April 16, 2026

April 17th-Blah Blah Blah, Victoria Beckham, Jennifer Garner, Liz Phair, Ben Franklin, Bay of Pigs Invasion

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National Blah Blah Blah day. Entertainment from 2016. Bay of Pigs invasion, 1st world championship boxing title fight, Fed Ex began. Todays birthdays - William Holden, Rowdy Roddy Piper, Liz Phair, Jennifer Garner, Victoria Beckham. Benjamin Franklin died.

Intro - God did good - Dianna Corcoran https://diannacorcoran.com/
Blah Blah Blah - Armin Van Buuren
Work - Rihanna Drake
Humble & Kind - Tim McGraw
Birthdays - In da club - 50 Cent http://50cent.com/
Roddy Piper - They LIve
Why can't I - Liz Phair
Saturday night divas - Spice Girls
Exit - All cowboys do - Tyler Tillman https://tseentertainment.com/entertainer/tyler-tillman/

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Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact,

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it's about today. Today is April the seventeenth.

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Oh we have from you? Oh we ever do? Is

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we even ca?

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They say, yeah, not a lot happened on April seventeenth,

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So I guess that's why they have national blah blah

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blah blah blah blah. It's actually defined as a meaningless

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chatter or idle gossip. Today. What they want you to

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do is actually listen when somebody is talking to you

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and not tune them out. Might be the hardest day

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of the year, you know. I guess you can give

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it a try. It's either that or crapfish or cheeseballs,

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your choice. Okay, let's see what happened in entertainment on

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April seventeenth. Let's go back to twenty sixteen, and one album

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was Mind of Mine by Zay. The number one song

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was by Rihanna and Drake.

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It was work, work, work, work, work, work, work to

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me of you work work, work, work, work work, see

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me know me there there, there, there were where you

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are Adam in the cabin that is join me I

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desert you Alert.

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Tim McGrath had the number country song with humble and kind.

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Old door say said thank you, no steal, no cheat,

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No I know you got Mountain Club, Always stay humble.

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And the number one book was As Time Goes By

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by Mary Higgins Clark. The top movie was The Jungle Book.

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Now a jungle boy named Magli. He's kicked out of

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the jungle by tiger, so he sets off on a

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journey with a panther and a bear voiced by Neelye Cithi,

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Bill Murray and Ben's Kingsley. All right, let's see it

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up in the world. On April the seventeenth, it was

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eighteen sixty. Boxing's first ever world championship title fight was fought.

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Was in a field in southern England, near the village

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of Farnborough. American champion John Carmel Heenan he was fighting

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England's champion Titch Sayers. Now that was a bare knuckles fight,

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so that would mean it was illegal. So the spectators

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for it, they had to come in on special trains

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from London. Said a huge crowd. That celebrities there like

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Charles Dickens, William Thackery, he was the Prime Minister of

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England and they had Prince of Wales. He ended up

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being King Edward the seventh. Now, the fight started promptly

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at seven twenty nine am in the morning. Now, the

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two men, they fought for two hours and forty seven minutes. Now,

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although they were really bloody and batter they both came

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out for the forty third round. Then the police stormed in. Yeah,

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they shut the ood damn thing down. The fighters and

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everybody in the crowd just took off trying to flee

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being arrested. They ended up calling the fighter draw. In Africa,

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in nineteen thirty two, Ethiopian Emperor or Hele Selassie he

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ended slavery in the country of Ethiopia. Nineteen sixty one

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known as the Bay of Pigs invasion fourteen hundred at

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Cuban exiles who were against Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. They

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had been financed and backed by the United States. Well,

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they landed and invaded on the southwest coast of Cuba,

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but then the United States backed out. No, they didn't

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give them the navy or air support that they promised him.

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So Castro's army and they didn't have pretty much that hard.

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It took them three days to stop that invasion. Now,

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the Bay of pigs. It is considered the biggest foreign

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policy failure of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Nineteen seventy three.

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Known as Federal Express like then now FedEx, it began

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his first day of operations. They delivered one hundred and

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eighty six packages to twenty five cities. Yeah, today they

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delivered by five point five to eight million packages a day.

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Coach got coke, goat show.

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This shib day were gonna pard. He left this shiverthday.

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We won't simple Cas left this shibirth day.

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And you know we don't give because that's birthday.

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Who was born on April of seventeenth. Actor William Holden.

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He was born in o'fallen, Illinois, in nineteen eighteen. He

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was one of the biggest box office draws in the

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nineteen fifties. Some of his movies you might know or

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Sunset Boulevard, The Bridge Over the River, Quiet Towering, Inferno Network.

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He went an Oscar for Staloc's seventeen. He had a

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daughter from a girlfriend. Then he was married for thirty

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years and they had two sons. After they divorced. He

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was with actress Stephanie Powers for nine years until he

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died in nineteen eighty one, sixty three years old. He

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was drunk and fell and hit his head and bled

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to druth, I have come here to chew bubble gum

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and kick asss, not a ball out of bubble. How

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many of you are old enough to remember? Professional wrestler

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Rowdy Roddy Piper. He was born in Skaskatoon, Canada in

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nineteen fifty four. Now even though he's Canadian, and he

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said he was from Glasgow, Scotland, and he always wore

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a kilt and at the end of the ring to

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backpipe music. He's one of the most famous professional wrestlers

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in the world. In the nineteen eighties and nineties, he

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did do a lot of acting, though he was in

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almost fifty movies. Biggest one was that one when we

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heard the clip from What They Live. He got married

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in nineteen eighty two and they had four children. One

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of his daughters Teal Piper. Yeah, she's a professional wrestler,

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Rowdy Roddy. He died in twenty fifteen and sixty one

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years old from a polmoner emblence that caused a heart attack.

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This fair is fifty nine. She's born in New Haven,

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Connecticut in nineteen sixty seven script in Chicago. Start out

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as an indie rocker, but then her music kind of

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switched over to mainstream, so she was considered a sellout,

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so they didn't think she was indie anymore. Now she

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just makes the music she wants and they can label

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it whatever they want. Some of her hits are Supernova,

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Whip Smart, why Can't I Extraordinary? She's read a couple

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of books that've gotten good reviews from She married once

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for six years and has a son from it. Fifty

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four year old actress Jennifer Garner. She grew up in Charleston,

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West Virginia, and she was born in Houston in nineteen

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seventy two. She first hit big on the TV show Alias.

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Some of her movies were Dude, Where's Myccar? Daredevil, thirteen,

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Going on thirty, Dallas Buyer's Club. She married her second husband,

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Ben Affleck Yeah. They were married for thirteen years. She

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got him sober and they had two daughters and a son,

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and then they divorced. Victoria Beckham she's fifty two, born

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in Harlow, England in nineteen seventy four. She first got

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known as Posh Spice in the all girl group the

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Spice Girls. Now Posh, though she never really sang she

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did well, I take that back in that song Saturday

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Night Divas. Posh does have a solo gig. Yeah, just

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those two lines. This the only Spice Girl song you'll

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hear her singing on. Normally she's just in the back.

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He's singing and I guess dancing. Now. Spice Girls, they're

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the best selling all girl group in history, solo one

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hundred million alcoms Posh. When they broke up in twenty twelve,

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you know, obviously all left. They came back in twenty eighteen. Posh,

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she didn't, though she's busy concentrating on being a fashion designer.

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She married soccer player David Beckham in nineteen ninety nine,

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and they have three sons and one daughter. Alrightyquod to

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the day. Let's call the Benjamin Franklin. He died to

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day in seventeen ninety at eighty four years old. Being said,

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early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy,

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wealthy and wise, well pretty smart. They're been Thank you

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all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on

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And a ground radio artist today comes from bruce Up

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in Wyoming. He wants to hear All Cowboys Do by

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Tyler Tilman. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll

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talk tomorrow.

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But I rode a mass of horses, and I've rode

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a mass of fence, made a loop and thrown rope,

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and bred that I had on this. I won't call

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myself a cowboys, but I'll tell it to you true.

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I've done all the things of cowboys. I pulled a

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stretching a story and up stretching or rule. I broke

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a few bones, and I broke a few coats. A

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titled don't mean much particular little gear at my boots.

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I've done all the things a cowboys. Cowbon is like

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to throw there on.

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And hold it pretty, curls tight. Cowboys like to throw

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some hands and stand up for its right.

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But most of all the cowboys with place to collins

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on and through, I've done all the things a cowboys do.

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I flee to feed up six string, through tips and

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empty barns, had all the chat of dream, never minding

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all the scars that don't sound like much. I guess

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the songs to sing for you. But I've done all

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the things a cowboys do.

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Cowboys like grow there on and hold a pretty girl tight.

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Cowboys like to throw some man's in, stand up for

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us right.

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But most cowboy on a place to call his on

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You and through

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I've done all the things that cowboys dude,

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