Jan 6th-Short Bread, New Mexico BDAY, Danny Thomas, Earl Scruggs, Sister Sledge, Norman Reedus, 1st Boxing Match

0:20 Welcome to history and factoid's about today. I'm Jeff. Today's January the sixth. I'm three little children lie in bed, two or sick, and the other full of the dread of the doctor. The doctor said, do those children's I'm short bread, Mom stay love shows men short and mom say short. Short. Then shot. The Andrews sisters did that song. Originally that was the Wiggles. Today is National short Bread Day. Well, unless you're from the South, they call it shortening bread down there. That was great in Scotland the twelve unders. Short bread is traditional recipe equal parts butter, sugar and flour, so we shouldn't be able to screw that up. Now you're supposed to eat short bread where you're drinking coffee or tea, But the Scotts they'll allow you to substitute whiskey r Scotch.

1:13 Now it's not gonna help with your New Year's diet and all. It's not good for it, but sure tastes good. So I enjoyed some short bread today. She's going on entertainment on January sixth. Go back to nineteen eighty two. Number one album was for Those about to Rock. We Salute You by ac DC Livy Noon John had the number one song with physical Left Sass Geene Watson. He had the number one country song with fourteen Carrot Mind just like.

2:00 Good Please, I saw you Head up Plan Show I page seven s Mills all raisely just dissatisfied fourteen. The number one book was An Indecent Obsession by Colling mcculloff. Top movie was Sharky's Machine Burt Reynolds. He's Tom Sharky. He's a vice cop. Now him and his team they find a mob murder tied to prostitution and government covered corruption. I guess you'd call it. Also stars Rachel Ward, Brian Keith, and Charles Deurney. Nineteen seventy five, the game show Will of Fortune debuted Chuck Woolery. It was the original host.

2:41 Pat Sajack replays Chuck in nineteen eighty one nineteen eighty two Van White, She plays Susan Stafford as a letter turner. Will of Fortune and their entire year shows are filmed in thirty four days. Yeah, you least shoot about six shows a day, all right? What happened on January the sixth, sixteen eighty one, over in Britain, The first boxing match with him the second Duch of Abermarrow, Christopher Monk. He put on the first fight for his friends. It was between his butler and his butcher. Butcher won. Seventeen fifty nine, twenty six year old George Washington and man a twenty seven year old widow named Martha Dandridge Curtis. They got married in Virginia. Now it was George's first marriage. Martha she had a son and a daughter from her late husband.

3:22 The kids were six and four years old, and George he adopted him right after the ceremony. Now Martha's her husband. He was really, really, really rich, so Martha brought in a lot of money, a lot of land, and two in the sixty six slaves into that marriage. George he wasn't so rich. He had a little bit of land and thirty slaves that he put into a contribute to their wolf. George he couldn't have kids. Say, when he was young, he was exposed to berkeleiosis and the smallpox, so it left him sterile. So they're said to have actually had a really good marriage even though George was gone a lot, and they were happy until George died in seventeen ninety nine, eighteen fifty three, President elect Franklin Pierce and his family. They were traveling on a train to Washington, DC for his presidential inauguration. Oh the train it crashed in Massachusetts, sent the real car that the family is riding and down in embankment. Well, Franklin and his wife, they were fine, just a couple of bruises, but salvely. Yeah, they're eleven year old son Bennie. He was killed. Now, Franklin believed that he's been punished for past since, so at the inauguration, he refused to swear on his oath the presidency on the Bible. Yeah, he took, and he had his hand on a book of law. Well, Happy birthday New Mexico today. In nineteen twelve, New Mexico became the forty seventh state Mexico. It's Aztec. It means

4:54 place in the center of the moon, New Mexico. That's English. It means a newer Mexico than the window south. The capital of Santa Fe. New Mexico is the fifth largest state by size, you know, by area of land, thirty six, biggest by population. Highest point is Wheeler Peak at thirteen sixty one feet. Now it's outside of Taos, and you do have to deal with altitude, but the trail of the summit's actually pretty easy, so it's a good hike for people traveling up their first thirteen thousand foot mountain. Now New Mexico state bird is the road runner, fish is the rguro, grand cutthroat trout, flower is, the yeca insect is the trench hawk, wasp mammal is, the black bear, trey is the pinion pine. New Mexico's state foods are chili peppers and pinto beans. Some people born in New Mexico Jeff Bezos, John Denver, Neil Patrick, Harris, Demi mor Chris daughtr Demi Levato, the whole Unser car racing family.

5:49 That's just something that people born in the Land of Enchantment. Nineteen fifty three, off of Soudan in the Red Sea, two Dutch passengers ships collided. Now, they messed those ships up really bad. It was amazing they didn't sing, but not one of the seventeen one hundred and fifty passengers on the two ships was injured. Joe Biden said that you can't let the facts get in the way of the truth. Well, that's set the stage for what happened today in twenty twenty one. Today, both sides are dug in so much you can't even have a rational conversation about the whole events. So here are the facts and the truths today in twenty twenty one, Donald Trump's Further, they gathered at the US Capitol. They were protesting the election results so that declared Joe Biden the winner. They felt there were some irregularities in the counting process, so that unarmed crowd they pushed over a police barricane and they stormed the Capitol. When they got inside, they took lots and lots and lots of selfies. Actual damage about one to one and a half million dollars. Now that costs less, actually than it takes to clean up New York City's Time Square after the ball drops. But the media and one political party they call it the worst riot in US history. Now you know the facts, so you can decide for yourself.

7:01 Joke, joke, show dish shibf day. We're gonna pu he left this shibthday. We don't sit potage. He like this shibirthday. And you know you don't give birthday all right, let's see his born on January of the sixth Actor Tom Mix. He was born a mix Run, Pennsylvania in eighteen eighty. He was the first cowboy movie star. He defined what a Western movie was. Now. Between nineteen oh nine and nineteen thirty five, he made two inund ninety one movies. Only nine of them were not silent Tom. He started out as a wild West showed guy. He was an expert shot and a really good horseback rider. His early movies, they were all filmed in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Happy Birthday in New Mexico. Now he was a Paul Bear for White Herb's Funeral. A Mix. He had one child from his second wife. He had one child from his third wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen thirty two.

7:49 Tom died in a car crash in nineteen forty at sixty years old. Actor Danny Thomas. Danny was born Amos Muzzard Yakoub Carrus and Field, Michigan, in nineteen twelve. See his parents. They were Mary Knight Catholics who had come from Lebanon. Danny he grew up in Toledo, Ohio. Now. He started out as a nightclub comedian. Hit big on TV with Make Room for Daddy in nineteen forty eight. In nineteen fifty three, they just changed the name of that show to The Danny Thomas Show. Ran until nineteen sixty four. It's one of the most successful sitcoms in history. Now, when Danny was a struggling comedian, he made a vow that if he ever got successful, he would create a shrine to Saint Jude. Saint Jude he's the saint for lost causes. Well, Danny did get very successful, so he founded the Saint Jude Children Research Hospital. Yeah, that was all him. Danny got married back in nineteen thirty six and had two daughters and then one son. One of those daughters is actress Marlo Thomas. There he died from a heart attack in nineteen ninety one at seventy nine years old. Danny AND's wife they're both interned in a mausoleum on the grounds of the Saint Jude Children Research Hospital at the Memphis Camfits. Actress Loretta Ready Young. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. In nineteen thirteen, started acting as a kid. She acted from nineteen seventeen and nineteen ninety four. She won an Oscar for the movie Farmer's Daughter back in forty seven. Now she was in over a hundred movies. And she went to TV in nineteen fifty three, one of the first movie stars to do that, started on The Loretta Young Show now Loretta She started smoking at eight years old. She didn't quit until the mid nineteen eighties. She had a daughter

9:21 from Clark Gable. Now Clark Gable was married to another woman at that time, so that was a really big Hollywood secret back in that time. Then she had two sons from her second husband. She married her third husband just for a couple of years. She died from ovarian cancer in two thousand and eighty seven years old. That was Earl Scruggs. He was born in Cleveland County, North Carolina in nineteen twenty four. He revolutionized the banjo. He came up with the three finger picketing style known as the scrug. So yeah, that's what defines bluegrass music today.

10:03 And that song I played is called Foggy Mountain Breakdown, one of the biggest banjo songs of all time. In two thousand and five, it was re released because it was his fiftieth anniversary. Ended up winning two Grammy Awards. Now, Early he was actually really well known. But then he teamed up with Lester Flatt and they were really big in the nineteen fifties and sixties, recorded fifty albums. Now you know their song The Ballad of Jed Clampett. Yeah, that's the theme for the Beverly Hill Billies. Early married nineteen forty eight and they had three each other. His wife died in two thousand and six. Early died in twenty twelve from natural causes at eighty eight years old. Actor Vic Taback. He was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen thirty. Most known for playing Mail on the sitcom Alice. Yeah, he owned and cooked at Mills Diner.

10:44 His biggest movie was Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore. That's they're totally not related. Vicky married nineteen sixty three and they had a son. Vic died nineteen ninety had sixteen years old from a heart attack. Van McCoy he was born in Washington, d c. In nineteen forty. Van got famous worldwide for that song the Hustle in nineteen seventy five. Yeah, that was actually pretty big hit all around the world. Now, he was a record producer musician and songwriter. He held copyrights for over seven hundred songs. Some of the artists that he produced records for were Gladys Knight and the Pips, Aretha Franklin, Peaches and Herb Leslie gore Van. He died nineteen seventy nine. Yeah, only thirty nine years old, and he had an art attack. This actress Bonnie Franklin and she was born in Santa Monica, California, in nineteen forty four.

12:01 Most known for TV. She started on One Day at a Time. She did a lot of theater though over the years. Now she was eleven years old. Bonnie and Tuesday Well they were in the Alphad Hitchcock movie The Wrong Man. They were credited as two girls giggling in an apartment doorway. Bonnie. She was married to her second assan for twenty nine years when he died. Bonnie. She died in twenty thirteen at sixty nine years old. Think created cancer. Sixty seven year old Kathy Sledge was born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty nine. She was the youngest Sledge sister and their lead singer, now the Sledge Sisters.

12:57 They formed Sister Sledge in nineteen seventy one. It be Joni, Kim and Kathy some of the our biggest hits. Sorry, he's the greatest dancer. We are family lost in the music now Kathy, she went solo in nineteen eighty nine. She had a couple of minor heads. But now Kathy and her sister Debbie, Yeah, they're out there now promoting and performing some sisters LEDs songs out there if you want to go see him live. Kathy she married nineteen eighty one and they have a son and a daughter. Actress Norman Ritus. He's fifty seven. He's born in Hollywood, Florida, in nineteen sixty nine. Norman. He is famous for the TV show The Walking Dead. He played Daryl Dixon. He ran from twenty ten to twenty twenty two, twenty twenty three. Yeah, then they changed it The Walking Dead Darryl Dixon. Norman.

13:37 He's been a lot of music videos. Just some of the videos that he was in. He was in videos for Buyorkram, Radiohead, Lady Gaga, Marilyn Manson and some more. Now he had a son from a Victorious Secrets model from Denmark, and now he has a daughter with his current girlfriend. All Right, here. Quote of the day. It comes from President Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy died today in nineteen ninety teen at sixty years old. Teddy said, it's hard to fail, but it's worse to have never tried to succeed. Well, thank you all for listening. Read to follow us, and you listen to this on and make it easy to find us, and check out today's show description for any links that you might find it useful. All right, a country underground radio artists today. It comes from Connor. He's in Austin. He wants to hear that any best song.

14:20 Are you going my way? You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Sweet Walking my Way, Juice, sweet Hour, thought I was going on my working looms, worn down Lude, Jean's Hardest Time, I'm working my self control Newer, the small town Berson. Everybody's loving her sweet country soul, taking my friendom way walking, I say, she's out of what's a country boy to do?

15:05 Starting on the long Fring, I see lot of shots of patrol back. Suddenly somebody caring walking by stole my phone, so for a minute, gave him your digits there walking with parting the sails. Call my phoney, up, are you going island?

15:45 Dropping out of the rib of banking was high STOs How school lookies, moon light shining, riding your rising, your surprise, I'm falling quick? What's a country boy? Was falling on my own? Filing a snee last shots of patrol. Sign your smiling car. Walking bast on my phone, stop for a minute, gave in your digitill huging with Arn't in the saal ask call my phone in. How are you going?

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