April 16th-Selina, Akon, Martin Lawrence, Dusty Springfield, Bobby Vinton, Pope Benedict 16, LSD

0:19 Welcome to history and factoid's about today? I am Jeff. Today's April the sixteenth nex. Benedict, ex Benedict, nex nex X, nex Benedict. X medic next next Bendict. Not a lot of songs about eggs, Benedict. But it is national eggs Benedict Day eggs Benedict. It is post eggs on English muffin with Canadian bacon governor in Holland d sauce. Now, they were not named after trader Benedict Arnold. No, they really named for pot Bennedict the twelfth or a stock broke her name. Let me ol Benedict who is looking for a hangover cure. In neither case, they were created in eighteen ninety. Now they require some work if you want to make them at home, But if you do, you can make them to your own taste. Can just go to your favorite breakfast restaurant. What do you do enjoy some eggs Benedict. All right, let's see what's going on in entertainment on April sixteenth. Let's back to two thousand and six. Number one album was King by t I Daniel Powder having him one song with bad Day.

1:24 Because you had a bad day. Take your one down, save a sad song, Just turn. It down, save it down, tell me. You have. Call me back down, and you pay me. Rascal flats at the num one country song with what hurts the most. Bust Who's being sold house and having songs to save.

2:11 The number one selling book was Two Little Girls in Blue by Mary Higgins Clark. The top movie was Scary Movie four. In this one, Cindy she finds out a little boy haunts her house. Now she's going to solve his murder. Stars Ana Faris, Regina Craig Yurko, a whole bunch of others. Nineteen seventy four, the band Queen. They played their first ever show in the United States. Yeah, it was here in Denver Regis College. They were opening act for Matt the Hoopel. All right, let's see what else was happening in the world. On April the sixteenth, eighteen sixty two, President Abraham Lincoln he assigned a law that ended slavery in Washington, d c. Now it freed three and eighty five slaves. The slave owners. They were given three hundred dollars for compensation for each slave. It'd be about ninety two hundred dollars today. Well, the former slaves, they were offered one hundred dollars if they wanted to move to Liberia or Haiti. Nineteen twenty two Annie Oakley, Yeah, that Wild West performer shooting woman. She set a record that still stands today. She's shot and hit one under straight clay targets. Nineteen forty three, Swiss chemist Albert Hoffmann.

3:15 He created lysergic acid diethylamide. Now he didn't know what it did, but he got some of it on his hand by accident. He became the first person to trip on LSD. Yeah, it really freaked him out, but a couple of days later he wanted to try it again. Well, this time he used too much and he became the first person to have a bad acid troop. Nineteen forty seven and in the port of Texas City, Texas, a friend ship called the Grand Champ it was doc there caught fire. It was loaded with two three hundred tons of ammonium nitrate. The explosion was the deadliest industrial accident in the United States history, one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history. Now the ship's two ton anchor. It was thrown one point six two miles. The blast caused a fifteen foot tile tidal wave that leveled one thousand buildings. The fire spread to other ships and oil facilities on shore, killed five hundred and eighty one people.

4:01 That includes all but one member of the entire city's fire department. Yeah, that city is pretty much wasted. They don't still know why the fire started, and they never figured it out. Also, in nineteen forty seven in New York City at a trade show, the first lens was demonstrated. That could zoom. That's right, the first zoom len. All right, fiddy, that's it. Coat coke coke, coat shoge. This shib day were gonna pu he left this shiver day. We don't simple card. He like this shibirf day. And you know we don't get up that birthday. Who was born on April the sixteenth, The younger of the Wright brothers, Wilbur Wright was born in Dayton, Ohio, in eighteen sixty seven. He and his brother Orville, they were bicycle mechanics before they moved over to airplanes nineteen oh three. Of course they mean that first airplane flight. Now, Orville he was supposed to make the historic flight. He won the coin toss and everything, but he kept stalling the plane when he was trying to take off. So finally Wilbur was up. Well, he didn't stop it, so he made that historic flight. Now they didn't just make one fight and go, They both made two flights that day.

5:01 Wilbury was a lifelong bachelor. He died from typhoid fever in nineteen twelve at forty five years old. Silent film legend Charlie Chaplin. He was born at London, England, in eighteen eighty nine. Probably best known for his screen Person of the Tramp. He started performing at nine years old and ended up acting for seventy five years. Made eighty two movies, Silent and Talking. He co founded United Startist Studios. He married four times had eleven children. He died from a stroke and a sleep in nineteen seventy seven at eighty eight years old. Joseph Ratzinger he was born in Bavaria, Germany, in nineteen twenty seven. You probably know him best as Pope Benedict to sixteenth. He was the eighth Pope from Germany. Now he was Pope from April nineteenth in two thousand and five till February twenty eighth and twenty thirteen. Yeah, that's when he resigned. He was the first pope to resign since Pope Gregory the twelfth in fourteen fifteen. Benedetti died December thirty first, twenty twenty two, at ninety five years old.

5:52 She war. Bluver then well was the nine. Softer than seven was the life. The Polish Prince teen Io Bobby Finnon. He's ninety one, born in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania. In nineteen thirty five, formed his first band is sixteen years old, played clubs all around Pittsburgh. That's how he was able to pay his way through college and after he graduated, or at least thirty eight albums eighty eight singles. Some of us heats are roses are read my Love Blue Velvet. There I said it again, mister loney. Bobby is really successful in Branson, Missouri, in the nineties. In the early two thousand, twenty fifteen, he finally retired. Yeah, was after he had a really bad case of shingles. He's been married since nineteen sixty two and they have three daughters and two sons. That is Dusty Springfield. She was born in Westampton, England in nineteen thirty nine. She had a lot of successes in the United States, but it was even bigger over there in the UK. Some of her big hits over hair where I only want to be with you, wishing and hoping you don't have to say you love me, Son of a preacher man. Now, Dusty was gay, and her close friends they still say that that she was kept trying

7:26 to hide it and that caused her to have a lot of drug and alcohol problems over the years. Dusty she wasn't ducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame two weeks after she died from breast cancer in nineteen ninety nine. She was fifty nine years old. Well, don't curious a night. I got them feeling. Of something right, I'm so scared. He kids out all over my chair. I don't wanna get down the stairs. Clowns to the left of me, choke us to the right. Here I am. I was knocking on it over here. Jerry Rafferty he was born in Paisley, Scotland in nineteen forty seven. Started out with the folk group the humble Bums.

8:06 Then he went to Steeler's Will and then he went solo biggest solo hits where Baker Street, right down the line, Night Outs Now Stuck in the Middle with You. That's when he was singing for Steeler's Will. He married once for twenty years and they had a daughter, Jerry. He was a huge alcoholic for a long long time. I finally caught up with them in twenty eleven and sixty three years old. Actress Ellen Barkin's seventy two. She's one of the Bronx New York nineteen fifty four. Her first movie was Diner Than Tender Mercies See You Love. I think her best movie has dropped Diad Gorgeous. He was also in Ocean thirteen. She had a son and a daughter from her first husband. She was married to her second husband for six years. In two thousand and six, The Magnificent Jewels from the collection of Ellen Barkin has sold at Christie's auction House for twenty point three million dollars.

8:50 John Dave Perner. He is the lead singer for Soul Asylum. Daved sixty two born of Green Bay, Wisconsin. In nineteen sixty four, he co founded the band Loud Fast Rules. In nineteen eighty one. They changed their name to Soul Asylum in nineteen eighty three. Some of their heads are Somebody to Shove, Black Gold, Misery. They want to Grammy for Runaway Train Dave. They married once and has a son from it. Actor comedian Martin Lawrence. He's sixty one. He is born of Frankfurt, Germany, in nineteen sixty five.

9:32 His dad was a military guy. Martin. He actually grew up in Maryland. Martin he was a very successful stand up comedian, got his own TV show called Martin. Then he hit big in the movie Some of Them. Where are the Bad Boy Movies, Big Mama's House Movies, Blue Streak, Wild Hogs. He has one daughter from his first wife and two daughters from his second wife. She was known just as Selena. She was born Selena Quintria Quantania in Lake Jackson, Texas, in nineteen seventy one. Started singing at ten years old. She was known as the Queen of Tejano music, considered one of the greatest Latino music artists of all time. Our fashion style had her labeled the Teano Madonna. Sadly, she was killed when she was only twenty three years old. She was shot by the president of her fan club in nineteen ninety five, she was finally brought to mainstream attention. Though what the movie Selena came out about her. She got married nineteen ninety two.

10:43 Nobody want to see us todaybody no mad first week? Fine? Oh yes we got fine. Don't believe we gonna fine? Right? All right, to live it nobody, Yes, today is no. Madld all right. He was born Ala Wayne Tamala Boega, Timey Pouro Nicua, Lula lu Lua Bandera akonthmeon. Luckily he just goes by Akon. He was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, in nineteen seventy three fifty three. Today. He spent a lot of time in Senegal. That's where his parents were from. And now some of his biggest hits are Smack That I Want to Love You Don't matter. It's sold over thirty five million records. He has six kids from three women.

11:31 Already here go to the day. It comes from Madame Tussard. Yeah, the wax Museum lady. She died to day in eighteen fifty at eighty eight years old. She says, remembering nothing in this world lasts forever, not even pain. Wow, thank you all for joining us today no forget to follow us. Now you listen to this song our country and the Ground radio artists A day comes from Sammy in Portland. She wants to hear bringtany the call song. Wish it was Friday. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. You didn't know what. I can't wait for the weekend. You can't come too soon. I think it was Thursday eating then, but it's only Bonday noon. The only thing that's gonna. Get me through you lighting that by phone, that one hey am all the time saying enough you're listening on the day all the way says my way, Oh she was Friday.

12:23 No, it's just the text pretending the next last time mona complicating son, the texts that you're on your way, Oh she was Friday. Or what she was Friday? Or what she was Friday. You're not gonna drink any of my calls. Always leave me on red. It's gonna be hard moving on it. We gets the bend in out bed. The only thing that kiss me hanging off you hiding that by phone there. On the time, saying that she listening on the day on the way, facey, no way she was fining's just a testing tasting.

13:19 You please, She was fay, she was Hoday, she was. Well, thank you for joining us today. We appreciate you being here. Get a chance to have a cool media dot com. That's cool, thrie Us. It's going on the radio station, on the podcast. Let's end at the wax Museums. Madame Tussard she died today in eighteen fifty at eighty eight years old. She said, remember that nothing in this world lasts forever, even pain. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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