Jan 28th-Kazoo, Sgt. Schultz, Alan Alda, Sarah McLachlan, NSYNC, Backstreet Boys, Elijah Wood, Ariel Winter

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History in Fact Duds about Today visited by cool Media. Today's January the twenty eighth, Today is National Kazuo Day. My aunt Carol, she was really into kazooz. Her and her friends nay marched in parades playing their kazoos for a whole lot of years in Georgia. In the eighteen forties, Alabama vest he invented the kazoo, but he didn't know how to make it, so he gave a specifications to a German clockmaker named that is von Kliggen. That is yeah, he was able to make that kazoo because there was there a cheap fun way to celebrate and be silly. Now, kids, they won't avenue trouble being silly and having fun celebrating left kazoos. Adults, you might feel a lott awkward and have to have a few adupe beverages. And then just remember you do not blow into a kazoo, No, you hum into it, and you have fun with your kazoos today.

1:11 All right, this is going on in entertainment on January twenty eighth. Back to nineteen eighty three and one album was business as usual by minute of work Man It work at the number one song with down Under. I s speak of my language. He just smiled, And give me sandwich, he said. Nicky Gilly he had the number one country song, Well talk to. Me, Talk to me, Talk to me, Starley of A, you say tall to me, Tall to me.

2:10 The number one book was Space by James Mitchner. The top movie was Tutsi. An unsuccessful actor, he dresses as a woman in order to get a roll on a daytime soap opera. Stars Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lang and Terry Garth. All right, let's see it happened on January the twenty eighth, sixteen seventy one. Pirate Henry Morgan, he captured Panama City. I didn't take it from the Panamanian people, now, he took it from the Spanish. Eighteen oh seven in London, England, Paul Mall. It became the first lighted street light in the entire world. It lit it up with gas lights. Yeah, Paul Mall. Cigarettes they were named after the street. See the street it was really upper class. It had a lot of expensive stores and private clubs on it and stuff. So the cigarette makers they decided they wanted Paul Mall cigarettes to actually be the premier cigarette for the successful people.

2:56 Now we actually quadruple checked this just to make sure they wasn't a joke. Eighteen eighty seven, in a snowstorem up at Fort Cuff in Montana set a record for the world's largest snowflakes. The soldiers the ever find the snowflakes that were fifteen inches across and eight inches thick. Yeah, eat snowflake. Nineteen fourteen, Beverly Hills, California was formed. Now, wasn't named after a woman. No, it was named after Beverly Farms out in Massachusetts. So why Well, the guy who formed the city, his name was Burton Green. He had really fun memories of Beverly Farms when he'd visit Massachusetts. In the summer nineteen fifty, in the United States Congress, they combined the US Cutter Service and the us LFE Saving Service. It formed the US Coast Guard. Same day, the ship that William P. Frye it was carrying weight over to England. A German warship. They captured the fry They took its passengers and his crew, and they took it all hostiles. Then they sank the ship. Yeah, that was the first US ship sunk in World War One.

3:52 All right, skiers. It was nineteen thirty four. The first Squito rope began running No night here in Colorado was in Woodstock, Venom, Vermont. Nineteen fifty. Here's a really controversial murder case was taking place over in England. Nineteen year old Derek Bentley. He was convicted of murdering a police officer. It went back and forth. Finally they just hung him today. Well on the bright side for Derek Bentley, Yeah, they found out that he didn't do it after all. They pardoned him in nineteen ninety eight. Nineteen fifty eight. Lego the obviously they're patting for their interlocking Lego bricks. Supposedly a Lego brick that was made in nineteen fifty eight. It'll snap together with a Lego brick that just comes off the assembly line today. Now, this story just sucks on every level. It's just horrible. Nineteen sixty two in Zimbabwe, this guy, Johann rah Leink is out walking his dog when they were attacked by a swarm of bees. Now, as he was trying to protect his dog, him and the dog ended up jumping in the Guye River. Well, the dog couldn't swim, so he had to try and keep the dog's nose above the water. But he's trying to keep the bees from stinging the dog's nose, and then he was trying not to get stung himself. Yeah, So finally the bees they left, finally, so as him and the dog waded on to the bank of the river, a crocodile ate the dog hand. He was rushing to the hospital. Yeah, the doctors they pulled two hundred or two four hundred and forty three beast stickers out of it. So, just so you know, the world record for being stung the most time and living two four hundred and forty three beat stickers. Now, if you want to try and break that record, yeah, I just don't take your dog.

5:19 Now. Do you want to hear one of the crappiest songs of all time? It was today in nineteen eighty five. They recorded that thing after the British singers had that huge hit and made a whole lot of money with their song. Do they know it's Christmas? Yeah? It was out the famine relief out there in Ethiopia. The singers of the United States. I guess they got jealous that they weren't included, and they wanted to look like they actually cared about Africa, family and relief also, So they were all there. They were all in Los Angeles. It was the night before the Grammy Awards. Everybody who could sing was there. So they went and recorded the song We Are the World. Now, granted it was for a good cause, but let's be honest, that song just blows now I think about it, What would you rather do less?

6:18 Did you either listen to the song we Have the World or watch the Grammys? All right? The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster happened today. In nineteen eighty six. The Challenger exploded seventy three seconds after it left lifted off, killed all seven people on board. Now, the space shuttles program, it had gotten pretty predictable and it was pretty boring, you know. They were so routine about what they were doing. Nobody really paid attention anymore. So NASA they wanted to bring a little excitement back into the space program, so they decided to send up a school teacher up on the Space Shuttle fight. Well, it worked. You got kids from all over the United States who normally wouldn't watch the Space Shuttle. Yeah, they watched that launch, so I don't know if it really worked then or not. Now, the Space Shuttle cost three billion dollars. That O ring that failed, that had the whole thing blew up two dollars.

7:00 Stop coke joke, shuge dish Shibert Day. We're gonna pause. He left dish Shibirthday. We want simpletage. He like dis Shibert Day. And you know we don't get. Well, it's check out. Who was born on January of the twenty eighth I was not here. Get that was actor John Bahner. He was born in Stanislau, Austria, Hungary in nineteen ten. Best known for planing Sergeant Schultz on the TV show Hogan zeros a Banner. He was Jewish, so when Hitler came to power over there, he and half of his family they immigrated the United States. Now the half of the family that stayed behind him income almost all of them were killed in concentration camps. Banner He joined the United States Air Force in nineteen forty two, served until the end of the war in forty five.

7:48 Get this, you've seen Banner right on Hogan zero's he was a model on a recruiting poster for the US Air Force. Now he had to me hear that was twenty years before Hogan Zeros and he was a soldier at the time, so he's probably pretty buffed now. He didn't worry, and then I thought he was in over forty movies. He's even did Broadway three times. Married his second wife in nineteen sixty five. He died from an abdominal aneurysm in nineteen seventy three on his sixty third birthday.

8:30 Actor Alan Alda, he's eighty nine. He was born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen thirty six. Of course, he's best known for playing doctor Hawkeye Pears on the TV show Match. Do you remember who played Hawkeye in the movie Mash It was Donald Southernland. Sure a lot of your too young, you probably and you know there was a movie Match before the TV show All the He did quite a lot of Broadway. He did his first Broadway show in nineteen fifty nine, his last Broadway show twenty sixteen. He was also on the TV shows West Wing and The Blacklist. Nominated for an oscar for the movie Aviator. Some of his other movies were the four season Betsy's Wedding Murder at sixteen hundred. All that he's been married to his wife, Arlene says nineteen fifty seven, and they have three daughters. Alan. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's in twenty fifteen, so best of luck to him and his family. Sarah McLauchlan. She was born in Halifax, Canada, in nineteen sixty eight, makes her fifty seven years old today. She's sold over forty million albums. Some of her hits are Into the Fire, Possession, Building a Mystery, Sweet Surrender back in nineteen ninety seven. Sarah, she's the one who founded Lille Fair Yeah That all female music festival and tour. Also in nineteen ninety seven, she married her drummer. They had two daughters and then divorced.

9:52 In two thousand and eight, she replaced the drummer and she hadn't replaced the husband yet. Now it's some too lean, I can't sing on scenes. Maybe Joey Fatone. He sang baritone for the boy band in Sync. He's forty eight. He's one of Brooklyn, New York. In nineteen seventy seven, Joey he joined in SNC in nineteen ninety five. They's all over seventy million records. Music is My Heart, It's gonna be Me this, I Promise you, Bye Bye Bye. That's some in sync songs. Now they went Bye Bye Bye in two thousand and two. Now they have done a couple of reunion shows and they tried to get back together a Locke but without justin Timberlake. Yeah, there is no insynct. Joey, he's done little acting. He was in all three of them, My Big Fat Greek wedding movies. He got second place on Dancing with the Stars, he lost to Apollo One. Joey met his wife in high school and they didn't date in high school, but they did get married in two thousand and four. They have two daughters. Backstreet Boy Nick Carter was born in Jamestown, New York in nineteen eighty. He grew up near Tampa, Florida.

11:24 He's forty five. He helped form the Backstream Boys when he was thirteen years old. This little over one hundred and thirty million records. Some of them are everybody all I have to give. I want it that way. Now, Nick, he's only three solo albums on the side yeah, I said on the side, because the Backstreet Boys they still are together. Yeah. Now he has Nick. He's had two reality TV shows a long time too, got married in twenty fourteen and they have one son and two daughters. Now, the Backstreet Boys they're taking this year off for touring, So Nick, he's not doing his own thing. He's out touring Asia right now solo. Well, I'm sure he has a crew with him. Actor Elijah Wood. He was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in nineteen eighty one and he's forty four. Started acting when he was seven. First got known in the movie Deep Impact, and then he played Frodo in all those Lord of the Ring movies and the Hobbit movies. He voiced Mumbles in the Happy Feet movies.

12:10 He and his girlfriend they have a son and a daughter after Will Polter. He's thirty two. He was born in Hammersmith, England, in nineteen ninety three. First big movie was Chronicles of Narnia, then Where the Millers, the Maze Runner movies, Guardians of Galaxy three. Twenty seven year old actress Aerial Winner was born in Fairfax, Virginia in nineteen ninety eight. She got a first acting job when she was four, she was in a cool whip commercial. Of course, She's best known for playing Alex Dunfee on the TV show Modern Family, ran for eleven years. She was eleven when she started. She voiced Gretchen non Phineas and herp Freight season. She's actually done quite a bit of voice work, Ariel.

12:56 She developed on TV right in front of everybody's eyes. Actually, she developed too well. When she was nineteen, she had to have breast reduction surgery. Yeah, she was having back problems and she was having a lot of issues. Yeah. Like I said, she went through it all right in public and everybody could see it. But now she says she is healthy physically and more importantly, probably emotionally. So hopefully she really has a bright future ahead of her. All right, and let's see what Let's go back to Beverly Hills. How's that sound now? Beverly Hills. It is the only city with no hospital, no cemetery, no billboards, no visible telephone or power lines, and then you have a beach. Well, thank you for joining us today, Thanks for listening. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on, go to hear some great independent country music. Don't forge about counry underground radio. You'll find it everywhere. Actress Sicily Tyson died to Day in twenty twenty one. She's ninety six years old. Cicely says challenges make you discover things about yourself that you didn't really know.

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