April 25-Hug a Plumber, Ella Fitzgerald, Al Pacino, Talia Shire, Erasure, Apu, Rene Zellweger, Jason Lee

0:20 Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Day's April the twenty fifth. Today is National Hugga Plumber Day. Now, let's be honest. Who would you rather live next door to a famous movie star, singer, the CEO of a big company, an athlete or a good plumber. Of course you take the plumber.

1:02 Knowing a good plumber, that's a very valuable asset. Now, the first plumbing pipes, they're actually lad in twenty seven hundred BC in northwest India, Pakistan, that kind of area. So today show some appreciation, you know, plumber. If you come across one, now, you don't have to give him a hug, just a fist bumpledo. Just let him know that you really appreciate that skill. You never know when I might come back and say your butt. Let's see what was going on and entertainment in April twenty fifth, let's back to nineteen sixty seven. Number one album was More of the Monkeys by the Monkeys. Now Nancy and Frank's not Drad. The number one song was something stupid. And afterwards we dropped him to acquired little place and have a dreams caught you, and then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid.

1:49 Love dude. Sunny James had the number one country song, would Need You. Ah OHI. Sarlonly Sin Switt Hall. The number one book was The Arrangement by Ile Hazan. The top movie was thoroughly modern Milly Billy. She's a flopper in New York City during the jazz age. Now she is on a mission to marry her boss. Well it didn't go so well, sar As, Julie Andrews, Mary Tyler Moore, Carol Channing and James Fox.

2:33 All right, what happened on April twenty fifth, sixteen forty four are over in China? The last emperor the Ming dynasty Chungsen. Yeah, he hung himself from a tree outside of Beijing. Yeah, he didn't want to be captured as his empire was falling. Now the means they had been in power since about two hundred and eighty years. Now the queens, they were in power. Seventeen nineteen, writer Daniel the Foe his book Robinson Caruso was published. Robinson Cruso. It was based on a real guy. That guy's name is Alexander Solkirk. Now this must have been one hell of a house, and we're still talking about it today. In seventeen fifty, doctor Thomas Walker, he built the first house in Kentucky. Really pissed off the natives. Now I was on next to the Tennessee border in the southwest part of the state, and hear what today is called Barberville. Now, this French doctor's name is Joseph Guillotine. He wanted a more humane way of performing execution, so he created the guillotine.

3:22 It worked great. Now was used for the first time to day in seventeen ninety two over there in France. Now convicted murder, Nicholas Pelletier. He got to honor me in the first one to have his head locked up. Nineteen oh one, New York they begin the first state to require automobiles to have license plates. Now they didn't issue him. The car owner had to go get a maid by himself, and then they had to go and spend one dollar to register it with the state. New York didn't start issuing license plates until nineteen ten, after they saw on Massachusetts start doing it. Nineteen forty five, in World War Two, American soldiers and Soviet Union soldiers met up in tour Gay, Germany on the Elbe River. Soviets had fought there from the east, US from the west. It is a pretty big day over in Europe. Actually called LBDA. Nineteen forty seven and US President Harry Truman he had a bowling alley installed in the White House.

4:06 It's still there. Yeah, Richard Nixon the actually I had it all improved. He said that Truman had the bowling alley. So what leaned to the left? Nineteen fifty four Beilla Labs. They announced that they had made the first solar powered battery had a six percent efficiency rate. I know, with all these years of technology and all that kind of stuff, that we really improved our solar batteries. Yeah. Now a good solar battery has a twenty percent efficiency rate. Look it up. Nineteen fifty nine and the Saint Laura Seaway opened up. It allows ships to travel from the Great Lakes to the Pacific Ocean, mostly in Canada and parts of Upper New York. Nineteen sixth day of the United States Navy submarine the Triton IF it came the first submarine to completely circumnavigate the Earth. Submerged Yeah, it was submerging the entire time. It took him sixty days and twenty one hours to make that trip. That's a long time to be under water. You know that subad to stink when they got here. I'm just saying. Nineteen eighty five, West Germany, they ruled that it was illegal for anybody to deny deny the Holocaust.

5:05 Joke, dope dope joke, joke, sharge dish shivers day. Please gonna tase he left this shiverthday. We don't simple tage like this shibirthday. And you know we don't get birthday. Well, let's just check out it was born on April the twenty fifth. Bo don't would mean a thing if it hang out that swing, do out do a. Doua doua doua doua doua doua dua. It don't hold me the thing. Oh you gotta do a thing? Do have do doua doua doua doua doua doua dua. It makes no difference if it's sweet hard the Queenna jazz elephantz Gerald. She was born in Newport News, Virginia, in nineteen seventeen. She first found fame singing for the Chuck Web Orchestra. Nineteen forty two she went solo. She won thirteen Grammy sold over forty million albums. Now that is absolutely huge for Back then, she performed with a lot with Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington count see all the big names. She divorced twice. She had one child from her second husband, Ellis. She died from diabetes in nineteen ninety six at seventy nine years old. Actor al Pacino's eighty six. He was born in East Tarlem, New York in nineteen forty started out doing theater on Broadway one two Tony's So then he went into the mainstream movies.

6:17 He has been. Nominated for Oscars four, Godfather one and two, Surpiico, Dog Day Afternoon, and Justice fraw Dick Tracy, I'm Glengarry Glenn Ross The Irishman. He did win one yeah for Sin of a Woman. Now. Ali's never married, but he has four kids. He had a daughter from a girlfriend back in nineteen eighty nine. In the nineties he was with actress Beverly DiAngelo and they had twins. Then two years ago, eighty three year old al Pacino him and a woman fifty three years younger than him. They had a son. Now that tie is out at number nineteen all time for the oldest man to have become a father. Yeah, in recorded history anyway. Actress Talia Shire. She was part of the Cupola family. Her older brother is director Francis fort Cupola. She's eighty today.

6:58 She's born in Queens, New York and ieen forty six now. She first hit in the Godfather movies, then the Rocky movies and Prophecy dead Fall. She was nominated for Oscars for Godfather Too and Rocky One. She had a son from her first husband. She was married to her second of fourteen years when he died and they had two sons. Andy Bell sings lead for the duo Eraser.

7:40 Yeah. He was born in Dogsthorpe, England, in nineteen sixty four sixty two today. Now, him and Vince Clark they formed a racer in nineteen eighty five. Some of the hits that came across the bond of the United States, right, Chains of Love, always a little respect. Now they're still really big over there in the UK and they are still together. But this summer, yeah, and he's doing his own solo stuff on tour, and he is very openly gay. Yeah, he is considered a gay icon over there in Britain. Now he's been living with HIV since nineteen ninety eight and he's been married to his husband since twenty thirteen, Hen Kazaria. He's also sixty two. He's born in Manhattan, New York. Now he's voiced on the Simpsons since nineteen eighty nine. Some of the characters he's voicer Moe, Chief Wiggins, comic book guy, Snake, Carl Yeah, who bunch you of some TV shows. He was actually on We're Herman's Head and Brockmeyer. Some of his movies Godzilla, America's Sweethearts and Along Came Pally. He's married to actress Helen Hunt for one year. Then he married a second wife in two thousand and seven and they have a son. Soinbo way line that and he guesses. This actor was Renee Zoewigger in the movie Judy about Judy Garland. Renee is fifty seven.

9:06 She's born in Katie, Texas in nineteen sixty nine. Now, she had small roles and dazed and confused in reality by it, and then she had big and Jerry maguire. She was nominated for Oscars for The Bridget Jones Diary Chicago. She won Oscars for Cold Mountain and Judy Now. She married country singer Kenny Chesney for four months. Every time something good happened to me, he's something bad was always waiting around the corner. Was karma. That's when I realized I had to change. So I made a list of everything bad I've ever done, and one by one, I'm gonna make up for all my mistakes. I'm just trying to be a better person. My name is Earl. Actor Jason Lee is fifty six. He's born in Santa Enna, California, in nineteen seventy. Started out as a professional skateboarder, and then they pulled him to make some skateboarding movies. Then he went into mainstream movies, Male Rats, Chason, Yamy, Dogma, almost famous on TV. He started My Name is Rule Jason. He had a son from a girlfriend, married a second wife in two thousand and eight and they have three children. Okay, we're our quote of the day. Our quote of the day is coming from actress Ginger Rogers. Ginger died today in nineteen ninety five at eighty three years old, she said, the only way to enjoy anything in life is to earn it pretty profound. Well, thank you all for listening today.

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