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

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today. Today is April the seventeenth. Oh we have from you? Oh we ever do? Is we even ca? They say, yeah, not a lot happened on April seventeenth, So I guess that's why they have national blah blah blah blah blah blah. It's actually defined as a meaningless chatter or idle gossip. Today. What they want you to do is actually listen when somebody is talking to you and not tune them out. Might be the hardest day of the year, you know. I guess you can give it a try. It's either that or crapfish or cheeseballs, your choice. Okay, let's see what happened in entertainment on April seventeenth. Let's go back to twenty sixteen, and one album was Mind of Mine by Zay. The number one song was by Rihanna and Drake.

1:14 It was work, work, work, work, work, work, work to me of you work work, work, work, work work, see me know me there there, there, there were where you are Adam in the cabin that is join me I desert you Alert. Tim McGrath had the number country song with humble and kind. Old door say said thank you, no steal, no cheat, No I know you got Mountain Club, Always stay humble.

1:56 And the number one book was As Time Goes By by Mary Higgins Clark. The top movie was The Jungle Book. Now a jungle boy named Magli. He's kicked out of the jungle by tiger, so he sets off on a journey with a panther and a bear voiced by Neelye Cithi, Bill Murray and Ben's Kingsley. All right, let's see it up in the world. On April the seventeenth, it was eighteen sixty. Boxing's first ever world championship title fight was fought. Was in a field in southern England, near the village of Farnborough. American champion John Carmel Heenan he was fighting England's champion Titch Sayers. Now that was a bare knuckles fight, so that would mean it was illegal. So the spectators for it, they had to come in on special trains from London. Said a huge crowd. That celebrities there like Charles Dickens, William Thackery, he was the Prime Minister of England and they had Prince of Wales. He ended up being King Edward the seventh. Now, the fight started promptly at seven twenty nine am in the morning. Now, the two men, they fought for two hours and forty seven minutes. Now, although they were really bloody and batter they both came out for the forty third round. Then the police stormed in. Yeah, they shut the ood damn thing down. The fighters and everybody in the crowd just took off trying to flee being arrested. They ended up calling the fighter draw. In Africa, in nineteen thirty two, Ethiopian Emperor or Hele Selassie he ended slavery in the country of Ethiopia. Nineteen sixty one known as the Bay of Pigs invasion fourteen hundred at Cuban exiles who were against Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. They had been financed and backed by the United States. Well,

3:26 they landed and invaded on the southwest coast of Cuba, but then the United States backed out. No, they didn't give them the navy or air support that they promised him. So Castro's army and they didn't have pretty much that hard. It took them three days to stop that invasion. Now, the Bay of pigs. It is considered the biggest foreign policy failure of John F. Kennedy's presidency. Nineteen seventy three. Known as Federal Express like then now FedEx, it began his first day of operations. They delivered one hundred and eighty six packages to twenty five cities. Yeah, today they delivered by five point five to eight million packages a day. Coach got coke, goat show. This shib day were gonna pard. He left this shiverthday. We won't simple Cas left this shibirth day.

4:09 And you know we don't give because that's birthday. Who was born on April of seventeenth. Actor William Holden. He was born in o'fallen, Illinois, in nineteen eighteen. He was one of the biggest box office draws in the nineteen fifties. Some of his movies you might know or Sunset Boulevard, The Bridge Over the River, Quiet Towering, Inferno Network. He went an Oscar for Staloc's seventeen. He had a daughter from a girlfriend. Then he was married for thirty years and they had two sons. After they divorced. He was with actress Stephanie Powers for nine years until he died in nineteen eighty one, sixty three years old. He was drunk and fell and hit his head and bled to druth, I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick asss, not a ball out of bubble. How many of you are old enough to remember? Professional wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper. He was born in Skaskatoon, Canada in nineteen fifty four. Now even though he's Canadian, and he said he was from Glasgow, Scotland, and he always wore a kilt and at the end of the ring to backpipe music. He's one of the most famous professional wrestlers in the world. In the nineteen eighties and nineties, he did do a lot of acting, though he was in almost fifty movies. Biggest one was that one when we heard the clip from What They Live. He got married in nineteen eighty two and they had four children. One of his daughters Teal Piper. Yeah, she's a professional wrestler, Rowdy Roddy. He died in twenty fifteen and sixty one years old from a polmoner emblence that caused a heart attack.

5:51 This fair is fifty nine. She's born in New Haven, Connecticut in nineteen sixty seven script in Chicago. Start out as an indie rocker, but then her music kind of switched over to mainstream, so she was considered a sellout, so they didn't think she was indie anymore. Now she just makes the music she wants and they can label it whatever they want. Some of her hits are Supernova, Whip Smart, why Can't I Extraordinary? She's read a couple of books that've gotten good reviews from She married once for six years and has a son from it. Fifty four year old actress Jennifer Garner. She grew up in Charleston, West Virginia, and she was born in Houston in nineteen seventy two. She first hit big on the TV show Alias. Some of her movies were Dude, Where's Myccar? Daredevil, thirteen, Going on thirty, Dallas Buyer's Club. She married her second husband, Ben Affleck Yeah. They were married for thirteen years. She got him sober and they had two daughters and a son, and then they divorced. Victoria Beckham she's fifty two, born in Harlow, England in nineteen seventy four. She first got known as Posh Spice in the all girl group the Spice Girls. Now Posh, though she never really sang she did well, I take that back in that song Saturday Night Divas. Posh does have a solo gig. Yeah, just those two lines. This the only Spice Girl song you'll hear her singing on. Normally she's just in the back.

7:13 He's singing and I guess dancing. Now. Spice Girls, they're the best selling all girl group in history, solo one hundred million alcoms Posh. When they broke up in twenty twelve, you know, obviously all left. They came back in twenty eighteen. Posh, she didn't, though she's busy concentrating on being a fashion designer. She married soccer player David Beckham in nineteen ninety nine, and they have three sons and one daughter. Alrightyquod to the day. Let's call the Benjamin Franklin. He died to day in seventeen ninety at eighty four years old. Being said, early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise, well pretty smart. They're been Thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on who you listen to us on? So easy to find check out the show notes and give all the links on how to get a hold of this our country.

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