo, New York, in nineteen twenty six. He was the voice of Scooby Doo, Bam Bam, Rebel Astro on The Jetsons, Yogi and Boo Boo Bear, Papa Smurf. It's just some of the characters he voiced. He voiced from nineteen forty one to nineteen ninety six. Married back in nineteen forty nine. They were together until he died from a stroke in nineteen ninety seven at seventy one years old. When you say goody, when you made me c.

6:33 You know it's. The day. Buddy Holly. He was born in Lebbock, Texas, in nineteen thirty six, started out as a country singer. Then in nineteen fifty five, this guy came to Lebock to do a show, but he needed an opening act. So Butddy said, yeah, I'll go open for him. Then after Buddy watched that guy his name is Elvis Presley. Yeah, after he saw him perform, Buddy immediately switched from country to rock and roll. Now we all know the Buddy Holly story, how it ends the plane crash. But he was only twenty two years old. He released only three albums in that short time. He had the hits That'll be the Day, Peggy sue, Oh boy maybe Baby. Bubby had been married six months when he died. Trumble Just Go.

7:32 Star Gloria Gainers eighty one. She was born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen forty three. She's out on tour. Some of her biggest hits are I Never can say Goodbye, I Will survive, let me know I Am what I am? So you got married nineteen seventy nine and then divorced in two thousand and five. Actress Julie Kavner. She's born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty. She's seventy four. She first got known on the TV sitcom Wrote It. She played Brenda, the younger sister but Julie. She's best known for being the voy a Marge Simpson on The Simpson She also voices March's mom and both Marge's sisters Julie. She's been in six Woody Allen movies. She has lived with her boyfriend since nineteen seventy six. I gotta sum so we went out me. As long as you don't sing him up bag my street, we'll kissing the vote. Come on now.

8:32 Yeah. The lead singer, the rhythm guitar player, and the main songwriter for The Pretenders is Chrissy Hine. She's born in Akron, Ohio, in nineteen fifty one. That makes her seventy three today. She formed The Pretenders in nineteen seventy eight. So mean, it's wear brass in my pocket, tack of the town, back on the chain gang, don't get me wrong, Middle of the road, Chrissy. She had a daughter from Ray Davies. Yeah, he was the lead singer for The Kings. Then she married Jim Kerr, he was the lead singer for Simple Minds. They had a daughter, and she married a Columbian sculptor for a couple of years and the pretenders there they're doing show still. Actor Corbyn burns In. He's seventy. He's born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty four. First got known in UH He played Arnie Becker on TV's La Law. Then he was on the TV show Psych and The Resident. A few of his movies he did the Major League movies, the dentist movies, Kiss, Kick, Bingbing Corbyn.

9:21 He's been married to his second wives since nineteen eighty eight and they have four since Now. Corbin, he has over nine thousand snow globes. That's one of the largest snow globe collections. In the world. That was Jermaine Stewart. He was born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen fifty seven. In the eighties he had the heads we don't have to take our clothes off. Say it again, Get lucky, Jody.

10:02 Now Jermaine, he was openly gay. His family did not like that at all. When he died from AIDS in nineteen ninety seven at thirty nine years old, his grave didn't have a tombstone or even a grave marker for seventeen years, went until twenty fourteen. That an anonymous fan actually paid to have a gravestone put on it the day. To the whole damn whelps clear least bout I'm down. Put the capitol. When you take something minute in your neighborhood, count down because I kill him a damn sold put him downs, I leave Bombstone. On one tune, I'm coming straight out top. I bet you didn't know there was a clean version for that song, did you? Well, it's not easy to find.

10:44 That was rapper Easy. He was born Eric Wright in Compton, California, in nineteen sixty four. He has considered the godfather of gangster rap. Helped form nw A in nineteen eighty seven. It's for well known as n w A R. They only actually released two albums. Some of the big songs that came out at them We're straight out of Compton, Gangs to gangs to express yourself if the police, well, I'm not really f I changed it to f Easy. He released one solo album, then another was released of his stuff after he died. He did have a son and a daughter from his wife, and then he had another nine kids from seven other women. He died from AIDS in nineteen ninety five. At thirty years old. Fifty one year old actress Shannon Elizabeth was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen seventy three. She got known playing Naughty in the American Pie movies. Then she was in A couple, Jay and Silent Bob movies. He was in Scary Movies and Tomkats on TV. She had recurring role on that seventy show for a couple seasons.

11:38 She married her. Second husband just two years ago. Hey, let's go back to beer for the twenty ninth year in a row. The Czech Republic. Yep, they won. And then the biggest drunks in the world when it comes to beer, yep, they drink more beer per person than any other country. The average check drinks forty nine gallons of beer year. It's not even close. Actually, in the United States, we saw we weren't even in the top fifteen. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to listen to Country Underground Radio, the best internet country music you can find. It's everywhere. Just go to Country Underground Radio dot com. That's and with the original drummer for the band The Who, Keith Moon. He died to day in nineteen seventy eight, at thirty two years old, Keith said, I told people I was a drummer before I even had a set of drums. See, I was a mental drummer.

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