Aug 18-Fajitas, Women Can Vote, 1st Miss America, Robert Redford, Patrick Swayze, Christian Slater, Edward Norton

0:10 Well, hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it is about today present a bike cool meeting is August the eighteenth. Ever since we eat that. I should be saying. You know, we tell not a lot of songs about Fietez, but it is national for he today. Fide is They started around nineteen thirty Mexican workers on ranches and farms down there in Texas. They started using thrown away cuts of beef. You know what's really tough. They're like strip steak and stuff. So they would really tenderize them. Then they would cut them into really thin strips, and then they would season the hell out of it. Ended up being really tasty. Nineteen sixties, Sonny Falcon, you started selling faidas to the general public for the first time. He had a little Taco Faida stand in Kyle, Texas, that's between Austin and San Antonio. Now you can make fides at home, but you know, they taste so much better when you go to restaurants and they come out to you and they're really hot in sizzling.

1:17 Now. I know up in Loveland we have a couple of restaurants that are having deals today. So I'm assuming that local Mexican restaurants near you are probably having the same thing, only national deals. We heard of a going on on the border in Chili's, so enjoy some faidas today, all right? What happened in entertainment on August the eighteenth Back there in nineteen fifty nine, number one album was the Kingston Trio Aret Large by the Kingston Trio. Elvis Presley had the number one song with a big hunkle love, Hey babyin'tu Lunchin'?

1:58 Don't bells you little you bout to stop me having deal? Stonewall Jackson had the number one country song with. Waterloo Water, Wherever, Water, every every Water. The number one book was Exodus by leon Yurris Todd. Movie. It was north By Northwest, an advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken by foreign spies. Starry Carry Grant, Eve, Marie Saint and James Mason. It was an Alfred Hitchcock flick.

2:42 All right? What happened? On augusty eighteenth, eighteen seventy two, Montgomery Ward issued his first catalog, Yeah It's for his mail order business. He had one hundred and sixty three items you could order through the mail May Whitney in California's I speaking, that continuous forty eight states stands fourteen thousand, five hundred and five feet. That's sixty five feet higher than Mount Elbert out here in Colorado. Now, when we talk about the first time when people have climbed mountains, especially mountains of predominance, you know, there's a whole team of climbers. They prepared for the climb for a long time. They have lots of equipment and lots of supplies. They plan out that climb very detailed. Then in eighteen seventy three, Charles by Gole, Albert Johnson, and John Lucas they were fishing out there and they weren't having any look at all on this trip. It was a bus They hadn't gotten any fishing a couple of days, and they were really getting bored. So now there was a tall ass mountain right next to where they're fishing. They decided, you know what, since we're not catching anything, let's see if we can't get to the top of that damn thing.

3:41 So off they went. Sure enough, they made it the top. They got up there and wrote their names under rocks and stuff, so everybody knew they got up there eventually, But when they came down and told all the locals what they did, the locals named a fisherman's mountain, and on are those three fishermen. Well a few years later the government came through. They're experts. They were surveying everything and doing gelig work and all that kind of stuff. Well, when they measured it and saw how tat was, they named it Mount Whitney, after the team leader. In Tennessee in nineteen twenty, they were voting on whether or not to approve the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution. Now, if they approved it, it would give women the right to vote. If they didn't, well they're gonna have to wait a while. Say it was all tied. It came down to a twenty four year old Harry Burn. Now he had previously said he was going to vote no.

4:47 So when he went went and they called his name and he cast us but he said yes. Shocked everybody. But that meant Tennessee approved the nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution. That gave a two thirds majority of all the states. So the Nineteenth Amendment was now ratified and women had the right to vote. Afterwards, everybody asking her, Harry, Larry, why did you change your vote on that? He said, well, I got a letter from my mom earlier this day and she told me to vote yes, go co Co Coke coat Shorge. This shiverbf day, we're gonna page he left, this shibirth Day. We gonna sit potage. He's like this shibirth day and you know we don't get vote. That's birthday, all right, I sit Born on August the eighteenth, Virginia dare. She was born out of North Carolina on Roanoke Island in fifteen eighty seven. She was the first child of European parents be born in America and that's all we know about Virginia. Say she was one of those people on ronen O Kyleer who just disappeared. Yeah, the lost colony. They're still trying to figure out what in the world happened to that all these years later, but they're missing the obvious. Of course, it was Aliens, the Lewis and Lewis and Clark Meriwether Lewis. He was born in album Earlea County, Virginia, in seventeen seventy four.

5:56 Clark he was responsible for the logistics supply is not kind of stuff. Lowis. He was the one who was leading the expedition. Yet they were going to explore all that stuff that was bought in the Louisiana purchase, and they're gonna go all the way to the Pacific Ocean. Now, Lewis he was also supposed to develop relationships with Native Indian tribes along the way also. Well, they of course made it successfully. They were able to travel eighty two hundred miles in two years, four months, and ten days. Now, after that successful trip, Lewis he was made governor of the Louisiana Territory in eighteen oh seven. But by eighteen oh nine the United States government hadn't given him any money to do it, so he was paying for everything out of his own pocket. Yeah, he was getting into deep debt, and so he headed to Washington, d c. To get him a pony up and give him some money. Well, along the way he stayed for a night at an inn about seventy miles southwest of Nashville. Now, officially he committed a suicide there because he was a heavy drinker and in debt, and everyone just assumed that he was the one that pulled the trigger on himself. His sister didn't buy it though. No, she fought and fought for you.

6:53 She actually fought for forty years before she got him to Zumin's body. After they exhumed his body and his new autopsy, it read if he committed a suicide. He shot himself in the stomach, He shot himself in the head, and then he slid his own throat. He was thirty five years old when he committed suicide. The first Miss America was Margaret Gorman. She was born in Washington, DC in nineteen oh five. In nineteen twenty one, sixteen year old Margaret she won that first Miss America pageant. Now, the winner was decided fifty percent by the judges and fifty percent by the audience. Applause. Now you're probably thinking she must have really been a looker, right, I'd say more kind of cute. Say, yeah, we used her picture today for the show That's What's up there today. But you have to remember she was only sixteen years old.

7:47 She weighed one hundred and eight pounds. Her measurements for thirty twenty five thirty two. Now, after Miss America in nineteen twenty five, she married a guy with a lot of money. She just spent the rest of her life as a socialite and doing traveling. Maury died nineteen ninety five and ninety years old. Actor Shelley Winners. She was born in Saint Louis, Missouri. In nineteen twenty, she won Oscars for the Diary of Anne Frank and Patria Blue. She was nominated for an Oscar for Sidon Adventure. On TV, she played Roseanne's Grandma and a couple episodes of a Roseanne TV show. She always she had a daughter from her second husband. She married at four thousand in two thousand and six, just a couple hours before she died of heart failure at eighty five years old. Yeah, they had lived together for nineteen years though. Robert Redford's eighty eight He was born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen thirty six. What an Oscar for directing for Ordinary People.

8:34 The only movie he was nominated for acting was was Nesting. In case you forgot some of Redford's movies that he acted in, Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid. He was Sundanced, All the President's Men, The Natural, The Last Castle. He created The sundown s Fim Festival in nineteen seventy eight. He had two sons and two daughters from his first wife. They divorced after twenty seven years. Married his second wife in two thousand and nine. Call right, she's on Just the fool to believe.

9:18 She's on the way. That was Patrick Swayze. He was born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen fifty two. Start out as a dancer. His first paid dancing gig, Yeah, it was a Disneyland. His first movie was Skate Down, and then of course The Outsider was Red Dawn, Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse Ghost. Now, when he was eighteen, his future wife was only fourteen and she was taking dancing lesson from Patrick's mom. So after that first meeting, yeah, they married five years later in nineteen seventy five. Now, Patrick, you started smoking when he was seventeen years old. At one point he smoked up the sixty cigarettes every day. Now, you wouldn't think about buffing in shape he looked. But yeah, and he never even quit. He was still smoking when he was going through cancer treatment. Patrick died in two thousand and fifty seven years old from pancreatic cancer. Actor comedian Dennis Leary. He was born in nineteen fifty seven in Westchester, Massachusetts. He's sixty seven. He first got known on the MTV game show Remote Control. He's had a number of successful stand up comedy specials over the years.

10:16 Some of his movies were The Raft, Suicide Gangs. He was in two Spider Man movies. He've always Diago in all those Iceman movie Ice Age movies. Dennisee married nineteen eighty nine and they have a son and a daughter. Actors Madelon Stowe. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen fifty eight. She's sixty six. Her first movie was Stakeout, then The Two Jakes, The Last of the Mohicans, We were Soldiers. She got married in nineteen eighty two and they have a daughter. Actor Christian Slater is fifty five. He was born in New York City in nineteen sixty nine. His first movie with Legend of Billy Jean, then Heather's True Romance Broken Arrow on TV. He hit really big on Mister Robat. That kind of resurrected his career. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife.

10:57 Married his second wife in twenty thirteen and they have a daughter, and they just had a son, a couple of weeks ago. Actor Edward Norton. He's also fifty six. He was born in Boston. Now he's been nominated for Oscars for Primal Fair, American History ex and Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance. Definitely should have won for Primal Fear. Now. He was also in Fight Club, The Incredible Hall, The People Versus Larry Flint. He got married in twenty twelve and they have a son. Heave You Alone, You See You Well. The theme for The Cosby Show is so bad we decided to go with Malcolm and Eddie.

11:44 Actor Malcolm Jamal Warner. He's born in nineteen seventy in Jersey City, New Jersey. He's fifty four to best known for playing Theo Huxtable on The Cosby Show. Then he played Malcolm on Malcolm and Eddie, and then he was in The Resident. Now he has one child and he may or may not be married to it's mom. He won't say. Comedian actor Andy Samberg's forty six. He was born in Berkeley, California, in nineteen seventy eight. It's on Saturday in l I from two thousand and five to twenty twelve. Then he was on TV on Brooklyn ninety nine. Some of the movies that he's voiced are The Cloudy with the Chance of Meatball Movies, The Transylvania Movies, and Space chymps Andy. He married in twenty thirteen and they have two children. All Right, I told you earlier. The first Miss America was sixteen. You know. The youngest Miss America was nineteen thirty three, Marianne Bergeron. She was representing Connecticut fifteen years old when she won Miss America. Well, thank you for being here today. We appreciate it. Don't forget about Country Underground radio and the best internet radio station out there. It's really probably one of the fastest growing anyway. You know what. Listen to a psychologist, BF Skinner.

12:46 He died today in nineteen ninety at eighty six years old. BF says, a failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best that you can do under the circumstation circumstances. The mistake is trying to stop you guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no, no, I don't know remember no No no no no no no no no no