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Speaker 1 (00:03):
Hi everyone, I'm Jeff.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Welcome to history and factoids about today. Today's December the sixth, Go.
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Away up north Worthy argist.
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There's a tale about Christmas that you love him chalk
and real Thames as Christ.
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He says the whole you were good.
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Just lei.
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It's change, it's a little scene change.
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Today is National Saint Nicholas Day, also known as the
Feast of Saint Nicholas. It is celebrated a lot more
over in Europe. People are there to leave guests in
people's shoes and socks and everything, like Saint Nicholas used
to do. Sat Nicholas, Yeah, he was a real man.
He is the inspiration for Santa Claus. His parents were great,
but he was born in Petera, Turkey, in two seventy.
He was raised a real devout Christian as parents they
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were really rich. Nicholas he became a bishop over in Turkey,
and he sold off all his possessions, gave away all
his moneys and inherents, all that just dedicated his whole
life to the poor and serving them sick and the suffering.
He died to day in three forty three, at seventy
three years old. How to celebrate today. Don't do anything
extravagant or anything. Just leave someone like a special heartfelt
note or nick knack, maybe a chocolate, you know, some
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kind of something just simple that's heartwarming. Yeah, something they'll
make their whole day, just like Saint Nicholas used to do.
All right, This is going on Entertainment On December the sixth,
Back to nineteen sixty seven, number one album was Piscey's Aquarius,
Capricona and Jones Limited by the Monkeys. The Monkeys had
the number one song with Daydream Believer. Sunny James had
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the number one country song with It's the Little Things
the Herby.
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Kiss hogget from you.
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When I leave.
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It's a little things that make me love you.
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So the number one book was The Confessions of Nat
Turner by William Styron. The top movie was Gone with
the Wind. Yeah, they reissued it for the holidays. Do
you know when? Gone with the Wind was first released
nineteen forty. Nineteen sixty four, Rudolph the Red News Reindeer
debut on TV that's been shown every year since. That
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makes it the longest running Christmas special now. The song
came first in nineteen thirty nine. The song roote off.
The red nose reindeer came out. Ah what happened on
December the sixth, two forty the Mongrels, they were led
by Buddha Khan Dettech Kiev. He had that down in
the Ukraine. Now after eight days the Mongols they pretty
much destroyed the whole city at Kiev. More of the
fifty thousand people that lived there, only two thousand people
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were still alive. Seventeen seventeen thirty five were in London, England.
Claudia's amyard. He performed the first appendectomy. That was the
first one where the patient lived anyway. Eighteen sixty five, Georgia,
they voted for the thirteenth Amendment of the US Constitution,
so that ratified it. Yep, it was legal. The thirteenth Amendment.
That's what abolished slavery. Well mostly now it's still in
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there on the books today. That mendment says that basically
a slavery has gone, except slavery is still legal as
a punishment for criminals who have been convicted of crime.
Eighteen seventy six, the first crematorium in the United States began.
He was in Washington, Pennsylvania. First person cremated was Baron
di Palma. All we know is he is a member
of the Theosophical Society and he had a lot of money. Washington,
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d c. In eighteen eighty four, the aluminum capstone was
put on the top of the Washington Monument, made the
monument five hundred and fifty five feet high. Now that
that time, that's the tallest man made structure in the world.
It had passed the Clone Cathedral that was over in Germany.
Now the Great Pyramid in Egypt. Yeah, it was the
tallest man made objects, like four thousand years. Its four
hundred and eighty one feet high. Now today it's four
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inn forty nine and a half feet. You had thirty
one feet off the top of the gone. This is
a nice story, Well not really a nice story, but
it's kind of a nice thought. Nova Scotia, Canada. They
sent a large Christmas tree to Boston, Massachusetts. Every year
it is displayed on the Boston Commons. Say, in nineteen
seventeen at the Port of Halifax, our Norwegian ship was
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speeding through the harbor. Yeah, I was trying to make
up for time after it got delayed. Well, a French
munition ship. It had the ride away, but the Norwegian
ships just crashed right into it. The French ship was
carrying nine and twenty five tons of explosives, so it
caught fire. Twenty minutes later it exploded, largest man made
explosion in history before the atomic bomb. Now. It caused
a sixty foot tall tidal weight of water to hit
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the city of Halifax. Every building within six miles was
flattened from the water and the explosion. Seventeen hundred people
were killed. Hundreds of people were just watching the fire
were blinded. Nine thousand people were injured. Now, the city
at Boston they heard all about it, so they sent
a train of supplies and relief workers up there to
help them out. So Nova Scotia they still send them
a Christmas tree every year and still saying thank you
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for your help. Have you heard of that famous psychologists
called doctor Joyce Brothers. She was really big there for
a while. In nineteen fifty five, she won the grand
prize of sixty four thousand on the TV game show
sixty four thousand dollars question. Yeah, she went it because
of her knowledge of boxing.
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That's right.
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Well, the producers they gave her the category of boxing
because they knew. She knew nothing about it that they
have to give to the contestants what the category is
going to be about, and what they're gonna be asked
about before the show. So she started studying boxing. It
worn't she ended up winning that show. Yep, it made
her real famous as the psychologist. Now sixty four thousand
and fifty five, and they'd beat out so there in
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fifty thousand. Today in nineteen fifty seven, newspapers headlines all
over the across the United States they read, flop Nick Kaputnik.
I'll see what happened is two months earlier, the Soviet
Union had launched Sputnik, the first satellite. Well, the United
States they were going to be outdone by the Soviets,
so they promoted the hell out of the satellite they
were going to launch, called Vanguard. Yeah, it was a
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lot better than Spotnick. Well, they launched it today, went
up a couple of feet and just blew up. Yeah,
they all had a lot of egg on their faces. Now,
the Yes did get their first satellite into space four
months later in March, but they did not promote that
at all. Nineteen seventy three, agee Ford, he was sworn
in as the first unelected Vice president of the United States,
Sparrow agnew he had to resign because of corruption charges.
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Twenty seventeen, the United States officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel's
our capital, so President Trumpey announced that they were moving
the s embassy over to Jerusalem. I wonder if this
hurt their tourist industy. In twenty twenty two, Indonesia, they
passed the law. It outlawed sex outside of marriage, even
for foreigners.
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Joke, dope, joke, joke, show dish Shivers day. Please gonna pause.
He left this shiverday. We got simple to let this
shivers day. And you know we don't give up the workday.
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Wellt's check out. Who's born on December the sixth?
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Owe me?
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I love you?
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How I love you, my dear oldy.
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I give the world to.
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Be home on the face how you know my me?
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Okay, that was Judy Garland. I'm gonna talk about the
guy who wrote that song. Yeah. Irack Gershwin. Ira was
born in Manhattan, New York in eighteen ninety six. Now
you probably heard of the Gershwin brothers. Ira and his
younger brother George super super famous for Broadway. Now they
wrote over a dozen musicals. Now Irate he wrote all
the lyrics for the songs, and George he composed the
music for Ira. He married nineteen twenty nine. He id
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from a heart heart disease nineteen eighty three at eighty
six years old. Actress Agnes morehed. She was born in Clinton, Massachusetts,
in nineteen hundred. At the end of her career, she
was most known for TV. She was playing Indoorra on Bewitched.
That She was a very successful actress before that in
the movies, So Now many four times for Academy Awards
Now she had right off the bat. Her first movie
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was Citizen Kane. Over the years, she had two quick marriages.
Agne she died from uterine cancer in nineteen seventy four,
a seventy three years old.
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There is no need to hear.
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The voice of Underdog was Wally Cox. He was born
in Detroit in nineteen twenty four. Grew up in Evanston, Illinois.
His best friend was Marlon Brando, who was his neighbor.
When Wally started out, He started out a stand up comedian.
He did get his own TV show, he was Mister Peepers.
He made over twenty movies. Now, early on in Wally's
career when he was really struggling, so was Marlon Brando,
and they lived together in New York City. They were roommates,
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stayed lifelong friends. Cox He had thick glasses. He looked
really kind of meek and nerdy. He was maybe five
six and really skinny. He was actually really good athlete,
and he was rode motorcycles. Yeah, he was just rough
and tough as Brando was well. He divorced three times
and had two children throughout him. He died from a
heart attack nineteen seventy three and only forty eight now.
He was cremated and Brando got the ashes. Then when
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Brando died in two thousand and four, their axes ashes
were mixed together. Yeah, and they were spread out over
Death Valley in Tahiti. Actress Joebeth Williams. She's seventy seven.
She was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen forty eight.
Started out on the soap opera The Guiding Light. Some
of her movies were Stir Crazy, The Polterguys Movies, The
Big Chill wyat Arp. She mede her husband filming Jungle,
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The Jungle. Yeah, he was the director. Got married in
nineteen eighty two and they have two sons.
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Cover your Delta Town.
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Name is Pindo.
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Tom Holtz. He played Pinto in the movie Animal House.
He's seventy two today. He's born in Detroit nineteen fifty three.
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Now he went from.
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Playing a drunk frat boy. He played Mozart and Amadaeis.
He was nominated for an Oscar for playing Mozart and Amadeas.
He's also in Parahet Frankenstein. He voice Quasimoto in the
Hunchback of Notre Danes movies. Tom Now he was rumored
to be married to this really famous Italian artist and
they had this daughter and all this kind of stuff.
It was all over the place. Well Tom came out.
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I said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm not married or
I'm gay. So no, Tom, he's single.
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I remember when I was a fetus, so I used
to sneak out at night when my mother was safe.
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I thought to myself, you know, now is the time I.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
Should start stealing some stuff, since I don't have any
finger prens.
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Comedian Stephen Wright is seventy He's born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In nineteen fifty five. One of the best stand up
comedians all time, started doing stand up in seventy eight.
Nineteen eighty nine, he won an Oscar for Best Short
Live Action Film. It was the Appointments of Dennis Jennings.
Now some of his full length movies are Desperately Seeking, Susan,
Natural Born Killers, Half Baked, Son of the Mask he
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gave to his personal life. Yeah, you don't know anything
about that. Sixty three year old actors Janin Turner. She
was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, in nineteen sixty two. She
grew up in Texas. She left home at fifteen to
become a model. Then she got famous on the TV
show Starring Yeah. She started on Northern Exposure. Later on
she did Strong Medicine and then Friday Night Lights. Some
of her movies A Cliffhanger, Leave It to Beaver. She
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was the mom June Cleaver, Doctor t and the Women,
Bogie and Bertie Jane. And she has one daughter. Alright
here Cord of the Day. It comes from Roy Orbison,
Heyman walking down the street.
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Really, Holmer look kinda like to me? Really, Homa.
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Many Still the ju.
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Roy died today in nineteen eighty eight, at fifty two
years old, Roy said, I may be a living legend,
but that sure don't help when I have to change
a tire. Well, thank you, thank you off for listening.
Don't forget to follow us, and now you listen to
his song. Check out today's show description to find some
connections and what's going on with this show? All right,
our country underground radio artist today. It comes from Mickey
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in Austin. She wants to hear the song Knock Knock
from Daryl Perry. You guys have an awesome day. We'll
talk tomorrow.
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Not knock my friend. Won't you open up and let me?
Speaker 5 (12:33):
I've been probably sum sitting back against this dude too
little pride, Mom in tears and with your ass down
on the floor.
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You don't have to do that any evil, not not
my friend. This drizzles cold and it's a chill wind.
I know you got.
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Bs Texas breaking wide, but I've got come sisters, and
some time goes to get us through this time. Heverything before.
I'm not my friend. Yeah, he just makes you know
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we don't deserve him. Fad chance, girl, Loud would never
hurt you.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
I never hurt