April 15th-Lincoln died, Titanic sank, Boston Marathon bombed, Jackie Robinson Played, Leonardo da Vinci born

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Yeah, it's April fifteenth. Be thankful. I don't take it. The tax the April fifteenth tax filing deadline. Now it's only if you owe taxes. Now, if you're doing refund you have three years in order to file. Yeah, they don't care if they have to pay you. But if you owe, yep, you have to go filing by midnight tonight. You know what, Let's continue with another unwanted chore. This is the way Jersey On notes, Juddy, younglads, this is the way we jeddy unglades, so early in morning.

1:07 This is the way we wash shumloes, wash shutlotes, wash shutlotes. This is the way we wash shutloads, so early in my morning. Yeah, today's National Laundry Day, bit boul. They've been washing what they wear for thousands of years. Now, let's be honest. We have it pretty good nowadays. So thank you modern technology. You can use today to catch up on your laundry. However, today is to teach your children how to do laundry. Yeah, teach them some self sufficiency. Also teaches some responsibility and it gives you a break. You know what, I really don't mind doing laundry. I just hate folding it afterwards. Okay, let's see what happened in entertainment on April fifteenth. It was back to nineteen seventy six. Number one album was Frampton Comes Alive by Peter Frampton. Johnny Taylor had the number one song with Disco Lady Shut Up.

2:00 Twere said, I Will you do your fut? Eddie Rabbit had the number one country song with drinking My Baby Off My Mind? Give me ten times? All this dollar in my hair, turning up volitude, boy up, I might drive off the whole nas crown. My mind. The top selling book was eighteen seventy six back Gordy vow Now. The top movie was The Bad News Bears. I've broken from her minor league baseball manager.

2:48 Here's a coach, a team of outcasts stars Walter matth Allen Tatum O'Neill. All right, let's see it happened on April fifteenth. In seventeen seventy if you were writing with a lead pencil, yeah, you'd have chunks of bread next year. See bread was used as an eraser for the pencil list Joseph Priestley, though he invented the rubber eraser. Yeah, he did it by accident, but hey, it worked at that time over in England. Anything that he had to rub something on, they called it a rubber. So, yeah, the rubber eraser didn't have any rubber in it. It took him until eighteen fifty eight before they put that rubber on the end of a pencil. Though. Eighteen sixty five, nine hours after being shot in the head by John wilkeswith President Abraham Lincoln, he died fifty six years old. Eighteen seventy seven, the world's first home telephone was installed. It was in Charles Williams Junior's crib in Summerville, Massachusetts. See Williams. He was the guy who they were going to pay to make the first telephones.

3:38 So Alexander Bell and his assistant Watson. Yeah, they put a line from his shop into his house. You need to use Ivory soap. Well today, Harvey Proctor, he started selling that soap in making it in eighteen seventy eight. Now, yesterday I tease you, I said, the unsinkable ship the Titanic he did inn Iceberg before midnight. Well, it's sank at two forty am. Yeah, I'm sure you've all seen the movie. What are the movies? Nineteen forty seven Jackie Robinson, he broke baseball's color barrier, became the first black player to play in Major League Baseball in the modern era. Played for the Brooklyn Dodgers. In that first game, Jackie went out for three, but he did score the winning run. Now, the last black player to play for a major league team it was Moses Fleewood Walker. He played for the Toledo Bluestockings back at eighteen eighty four. Nineteen fifty five, Ray Krock he opened up the first McDonald's franchise restaurant.

4:26 That's right, he did it to play in Illinois. Did so well he was able to buy out the McDonald's brothers and take over the whole company. I'm sure you remember that. It was twenty thirteen when too Chechnian brothers set up bombs near the finish line in the Boston Marathon. Three people were killed, almost two hundred rangers, seventeen people lost limbs. Now that's a sucky way to end. Joke joke, joke, show dish Shibbert day. We're gonna tar he left dish shibthday. We want simple targe. He was like, this shibirth day, and you know we don't give up. That's your birthday. So it was born on April the fifteenth. Leonardo da Vinci. He was born in the Republic of Florence in fourteen fifty two. Possibly the greatest painter of all time, he is also an engineer, architect, and theologian. Most famous paintings had to be the Last Supper in the Mona Lisa da Vinci. He never dated girls were boys, Nope, he was too busy working. I guess. He died from a stroke in eight or fifteen, nineteen sixty seven years old.

5:24 Actress Elizabeth Montgomery. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty three. She is most known for us starring on Bewitched on the TV show Yeah she was the Witch. She made a whole lot of TV movies after that. She had two sons and one daughter from her third husband, married a fourth husband in nineteen ninety three. Then Elizabeth died from cancer in nineteen ninety five and sixty two years old. I still get lad Honeymoon Pelan after all the shot smart choles every time you touched me and student, I still get lad Honeymoon. I can still hear those fats. That was Roy Clark. He was born in Marion, Virginia in nineteen thirty three. Hosted the TV show he HA from nineteen sixty nine to nineteen ninety seven. He was a really popular guitar, banjo and fiddle player. After the side with other artists. He released thirty seven of his own albums, though, and some of those albums are country, pop, bluegrass and Latin music. Roy he married nineteen fifty seven.

6:24 They had five kids. He died in twenty eighteen and eighty five years old from pneumonia. Roy Raymond He was born in Connecticut in nineteen forty seven. Nineteen seventy seven, Roy he started Victoria's Secrets. Yeah, the lingerie company opened up a store out there in California. Then he started the sale order catalog. So he didn't like going into a lingerie stores, so I don't know why he opened one up, but he did. Anyway, he figured out that other guys didn't want to go in there either, So that was a really good call, that catalog. Yeah, he did pretty darn good. Now. Back in nineteen ninety three roy he committed suicide. He jumped off the Golden gate Bridge forty six years old. He had married once or twenty years when they got divorced, and he had one son and two daughters. Actress Emma Thompson sixty seven. She's worn in Hammersmith, England in nineteen fifty nine. She's won two Oscars for Howard's and Ann Since and Sensibilities some other movies. She was in love actually Nanny mcveee, some of the Harry Potter movies. Now she got married in two thousand and three and they have a daughter, and they've adoctored in a Uganda Boy then Austin sixty five. She's worn in Plant City, Florida in nineteen sixty one. Now, she was Playboy Playmate of the Month in July and nineteen eighty six. Now, the reason that was so special, the reason Playboy paid a lot of money for her to do it. They found out that she was the first Hooters girl. That's right, she was the first woman hired to be a waitress and Hooters. See the guys at the Hoot who started the Hooters restaurants. They saw her in a bikini contest and said she's archetype now. She had one son from her first husband, her and her second husband and they have five children.

7:50 You come outside nine, take on two thousands and I can. Scream of Thomas. That was Linda Perry when she sang lead for the band four nine Blondes. Sixty one years old today. Linda is born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in nineteen sixty five. She had four four nine Forum fort nine Blondes in nineteen eighty nine, broke up in nineteen ninety four. Then she did the solo thing until twenty ten, somewhere around there. But then in twenty eleven she started out producing done very very well. She's produced huge y's for everybody from Christina Aguilera, Gwen Stefani, Pink Yeah, Ill love Them Now. She was married to actress Sarah Gilbert for five years. Sarah gave birth to their sign, but then they divorced not too long ago. That was Samantha Fox.

9:09 She's sixty today. Born in mile Into, England in nineteen sixty six. Now, she started out on the page three model See in England back in the nineteen eighties, Page three of the newspaper Yeah, Let's Pictures of the topless models. Now that made Samantha very popular because she was quite the fox. So then she went into music that she was a lot bigger over in the UK and Europe than she was here in the United States. But she had the heads touch me. I want your body, naughty girls, I want to have some fun. I only want to be with you. Now she's still tourists, but all overseas like kajakh stand Poland. Yeah, accept not in the United States now. She was with her girlfriend twelve years when her girlfriend died and then Samantha she married her wife in twenty twenty two. Suon and you know we weeb No, this is you want me to say in that I want shoes stay.

10:02 So probably. Country singer songwriter Chris Stapleton. He was born a Lexi, Kentucky in nineteen seventy eight, makes him forty eight today. Now he has written or co written over one hundred and seventy songs that have charted. He's written number one songs for Kenny Chesney, Josh Turner, George Strait, Luke Bryan. That list goes on and on and on. Some hits that he's actually saying himself were broken Halo starting over. You should probably easy on me. Now Chris, he has his own serious exam. I'm radio station basically, Yeah, it's channel sixty three in your car if you listen this serious Chris and his boys, they're going out on tour. They're done some shows this summer, but not like a whole flag's tour. Got married in two thousand and seven and they have five kids. But his wife, she's also a country music singer writer. Actor Seth Rogan was born in Vancouver, Canada, in nineteen eighty two forty four. Some of his movies are Forty Year Old, Virgin, Knocked Up, Super Bad, Zach and Mary, Make a Porno, Got Married twenty eleven. Actress Emma Watson's thirty six. She was one of Paris, France in nineteen ninety. Now her first acting job was in the very first Harry Potter movie. We talk about starting out big. Outside of the nine Harry Potter movie she's done, she's also been in Noah, Beauty and The Beast, Little Women. Now, Emma, she keeps really private and she doesn't talk about her or yeah, she didn't talk about her privately unless you want to talk yoga. Yeah, you don't want to talk yoga with this. She'll talk your ear off, all right. Our quote of the day to day, we're gonna go back to the President Abraham Lincoln ABE said, how many legs does a dog have

11:32 if you call his tail a leg? Well four? Saying his tail is a leg doesn't make it a leg. Well. Thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. I whoever you listen to a sign and thank you for listening to Country underground radio. That is really taking off and it's getting pretty big. So thank you very much for it. And if you can't find it, just go to coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three us. You can listen to it. You can find all our podcasts or cool Casting all that kind of stuff. So our Country underground Radio artists of the day, we're going with Tanya Talker Tugging, Kenya Tucker's niece. Her name is Kelli Tucker. This is callis song. It's called Country Coature. You guys have an offices. Someday we'll talk tomorrow. They got me Boots Girt and Bobby hold down, hoty gotta just all the vain of things. Did you know it was a beauty quaint live in the highlight by in but on the lot, don't you know a big value?

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