Dec 14th-Monkey Day, Alabama BDAY, Aunt Bea, Charlie Rich, Tony Orland & Dawn, Patty Duke, Firehouse

National monkey day. Entertainment from 1958. Alabama became 22nd state, Fake pearls were invented, last mission to the moon ended, oldest water on earth found. Todays birthdays - Jimmy Doolittle, Francis Bavier, Morey Amsterdam, Charlie Rich, Joyce Vincent Wilson, Patty Duke, Dee Wallace, CJ Snare. George Washington died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran     https://www.diannacorcoran.com/
The monkey dance - The Wiggles
To know him is to love him - The Teddy Bears
City lights - Ray Price
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent     http://50cent.com/
Most beautiful girl - Charlie Rich
Knock three times - Tony Orlando & Dawn
Love of a lifetime - Firehouse
Exit - Friends with benefits - Corey Hart & the Wise      https://coreyhuntandthewise.com/
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History & Factoids about today webpage

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi, I'm Jeff, and welcome to History and Factor. It's
about today. Today's December the fourteenth.

Speaker 2 (00:29):
The monkey, the monkey, the monkey, Monkey, I'm.

Speaker 1 (00:39):
Not so.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
Today is National Monkey Day.

Speaker 4 (00:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
The difference between monkeys and apes are apes do not
have tails, and monkeys are smaller. Smallest monkey is a
pygmy marmoset five inches long ways about three point five ounces.
Largest monkey is a mandrel. Males they get up to
hundred pounds, females around thirty. I do we celebrate monkey Day? Well,
we go to the zoo, all right, we can read
some Curious George books. All right, we can just have

(01:06):
fun acting silly like monkeys do. Now, No, monkeys do
not make good pets, so don't even think about asking
those for Christmas, especially the hour monkeys. Yeah, they have
one of the loudest calls in all the animal kingdom.
You can hear a how our monkey call three.

Speaker 3 (01:18):
Miles or away?

Speaker 4 (01:19):
All right?

Speaker 3 (01:19):
This this is going on to entertainment.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
On December the fourteenth, It's back to nineteen fifty eight.
Number one album was sing Along with Mitch by Mitch Miller.
The Teddy Bears had the number one song with To
Know Him Is to love him.

Speaker 5 (01:31):
No, no, no.

Speaker 3 (01:33):
Him, he is too long.

Speaker 5 (01:37):
Love chos to see him Small.

Speaker 3 (01:51):
Ray Price the number one country song with City Lights
all Right, City Live.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
As far as iide can Seelie shines through the nine
only God Like.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
The number one book was Doctor Chivago by Boris Paserneck.
Top movie was had Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

Speaker 4 (02:19):
Now.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
A drunkex football player ignores his wife and then he's
forced to actually spend time with his terminale help father.
Stars Paul Newman, Burl Lives and Elizabeth Taylor. Alrighty, what
happened on December of the fourteenth, twelve eighty seven's in
the Netherlands and northern Germany The Zuazee seawalk collapse because
the Saint Louisa flood that is the seventh worst recorded

(02:40):
flood in history. Between fifteen eighty thousand people were killed
from it actually changed the whole coastline up there Scotland
fifteen forty two, King James the fifth had died, so
they made his daughter, Yeah, she was crowned queen. She
was Queen Mary, the first Queen Mary. She was six
days old, sixteen fifty six. In Paris, fans they figured
out how to make fit pearls. Yeah, they use gyps

(03:01):
and bellets and cover them with fish scales. Now today
actually looked at what they are. They still use like
a fish's scale. Oil extract on your fake pearl stake.
But the easiest way to tell if a pearl is
fake rubody against your teeth. It feels rough, Yeah, then
it's real. If it's fake, then you know. Or it's smooth, yeah,
then you know it's fake. The first military engagement in

(03:22):
the American Revolution took place today in seventeen seventy four,
four hundred New Hampshire militia man. They attacked the British
Fort William and Mary. Now the New Hampshire badasses. They
did overtake that. For it, they got a bunch of
small arms and a whole bunch of gunpowder. Happy Birthday,

(03:58):
Alabama today. In eighteen nineteen, Alabama began the twenty second
state Alabama. It's a Creek Indian word. It means tribal town.
Capital is Montgomery. Highest point is Mount Chia at twenty
four and thirteen feet Now, it is the thirtieth largest
state in area and the twenty fourth largest in population.
Alabama State bird is the wild turkey fish, largemouth bass, mammo,

(04:23):
black bear, insect, monarch, butterfly, trey is a long leaf pine.
Alabama state liquor is wild turkey.

Speaker 3 (04:30):
Some people born.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
In Alabama Helen Keller, Rosa Parks, Jesse Owens, Hank Williams,
kind Of Lisa Ris, Charles Barkley, Courtney Cox, Lino, Ritchie Hank,
Aaron bo Jackson, just some of the people born in
the Heart of Dixie. Nineteen eleven, in Norway's Rolled Almason,
he became the first person to stand on the South Pole.
Now to celebrate him and his team, they pitched a

(04:51):
tent right on top of the South bawl and had
the tenth and a big Norwegian flag hanging. Nineteen forty
seven in Daytona Beach, Florida, Bill Frown. He organized the
meeting that formed the National Association for Stock Car Racing.
Today we just call it NASCAR. Nineteen sixty two the
United States aircraft Mariner two. It became the first interplanetary
spacecraft when it flew by Venus. Yeah, it passed by

(05:13):
Venus at twenty one thousand, six hundred miles. That was
actually close enough for it to take Venus's temperature said
nine hundred degrees. Now scientists they're still kind of surprised
how accurate that was. Yeah, with the limited technology they had,
we know today that Venus' temperatures eight hundred and sixty seven,
eight hundred and seventy degrees.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Yeah, it doesn't really vary.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Not even at ninety nineteen seventy two United States astronauts
Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmidt, they left the Moon on
their Apollo seventeen at the spacecraft. No one's been back
to the Moon since twenty twelve at Sandy Hook Elementary
School and Newtown, Connecticut, got in, fired one hundred and
fifty six shots in five minutes, killed twenty kids who
were six and seven years old and ate adults. They

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shooter then killed himself. They still don't know why that
jud did it. Twenty sixteen, scientists at the University of
Toronto they announced that they had found the oldest water
on the planet. They found it deep in a Canadian mine.
Water data back to two billion years old. I bet
it tasted funny.

Speaker 2 (06:09):
Now.

Speaker 1 (06:09):
A very successful British surgeon his name was Simon Bramhill.
He was a successful worldwide for his organ transplant today.
In twenty seventeen, O Simon, he had to fess up,
He had to come clean. He admitted that, yeah twice
when he performed liver transplant. Yeah, he etched his initials
into the livers. Now it didn't really damage the liver,
but everyone agreed that's just wrong. So they came up
with some yess charge and made him pay a ten

(06:31):
thousand pounds fine.

Speaker 2 (06:33):
Joke, doke, co joked, joke, sharge, This shiverf day's gonna
he left this shiver day.

Speaker 3 (06:41):
We got simple target this shivers day. And you you
don't give up word okay.

Speaker 1 (06:48):
He was born into simb of the fourteenth America in
general and study by Jimmy Doolittle. He's born in Alameda, California,
in eighteen ninety six. In nineteen twenty seven and Jimmy,
he made the first blind airplane flight. See, they blacked
out his cockpit so he had to just use instruments
the whole flight, from the time he took off all
the way till he circled around and leny landed again.
Then in World War Two he was ordered a Medal

(07:09):
of Honor because see four months after Pearl Harbor America.
It was pretty down getting attack like that. But Japan,
they were on top of the world. They believed they
were untouchable. Well, Jimmy, he led sixteen bombers on a
one way bombing mission. They took off from aircraft carriers
and dropped their bombs on Tokyo. Of course they didn't
have enough gas to get back, so they.

Speaker 3 (07:27):
Just kept going.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, they disched their planes off in China. Sixty nine
in the minlive three died. Now Japan, they freaked out.
They could not see how that was absolutely possible. United States. Yeah,
she got a little bounce back in her step. Jimmy
married in nineteen seventeen and they had two sons. He
died from a stroke in nineteen ninety three at ninety
six years old. Actress Francis baby Air. She was born
in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen oh two. She was

(07:50):
best known for playing at b on The Andy Griffith
Show and then Mayberry RFD. Don't know for sure, but
it sounds like she married for a couple of years
in the nineteen thirty Francis died from congestive heart failure
nineteen eighty nine, eight days before her eighty seventh birthday.
Now she lived in this really small town called Silver
City in North Carolina. Now in her will, she left
a one hundred thousand dollars trust fund for the town's

(08:10):
entire police force. She wanted to make sure that they
all received Christmas bonuses every year. Comedian actor Maury Amsterdam
and he was born in Chicago in nineteen oh eight,
started out doing vadevelven radio that's now ever being Buddy
on the Dick Van Dyke Show. Now, when Moore did
his stand up act, he was called the human joke Machine.
See people in the audience, they would just yell out
a subject and he would turn it into a joke.

(08:32):
He got married to a second wife in nineteen forty nine.
They're together until he died in nineteen ninety six at
eighty seven years old from a heart attack.

Speaker 3 (08:38):
They had two children.

Speaker 2 (08:40):
Hey didn't you happen to see the most beautiful the world?

Speaker 3 (08:50):
And she cried Hey.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Now that was country singer Charlie Rich. She was born
in Colt, Arkansas, in nineteen thirty two. Started releasing the
song in the nineteen sixties. He hit really big in
the nineteen seventies. Some of his number one songs are
Behind Closed Doors Most Beautiful Girl. That one went up
to number one on the pop chart, A very special
love song, I Love my Friend Now. Even though he
was still really successful and popular, he retired in the

(09:22):
nineteen eighties, just got burned out. He married nineteen fifty
two and they had four kids. Charlie died in nineteen
ninety five at sixty two years old. He had pulmonary embolism.

Speaker 4 (09:32):
Oh My Darling nine three times on the ceiling and
you love easy answers.

Speaker 3 (09:46):
Oh my sleepiness means you meet me in the hall.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
Joyce Vincent Wilson. She was half of Dawn in Tony
Orlando and Don. Joyce and Thoma Hopkins were Don Joyce.
She's seventy nine to days. She's born in Detroit nineteen
forty six. Now Joyce and Thoma they became Don Tony's
backup singers in nineteen seventies. Now they had their final
Pharewell tour last year. They are completely done. The nineteen
seventies Tony Orlando and Don they were really big. They

(10:14):
haven't had their own TV show. Then they had the
hits Candida Knocked three times, ty Yellow Ribbon around the
old Oak, Jay Tree, he don't love you like I
love you now joyous. When she wasn't with Tony and
Orlando and don she was do her all the time
with all different kinds of artists, you name him. She
was like with supremes and all of them. So she
stayed really busy over the years. Actress Patty Duke. She

(10:36):
was born in New York City in nineteen forty six.
When Patty was fifteen, she went an oscar playing Helen
Keller and the Miracle Worker on TV. She started on
The Patty Duke Show. She played two identical cousins. Nineteen
eighty two, Patty, she was diagnosed with a bipolar disorder.
At that time, no one talked about mental e ones. Yeah, Patty,
she didn't care. She made it public, first celebrity to

(10:57):
talk about mindal illiness, gave a huge ad at for
it and raised a lot of money for it. She
had a son then her third husband. He actually adopted him.
That son is actor Sean Austin. Then her and her
third husband they had another son. They did divorce. Then
she married her fourth husband in nineteen eighty six and
they had a son, now Patty. She died from sepsis
in twenty sixteen at sixteen nine years old. Actress Dee Wallace.

(11:19):
She's seventy seven. She's born in Kansas City, Kansas, in
nineteen forty eight. Started out doing horror movies The Hills
Have Eyes, The Howling, Then she played the mom on Et.
Then she went back to horror movies Kujoe, Critters, Alligator,
to the Mutation, House of the Devil. Now not just
for horror films, but she was in over hundred forty movies.
She had a daughter from her second husband, that was CJ.

Speaker 3 (12:03):
Snare.

Speaker 1 (12:04):
He sang for the band Firehouse CJ's one in Washington,
d C. In nineteen fifty nine, help form Firehouse in
nineteen eighty four. Now he's singing and wrote all our
hit songs. Some of their hitsits that the Road Where,
Don't treat Me bad? Love of a Lifetime all She
wrote when I Look into Your Eyes. Twenty twenty, CJ
was diagnosed with colon cancer. So he took a little
break from it and then dealt with it. Then he

(12:25):
went to go back on tour with the guys YEP.
Colon cancer got in last April with twenty twenty four
sixty four years old. CJ had two sons and a daughter.
All right here, Court of the Day comes from the
father of our country, George Washington. He died today in
seventeen ninety nine at sixty seven years old. George says,
a freedom of speech is taken away, we shall all
be led like sheep the slaughter. Well, thank you all

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Speaker 3 (13:07):
She don't expect a cow, She don't get pissed off.

Speaker 4 (13:10):
She baby sits my dollar whenever round'm away we talk about.
It's her place on my couch. If we don't stream
shaft a fight over the little things. The wake girl,
I vote ain't got down with shage. We know how
to fuck the fire with all these handle flame the ring,

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the crowd, our fingers and into relationships, and that's why.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
We're interests friends with ben fists.

Speaker 4 (13:41):
Let Down's a cowld road those times I'm.

Speaker 3 (13:45):
Told she don't mind cows, and she's staking the same.

Speaker 4 (13:49):
She says, we's come right over now will night so
burst take some minute.

Speaker 3 (13:54):
Says honey, I'm on my way the wak her own.

Speaker 4 (13:58):
I vote ain't bo haven change. We know how it's
parking sire. We now you have play the mean drowd.
I'm Figers ain't into relationships, and that's why we're just
pays friends with benefits. No mean crowd. I'm Figers ain't

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into relationships, and that's why we're just friends, friends with benefits.

Speaker 3 (14:28):
And some day how sharp is settled things go? Now,
where's fool when Fred