Feb 16th-Almonds, Sonny Bono, LeVar Burton, Ice T, Elizabeth Olsen, The Weeknd, Beavers Dad, 1st 911 call

0:19 Welcome to history and Factoid's about today. I am Jeff. Today's February the sixteenth. I love omens. You love omens. We love omens, omens, omens. Almens, moments, the moments, the moments, omens. I love omens, You love omens. Today is National Almenday. I know it's President's Day, but I don't get the day off, and I'd rather talk about almonds. Now. They started farming almonds around four thousand BC in Southwest Asia. It's not almonds and King DUT's tomb. Now they started growing almonds in California in the eighteen fifties. California they produced ninety eight percent of the almonds in the United States. Now, almonds, they are awesome. They day is great. They're really versatile.

1:05 But am on salads and pastries and desserts and just eat them straight out of the bag. You can't even drink almond milk. And they're really healthy for you. So I enjoyed some alments today. He's going on. In entertainment. In nineteen ninety eight, on February the sixteenth, let's go to the number one album. It was Titanic the movie soundtrack Usher had the number one song with nice and slow. Me take you to a place some nice and quiet there no one that's too ain't gottas I just swan not TAKEO nice tone. Having waing for this so. Long, Tim McGraw, I had the number one country song with just to see You smile, jes.

1:50 Smile. I do anything. You world too. All this. Never count. It's worth all that. The number one book was The Street Lawyer by John Grisham. The top movie Titanic. Now it is the fourth highest grossing movie of all time. But it's three hours and fifteen minutes long. Now, the real Titanic it sank in two hours and forty minutes. So no movies should last longer than the event that is portraying. That's in my opinion anyway. Now, I honestly have never made it through Titanic without falling asleep. Not my fault, that's giants Cameron's all right. Let's see what happened on February the sixteenth shoe in the year six hundred. Pope Gregory. He decreed that saying God bless you was the correct response to someone sneaks. Now, the first time someone wrote a check was today. In sixteen fifty nine over in Britain. How do I know this well, it's on display in Westminster Abbey.

2:57 Check is dated February sixteen, sixteen fifty nine. It is for four hundred pounds. Nicholas Vaniker he wrote it to mister Delbo, So makes you curious what he's paid for four hundred pounds back then he'd be like seventy seven thousand pounds today or ninety seven thousand dollars. Eighteen oh four of the United States Navy Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, he led a raid on the harbor of Tripoli, that's Libya today. Yeah, him and the boys they burned down the United States Navy ship, the Philadelphia. So he had been captured by pirates, so they had destroy the ship before the pirates start using it. Kentucky, in eighteen thirty eight they passed a law allowing women to vote, well sort of. See, women had to be a widow or single and over twenty one years old. They had to own property, and they had to pay taxes on that property. Then they could vote in local school board elections. Eleven year old Grace Bedell in Westfield, New York. She had written a letter to Abraham Lincoln when he was running for president. She told they had to grow beard. She told them that women love men with whiskers, and he'd win the election because the women had tell them men to vote for him.

3:55 Well A brought her back. He told her, well, he'd never grown up beard, but he had considered. Day in eighteen sixty one, on the way to his inauguration President elect Lincoln, he had his train stop in Westfield, New York. He got off the train and on the platform next to her dad was Grace. So A bent down and kissed her on the cheeks so she could feel his whiskers. Nineteen forty three, False Village set the Connecticut state record negative thirty two. Nineteen sixty eight, the first nine to one one call was made. It was in Haleyville, Alabama. See the mayor of Haileyville. He had called to congratulate the police station on being the first in the nation to implement the nine to one one emergency response system. I think it'd been funny if they would have told him to hang up and call back on the non emergency line.

4:37 Joke joked, joke, show dish shibbs day, Please don't pause. He left this shivers day. We won't simple card. He like this shiburt day and you know we don't do work okay. It was born on February the sixteenth. Actor Hugh Beaumont. He is born of Laurence, Kansas, in nineteen oh nine. Now Here it was very religious. During World War Two, he was a conscience of objector so he didn't have to go serve Bobe. With so many. Actors serving, Hugh, he was very busy filming movies during the war. He's best known for TV. He was the dad on leave with the Beaver. He was married for thirty three years. When they divorced, they had two sons and one daughter. Nineteen sixty Hugh he quit acting. He had had enough. He was done. He moved to Moon, Minnesota and became a Christmas tree farmer. Did that until he died from a heart attack in nineteen eighty two, at seventy two years old.

5:26 Blast I got you, Thing, I got you Thank Sonny Boto He was born in Detroit nineteen thirty five. Sonny He was a successful music producer and songwriter before he met cher Bet. He hooked up his share in nineteen sixty four, sold over forty million million records. Yeah, they even had the Sonny and Share. It was a TV primetime variety series. Now, after they divorced Sony, he stayed in music for a little while. Then he went into politics. Started as a mayor of Palm Springs, then served in the United States House. He representedis for his district in California. Now he died during the second term in nineteen ninety eight. He ate his skiing accident. He was sixty two years old. Then he had Before that, he had a daughter from his first wife. Now Cher was actually his second wife, and they had jazz. He married his fourth wife in nineteen eighty six. They had a cenaer of a daughter. So after he died in that skiing accident, his fourth wife Mary, she ended up serving his seat in Congress. Then she stayed. Yeah, she held that seat in Congress till twenty thirteen.

6:34 You in me. That was James Ingrin. He was born in Akron, Ohio. In nineteen fifty two, he won two grand He was nominated twice for Oscars for Original Song. He had two number one songs. One was with Patty Austin as Baby Come with Me. Then he had I Don't Have the Heart. He did go up to number two once and that was with Linda Ronstadt and somewhere out there now James he married in nineteen seventy five. They were together, who died from brain cancer in twenty nineteen, sixty six years old.

7:18 Actor LeVar Burton. He is sixty nine. He was born in Lanstah, West Germany in nineteen fifty seven YEA. His dad was in the Army. He grew up in Sacramento, LaVar. He really got known when he played the young Kunta Kinte in mini series Roots. After that, he hosted the kids show Reading Rainbow on pds for twenty three years, won twelve Daytime Emmys for it. Then he got popular with adults again by playing Georgie LaForge on Star Trek. The Next Generation did the TV and the movies. LaVar. Are you married? Nineteen ninety two and they have a son and a daughter. Oh God, damn, wasn't nice? May Walk in Psychopath talking King of Manjungle, just a gangster a song and living like like a fire cracker. As quick as my views. It's been dead as a death fast of colors, I read them, plus of blood. It just don't matter. Nod for your life when my shot gun La would never die.

8:08 Now, he was born Tracy Morrow, but he is famous as Iced Tea sixty eight today. Born in Newark, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty eight. By the time he was thirteen years old, both his parents had died from heart failure, so he ended up being raised by an aunt. So after high school he went into the Army. After the army, became a DJ as a tribute to Iceberg Slim. He changed his name to Iced Tea. Then he started rapping. Did you know Ice Tea is really big into heavy metal? I'm serious. He has his own heavy metal band. It's called body Count. Yeah, they toured at Leased Music and all that kind of stuff. But musically he's most known as a rapper or a gangster rapper. Biggest success though, is as an actor. Yeah. Just some of his movies are New Jack City, Who's the Man Surviving the Game? That's a good movie, Final Voyage on TV. He's been a Lawn and Order Special Victims unit since two thousand now. Ic he had a daughter from his high school sweetheart, then he had a son from another girlfriend. Then he married model Coco Austin and two thousand and two and they have a daughter.

9:02 I wonder if she goes by Coco. T Actress Elizabeth Olsen is thirty seven. She's born in Sherman Oaks, California, in nineteen eighty nine. Started acting when she was four. Her older sisters are twins Mary Kate Nashley Olsen. That Elizabeth. She's made a name for herself. Some of her movies are Godzilla, whin River. She's played Wanda Maximov in some of the Avengers movies. E Lizabeth is She's married in twenty nineteen. I only called you. Say I mean. Silently. Then when you touch me, no kill me. When I'm Falters, kill me, when. I'm Suster, that kills me. That was the Weekend. He's thirty six. He's born in Toronto, Canada, in nineteen ninety.

9:49 Now he dropped out of school and left home at seventeen years old. Now see he was born able Test Fay, but he changed his name to the Weekend because he left home on the weekend. Now, he started posting some on YouTube in two thousand and nine. It got a record deal in twenty twenty. Now he sold over eighty million records. Oh Weekend. He is a really private dude man. He rarely gives interviews, usually communicates with the fans just through X. Apparently he's had a girlfriend since twenty and twenty two. All right, our quote of the day it comes from Leslie Gore has Leslie died to day in twenty fifteen and sixty eight years old. She says, really, you have to keep your gun chugging along, just keep a positive attitude, get through the problems. And you have to face your problems or you won't ever get through them. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us now you listen to Son and make sure you check out the show description and give you any links to any place you want to go, like country inderground radio. Yeah, a country underground radio artists to day. It comes from Dan out there in Corvallis, Oregon. He wants to hear Susie Corey so on nineteen seventy. Fine, you guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

11:03 Col's fail good, not feeling, He's just come in. I'm gonna take a long ride, letting loose, letting go go and win. Nobody knows out into the countryside and riven A for a good time, got battles heater, a spinning dust in the rearview, getting go. We're gonna light it up. Oh, we're gonna set up. Your body like it's nineteen seventy five. All that they come on and light it up, sat down tail, get on.

11:53 Feel that they were coming off, getting everybody hi, feeling good in the TI and not sending this guy's party till the morning. Light enough for a good time. Get there, those up and now. We've been just been the re getting up. We're gonna light it up. Oh, we're gonna stop. Your body like it's nineteen stabny five boone.

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