Jan 16th-Ethel Merman, Carl Jrs, Ronnie MIlsap, Jim Stafford, Debbie Allen, En Vogue, Josie Davis, Aaliyah

0:19 Well, hello, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today Today's January the sixteenth. Jewey Jewey, You mentioned Jewey inside golden plank tender Jakey signed rapping inside in the upside is a cut shark to show and the fake get a freaking cart the. Fake time the baking. Today is National Fig Newton Day. In the eighteen hundreds, it was believed that eating biscuits and fruit helped with digestive problems you might have. In eighteen ninety one, a baker named Charles Rosier invented machine that would inject fig paste into biscuits. So that did the FA Baking Company and they started making what they called fig Newtons. Now they named them after the town they were in, Newton, Massachusetts.

1:07 Fig Newtons they're fairly healthy for you. Now, the fiber does help with your digestive system. Fig Newton's they're really not that hard to make. If you want to make them an home. You can get in it repsite pretty easy after the Internet. So I enjoy some fig Newtons now, figs. They are the fruit that is mentioned the most in the Bible. Oh god, lets it was going on Entertainment on January the sixteenth. It's About twenty thirteen. Number one album was read by Taylor Swift. Bruno Mairres had the number one song with Locked Out of Heaven. Saxtay Smeeth Too Fast First Stand, Sextay Smith Too Staff First Sensual.

1:49 I'm Gonna. Florida, Georgia. Lyon had the number one country song with Cruise. Moons Down, Sign through the Middle. Every Little Town. Were the Least kid n. The top selling book was Threat Vector by Tom Clancy and Mark Greeney. Top movie was Mama. Two little girls. They disappear in the woods when their parents are killed. Well, they're found five years later and as they try and start new lives. Yeah, things are just not cool. Stars Jessica Chasten, Meghan Carpenter and his Abelle and the ELSI.

2:36 Okay, what happened? On January the sixteenth, fifteen forty seven, seventeen year old Ivan the Terrible crown himself the Tsar of Russia. He ruled until fifteen eighty four. So how can a seventeen year old do that? Well, he'd been in power since he was three, that's when his dad died, and now he knew how the game was played, So he got rid of all those advisors who had been with him all those years. Yip. No, he was totally in charge. Seventeen seventy six, the Condent Congress, they voted to allow free black men to enlist and fight in the Continental Army. Yes, some of them, quite a few actually had been doing it already that they just wanted to make it legit. Seventeen seventy seven, Vermont, they declared their independence from New York. Yeah, they didn't want to be in New York anymore. So after the Revolution was over, Yeah, they let him in as the fourteenth State. Eighteen sixty five, General William Sherman, he ordered that newly freed black family has be given forty acre plots of land. He wanted to redistribute the confiscated southern land that they had gotten during the war.

3:31 Lincoln he thought it was cool. The freed slave families, they thought it was really cool. Well, Lincoln got killed and Andrew Jackson took over as president. Yeah, Johnson was he was from Tennessee, and he didn't really think that was cool, so he rescinded the order. He said that you couldn't give confiscated land of freed slaves that still belonged to their original owners. Nineteen thirty six the first photo finished camera was installed. It was at the High Lee horse Race Track in Florida. Nineteen forty two. Now William Knutson, he was doing a real good job of running general motors, so he was drafted into the US Army. Yet he has made in general though. Yeah, the only civilian never made a general. Now he was put in charge of overseeing all the equipment and supply production that they needed to fight in World War Two.

4:14 Nineteen forty three in Idaho Island Park Dam got down a negative sixty that's still their state record nineteen fifty one. At that time it was the world's longest gas pipeline started pumping gas. It ran from Brownsville, Texas, to one hundred and thirty fourth Street in New York City, Los Angeles in nineteen sixty three. The famous music venue I guess a nightclub too. It's called a Whiskey of Go Go. I think you got heard of that. Johnny Rivers he was the first actor performed there. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the club in in two thousand and six. Probably not for Johnny Rivers, probably more for Motley Crew. That's where they started out nineteen eighty one in Detroit. Now this is sad, but it's actually entertaining. Boxer Leon Spinks he was mugged. The muggers took his gold teeth and all his clothes. Now, Leon, he had been a heavyweight champion of the world in the one time.

5:01 Nineteen eighty five, Playboy magazine stopped putting Staples in their centerfolds. Two thousand and six, in Liberia, Ellen Johnson certainly she was sworn in as president. She'd being the first ever woman to be ahead of any country in Africa. Joe Dope joked, joke, sharge dish, shiver birth day. We're gonna pause, he left this shiver birthday. We gonna simple tage like this shive birthday. And you you don't give up. That's your birthday. All. Let's check out who was born on January the sixteenth. I got rhythm, I got music. I got my man, who could ask for anything more. I got daisies in green pastures. I got my man who could ask for anything more. An old man trouble say, I don't mind him.

5:53 The undisputed quit of Broadway ethel Mermon. She was born in New York City in nineteen oh eight. Some of the big musical she started in on Broadway or Anything Goes, Annie Gets Your Gun, Hello Dolly. She performed on Broadway from nineteen thirty to nineteen seventy seven, espiably the only one one tony. Now over those years she actually had a dozen songs. He charted on the pop charts. She was in about twenty movies. Athought. She had a son and a daughter from her second husband. Her fourth and final husband was actor Ernest Borgnine. Now those two kids, they tried and tried, but yeah, they couldn't make it. They finally divorced after four months, athoughs. She died from brain cancer in nineteen eighty four, at seventy six years old. Now, the night she died, all thirty six theaters on Bridway Broadway they had dim their lights at nine PM in her honor. Carl Carcher He was born in Upper Sandusky, Ohio. In nineteen seventeen. Carl and his wife they opened up a hot dog stand in Los Angeles in nineteen forty one. By nineteen forty five they were open. They opened up Carl's driving and barbecue.

6:51 Now that involved into the restaurant Carl chain or restaurant Jane Carl Juniors now junior. It's not for a guy junior. It's because they were smaller than the driving to barbecue Carl. He was a devout Catholic. He went to Mass every morning on his way to work. Him and his wife they got married in nineteen thirty nine, had twelve kids, thus he's Catholic now. His wife died in two thousand and six. Carl died five days before his ninety first birthday from Parkinson's in two thousand and eight. Country singer Ronnie Millsap is eighty three. He was born in Robinsville, North Carolina, in nineteen forty three. He was born blind to a single mother, so his mom she abandoned him when he was an infant. Her parents actually raised him until he was five, and they sent him off to a state school.

7:52 For the blind. That's where he grew up and where he discovered his love for music. Ronnie's thirty five number one country songs that's third all time Hind, George Strait and Conway Tweety. Ronnie. He had a lot of songs that crossed over the pop charts. I mean we're talking a lot. I mean they went number one and everything almost like a song Smoky Mountain Rain. There's no getting over me. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. That's just some of them. Ronnie he married nineteen sixty five and they had his son. His wife died in twenty twenty one. Now six miles of US Highway one twenty nine in North Carolina from Yellow Creek that's near Robinsville to the Swayne County line. It's named the Ronnie Millsap Highway side of the state.

8:41 I tell sile of the. Sage comedian and singer Jim Stafford. He's eighty two. He's born in winter Haven, Florida, in nineteen forty four. Now he taught himself how to play the guitar, the fiddle, the piano, the banjo, the organ, and the harmonica. Some of his songs are swamp Witch, my Girl, Bill, wild Wood Weed, Spiders and Snakes. Now he had his own theater out there in Branson, Missouri. He performed there from nineteen ninety to twenty twenty. Now, his first wife, she was country singer Bobby Gentry, and they had a son. They were only married like a young a year or so, but then he married a second wife. They're married twenty four years.

9:38 Now. Irene Kara sang it, but Debbie Allen started it. Debbie. She's seventy six. She's born in Houston, Texas, in nineteen fifty. Her older sister is actress Felicia Rashad Debbie. She's been nominated twenty times for EMIY Awards. She's won five. She also won two Tony's Now. Publicly, she's most known for fame on TV, but she's mostly worked behind the scenes. She's done a lot of Drea acting, producing and choreography. Now I did not know it was still on the air that she has a recurring role on Gray's Anatomy he's been doing since twenty eleven. She's also an executive producer there, Daddy. She's been married to her second Asthmas in nineteen eighty four, and they have one daughter and two sons.

10:20 Because the Sun. Just Chan j. That was Maxine Jones singing lead for in Vogue. Maxine was born in Patterson, New Jersey, grew up in Oakland, California, and she's sixty four today. Now. She helped for him in Vogue in nineteen eighty nine, and she was working as a hairdresser. She left in twenty twelve to go solo, but she's back. Came back last year. She sings on don't let go love, my love, never gonna get it. They can out and do some shows here this summer. I think vaccine. She has a daughter, a.

11:02 New neighbors who lives downs and understand even just to take again, meeting like he's one other than them. Charles Love, Day and Night. Actress Josie Davis was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy three. Fifty three year old started acting when she was three. At twelve, she was starring playing Sarah on Charles in Charge. After that Beverly Hill's nine O two and Oho Titans. Now she has done a lot of TV shows and TV movies. In two thousand and five, she did the Christmas episode at Two and a half Men. That episode is considered a classic. Now, when Josie was only twenty four, she received the prestigious honor of being a lifetime member for the Actor the Actors Studio. So, guys, Josie, she hasn't married.

11:54 Yet, so you're telling me there's a chance. Yeah, I'll play your keep Hello, turn away, I'll play me off. Stay up. That's Aliah. She was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen seventy nine. She grew up in Detroit. She got discovered when she was ten. It was on the TV show Star Search. She signed her first record contract when she was twelve. Now, despite her short career, she sold over thirty million albums.

12:36 She had the heads back and forth at your best, your love, if you're gallantly new. Now she's started in the movie Romeo Must Die. In two thousand and one, she was shooting a music video down in the Bahamas. They got done shooting early, so she and eight others they decided to take a small plane back to the United States. Well that crashed on conor on takeoff. Yeah, I know one survived. Eliah twenty two years old. All right, I go to the day. It comes from actress Carol Lombard. She died a day in a plane crash in nineteen forty two at thirty three years old. Caryl said, I lived by a man's code, designed to fit into a man's world. Yet I never forget a woman's first job is to choose the right shade of makeup. We thank you all for listening today. Never forget to follow us.

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