April 13-Peach Cobbler, Duct Tape, Thomas Jefferson, Butch Cassidy, Peabo Bryson, Rick Schroder, Maxwell Smart

0:20 Welcome to history and factor it's about today. I am Jeff and today is April the thirteenth. Let's get it. My favorite piece of pot piece cotes smoking rhymes on piece cove I'm trying. To find a mass batty piece coveys as. The hand of my being wood. The toppers a favory piece of bad piece covees. It is National Peach Cobbler Day. Cobblers they go way back in time, but they're always usually filled with meat. Now, the peach cobber, it's all American peach and the other fruit cobblers. They were creating an America in eighteen hundreds. Now, if you want to bake a peach cobber yourself today, you really can't screw it up. You need some dough and fresh fruit. So either a bake it or buy it.

1:04 Just don't forget the ice cream and enjoy your grubbing on peach coppler today. Let's just see what was going on in entertainment on April thirteenth. Let's go back to nineteen ninety six. Number one album was Jagged Little Pill by Atlantis Morissett. Celeine Dion had the number one song because You Love Me. You saw the. Wast and me. Me love it. Because you. Lone star had the number one country song with no news. He said, it's just a warming thing. Put it out of the drive fast, and not to worry. I'm an understanding guy. Heard ring you love someone, gotta let him go, she hollered. When I find myself would be the first to know.

2:04 No. The number one book was Primary Colors by anonymous. I didn't want to fess up. It was all about the Clintons. Top movie was Primal Fair, a publicity seeking lawyer. He defends an apparent simpleton kind of guy with a low IQ. Yeah, but it was a really high profile murder case. Stars Richard Gere, Laura Lenny, and Edward Norton. All right, let's see it happened in the world. On April the thirteenth, seventeen ninety six, Captain Joseph Crownshield. He was in Calcutta, Indiana, India, decided by himself an elephant he had a shipped home on to the United States. On the ship to America. It arrived today. The elephant. It was the first one ever to set foot in America.

2:44 So they know all about Bett. Yeah. He named the Elephant Bett capt her in Salem, Massachusetts, until he sold her a couple years later for a really big profit. In eighteen sixty, after leaving Saint Joseph, Missouri, on April third, the first Pony Express rider arrived in sacrament California. Now the Pony expreads, they'll only run for eighteen more months. That's too expensive and gets replaced by the Telegraph. Eighteen eighty three, here in Colorado a minor name Alfred Packer. He was convicted of manslaughter, but they let him slide on the cannibalism charges. Yeah, they couldn't really prove that he ate the people that he was trapped in a blizzard with. Nineteen forty three, the Washington d C. The Jefferson Memorial opened up. Now, if you've seen the movie Apollo thirteen, it's where the Apollo thirteen spacecraft is heading to the Moon when an oxygen take explodes. Yeah, it caused a lot of damage to the spacecraft. Then they radio back Houston, we've had a problem. Well, if you haven't seen the movie, I want to tell you if they make it back or not. But that happened today in nineteen seventy nineteen seventy six, the two dollars bill went is put into circulation. You know who's on the two dollars bill, Yeah, Thomas Jefferson. Co co cot Co coke co coat shog.

3:53 This Shibf day were gonna pard He left this SHIVERBF day. We won't sit with cars. He left this Shibirf day. And you know we don't. Well. Who was born on Are thirteen, Well, Thomas Jefferson. He was born on the Shadwell Plantation in the colony of Virginia in seventeen forty three. Start off as a lawyer, then politician. He was a primary writer for the Declaration of Independence. Now he was the first Secretary of State for the United States, the second Vice President, and the third President. Served as president from eighteen oh one to eighteen oh nine. Now, after he left the president, he founded the University of Virginia. Back in seventeen seventy two, he married a twenty three year old widow. They had six kids, but only two survived instancy now him and his wife. His wife died in seventeen eighty two. Well, she was given birth to their sixth child. So when Jefferson married his wife, her name was Martha kind of like Martha Washington. She was Martha Jefferson when they got married in seventeen seventy two. Martha her dad, so Jefferson's father in law. He gave them a number of slaves as a wedding gift. Now, one of the slaves was names how Sally Hemings, and she was a mixed race slave.

4:58 And after his wife died, Sally she became Jefferson. I guess you'd say partner back then. They had six children together. Sally she was Jefferson's wife, actually her half sister. Yeah, her father had had Sally from one of his slaves. That's why he kind of endeared himself Jefferson. He died on July fourth, in eighteen twenty six, at eighty three years old, on the fiftieth anniversary of the signing and the Declaration of Independence. Then when he died, Sally and her children they were all given their freedom. She fixed things quickly with silber sticky tutji. You can reperd with tutsick kitchen chairs and ceiling.

5:42 Leagues within toutt best to stout. She was born in Prophetsdown, Illinois, in eighteen ninety one during World War two. She was working in an ordinance plant in Illinois. She was packing ammunition boxes and she noticed that the way the ammo boxes were being sealed, it really made it hard for the soldiers to open them quickly if they need it to. So she created a waterproof, terrible tape made out of cloth. Well, that solved the problem, but her bosses thought it was stupid and blew her off. So she actually wrote a letter to President Roosevelt telling him what she did. Well, he loved the idea. Yeah, he actually got the letter. So he got with the War Department and they implemented her tape. They made it out of duck cloth, so that's how they called it duct tape. That's what it was originally called. The soldiers, of course, they quickly realized that you could use duck tape for a lot more than just sealing ammo boxes. Now, in the nineteen sixties when the kind of got commercialized, yeah, they changed it to duct tape back then. Now, Sally Arvesta, she didn't really make any money from it. No, the army said that they had modified her original tape, so that's not what they were really using. So they didn't have to give her any money. She was married and had eight children.

6:46 She died in nineteen sixty six at seventy five years old. Butch Cassidy He was born in beaver Utah Territory in eighteen sixty six. It's born Robert Parker, known for raising hell with the Sundance Kid and the gang they called the Wild Bunch. Supposedly he was shot and killed in Bolivia in a shootout in nineteen oh eight. He was forty two years old, but they're not quite so sure nowadays. Actor Don Adams. He was born in New York City in nineteen twenty three. He fight as a marine during World War Two. Now at the Battle of Guguadalcanal, he contacted blackwater fever. Now it's a horrible type of malaria if you got it, at a ninety percent fatality rate. While he survived, but he spent a whole year in the hospital in New Zealand, came home and starting acting.

7:28 Best known for TV playing Agent eighty six Maxwell Smart on Get Smart. Then he was the voice of Tennessee Tuxedo, and he has a voice Inspector Gadget. He divorced three times. He had four kids from his first wife. Two from his second and one from his third. Died in two thousand and five from limp foma eighty two years old. Actor Tony Dao. He was born in Hollywood, California, in nineteen forty five. Most known for playing Wally Cleaver, that's the Beaver's older brother on Lever to Beaver and then the New Leaver to Beaver. He had one child from his first wife, married a second child in nineteen eighty. Tony died twenty twenty two from liver cancer, seventy seven years old. Won't spend. You say, since we've been.

8:21 Loving you for love, that's all great. He's eighty today. He's born in Forest City, Arkansas, in nineteen forty six. Start out as a soul singer before crossing over to mainstream music. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of his biggest hits are take Me to the River, Tired of being alone, I'm still in love with you, Let's stay together. He still performs a little bit. Nineteen seventy four, his girlfriend she poured a whole pot of steaming hot grits on him. Then she went into the next room and committed suicide with a gun. Well al he went in gospel music for after a little bit. After that he did receive secondary burns and he had to have skin grafts on his stomach in his back because after that he married once for five years and they had three daughters. Then he Since then he's had three more sons and another daughter from other women.

9:08 Second once in a lot time maybe too much, too ass lot, I swaun wrong now. Kid this time much Peevo Bryson. He's seventy five. He's born in Greenville, South Carolina, in nineteen fifty one. He has the King of du had love songs. Biggest one is probably Tonight I Celebrate My Love. That was with ROBERTA. Flack, and he hit big with Beauty and the Bass with Celine Dion and a Whole New World with Regina Bell remember that from Aladdin. Done a whole lot of those. But he's also at least eighteen solo albums too. Yeah.

9:51 Has a daughter from a girlfriend that he had back in the nineteen sixties, and then in twenty ten he got married and they have a son. People. He still performs quite a bit if you actually want to go see him. Actor Rick Schroeders fifty six He's born in Brooklyn, New York. In nineteen seventy made his movie debut at nine years old in the Champ. Then he did The Earthling. Then he had big on TV on the sitcom Silver Spoons. Then he was able to transition to adult roles fairly easily. He did the mini series Lonesome Dove, NYPD Blue, done a bunch of TV movies. He was married for twenty three years before they divorced, and they had four kids.

10:31 He spoke. Tom s cles Sam. Okay, you're gonna pay attention to me on this one. Okay? That is Aaron Lewis. He is the lead singer for the alternative metal band Stained. He was born in Reutland, Vermont, in nineteen seventy two fifty four today, how you helped for him stayin in nineteen ninety five. Only. Shaking my head and thinking something name right? He isn't just me? Am I losing my mind? Am I standing? Only a ure the end of time?

11:17 Only now? In twenty eleven, Aaron decided you know what he was and only a metal singer. He loved country music too, so he released his first album on it, even saying with Charlie Daniels and George Jones. He's actually released four albums. He just released another one in twenty twenty two. So if you want to see Aeron has Stained, they'll be touring May seventh through October the nineteenth. Now on the off days, he's going to be touring from now until the end of August doing his country stuff. So you get your choice on which kind of Aaron you want to want to go see. He's married and they have three daughters. It'll bet I'm money got in my life, little bit of ericat by my side, a little better read house all I need a house?

11:57 What I see in the sun? An Mary all night long? Here Roam. Makes old me one hit wonder Lubagas fifty one. He was born in Munich, Germany, in nineteen seventy five. Now his website says that he is celebrating the twenty fifth anniversary of this huge hit song, Mumbo number five. That's what we played. But if you want to see him perform it, all you have to do is book a show. Yeah, and he'll even bring dancers. Uh. To be totally honest, he did have a couple of other hits over in Europe. He still lives in Germany, got married in twenty fourteen. All Right listening today with physicist John Archibald Wheeler. He died to day in two thousand and eight at ninety six years old. He says, if you haven't found something strange this day, then it hasn't been much of a day. Thank you for listening today.

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