April 29th-Wish Day, Willie Nelson, Jerry Seinfeld, The Coasters, Tommy James, Michelle Pfeiffer, Uma Thurman

0:20 Welcome everybody to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff and today is April the twenty ninth. April twenty ninth is World Wish Day. It celebrates the Make a Wish Foundation. If you don't know, they're the ones who grant wishes to terminy ill and six children. They're in fifty countries around the world Nowaday nineteen eighty seven year old Christopher Grace cees Us he was fighting leukemia and now he wanted his one wish. He wanted to be a police officer. So the people of Phoenix got together and granted Christopher's wish. He passed away four days later, but the Make a Wish Foundation was for Himed nineteen eighty one, they granted their first wish to seven year old Frank Salazar who was fighting leukemia. You got to be a fireman for a day. Now they've granted five hundred and fifty thousand wishes. Professional arrest John Senna, he's goin of the most wishes. He's got a wishes to six hundred and fifty kids. To celebrate his sixtieth birthday, Basketball legend Michael Jordan gave Make a Wish Foundation ten million bucks. Now you don't need to give anything like that, but if you have a little extra cash, kind of help.

1:13 But wish come true. Now this has absolutely nothing to do with make a wish up and down. It is National Zipper Day. Other times the zippers they had been created going back to about eighteen fifty. But today. In nineteen thirteen, Gideon Sunnenbeck he got the patent for the zipper that we pretty much used today. It was called the separate bowl fastener. Now the tire guy be you have good rich He came up with the name zipper in nineteen twenty three. Yes, for what he was using on the boots that he was selling. Why was the tire guy selling boots? We had all that rubber for tires, so he was also soling rubber sold boot.

1:58 Nineteen thirty four, the Shima company in Japan, they started making zippers. Today they make half of all the zippers in the entire planet. They make got seven billion of them a year. Now that you know more about zippers than you ever cared about, let's see what happened in entertainment on April the twenty ninth. Let's go back to nineteen seventy eight. Then one album was the Saturday Night movie soundtrack from it, The Beg's had the number one song with Night Fever. Jesus, Kenny Rogers and Dottie West had the number one country song with Every Time Two Fools Collide?

2:47 How Long Can We Keep Drying? Pixub The Peace. Time. The number one book was Bloodlined by Sidney Sheldon Todd. Movie was The Last Waltz. Now It's All about the final concert from the band The Band, Yeah, the Band ended their careers. There stars Robbie Robertson, Muddy Waters, Neil Young. All right, let's it had happened in the world. On April the twenty ninth, eighteen fifty four, Hinstonville, Pennsylvania, the Ashmun Institute was founded. It was later changed to Lincoln University.

3:35 It was a first degree granting college for black students in the United States. Start out as a private school, went public in nineteen seventy two. There are the Lincoln University Lions. Now have you seen the movie Hacksaw Ridge. It was today in nineteen fifty four that conscientious objector Desmond dos He said the lies of seventy five wounded soldiers of the Battle of Okinawa at Hacksaw Ridge. Now I Desmond was fighting over the Pacific. Today US soldiers were in Germany. They liberated the Dacout concentration camp, freed thirty one six hundred one people, most of them Jews. Dackout actually opened up in nineteen thirty three. It was the first in tournament camp the Nazis opened up. Started out for political prisoners, Catholic priests, criminals, prisoner of war, that kind of stuff. They changed it over to the Jews. Now, when the German guards saw the American troops coming, they started to surrender, but some of the American soldiers they still shot the guards. Several were actually brought up on charges for it by General George Patten. He dismissed all those charges. Almost forty two thousand people are believed to have died in that camp over the years.

4:33 Ah dreaming of the lot, just. Like the bones are you? In nineteen seventy five and Saigon, Vietnam, the American Radio Service announced on the air that the temperature was one hundred and five degrees and rising. Then they played that song White Christmas by Bringing Cosby. It was a It was the signal for all the Americans that were still over there to evacuate to their designated rendezvous points and helicopters would be there to take them to safety. Saigon was falling to the north Vietnamese and it was time to get the hell out of there. Over seven thousand people were taken from Saigon to US Navy ships off the shore. They were US citizens and Vietnamese who supported the United States. Nineteen ninety two, in Los Angeles, even though they had video evidence, a jury acquitted for Los Angeles police officers for using excessive force on a motorist named Rodney King. Now, six days of rioting followed. Fifty one people were killed, two hundred and eighty three were injured, nine thousand were arrested, thirty six hundred fires were set, and eleven hundred buildings were destroyed.

5:40 In two thousand and. Four, after one hundred and seven years Oldsmobile, they built their last car. In twenty eighteen, Sweden officially announced that the Swedish meatball was originally created in Turkey. Cot cot Coat. Showing this shimerday were gonna pause, he left this shivery. We don't simple coage this ship birthday, and you know we don't do because that's birthday. Let's check out it was born on April the twenty ninth.

6:25 Jazz legend and composer Duke Ellington. He was born in Washington, d c. In eighteen ninety nine. His complete body of work is the largest jazz collection in the entire world, over one thousand songs. Now, what really made Duke different than the others at that time is he used big bands and orchestras to go along with his jazz bands. Now, a lot of his songs are pretty much standards of most jazz musicians play today. They us said it was probably it don't mean a thing if you ain't got that at that swing by elephants Gerald. She sang it for him. Now. He wrote and performed from nineteen fourteen to nineteen seventy four. Married nineteen nineteen. They had a son, Dookie, died in nineteen seventy four from Munk can answer at seventy five years old. Take out the papers on the trash? Why you don't get those benjing cash? If you don't spred that, you desper.

7:13 You ain't gonna rock and roll no more. Don't got je finish? That was Carl Gardner singing lead for the Coasters. He was born in Tyler, Texas in nineteen twenty eight. Helped form The Coasters in nineteen fifty five and name themselves the Coasters because they performed from coast to coast. Now he's saying with the Coasters until two thousand and five. Some of their heads for our searching. Charlie Brown young blood YUCKI yeck Carly You married his second wife in nineteen eighty seven and they had one son. Carl died from heart failure in no Alzheimer's in twenty eleven at eighty three years old. On the road again. Just can't wait to get all the road again.

7:53 My fi love is making. Music with my friend. I ain't wait to get a road again, road again, doing laces and I'm. Willie Nelson. He's ninety three today. He was one of Abbot Texas in nineteen thirty three. Yeah, he's still out there touring. Kind of makes you think, doesn't it. Nineteen fifty six. He started out as a successful songwriter, released his first album in nineteen sixty two. He's on least ninety nine sins, has twenty five number one songs. He had a worldwide number one song with Julio Iglesias to all the Girls I've loved before. He's actually done quite a bit of acting. Some of his movies were The Electric Corusmen, Honeysuckle, Rose, Barbarossa, The Dukes of Hazard, Movie Will.

8:36 He had three children from his first wife. He had two daughters from his second wife. Been married to his fourth wife since nineteen ninety one and they have two sons. Come Thousand, Boning Moon, Shooting Town, Arouncolon. Tommy James, he's seventy nine. He's born in Dayton, Ohio in nineteen forty seven. Best known as the lead singer for Tommy James and the Shanendells. You know what. He's still out touring. Also. They actually start out as Tommy and the Tornadoes back when he was twelve years old. They changed it before they hit first hit with Hanky Panky, then Crimson and Clover.

9:19 I think we're alone now, Money Money, He sold over one hundred million records and for two years nineteen sixty eight nineteen sixty nine they sold the most records in the entire world. YEP, even more than the Beatles. Are ovus Tommy he is on That's a show on the serious XM Radio every Sunday night on the Sixties Gold Channel. I think at seventy three. It's from five to eight Eastern time. If you want to check him out talking about sixties music. Married his third wife in nineteen eighty one and they were together until she died in twenty twenty two. They had one child together. Comedian actor Jerry Seinfeld. He's seventy two. Worn of Brooklyn, New York. In nineteen fifty four, very popular stand up comedian. Then started in one of the most popular sickcoms of all time Seinfeld, It's be honest, one of the biggest show it was of all time. It was on the air from nineteen eighty nine to nineteen ninety eight. After that he hosted Comedians and Cars Getting Coffee. He did that for six years.

10:08 Then he voiced in the B movie. He is currently on tour. Is that what you call when comedians go out? Well, he's traveling the country doing his comedy act. If you wanna go see him. Guy married nineteen ninety nine and they have one daughter and two sons. Actor Daniel D. Lewis. He was born in nineteen fifty seven Kensington, England. He's sixty nine in the United States. He first got known for the movie Room with a Vow. Then he's been nominated for a six Best Actor OSK one from My Left Foot, There Will Be Blood, and Lincoln he didn't win. In the Name of the Father, Gangs in New York and Phantom Thread. He retired from acting in twenty seventeen. He just got tired of dealing with those people in Hollywood. Can't blame him. Now he has a son from a French actress. Then he married nineteen ninety six and they have two sons.

10:48 Here's the story. A lovely lady who was bringing three very lovely girls, all of them air goal like them. Miss Waning, Well, we're gonna talk about the middle lovely lady. That's actors Eve Plumb. She was born in Burbank, California, nineteen fifty eight makes her sixty eight today. Best known for playing Jan on The Brady Bunch and All There Reunion Shows. She's done some TV movies and TV appearances. She has a very successful painter. She has well regarded and our critics just love her work. She has been married to her second husband since nineteen ninety five. In nineteen sixty nine, when he was eleven years old. She used her Brady Bunch movie to buy her movie or Brady Bunch Money to buy a Beach Bungalow and Malibu fifty five thousand dollars. Sold that in twenty sixteen for four million dollars. Actor as Michelle Peiffer. She's also sixty eight.

11:40 She's going in Santa Ana, California. She made her acting debut on an episode of Fantasy Island. Her first starring role was in the movie Grease. Too When When. Her career has gone up since then, She's been nominating for three Oscars, Dangerous Liaisons, The Fabulous Baker Boys on love Field. She's played the Wasp in a bunch of ant Man and Avengers movies. Her first husband was actor Peter Horton for seven years. Then she married television producer David Kelly in nineteen ninety three, and they have a son and a daughter.

12:32 Make you want to check around? Saint Tell? Did you know you know? Mais you change thinks of going away? Day? Half of the Wilson and Wilson. Phillips's fifty eight year old Carney Wilson. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen sixty eight, her dad, Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys, Carney, her sister Wendy and their childhood and China Phillips. They formed Wilson Phillips in nineteen eighty nine. They took a couple of breaks, but they're still together. Some of their biggest hits are hold On, Release Me, Impulsive, You're in Love Carney. She's not actually quite a bit of TV. She had her own daytime talk show hosts for a few years, done some reality shows, and she hosted The Newlywed Game on Comedy Central. She married in two thousand and they have two daughters. Fifty six year old actress Uma Thurman. She was born in Boston in nineteen seventy. Started out as a model. Her first movie was Kiss Daddy Goodbye. Then she did pulp fiction The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Batman and Robin, the Adventures the kill Bill movies. Her second husband was actor Ethan Hawk.

13:36 They were together seven years and they had two children. After that, she didn't get engaged to another guy twice. I mean they never did married, but they did have one daughter together. Oh thank you for joining us today. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on so we're easy to find. Now you can check out all the show links on the show description and get all the good gossip on what we're doing here at cool Media. Alright here Country and a Ground Radio Artists Today has some dug up before Collins and was here. This Ain't a Love song by Blacktop Rodeo. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. I think I know why y'all came. What you're expecting to hear? A no song about beauty and of well, the choices perfectly clue. But my life door like that most days. Yeah, it's a real mess. There's lots of songs out for folks in love, but this one's for all the writs.

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