April 6th-Siamese Cats, Billy Dee Williams, Merle Haggard, Marilu Henner, Paul Rudd, Candace Cameron Bure

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and fact. Du it is about today. Today's April the sixth. Are Siamese is your base. We are Siamese. You jungies. Residenday no fine. Today is national Siamese cat Now now that songs from the movie The Lady in the Trimp siame is. They're one of the most popular breeds of cat in the world, Siamese cats. The breed originating in Thailand in about thirteen hundreds now Thailand, it was called Siam until nineteen thirty nine, so that's why they're those Siamese. It was eighteen seventies the United States first Lady Lucy A's received a cat from the ambassador from Siam. After everybody saw I think though that was pretty cool, and Siamese cat popularity really took off. Now you can if you have some Siamese cats, I guess you can annoy the hell out of all your family and friends today on social media. All right, you can give your cat a little extra love today, guess the rest of us. Yeah, we'll just watch Lady in the Trim all right. Less He's going on to entertainment.

1:29 On April sixth, let's back to nineteen ninety five. Number one album was Me Against the World by Tupac, but Donna had the number one song with Take a Bow. Tager ninety Mascadities, Gaddy Old like sou. Concis du. Trichian Year would She had the number country song with Thinking About You Not quite. Sure what's schooling? All day? Through Long Abbama.

2:26 The number one book was Politically Correct Bedtime Stories by James Finn Garner. Tot move was Bad Boys, Will Smith and Martin Lawince. They're detectives. Now they're guarding a witness to a murder, but they're also trying to solve who stole the heroin from the police station. Stars Will Smith, Martin Lawrence and Tayloroni. All right, what happened on April the sixth? Do you know why they call the Empress of Russia Catherine the Great? I don't either, but it was today. In seventeen seventy two, she ended at tax on men who had beards. Yeah, there'd been attacks on men with beards. They had been infects. In sixteen ninety eight, pe did the Great put it on on them? Eighteen thirty eight, Joseph Smith and five other men they created the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. It was in Fayette, New York. Yeah, it's the Mormon religion. Now, it had been almost sixteen hundred years. In eighteen ninety six, the Olympic Games were back.

3:15 Maybe. Yeah, the first modern Olympics began in Athleenes, Greece. Fourteen countries sin athletes. Two hundred and six countries sent athletes to the last Olympic Games this last summer. Yeah, kind of surprising. Yeah, there's one hundred ninety five countries in the world. Nineteen oh nine, Robert Perry and Matthew Hansen, they were the first to reach the North Pole. Well maybe no. Everyone thought they did it, and they kept really detailed logbooks. So now with GPS and everything, there's a possibility they might have missed by a few miles. I'd say, who cares, And you don't give them credit for it. They didn't have GPS, so that was close enough. Nineteen seventeen in the United States finally declared war on Germany and entered World War One. Now you want to talk about great men in history, you have to talk about this guy. Nineteen thirty, James dour He invented the tweakie. Yeah, after he invented it. James, he claimed that he had three Twinkies every day until he died. That was nineteen eighty five, at eighty eight years old. Now original Twinkies, they had a SWF life for twenty six days. Twinkies Now, yeah, they can go forty five days. But I don't think they go bad. I think they just turned him into peeps.

4:14 Nineteen thirty eight, Roy Plunkett. He was working for DuPont when he accidentally invented polytetraflural thing I a ethylene Oh whatever, we just call it teflon today. Not to be outdone, in nineteen eighty, scientists at three AM invented post it notes. Nineteen ninety two, the United Spate Supreme Curl rolled that a farmer over in Nebraska. He wasn't trapped by US Postal Service employeers into buying mail order triut pornography. At least he cleared his name. Twenty twenty one and Action Comics Number one. That's the comic book that introduced Superman in nineteen thirty eight, sold for three point two five million dollars. Cooked joke show This Shiver Day we're gonna he left this shiverfday.

4:59 We don't sit shibsday, and you. Don't get Ah. This is born on April sixth. Now you talked about being lost in history because of fake news. Now everybody knows all about Paul Revere's ride where he rode through the night warning everybody about the British were coming at the beginning of the American Revolution. Ah. That story comes for a very inaccurate poem written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. See Longfeller. Yeah, he just liked Revere's name and out flowed with the poem. So, yeah, he wrote the whole poem about Revere. Truth is Rivera had a partner. His name was William Dawes. Dodsy was born in seventeen forty five in Boston. Now DAWs and Rivere, they were both sent to warrning about the British. Yeah, they sent two in case one of them didn't make it through. Yeah, they helped one of them get through. Well, they got lost, that's right, they both did. This doctor named Samuel Prescott, he actually found him and he said, yeah, I'll take you to where you guys want to go. Well, then they got stopped by a British patrol Prescott. He got away, but Dawson Rivere they got busted pretty much.

5:56 But the British did let him go, but they took their horses, so those two ended up on foot Prescott. He ended up delivering the message that the British were coming now. Dawes did serve for the Continental Army in different capacities throughout the war. Married twice at three each other. Died seventeen ninety nine, fifty three years old. Actor Ivan Dixon. He was the only black guy on the TV show Hogan Zero's Ivan. He was born in New York City in nineteen thirty one. So besides hoaking heroes, he was the Stunton double for Sidney Portier. I guess his biggest movie that was probably car Wash Now. He did a lot of TV directing, though just some of the series that he directed on The Waltons, The Rockford Files, Bionic Woman, Magnum Pi, the eighteen. Got married in nineteen fifty four and they had three children. He died from kidney thayer in two thousand and eight, seventy six years old. Billy D. Williams.

6:42 He's eighty eight. He's born in New York City. Now d it stands for December. Yeah. He was born William December Williams or William Yeah, William December Williams, Billy D Williams. But I know it's April anyway. He started out on Broadway in nineteen forty five. He really first got No and Gail Sier's in the TV movie Brian's Song Hit. Then after that, Yeah, and then his career took off. Did the Ladies Sings, the Blues Mahogany. He was land doing all those Star Wars movies. Now he had a son from his first wife, married his third wife in nineteen seventy two and they had a daughter, or they have a daughter. Could be holding you tonight, good quin during wrong start, during right, you don't care about what I say, ain't gone, just stay here and.

7:34 Ran country legend. Merle Haggard He was born in Oildale, California, in nineteen thirty seven. Now he was always in trouble growing up. Ended up in San Quentin prison for burglary. Not his burgley, but arm't burglary. Well, he was in prison, he sited, he's gonna change his way, so he got out of me. When did the music. Released his first album in nineteen sixty five, released sixty five more after that. Some of his thirty eight number one songs were Oky from Muskogee. If we make it through December, let's chase each other around the room. I'll just stay here and drink. He had four children from his first wife. His second wife ended up becoming the Native wanor for his third wife. Then he married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety three and they had to each other burrow. He performed right up until he died. Died from pneumonia on his seventy ninth birthday, was in twenty sixteen. Sometimes you want to go well, and as your name always educate.

8:31 You want to be with you and see us say you want to be with everybody tolls your name. Actor John Rathsenberger. He's seventy nine, born in Breexport, Connecticut, in nineteen forty seven. He acted over in England throughout the entire nineteen seventies, came back to the United States and played Cliff claven on Chairs I Did It All eleven season. Now he has voiced in all twenty eight Pixar movies. He is the only one to do that Now, he started out his Ham in the Original Toys to Then he was Mac in Cars, End Up, Last One, Fritz, and Inside Out Too. Now that makes him the third most grossing actor of all time. So all those movies he did, yep, they've made eighteen billion dollars. He's just behind Samuel L. Jackson and Stanley Now. He had two children from his first wife, married his third wife and twenty twelve actress Mary lou Hinter. She was born in Chicago in nineteen fifty two. She's seventy four today. Now she has hyperthimersia. Say that means she has total memory.

9:29 Recall say she literally remember us every detail of her life since she was eleven years old. Now we're talking every detail. Basically, she's raiment. Only sixty one people have ever been known to have it. Now. She started off acting on Broadway. She was in Greece, then on TV she did Taxi in Evening Shade. Some of her movies were Between the Lines, Johnny Dangerously, Elie's Story. She had two sons from her second husband. She's been married to her third husband since two thousand and six. Actor Paul Rudd is fifty seven. He's born in Pasaic, New Jersey, nineteen sixty a. His first movie was Clueless, then the Anchorman movie's forty year old version, then didn't played at ant Man, went on a bunch of movies read. He got married in two thousand and three and they have a son and a daughter. Actor Zach Braff. He is fifty one, born in South Orange, New Jersey, nineteen seventy five.

10:16 That's known for starting on the TV show Scripts Scrubs. Biggest movie he did voice Chicken Little. Actress Candace Cameron Burr. She's fifty. She's born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy six. Her older brother is actor Kirk Cameron. Now Candace, she's most known for playing DJ on full House and then Fuller House. She first No Since then, she's actually starred in eighteen Aurora Teagarden movies. What's that on Hallmark? Probably? I guess. Now she got third place on Dancing with the Stars, so that's kind of cool. Candors. She married a professional hockey player in nineteen ninety six and they have two sons and one daughter. Alright here quote of the day, Well, we'll just gold Merrile Hagard.

11:00 I'm just easy swear you've been swears. Can we still wave over the floors down a court. I mentioned earlier that Bureau he died on his seventy ninth birthday today, two years before he was quoted as saying, at my age, I don't buy but half a loaf of bread. You know why, Yeah, we know. Well, thank you all for listening today. No forget to follow us on whoever you listening to his hons. You never miss an issue for our country underground radio artist. Today, we're gonna go out to Wilmington, Delaware Jeff he wants to hear Tommy Alverson song I feel like drinking today. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

11:47 Love feel like drink in the day. The road down. I'm onna get out to the liquor store all I can drink the baby some more. I feel like drain in the day where my boss he's out there pleasing golf and my basbood it still broke down in the shop. Well, I ain't got a damn thing.

12:35 Do you sit around our house and think about you? So I feel I feel like drain in the day