April 4-Carrots, Martin Luther King killed, Muddy Waters, Robert Downey Jr., Heath Ledger, Craig T. Nelson

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and fact. Dude's about today. Day's April the fourth. Carrot sig yumy carosone carrot sigh yumy carrots. I like carrotsig yumy carrots. Nice carrots. I like. It's International Carrot Day now. Carrots. They're awesome, They taste great, super healthy, can be stored forever. During World War Two, when there was sugar ashing, people just use carrots instead of sugar. How do you think they came up with carotcake? Now? Today's basically remind you that as you're getting ready to plant your garden. Yeah, don't forget the carrots. All right, let's going on to entertainment. On April fourth, it was back to nineteen sixty four and one album was Meet the Beatles by the Beatles. Beatles had the number one song with Can't Buy Me Love.

1:09 God Bobby by You Do my Friends below right, I Get you Anything, my friend Lily below right to I Don't care you Much the Money Money Bobby. Johnny Cash had the numb one country song with Understand your Man. I'll lay there then you'll be keeping your mouth shut till I'm gone don't give me that old familiar crime cussing mom, unlustand you man. I'm a party of bad mouth, unlustanding you man.

1:59 The number one book was The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Lecar. The top movie was It's a Mad, Mad, Mad Mad World. After a car crash out in the desert, the driver's dying words tell of a location of a hidden stash. Alot. Well, all the witnesses that have pulled over, oh they all make a mad dasher try and get to it first. Stars Spencer, Tracy, Milton, Burrow, Ethel Berman, Seed, Caesar, Buddy Hacket. Yeah, there's a whole bunch of them. All right. What happened on April fourth and eighteen eighteen Congress they enacted in the US Flag Act now stated that the United States flag would have only thirteen stripes, and those are represented the original thirteen colonies. Then there'd be a star from every stripe or for every state that comes in. See the United States. They had been adding stars and stripes, so every time they added a state, and it got ridiculous when they got up to twenty straits to have on twenty different stripes. So, yeah, eighteen forty one, United States President William Henry Harrison. He died from pneumonia, so after only thirty one days in office, so he was the first president to die in office. Actually, John Tyler he became the tenth President of the United States to take over for him. Eighteen eighty seven and outspoken Susan Salter.

3:03 She was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas. So the first woman elected as a mayor in the United States. See a group of men they wanted to teach women that they didn't have any place in politics and just be quiet, because you have to remember, women they couldn't even vote back then, so they wanted to just humiliate Susannah so they nominated her and put her on the ballot. She didn't even know she was running until the morning of the election. When she heard about it, she went downtown and did some campaigning. Yeah, ended up winning the election by two thirds of the vote. Well, she actually went and only served her one term and then she proved her point something. Yeah, she walked away said I win. Now, this show is just how much influenced video and pictures have. In nineteen thirty three, a United States Army airship basically a blimp. It was called the uss Ex Akron. It crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of New Jersey. Seventy three the people on board were killed. Only three survived.

3:53 Now you've probably never heard of the Akron. But when the Hindenburg crashed, thirty six people were killed and sixty seven lived. But we all know about the Hindenburghs. Could we saw the film? Nineteen forty nine, twelve countries they signed the treaty creating NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. In nineteen eighty nine, when NATO got up to sixteen countries, they promised in the Soviet Union and Slash Russia that they would not add any more countries. Well, today there's thirty two countries in NATO. Nineteen sixty eight, Martin Luther King was assassinated as he was standing on a hotel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. That was one day after he gave it as really famous I've been to the mountaintop speech. As soon as word got out about King being killed, Yeah, riding broke out and over one hundred cities across the country.

4:35 Army and National Guard had to be called out in order to calm everything. Down. Over twenty thousand people were arrested. Forty three people were killed during the writing. Nineteen seventy three, in New York City, the World Trade Center opened up three hundred and fifty feet high one hundred and ten stories, world's tallest buildings. Well for one month, then the Serious Tower opened up in Chicago. Now I would think if you went to jail, you'd want all the other prisoners to think that you were really tough. Let's make it kind of hard. Nineteen seventy five singer Steve Miller. You know from the Steve Miller Man. He got arrested for burning his girlfriend's clothes. Dope joke, cooke joked joke, shows this shiverthday. Please gonna this shiverthday.

5:16 Were gonna simple tag this shiverthday. And you know we don't give up. That's a birthday. Well, let's check out. It was born on April the fourth. That Gypsy Wama told my mother before I was born, I got a barn child's coming. He's gonna be a son of a gun. They're gonna make for the women's chomping shower. Then the world wanna know what the song. He might have been born McKinley Morganfield, but he has world famous as Muddy Waters. He's gonna jugs Corner, Mississippi.

5:57 In nineteen thirteen. He grew up on a plantation, learned how to play the guitar in the harmonica there. Then in nineteen forty three Muddy he head off to Chicago became the father of Chicago blues. The nineteen fifty Muddy in his band. They were so popular they were the biggest band in blues in the entire country. They had the songs Hoochy Coochy Man, I just want to make love to you, I'm ready now, even hit up Big across the Pond over in England. Now, Muddy he was putting into that rock and roll Hall of Fame in nineteen eighty seven. And get this on the side, he discovered Chuck Berry. Yeah, so part of Muddy's cleaning face. He had three children from a thirty year relationship with a woman. She died in nineteen seventy three, so he had two more sons of two other women. Then he went in and got married finally in nineteen seventy nine.

6:39 They were together until he died in a sleep from HEARTFILLI in nineteen eighty three. It's seventy years old. Said he get the name Muddy waters Well the God as a child because he liked playing in the mud. Actor Anthony Perkins, he was born in nineteen thirty two, started out in Broadway. Now he switched over to the movie his late nineteen fifties. You probably know him best we playing Norman Bates in the movie Psycho. He was also in Catch twenty two Mortar on their Earning Express. Now, everybody in entertainment business all over Hollywood they knew that Perkins was gay. He had actually had a lot of boyfriends out there, and some of them were pretty big names actually. But when he was forty one years old he went and got a twenty five year old woman pregnant. Everybody in Hollywood they thought it was just kind of up front or something that never last. Well.

7:19 They ended up getting married and had two sons. They were married from nineteen seventy three until Anthony He died in nineteen ninety two at sixty years old from aids Now his wife and sons they didn't have eades. His wife actually died on nine to eleven when they're plane crashed in the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Actor Craig T. Nelson's eighty two He's Going to spoke in Washington in nineteen forty four. Craig started out doing stand up comedy Bobin was he wasn't funny, so he went into the movies, first hitting the movie Poulter Guys, then Silkwood all Right Moves on TV. Starred as Coach. He was also in Young Sheldon when last five years or so. He had three children from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen eighty seven. Actor Robert Downey Junior. He's sixty one. He's one in Manhattan, New York. Nineteen sixty five. He was in his first movie when he is five years old. Yeah, it was one of his dad, Martin Downey Junior's movies. Say. Martin Downey Junior is a well known Hollywood movie director. A junior, He's made over eighty movies since then. I think his biggest sets asked me, probably from Iron Man. He was nominated an Oscar for Chaplain and for Tropic Thunder. He did win an Oscar fund the last year they gave him one for Oppenheimer. I personally think his best movie was Back to School Now Robert. He had just spent a year in prison because of a serious heroin addiction. I think it worked. He's been sober since two thousand and three.

8:30 He had one son from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and five and they have two children. Actress Nancy McKinnon is sixty today. She was born in Westburn, New York in nineteen sixty six. Best known for playing Joe on the Facts of Life. She has done a lot of TV movies. She was in the TV show The Division for like four years. She's got married in two thousand and three and they have two daughters. Actor Heath Ledger. He's born in Perth, Australia in nineteen seventy nine. He had some success on Australian TV, so we decided to come give the United States a shot. It big in the movie and Things I Hate About You then The Patriot, a Nights Tale, was nominated for an Oscar for Broke Back Mountain. He won an Oscar posthumously for Our Dark Knight. Now. He had a daughter from actress Michelle Phillips. He he died from an accidental overdose of prescription drugs two thousand and eight, only twenty eight years old. Forty seven year old actress Natasha Leone was born in New York City in nineteen seventy nine.

9:21 First got noon in the movie Slums of Beverly Hills, probably best known for the American Pie movies. She also did Detroit, Rock City, Blade Trinity. On TV, she was Orange on The New Black for all six years that it ran. Natasha, she had a really rough stretch there. She had a bad heroin addiction. Yeah, I've got in all kinds of trouble. She finally kicked that and then she had to have open art surgery in order to save her life. So it's like she's doing good though. She actually has four movies coming out later this year and early next year. Go back to Martin Luther King Martin. He died today when he was thirty nine. One of his most famous quotes are, Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that. Well, thank you all for listening today, and don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to a song and cut your underground radio.

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10:51 The cowboys all crazy. Large you babby, You've got a ould outside at least it texxas mile. You're never gonna change you wait, but I always love you anyway. Cowboy is crazy the maiby baby so am I