Feb 18 – National Drink Wine Day, Yoko Ono, John Travolta, Dr. Dre, Molly Ringwald & 1978 Entertainment History

0:20 Welcome to history. In fact, it's back today. I am Jeff. Today's February eighteenth. Let it so, let me know, let me stars. Today is National Drink Wine Day. If you don't know, people, they've been drinking wine for over seven thousand years. In I Meania, they found winery of the Day's back to go four thousand BC. Now wine it has changed over the centuries, and that's what today is all about. Today is you're supposed to try different wines that you normally don't drink. You know, be adventure as daring, have fun experimenting with different kinds of wines. If anybody says anything, just telling me you're self educating, you're trying to broaden your own horizons. Let you're Catholic. Today is ash Wednesday, yep, first day of Lent. So no wine for you, all right, this is going on entertainment on February eighteenth. It's back to nineteen seventy eight. Number one album was Saturday Night Fever by the bejis Beg's add The number one song was Staying Alive Margot Smith. She had the number one country song with Don't Break the Heart that Loves You.

1:47 Gray Logy with no by. The number one Buck was a Silmarillion by j R. R. Tolkln. Top movie was Coming Home. A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with the guy who was paralyzed fighting in Vietnam. Stars Jane Fonda, John Voight, and Bruce Dern Now John Voight he wanted best Actor, Oscar for it Janes. She won the Best Actress Oscar for it All right, What happened on February the eighteenth, fourteen seventy eight, George, the Duke of Clarence. He was found guilty of treason against his older brother, England's King Edward the Fourth. Now they did not want beeople to know that the royal family had been fighting, so Georgie was quietly executed in the Tower of London. Yeah, they drowned him in Avada wine. Maybe that's why today's White and Day. Seventeen eighty seven. Holy Roman Emperor Joseph the Second he banned children under eight years old from being used as labor see until then kids, they start being used out in the fields and stuff when they were four.

2:58 Now the Holy Roman Empire that was in Germany and all across central Europe see the city of Rome was never part of the Holy Roman Empire, but the city of Rome was the capital of the Roman Empire. Eighteen sixty one, the United States they went to make Colorado a territory. They had a problem. See, the United States is given the Cheyenne and Arapo drives most of eastern Colorado, now the s United States. They were able to get a couple of these minor chiefs who were in the minority, to sign a treaty that gave all the land back and said they would all move to a reservation in the southeast corner of the state. Well, the Morgs and the majority of the yeah, they were all outraged. They could not believe this, but those chiefs did sign that treaty, so they had to move and the United States took four million acres from the Cheyenna In and Enbackboa tribes.

3:41 Then Colorado became a US territory. Ten days later, nineteen oh eight, the United States posted stamp started being sold in rolls before then just flat books. Nineteen eleven, the first airmail flight was flown. That wasn't the United States, It was in India. Twenty three year old pirate Henry Piquette. He threw sixty five hundred letters six minds from Ali Bat to Nane. Now he couldn't land in theany because it was two mountainous, so he just tossed the sixty five hundred letters over the side of the plane. Good thing nobody had decided for one huh. Nineteen thirteen, Francis Modernist painter Marcel du chump he invelded his newest painting in New York City. It was called Nude, descending a staircase. Well, to say that caused nupbar would be a little bit of an understatement. Daples just went absolutely backcrabbed crazy.

4:25 You know what. He probably should have used it pretty or nude. Nineteen thirty American astronomer Clyde Tombaugh he discovered the planet Pluto. I was working at Arizona at that low observatory. Now everybody was debating, well fighting on what to call it. Eleven year old girls. He subjected Pluto the Roman god for the end of world. In two thousand and six, Pluto it was reclassified as a dwarf planet, but it'd always be a planet to me. Also in nineteen thirty, ELM farm Allie or her stage name nellie Ja. She became the first cow to fly in an airplane. Yeah, they flew seventy two miles from Bismarck, Missouri, to the International Air Show in Saint Louis. Milked during the flight. Then that milk was put in the cartons, and the cartons were actually parachuted out of the plane down to the spectators. Blue nineteen seventy eighth the first iron Man triathle on hisself. That was in Hawaii like it is today and it's still two point four mile swim, one hundred and twelve mile bike ride, and then you run a marathon. Fifteen man started that first right, twelve finished.

5:18 Gordon Holler, he won Navy Seal. John Dunbar he got second place. Now, John, he ran out of water running the marathon, so his support crew just started giving him beer. Coke, coke, coke, dope. Shot this shiverf day, please, Donna Tart, he left this shiverthday. We won't sit potage. He left this SHIVERBF day. And you know we don't give up the. Birthday, Okay, let's He was born on February the eighteenth. Actor Jack Plantz. He was born in Latimer Minds Pennsylvania in nineteen nineteen. Now Jackie made over ninety movies. He was nominated for Oscars in the second third movies he ever made, and Sudden Fear and Shane that was nineteen fifty two and nineteen fifty three. Was nominated again for an Oscar for forty years, but he won that time for City Slickers. Now he always played that tough guy or the bad guy. Jackie had three children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty seven.

6:10 Jackie died in two thousand and six at eighty seven years old from natural causes. Now as tough as manly as jack plans came across. He loved to paint landscapes yep. Been with every painting that he sold. He also attached a poem that he had written to the back actor George Kennedy. He was born in New York City in nineteen twenty five. He was in over one hundred movies. He won an Oscar for a Cool Hand Luke. He was in four airport movies, The Iiger Sanction, Dealt, The Forest Dirty Dozen. Yeah, he was a tough guy. Also. He had one child from his first wife. Then he had two kids. From his second wife. They divorced after twelve years, and then two years later they got remarried. Then they divorced five years after that, so Georgi. He married a third woman in nineteen seventy eight and they had three children. Georgie died from heart disease in twenty sixteen at ninety one years old. Now that thought I needed to apologize for playing that, But that song walking on Thin Air was the biggest hit Yoko Ono's ever had. Yeah, I made it up to number fifty eight nineteen nineteen eighty one, then in two thousand they added a whole bunch of electronics stood almost like a joke, went up to number one on the dance chart and Japan her name is Yoo Oko, but in the Western world she is Yoko Ona ninety three years old today. Born in Tokyo in nineteen thirty three, she married a Japanese guy for six years, then she married an American well her

7:41 on then American they ended up with getting a thing of nold because she was still legally married to the Japanese guy. But even though her and the American weren't married, they had a daughter. Then Yoko married John Lennon in nineteen sixty nine. They had their son, Sean in nineteen seventy five. John he was killed nineteen eighty. Yoko, She's at least twenty two albums and forty singles, most were released after John's death. You owe me, I played the best one, you know. You know.

8:24 The original lead singer for the band Sticks, Dennis the Young. He's seventy nine, born in Chicago in nineteen forty seven, now when he is fifteen. He teamed up with two thirteen year old boy neighbors and they formed the Tradesmen, and one of those guys played the guitar, the other played the drums, and Dennis sang and played the according. Ten years later they had added more members and Dennis he's still saying, but now he played the piano, changed their name to Sticks. Sold over forty fifty four million albums. Oddly, surprisely, yeah, they're not even in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame they ever been nominated. Nineteen ninety nine. Now, Dennis, he got sick and he couldn't go out on tour to promote their newest album, so he just tried to count so the whole tours that I can't go with rest of the band said, oh, hell no, we're going out on tour. They just grabbed another lead singer and went on. Well, Dennis sued the band while they were out on the road. Well he lost, and the guys never let him back in the band. But to be honest with you, the guys were really sick and tired of Dennis. He got too big ahead, so it was a pretty good excuse to get rid of him. Now, Dennis, he does some solo stuff now. He married his high school sweetheart in nineteen seventy and they have two children.

9:25 Actress Sybil Shepherd. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee, in nineteen fifty, seventy six years old today Sybil. She got her name by her parents. They combined both their dad's first name, Si and Bill Sybil. She started out as a model. She's starting the very first movie. It was The Last Picture Show, then The Heartbreak Kid, Taxi Driver, really big on TV. He starng at Moonlighting, and she had a sitcom after called Sybil. She had a daughter from her first husband, and she had twin boy and girl from her second husband. Movie Maker John Hughes was born in Lansing, Michigan in nineteen fifty started out riding for National Sampoon magazine. Then he made movies about people, that's right. No huge special effects, no comic books. No, he just used ordinary people. Just. Some of his ordinary people movies were Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty and Pink, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Planes, Trains and Automobiles, the Home Alone movies, Weird science vacation movies. Yeah, just some of the flicks that John put out there. He got married in nineteen seventy and they had Teacher Oven. He died in two thousand and nine, fifty nine years old, from Artiteck.

10:34 This that's what. Country singing. Just Newtoness seventy four. She was one of Lake Kerst, New Jersey in nineteen fifty two. Some of our bigger that's our Angel in the morning, the sweetest thing I've ever known. Queen of Hearts loves been a little bit hard on me. She still does music, but she mostly she spends more time as a horse trader. Yeah, she even specializes in European horses. And she plays polo, which kind of makes sense, Joe. She married once and has a daughter and a son from it. John Ja Vota seventy two on Inglewood, New Jersey. In nineteen fifty four.

11:40 Johnny started off with the sweat hog on the TV show Welcome Back Caught Her. Then he exploded in movies Carrie, Saturday Night, Saturday Night Favorite Greece, Urban Cowboy. Then he kind of had a little bit of a lullin his grab, then picked it right back up. Well, look who's talking pulp fiction Wildbox. He was nominated for Oscars for her Saturday Night Fever and Pope Fiction Now. He married actress Kelly Preston in nineteen ninety one and they had two sons and one daughter. His oldest son died when he was sixteen. His wife Kelly, and she died in twenty twenty from breast cancer. Travolta, get this, this is an interest, you vactoid. He turned down the role of Forrest Gump. YEP, that's why they gave it to Tom Hanks. Got a totally different movie, don't you think a right? Vana White She was born in North Murtle Beach, South Carolina, in nineteen fifty six. Sixty nine year olds. She joined Will of Fortune in nineteen eighty two. You Ever Won and now merv Griffin discovered her. Yeah, he picked her up pitchhiking, said hey, you want to go in TV now. When she started, she had to physically turn all the letters and she only turned the wrong letter one time, and when she did, they had to stop the show and start all over. Vana. She has never worn the same clothing twice on will of fortune up. So that's forty four years born sixty five, sixty six hundred different outfits now.

12:49 She was married to her first husband for twelve years and they had a son and a daughter. They divorced in two thousand and two. Just last month, her and her new guy they got married. So yeah, they're newly wits grad Lasion, Vanna and new guy all right after Matt Dillon. He was born in New Rochelle, New York, in nineteen sixty four, sixty two year. His one year older than his brother, actor Kevin Dillon. Madd He was pretty much a teen idol. He was in the movies My Bodyguard, Little Darlings, Outsiders, Rumblefish. When he grew up, he saw, I mean drugstore cowboy, There's something about merrit nominally for an oscar for crash now mad He is an aficionado and a collector of Latin music. He just loves this stuff. Now this probably isn't in his collection, you so.

13:32 Vall, it's the eighth the spect Jack you look the party for your next train and missus Jack on the plane and saying the book steak and still don't complain, Just chill listen to the beat. Sauspiel, keeping it real and enables me to them make a noble meal. One of the biggest names in rap music doctor Dre. He's born Andre Young in Compton, California, nineteen sixty five sixty one today. Now, when he started out, he started out in the world class wrecking Crew, went solo in nineteen ninety two. Now he has recorded a lot with Snooped Out. You know what, He's recorded a lot with everybody because he's also besides a rapper, he is a big time producer and record of executive Terrey. He married once for fifteen years and they had two children. He also had six other children from four other women. Well this makes sense that Molly ring walld that have the same birthday as John Hughes. Yeah. She starred in his movie Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club and Pretty in Pink while he's fifty eight. She's born in Roseville, California, in nineteen sixty eight. Started acting when she was ten. She was on the TV sick on different strokes and then when they switched over. Yeah, she went on to Facts of Life after that. Now in nineteen ninety she was After she was done filming the movie Betsy's Wedding, she moved to France. Ye started making movies over there. She married a French guy. Then she divorced the French guy, so then she moved back to the United States in the early two thousand and then she married an American, her second husband, and earth they had three children, been married since two thousand and seven. Alrighty our quota of the day. That was from Michaelangelou. He died to day in fifteen sixty four and eighty eight years old. He said, there is no greater harm than that of wasted time. Oh,

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