April 23- Take a Chance, William Shakespeare, Roy Orbison, Lee Majors, Valerie Bertinelli, George Lopez, Taio Cruz

0:20 Well, welcome to history and Factoid's about today? I am Jeff. Today is April the twenty third. I'm call pogget for the questions, are you looking for love, looking for a friends, or just trying to catch a bulls? Do you read who I can abos? Now? Do you holidays? I'll never know, f im. No. We are celebrating two national days today. First one is National take a Chance Day. Now you're supposed to break out of your comfort zone. Yeah, go for something today that you've always been hesitant about pursuing. Just have someone out, try for a job, promotion or raise, you know, try something you've always wanted to try, but you've been just a little too scared. I don't ask for other people's opinions. Do what you think is right, and you don't care about the other people. Now, taking chances it builds confidence, it makes you stand out from the crowd, and it's a learning opportunity. Also shrinks fear. So yeah, I just go for it today and take a chance.

1:23 But you're gonna need to start off with the healthy breakfast. English English English, Mufflin English mothers, we all do. And what you do English mother It is national English muffin day. At England, they're just called muffins now. They've started in Wales around the year nine hundred. It came to America in the eighteen eighties Samuel Thomas. He immigrated from Lee, England, and he started baking muffins, sold them to hotels and grocery stores. Since he used his mum's recipe, called them English muffins. Now Thomas is still the top selling brand of English muffins in America today. Funny side note, since nineteen ninety America has been exporting English muffins to England.

2:06 Now you can put anything you like on your English muffins, so there's no excuse for you not to enjoy an English muffin today. Let's see what happened in entertainment on April twenty third. Let's go back to two thousand and seven and one album was now twenty four a bunch of various artists Timberland now for Tato justin Timberlake. They had the number one song with give It. To Me Seem Nice Sees in. The Body Everybody Food Updates, I get.

2:47 A half blue milk muff You get a foot pregnant, carry Underwood add the number one country song with Wasted sim Shade. The number one book was I Heard That Song before by maryhig Against Clark. The time movie was Disturbia. A teenage boy he's really borts. He's being forced to live under house arrest, so he starts spying on his neighbors, finds out one of them might be a serial killer.

3:30 Stars Shia Lebuff, Sarah Romer, and David Morse. Let's see It happened in the World. On April the twenty third, sixteen thirty five, the oldest public school in America was founded. Yeah, it's the Boston Latin School. They are called the Boston Latin wolf Pack. Some of their famous alumni John Quincy Adams, Sam Adams, Leonard Bernstein. Yeah, a whole lot more. They went co ed nineteen seventy two, so it took him mamas, what three hundred and forty years now. Although it is really hard to get into academically, it is a public school, so you don't have to pay tuition. Eighteen fifty one, in Canada, they issued their first post to stamp, was the first post to stamp in the world. They didn't have a person on the stamp. No, they put a beaver on it eighteen sixty one. After turning down, the Union Armies offered Robert E.

4:12 Lee. He was named commander of the Confederate Army for the upcoming Civil War nineteen hundred. In the New York Journal newspaper, they were the first to ever use the word he'll billy now. After World War One, in nineteen twenty, over in Turkey, the Ottoman Empire was no more the Ottomans they had actually ruled for six hundred years. The last of the Ottoman sultans, Mahmed the sixth He was ordered to leave his palace and the markenarchy was abolished. He took exile over in Italy. Now at his peak the Ottoman Empire, it went from Austria down to Yemen and across from Algeria to the Persian Gulf. In nineteen eighty five, after ninety nine years Coca Cola, they changed their recipe and brought out new coke. Yeah, it was a huge disaster, big flop. They brought back old coke on only three months, but it ended up being a brilliant marketing campaign if they had actually planned it. Nineteen ninety two, McDon donald's opened up the first fast food restaurant in China. Yes, it was McDonald's. In two thousand and five, the first video was uploaded to YouTube. It was Me at the Zoo.

5:09 It was shot by YouTube co founder Johwood Karran showed him in front of two elephants at the San Diego Zoo. It's about ten seconds longer, so you can still see it if you want. Cop coke, coke, coach shag This shibirthday, were gonna ta he left this shibthday. We don't sit with tag. He left this shirebirthday. And you know we don't give up. That's your birthday. Who was born on April the twenty third William Shakespeare. He was born Stratford, upont Avon in England in fifteen sixty four. Most famous playwright in history. Now, I'm sure all of you've had at least read one of his plays in high school. I'm guessing it was either Romeo and Juliet, Julius, Caesar, Macbeth or Othellow, you're right about forty of them. He got married in fifteen eighty two and they had three children. He retired from riding in sixteen thirteen at forty nine years old. Then He died in sixteen sixteen on his fifty second birthday. Now no one is sure why he died. I mean, he was really healthy. But the people who were close to him, they think he might have died from alcohol poisoning. Yeah, he was partying pretty hard at that birthday party, but no one knows for sure. James Muchannon he was born in Cave Gap, Pennsylvania, in seventeen ninety one. He was a career politician. Then he served as a fifteenth President of the United States from eighteen fifty seven eighteen sixty one.

6:20 Considered a horrible president. Now the United States probably would have gone in this way anyway, but he did such a bad job and was so ineffected. But totally laid out the groundwork for the Civil War. He did absolutely nothing to prevent it. Now he was the only bachelor, Yes president. Yeah, his niece Harriet served as his first lady. He died in eighteen sixty eight to seventy seven years old from respiratory failure. I'm the good lowly twere bunny same n elt Well. That was Shirley Temple or Shirley Temple Black if you prefer. She was born in Santa Monica, California in nineteen twenty eight, made her first movie when she was three years old. From nineteen thirty four to nineteen thirty eight, she was the number one box office drawn the world even Tenue Now Went You. From the three years old to ten year old, she was in twenty nine movies, then when she turned ten, she did fourteen more movies until she was twenty one. Then she retired at twenty two. Later in life, she was a US ambassador at Ghana, then the US Ambassador at Czechoslovakia.

7:27 She made her first husband when she was seventeen years old and they had a daughter, divorced after five years. She made her second husband in nineteen fifty and they had a son and a daughter. Her husband died in two thousand and five. Surely she died from COPD in twenty fourteen at eighty five years old. Won't you lost me? Seely excuse me? Roy Orbison He is born in Vernon, Texas, in nineteen thirty six. He actually wrote most of his own songs.

8:07 Some of his number one hits were only the Lonely Running On, Scared, Crying in Dreams, Oh Pretty Woman. In the nineteen eighties he formed the supergroup The Traveling Wheelbarriers with George Harrison, Bob Dylan, and Tom Petty Now when Roy was fifty two years old. He died from a heart attack in nineteen eighty eight. He had three children from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen sixty nine and they had two children. Steve Austin astronaut a man barely alive. Come, gentlemen, we can rebuild him. We have the technology. We have the capability to make the world's first bionic man. Actor Lee Majors is eighty seven. He was born in Weindott, Michigan, in nineteen thirty nine. First got known starting on the TV show Big Valley. Then he hit Really Big as a six million dollar man. Then he did The Fall Guy le He had one son from his first wife.

8:58 His second wife was Pharah Fawcet for six years. Then he had a daughter and twin sons from his third wife. Been married to his fourth wives since two thousand and two. Actor Sandra d She was born in Bayonne, New Jersey, in nineteen forty two. She was one of the most popular actresses in the world in the late fifties early sixties. She had started out as a child model. Then she had big in the movie Gidget and then A Summer Place. She did a couple of Tammy movies to take her She's Mine. She retired from acting in nineteen eighty three. She had a bunch of medical issues. She married once. It was the singer Bobby Darren for seven years and they had a daughter, Sandra. She died from kidney disease in two thousand and five and sixty two years old. Actor Herve villachays he was born in Paris, France, in nineteen forty three, only grow to three feet eleven inches tall.

9:41 He started off as an artist. He was a really talented painter, went into acting. He first got known and the James Bond flick man with a golden gun. Yeah, Herve, he was the villain Nick Knack. Then he had big playing Tattoo on TV's Fantasy Island. He divorced twice. He committed suicide nineteen ninety three, at fifty years old. He did leave a suicide note. He said that he was in so much which chronic pain as a result for what cars his dwarf ism, that he didn't take the pain anymore. Actress George DeWitt she's seventy seven. She's born in Wheeling, West Virginia, in nineteen forty nine. She's best known for playing Jana on TV's Three's Company. She did a couple things like the Ropers and that kind of stuff afterwards, but she's mainly done theater since then. She was in one long term relationship, but Jenna hasn't married yet. She has done a lot of charity work for hunger and homelessness. Actress Valerie Burtonelle. She was born in Wilmington, Delaware, in nineteen sixty. She's sixty six. She was fifteen years old and she started starring on the TV show One Day at a Time. She won two Golden Globes for it.

10:35 Then she did Touched by an Angel Hot in Cleveland. She's also did a couple of shows on the Food Network. I think it was like The Children Baking Championship was one of them. She married Eddie then Haylen in nineteen eighty one and they had a son. They got divorced in two thousand and seven, but Valerie and Eddie they stayed pretty good buddies. Edie even went to her second wedding. Yeah, she married another guy in twenty eleven. She divorced that guy two years ago and she was in at Eddie's bedside and he died from cancer a few years ago. Actor comedian George Lopez. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty one. He's sixty five today. He is a very very successful stand up comedian, still is on TV. He started on George Lopez, Lopez and Lopez Tonight. Been nominated for three Grammys for Best Comedy Album. He has voiced a lot of movies. George. He needed a kidney transplant.

11:20 His wife was able to give her one of hers, but that was back in two thousand and five, so it worked out well, but the marriage didn't work out though. They divorced after eighteen years of marriage in twenty eleven. They did have a daughter. I want to celebrated in my life. Seven stables plus me go back this club. He gonna go all night. We go lights see up like this, Tyne, No, Mike, because I told you once, See how I told you twice? We go lights it up like this. Dine No mighty forty six year old Tail Cruise. He was born in London, England, in nineteen eighty. He was born to an Nigerian father and Brazilian mother in London, England. Cruz he has written a lot of big songs for other artists, but he's had a really good solo career. Yeah, he's had. Some of his big hits are Break Your Heart, Dynamite, he did Dirty Picture that was with Keisha and they need to hire with Kylie Mino. All right. Our quote of the day comes from legendary sportscaster Howard Cosell. How Our died to day in nineteen ninety five at seventy seven years old. He said, what's always right isn't always popular, and what's popular isn't always right. Well, thank you all for joining us today.

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