April 12-Grilled Cheese, Steppenwolf, David Letterman, Andy Garcia, Vince Gill, Everclear, Shannen Doherty, Claire Danes

0:19 Hello, and welcome to history and Factor. It is about today. I am Jeff. Today's April the twelfth. I really love grilled cheese. I love took grew cheese. And it's not just grewed cheese. It's actually cheese in middroop, two pieces of bread. It's a cheese sandwich. Are your mid grilled cheese sandwich? Yes? Today is national girl cheese sandwich today. How people are they been eating cooked bread and cheese for thousands of years? About those girl cheese sandwiches that we love today. Yeah, they didn't start til the nineteen twenties. Why well, that's what sliced bread was invented. Yeah, today it's all about you. You can ad your girls she sandwich as playing in basic as you wanted, or as fancy and gourmete you want only nationwide deal Sonic they're giving away one dollar grilled cheese sandwiches today. So and Jordan enjoys some grilled cheese. Alrighty, let's see what's going on in entertainment on April or twelveth Let's just go back one year. Twenty twenty five number one album was Eternal Sunshine by Ariana Grand Kendrick Lamar and Za. They had the number one song with Luther Roman.

1:23 Almost seven bays is hot. If this roll was in mine, not taking James and made nomos a five. If this will was mine not taking hand an amazing in front of the path, then she'll do something to that like hit them stick Lee with the five. It's a five video dance and had a lot chill fan he a Flyp's just one of combs. Nah shaboozi ad the number one country song with a bar song sell. Them bringing another out? We need anymore stepping on the table. She don't need to to dance for um good Lord Smo coming out a double shot of Wishy nails his street. There's a party downtown in your fish streets. Everybody had parting.

2:08 The number one book was The Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros. The top movie was a Minecraft movie Four Nerds. They get sucked into the world of Minecraft. How are they ever gonna get home? Stars Jack Black and Jason Momoa. All Right? What happened? On April the twelfth, eighteen fifty three New York They enacted the country's first truancy policy. It was a fifty dollars fine if your kid between five and fifteen miss school. That'd be about eighteen airred bucks today. Eighteen sixty one, the Civil War began is in South Carolina, the Confederate Army, and they started shelling the Unions Fort Sumter, now the Confederates, they fired on the four for thirty four hours for the Union Army actually surrendered eighteen ninety two in Samford, Connecticut. George Blickensdorffer, he invented the portable typewriter.

2:53 I know it's not that big a deal, but I like Sam Blickendorffer all right. Nineteen eleven and Pierre Pryor, he flew the O non sty airplane fight from London to Paris. Took him three hours and fifty six minutes, so I don't know what he was doing up there. Must have been doing some stump flying and loops and stuff, because today it takes about one hour and nineteen minutes to meet that flight. Nineteen thirty four, on Mount Washington in New Hampshire, they recorded a win speed two hundred and thirty one miles an hour. That was the highest wind speed ever measured in the world until nineteen ninety six. Yea Australia they got went up to two fifty three. Yeah, we just talked about that a couple of days ago, didn't we. Well, New Hampshire, I guess you got the North American record still. Nineteen sixty one, Soviet Union's you're a Gagaron. He became the first person to travel into space.

3:35 It took that twenty six year old cosmonaut one hundred and eight minutes in order to urbit the Earth landed safely in Cauzes Guy's extend. Nineteen eighty one. The United States Space shet of Columbia that made its first flight. Yeah, the first time he reusable spacecraft went into space. If you all seen the movie Captain Phillips, well, if you have it, well then this is just a spoiler alert. But for the rest of us to remind you, it's where Tom Hanks, he plays that cargo ship Captain Phillips. Yeah, it was hijacked by Somali pirates. He was taking hostage. The Navy seals took out those pirates. Then, yeah, that took place today in two thousand and nine. Oh, the shooting in of the pirates did, and fring of Captain Phillips. The rest happened a couple of days earlier. Dope Dope, dope, dope, sharge dish shiver birthday, Please gonna he left this shiverthday.

4:23 We won't sit potage like this shive birthday. And you know we don't give that's birthday. Well, let's check out. It was born on April the twelfth. We were ball to me. That was John k. He was the lead singer for the Man Steppenwolf. John is eighty two today. He was born in Tilsit, Russia, by the Soviet Union back in nineteen forty four. Now, this family they fled to Canada and they escaped the Soviet Union. That's where he grew up. He helped start Steppenwolf in nineteen sixty seven. They got the name from a German novel called Dirst Steppenwolf, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me Straight, Straight Shooting Woman, Born to be Wild. That's just some of the Steppenwolf's biggest hits. Now they called her quits in twenty eighteen. Johnny met his wife in nineteen sixty five. She was working at a coffee shop where he was playing. Still together and they have one daughter.

5:30 Actor Ed O'Neill, he's eighty today. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio, in nineteen forty six. Now he did play college football, but not running back. He played defensive line for Youngstown State. Now he got a try out with the Pittsburgh Steelers, but he was a cut Yeah. During training camp he was behind me and Joe green and Elsie and Greenwood, both future Hall of famers. So he went into acting. It Big Play Now Bundy on Married with Children, then Modern Family after that, Now Married with Children was on there two and fifty nine episodes. Modern Family two in and fifty episodes. That's two pretty rud pretty good runs there. Some of the movies that Ed was in were Fort Fairline, Dutch Blue Jets, The Boat Collector. He got married nineteen eighty six and they have two daughters. Might not look like it, but he's a black belt and Brazilian jiu jitsu.

6:14 Late night TV talk show host David Letterman seventy nine. He was born in Indianapolis in nineteen forty seven. After college, he started out as a weather man on an Indianapolis TV station. After five years, he moved to California to be a stand up comic. Well, he ended up getting the Late Night with David Letterman Show in nineteen eighty two, retired in twenty fifteen after thirty three years in six thousand and eighty episodes. He married his second wife in two thousand and nine and they have one Sonny, I'll. Go through this ceiling. Didn't know how to deal with and so I just decided to myself. I'd heard to myself and man talk about and did not go in a shout when you watched to the room.

6:59 He was David cat City. He was born in New York City in nineteen fifty. Now his dad was actor Jack Cassidy. Now, after Jack divorced David's mom, he married Shirley Jones and then David and surely they started together on The Partridge Family. David he became a teenage idol on The Partridges Family, and he left the show to concentrate more in music. Some of his biggest hits are cherish, how can I Be Sure? Rock Me Baby, lying to myself. Over the years, he did a lot of Broadway, and he did a lot of residence. He's up there in Las Vegas. He had a daughter from a flag then he had a daughter from his third wife. He was divorced three times, David. He had a really bad alcohol probably pretty much his entire adult life. He had got up with him. It got himhen he was sixty seven years old. Actor Andy Garcia is seventy. He's born in Havana, Cuba, in nineteen fifty six. Moved his family in the United States when he was five. Now, I first got known really big, and then touch the Balls, and then internal affairs.

7:48 The Godfather. He was nominated for Oscar for that one Godfather three that's right, he's too young for the first ones. Then he did all those Ocean eleven, Ocean twelve, Ocean thirteen minutes. And he married nineteen eighty two. Yeah, and they have three daughters and one son. Country singer Vince Gill. He was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in nineteen fifty seven, makes him sixty nine today. Started out playing a whole bunch of bluegrass bands. Then in nineteen seventy nine he'd getting the lead singer for that country rock band, Pure Prairie League. Nineteen eighty three, there so big. He went solo some of his number one song since her, I Still believe in You Don't let Our Love Die. Cinderella won more Last chance. Now when Glenn Fry died back in twenty seventeen. You know what the Eagles. Yeah, Vince took over Glynn fried spots, so he's been at the Eagles since twenty seventeen. Also, his first wife was Janet Oliver.

8:59 She was in this Hearts of the Rodeo. They had a daughter. They divorced after seventeen years, and Vince married Amy Grant in two thousand and they have a daughter. They don't better when I hear them say, everything will be wonderful, So. Sis news the. World so bid. Just don't understand you. Now with almost here, fill me. Arta Lexicas, he sinks lead for the band Everclaire Already in sixty four is one of Los Angeles in nineteen sixty two, form Everclare in nineteen ninety one. Some of their hits are wonderful, Santa Monica, father of Mine, unemployed boyfriend Everclaire. They're actually out until right now. They're gonna be out in Tortil beginning November. If you want to go check out one of their shows. Now. Already had a daughter from his first wife, married his third wife in two thousand and nine and they have a daughter.

9:54 Twenty nineteen already announced that he is being diagnosed with multiple scrosses. Well, that doesn't has slown him down, So that's pretty cool and I'm sure wish him the best. Actress Shannon Doherty. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen seventy one. Her first acting job was on the TV show Little House on the Prairie. She was eleven years old. Of course, she had big on that song We played Beverly Hills nine o two one. After that Charmed. Some of her movies were Heathers mal Rats, Striking Poses. She was three times to ours. Shandon died in twenty twenty four, fifty three years old, from breast cancer. Actress Clare Danes is forty seven. She's born in Manhattan, New York, nineteen seventy nine. She first got famous for the TV show My So Called Life. Then she was on Homeland for nine years. Some of her movies were Little Women, I Love You, I Love You, Not Romeo and Juliet termin eight or three.

10:41 Now. She married in two thousand and nine and they have two sons and one daughter. I just Walsh, make sure you know just too your getting under the soul happened Alles girl. Non cond you time, I'll playing games back. I'm a little more country and that forty four year old country singer Eastern Corbin. He was born in Trenton, Florida, in nineteen eighty two. So I'm a Corbyn's biggest that's our role with it a little more country than that, loving you. It's fun all over the route east and he's out on tour right now, all the way till the end of August. We're going to chuck East out.

11:22 He married once for six years. Allright. Our quote of the day, we're gonna end President Franklin Roosevelt. Franklin Roosevelt died today in nineteen forty five, sixty three years old. He says, when you reach the end of your rope, Tian night and hang on. Well, thank you all for joining us today and listening to us. Read to follow us on whoever you listening to us on? Okay, our country underground radio artists today. Because I'm Mitchell in Birmingham. He wants here Toby May song tonight, You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. We'll start shirt at one hundred bucks. I'm guessing my old troll tonight to come and pick you up.

12:05 I'm going through the hammered down or my truck for that big old town. Tonight, we're gonna get wild up you Ever're gonna meet your friends in the parking lot past the jar. Have a few more shots heavy side the bar. We're gonna crack it. Get to night. We're gonna get over up. We're gonna dance around like some far poons. All down and get back up. You have to night we're gonna go down. Ye there ain't no please ound Tonight