Feb 21st – Sticky Buns, Alka‑Seltzer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Kelsey Grammer, Alan Rickman & Mary Chapin Carpenter

0:20 Hi, and welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff. Today's February the twenty first. Today is National Sticky Buns Day. German immigrants. They brought sticky buns to America around the eighteen fifties around the Philadelphia area. Now you can call them sticky buns, cinnamon rolls, pecon rolls, my favorite monkey brick. Now they're all awesome? Are they healthy? Hell? Hell? No. Surprisingly there's no deals today, no a bond. None of those people are having national deals. So that's no excuse.

1:03 You can still suck it up and go find yourself some sticky buns today. They have fun and enjoy alright. What was going on in entertainment on February twenty first and the year nineteen sixty eight. The number one album was a Magical Mystery Tour by the Beatles. Paul Murriott had the number one song with Love. Is Blue. Henson Cargo. He had the number one country song skip. A Rope Daddy, H Mommy, Mommy H Dad? The last match should have heard the final.

1:55 Gay little Sistern of the Bad Dream. She wrote the song with a terrible scream, skip pro. Skip plero. No idea was going on musically in nineteen sixty eight. Now the number one book was The Confessions of Nat Turner by William Styron Todd movie was Plannet of the Apes. After being in hyper sleep for two thousand years on a space flight, the astronauts wake up and they crashed into a planet ruled by apes where people are slaves. Stars Charlton Neston, Roddy mcdowll, and Kim Hunter. All right, what happened on February the twenty first, eighteen forty eight, Carl Marx and Frederick Ingolls. They published the Communist Manifesto in London, England. Sounds strange, Well, yeah, I see, only the most advanced capitalist nation and all of Europe gave the freedom to publish the Communist Manifesto eighteen fifty seven.

2:49 In the United States, they had loied foreign currency being used as legal money. That's why you get so pissed off when you get a Canadian quarter. Well, that's how it was when you used to use real money. Eighteen sixty four, in Baltimore, Saint Francis Xavier Church opened up. It was the first US Catholic church exclusively for black worshipers. Before then, black Catholics. They had to worship and church basements during off hours. But you have to remember Maryland. Yeah, they were a slave state. They just didn't secede with the rest of the Union. So different rules for the blacks in Maryland than the rest of the North. Now that church, it's still there, they'd moved the location to it. Now the priests they were actually white. See, there weren't any black priests in the United States until eighteen eighty six. Eighteen sixty six, Lucy Hawes became the first woman to get a d d ystgrade. Yeah, that means she could be a dentist, got a Doctor of Dental Science, got a degree from the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in Cincinnati.

3:40 In Washington, DC, the Washington Monument, it was dedicated today. Now. They started building it in eighteen forty eight. Then they ran out of money in eighteen fifty four, started back up in eighteen seventy seven, finished it today in eighteen eighty five. Now, at five hundred and fifty five feet, it was the tallest man made structure in the world at that time. Thiffel Tower. It passed it in eighteen eighty nine. We have four years later the Washington Monument. It is still the tallest masonry structure in the world, and it is the tallest I believe that skin in the world. And it's still growing. Yeah. See when they finished it today in eighteen eighty four, official height was five hundred and fifty five feet five and eighth inches. Well, they measured again in twenty fifteen fifty five fifty five five hundred and fifty five feet seven and eleven thirty seconds inches, so it's still getting up there. Nineteen sixteen, in World War One over in France, the Battle of Verdune began began. The longest battle in the entire war. Lasted nine months. They were over one million casualties on both sides. Nineteen thirty one, Doctor Miles Medicine Company, Yeah, they were out of Elkhart, Indiana, started selling alcasaus. Today Bayer bought them out. In nineteen seventy eight.

4:45 Nineteen forty eight, Bill Franz he founded NASCAR, Yeah, in Daytona Beach, Florida, the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Yeah, it was he basically started to sanction and promote stock car racing. Now, Bill just wanted to name it the National stock Car Racing Association. But a mechanic named Red Voighton. He came up with NASCAR. Now that sounds cooler than NSCAR and Yemen. The government promised free elections. All that came through. They held them today in twenty twelve. Now and voters went to the polls to vote for the new president. There's one name on the ballot and he was the current vice president. Joke, joke, joke, shag dish shibth day. We're gonna he left dis shibthday.

5:30 We got simple tag. He left dish shibirth day. And you you don't give up worthy? Okay this. She was born on February the twenty first actress Rue McClanahan. She was born in Heilton, Oklahoma, in nineteen thirty four. She started out on Broadway, best known for TV, though she was on daytime soap operas. Then she was on MOD for six years. Of course, he's best known for playing Blants on The Golden Girls. She was only fifty one when she started on The Golden Girls. She made over fifty movies over the years. She had one son from her first husband. She was married to her six thousand when she died in twenty ten from a brain or hemorrhage. Seventy six years old. Actor Alan Reckman. He was born in Brentford, England, in nineteen forty six. His best movie was Galaxy Quest. Now he did Shakespeare in Broadway. His first movie. He played Hands Grubery in Diehard.

6:16 That's pretty good, but not as good as Galaxy Quest. He was also in Dogma. He was what a several snape in Mary Potter movies. Got married in nineteen seventy seven. Then Alan died in twenty sixteen from pancreatic cancer. Sixty nine years old. Actress Tyne Daily is eighty. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in nineteen forty six. She has ten years older than her brother, actor Tim Daly. Tyne She's always done Broadway over the years. Yeah, She's been NOMINALA three times for Tony. She went once on TV. She was on Cagney and Lacy, Judge and Amy. Her biggest movie was The Enforcer with Clean Eastwood. She was married twenty four years when they divorced, and they had three kids. Acting William Peterson's seventy three. He's born in Evanston, Illinois, in nineteen fifty three. His best movie is Long Gone.

6:59 It's a baseball movie. He played Steed Cantrell. Yeah, it's a little under the radio. But this is the best movie. Some movies that we might know though, we're living die in La Young Guns to the Contender. Biggest success was on TV. He started on CSI for fifteen years. Peterson had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in two thousand and three and they have a son and a daughter. Hey, maybe I hear the blues of Collins toss salads and spambled eggs twice stile, and. Maybe I seem a bit confused. Yeah maybe, but I got you peggs. But I don't know what to do with those toss salads and gram days. That was actor Kelsey Grammer. He was born in Saint Thomas and the Virgin Islands in nineteen fifty five, seventy one years old. On TV, he played doctor Fraser Kane for twenty years, nine years on Cheers, and eleven on Frasier four and sixty seven episodes.

7:52 Now. Ke Helsee started out studying at Juilliard. Then he did Shakespeare in some Broadway. Finally decided to make some money, so we went to TV. He started voicing Sideshow Bob on The Simpsons in nineteen ninety. I guess he still does. Once in a while, he owes legends and lies on Fox News on their channel. It's been an over fifty movies. The biggest one was when he played Beast in The X Men. He had a daughter from his first wife, a daughter from fooling around. He divorced his second wife when she tried to shoot him. Well, she did shoot him, but she missed, so I guess she shot at him. He had a daughter and a son from his third wife. Married his fourth wife in twenty eleven and they have one son and two daughters. And she will card Mom Crass. I'm never gonna come back home.

8:34 Saturday night, and the moon is out at the head on over. She's a twist and shout. I just part your Medicans beat when it missed me up, I'm going to time that. Dance. I'm wa Wama Dancy woman, Mama Lucy and. The country and folk singer Mary Jacobcarpenter's sixty eight. She's one of Princeton, New Jersey in nineteen fifty eight. It's won five Grammys. Some of her big hits are never Had It so good, I feel lucky passing the kisses, shut up and kiss me down at the Twist and Shows. She was married once for eight years. Actor Billy Baldwin. He is the third of the four acting Baldwin brothers.

9:14 He was born in massive Pequo in New York in nineteen sixty three. Sixty three year old played a marine on the movie Born on the Fourth of July and that was his first movie. Then Internal Affairs, Flat Liners, Backdraft, Sliver started, had No Address last year, that's pretty good. In nineteen ninety five he married singer China Phillips and they have three daughters. Myself, you know myself. Forty seven year old Jennifer love Hugh ed. She was born in Waco, Texas, in nineteen seventy nine. Started acting as a child. And what was she on? She was on kids Ink when she was like ten. Then she did Party of Five, The Ghost Whisper. She's currently on nine her yeah, just nine one one now she did a couple of that I know what you did last summer movies, Heartbreaker, The Tuxedo Jennifer. She married in twenty thirteen and they have three children. Alrightyre Court of the Day.

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