Feb 28th-Largest Penguin, Donnie Iris, B-52's, Train, Jason Aldean, Gilbert Gottfried, Tooth Fairy

0:19 Hi, and welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff. Today's February of the twenty eighth. A fairy. I'm sure than what beautiful waitings and NELI say, teeth and your savage fairy. Today is National Tooth Fairy Day. Now, I'm like Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny. No one really knows what the tooth Fairy looks like. We know she's really busy though. She collects around three hundred thousand teeth every night. Now due to inflation a couple of years ago, the tooth Fairy is given out six bucks a tooth. Today it's down to five dollars a tooth. When I was a kid, it was like twenty five cents maybe fifty cents max.

1:00 Wow. The tooth theory. She gives out more money when dad's home. The tooth theory, it's to teach them importance to kids about taking care of their teeth. So you know, give her a helping out out and yeah, instill that in your kids, the importance of oral hygiene. All right, Listen is going on entertainment on February twenty eighth. Let's back to nineteen sixty nine number one album was the Beatles White album sly and the Family Stone had the number one song with everyday people Ring. Wrong My song in song and then makes no difference what.

1:46 Jerreley Lewis had that I'm on country song to make a little sweeter for you. You've done so much. All my world. A wall, try my best in every way to may love slee Dude volume. The number one buck was The Salzburg Connection by Helen Mean Kindness. The top movie was The Wrecking Crew. A billion dollars man stolen from a hijacked train, so the United States government they send Dean Martin to go finding and get it back. Also starts Okie Summer and Sharing tape.

2:29 All Right, what happened on February the twenty eighth, sixteen forty six in Lyon, Massachusetts. Roger Scott, Now he was tried for sleeping in church. See back then the Puritan church services they were really really long. So they had these men, they called them tithy men. They would carry sticks with them that had a really hard knob on one end and on the other end had the animal tail. So these tithy men, they would walk around in the church during the service. If a man fell asleep, they'd give him a big poke or a whack with the knob in. Yeah, just wake him up. Now, a woman fell asleep, Yeah, they tickled her with the tail on her head. Well, Roger, he fell asleep, he got thumped right on the head and it really pissed him off. So he punched the guy.

3:09 Yeah. At the trial they let the punch go. Yeah, they said that was cool. But he was guilty of sleeping in church, so he got a public whipping. Eighteen twenty seven, the B and O Railroad was started. It stands for Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Now, it was the first commercial railroad in the United States, so that's the first ones it had passengers. Now, why did Monopoly use it, Well, because they used everything from Atlantic City and the B and Oh yeah, it went through Atlantic City. Eighteen forty four, the newest United States Navy warship, the Princeton. It was being shown up for a bunch of dignitaries. They were showing how fancy it was and all that that. They just had to fire off one of his twelve inch guns. Well it exploded. It killed the United States Secretary of State. The Secretary of the Navy, and four other big wigs. Well, the real panic was they couldn't find the United States President John Tyler. He said he was going to be there.

3:57 Well. On his way to the ceremony, Tyler he stopped off at attack for a drink that lay to another lost all track of time, So drinking saved his life. Nineteen fifty three Francis Kriok and Jane Watson. That's when they discovered the double helix which makes up the DNA. Nineteen ninety three, outside of Waco, Texas, the FBI they tried to execute a search warrant on the Branch Davidian compound. Gunfire broke out. Four FBI agents and six Branch Davidians were killed, started a fifty one day standoff. Nineteen ninety five Denver International Airport. Ye had opened up for business today? Yeah now Denver, Yes, the sixth busy is the airport in the entire world. Twenty twelve, in New Zealand, they found a skeleton for the largest prehistoric penguin of all time.

4:38 They named it the Kuriaku Gebniffie. Now it stands five feet tall. That wouldn't be a cute penguin, joked. Joked, joke, shog this shibbf Dayna he left this shiver day. We won't simple target this shibf day. And you know we don't give U. Well, let's see it was born on February the twentieth after Charles Dirting. He was born in Highland Falls, New York in nineteen twenty three. Now in World War Two, he was wounded on the D Day Invasion. Yeah, he was one of the first group of men in one of those first waves they at Omaha Beach. So after six months in the hospital, he got out and had to go fight in the Battle of Bolts, came home and started doing Shakespeare. He was in over one hundred and forty movies, Dog Day, Afternoon, Final Countdown, The Sting Nomine for Oscars, for the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, and To Be or Not to Be on TV. He's probably best known for Evening Shade.

5:31 Now. He had three kids from his first wife, him and a second wife. They were married thirty five years when they divorced. Charles he died from natural causes in twenty twelve, eighty nine years old. Actor Gavin McLeod. He was born in Kisco, New York, in nineteen thirty one on TV. He started out in Michale's Navy and then Mary Tyler Moore Show, and he was Captain Stubing on the Lib Boot. He had two sons and two daughters from his first wife. Married his second wife in nineteen seventy four. They divorced in nineteen eighty two. They remarried in nineteen eighty five. Well, that one must have took, because they were together until Haven't died in twenty twenty one at ninety years old from natural causes. She has been a time, say jun then thebody has a right to don't you know?

6:14 Same became South this. Band the sign. Donny Iris. He's eighty three. He's born in Elwood City, Pennsylvania. In nineteen forty three. He started out in the band called the Jaggers. Then he went to Wild Cherry, where he played guitar and saying backup but So. In nineteen eighty had the hits Aliyah, Love is Like a Rock, My Girl, Tough World. Actually Leah was the only hit. Danny is considered a one hit, a wonder cool one hit. Though it his backup band, the Cruisers. They've been with him ever since he started Yeah, and they all still go out and play once in a while. Dad gone gone going on, lad.

7:05 You wall. Dad is Actress singer Bernadette Peters. She was born in New York City in nineteen forty eight, seventy eight today, and she's been performing on Broadway since nineteen sixty seven. Still does now. She's been nominous seven times for Tony's Awards. She's won twice. Her best movie was the Jerk and then Silent movie Pinnis from Heaven Annie Bernadette. She was there for ten years and her husband died. Yeah, he was killed in the helicopter crash. She's actually out on tour. Yeah. She goes and does these like intimate shows where she tells stories, she sings her own songs, and she sings a whole lot of Broadway show tunes. Actress Mercedes Rule.

7:47 She's also seventy eight. She's born in Queens, New York. Started acting out here in Denver at the Denver Theater Company. Well that was too small. I was holding her back, so she went to Broadway. One of Tony She went an oscar for the Fisher King ser Rather movies a I'm Married to the Mob lost in Yonker as the last action hero on TV. She had a recurring role on Fraser for a couple of seasons. She had one son. Later on, she got married nineteen ninety nine and they had a son. Her husband. He died in twenty twenty. Comedian Gilbert Gottfried was born in Coney Island, New York, in nineteen fifty five. Now, those close to him say that his voice wasn't as annoying in person he had in private. They say that, yeah, when he was talking normal, yeah, it was all right. It was when he went into character that he got so annoying. But that annoying voice did make him a lot of money. He started doing stand up when he was fifteen even one year and Saturday Night Live. Now, of course all those some movies that he actually acted in, where The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, the Problem Child movies, Never on Tuesday. Gilbert. He married in two thousand and seven and they had a son and a daughter. Died at sixty seven years old, and her problems in twenty twenty two. That was early b fifty twos. That's back in nineteen eighty. They actually let Cindy Wilson sing lead Sindy She was born in Athens,

9:20 Georgia in nineteen fifty seven. Sixty seven year olds helped form the B fifty twos in nineteen seventy six. B fifty two. At Southern slang, it actually means exaggerated bufont heredo. That's why Cindy and Kate were those big bufont here doos in the early days. Now Cindy she's the blonde. Kate she was the red head. Cindy she played drums and when they got on tour back in the day. Anyway, she got married nineteen eighty five. Then she took a couple years off in the nineties and had two daughters. Went right back to the band though, now the B fifty twos. They started their farewell tour in twenty twenty two. This summer they took off farewell, so now they just tour. So I guess you can go see him or wait till next year. Actress Ray Dong Chong. She was born in Edmonton, Canada in nineteen sixty one. Sixty five year olds famous dad is Tommy Chung. Yeah, from teaching Chung.

10:07 Some are raised movies. They are the Corsican Brothers, Command of the Color Purple Soul Mean on TV. She was on the first season at Melrose Place. She had a son from her first husband. Her second husband was actress s Thomas Howl for a year, and she married a third husband for three years. There is no place safe and no safe place to put my when you been feed the world, Shane sad. That's Patrick Monahan. He's the lead singer for the band Trained. Patrick is born Erie, Pennsylvania in nineteen sixty nine, fifty seven years old today. He helped Foreign Train in nineteen ninety three some of the Hitler drops the Jupiter Hey Soul Sister calling All Angels starting at the beginning of July.

10:59 Train they're going out with bare naked ladies. That's a band. If you didn't know, if they weren't, I'd probably go see the show. Patrick, He's saying in the National Anthem and ten different sporting events. He had two children from his first wife. Married his second wife in two thousand and four and they have two kids. We can go to the show. We can stare here and take more run on a big green tractor. We can go slow. They can go faster down through the woods down to the pasture. The longest time with you really don't malamb and try if you want to. Country superstar Jason al Dean. It's forty nine going to Macon, Georgia in nineteen seventy seven. He's at twenty seven number one songs only raise thirty eight songs total. Now some of his number ones are She's country Truth, burn it down girl like you try that in a small town.

11:54 He's actually out on to it right now. If you want to go see Jason. He had two daughters from his first wife and married his second wife and two fifteen and they have a son and a daughter. Alright here Quote of the day. It comes from radio legend Paul Harvey. Paul died today in two thousand and nine at ninety years old. He said, in times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these. Now you know the rest of the story. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't read to follow us on who you listen to us on. Check out the day's show descriptions how you can figure out any links or any questions they might have about the show. All right, Our country underground radio Artist of the Day comes from Siena and Virginia. Just hear Sherry Rose song.

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