Feb 3rd-Carrot Cake, The Day the Music Died, The Temptations, Nathan Lane, Isla Fisher, Ibuprofen, The 4 Chaplin's

0:20 Hey, hello, and welcome to history and Factoid's about today. I am Jeff for today's February the third ker cake. It's so delicious and it's healthy for me because it's your carrotein. It it's the same as eating a serving. A vegetables, right, carrit. Car carrit carcarrot cake, care carrit car carrit carrot cake. Today is National Carrot Cake Day of carrots. They have a natural sweetness that makes them good for baking carrot cake. It got popular in World War two with sugar rationing in effect. Yeah, people just substitute the carrots for sugar.

1:00 Then after the war was over, they said, hey, this care cakes are pretty damn good now. Carrot cake. It is a little healthier than regular cake, but really not that much started but it still makes you feel like you're eating healthy though. All right, let's who's going on entertainment on February third. Back to nineteen eighty six, number one album was The Broadway Album by Barbara streisand Deane Warwick and Friends had the number one song with That's what friends are for. Keep smarting, every keep shining and when you can always count on me. But that's what friends up for.

1:40 Good times and man times Call me. On your side. Just Newton had the number one country song with hurt. Something that You You live me way down deep inside. The number one book was The Mammoth Hunters by Gene m a wul top movie was down and out in Beverly Hills. A homeless bum, he tries to drown himself in a rich family's pool. Then Mayhemmond, Sus Stars, Nick Naughty, Bette Miller, Richard Dreyfuss.

2:31 I can't remember if I cried when I read about his widowed pride. Something touched me deep inside. The day the music. So finevis American Pie drove Ma Chevin to the list, but the Levy was dry, and then good old boys when drinking whiskey and ride singing this sob The day that. I died today is called the day the Music died.

3:14 It was nineteen fifty nine when Buddy Holly, the Big Bopper, Richie Vallens, and the pilot they were all killed when they're playing Crash near Clearwake, Iowa. Now originally Buddy he hired the plane for his band the Crickets. Yeah, he wanted to fly to their next show in Morehead, Minnesota, and get off that tour bus. Well, the Big Bopper was sick, so Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on the plane, so Bopper didn't have to ride on that cold tour bus. Yeah. Wayal then he started out as a cricket. Then the other cricker, Tommy allsapp him and Richievallens. They flipped the coin to see who got the last seed on the plane. Richie won, Well, I guess holtimate. Richie lost. Now Buddy Holly he was twenty two. Richie Vallens was seventeen, Big Bopper twenty eight. Their pilot Roger Peterson, he was twenty one. All right, what else happened? On February the third, eighteen seventy the fifteenth Amendment in the United States Constitution was ratified and became law guaranteed blacks the right to vote.

4:04 It read that citizens, regardless of race ar color, could all vote, except women. It didn't matter if you were a black woman or a white woman. You couldn't vote for another fifty years. Now. I'm sure you've all either used or heard of Spalding Sporting Goods eighteen seventy six. How were Spalding? He invested eight hundred dollars to manufacture the first official baseballs for Major League Baseball. That worked out so good they moved on to baseball clubs, tennis balls, basketball's, golf balls, pretty much anything to do with sports. Yeah, Spaulding makes it. Eighteen eighty seven, Now, there had been a bunch of federal elections that were really close and the outcome seemed really fishy. So the United States Congress they stepped in. They enacted the Electoral Count Act. Now, that way there would never be a discrepancy in elections. Again, saltem prov was right then there. Yeah, I know what you say.

4:51 Good see, but it was by a partisan Yeah. The House was controlled by the Democrats and the Senate was controlled by the Republicans. Yeah, they all got to together and made sure that we never had a disputed election since nineteen thirteen, the sixteenth Amendment the United States Constitution went no effect. Now, these people were stupid. Have they voted to give the government the right to collect income tax? Right, so your great great great grandfather, yeah, voted for income tax. Can't blame women yet, Nope, they couldn't vote yet. So now asked what what people actually voted for? Though it kind of makes sense. It was just a three percent flat tax. That was it. No big deal, But that opened the door just enough when the government has done what they wanted with your taxes ever since. Nineteen thirty one newspaper writer HL Macon he called the whole state of Arkansas the apex of Moronia. Well, they Arkansas state Legislature.

5:39 They got together and they passed a motion for everybody in the state of Arkansas to pray for Hl soul. I don't think they knew what moronium yet. Now. These men, they are known as the four Chaplains, say that they even had movie and a posted stamp were made on their honor. George Fox, Alexander Good, Clark Bowling, and John Washington in nineteen forty three. They were all Chaplains the United States Army during World War Two. They were on board of the United States Army transport ships that Dorchester when it was hit by a German turned pedo. That is a ship of sinking. The men they got helped there, but they could get into life boats. They even get up their own personal life vets because not everybody had one. That as a ship went down underwater, the four men were seen joined arm in arm singing and praying hymns. Now they were posthumously awarded that Distinguished service Crosses and Purple Hearts nineteen forty seven. Up in Canada, it's snag. It's in the Yukon got down in negative eighty one degrees. That's the coldest temperature ever recorded in North America. One degree colder in their Prospect Creek, Alaska.

6:37 Now today is it's basically the most popular anti inflammatory pain killer in the world. But nineteen sixty new nineteen sixty nine Hyperprofen won on sailed for the first time. It was a prescription drug. Yeah, it was over in England. You actually couldn't buy Hyperprofen over the counter until nineteen eighty four. Coat Coat Coat showed this shimmer Please Donna, he left this shiverthday. We won't simpletage like this Shibberts day. And you know we don't do that. Don't work to you, all right, let's says born that February. Third actress Black Danner, she's eighty three. She's born in Philadelphia, nineteen forty three. Now she played Missus Burns and the Meet the Parents movies or The Fucker movies. Yeah, she was Pan's mom. She's done a lot of acting. She acted on stage from nineteen sixty five to twenty fourteen. She wanted Tony. She was in over thirty TV movies, over fifty movie movies now.

7:29 She married actor director Bruce Paltrow in nineteen sixty nine. There together until he died in two thousand and two. They had son and daughter, actress Gwyneth Paltrows. That was Dennis Edwards, singing lead for the Temptations. Dennis He was born in fur Field, Alabama, in nineteen forty three. Started out singing for the Contours. Then he left the Contours for the Temptations when David Rufflin left. Dennis singly a for nineteen sixty eight to nineteen eighty nine. Some of the songs that he sang were I Wish you would rain BALLA confusion just my imagination, Papa was a rolling stone.

8:19 Then in nineteen eighty nine, the Temptents fired him. That Temptation said that Dennis had turned into a complete ass. So yeah, when nothing else did David, he just started his own group. He called it The Temptations. Feature in Dennis Everds travelers around the country singing Temptation songs. Did that until he died in twenty eighteen at seventy four years old in Meninginas. His first wife was Ruth Pointer from the Pointer Sisters. They were married three years and had a daughter. Married a second wife in nineteen ninety nine and they had two children. Actress Morgan Fairchild. She's seventy six today. She was born in Dallas, Texas, in nineteen fifty. You know her and Blyte Danner both really pretty Still Morgan. Her first acting job she was a body double for Fate Dunaway in the movie Bonnie and Clyde. See fake could not drive a stick shift car, so during the movie, whenever you see Bonnie driving, it's Morgan.

9:03 She first got non no on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow, then she went Prime time. She's on Famingo Road, then Falcon Crest. She was Chandler's mom on Friends. Morgan. She married once for five years, and then she had a boyfriend from nineteen eighty seven until he died in twenty twenty three. Just like canaan Abel who you pulled a sneak attack hip that we were brothers. Then you stand me in the black Tree. Oh boy, I'm so betrayed. That was after Nathan Lane. He's seventy born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in nineteen fifty six. Started doing theater nineteen seventy eight, still doing it, won three. Tony's been nominated six times. Some of his movies are Ironweed, The Bird Cage, Nicholas Nickleby. On TV, he played Pepper. It was a recurring role on Modern Family Nathan. He married his husband in twenty fifteen. They were together eighteen years before they got married. Actors More Tyranny. She was born in Boston in nineteen sixty five. Sixty one year old started on the TV show News Radio, then she switched over went to Er. She was on it for ten years. Some of her movie is are Liar, Liar, Insomnia, Welcome to Mows Part Semi Pro. She married once for thirteen years.

10:15 Now she is a sixteen year breast cancer survivor, so good for More. Actor Warwick Davis is fifty six. He was born Epsom, England in nineteen seventy. He has a really rare type of dwars. Says he stands three foot six inches tall. Now he's also one of the highest grossing actors of all time. Yeah, now. He was in his first movie when he was twelve. He played at ewalk. That's right. He's actually played an ewalk in the Star Wars franchise from nineteen eighty three to twenty nineteen. But he has also an Elabyrinth, Willow four Leprechan movies, The Henry Party Moves. Now he has sixty plus movies that had been in that made over fifteen billion dollars. That puts him just ahead of Dwayne Johnson and Vin diesel Warwick. He married nineteen ninety one. His wife, she was a dwarf too. She died in twenty twenty four. They have two surviving children and they're both dwarfs. The daughter, she's actually actress actress is the Fisher. She's fifty. She's born a Muscat Oman in nineteen seventy six. She grew up in Australia. She had success in Australia, but she said she wanted to give the United States a chance. Her first movement she came over here was in Scooby Doo.

11:14 She played Mary Jane, Shaggy's Girl, then Wedding Crashers, Wedding Days, Confessions of a Shopaholic Great Gatsby. She married Sasha Baron Cohen in twenty ten. They had three kids and divorced just last year, and she converted to Judy as into Marriam. I wonder how that worked, all right? For a quote of the day, you know, let's go with Buddy Holly. And so. What I deal blue with? So oh hello love Kelly, He love you begy sou. Buddy once said that sometimes death can be a career, a good career. Move. Well, thank you all for listening.

11:58 Ain't coover we to follow us. So you listened to So I cut your ground radio art today. It got from Tim up there in South Dakota. He wants here, Brad Howard's on back of the pickup truck. You guys have an awesome Dan. We'll talk tomorrow. I wasn't bouncing in and laughing as he rolled down in old dirt rode Daddy, looking in his rear view, hoping they would just hang on. But like every call of time, when I ever had so much fun as I did Win I rolled in the back of a pickup truck. I was saying, if they went, my arms stretched out on that rusty bed, just waving that the people in their cars when the light turned reds. I get a little scared when the tires had a hohr about him, but it made me feel big in the back of a pickup truck. I didn't care about the roller coaster down at the County fell to me. I didn't have the punch a trip had had. When we got back home. I always throw my hands up in the airs because I was so excited that I got another right back there in my stake. I'm kind of crazy when I said that my first love was a bounding it and laughing in the back of a pickure of Trusty