April 21-Bulldogs, Iggy Pop, The Cure, Andie McDowell, Tony Danza, Red Baron, Rome, Texas Independence, Prince Died

0:03 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today's April. The twenty first kidding rule that's got a dog that's meeting me is don never seen. Even a footing for you. It didn't be any way you're having so hard to me. It is a gold dog bite. I gotta see your sister tonight. I hold the kids saying, hold of the super around and tell me doll fite.

0:54 Today is National Bulldogs Are Beautiful Day. I got beauty as the eyes to be older. But if you're in a slobber and wrinkles, bulldogs are hot. Now. The bulldog is the fourth most popular breed of dogs in the United States. Bulldogs, they were the original pit bulls. Yeah, they were bred to be aggressive and help control livestocks. Now, that went until nineteen thirty five. That's when they add loed bull baiting. Yeah. Once they changed that. Yeah, bulldogs, they were no longer bred to be big and aggressive dogs. See the bulldogs back then, eighty pound dogs but without bull baiting. Yeah, came into these smaller dogs now, the kind that you have running around your house today. Wonder what bull baiting is. Oh, that's how the Bulldog got his name. It was a sport where you bet on it's between bulls and dogs. Now, they would stake the bull to the ground with a short leash or a tether.

1:39 Then they let the bulldog go and he would try and attack the bull by biting it on the nose or the neck until he died, and the bull it would try and fling the dog with his horns. Yeah, pretty gross sport. It was really popular in England and Ireland. The United States, we didn't have a lot of bulldogs, so we actually came up. Yeah, we used bears, that's right. But then they shipped a bunch of bulldogs over here. And the people still like the bears. And so if you went to the bull baiting here in the United States, you had bears going against bulls, bulls going against dogs, dogs going against bears. You got a bet on all of it. But of course it was always illegal in nineteen thirty five. But that is how the bulldog got his name and led to that adorable dog that you left today. Just remember today bulldogs are beautiful, all right.

2:21 Let's see it happened in entertainment on April twenty first. It was back in nineteen eighty seven and one album was licensed to ill by the Beastie Boys. Aretha Franklin and George Michael had the number one song with I Knew You Were Waiting. Fault Stop. Waylon Jennings had the numb one country song with Rose and Paradise Time you Can See the Fire It is.

3:09 With Bold Through the Hill Suddenly the Mongols in Peddi. The number one book was Fine Things by Danielle Steele. The top movie was the Secret of My Success A young man he wants to be a business executive without rising through the ranks. Stars Michael J. Fox and Helens Slater. Let's see it happened on April the twenty first, seven point fifty three BC. Ron meulis a remus. They founded the city of Rome. Yeah, they picked the spot. Yeah, same place where Rome is today now. They picked that spot because when they were orphaned, his infants as she will suckle them and kept them alive. Go ahead, look it up. Sixteen forty nine, Maryland, they passed the Maryland Tolerance Act. It allowed the freedom of worship for all Christians regardless of no matter what denomination. Whereas yep, they wouldn't criticize you, but if you would be sentenced to death if he rejected Jesus. Eighteen thirty six, at the Battle of San Jacino, Texas, they won their independence from Mexico.

4:08 The Texas they were really outnumbered. But during the battle Mexican general and el president they sent Dona. Yeah, he was captured Biden. Instead of killing him, Texas General Sam Houston, he made him sign a sign of letter of surrender that forced the entire Mexican army to start fighting. Texas was free. Eighteen seventy eight in New York City, they installed the first firehouse poll. Eighteen ninety eight. Spain, they declared war in the United States. Four days from now. The United States is to say, all right, we declared war on you too. Yeah, that Spanish American war doesn't work out so well for Spain. World War One in nineteen eighteen, German ace pilot Baron von Richtoffen, best known as the Red Baron. Now he had shot down eighty Allied planes. Well, he was shot down and killed the day a Canadian pilot at Arthur Brown. He got credit for it, but actually the Red Baron he was straightened a bunch of Australian soldiers and they're going, yeah, they shot him down. That pably didn't have anything to do with but he got credit for it. Red Baron twenty five years old. Nineteen sixty two, Brazil, they moved their capitol from Rio Dijonere to Brazilia. Now they are starting building Brazilia. In nineteen fifty six, yep, just to be the capitol. Nineteen eighty four, after thirty seven weeks, Michael Jackson's album Thriller was knocked out of that number one album spot by the movie soundtrack to Footloose. Twenty nineteen, Ukrainian comedian and Vladimir Zelenski he won the Ukrainian presidential election by landslide. Yeah. He had played the president on a sitcom. Joke joke joke, shog Dish shiberth day.

5:37 We're gonna ta he left this shubfday. We want simple tage. He left this shibirth day. And you know you don't give up the birthday. Okay Let's is born on April the twenty first actor Anthony Quinn. He was born in Chihuahua, Mexico. In nineteen fifteen, won Oscars for Viva Sapata and Lust for Life. Now, some of the movies he might actually know were Guns and Navarron Lawrence of A. Now get this. Quinn, as you know, obviously is from Mexico. With he is from Chihuahua, but for some reason he was cast away Greek guys in eleven different movies. He had five children from his first wife. Then he had three children from his second wife. Now during that marriage he had two more children off to the side. That's why they got divorced. So after that divorce he had two more kids from his secretary. Married his third wife in nineteen ninety seven. Died from cancer in two thousand and one, eighty six years old. Actor, comedian, tak show host Charles Grodon. He was born in Pittsburgh in nineteen thirty five. First got known of the movie Heartbreak Kid and then King Kong, Heaven k and Wayne did those Beethoven movies. He had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty three and they had a son. Grodon. He died in twenty twenty one, eighty six years old. That was Ziggy Pop.

7:04 He's seventy nine. He was born in Miskegon, Michigan, in nineteen forty seven. Jiggy he was a grandfather of punk music, at least he gets credit for it. Started out singing for the Stooges in nineteen sixty seven Students. They didn't sell a lot of records, but there on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Broke up in nineteen seventy four. I got back together in two thousand and three. Twenty sixteen, Iggy had to make that public announcement that the Stooges were normalre Nope, all the other members of the band had died, and you just can't have a band named the Stooges with only one Stooge. He actually had a really pretty good solo career on the side all those years. Some of his hats Real World Child, Candy, Bang Bang. Nineteen seventy seven, he wrote that song China Girl alongside David Bowie. Jiggy he got to record it first. Well, it didn't do nothing, It didn't chart or anything. Five years later, nineteen eighty three, Bowie released it went up to number two in the UK and number ten in the United States. Nineteen seventy is Ziggy had a son from a girlfriend. He's been married to his third wife since two thousand and eight. That was Paul Davis. He's born in Meridian, in Mississippi in nineteen forty eight. Now he had on the pop charts with a sixty five Love Affair and I Go Crazy. Then he went country.

8:29 You have had a whole bunch of number one songs, a lot of success, singing duets with Marie Osmond and Daniel Tucker. Now Paul, he was married and had one son. When he died in two thousand and eight, it was one day after his sixtieth birthday. Hey, he had a big heart attack. After Tony dans Is seventy five. He was worn in Brooklyn, New York in nineteen fifty one. Started out as a professional boxer. He had a record of nine wins and three losses. Then he quit. He wanted to concentrate just on acting, so I got a job on the TV sitcom Taxi, where he played a boxer, and he was in Who's the Boss. He had the Tony Danzis Show for a couple of years. Some of his movies were Going Ape, Cannonball, Run Too Crash. I think his best movie was Angels in the Outfield. He had one son and two daughters from his first wife. He was married to a second wife for twenty seven years and they had two daughters. Actress Andy McDowell. She was born in Gathnew South Carolina in nineteen fifty eight.

9:16 She's sixty eight today. Started out as yeah, she's a really top model. So she was roally pretty. So they decided to put her in movies. First acting job when she was gonna start in the big budget movie Tarzan, the Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes, but her South Carolina accent was so thick that they actually had to double voice. In the whole movie. Yeah, he's looking Glen Glenn close that she did hit with her own voice and sex lives and videotapes, Green Card, Groundhog Day, four Weddings and a funeral. She had one son and two daughters from her first husband. She married this former high school guy. Yeah, they carey connected like thirty five years later, you know, really romantic. Yah, I didn't work it. It lasted like two years, she says.

9:59 He and wait, say so Thursday, I don't care about you. With his Friday, Loday. You turned. Tuesday. We say break my Thursand. That was Robert Smith, the lead singer for the Bandic Cure yep co found the Cure in nineteen seventy eight. Then in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, love Cats, Never Enough, Friday, I'm in Love, love Song, Yeah, some of their big hits. Now he sings and plays guitar and writes all their songs too. Now he claims that he did not start goth or the goth movement. See he always dressed like that. It was just a pure coincidence that goth started about the same time the Cure hit.

10:51 Roberts sixty seven. He's one of Blackpool, England in nineteen fifty nine. It's been married since nineteen eighty eight. Him and his wife they met actually in class in high school. Yeah, they're both fourteen years old. Alrighty. Today's quote of the day it comes from Prince. That song Soft and Wet. It was the first song that Prince released. It was back in nineteen seventy eight, made it up to ninety two on the charts. Pramcy died today in twenty sixteen, at fifty seven years old. He said, every day I feel is a blessing from God and I love new beginning. Well, thank you all for listening today, don't forget to follow us on whoever you're listening to us song you cann't find it everywhere. Now our country underground radio artists today, Where do we go with jesse Lynn? She actually just got a doctorate too. This is her song keeping the Ring.

11:51 So you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Gone he stood. It was fun at the starch and he trembled on my heart and to get out on me go man love like some guy on the Conry country Zone. Now he's he's gone. S long day tomorrocle.

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