Jan 29th-Corn Chips, Kansas Birthday, Tom Selleck, Heather Graham, Sara Gilbert, Adam Lambert

0:19 Hi, and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. I am Jeff and today's January the twenty ninth. I love to eat corn chips. When I buy a big bag, it says that it serves eight people, but I eat the entire back of corn chips all in one city. I can't get over how good corn chips are. Today is National Corn Chip Day. Corn chips. They are different from tatia chips. Now they're both made from cornmeal. But tortilla chips, yeah, they're soaked in a lime water solution that breaks down the holes. Corn chips they aren't. So they're a lot sturdier and have a stronger corn flavor.

0:59 Began back in nighteteen thirty two. They were called Frido's. This guy named James Doolan, he bought the recipe for ae hundred bucks, turn it into a huge empire. Now you can eat your corn chips and Freedo pies. You can dip them in your favorite salsa or beans or whatever. I could just see them out of the bag and enjoy some corn chips today. Now they're one of the health is if not the health is chip out there. They only have three ingredients, corn vegetable oil and salt. All right, this is going on entertainment On January the twenty ninth, It's back to two thousand and five numb. One album was An American Idiot by Green Day. Mario had the number one song with let Me Love You. I just want to show you you all you should let me love you. Let me be the one to give you everything. You faulty a baby, good pleasant, putsection, make me your sleation, show you the well loved suppose soup beans.

1:54 Darrel Worley had the number one country song with awful beautiful life A little word. He'd kind of wondering what I did. I said, Lord, please forgive me for my scene. I phone in to kill me, but she tried to save me first. You're going if I have to drag you a budger. I love this crazy, tragic, sometimes almost magic, awful beautiful. The number one book was The Broker by John Grisham. Top movie was Hide and Seek A widow. He deals with his wife's suicide while his daughter's dealing with it with an imaginary friend. Starts Robert de Niro and Dakota Fanning.

2:36 All Right, what happened on January the twenty ninth, fifteen ninety five in Linden, England, Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet was performed for the very first time. Yeah, two years before the book came out. Juliet and She was originally played by a guy. Yeah, it was illegal for women to act on stages in London until sixteen sixty one. Now, back in the day in Scotland, Robert Burns was the man. He was Scotland's most famous writer and poet's, one of the most famous Scots of all times. Now, a few years after Robert died in eighteen oh two, the Mother's Club and You're Not Scotland they decided to celebrate Burns's birthday. So they were the first ever Burns Night. It was such a huge success that had spread all across the country, became an unofficial national holiday. They would have hardy Scottish meals, then drink whiskey, read poem, sing songs. Now they still celebrated today, Except today they celebrated on January twenty fifth, not the twenty ninth. See somewhere along the line someone realized they were celebrating his birthday on the wrong day.

3:31 Eighteen forty five, one of America's most famous poems, The Raven by edgarround Capo. Yeah, it was published. It's in a newspaper, The Evening Mirror newspaper in New York City. Happy Birthday Kansas Today. In eighteen sixty one, Kansas became the thirty fourth state. Kansas. It's a Sioux Indian word. It means south wind. People now in area. It's the fifteenth largest state in population. Is the thirty fourth and thirty fourth most people. Capital is Topeka. Highest point is Mount Sunflower four thousand and forty two feet. Now we climb Mount Sunflower. It's just a hill and a pasture over the Colorado border. They have a really nice marker they're showing their state high point. The scariest part is a bull lives in that pasture. It gives you the evil eye the whole time you're walking up to that marker.

4:34 Kansas state bird is the meadow arc flower is the wild sunflower. Mammal is the bison. Reptile is the orange box, turtle. Tree is the cottonwood. Some people born in Kansas Amelia Earhart, Kirsty Alley, Barry Sanders, Joe Walsh, Dennis Hopper, Melissa Ethridge, Jeff Props, Martina McBride, Giel Sears, and Elviira some of the people born in the Sunflower State. Eighteen ninety six, a doctor Emo Grubb. He was the first doctor to use radiation to treat breast cancer. Yeah, it just used X rays machines, that's all they had for a source of radiation. And by the time he died, he had had over ninety operations for cancers that had gotten from the exposure to radiation. Oh, he is eighty five years old.

5:16 Nineteen thirty six, the Baseball Hall of Fame began the first class of players that went into the Hall of Fame, Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Matthewson, and Walter Johnson. Twenty nineteen, in Tehrann Teyran, Iran, they banned walking your dog in public and driving your car with a dog in it, guessing a dog must have bit one of the yatolas over there. Now. Last year twenty twenty five, a US Army helicopter was practicing night vision flying when it hit a commercial jetliner over the Potomac River here in near Washington, d C. Sixty Seven people were killed. No one survived. Joke coke joked joke show shimerdayna he left this shibda simple tag. He was this shibbirthday and you don't.

6:06 Okay. Let's just see who was born on January the twenty ninth. William McKinley. He was born in Niles, Ohio, in eighteen forty three. During the Civil War, he started out just as a regular enlisted army man bett. He worked his way out up to major. Then he went into became a lawyer after the war, then a politician. Eighteen ninety seven, he became the twenty fifth President of the United States, so from eighteen ninety seven to nineteen oh one. Six months into a second term, he was assassinated up in Buffalo. Teddy Roosevelt took over for him and McKinley. He married in eighteen seventy one and they had two children. He was fifty eight years old when he was killed. Actor John Forsyth. He was born in Pine Grove, New Jersey, in nineteen eighteen. Most known for TV. His first series was Bachelor Father, Then he was the voice of Charlie's Angels. Then he hit huge playing Blake Carrington on Dynasty. Some movies he was in Were and Justice for All Screwged Didn't Yeah. He did a couple of Charlie Angels movies. He had one child from his first wife. He was married to a second wife of fifty one years when she died. They had two children.

7:02 Married his third wife in two thousand and two. They're together until he died from pneumonia in twenty ten. Ninety two years old. Actress Katherine Ross. She's eighty six. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty. She was nominated for an Oscar for the Graduate. Some of her movies, though, are Butch Gassy and The Sundance Kid, Stepford Wives, Voids of the Damn Final Canadom Now. She started dating her fifth husband, actor Sam Elliott, while they were filming The Moving Legacy. They got married in nineteen eighty four and they have one daughter. Tom Selock he's eighty one. Born in Detroit, Michigan in nineteen forty five. Grew up in California. Played basketball and baseball for the University of Southern California or USC. His first TV appearance was on The Dating Game in nineteen sixty seven. He didn't get picked. He first got famous, though, starring as Magnum p I. He had a recurring role on the sitcom Friends, he played Monica's boyfriend. Then he starting Blue Bloods. For fourteen years.

7:51 He made a bunch of Jesse Stone TV movies. Some of his movie movies were High Road to China and The Three Men in the Baby Movies, Quickly Down Under Killers. Now Tommy had a son from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen eighty seven and they have a daughter. Actress Heather Graham. She was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen seventy makes her fifty six years old today. Now. Her dad was an FBI agent, so they moved around a lot. She ended up growing up pretty much mostly in California. She first got noticed in the movie Drugstar Cowboy, then Swingers, Austin Powers, The Spy Shagged Me, The Hangover, Boogie Knights. Now she was a dancer in the Lenny Kravitz music video for American Woman. Actress Sarah Gilbert she's fifty one. She was born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen seventy five. She is actress Melissa Gilbert's half sister. Sarah.

8:37 She started on the sitcom Roseanne when she was thirteen years old. Then after a which she came back and did The Connors. She had a recurring role on the Big Bank Theory. If you remember her, she was Leslie Winkle. Now she didn't not Now, not only did she co host this, but she actually created it and was the executive piecer Yeah for the daytime talk show The Talk Yeah ran for nine years. Now. Her and a partner. They had a son and a doctor. Sarah gave both their birth to both those kids, and Sarah married former lead singer for a North four Non Bonds, Linda Perry. Sarah gave birth to their son. They divorced after five years. Lease.

9:24 Second, that's Adam Lambert. He's forty four today, born in No. He's born in Indianapolis in nineteen eighty two, but shortly after he was born. Yeah, he grew up in San Diego. He competed on American i It on two thousand and nine, got second place. He lost to some guy named Chris Allen. Didn't hurt Adam any. Some of his big solo hits are what do you want from Me? If I had you? Ghost down? Now? Since twenty eleven, he has also been singing lead for Queen. He took over for Eddie Mercury. Well not really actually Queen is still retired, so now it's Queen plus Adam Lambert, all right, our court of the day. It comes from Putt Robert Frost. He died today in nineteen sixty three, at eighty eight years old.

10:08 Robert says, half the world is people who have something to say and can't the other half the people have nothing to say and keep singing. Thank you all for listening today that we had to follow us. He listen to his an, so we're easy to find our country and the ground radio artists today. It comes from Tyra in San Diego. She wants to hear Kyle Daniels song A Friend with Weed. You guys have an awesome day. You know, Kyra is going to and we'll talk to you tomorrow. Will the song comes up? It springs. The dam. In this world keeps on spinning around around. I've been working every days nine five. Then it all me against the lounge to spear again by because it's Friday again. We ash ship.

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