Aug 19- Potato's, Eddy Raven, Bill Clinton, John Stamos, Europe, Kevin Dillon, Mathew Perry, Clay Walker, Deep Purple

0:18 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. Today's August the nineteenth potato Today is National Potato Day. Around eight thousand BC and Peru, the ancestors of who had become the Incas, began farm my potatoes. Then you fast forward to fifteen thirty six the Spanish they brought the first potatoes back to Europe. Eighteen o two, the United States President Thomas Jefferson, he brought back finch friest the United States. So it all worked out. Now they're over four thousand types of potatoes. Now they're about the only vegetable that can be grown in all fifty states.

1:06 So how are you gonna celebrate today with the baked potato, mashed potato salad, fringe fries, potato tots, hash browns. I can go on now, you know how you like your potatoes anyway. Now there are some deals today Arby's, Burger King, Chick fil A. They're having deals on fries, KFC. They're having a deal on potato wedges and TGI Friday. Yeah, they're having a thing onloaded skins. Let's see what was going on in entertainment on August nineteenth Back in nineteen seventy four, number one album was four sixty one Ocean Boulevard by Eric Clapton. Paper Lady said the number one song with the Nice Chicago Died. I hurt my mom ray, I pray the nice shit couple.

1:48 Brother hurt my. Mom ry. Pray the nice. Merlagger had then in one country song with old Man from the Mountain, I've been working in a saw me. Oh, I'm all up to chance. I got wind at someone's been taking him to my back man, thought, I happy to call you. Let you know today. Let the old man come. The mounta. Yo. The number one book was Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy by John lecar. The top movie was The Longest Yard.

2:32 A former pro quarterback. He's in prison. Now he has to put together a team of prisoners to play the guards in the Game of Football stars Burt Burt Reynolds and Eddie Albert all Right. What happened On August the twenty fifth, seventeen ninety three, A yellow fever epidemic hit Philadelphia, and it hit Philadelphia hard. Philadelphia is actually the capital of the United States. At that time, five thousand people died. Then in November, the epidemic just left. No one knew why. Wow, we know why. Now we'll see Philadelphia in November. Yeah, no, mosquitoes, they'll die off wine and gets called mosquitoes are what spread the yellow fever. Now I said five thousand people died. Philadelphia only had a population of fifty thousand at the time, so ten percent of the whole city died. Compared that to like Covid where less than half a percent of the people actually died. In eighteen twelve. In the War of eighteen twelve, the United States naval ship the Constitution, you know, nicknamed Old Ironstein, defeated the British warship that Garyere.

3:28 Now Las Vegas would have taken a beaten on that one to see. That was a huge upset. The Garyere was not to be unsinkable, but the Constitutions set her down to the bottom of the sea. Now you can actually go see the Constitution. Yeah, it's in a dry dock outside of Boston. Yeah, you can actually do it for free. Eighteen fifty say is Gail Gordon. He invented evaporated milk. Now, why would you ever want evaporated milk? Well, that's what's used in your coffee, creamers, your sweeteners, cream soups, chowders, that kind of stuff. Twenty four are the first all Americans. So Fuck Derby was held in Dayton, Ohio, sponsored by Chevrolet. They moved it to Akron two years later and that's where they still hold it every year. Nineteen sixty, the USSR they convicted the United States Gary Francis powers of spying.

4:15 If you remember right, we had his son on there on May the first ye Gary Francis Senior. Yeah, he was shot down on his YouTube spy plane over the Soviet Union, so they decided he was a spy today. Since Gary to three years in prison and then seven years of hard labor. Well they spent seventeen months and then he got exchange for actually a real KGB spy. To celebrate that, the Soviets, Yeah, they launched Sputnik five now Spotnik five. They carried two dogs, two rats, forty mins, one rabbit and some Friffies into space. They were the first animals to come back to space or come back from space from orbiting. Twenty fifteen, FDA they approved that female viagra. It's supposed to help with the libido. Bet it was all guys making.

4:56 That joke joke show dish Shivers Dayle's gonna cause he left this shiver birthday. We got simple cars. He like this shiver birthday. And you know we don't give birth. Oh Let's was born in August the nineteenth Orrible Wright. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, in eighteen seventy one. He was four years younger than his brother Wilbur Wright. Of course our war right brothers. It gets credit for the first airplane flight back in nineteen oh three. Now Wilbur was supposed to make that fight. See he won the coin, dows and everything, but he kept stall on the plane. After three stalls, yep, orbit was up. He had no trouble getting that plane off the God. He continued fining until nineteen eleven and then he quick the actually just run the company. He was a lifelong bachelor.

5:39 Died in nineteen forty eight and seventy six years old from a heart attack. I'm conceit, ray, let's go. I can see a lot of situles in my way going on, Hadley blind. That was Johnny Nash. He was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen forty Considered a pop and reggae singer now. He was the first non Jamaican to actually record rape reggae game musica in Kingston, Jamaica. Some of us HiT's are hold Me Tied, I can see clearly now, stirred up. Yeah, I one child from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen eighty six and they had two children, Johnny.

6:24 He died in twenty twenty from natural causes. Eighty years old. I just saw in streams raft took stock. So the Kings hold love swam off. Letter to. Country singer Eddie raven Is eighty two. He's one of La Fayette, Louisiana in nineteen forty four. Some of Edie has never won songs are I've Got Mexico, Shine, Shine Shine, Joe knows how to lit buy you boys, send it off in a litter. Yeah. Two kids from his first wife, I'm her and a second wife of two thousand and one.

7:08 The first. So stupid I kill. And he is the lead singer for Deep Purple. He's eighty one today. He was born in Middlesex, England, in nineteen forty five. He joined Deep Purple in nineteen sixty nine. I took a couple of breaks over the ears, but he's still there. A Deep Purple there's on over undred million records. Smoke on the Water, Woman from Tokyo, Kentucky, Woman River, Deep Mountain High. That's some of the songs you might know from Deep Purple. Now.

7:52 They start out calling myselves Roundabout, and they wanted to change it, but they could never think of another name. And one day when they're practicing, one of the guys just said, hey, what about Deep Purple. It was the name of his grandma's favorite song, So sure, why not? So Deep Purple it is. And he filled in his elite singer one year for Black Sabbath. Now. He is married since nineteen eighty nine and they have a daughter. Bill Clinton is eighty today. He's born in Hope, Arkansas, in nineteen forty six. He is Governor of Arkansas and then the forty second President of the United States or from nineteen ninety three eight eight two thousand one. He is married and they have one daughter. Actor John Stamos. He doesn't look that much different than he did thirty years ago, and he was in full house. Yeah, he's aging really good. Sixty three years old. Born in Cyprus, California in nineteen sixty three. Of course, he first gott known on the soap opera General Hospital. Then he played Uncle Jesse on Full House. Then he was on Er for four years. After that, he married Rebecca Romain for seven years. Then he married a second wife in twenty eighteen.

8:51 They have a son. Now he does play the good drums, you know. I know it's a character that you know, I always like a rocker guy, but he actually does play the drums. He was with the Beats Boys. He toured with him one summer Misicide. That is Joey Tempest. He is still the lead singer for the band in Europe. Also sixty three today, born in Stockholm, Sweden. Now you're up.

9:32 The band they formed in nineteen seventy nine. So that's our final countdown. Rock the Night carry superstitious. Oddly they only tour up a tour in Europe. Joe He is married and they have two sons. Actor Kevin Dillon. He was born in Newershelle, New York, in nineteen sixty five. He's sixty one. That's brother Matt Dillon, the actor. Yeah, he's one year older. Kevin's first movie was Heaven Help Us. The Platoon Lah blah. Biggest roll might have been playing on TV's Entourage. You know he was Johnny Drama did that in the movie Now. He had a daughter from a girlfriend and he got married for thirteen years and they had a daughter. They divorced in twenty nineteen. Actress Cara Sedgwick. She's also sixty one. She was born in New York City. She first got into the movie Born on the Fourth of July, then singles Phenomenon Cave Dweller now on TV. She ain't really big on Closer. She got married to actor Kevin Bacon in nineteen eighty eight and they have a son and a daughter. Never won.

10:25 No Close is a. Promise me that you get there at the Friday change. And women get the choice to sit it down Dames. I Hope You Country singer Leanne WiMAX. She was born in Jacksonville, Texas, in nineteen sixty six. Jacksonville, Texas is the tomato capital of the world. She is sixty now. She started out as a songwriter for numb years and they finally letter sing in nineteen nine. Now that song I Hope You Dance. It was a huge crossover into the pop charts. Some of our country Heads are I'm the Fool, You Gotta talk to me A little past Little Rock Now. She had a daughter from her first thousand.

11:12 She married her second ausband in nineteen ninety nine and they also have a daughter. Actor Matthew Perry was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in nineteen sixty nine. Grew up in Canada. He got famous playing Chandler on Friends. After that he did The Odd Couple for a few seasons. Some of his movie is Our Fools Rush In, Free to Tango, The Whole nine Yards, the Whole ten Yards. Two years ago, he died fifty four years old from an overdose of the drug keddymene. Now cous him Baskley to drown in his hot tub. Foster in the Rose and the Way, Unexplain, abool smile, They say where the moon There's fire called Rumor.

11:58 You Love Me Too? Country Dan clay Walker's fifty seven He's one in Beaumont, Texas in nineteen sixty nine. First song of Relas is back in nineteen ninety three, It's What is It to You? Went up to number one. Pretty good way to start his career. Some of his other number one songs are Living Till I die dreaming with my eyes wide Oprah. Rumor has it. Nineteen ninety six, Clay he was on top of the world. He was one of the hottest ten country acts out there. He has diagnosed with multiple scrosis. Well, this slowed him down, but after a while he figured out how to deal with it. So he still records and tours and all that kind of stuff. So he's done pretty good. Right now. He's on tour right now. Actually, if you want to go see him, it'll be out there until the beginning of November. Coming here to Colorado this Sunday. It will be in Pueblo at the State Fair. Now, he has raised a lot of money for MS over the here, so now I guess one good thing came out of it. He had two daughters from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and seven. They have five kids already.

12:51 Here. Quote of the day. It comes from comedian Gratua Marx. He died today in nineteen seventy seven, at eighty six years old. Gotcha says, I refuse did you in any club that would have me as a member? Well, thank you for listening today. I've read to follow us and you're listening to signs We come street too. It comes. Here's a cool media dot com. It's cool three us. You can see what's going on on the other podcast and the radio station radio station Country Underground Radio. Our artist of the day, it's gonna come from Gary out there in Portland, Oregon. You guys here, Kyle Daniel on his song Somewhere in between. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. Long long way from home. Still Gevy and bred.

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