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

0:10 Hi everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact too, it's about to day past about cool media. It is 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. It is National corn Chip Day. Corn chips they are different from tortilla chips. Now both are made from cornmeal, but tortilla chips they're actually soaked in a lime water solution to break down the halls. Corn chips aren't, so they're sturdier and have a stronger corn flavor. It all began back in nineteen thirty two, back when they were called Fredo's. This day James Dolan, he bought the recipe for him, costing one hundred bucks. Turn the whole thing into a huge empire. Yeah, whether you ate your corn chips and freedom pies, or you dip them, or you eat them out of the bag and just enjoy yourself some corn chips today. All right, this is going on in entertainment on January the twenty ninth. Let's back to nineteen ninety one. Number one album was To the Extreme by Vanilla Ice.

1:14 Surface had the number one song with the first Time Into Your Eyes First Time. Paul over Street had the number one country song with Daddy Came Around, Daddy's Coming Around, Mama's Way, Thank You, No more staying at home, not drink every thanks better on the home run. Now leave me in the metal worrying dude, He's got something worth. The number one book was Cold Fire by Dean Cots. The top movie was Home Alone. A kid gets left home alone and asks to battle some burglars, stars McCauley, Calkin, Joe Peshey and Daniel Stern. All right, let's see what happened in the world. On January of the twenty ninth, fifteen ninety five. Over there in London, England, William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet was performed for the very first time. Yeah. They did the play two years before the book was published. Now you know that Juliet was originally played by a guy, right, Yeah, it was illegal for women to act on stage until sixteen sixty one. Over there, now, back in the day in Scotland, Robert Burns he was the man. He was Scotland's most famous poet and their famous writer, one of Scotland's most famous people of all time. He's really a favorite son of Scotland. Well, it was eighteen sixty two.

2:45 It was a few years after Burns had died. Now the Mother's Club in Greenock, Scotland, they decided to celebrate Burns's birthday. Yeah, they held the first ever Burns Night. Now, it was such a huge success. It's spread all over the country of Scotland. It became a unofficial national holiday. So the way they'd celebrate is they'd have a hearty Scottish meal, then they'd drink whiskey and read his poems and sing his songs. Yeah, it was a huge They still celebrated today. So today they celebrated on January twenty fifth, not the twenty ninth. See somewhere along the line somebody realized that they were celebrating on the wrong day. Burns was born on the twenty fifth, not the twenty ninth. Eighteen forty five, one of America's most famous poems, the Raven by ed groungpo It was published. It was a printed in a newspaper called The Evening mirror. Well, Happy birthday, Kansas.

3:53 It was today. In eighteen sixty one, Kansas became the thirty fourth state Kansas. It's a Sioux Indian word that means southward, the south wind people. Its capital is Topeka. Highest point is Mount Sunflower at four thosy forty one feet now. We actually climbed Mount Sumfire a couple of years ago. Actually, it's just the highest point in a pasture across the border from Colorado. You know, they got a really nice marker show on the highest point in Kansas. So the only thing that's kind of tough to do, though, is they have a bull that lives in that pasture. He kind of makes it a little leery, all right. The Kansas state bird is the meadow arc. The flower is the wild sunflower. Mammal is the bison. Reptile is the orange box turtle tree as the prarie cottonwoo. Some people who are born in Kansas. Dorothy was not. No, she was actually born in Tribal Freedom Land of the oz Now. When she was a baby, her parents died and so she was taken to Kansas to be raised by her aunt and uncle. We can look it up. So some real people who are born in Kansas though, Amelia Earhart, Kirsty Alley, Barry Sanders, Joe Walsh, Dennis Hopper, Melissa Ethridge, Jeff Pros, Martina McBride, Gail Sears, Elvira All born in the Sunflower State. It is eighteen ninety six. M. O. Grubb. He became the first doctor to use radiation to treat breast cancer. Yeah, he figured that that might work out, but see all he had to work with. Yeah, he just used an X ray machine. Now, by the time he died in nineteen sixty he had out over ninety operations for cancers that he received from the radiation he was exposed to over the years. Nineteen thirty six, first Baseball Hall of Fame started. Yeah, the first players in that for first class were Ty

5:24 Cobb, Babe Ruth, Honus Wagner, Christy Mathewson, Walter Johnson. It was twenty nineteen and Trent Tayran. Iran, they banned walking your dog in public and driving your car with a dog in it. I guess they don't like dogs in Iran. Co Go cot Coke cot Co coat shage this shiverbirth day, We're gonna pause. He left this shubf day. We don't simple targe. He was like this shirebirth day and you know we don't give up. That's the birthday. Well, let's 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 man who worked his way up to be a major. Then he became a lawyer, went into politics eighteen ninety seven, became the twenty fifth President of the United States Sir from eighteen ninety seven to nineteen oh one.

6:11 Now six months into a second term, he was assassinated up in Buffalo Teddy Roosevelt's when he took over for him. McKinley he married in eighteen seventy one. They had two children. He was fifty eight years old when he was killed. Actress actor John Forsyth. He was born in Pines Grove, New Jersey in nineteen eighteen. Started acting in nineteen forty three. Best known for TV. His first series is called Bachelor Father. Then he was the voice of Charlie and Charlie's Angels Vegas. Role though was playing Blake Carrington on Dynasty. He was in some movie if Someone were Injustice for All Scrooged. Of course, he's in the Charlie's Angels movies. He had wen child from his first wife. He was married to a second wife for fifty one years when she died. They had two children. Married his third wife from two thousand and two. They were together until he died from pneumonia in twenty ten at ninety two years old. Actress Catherine Ross She's eighty four. I'm in a Hollywood, California. In nineteen forty she was nominated for an Oscar for the Graduate. Then she was in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, Stepford Wise, Voyage of the Damn the Swarm Final Countdown. She started dating her fifth husband and actor Sam Elliott, on the set of the movie The Legacy.

7:15 They got married in nineteen eighty four and they have one daughter. Actor Tom Selleck is seventy nine. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, in nineteen forty five. Grew up in California. Played basketball and baseball for the University of Southern California basketball and baseball team. First to the appearance was on The Dating Game back in nineteen sixty seven. Yeah, he didn't get picked. Now he had big starring in Magnum p I and then he had a recurring role on the sitcom Friends. He was Monica's boyfriend. Been on Blue Blood since twenty ten. Some of his movies were High Road to China, The Three Men in a Baby, Movies, Quickly down Under. He has.

8:05 His last movie he did was in twenty ten. It was Killers. He had a son from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty seven and they have a daughter, ob Yeah, yeah, baby. Actress Heather Graham. She was born in nineteen seventy in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She's fifty four today. Her dad was an FBI agent, so she moved a lot around a lot when she was a kid. Ended up growing up in California. First got none of the movie Drugstore Cowboy, then Swingers, Austin Powers, A Spy of Shagny, The Hangover, Boogie Knights. She's done a lot of independent movies, so guys get this Heather. She's never been married, so you're telling me there's a chance. Yeah. Actress Sarah Gilbert.

9:07 She's forty nine. She's born in Santa Monica, California in nineteen seventy five. She is actress Melissa Gilbert's half sister Sarah. She started on the TV Sick on Roseanne when she was thirteen years old. Then she came back and has been doing the Connor since twenty eighteen. Now she had a recurring role on the Big Bank. There she was Leslie Winkle. Now she not only co hosted it, but she created and was the exitdent producer of the Daytime Talk showed the talk I Think You read for what about thirteen years now. Her and her partner Ali Adler, they had a son and a daughter. Then she married the former lead singer for the band four None Blondes, Linda Perry. They were married for five years and they had a son.

10:00 Seconds that's Adam Lambert. He's forty two today, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in nineteen eighty two. Competed on American Idol in two thousand and nine, got second place. He lost to some guy named Chris Allen. Well, that didn't hold Adam back, and he's been really successful, done well in a solo carer. He's had the hit songs what do you Want from Me? If I had you? Ghost? Down, and since twenty eleven he has also been singing lead for Queen. Yeah, I took over Freddie Mercury spot. Well, it's actually Queen plus Adam Lambert Adam. He is gay and he hasn't married. Alright, he Today's fact to it. That will win you a beer. All right, let's go back to Kansas.

10:43 Kansas, they have fifty tornadoes every year. Well, thanks for joining us today. We appreciate you being here. Get a chance to my coolmedia dot com. That's cool at three ohs. Let's send today with poet Robert Frost. He died today in nineteen sixty three, at eighty eight years old. Half the world is people who have something to say in can't. The other half of the people have nothing to say and keep saying it. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no no, no no no no no no no no no no no no