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December 8, 2025 14 mins
National Christmas card day. Entertainment from 1963. 1st traffic light, 1st Heisman trophy winner, Tanganyika got independence, 40 camels disqualified from a beauty pagent. Todays birthdays - Margaret Hamilton, Kirk Douglas, Redd Foxx, Beau Bridges, Walter Orange, Michael Dorn, John Malkovich, Sylvia, Donny Osmond, Felicity Huffman, Jacob Dylan, Simon Helberg. Marie Fedrksson died.
Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran    https://www.diannacorcoran.com/ 
Christmas cards - Petula Clark
Baby I love your way - Will to Power
If you aint lovin you aint livin - George Strait
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent       Http://50cent.com/
Wicked witch of the west - Wizard of Oz
Redd Foxx Live
Brick House - The Commodores
Nobody - Sylvia
Go away little girl - Donny Osmond
One head light - The Wallflowers
Must have been love - Roxette
Exit - Snow Day - The Promised     https://thepromisedmusic.com/
countryundergroundradio.com
History & Factoids about today webpage
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Speaker 1 (00:19):
Hi everyone, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor.
It's about today. There's the Simmer the ninth.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Christmas cards, Christmas cards. I love to see the pretty
Christmas cards, bringing you sweet regards, wishing you the best
of happeness. Love to write to someone I'm thinking.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
Of Today is national Christmas Cards. Today, Christmas cards. They
start in England in the eighteen forties. Queen Victoria, she
sent the first Christmas cards out in eighteen forty three.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Now with all of today's technology, Christmas cards they're more
important than ever. They're the only former Correspondence requires any
thought or effort. So I'll spend a little time and
connect or reconnect with people in your life. Hopefully you
remember how to write and spell. Remember that most people
under forty yeah, they can't recursive. All right, this is
going on entertainment on December the ninth, It's back to
nineteen eighty eight. Number one album was Rattling hum by

(01:17):
You Two Will the Power had the number one so
on with baby I Love Your Wady. George Straight he

(01:47):
had the number one country song with if you ain't loving,
you ain't living.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
You've you got a Cadillac More handing the forty room
shack more Imo Mon had treat.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
No spoons in r mode.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
The number one book was The Sands of Time by
Sidney Sheldon. Top movie was twins Arnold Swarzenegger and Danny DeVito.
They are created in a Petri dish. Together. Now Arnold
wants to find his long last brother Deani. All right,
what happened on December than ninth, eighteen sixty eight, Lendon, England,
They installed the world's first traffic light. It was outside
the Palace of Windsor. Now it looked like a railroad

(02:39):
crossing today. It had the arms and everything. At night
they had lamps that lit up of green and red
from the gas lamps and all that kinds of stuff. Now,
I know what you think. And cars hadn't been invented yet,
that's true, but they were for horse and carriages. Nineteen
oh seven, the first cause of well, basically the number
one cause of death in the United States was tuberkeleyosis.
So to help fight it, they started selling Christmas seals. Yeah,

(03:01):
the first ones went on sale at the post office
in Wilmington, Delaware, cost you a penny apiece. Now today,
if you buy Christmas sales the money goes to fight
asthma and lung cancer and all kinds of lung conditions.
Eastern Seals are different. They go that money goes for
like autism and adults with disabilities. Boxing. Nineteen thirteen, in
the World Heavyweight Championship of the World, it was fought

(03:22):
between Jack Johnson and Jim Johnson. The Johnson and Johnson
fight ended in a draw. Baseball, in nineteen thirty one,
the National League get voted to continue as policy that
players could not have numbers on their uniforms. Nineteen thirty five,
in college football, the first Heisman Trophy was handed out
went to Jerry Burwanger. He was a running back from
the University of Chicago. He gave he didn't go to

(03:44):
professional football. No, he tried to go to the Olympics,
but he didn't make the Olympic team and they wouldn't
let him back in the NFL. Nineteen sixty one. Denknika
it got his independence from Great Britain. It immediately changed
his name over to Tanzania. Nineteen ninety two. After U
N Security Council Resolution, United States Marine and other Allied nations,
they all arrived in so Maya. It was try and

(04:04):
restore order to that war touring country. Yeah, it didn't work.
That's why the movie Black Hawk Down happened twenty twenty
one over in Saudi Arabia at the King Abdulazase his
Camel Festival. Over forty camels were drest qualified from the
camel beauty godess so that the camels were using botox.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
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Speaker 1 (04:27):
We're gonna pause.

Speaker 4 (04:27):
He left this shiver day.

Speaker 1 (04:29):
We got simple carge like this shivers day. And you
know we don't give up birthday. Let's check out. It
was bart on December the ninth. How got you mine?

Speaker 2 (04:39):
Pretty?

Speaker 1 (04:40):
And your little dog too? That was actress Margaret Hamilton.
She's born in Cleveland, Ohio in nineteen o twel best
known for being the Wicked Witch of the West and
the Wisdom of oz Now. When they were filming her
Fiery Exit from munchkin Land, she got secondary burns all
over her face and hands. She had just spent six
weeks in the hospital and recovering at home. After she

(05:01):
got all better, yeah, brought it back and she finished
filming her scenes nineteen thirty. She married for seven years
and they had one child, Margaret. She died in her
slate nineteen eighty five at eighty two years old. Actor
Kirk Douglas. He was born in Amsterdam, New York in
nineteen sixteen. Kirky started out as a professional wrestler, then
he went into acting. He was nominated for three Academy Awards,
he didn't win. And you never heard of those movies.

(05:21):
Some of his movies you did hear of, though, or
twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, Gun Fight at the
Ok Corral, Spartacus, The Final Catdown, Tough Guys Kurky. He
was married to his first wife eight years. They had
two sons. One of them is actor Michael Douglas. They
married his second wife in nineteen fifty four and they
had two sons. Kirky died in twenty twenty at one
hundred and three years old. Did you ever go to

(05:42):
the movies? Let out win him with quiet farts and
sit down and watch people move these things happening? He
is a nice looking gentlemen here class and ask you
a question. Did you have a fight and blame it

(06:04):
on the dolls? Comedian Red Fox. He was born in
Saint Louis, Missouri in nineteen twenty two. One of the
greatest stand up comedians all time on TV, he started
on Sandford and Son now Red. He was so famous
for faking heart attacks that nineteen ninety one he was
on the set of his TV show The Royal Family,
he actually had a massive heart attack. As he was
lying on the floor. Everyone thought he was goofing around

(06:25):
and just ignored him. He was sixty eight years old.
He had a daughter from a second wife. Married his
fourth wife in nineteen ninety one. That was three months
before he died from that heart attack. Actor Bou Bridges,
he's eighty four. He was born in Los Angeles in
nineteen forty one. His dad is Lloyd Bridges, and we
talked about it a his younger brother Jeff, just five
days ago. They only acted together once and that was
in the movie The Fabulous Baker Boys. But he started

(06:45):
acting when he was eight. He was on his dad's
TV show when he was eleven. Some bow Bridges movies
are two minute Warning, Norma Ray, The Five Musketeers On
the Other Side of the Mountain. He had two sons
from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen
eighty four and they have three kids.

Speaker 5 (07:00):
She's just reading it all. She's a bread.

Speaker 4 (07:06):
Wowing the house, the browser to death.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Everybody knows this is how the story going.

Speaker 1 (07:22):
That was Walter Orange. He was born in Florida in
nineteen forty six. He joined the Common Ores in nineteen
seventy two. Now from nineteen seventy two to nineteen eighty
two Lionel Ritchie. He sang all the love songs and
ballads for the Commodore's.

Speaker 2 (07:34):
Walter.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
He sang all the upbeaten dance songs like night Chef,
Prick Cass Lady, you bring Me up, Too Hot to
truck Now Walter. He just retired from the Commodore's last year.
I left his two sons in the band and they
took his place.

Speaker 2 (07:46):
Now.

Speaker 1 (07:46):
Their mom and Walter's wife, her name is Anne, said
he get it well. Her name is Anne Orange. Sometimes
it just makes me laugh. Actor Michael Dorn He was
born at Lowing, Texas in nineteen fifty two. Seventy three
year old's best known for playing That on Wharf in
the Star Trek franchise. He has done more Star Trek
stuff than any other actor, been in five movies in
two hundred and seventy seven TV episodes. Now Dorn he's

(08:09):
a pilot. Not only does he fly, but he sits
on the boards of several aviation organizations. Actor John Malcove.
She's seventy two. He's born in Christopher, Illinois in nineteen
fifty three. His first movie was Places of the Heart,
nominated for an Oscar. Yeah, nominated for Oscar the first movie.
That's pretty good. Later on he was nominated for an
Oscar for Line of Fire. Some of his other movies
where the Killing Fields Connair being young malcovic That's kind

(08:32):
of funny because he wasn't even the star of that one.
He married once for six years, and I guess he
didn't like that marriage at all because he's been with
his girlfriends in nineteen eighty nine and they have two children.

Speaker 4 (08:44):
Today.

Speaker 3 (08:46):
Loves when name.

Speaker 5 (08:51):
Does.

Speaker 4 (08:51):
She thinks she.

Speaker 6 (09:00):
Ye.

Speaker 1 (09:01):
Country singer Sylvia. She was born in Cocomo, Indiana, in
nineteen fifty six, so he's sixty nine to day. Some
of her biggest It's Our Drifter, Nobody Like Nothing Never Happened,
Falling in Left Now she still performs and releases new
music and stuff. Her video for the song Matador it
was the first music video ever played on CMT. That's
Country Music Television. Yeah, they used to be kind of cool.

(09:23):
Now she is three times divorced.

Speaker 6 (09:29):
I'm alive, so sleeep Oh this snavery.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
That was fourteen year old Donnie Osman. Now he took
that song go Away Little Girl, the number one in
nineteen seventy one. Donnie's sixty eight today. He's born in Ogden, Utah,
in nineteen fifty seven. Now, he was the seventh Ozma's Boy.
He is old than Marie and the youngest one Jimmy. Donnie.
He performed a little bit with the Osmond You know,
his older brothers mostly did solo stuff, and he did
a lot of stuff with Marie. In nineteen seventies, they

(10:09):
had their own TV show. They were in the movie
Going Coconuts, Him and Marine. Now they had an eleven
year residency in Las Vegas from twenty eight to twenty nineteen.
Marie's not doing it, but Donnie he's doing a solo
residency in Las Vegas. Yeah that there, Harris. He's gonna
be doing it until May. If you want to go
check Johnny Donnie out. If you do, I'm sure you'll
probably hear Hey girl, Puppy Love, sold your Love, Sacred Emotion.

(10:30):
Those are his solo hits, Donnie. I don't never ask him,
but I think maybe his biggest accomplishment of life he
won Season nine and Dancing with the Stars. I'll have
to ask him. He got married nineteen seventy eight and
they have five sons. Actress Felicity Huffman. She was born
in Bedford, New York, in nineteen sixty two. Sixty three
year old. She got first known on the TV show
Sports Night, hit Huge on Desperate Outslaves, and she's on

(10:52):
American Crime. Nominated for an Oscar for trans America. Felicity.
She married actor William ates Macy in nineteen ninety seven
and they have two.

Speaker 6 (11:05):
Scott.

Speaker 1 (11:22):
That was Jacob Dylon singing for his band The Wallflowers.
Jacob's fifty six, born in New York City in nineteen
sixty nine. Yip. His dad is Bob Dylan. Jacob formed
The Wallflowers in nineteen eighty nine, sixth Avenue, Heartache, One,
head Light, The Difference Hero. That's some of their hits. Originally,
The Wallflowers are called the Apples. It's pretty bad that
those are the only choices, but okay, Jacob, he got

(11:44):
married nineteen ninety two and they have four sons. Actor
Simon Hilberg. He's fit forty five. He was born in
Los Angeles in nineteen eighty got famous playing Howard Wallowitz
on the TV show Big Bank Theory. Now they were
small parts, but he's seen some pretty cool movies. He's
in Mumford Van Wilder Old School, Evan almighty. So I
haven't be married in two thousand and seven, and they
have a daughter and his son already here. Quote of

(12:06):
the day. It comes from Ree Frederickson.

Speaker 5 (12:27):
Marie.

Speaker 1 (12:27):
She was the lead singer for the man Roxette. Yeah,
she fought cancer for seventeen years when it got her
today in twenty nineteen. She's sixty one years old. Maray says,
without daring to make any means, you have no real friends.
At the end, well, thank you all for listening. Don't
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Check out the day's show description and our country and
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Speaker 2 (12:45):
The day.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
It comes from Annie after in Orlando, she wants to
hear the Promised and there are songs snow day. You
guys have an awesome day. And we'll talk tomorrow.

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(13:17):
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