Sept 8-Star Trek, Pink, Til Tuesday, The Cars, Patsy Cline, Jimmy Rogers, Michelangelo, 1st US report of Beastiality

0:18 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Fact Toys About Today presented by Cool Media. Today's September the 8th. These are the. Voyages of the starship Enterprise. It's five-year mission to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and. New civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. Today is National Star Trek Day. That's not nice. A lot of people really get into Star Trek. Now, the first episode of Star Trek aired today in 1966. It was released by Lucille Ball and her Desilu Production Company. Now, no one watched it. It only was on the air for three seasons. But for some reason, a lot more people began watching the reruns after the show was over.

1:09 So many people were watching the reruns that by 1972, they held that first Star Trek convention. Now Star Trek is a multi-billion dollar franchise, TV shows, movies, lots and lots of merchandise. So my Trekkie friends, have a great Star Trek day. Let's dig a gander at what was going on in entertainment on September the 8th back in 1987. Number one album was Whitney by Whitney Houston. Los Lobos took Richie Valen's song La Bomba to number one. Kenny Rogers and Ronnie Millsap had the number one country song with Make No Mistake, She's Mine.

2:04 I don't want to see your face. Answer her door. Make no mistake. She's mine. That best-selling book was Patriot Games by Tom Clancy. Top movie was Stakeout. Richard Dreyfuss and Emilio Estevez are detectives, and they're staking out the ex-girlfriend of a really bad guy. Well, Dreyfuss falls in love with the girl. She was Madeline Stowe. All right, what happened on September the 8th? 1504 in Florence, Michelangelo, he unveiled the Statue of David. It stood 14 feet high and weighed six tons. Now, he made it from one block of granite that other artists and sculptors had already rejected. Now, it's of King David in the Old Testament, you know, the David who slayed Goliath. Michelangelo, he was paid to create the statue for the Florence Cathedral. But now that he unveiled it, there was one problem. They had no way they could move that five-ton statue all the way across town to the cathedral. So they slid it across the street, set it up in the town square, the Piazza di Signore, and called her good. Hey, if you really want to sound smart, Michelangelo, he sculpted David, depicting David before he fought Goliath. He wanted people to feel David's pent-up sense of energy before the fight. you go 1565 the first permanent european settlement in the united

3:34 states began saint augustine florida yeah spain started it in the bible's book of leviticus chapter 20 verse 15 it says if a man shall lie with a beast he shall be put to death and the beast shall be slayed well the pilgrims of the plymouth colony they took that very seriously 1642 and the first act of bestiality that was confirmed In North America, this pilgrim teenager named Thomas Granger, he admitted to having sex with a horse, a cow, two goats, a number of sheep, and two calves. Oh, and a turkey. Now, they made Thomas watch as they killed all the animals that he had sex with. Then they made him watch as they burned their bodies. Then they hung Thomas. So how would you like to go down in history for that? 1892, the United States Pledge of Allegiance was first published. Yeah, it was in the U.S. Companion. Now, it was written by this guy, Frank Bellamy, and Frank was a really religious guy, but he did not put under God in the original version of the pledge. Nope, U.S.

4:28 Congress put that in there in 1954. On the night of September 8th in 1923, it was the largest loss of U.S. Navy ships during peacetime. It happened at Honda Point. It's known as the Honda Point disaster. Now, Honda Point, it's off of California near the San Bernardino coast. 14 U.S. Navy destroyers were performing war exercises. They were going from San Francisco down to San Diego. Well, at 9 p.m. in heavy fog, the ships were going to, they were about 37 miles an hour, so about 20 knots. Now, they were supposed to make a turn into the San Bernardino Channel. They missed. Seven of the destroyers crashed into the rocky shoreline and sank. Two others hit the rocks but didn't sink. 23 sailors died. I mean, that's bad, but for seven ships sinking, I guess that's not so bad. 1930, American inventor Richard Drew, he invented scotch tape. I personally don't think it tastes like scotch at all. 1941, Germany began its siege of the Soviet city of Leningrad. That siege will last 900 days and over 800,000 civilians have died.

5:28 Also in World War II, Italy, they surrendered unconditionally in 1943. But see, there was a problem. Germany had so many soldiers down in Italy that, yeah, they didn't surrender. So yeah, the fighting just kept going. 1974, U.S. President Gerald Ford, he pardoned former President Richard Nixon of any crime he might have committed while he was in office. Go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, Charlie. It's your birthday. We're going to party like it's your birthday. We're going to sip a card like it's your birthday. And you know we don't give up because it's your birthday. Well, let's check out who was born on September the 8th. You come a waltz and Matilda with me. Waltz and Matilda, waltz and Matilda. You come a waltz and Matilda with me.

6:17 he laughed and he sang as he sat down by the billy bug you come a waltz and matilda with. Me that was the father of country music jimmy rogers he was born in meridian mississippi in 1897 now he didn't really tour around or anything he's mostly known just for his records And they really didn't release albums back then, so it was all singles. From 1927 to 1938, they released over 100 records from Jimmy Rogers. Now, they didn't have charts, so we don't actually know how huge they were. But we do know that he was extremely, extremely popular. He was married and had two daughters. And then Jimmy died at 35 years old in 1933 from tuberculosis. Actor Frank Cady, he was born in Susanville, California in 1915.

7:01 He played the same character on three different TV shows. He was storekeeper Sam Drucker in Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, and Beverly Hillbillies. First got known, though, playing Doc Williams on the TV show Ozzie and Harriet. Did that from 1954 to 1965. Frank, he was married 68 years when his wife died in 2008. They had two children. Frank died in 2012 at 96 years old. When we get out there, we're going to yank them and tear them. And rip them. We're going to take them and roll them around and rip. Them up to pieces. And then we're going to slaughter them. And after the slaughter is over, we're going to come back here and bring that victory back.

7:43 That was actor-comedian Sid Caesar. Yeah, it was in the movie Grace. He was born in Yonkers, New York in 1922. He got really big on TV in the 1950s. He starred on the show of shows, and then he had his own, The Caesar's Hour. Some of his movies were It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Airport in 1975. He was the coach in Grease 1 and 2. He was in History of the World Part 1. Now, he worked in entertainment from 1945 to 2005. He was married for 67 years when his wife died in 2010. They had three kids. Said he died in 2014 at 91 years old. Crazy So lonely I am crazy Crazy for feeling So.

8:36 Blue Country legend Patsy Cline. She was born in Winchester, Virginia in 1932. She is said to have one of the most influential voices in music in the 20th century. She was the first female country singer to cross over and have big success on the pop chart. Some of her classic songs are I Follow the Pieces, Crazy, She's Got You, Walking After Midnight. Now, she only released three albums. In 1963, she was flying home after doing a benefit concert. Yeah, her plane crashed. She was 30 years old. She was married and had a son and a daughter. I don't want you hanging out.

9:29 That was Benjamin Orr singing Lead for the Cars. He was born in Lakewood, Ohio in 1947. Now, I know Rico Kasich sang Lead for the Cars. But they let Orr sing lead for Just What I Needed, Let's Go, Drive, and Moving in Stereo. And get this, Ric Ocasek, he actually wrote all those songs that Orr sang lead on. Orr, he did have one solo hit over the years. It was called Stay the Night. He married twice and had one son. He died from pancreatic cancer in 2000 at 53 years old. Yeah.

10:17 Amy Mann is 66. She was born in Richmond, Virginia in 1960. She started out singing for a band, Young Snakes. Then in 1982, she helped form the band Till Tuesday. She sang lead, played bass guitar, and wrote all their songs. They had Voices Carry, What About Love, Coming Up Close. Till Tuesday, they actually started out being called the Naked Eyes, but they changed it till Tuesday. They took it off the title of a piece of painting from some German guy. Broke up in 1989. Amy, she's been solo ever since. In 2018, she won a Grammy for Best Folk Album. Now, I don't know what kind of music she's going to be singing. She's out on tour. I know she's doing a couple shows here in Colorado in November. She married Michael Penn in 1997. Michael, that's Sean Penn's older brother.

11:01 Actor David Arquette. He is the youngest of the acting Arquette family. He's 55, born in Bentonville, Virginia. He played the deputy in all those Scream movies. He's also in Never Been Kissed, 3000 Miles to Graceland, Eight-Legged Freaks. Now, his first wife was actress Courtney Cox for 14 years, and they had a daughter. Been married to a second wife since 2015, and they have two sons. After Martin Freeman, he's also 55. He was born in Aldershot, England. He's best known for playing Bilbo Baggins in all those Hobbit movies. He's also in Love Actually, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Him and actress Amanda Abington, they were together for 16 years, had a son and a daughter. Raise your glass if you.

11:41 Are grown In all the right ways on the underdogs We will never be, never be anything but loud And bitty, gritty, dirty little freaks Won't you come on and come on and raise your glass Just come on and come on and raise your. Glass She was born Alicia Moore, but she is worldwide famous just as simply as Pink. She was born in Doylestown Township, Pennsylvania in 1979. Makes her 47 today. Started out in an all-girl group. Then this female record executive came up to her and said, you know what, you'd make a really good solo artist. 60 million albums later, I guess that female record executive was right. Now, you can just tell that Pink is just, she's just cool. Now, her boyfriend was a motocross racer. She held up a sign proposing to him during the middle of one of his races. Must have said yes because they got married in 2006 and they have one son and one daughter. Well, thank you all for listening today. Now, England's Queen Elizabeth II, she died two years ago today at 96 years old.

12:46 The Queen said, while life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat. They're all the more determined to struggle for a better future. Thank you all for listening today. We sure appreciate you joining us. Don't forget to follow us. I know if you listen to us on, it makes it a lot easier to find us. Just reminding you, if you go to Spotify, you can listen to our playlist on there. It has all the whole songs of all the songs I've made clips of. If you don't go to Spotify, just come on to the show notes and look down. There's a link right to it. All right. Our request of the day comes from Kendra out in Denver. She wants to hear the band Django Waves and their song, I Lost My Walkman. I guess Kendra's feeling pretty nostalgic. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.

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14:10 Do. Maybe on the bus, staring through the glass. Saw the spiky hair, mine is just a mess. Need some new pants, or maybe some new shoes. Gonna skip the dance, don't wanna go to school. I don't know what to do.