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

0:20 Welcome to history and factory is about today? I am Jeff. Today's January the twenty eighth. Today is National Kazoo Day. My aunt Caro was really into kanzoos. Now her and her friends they marched and praids playing their kazoos for a lot of years now in Georgia. In the eighteen forties, Alabama, vest he invented the kazoo, well in his mind. See he had the consuls and concept in there, but he didn't know how to make it. So he gave his specifications to a clockmaker named Thaddy Is von Kleet. That is was able to make that kazoo. Now, cazoos, they are cheap form of celebrating and being silly. The kids don't have any trouble being silly with kazoos. Adults, yeah, if you feel a little stupid, they have a couple of adult beverages. Now remember you do not blow into a kazoo, No, you hum into it. All right, that's who's going on entertainment on January the twenty eighth. Back to nineteen seventy five, the number one album with Elton John's Greatest Hits by Elton the Carpenters at the number one song with please mister Postman, stop.

1:35 Quoa es, Wait a minute, mister postman, wait, wait. Post man? Fancy Oh yeah, such a long time? Oh yeah. Mickey Gilly had the number one country song with city Light. Hell only guys live, the Cavalrets and Paul Casey Towns. They're flashing signs and the gutten had tells itself in the Glow.

2:21 The number one book was Centennial by James Mitchener. The top movie was The Tiring Inferno. At the grand opening party of a skyscraper, A massive fire breaks out stars Paul Newman, Steve McQueen, William Holding Fade Dunaway, Fred Astaire, A whole lot More one three Academy Awards won Best Picture, and then Fred Astaire won for Best Supporting Actor. All Right, what happened on January the twenty eighth, sixteen seventy one pirate Henry Morgan? He captured Panama City, Not from the Panamanians, now, he took it from the Spanish. Eighteen oh seven, in London, Paul Mall became the first street to be let up in the world. Yeah, they lit it up with gas lamps. Now, yes, Paul Mall cigarettes They were named after that street. See the street, It was really upperclassed. They had a lot of expensive stores and private clubs align it. That was a cigarette mecca. They wanted to make their cigarettes the premier cigarette, you know, for the rich and the successful people.

3:12 So yeah, they just named it after Pomo. Now. I actually quadruple checked this just to make sure it wasn't a joke. Eighteen eighty seven, during a snowstorm at Fort Kiff in Montana, the world's largest snowflakes fell. The soldiers were finding snowflakes that were fifteen inches across and eight inches thick each snowflake how fast they fell. Nineteen fourteen, Beverly Hills, Kyle Faunily Fournia was formed. Now was not named after a woman, No, it was named after Beverly Farms in Massachusetts. Well why Well the guy who formed the city, Burton Green, Yeah, he had really fond memories of Beverly Farms when he was visiting Massachusetts over the summer as a kid. Nineteen fifteen, the United States Coast Guard was formed. They combined the US Cutter Service and the US Life Saving Service to come with the US Coast Guard. Day the United States ship, the William P. Frye.

4:02 It was carrying wheat over to England. Well a German and warship captured the fry They took all the crew and passengers prisoners, and then they sank the ship. It was the first US ships sunk during World War One. Nineteen twenty two, known as the Knickerbocker snowstorm, it hit Washington, d C. Caused Washington d C's greatest loss of life. Ninety eight people were killed when the snow caused the roof of the Knickerbocker Theater to collapse. All right, skiers, it was nineteen thirty four the first ski toro started running. Not here in Colorado, No Woodstock, Vermont, London, nineteen fifty three, after a really really controversial murder case was done nineteen year old Derek Bentley. He was hung for killing a police officer. But on the bright side for Derek, they did find out that he didn't do it. Yep, they pardoned him in nineteen ninety eight, forty five years after they hung him. Nineteen ninety eight, Legos they patented their interlockingly Lego bricks. Now supposedly a Lego brick that was made nineteen fifty eight. Well nap together with a lego brick that comes right off the symbol line today. Now this story just stucks, sucks big time. Man, It's it's horrible on every level. See in nineteen sixty two in Zimbabwe, Johann relicky. He was walking his dog, but they were attacked by a swarm of bees. So in order to protect his dog, he jumped into the gear river. Well, the dog couldn't swim, so he had to try and keep the dog's nose above the water while trying to keep the bees from stinging his nose. Meanwhile, the bees are just stinging the hell out of him. Well, finally they have to bees. The swarm of bees they just left.

5:31 So as Johanna and the dog got back and they were walking on the bank of the river, a crocodile ate his dog. Now Johan, he was rushed to a hospital. Doctors pulled four and forty three stingers out of him. So the world record for being stung by bees and living two thousand and four and forty three times. Well do you want to hear one of the crappiest songs of all time? Well, you don't have a choice. It was today in nineteen eighty five, while the top American singers recorded that. It was after the British singers had all got together and had that huge hit and raised a lot of money with the song do they Know It's Christmas? He asked for a famine relief over inn Eathiopia. Well, the US singers got jealous and they wanted people think that they cared too. Well, they were all in Los Angeles.

6:36 It was the night before the Grammy Awards, so everybody in the music world just got together and they recorded that song We Are the World. Now, granted it was for a good tough couse, but the song just blows. So what would you rather do? Listen to We Are the World or watch the Grammys tough call. Nineteen eighty six, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster happened. Challenger exploded seventy three seconds after it lifted off, killed all seven on board. At that time, the Space Shuttle program made become really routine and boring. No one really paid any attention anymore, so NASA they wanted to create a little excitement, so they sent a school teacher up on the Challenger. Well that work, Kids all over the country were watching this one. Well maybe it didn't work then. Now that space shuttle costs three billion dollars. The old ring that failed the cause the whole thing to explode costs two dollars.

7:22 Jojopo joked, joke, shuge, this shibf day, we gonna page he left this shiverthday. We won't sit potage. He like this shibirth day. And you know we don't get. Let's just check out us. Born on January the twenty eighth, I was not here. Get that was actor John Banner. He was born in Stanislaw, Austria, Hungary in nineteen ten. But it's Sue A. Schultz on the TV show Hogan's Heroes. Now Banner. He was Jewish, and when Hitler came to power him and his family, they came to the United States, well half of them. The other half the family stayed back there, and that half of the family that didn't come over the United States pretty much all of them were killed in concentration camps.

8:09 Now Banner. He joined the United States Army Air Force in nineteen forty two served until the end of the war. Now, I'm sure most of you have all seen him playing Sergeant Schultz. Now Remember that was like in the mid to late sixties, so twenty years earlier in the forties. Yeah, Banner, he was actually a model on a recruiting poster for the United States Army Air Force. Well, he was a soldier at that time, so he's probably pretty buffed. He did more acting than a thought. He was in over forty movies. He did Broadway three times. Married his second wife in nineteen sixty five. He died from abdominal aneurism in nineteen seventy three. Sixty third birthday. Actor Alan Aldough he was ninety or he is ninety. He was born in Manhattan, New York. In nineteen thirty six. He played Doctor Hawkeye Paris on the TV show Mash. Do you remember who played Hawkeye in the movie math Mesh? It was Donald Sutherland. A lot of you probably too young, You didn't even know there was a movie Mash before the TV show All Day. He did quite a bit of Broadway. He did his first Broadway show in nineteen fifty eight. He did his last Broadway show in twenty sixteen.

9:03 He was also on the TV shows The West Wing in the Blacklist. He was nominated for an oscar for the movie The Aviator. Some of those other movies were at the Four Seasons Betsy's Wedding Murder on sixteen. Ninder now Alan married his wife Arlene in nineteen fifty seven, and they have three daughters. He was diagnosed with Parkinson's in twenty fifteen. He's still fighting it. She is Sarah MacLachlan. She's stayed fifty eight. He was born in Halifax, Canada.

9:44 In nineteen sixty eight. Solo were forty million albums. Some of her hits are Into the Fire, Possession, Building a Mystery, Sweet Surrender. In nineteen ninety seven, Sarah she formed Lilith Fair Yeah that All film Female music Festival. Yeah, Sarah is when it came up with that. In nineteen ninety seven, she married a drummer. They had two daughters and then divorced in two thousand and eight. She's replaced the drummer, but she hasn't replaced the husband yet. Now it's time to leave. I can't sing. Scenes. Joey Fatone sang baritone for INSYNCT Joey's forty nine.

10:32 He's born in Brooklyn, New York. In nineteen seventy seven, Joey joined INSANC in nineteen ninety five. This is a little seventy million records. They called it quits in two thousand and two. I mean they've kind of done a couple of live reunion gigs. Business by Joey's kept busy though he's done some acting. He was in all three of them. My Big Fat Greek Wedding movies. Got second plays on Dancing with the Stars. Yeah, he lost Apaulo Ono. Now he met his wife back in high school. They never dated back then, but they got married in two thousand and four and they have two daughters. The Backstreet Boy Nick Carter is forty six. He was born in Jamestown, New York in nineteen eighty grew up outside of Tampa, Florida.

11:26 Now he's an original Backstreet Boy when he's thirteen years old. Backstreets, they's all one hundred and thirty million records. Nicki's released three solo albums on the side. Yeah, I said side because the back three Boys are still together. I know serious. They actually have a bunch of shows coming up in February at the Severe in Las Vegas. And Nick he married in twenty fourteen and they have one son and two daughters. Actor Elijah Wood. He's forty five. He's born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in nineteen eighty one. Started acting when he was seven. First got known in the movie Deep Impact, then Frodo and The Lord of the Rings movies, the Hobbit movies. He always mumbled in the Happy Feet movies. Elijah and his wife. They have a son and a daughter after Will Polter. He was born in Hammersmith, England in nineteen ninety three. He's thirty three today. First big movie was The Chronicles of Narnia, then We're the Millers, the Mais Runner movies, Guardians of the Galaxy, three Access Aerial Winner. She's twenty eight. She was born in Fairfax, Virginia, nineteen ninety eight. Her first acting job was when she was four. She was in a cool whip commercial. She played Alex Dunfee on the sitcom Modern Family for it's eleven year run. Now she was eleven when she started that show. Now she voiced Gretchen on Finnis Some Fir for eight years. She's actually done a lot of voice work.

12:36 If you look at her prismly all right, that's what the quote of the day was. It comes from Sicily Tyson. She died to Day in twenty twenty one at ninety six years old. Cicily says, challenges make you discover things about yourself that you really didn't know. I'll thank you all for listening today. Don't like to follow us and how you listen to us on it makes it easy to find us all right, our country and around radio artists. To Day comes from jen Outen, Pennsylvania, and she wants to hear Donnie Lee song anyone else You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. It ain't always easy love and somebody. But you can't live with fowl. You can drive me crazy. Smell bleaby, you pull me back around. He been on a worstayway.

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