History & Factoids about today

Oct 9-John Lennon, Jackson Browne, Tony Shaloub, Scott Bakula, Scotty McCreery, Megan Moroney

National Leif Eriksson day. Entertainment from 1977. Civil War battle of Tom's Brook, Electric blankets went on sale, Metorite hits Peekskill NY. Todays birthdays - John Lennon, Jackson Browne, Tony Shalhoub, Scott Bakula, Michael Pare, Scotty McCreery, Megan Moroney. Oskar Schindler died.

Intro - Pour some sugar on me - Def Leppard http://defleppard.com/
Spongebob Squarepants Leif Eriksson day
Star Wars theme - Meco
Heavens just a sin away - The Kendalls
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Imagine - John Lennon
Somebody's baby - Jackson Browne
Damn Strait - Scotty McCreery
Am I OK - Megan Moroney
Exit - In my dreams - Dokken https://www.dokken.net/

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Broadcast on:: 09 Oct 2024
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They were sailing to Greenland, but they got blown off course. Possibly the first Europeans to set foot on North America. Now he named it Vinland because of all the grapevines that were growing there. Now that was too late in the year to try and get back to Greenland so they just made camp for the winter then headed back to Norway in the spring. When they got there they told everybody all about it when they hit Norway. Yeah, the Norwegians then, they all started trekking over to Vinland to check it out, or Canada. Now I know that's cool and all but how do you celebrate? I guess you go Nordic, you know, be all Viking, you pickled herring, smoked salmon. Let's remember this guy got to America 500 years before Columbus and the rest of the guys have fallen in so he's worth celebrating. Alright, this is going on in entertainment on October 9th. Let's go out to your 1977 number one album was Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. Mecco had the number one song with Star Wars theme. That kindles they had the number one country song with Heaven's Just a Sin Away. The number one book was Summer Really End by J.R. Token. The top movie was Oh God. God, he came to Earth as an old man and makes a young grocery store manager, his messenger to the modern world stars George Burns, John Denver and Terry Gar. Alright, what happened on October 9th during the Civil War in 1864, the Union Calvary and the Confederate Calvary went at it at the Battle of Thomas Brook in Virginia. Now the Union, they whooped up on the rebels. Locals watching the fight call that the Woodstock races as the Confederates on their horses just turned tail and ran with the Union's chasing them. Now it was not a significant battle at all, but what makes it interesting in the two officers that were in charge, they removed roommates back at West Point. The Confederate officer, his name was Tom Roser, his former roommate, General George Armstrong Custer. 1930, Laura Ingalls became the first female pilot to complete a transcontinental flight across the United States. No, not that Laura Ingalls. 1936, the Hoover Dam began sending electricity to Los Angeles. Today, 15% of all the electricity generated by the Hoover Dam, it still goes to Los Angeles. 1946, the first electric blankets went on sale, $39.50 each. That would be $650 for an electric blanket today. 1989, Pinhouse Magazine. They started printing a Hebrew edition. He brew edition. You know, there are so many kosher jokes. I don't even know where to start. 1992, a fireball blazed across the sky over a peace-kill New York, scared the hell out of a stadium full of people watching a high school football game, especially in the hurlad boom and crash. Well, everybody rushed to see what happened. Luckily, they found out no one was hurt. It was just a meteorite, the size of a bowling ball, it had taken out the Nat family, Chevy Malibu. They had it parked in their driveway. And that meteorite was actually seen from Kentucky all the way to New York. Let's check out who was born on October the 9th. John Lennon, he was born in Liverpool, England in 1940. When he was 15, he started the band called the Quarryman. After a couple of years, he let Paul McCartney join the band. That led to the Beatles. Pinhouse sold 600 million records, that second behind Elvis all the time. Now Lennon, he sold around 23 million on his own when he went solo. He was married to his first wife from 1962 to 1968, and they had their son Julian. And he married Yoko Ono in 1969, and they had their son Sean. Today's also Sean's birthday, he's born on October 9th in 1975, he's 49 today. Sean, he was five when his dad was murdered in 1980 at 40 years old. Jackson Brown, he's 76, he was born in Heidelberg, Germany in 1948, his dad was in the military, Jackson actually grew up in California. Started out in the nitty-gritty bird band. He was pretty much just a songwriter back then, released his first album in 1972. Some of his biggest hits are running on empty, somebody's baby, lawyers in love, tenders in the night. He had his son from his first wife, then his wife committed suicide. He had his son from his second wife, then he dumped her for Daryl Hannah. He was with Daryl Hannah for 10 years, they never married, they just broke up. Jackson has been with his current girlfriend since the mid-1990s. Actor Tony Shalub, he was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1953, 71 year old Tony, first got known on the sitcom Wings, then he hit pretty big on that TV show Monk. Some of his movies were Galaxy Quest, Men in Black 2, he voiced Luigi in the Cars movies. He has been married to actress Brooke Adams since 1992, and they have two daughters. Actor Scott Pacula, he's 70, he's born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1954. He's known for TV, first hit pretty big on Quantum Leap, then he has Star Trek Enterprise, then NCIS New Orleans. Some of his movies are Necessary Roughness, Major League, Back to the Miners, and Informing. Scott has two children from his first wife, married his second wife in 2009, and they have two children. Actor Michael Parr, he was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1958, 66 year old hit really big in the 80s. He had Eddie in the cruiser, Streets of Fire, Philadelphia experiment. Now Parr, those are his big ones. He's been busy though. It's been 160 movies throughout ever since then. He's been married to his third wife since 1992, and they have one child. Country singer Scott McCreary's 31, he was born in Garner, North Carolina in 1993. He was 16 years old when he auditioned for American Idol. He had turned 17 when he won the 10th season of American Idol. After winning, he released his first album. He became the first country artist who's debut album debuted at number one on the pop chart. He's released six albums now. Some of his number one songs are Five More Minutes, This Is It, in between Damn Straight. Yes, he did finish high school after he won American Idol. Scott, he got married in 2018, and they have one son. That's 27 year old Megan Moroney. She has a country singer who was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1997. She just released her second album in July. She's had the his Tennessee Orange. I'm not pretty. Can't break up now. She did that with old Dominion. Now we played her current song, Am I Okay? She is kicking off her tour in March, and it'll run all next year if you want to go see Megan. Today in 2023, that's all we have last year, Travis Geinger. He was in Anoka, Minnesota, set the world record for largest pumpkin ever grown. A thousand, seven hundred and forty nine pound pumpkin. Yeah, that pumpkin is big enough to make six hundred and eighty seven pies. 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