April 5th-Pocahontas, Bette, Davis, Abba, Pharrell Williams, The Hollies, The Platters, Lava Lamps

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Today's April the fifth. You could get hot or you could get hold. You can stay young while you could go hold let it go. I'm gonna go for broke. You could go hot or you could go home. You could live life for you can just fold let it go. I'm gonna go foot broke. Today is National Gopher Broke Day. Now, the phrase gopher broke it's Hawaiian. Yeah. Start off with the slang term. It was used when playing craps. Yeah, I meant to bet at all in World War Two. It is also the motto of the Army's four hundred and forty second Regiment Combat Team. Now they were made up of all Japanese American soldiers. Now, while the Japanese millions of them were putting into in tournament camps, these men were actually given everything they had fighting for the United States. Now by size, that unit is the most decorated unit in the United States Army during the entire war. They received eight Presidential Unit Citations, twenty one Medals of Honor, fifty two Distinguished Service Crosses, five hundred and sixty Silver Stars, four thousand brownz Stars and four to eighty six Purple Hearts. Now today it's all about following their laid you know, getting all and whatever you're doing, you know, pressing on regardless of the obstacles before you. So just go for broke and then thank you the men of the four hun and forty seconds.

1:38 All right, this is going on entertainment in April fifth. It's a back there in nineteen sixty two. Remember, one album was Blue Hawaii by Elvis Presley. Khani France has said the number one song with Don't Break the Heart of the one that loves you. Don't don't break. Patsy Cline. She had the number one country song when She's Got You and good. Child with love just like it.

2:19 He used to. Be the only. Thing jam friend the on. I've Got You, PICKU, She's got You. The number one book was Franny and Zoe by JD. Salinger. The top movie was Sweet Bird of Youth. Now a Drifter and a washed up movie, Start They Hook Up, find Out There All kinds of Issues, stars Paul Newman and Jeraldine Page. Al Right, what happened on April the fifth? Pokahont Is. She was the daughter of a Native American Indian chief named Pohatan. She fell in love with an American and English settler. His name was Johnson. Then she was wrongly told the smith had died. So today in sixteen fourteen, she married another Englishman named John Rolfe. It's the first recorded marriage of a Native American in a European.

3:09 Seventeen twenty two Dutch explorer Jacob Brockavin him and his crew. Yeah, they were the first Europeans to find Easter Island. Now they named it Easter Island because they found it on Easter Sunday. Wow. The locals they just call it Rapa Nui. Now those big statues over there, the Moaii, they really freaked out those Europeans. Seventeen ninety two President George Washington. He is the first ever presidential veto. Yeah, he shot down a bill that gave Northern States more seats than the United States House representatives. Nineteen thirty three, Doctor James Gilmour. Now he knew that he had cancer in one of his lungs. He also knew that there was no treatment that could actually save his life. So he got together with this well known pulmonary doctor. You know, hey, let's try this. So its day in Saint Louis, doctor Ambrose Graham became the first doctor everitor move along that work, doctor Gilmour.

3:55 He lived cancer free after that. Now I actually have a couple of these. Nineteen sixty three and Britain Edward Walker. He invented the lava lamp. But that wasn't his biggest claim to fame after that a few las. Yeah, he got really famous for making underwater nudest movies. Don't know what the connection is on that. Now, Supposedly today, in twenty sixty three, the people of Earth will make contact with the Vulcans. Yeah, they're extraterrest news, but that's according to the history film Star Trek joked, joked, joke, shog dish shibirth Day. Please don't pause. He left this shibirthday. We want simple targe. He left this shibirth day. And you you don't do that's your birthday. Well that's was born on April the fifth, Doctor Joseph Lister. He was born Uptown House, England in eighteen twenty seven. Now he was the first doctor to be really serious about sterilization when it comes to medicine. You know, he believed that all surgery should be done in a sterile environment, and everything should be cleaned and all that kind of stuff.

4:53 It really wasn't done back then. Eighteen sixty seven, he became the first doctor to form surgery using antiseptic. Now to mess it to me on his sister, Yeah, I hope she was sick. Now she lived with no complications. Listrine near the mouthwash Yep. It's name for doctor Joseph Wister. He was married. He died in nineteen twelve at eighty four years old. Booker T. Washington. He was born a slave in Hailesford, Virginia in eighteen fifty six, received his freedom after the Civil War. He was a huge advocate for education. He created a lot of opportunities for blacks to get their education. He was the first chairman of the Tuskegee Institute. It's a black educational school now. Not only was Booker a early huge educator, he was also a presidential or advisor to several years presidents. He had one child from his first wife after she died. He had two sons from his second wife after she died.

5:41 He married his third wife in eighteen ninety three. They were together until Booker died in nineteen fifteen and only fifty nine years old from kidney failure. He was first black man to be on a US coin. Actor Spencer Tracy. He was born in Milwaukee in nineteen hundred. Now he was the first actor to win Academy Awards and back to back years, nominated nine times for Oscars. They made a lot of movies with Katherine Hepburn and they actually lived together from nineteen forty one until he died in nineteen sixty seven. But get this, Spencer was actually married to another woman that entire time. Yeah, they'd gotten married in nineteen twenty three and had a son, but she kind of looked the other way. She didn't care. He must have just been paying her bills. Spencer, he had the reason he died. He was sixty seven years old. They had a heart attack.

6:23 She's got bad today's side. She turned him music ConfL You won't half till thinks twice. She's pureless New York's now, she got bad to day side. Actress Betty Davis, She's on Hollywood legend. She was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, in nineteen oh eight. She acted for over fifty years. She went two Oscars. She was nominated ten times. She had a son and a daughter from her first husband, She had a son from her second husband, and she divorced a fourth and third husband. They only last like six years a piece. Now, Betty, she died from cancer in nineteen eighty nine, at eighty one years old. We get this back in the day in Hollywood. Here's some good gossip. Everybody in Hollywood knew that Betty and actress Joan Crawford absolutely hated each other. Most people wouldn't even let him in the same room together. But when Betty found out that Joan Crawford had died, she said, you never say bad about any person who dies. You always say good. So Joan Crawford's dead. Good actor Gregory Peck he has worn of San Francisco in nineteen sixteen, one of the most popular actors in the world back in the late nineteen forties through the early nineteen seventies, won An oscar Into Killing Mockingbird, some movies that you might have heard of, or twelve o'clock Eye, Mobe, Dick Pork Chop, Bill the Omen. He had three sons from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen fifty five, and they had a son and a daughter, Peck. He died in a sleep in twenty three, eighty seven years old.

7:54 I'm line doing well. My need is such, my rich too much. That was Tony Williams singing for the Platters. He was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey, in nineteen twenty eight. Tony. He sang lead for the Platters from nineteen fifty three in nineteen fifty nine. Some of the hits that he sang were only You the Great Pretender, My Prayer, Twilight Time. Now. He left to go solo in nineteen fifty nine, as I said, and we all know, yeah, that never worked out. He got married nineteen sixty three, and then he died from diabetes in nineteen ninety two at sixty four years old.

8:37 And you played with the older boys and three sets watch the attraction one then. Do carry way, hey, carry. Watch your game anybody way, Alan Clark, he's saying lead for the Hollies. He's eighty three today. He was born in Salfred, England. He's sang Leid for Allis from nineteen sixty two to two thousand. They're on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some in their heads just one look carry inn bus stop. He ain't heavy. He's my brother.

9:17 A long cool woman in a black dress. Ellen. He married in nineteen sixty four. His wife got cancer for the second time in nineteen ninety nine, so to take carr for him. Yeah, he retired. They have two sons and one daughter. His wife survived. Yep, she's cancer free and they're both done pretty good. He's back doing music solo. One of the A's and ABBA is Agnatha Fossingskog. She studied.

10:00 She's born in Sweden. Now Abba, it's just the first letter of each of the members first name. Some abbas hits our waterloo, Mama Mia, dancing queen. Take a chance on me now. When ABBA broke up in nineteen eighty two, agnitha, Yeah, she's pretty good. Solo success so far there in Europe. By when they got back in twenty sixteen, she was all blanking well until twenty two Andy two and they call her quits again. Her first husband was Bjorn. He was one of the bees in ABBA. They never married for nine years and they had a son and a daughter. She met another guy for three years. If you're on which one she is, she was the blonde one. Back in the. Day, I'd.

10:41 Lay a song. He's a man laying all night long. Take it back to where the music. Kidnab was good love. That was the gentry of the country. Deal Montgomery Gentry, Troy Gentry. He is born in Lexingon, Tucky in nineteen sixty seven. Now Troy and Eddie Montgomery, they got together nineteen ninety nine. Something to be proud of. She couldn't change me if you ever stopped loving me, Speed my Down. Those are some of their biggest hits. Troy, he had a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen ninety nine and they had a daughter. Twenty seventeen. Troy was killed in the helicopter crash fifty years old.

11:23 Because some. Few fields. Because if you feel like happiness is the truth, because. Something happy, happiness you Frel Williams. He's fifty two. He's one in Virginia beats Virginia Now. He was a really successful music producer then in two thousand and sixty side do you want to start singing? I mean his biggest hit was that one Happy, but he's got a lot of big hits by collaborating with other artists. I just want to love you, drop it like it's hot. Money Maker you got me twenty thirteen and they have a son in triplets. All right, let's do our quote of the day. Kurt Cobain from the band Nirvana. He killed himself today in nineteen ninety four, twenty seven years old.

12:34 Kurt said, wanting to be somebody else is wasting the person that you are. It's pretty deep, Kirk. Now, thank you all for listening, and don't forget to follow us whenever you listen to a song. All right, that country underground radio artists of the day, we're gonna pay now he We're gonna play her song rammed in Woman. So you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. He was long to load and walking into the bunk a man holemas with a stone cold heart. He's a love leave him lord. He was bull on that way. But I'm a sweet talking son a gun. Ain't got no settle down, keep my home on a rude. I'm a love him and leave him. You wais see nothing like my get away all rend laying alrman go away to create, to mess away your hand to last because there ain't nobody can kick or trailer dusk something.

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