Dec 16th- NO Barbie or Barney, ZZ Top, ABBA, Beethoven, Boston Tea Party, Battle of the Bulge, Jeff Carson

0:19 He Hello and welcome to history and Factoid's about today. I am Jeff at today's December the sixteenth. Love You You Love Me were heavy famly with the grain und kiswell meeting you. Won't you say you love me? You don't like that song, well, then today is for you. It is Barbie and Barney backlash day. Today is to pretend like Barbie and Barney never existed. Parents that can put away all their toys and shows and songs and just enjoy a Barbie and Barney free day.

1:04 The kids will just have to deal with it today. Now, Barbie and Barney, they've been irritating parents for decades, so today is a day of peace and quiet. You know, personally, I would rather deal with Barbie and Barney then I would rather than step on a lego with a beer foot. Today is also chocolate covered everything day. You're gonna have fun with that, all right. That's what is going on and entertainment on just m the sixteenth. Back to nineteen eighty nine number one album was storm Front by Billy Joel Billy had The number one song was We Didn't Start the Fire.

1:46 Coming Way Stranger in the Strange Landil and Burl. Shinnandoah. They had the number one country song with two dozen roses. Voted. Mind if I had to. Roots and. If I. Change. The number one book was Daddy by Danielle Steele. Top movie was Christmas Vacation the gris Walls. They plan a really big family Christmas. Yeah, so it starts Jimmy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid. In twenty nineteen, twenty five years after it was originally released, All I Want for Christmas Is You, written and sung by Mirianker, finally went up to number one.

3:02 All right? What happened on the Simmer the sixteenth, seventeen seventy three in Boston to protest that tea tax and bosed by the British on the American colonists, the Sons of Liberty, They held the Boston Tea Party. They threw ninety two thousand pounds of tea into the Boston Harbor. That was enough to make eighteen million tea bags. Now, yeah, I know today that tea would cost one point seven million bucks. Now. The only person who got caught was Francis Eckerley. Yeah, the British received a nonymous tip that he was involved so they arrested him. Then they tarred and feathered him. You know what, he never gave up any of the others who actually were part of that tea party, so that's pretty cool. Sadly though, Francis he was killed fighting on Bunker Hill. Now that tea act or tax at the British imposed actually lowered the price of tea. Yeah, but you had to buy your tea from the East India Company. See what they're trying to do is they're trying to get rid of all the smuggle tea that was coming in illegally. That tea wasn't being taxed. Nineteen forty four and World War Two, one of the biggest battles in the European theater began was the Battle of the Bulge Germany. They launched a huge surprise attack on the United States Army that was in Belgium. Germans wanted to get the United States off their western border and thought mean they could split it in a half or.

4:07 Something like that. Now I'll give you the other details. That battle goes on until January the twenty fifth, nineteen fifty Legendary actor Shirley Temple retired after forty three movies Yep, she was done twenty two years old. Now this story makes me want to know how and all that kind of stuff, but then it's really sad, so I don't think I really want any more information about it. In twenty twenty one, in the school in Devonport Tasmania and Australia, six children died in a bouncy castle accident. On a lighter note, In twenty twenty two, Pokemon, they announced their main characters Ash catched them and Pikachu. Yeah, they were leaving the show after twenty five years. Cope, cope joke, shuge dish shibf Day.

4:47 We're gonna Parge he left Thish Shibf Day. We want simple Targe. He's like this shibirth day, and you know we don't. Give birthday a Let's check out who was born on December the sixteenth, Ludwig von Beethoven, and he was born in Bonn, Germany, at seventeen seventy. He has considered it, if not the one of the greatest composers of all time. Now, if you get stuck at a really boring party and people are talking about classical music, yeah you should probably leave.

5:34 But if you can't, just mention Beethoven's fifth that Night Symphonies. Yeah, he'll sound really smart Beethoven. He actually started losing his hearing when he's twenty eight years old. He was completely deaf by forty five. After that he had to communicate by passing notes. Nope, they still don't know why he ended up going deaf. They can't figure it out now. He was a really big drinker. He died in eighteen twenty seven at fifty six years old from liver failure. Writer Jane Austen. She was born at Steventon, England, in seventeen seventy five. She is really famous in the literary world. Surely wrote six books. Now all you need not to sound really smart around about Jane Austen. And she wrote the book Sense and Sensibilities, Briden, Prejudiced and Emma. Yep, that' sounds really smart all over again. She died in eighteen seventeen at forty one years old from Addison's disease.

6:17 It's an endocrine disease. Now when you think of Abba, you kind of forget there are two guys in there too, Bennie Anderson. He was one of those guys. He's seventy nine He's one of Stockholm, Sweden in nineteen forty six, formed Abba in nineteen seventy two. Now Abba is just the first letter of all their first names. Agne Bennie Bajorne Any Freed, Benny Andy Freed. They married, say she was a brunette back then. Now they started dating in nineteen six sixty nine. They married in nineteen seventy eight, divorce nineteen eighty one. Now Benny had a son and a daughter before her. Then right after the divorce in eighty one, Yeah, he went married his second wife and they have a son. Billy Gibbons. He is the guitarist and lead singer for zz Top. I thought they might have broke up. See there's the thing Billy.

7:39 He's come to Denver solo on January the twenty ninth, but then I said he's coming back with zz Top March twenty third, So that's cool. They kind of go out and do their own thing and then come back and perform as a group again. Billy seventy six. He's born in Houston, Texas. In nineteen forty nine, Billy started out in the band Moving Sidewalks. They were opening act for Jimmy Hendricks. After that tour ended, though he quit and formed zz Top in nineteen sixty nine. Well that's Frank and Dusty some zz Top. It's are tub snake boogie, getting me out. You're loving legs, cheap sunglasses. Dusty. He died in twenty one, but if you go see Z Yeah, Billy and Frank, they're still there. They just brought in Elwood Billy. He married his longtime girlfriend in two thousand and five. Now if you watch all the old zz top music videos, easily say I really sooped up.

8:22 Nineteen thirty three Ford Coup. It's called the Eliminator. Billy actually owns that car. He's a big car enthusiast. Actor Benjamin Bratt. He's sixty two. He's born in San Francisco in nineteen sixty three. Some of his movies are Clear and Present, Danger, Miscongeniality, The River, Wild, Traffic on TV. It was on Law and Order and then Homicide, Life on the Streets. Got married in two thousand and two and they have one son and one daughter. Not on you, not in this line good every I wouldn't think. You know.

9:06 Country singer Jeff Carson was bun on Torso Tulsa Clobea in nineteen sixty three. Some of his big hats are not on your love the car, hold on to something, hey, buddy. In two thousand and nine, Jeff he retired from singing, became a full time police officer in the Franklin, Tennessee Police Force. Married back in nineteen eighty nine, and then Jeff died from a heart attack in twenty twenty two. Yeah, fifty eight years old. Alright here quote of the day. It comes from the founder of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders. His first name was Harlan so Sanders. He died today in nineteen eighty at ninety years old. These that there's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. Can't do business there. Well, thank you all for listening, and make sure you follow us. I know you listen to his arm's so easy to find, and then check out today's show description for any questions about this show. Our Country and the Ground radio artists today comes from Terry Ott and Oklahoma. He wants to hear Todd Burrow song Ain't looking back. You guys have an awesome day.

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