April 28-Superhero's Day, Maryland Birthday, Jay Leno, Penelope Cruz, Jessica Alba, Oskar Schindler, Ann-Margret

0:20 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Today's April the twenty eighth. I can any day. Today is National Superheroes Day. Now there's one role today and that's super heroes only. Yeah, no villains. Now, Marvel employees. They started this day in nineteen ninety five. Marvel, the ones who brought you a spider Man, thor Man, Captain Marvel.

1:01 Now they invited their friends over at DC Comics to celebrate you with them. DC. They brought you Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman. So everybody's starting to have fun and have a good superhero day. Do you know this first superhero was was Phantom back in nineteen thirty six. Now Einstein, he had an IQ of one hundred and sixty ish. Bruce Wayne, the guy who's Batman, is that Q was one ninety two. Now you don't need to be that smart, but you could actually be Batman. All you need would be about six hundred million dollars. Okay, let's see what happened to entertainment on April of twenty eighth. Let's back to nineteen eighty eight. Number one album was the Dirty Dancing Movie soundtrack Whitney Houston had the number one song with where do Broken Hearts Go? And you Please tell? Can they? Sudio Man, Oh Belove, That's why you see Man?

2:00 Rodney Crow and Roseanne Cash had the in one country song with It's such a small world. This is such a surprise to see curly looking soldiers. It's made a long time. Since you cross, Mama. It's such a small The number one book was The Icarus of gend by Robert Lelham. The top movie was Colors, a veteran police officer and a rookie they fight Los Angeles gangs stars Robert Duval and Sean Penn. All right, that's what happened on April the twenty eighth. Well, happy birthday, Maryland. It was today.

3:03 In seventeen eighty eight, Maryland became the seventh state. Now it's named after Queen Henrietta Maria of France, Sir. Her husband was England's King Charles the First Now he cried granted the charter for the colony that would become Maryland, but he said they had to name it after his wife. Now the capital is Annapolis. Highest point is hoy Crest. It's three three hundred and sixty feet I Now the Maryland state bird is Baltimore oriole flower is the black eyed Susan tree. The white oak cat is Calico, the jog is the Chesapeake Bay retriever. Fish is the rockfish, crustacean blue crab. Maryland state sport Joustein. Some people born in Maryland Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglas, Babe Ruth third Good Marshall, Frank Zappa, dom Clancy, Linda Hamilton, Mama Castle, Elliott, Doug Flutie, and the Hoff David Hofstitter. Some of the people born in the Old Line State. Seventeen eighty nine on the Bounty occurred Fletcher Christian. He led a mutiny against Captain William Bly on the English ship the Bounty because they did it down in the South Pacific. Now Christian and his man they were up to gain control of the bounty.

4:11 Then they took it to the pitcarn Islands. It's about one thousand miles east of Tahiti. They had actually sent Captain Bly and eighteen of his men who were loyal to him, just a drift in a lifeboat only eighteen feet long, and they all survived. Yeah, they floated for forty six days, went about thirty six hundred miles before their rescues. The bounty in those dads, Yeah, they were na seen from them again. Eighteen eighty seven a French newspaper they put on the first motorcar race. Now a French toymaker. His name was George's Bhutan. He won the twenty nine klominter race. Did it in a homemade seam powered quadricycle, finished in one hour and fourteen minutes. As he crossed the finish line, the crowd erupted and cheered and everything. Then they stood there and they waited, and they waited some more, and they waited, and finally they were told that, hey, Georgius, he was only the guy who entered the race. So they went home. Nineteen nineteen in an army air field and dyt know how twenty three year old less serving he made the first free fall parachute jump. That's where he had to actually pulled the rip cord to deploy the shoot. Yeah, well that was more exciting than the first otto race. World War Two in nineteen forty four, Exercise Tiger was a total disaster.

5:15 It was just a rehearsal for the United States for the upcoming D Day invasion. Well, the Germans saw the convoy of American ships and they didn't know what they were doing, and they didn't care, but they went after it. Yeah, they didn't care. To the United States, it was just practicing. Sent some torpedo boats. Yeah, then lit up that American armada. Seven and fifty American soldiers were actually killed in the twenty eighteen over to India. Their government announced that for the very first time, electricity was now available in every Indian village. Dope dop joked, joke, shoge this Shibf day. We gonna he left this shiver day. We don't simple tage. He left this Shibirf day. And you know we don't give up birthday.

5:57 Well, let's just see who is born on April the twentieth James Monroe. He was born in Westmoreland County, Virginia. In seventeen fifty eight. He was wounded fighting in the American Revolution. Then he became a career politician, served as a fifth President of the United States from eighteen seventeen eighteen twenty five, best known for the Monroe doctrine. Now, he kept the European countries like Percer Golf Scanne in France and off the all them. He stopped him from colonizing Central and South America like they were doing over in Africa. James and he got married in seventeen eighty six and they had two daughters and one son. He died on July fourth, in eighteen thirty one, seventy three years old, from to Berkeley. Osis Oscar Schindler. He was born in Austria, Hungary in nineteen oh eight. By nineteen thirty five, Oscar was a full blown alcoholic and he was broke. So he started working for the Germany as a spy. Yeah. He was telling on all the people where he lived in Czechoslovakia. Yeah, ratting out of his neighbors and everything. Well, the Czechs caught him and they threw him in prison. When he got out, he joined the Nazi Party. Ended up over in crackout Poland. He got some Jewish investors and they opened up a factory.

6:59 Now it was supposed to make AMMO for the Germany's during World War Two. Now it never really made anything. The factory was just a front. Yeah. By using it, they were able to save twelve hundred Jewish people from going to concentration camps. Now you probably know all about that story though, from the movie Schindler's List. Now Oscar you married nineteen twenty eight. Now his wife. She had just as much to do to saving those Jewish people as Oscar did. They had two children. Oscar died from liver failure nineteen seventy four at sixty six years old. Will you call me old baby when you hold him? How you camp heard me? I just don't understand.

7:45 That was actress and Margaret. She's eighty five. She's born to Sweden in nineteen forty one in the United States when she was six. She started out as a singer. She was supposed to becoming the next the female version of Elvis Presley. Oh. She had a couple of decent hits, but nothing really big. But she was really pretty, so the movies took her. I mean she's still pretty now. Some of her movies were Bye Bye Birdie, Viva Las Vegas with Elvis, the Cincinnati Kid, all those grumpy old men movies. She was nominated for Oscars for Cardinal Knowledge and Tommy. On TV, she played an Mark Rock on an episode of The Flintstone and she was married fifty years when her husband died in twenty seventeen. Each in the group.

8:37 That was actress Marshall Straussman. Now. She started out as a singer. Now She released that song Groovy World of Jack in nineteen sixty seven. Only city in the entire country at charted in was Denver, Colorado. Well Now she realized that she couldn't sing, so she went into acting. She had a recurring role as a nurse on the TV show Mash. Then she starred as the wife on Welcome Back Caught. Her biggest success was playing the mom in The Honeyce the Kids' Movies. She was born in New York City in nineteen forty eight, married once for five years, and had a daughter, Marcia. She died from breast cancer in twenty fourteen and sixty six years old. Comedian in Jay Lenos seventy six. He was born in New Rochelle, New York, in nineteen forty six. He was a very popular stand up comedian, well he still is.

9:18 He made his first appearance on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in nineteen seventy seven. Then he took over hosting the Tonight Show and Johnny retired nineteen ninety two. Jay hosted until two thousand and nine. Since then he's done what Jay Leno's garage. He was the last man standing. He still does some some of the stand up stuff too. Jay. He married his wife's Mavis nineteen eighty actress Mary McDonald. She was born in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, in nineteen fifty two seventy four. Today, she was nominated for Oscar, for Dances with Wolves and for the movie Passionfish. She was also in Grand Canyon, Blue Chips, Independence Day on TV. She was the president on Battlestar Galactica for five years. She's married thirty seven years when they divorced just two years ago. They had a daughter and a one. Actress Bridget moynihan. She's fifty five. She's born in Binghampton, New York in nineteen seventy one. She first hit in the movie Coyote Ugly, then I Robot Battle Los Angeles. She did a couple of those John Wick movies on TV.

10:13 She was on Blue Bloods the whole fourteen years that was on there. She had a son from Tom Brady, Yeah, the quarterback. He broke up with her when she was pregnant. Then she married in twenty fifteen. Actor hore Garcia is fifty three. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska in nineteen seventy three. On TV, he was on Becker, then Lost, Alcatraz, Hawaii five. Oh. Some of his movies were The Monsters, Decked the Halls, Tales from the Crapper. Yeah. He played Raccoonhead on the TV show Loss. He'd play at his character. It was a Hurley now the ban Weezer. They named their twenty ten album after him. Yeah, they called that Hurley and Hoory. Yeah. He was on the cover and everything. He got married in twenty nineteen. Actress Penelope Cruz. She was born in Acobindas, Spain, in nineteen seventy four. She's fifty two. She started acting at fifteen. She's very popular in Spain. Finally hit in the United States two thousand and one in the movie Vanilla Sky with Tom Cruise. Now her and Tom Cruise they actually dated for three years. I don't really care about celebrities, but I kind of wish that that had worked out and they had gotten married. Why Well, because they gotten married, she had been Penny Cruz Cruse. It's kind of fun to say. She was nominated for Oscars for Evolver nine Parallel Mothers. She won an Oscar for Vicki Christina Barcelona. She got married in twenty ten and they have a son and a daughter. Forty five year old Jessica Alba. She was born in Pomona, California, in nineteen eighty one. Made her acting debut at thirteen years old in the movie Camp Nowhere. Then she had big on the TV show Dark Angel. Went back to movies.

11:34 She was the Invisible Woman and a couple of those Fantastic Four movies. I guess, how would you know? And she did? Love Guru, Good luck, Chuck. Valentine's Day. She got married in two thousand and eight and they have two daughters and one son and her and her husband they divorced last year. All Right, our quote of the day, we're gonna go with basketball coach Jimmy Valvano. He died to day in nineteen ninety three. He had only forty seven years old. Jimmy said, my father gave me the greatest gift anyone can give another person. He believed didn't. Well, thank you for joining us today. Don't get to follow us on whoever you listen to this son. Check out today's show description for all the links. Don't forget to win to Spotify. If you in here in these clips that you want to hear the song and entirey, you can go over there and listen to our whole list of songs that we play all month long, our country and around. Our radio artist of the day comes from Trent and Murphy's Boro. He wants to hear pot water song.

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