April 20-George Takei, Ryan O'Neal, Jessica Lange, Luther Vandross, Carmen Electra, Shemar Moore, 4:20, Cheddar Fries

0:20 He hello, and welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today is April the twentieth, or four to twenty if you prefer. You ever wonder how four twenty became associated with smoking marijuana, Well, that's actually a pretty lame. Story. Goes back to nineteen seventy one. Five stoners. They were at a California high school called San Raphael. Now they would meet every day at four twenty. They met by the school sculpture of Louis Pasteur. I picked four twenty because by then most of the schools after our activities were done, so nobody was really around then. When they'd see each other in the halls during the day, they would say four to twenty. Yeah, that man, it was on. I know you're thinking this guy would be more than that, Well yeah, a little bit. See one of the guys he got ab is a roadie for the band The Grateful Dead. As they were on the road smoking weed. Yeah, he told them about what they did in high school. All the Dead and the people associated with I thought that was way cool. So that's how it's starting. Has gotten bigger every year since. Now, whether you want to celebrate April twentieth smoking or not.

1:16 We know we have a perfect national day for you today though. Cheese Friess Ma. Cheese fries now not just cheese but National Cheddar Cheese Fries Day. That's starting in twenty sixteen. Sniffers Restaurant bar in Dallas now the first cheese fries. They get credited to Austin Roos. He did it back in the late nineteen fifties. He's working for Dairy Queen. He gets credit for inventing the cheese fries and the chili trees fries. Now, if you're out celebrating and can't drive, yeah, you can make those at your house, not too hard. But if you can go to your favorite restaurant or bar and telling them mel some cheddar over your French fries today. Okay, let's see what was going on in entertainment on April the twentieth. It's back in nineteen ninety seven, number one album was Life After Death by the notorious Big Buff Daddy, and May's had the number one song with Can't Nobody Hold Me Down?

2:24 Sits Me at the Ball with Tea Missies. It depends that I still never drove got deep This year, play a Hat it how you like me now? Bought in the team another round. See what we have is a brand new staff. That's why nobody can't hold me down. George Straight had the number one country song with One Night at a Time. I'm not using baby who not in mine? We've got something man. It sure is fun. Let's take our love one night at a time. There's one thing we both agree.

3:10 I like you, Baby, you like me. The number one book was The Partner by John Grisham. The top movie was Anaconda, and in Saint Hunter, he takes a National Geographic Film crew hostage, then he forces them to help him drank cass. The World's Largest Snake stars John Voyd, Jennifer Lows, pezz ice Cube, Eric Stoltz. Today. In nineteen fifty nine, thirteen year old Dolly Parton released her very first song, Puppy Love. She wrote it when she was eleven years old. Well, they didn't do very good on the charts, but that's okay, Dolly. She's done pretty well after that, sold over one hundred million records and has twenty five number one hit songs. Get this, Dolly.

4:02 She's actually written over three thousand songs for herself and for other artists. All right, let's see it happened in the world. On April the twentieth, eighteen sixty two, Francis Louis Pasture. He discovered that in his very first test. His pastorization figured out it was a success and it would work for preserving food. Say, in that first test he used a jar of dog's blood and urine. Yeah, he had sealed it. Back on March the third when he opened the day no proof of decay or bacteria. Nineteen eighteen, Germany's ace pilot Matfred von Richtoven, better known as the Red Baron, shot down his seventy ninth and eightieth their playing today. Now, I don't want to be a spoiler, but remember that tomorrow. In nineteen forty the first electron microscope was demonstrated. It had a magnification of one hundred thousand times. Today, the electron microscopes they can go up to ten million times. Nineteen ninety nine and Littleton, Colorado, two students that call him by in high school, they tried to detonate a number of homemade bombs in the skull.

4:55 Luckily they didn't you know, didn't go off. But the two students they went on a shooting spree, shot and killed twelve students and one teacher, shot and injured twenty five others. Now, the two gunmen, they committed suicide before they please were able to stop him. Cot Coke coke co coat show. This shib day, were gonna pause. He left this shivers day. We gonna simple cause he left this Shiburs day. And you know we don't get up because that's birthday. Well, let's check out it. It's born on April the twentieth. Actor George Takai. He's eighty seven. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen thirty seven. During World Ward two, George and his family they had to live in a Japanese relocation camp the entire war. Then when the war was over, the government they just let him go. Yeah, no compensation or anything. So his family, like all the other Japanese were let go. They were all pretty much broke.

5:44 But George's family it did re you know, rebounded pretty good, and they worked hard. George was able to go to college and then he graduated in college in nineteen fifty seven, started acting, best known for playing Commander Sulu and the Star Trek franchise All the TV shows and six of the movies. He's made quite a few TV appearances, but he's actually kind of typecast George. He married his husband in two thousand and eight. They've been together since the late nineteen eighties. Actor Ryan O'Neill was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty one. He first hit on the nighttime soap opera Peyton Place. Then he went into movies. Nominated for an Oscar for the Love Story. Is also in What's Up? Doc? Paper Moon The main event irreconcilable differences. Ryan. He had two children from his first wife, One of them is actress Tatum O'Neil. Then he had a son from his second wife. Then he had another son from a longtime girlfriend, named actress Farah Fawcet. Ryan died in twenty twenty three at eighty two years old from congestive heart failure.

6:35 Name Shooty Shooty Cheaty O Booty, Banana Panna body see Si Mo Mode, Shoody Lana Plana Lena for Bana banana Panna for Fana fe obanaana. And he guesses that was actress Jessica Lang. She's seventy seven. She's born in Cloquete. Minnesota. In nineteen four forty nine, she had big starring in her very first movie, it was King Kong. Since then, she's won the Triple Crown of Acting. She's won a tony three Prime Time Emmys. She's won Oscars for Titsy and Blue Sky. She's nominated for other four other times. Now. I think her best acting was on TV. From twenty eleven to twenty fifteen, she did fifty episodes of American Horror Story and that clip we played that was her singing in the American Orat Story Asylum Jessica. She had a son from ballet dancer Mikhail Barishnikoff. Then she had a son and daughter from another boyfriend.

7:34 And there what happened Love that Sha makes nine was so sleepy. Soul. An R and B singer Luther Van Dross was born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen fifty one. Started out as a backup singer. Just some of the people that he's saying, back up for Bette Miller, Diana Ross, Barbers streythan David Bowie, Donna Summer, I could go on. He finally got a chance to go solo in nineteen eighty one. Then he sold over forty million records. He had eleven straight platinum albums. He won eight Grammys. Some of his heads were never too Much Any Love, I Can make it better here and now liother. He had a really bad weight problem pretty much his entire life.

8:21 If you ever saw him, you'd know. But that led to hypertension and diabetes which had him causes having a stroke. Then he had a heart attack of fifty four years old at two thousand and five. Actor Crispin Glover. He's sixty two. Born in New York City in nineteen sixty four, grew up in Los Angeles. Started acting at thirteen years old. He did some episodes on TV sitcoms, but he got known for playing George McFly and Back to the Future. Then he was in The River's Edge, Twister, Charlie's Angels Movies, Hot Tub Time Machine, Chrispin. He has a castle Who's built in the sixteen hundreds over there in the Czech Republic. Actor Shamar Moore. He was born in Oakland, California in nineteen seventy fifty six today now. He was on the daytime soap opera The Young I'm the Restless for eleven years. From that he went on to Criminal Minds for twelve years.

9:04 Then from that he went on over the Schwat. He's been doing that since twenty seventeen. How many actors do you think would love to have worked for thirty straight years that During that time, for four years he actually hosted Soul Train. He's done some movie. He was Cyborg and said Justice League of movies. He and his girlfriend, they have a daughter, play with me. I'll show me house turned out, light. Out actress, model, singer, media Personnellity Carmen Electra. She's fifty four.

9:45 She's born in Sharonville, Ohio, in nineteen seventy two. She started out as a singer. She went up to Minnesota and started working with Prince Prince Helper Relief her first album. After that he told her, you know what, you should probably stop singing, So she went into modeling and did Playboy. Well. That allowed her big on TV when she started on Baywatch and she made a couple movies. She married basketball player Dennis Rodman for a couple months, then she married guitarist Dave Navarro from the band Jane's Addiction for a couple of years. She stays busy today. She does quite a few TV appearances Alrightyre cod of the Day comes from comedian Benny Hill. Benny died today in nineteen ninety two at sixty eight years old. Benny says, I'm not against half naked girls, not as often as I like to be. Well, thank you all for joining us today.

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