April 18-Animal Crackers, Paul Revere's Ride, Rick Moranis, America Ferrera, Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Doolittle

0:20 Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff Day's April the eighteenth. I love, love, love love my animal crackers. I love and love and love and love to eat them along lions, tigers, theirs. Oh boy, they all taste go to me yum. I love and love and love and love my animal crackers. I love and love and love and love to play with them too. It is National Animal Cracker Day. They are more of a sweet cookie than a cracker, but it takes you back to your childhood now. They were created in the UK in the mid eighteen hundred, started being made in the United States in eighteen seventy one, after one hundred and sixteen years. The box that animal crackers come in, they used to show them the animals in circus cages.

1:07 Well they freedom. Now they you can see animal crackers roam in the savannah. Yeah, it was too cruel to keep the crackers into cages. Now you can celebrate Animal Cracker Day by playing animal Cracker beingo or you can just eat them with milk and feel like a child again. Okay, let's see what happened in entertainment on a pl eighteenth. Let's back to nineteen sixty six and one album was Going Places by Herb Albert and the Tijuana Brass, The Righteous Brothers. That the numb one song with My Soul and Inspiration. Jack Green he had the number one country song with there Goes My Everything, No One.

2:00 Oh My treat. The number one book was The Source by James Mitchner. Top movie was Doctor Schivago, a Russian doctor and poet who is married falls in love with the political act of his wife. Oh, they're caught in the middle of World War One and the October Revolution star as Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, rod Steiger, Alec Guinness. All right, let's see what happened in the world. On April the eighteenth, fifteen oh six, in Vatican City, the cornerstone for Saint Peter's Basilica was laid by Pope Julius the Second. It will be completed in sixteen fifteen. It was the largest church in the world until nineteen ninety. Yeah, the Basilica of Our Lady of Peace, it's bigger. It's in Africa and the Ivory Coast. The poem Paul Revere's Ride is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow it's about the heroic midnight ride of Paul Revere to warn the people of Lexington and Concord of the British troops that were coming. Now, it was a nice poem, but it's all fiction. So what really happened in seventeen seventy five, Well, the British they were going to go to Lexington and arrest Sam Adams and John Hancock. So Paul Revere and William Dawes were sent to warn them. Now, by sending two men, they had a better chance of the message getting through if one of them happened to be captured. Now, it was the middle of the night, and the guys, yeah, they got lost. Well, it just so happened. They ran into a doctor who

3:31 was going home. He said he was returning from treating a patient turned down. He was with his mistery. But anyway, doctor Samuel Prescott, now he did live in that area, so he knew it well, so he said he'd take him up there. Well, on their way they ran into a British patrol. Well, Prescott he just had his his walk his horse. Yeah, just jumped the stone wall and he took off. Dows tried to do it, but he fell off his horse, and his horse took off, but Dodds he was able to escape the British. Ravere though he actually got apprehended by the British. He after questioned him for a while. They let him go, but they took his horse. Now, both Dawes and Revere they did make it to Lexington on foot. They gave the warning. But Bestcott he had already been there and told the Contolonial army exactly what was going on. They had already sent him up to Concord to tell them. As for the poem, why did Longfellow only talk about Bob Revere's Ryan, Well, he thought his name just went better with the poem.

4:19 Seventeen eighty three, General George Washington he issued a general order. He announced the end of hostilities with Britain. He thanked God, and then he authorized extra rations of alcohol to all his soldiers so they could celebrate. Eighteen sixty one Roberty Lee. He turned down the offer to command the Union army in the upcoming Civil War. His loyalty led him to lead the Confederates. Nineteen oh six, one of the biggest earthquake in US history hit San Francisco. Now if it had been invented, yet, they estimate that it would have been a seven point nine on the Richter scale. Population of San Francisco at that time was four und ten thousand. About three hundred thousand were left homeless. Twenty twenty five thousand buildings They were either destroyed from the earthquake or from the fires in ensued after that, almost four thousand people died. Seventy five percent of San Francisco was destroyed, one hundred percent in nearby Santa Rosa was destroyed. Nineteen thirty eight, Action Comics number one, it featured Superman, went on sale. Now if you have to own one of those, yeah, it's worth almost three and a half million dollars, the most expensive comic in the world. Nineteen forty two, US pilot Jimmy Doolittle. He set out leading sixteen BE twenty five bombers. They had taken off from the US aircraft carrier the USS Hornet on a one way mission to bomb the Japanese laying them. Now they were able to drop their bombs on Tokyo and a couple of the other cities, and it costs some damage, but nothing really major.

5:34 But it shocked and stunned the hell out of his van. Yeah, they thought they were untouchable from US bombings over there, so they were really surprised. Now since Doolittle and his bombers they didn't have enough gas to get back to the ship, they just kept going to China. Over China, they ditched their airplane. Three airmen died in parachuting out and four more were captured and killed on the ground by the Japanese were occupying China. Doolittle and sixty eight other airmen. Yeah, they were led to safety by Chinese guerrilla fighters and US missionary guy. His name is John Birch. Also in World War Two nineteen forty five, the most famous war correspondent in history, Ernie Pyle. He was killed by Japanese machine gun fire in the Battle of ok Okinawa. Now his story is about fighting on the front lines.

6:14 That's where he was. He went in the bags. He was on the front lines with the boys. They were publishing over two hundred newspapers across the country. He even received a Pulitzer Prize for his work covers while he was forty four years old in two thousand and eight. For the very first time. In thirty five years Saudi Arabia, they agreed to let commercial movies play in their movie theaters. Yeah, not just government flicks. No, they had actually anybody could put him in there. So and he guesses what the first movie is they allowed in their theaters. Black Panther co coch Co coch coat Shage. This shibf day, we're gonna pu he left, this shib day, we gonna sit pletage. He was like, this shiburs day, and you know we don't give up. That's the birthday, all right. Let's see who was born on April the eighteenth. Actor James Woods. He's he was born in Vernal, Utah in nineteen forty seven, grew up in Rhode Island. First got none for the movie The Onion Field. Then, against all odds, any given Sunday White House Down was nominated for Oscars for Salvador and ghotab Miithssissippi. Woods.

7:13 He was offered the role on Quentin Tarantina's very first movie, He Reserve Dogs. Remember that wells His agent rejected without giving the script to Woods. So yeah, Woods fired his agent. He had two quick marriages when he was younger. Then he tried it again in twenty twenty two and he married his third wife. Actor Rick Moranis. He was born in Toronto, Canada in nineteen fifty three. He's seventy one. Tried out on SCTV and got known for Bob and Doug McKenzie skits. They turned that into the movie Strange Brew. Then he did the Ghostbuster movies, Little chap O' Horror, Spaceballs, Honey Shrunk, the Kids movies. He got married in nineteen eighty six and they had a son and a daughter. Then his wife died from breast cancer in nineteen ninety one, so he gradually left acting and became a full time single father. Julia Roberts older brother Eric Roberts. He was born today in nineteen fifty six in Biloxi, Mississippi. He's seventy today. Over forty year acting career. Yeah, he's gotten six hundred nine acting credits. Somehow biggest movies where King of the Gypsies, Runaway Trained, National Security, and The Dark Knight Expendables. He had a daughter from a girlfriend he married nineteen ninety two and he has a step son from the actress Jane Leaves. She's sixty five. She's born in Ilford, England, in nineteen sixty one, best known for playing Daphney Moon on TV sitcom Fraser. Before that, she played Marla the Virgin in a couple of Seinfeld episodes.

8:26 After Fraser, she was in Hot in Cleveland for five years and then the Resident for five years. She married nineteen ninety six and they have two children. Your Resolve. That was Kelly Hanson singing lad for the band Hurricane. Kelly is also sixty five. He's born in Hawthorne, Cow, California. He joined the band Hurricane in nineteen eighty five. They had some decent success in the late nineteen eighties, then they went throwing ways in nineteen ninety one. They basically was a studio singer. He did recordings for and with a whole bunch of other artists. Then in two thousand and five he got the call of a lifetime. Lou Graham had quit Foreigner. Yep, so now Foreigner needed a new lead singer. Kelly. He's been the lead singer Foregner since two thousand and five. Actor Eric McCormack. He was born in Toronto, Canada in nineteen sixty three sixty three, started out on the TV series Lonesome Dove and then he hit big on the sitcom Will and Grace. Between the two times it's been on the air, he's been in two hundred and forty six episodes of Will and Grace.

9:36 He wasn't a couple of the Lost World movies. He was married for twenty six years and they had son one son when they divorced just last year. Late night TV talk shows Conan O'Brien. He's also sixty three. He's one in Brookline, Massachusetts. Started out as a writer for Saturday Night Live and then The Simpsons. In nineteen ninety three, he got the gig of a late night TV talk show host. He has hosted one late night show or another for since all the way up until twenty twenty one. From nine now, if you want to hire him, he'll do it again, he says God and he married in two thousand and two and they have a daughter and a son. Actress Melissa Joan Hart's fifty. She was born in Smithtown, New York in nineteen seventy six. Best known for starring Sabrina the Teenage Witch. Before that, she was on Clarissa Explains It All, and then she did Melissa and Joey. After that, Her biggest movie was Driving Me Crazy.

10:21 She also start in God's Not Dead Too. That's a pretty good one. She got eliminated in around six of Dancing with the Stars, but on Celebrity Wheel of Fortune she won one million dollars for her charity and called Youth Villages. She won the whole damn thing. She married in two thousand and three and they have three sons. Actress America Ferrera. She's forty two. She's born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty four. Some of her movies were Real Women Have Curves, the Sisterhood of the Traveling Plants movies. She's voice Astra at Hufferson and all those How to Train Your Dragon franchise stuff. On TV, she started on Ugly Betty and then Superstore. She married twenty eleven and they have a son and a daughter. Alright here. Quote of the day, Hey comes from Dick Clark, the longtime host of American Bandstanding Here that Rock in New Year's Eve every year on New Year's Eve. Dick died to day in twenty twelve at eighty two years old. He said, if you want to stay young looking, pick your parents very carefully.

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