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 Unzer. Today is National Potato Day. Around eight thousand BC and Peru, the ancestors of who had become the Incas, began farming 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 on loaded skins. All right, this is going on in entertainment on August the nineteenth It's back to nineteen eighty two. Number one album was Mirage by Fleetwood Mac Survivor had the number one song with I A the Tigertagos. To the.

1:52 See of Patta, Sylvia. She had the number one country song with Nobody Working. Lady against a school. You say nobody loved nobody. You know. Called today she loves my name? Well, I wonder does she think sheese clever? Number one book was Different Seasons by Stephen King. Top movie was E t Extraterrestrial. A bunch of early nerdy kids they help an alien escape to the Earth and go home. Stars Henry Thomas, Drew Berry Moore, and Peter Coyote.

2:36 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 and November. Yeah. No, Mosquitoes they'll die off when it 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. Now Las Vegas would have taken a beating 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.

3:36 Now you can actually go see the Constitution. Yes, it's in a dry dock outside of Boston. Yeah, you can actually tour 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. Nineteen thirty four are the first all Americans So Fuck Derby was held in Dayton, Ohio, sponsored by Chevrolet. They moved it to acron 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. If you remember right, we had his son on there on May the first h Gary Francis Senior. Yeah, he was shot down on his YouTube spy plane over the Soviet Union.

4:18 So they decided he was a spy today. Since Gary to three years in prison and then seven years of hard labor. Well he 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 Sputnik 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. That it was all guys making that coke coked jake show. This shipday he left this ship birthday. We got simple tage like this shiver birthday and you know we don't do that's worth.

5:06 Oh Let's was born in August the nineteenth, Orrible Right. 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 prouble getting that plane off the go. He continued fining until nineteen eleven and then he quit text. He just run the company. He was a lifelong bachelor. Died in nineteen forty eight and seventy six years old from a heart attack. I'm conceitingly, Ray, let's go. I can see you all out of Situs in my way.

5:52 Going on. Hadley Bline. That was Johnny Nash. He was born in Houston, tex Was in nineteen forty considered a pop in reggae singer. Now he was the first non Jamaican to actually record rape reggaeae musica in Kingston, Jamaica. Some of us hits 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. He died in twenty twenty from natural causes. Eighty years old. I'm just streams rage Stop Stop.

6:36 So the Kings love them off. Country singer Any Ravens eighty one. He was born in Lafayette, Louisiana, in nineteen forty four. Now. Last year, to celebrate his eightieth birthday, he got a leg Tech two. It covers completely his entire thought, some of that he has never won. Songs are I've Got Mexico, Shine, Shine Shine, Joe knows how to live by 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. The best Round. So super.

7:31 Ian Kill. And he is the lead singer for Deep Purple. He's eighty today. He was born in Middlesex, England, in nineteen forty five. He joined Deep Purple in nineteen sixty nine. He took a couple of breaks over the earth, but he's still there a Deep Purple. There's some over hundred 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, 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 he 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 as elite singer one year for Black Sabbath. Now he has married since nineteen eighty nine and they have a daughter, Bill Clinton. He has seventy nine today. He is born in Hope, Arkansas, in nineteen forty six. He is Governor of Arkansas, then the forty second president of the United States, so from nineteen ninety three eight eight, two thousand one. He is married and they have one daughter. Actor John Stamos, No, he doesn't look that much different than he did thirty years ago when he was in Full House. Yeah, he's aging really good. Sixty two 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 have like a rocker guy, but he actually does play the drums. He was with the Beats Boys. He toured with him one summer. That is Joey Tempest. He is still the lead singer for the band in Europe. Sixty two today, born in Stockholm, Sweden. Now you're up. 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 New Rochelle, New York in nineteen sixty five.

9:47 He's sixty today. That is Browther Matt Dillon, the actor. Yeah, he's one year older. Kevin's first movie was Heaven Help Us the Platoon, Lah blah. Biggest role 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 Kira Sedgewig. She's also sixty. She's 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 hain'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 wonder close is a hope. One more.

10:30 Promise me that Juliet thirty five change. And when you get the choice to sit it down Dames. Jay. Country singer Leanne Wilmack. She was born in Jacksonville, Texas, in nineteen sixty six. She's fifty ninety. Jacksonville, Texas is the tomato capital of the world. Now she started out as a songwriter for number years and they finally letter sing in nineteen ninety seven. Now that song I Hope You Dance there was a huge crossover into the pop charts. Some of our country heads are I'm the fool, you gotta talk to me, Little Past, Little Rock. Now. She had a daughter from her first husband. She married her second ausband in nineteen ninety nine and they also have a daughter. Actor Matthew Perry. He was born in Williamstown, Massachusetts, in nineteen sixty nine. Grew up in Canada. He got famous playing Chandler on Frans. After that he did The Odd Couple for a few seasons. Some of his movies 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 ketamine.

11:35 Now caused Himaskley to drown in his hot tub. Now Perry's personal assistant, two doctors, and two drug dealers have all played guilty for giving him the drugs that killed him. They all five of them are waiting sentences, so they're all facing between five and forty five years in prison. The ross and the. Money's playing a bool smile, Hey where the sloan? There's fire loud called you Love Me. Country singer Clay Walker. He's fifty six. He's butt in Beaumont, Texas in nineteen sixty nine. First song of Relas is back in nineteen ninety three, It's what is It to You?

12:21 Went up to number one. Pretty good way to start his career. Some of his other number one songs are Living until 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 tent 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, I 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 seven. They have five kids alright here. Quote of the day. It comes from comedian Gratcha Marx. He died today in nineteen seventy seven, at eighty six years old. Gotcha says, I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member. Well, thank you for listening today. I've heard to follow us and you're listening to So We Come Street It Comes.

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