National fruitcake toss day. Entertainment from 2019. Martin Luther excommunicated, Alaska became 49th state, Motorola clam shell flip phone went on sale, Bit Coin created. Todays Birthdays - J.R.R. Tolkien, Stephen Stills, Victoria Principal, Mel Gibson, Danica McKellar. Conrad Hilton died. (2025)
Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Fruitcake toss - Page Turner
Thank U next - Ariana Grande
Speechless - Dan & Shay
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Southern cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash
All I have to do is dream - Andy Gibb and Victoria Principle
The Wonder Years TV theme
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/
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Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Fruitcake toss - Page Turner
Thank U next - Ariana Grande
Speechless - Dan & Shay
RESPECT - Aretha Franklin
Birthday - The Beatles
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Southern cross - Crosby, Stills & Nash
All I have to do is dream - Andy Gibb and Victoria Principle
The Wonder Years TV theme
Exit - It's not love - Dokken http://dokken.net/
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Oh, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Facto.
It's about today visited by cool Media. It is January
the third.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Bay Lady Sad Friday. As long as you've been by
here the streets sat.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Fruitcage.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Today is National Fruitcake Toss Day. The first great fruitcake
toss was Hella Manito Springs, Colorado in nineteen ninety six,
gotten bigger every year and sped across the whole country.
I guess tossing is better than regifting it. When President
Grover Cleveland got married in eighteen eighty six, the fruitcake
from his wedding it's still on display and called long
New Jersey must be where they got married. Now, I
(01:12):
guess just have fun chucking some fruitcake today. If you
don't want to eat it, you're going on and entertainment
on January third, it's about your. Twenty nineteen number one
album was I Am I Was by twenty one Savages.
Ariana Granton had the number one song with thank You,
next one some.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Of the Jah so Amazing love Town, that's not what
six Look what I go look launch its on me
that I read.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Staky Spanky jan and Shay had the number one country
song was speechless. I thank god you can read that.
It's really loo can read with those sids.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Speechess, that's just standing there in that chest. Well a
student's homey heye, a secret.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
This quashing you is all I can do.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The number one book was The Reckoning by John Grisham.
Top movie was The Upside, A rich squadriplegiack here as
a criminal to help him. Ount stars Brian Cranston, Kevin Hart,
and Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Upg Means to Meg.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Nineteen eighty seven, Rita Franklin. She began the first female
artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. All right, what happened on January the third,
fifteen twenty one. Pope Leo the Tenth he excommunicated Martin
Luther from the Roman Catholic Church. Martin he was a
Cathol priest. Then he wrote his ninety five thesises on
what was wrong with the Church. Yeah, he'd to go
(03:04):
into hiding. Start out translating the Bible into germansy back
then all the Bibles are actually written in Latin. But
that whole thing had started the president Protestant Reformation that
ended up split in Europe. And half the northern half
went Lutheran Southern af State Catholic. During the American Revolution
in seventeen seventy seven, the colonial army, led by General
George Washington defeated the British at the Battle of Princeton,
(03:26):
New Jersey. Yeah, it was a really big win for
the American exactly. They hadn't won a fight in a
long time. Now, have you seen the movie or read
the book Twelve Years of Slave? It was today in
eighteen fifty three of the Solomon Northrop he regained his
freedom after being illegally held as a slave. See Solomon.
He was a black man who was born free in
New York. Then he was kidnapped taking Louisiana and sold
into slavery. Took twelve words twelve years in order to
(03:49):
get word up north that and what had happened to him.
Finally Governor Washington Hunt heard about what happened and he
was able to free Solomon. Drink and straws now, they
were originally just strands of rye grass. Yeah, that's what
we was gonna suck their drinks with. That's why they're
called straws. In eighteen eighty eight, Marvin Stone in Washington, DC.
He invented the first man made drinking straw. It was
(04:09):
rolled up paper covered in wax. The high society people
thought it was more passion to find than drinking out
of a straw. Happy Birthday, Alaska, it was today In
(04:38):
nineteen fifty nine, Alaska begain the forty nine state. Alaska
is an eleot Indian word that means the object at
which the sea is directed or mainland. Now it's the
largest state, almost two and a half times bigger than Texas.
Alaska's capital is Juno. Highest point is Dnali at twenty
three and ten feet, highest point in North America. Alaska
state bird is the willow Ptarmigan fish is the King
(05:00):
Salmon flowers to forget me, not Trey Sikes. Spruce land
mammal is the moos Sea mammal is the bowhead whale.
Alaska state dog Alaska melamout. Some people born in Alaska
baseball pitcher Kurt schillang pilot, Jimmy Doolittle, hockey player Scott Gomez, skier,
Tommy mo painter, Bob Ross, football player Mark slairth some
(05:21):
of the people born in the last Frontier. Now, are
you old enough to remember that clamshell flip phones nineteen
ninety six Motorola. They started selling them, so if you remember,
and you probably had when they sold sixty million of them.
Two thousand and nine, Bitcoin was created. Start out free. Yeah,
you can get your bitcoin for free. By twenty eleven
they had gone up to one dollar. Boot goojoke, goat show.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Just shivers Day, gonna pause.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He left this shiver day. We want simple tar like
this shivers Day and you don't.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay Who was born on January the third, Rider j
R r to. He was born in Bloomenfontaine, South Africa
in eighteen ninety two. JRR It stands for John Ronald Rule.
After fighting in World War War he came back and
got his first job. He was working for the Oxford
English Dictionary. He was responsible for the letter W on
the side. He started writing his fantasy novels. Then he
(06:17):
hit really big with his books The Hobbit and Lord
of the Rings. Married in nineteen sixteen. They had three
sons and one daughter, Tolkian. He died in nineteen seventy
three and eighty one years old from a bleeding ulcer.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And you know what weed.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
The Stills and Crosbie Stills in Nash is Steven Stills.
He's eighty today. Born in Dallas, Texas in nineteen forty five.
Start out in the band in Buffalo Springfield. Then he
got together with David Grosby and Graham Nash in nineteen
sixty eight. Now he's in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame for Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Steals and Nash Stills.
He mostly played guitar and sing harmony. He had a
(07:08):
son from his first wife, and he had a daughter
from his second wife. Married his third wife in nineteen
ninety six. Oh and he also has five kids and
fine women. He didn't marry Jesus. That was actress Victoria
(07:37):
Principal singing with her boyfriend at the time, Andy Gibb.
All I have to do is dream Now. She dumped
him shortly after they released that song. She getting the
oil to me at him drugs are me? He chose drugs. Victoria,
she's seventy five. She's born in Fuka Haaka, Japan, in
nineteen fifty. Their dad was in the Air Force. She
went to seventeen different schools before she graduated from high school.
Of course, she's most known for playing Pam Ewing on
(07:59):
TV's Dallas. Some of her movies The Naked Ape, Earthquake,
Vigilante Force. She retired from acting in two thousand and one,
but she's still in joe business. She does a lot
of producing. Plus she has a Victoria Princil skin Caroline
that's really successful. She is twice divorced. Actor Mel Gibson.
He's sixty nine. He's born in Peak Skill, New York,
in nineteen fifty six. Now I'm serious. He didn't move
(08:20):
to Australia until he was twelve. His first movie was
Summer City Now it was an Australian drama. His second movie, now,
that was Mad Max. Now during days, he probably more
thought of like a movie maker and director than he
is an actor. It's one oscars for Brave Heart and
aksar Ridge. Biggest money making movie though, was The Passion
of the Christ. Yeah, he financed the whole thing out
(08:40):
of his own pocket, ended up making sixty million bucks.
He spent thirty million on it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
He married his first wife for thirty one years and
they had one daughter and six sons. After they divorced.
He had a daughter from a good time and then
he has a son with his current girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Len Me and I sing you a song. I will
try not to sing out of ki Ya.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Now, this will make you feel old. Fifty year old
actress Danica mckeller. She was born in La Jolla, California,
in nineteen seventy five. She is best known for playing
Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years. She made a lot
of Hallmark movies over the years. I mean they'd even
spoofed her from making so many of them.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
After the Wonder Rears, she went to UCLA and graduated
with honors with a degree in mathematics. She's written six
books on math. Danica as she had a son from
her first husband. She's been married to her a second
Esibden since twenty fourteen. Go back to Alaska nineteen forty three,
Japan they invaded the Aleutian Islands. So the Battle of
Attu was five from May eleventh to me a thirtieth
(09:54):
now when the Japanese were driven out of it. It's
the only battle during World War Two that was fought
on US oil. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't
forget to follow us whenever you listen to us on
and come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool.
With three us, you can see what's going on the
radio station and the other podcast. That's the end with
businessman Conrad Hilton. Conrad he created the Hilton hotel chain.
(10:15):
He died to day in nineteen seventy nine at ninety
one years old. He said, successful people keep moving. They
make mistakes, but they don't quit. You guys, have an
awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.
Oh, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and Facto.
It's about today visited by cool Media. It is January
the third.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Bay Lady Sad Friday. As long as you've been by
here the streets sat.
Speaker 3 (00:44):
Fruitcage.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Today is National Fruitcake Toss Day. The first great fruitcake
toss was Hella Manito Springs, Colorado in nineteen ninety six,
gotten bigger every year and sped across the whole country.
I guess tossing is better than regifting it. When President
Grover Cleveland got married in eighteen eighty six, the fruitcake
from his wedding it's still on display and called long
New Jersey must be where they got married. Now, I
(01:12):
guess just have fun chucking some fruitcake today. If you
don't want to eat it, you're going on and entertainment
on January third, it's about your. Twenty nineteen number one
album was I Am I Was by twenty one Savages.
Ariana Granton had the number one song with thank You,
next one some.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Of the Jah so Amazing love Town, that's not what
six Look what I go look launch its on me
that I read.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Staky Spanky jan and Shay had the number one country
song was speechless. I thank god you can read that.
It's really loo can read with those sids.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Speechess, that's just standing there in that chest. Well a
student's homey heye, a secret.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
This quashing you is all I can do.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
The number one book was The Reckoning by John Grisham.
Top movie was The Upside, A rich squadriplegiack here as
a criminal to help him. Ount stars Brian Cranston, Kevin Hart,
and Nicole Kidman.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Upg Means to Meg.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Nineteen eighty seven, Rita Franklin. She began the first female
artist to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame. All right, what happened on January the third,
fifteen twenty one. Pope Leo the Tenth he excommunicated Martin
Luther from the Roman Catholic Church. Martin he was a
Cathol priest. Then he wrote his ninety five thesises on
what was wrong with the Church. Yeah, he'd to go
(03:04):
into hiding. Start out translating the Bible into germansy back
then all the Bibles are actually written in Latin. But
that whole thing had started the president Protestant Reformation that
ended up split in Europe. And half the northern half
went Lutheran Southern af State Catholic. During the American Revolution
in seventeen seventy seven, the colonial army, led by General
George Washington defeated the British at the Battle of Princeton,
(03:26):
New Jersey. Yeah, it was a really big win for
the American exactly. They hadn't won a fight in a
long time. Now, have you seen the movie or read
the book Twelve Years of Slave? It was today in
eighteen fifty three of the Solomon Northrop he regained his
freedom after being illegally held as a slave. See Solomon.
He was a black man who was born free in
New York. Then he was kidnapped taking Louisiana and sold
into slavery. Took twelve words twelve years in order to
(03:49):
get word up north that and what had happened to him.
Finally Governor Washington Hunt heard about what happened and he
was able to free Solomon. Drink and straws now, they
were originally just strands of rye grass. Yeah, that's what
we was gonna suck their drinks with. That's why they're
called straws. In eighteen eighty eight, Marvin Stone in Washington, DC.
He invented the first man made drinking straw. It was
(04:09):
rolled up paper covered in wax. The high society people
thought it was more passion to find than drinking out
of a straw. Happy Birthday, Alaska, it was today In
(04:38):
nineteen fifty nine, Alaska begain the forty nine state. Alaska
is an eleot Indian word that means the object at
which the sea is directed or mainland. Now it's the
largest state, almost two and a half times bigger than Texas.
Alaska's capital is Juno. Highest point is Dnali at twenty
three and ten feet, highest point in North America. Alaska
state bird is the willow Ptarmigan fish is the King
(05:00):
Salmon flowers to forget me, not Trey Sikes. Spruce land
mammal is the moos Sea mammal is the bowhead whale.
Alaska state dog Alaska melamout. Some people born in Alaska
baseball pitcher Kurt schillang pilot, Jimmy Doolittle, hockey player Scott Gomez, skier,
Tommy mo painter, Bob Ross, football player Mark slairth some
(05:21):
of the people born in the last Frontier. Now, are
you old enough to remember that clamshell flip phones nineteen
ninety six Motorola. They started selling them, so if you remember,
and you probably had when they sold sixty million of them.
Two thousand and nine, Bitcoin was created. Start out free. Yeah,
you can get your bitcoin for free. By twenty eleven
they had gone up to one dollar. Boot goojoke, goat show.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Just shivers Day, gonna pause.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
He left this shiver day. We want simple tar like
this shivers Day and you don't.
Speaker 1 (05:55):
Okay Who was born on January the third, Rider j
R r to. He was born in Bloomenfontaine, South Africa
in eighteen ninety two. JRR It stands for John Ronald Rule.
After fighting in World War War he came back and
got his first job. He was working for the Oxford
English Dictionary. He was responsible for the letter W on
the side. He started writing his fantasy novels. Then he
(06:17):
hit really big with his books The Hobbit and Lord
of the Rings. Married in nineteen sixteen. They had three
sons and one daughter, Tolkian. He died in nineteen seventy
three and eighty one years old from a bleeding ulcer.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And you know what weed.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
The Stills and Crosbie Stills in Nash is Steven Stills.
He's eighty today. Born in Dallas, Texas in nineteen forty five.
Start out in the band in Buffalo Springfield. Then he
got together with David Grosby and Graham Nash in nineteen
sixty eight. Now he's in the Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame for Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Steals and Nash Stills.
He mostly played guitar and sing harmony. He had a
(07:08):
son from his first wife, and he had a daughter
from his second wife. Married his third wife in nineteen
ninety six. Oh and he also has five kids and
fine women. He didn't marry Jesus. That was actress Victoria
(07:37):
Principal singing with her boyfriend at the time, Andy Gibb.
All I have to do is dream Now. She dumped
him shortly after they released that song. She getting the
oil to me at him drugs are me? He chose drugs. Victoria,
she's seventy five. She's born in Fuka Haaka, Japan, in
nineteen fifty. Their dad was in the Air Force. She
went to seventeen different schools before she graduated from high school.
Of course, she's most known for playing Pam Ewing on
(07:59):
TV's Dallas. Some of her movies The Naked Ape, Earthquake,
Vigilante Force. She retired from acting in two thousand and one,
but she's still in joe business. She does a lot
of producing. Plus she has a Victoria Princil skin Caroline
that's really successful. She is twice divorced. Actor Mel Gibson.
He's sixty nine. He's born in Peak Skill, New York,
in nineteen fifty six. Now I'm serious. He didn't move
(08:20):
to Australia until he was twelve. His first movie was
Summer City Now it was an Australian drama. His second movie, now,
that was Mad Max. Now during days, he probably more
thought of like a movie maker and director than he
is an actor. It's one oscars for Brave Heart and
aksar Ridge. Biggest money making movie though, was The Passion
of the Christ. Yeah, he financed the whole thing out
(08:40):
of his own pocket, ended up making sixty million bucks.
He spent thirty million on it.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
Now.
Speaker 1 (08:45):
He married his first wife for thirty one years and
they had one daughter and six sons. After they divorced.
He had a daughter from a good time and then
he has a son with his current girlfriend.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Len Me and I sing you a song. I will
try not to sing out of ki Ya.
Speaker 1 (09:18):
Now, this will make you feel old. Fifty year old
actress Danica mckeller. She was born in La Jolla, California,
in nineteen seventy five. She is best known for playing
Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years. She made a lot
of Hallmark movies over the years. I mean they'd even
spoofed her from making so many of them.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
After the Wonder Rears, she went to UCLA and graduated
with honors with a degree in mathematics. She's written six
books on math. Danica as she had a son from
her first husband. She's been married to her a second
Esibden since twenty fourteen. Go back to Alaska nineteen forty three,
Japan they invaded the Aleutian Islands. So the Battle of
Attu was five from May eleventh to me a thirtieth
(09:54):
now when the Japanese were driven out of it. It's
the only battle during World War Two that was fought
on US oil. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't
forget to follow us whenever you listen to us on
and come see us at coolmedia dot com. That's cool.
With three us, you can see what's going on the
radio station and the other podcast. That's the end with
businessman Conrad Hilton. Conrad he created the Hilton hotel chain.
(10:15):
He died to day in nineteen seventy nine at ninety
one years old. He said, successful people keep moving. They
make mistakes, but they don't quit. You guys, have an
awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow.
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