July 29-Chicken Wings, Lasagna, Rush, Ken Burns, Martina McBride, Boys II Men, Wil Wheaton

0:19 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history and facto It's about today. Today is July the twenty ninth. Oh cheque wing shaquie wings. Let's tell again, boomonee chikin a Macroney chilling. L seque wing chaque wings. Let's tell again, boomonee chickin a Macroney chilling with chicken wing, chicken wing, chickenwegone. Today is National Chicken Wing Day. Now, I personally think chickens have already had wings, but the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York, they get credit for inventing chicken wings back in nineteen sixty four. Now you can have your chicken wings bony and or bonus. You can have them super hot or spicy, barbecued Asian. Yeah, however you like them. Now, almost everyone that sells chicken wings are having deals today.

1:03 So some of the big ones are Buffalo Wild Wings, pop Byes, Wingstop, Applebee's, Hooters, Dave and Busters. I didn't know seven to eleven. Yeah, they're even getting into it today. They're gone to buy one, get one free, or actually get free chicken wings if buy Red Bull. So enjoy your chicken wings today. Okay, if you're not into chicken wings. Yeah, today's actually national Zigna Day. Also, lasagna is actually a Greek word. Yeah, but lasagna that we love today. That's all Italian goes back to thirteen thirty. There are some deals today, but they're mostly local, no real big national deals. So I'll maybe have a date night. Actually cooks on lasagna today. So whether you go with chicken wings or lasagna, he good today. Back in nineteen seventy one. On July twenty ninth, Carol King had a number one album with Tapestry.

1:55 Paul River and the Raiders had the number one song with Indian Reservation. Cherokeep p Ba Cherokee Shy. So foudj Lee. Charlie Pride had the number one country song with I'm just Me, nothing. More or less. I'm not bors or the best. I just drive me. Exactly you see chafter day and every day.

2:41 I'm just Me. The top selling book was The Exorcist by William Peter Bladdie. The top move was Shaft a Crime Boss. Here I was a private eye that would be Shaft to finally get back his kidnapped daughter. Sorry is Richard Rowntree, Moses Gunn and Charles saffieh Le's see. It happened on July the twenty ninth, twelve seventy nine. Mongol leader Kupla Khan, he sent five ambassadors over to Japan to deliver a letter to the empire. Wow, Japan's emperor. He read the letter. Oh, he didn't respond to it. He just had those five ambassadors beheaded because that was his response. Now, the rhetor it led that if he surrendered, yeah, he would be lived, he could live and all that kind of stuff, and the Mongols they would not invade Japan. So mongo leader Kubla Khan, he actually waited like over a year and he finally realized, you know what, those guys aren't coming back, so he went to Loston attack. We'll talk about it though later on, but yeah, basically got his old navy wiped out trying to invade Japan. Sixty to nine. French explorer Samuel de Chamblain he shot killed two Iroquois Indian cheese that was near tay con To Rogan, New York.

3:47 After that, the French in the Iroquois, they fought for one hundred and fifty years up there. Yeah, they finally got together to fight the British and the French and Indian War. They lost seventeen fifteen off of Florida ten Spanish ships that were just filled with all kinds of treasures. Yeah sink. It was during a hurricane. Now, actually some of those coins and stuff from that, Yeah, they still show up on some Florida beaches even today. Nineteen thirty, Holly Springs, Mississippi, set their state record and got to one hundred and fifteen degrees. Nineteen thirty eight in Washington State, Olympic National Park was formed. Nineteen fifty eight, President Dwight Eisenhower assigned the law that created the National Aeronautics and Space Agency NASA. Nineteen eighty David Bowie's starting to play the elephant man. Yeah, right here in Denver at the Auditorium Atina nineteen eighty seven. Been in Jerry's ice Cream.

4:36 They got with the lead singer for the Grateful Jet. Jerry Garcia created the new ice cream flavor, Cherry Garcia. It is cherry ice cream, Cherry's and fudge. You know it. It's a really slow day, so let's just get the birthdays. Joke Coke. Coke joked joke this shimday. We gonna he left this shumarday. We got simple cars like this birthday. You don't so. I was born on July the twenty ninth. Walter Hunt. He was born in Martinsburg, New York, in seventeen ninety six. Now he was quite the inventor. Yeah, never really got rich from it. THO. See what he would do is he'd get go and invent something. He'd get the patent, then he'd sell the pad for whatever he could get. Yeah, then he'd go on and invent something else. So you know, never really hit big. But the people who bought those patents, they got really rich. Some of the inventions that he pretty much just gave away. The safety pin, the fountain pen, sewing machine, a machine for making nuts and bolts, the firing cop for repeating rifles. Even that paper collar you get when you buy a new shirt home. He invented them all. He was married and at fort yield and died in eighteen fifty nine and sixty two years old.

5:46 Actress Theda Beta Theda Bearra. That's it th h E d A b a r A Theda Bearra. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in eighteen eighty five. Now she was a silent film star. Yeah, one of the most popular silent old movie stars there was. She was considered the first sex symbol. See she played the fem fatale roles. Yeah, they got the nickname the vamp, which means seductor. So yeah, she always played the bad girl. From nineteen fourteen to nineteen twenty six, she made over forty movies. Then talking movies came out. Yeah, even though she was a big star, she wanted nothing to do with talking. She retired right then and there, forty one years old. Makes you wonder did she have a really bad voice or because you do not remember lines anyway. She married nineteen twenty one.

6:27 They're together until she died from stomach cancer in nineteen fifty five at sixty nine years old. After Tony Sirco. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty two. His biggest role was playing Polly in The Sopranos, but he did work a lot. You saw him in a lot of different movies and stuff. He always played a bad guy or a gangster. Some of his movie is where one Man Jerry good fellaws Bullets over Broadway, Copland. He had one son and one daughter. Now he had It was a couple of weeks before his eightieth birthday when he died back in twenty twenty two. He'd been living with dementia. You know, there is not one time in that entire song where he sings for longer than nine seconds. Seventy three year old Giddy Lee was born in Willowdale, Canada, in nineteen fifty three. Helped start the band Rush in nineteen sixty eight. Now you started out as their bass player. Yeah, they must have been really hurting because they moved him up to the front that the whole time, singing lead up until they quit in nineteen or in twenty fifteen. Sold over forty million records.

7:31 They're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of the biggest hits are Tom Sawyer, The Spirit of Radio, New World Man, Vital Signs Gedy. He got married nineteen seventy six and they have one son and one daughter, also seventy three years old. This filmmaker Ken Burns. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He's the guy who made documentary's cool. Now. Most of his documentaring's aren't movies, though they're actually a whole series of Now, the one that really got him known and famous was his document on the Civil War, and that whole series. Then Baseball, the War, but World War two, Vietnam War, country music. Now his movies are so thoroughly researched and so well done that it takes them years to get him done. He's actually working on projects today that won't come out until twenty seven and twenty twenty eight.

8:12 Gain. He had a son and a daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife in two thousand and three and they have two daughters. He love Nixander, She loves me man. He loves Miss Cilian, he loves Miss Said. He's say some bread, he. Says something sod, loves some love. He loves my home. She's always saying my veggas say my baby loves me. Interestingly that I. Am country singer Martina McBride is sixty. She was born in Sharon, Kansas, in nineteen sixty six. Now, I Martina grew up in Sharon. Yeah, I'd had a population two unred and seventy people that didn't really dropped down. It's one hundred and fifty now. Sharon's actually Hebrew. It means plain Martinez. He's not playing. She started out selling t shirts at Darth brook Keath concerts. Then she got her first record deal in nineteen ninety two. He's out there.

9:03 My baby loves Me Independence Day, Safe in the arms of love. Wow thing. It's a whole bunch more. She got married nineteen eighty eight and they have three daughters. Actor Will Wheedon. He was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen seventy two, fifty three. We first met well when he was a little boy. Hey. He started the movie Stand By Me. He was the main character on TV. He hit really big with the nerds when he played Wesley Crusher on The Star Trek The Next Generation. He had a recurring role on the TV show The Big Bank There. Well. He got married in nineteen ninety nine and they have two sons. That was Wayne Morris. He's fifty three. He's born in Philadelphia in nineteen seventy three. He joined Boised him in in nineteen eighty seven to seeing Tenor. That was right before they head He's still there. Yep, they're all there actually.

10:06 So if they're out on tour now, they tour a lot and they do a lot of Las Vegas residencies. So if you ever want to go see him, just check out. Vegas are probably there if they're not touring. If you go see him, you'll hear end. Of the Road. I'll make love to you. I'm bend nee. Four seasons of loneliness, Now wait aute. He got fourth place on Dancing with the Stars back in twenty sixteen. He has two or. He has four sons and two daughters from his first wife. Married his second wife in twenty nineteen. Mounds around you know you come backing, mule dalling girl.

10:47 I've discussed all living you. Ye never felt to sway you toe. Country singer James Otto. He's also fifty three. He was born on the Fort Lewis Army Base in Washington State. Some James Motto hits are just started loving you. These are the good old days, groovy little summer song. He's got a lot of success brighton songs for other artists too over there. Got married in two thousand and five and they have a daughter. Actor Josh Radner. He was born in Columbus, Ohio in nineteen seventy four. Fifty two year old is most known for starring as Ted in How I met your mother. He actually got first with paycheck as an actor. Yeah, he got noticed in the Not Another Teen movie. I guess he played a tour guide in it. Josh, he's just married last year. It's almost a newly woo. Still our quote of the day because from Vincent van Go, the artist died today in eighteen ninety at thirty seven years old. He says, great things are done by a bunch of small things brought together. Well, thank you all for listening and follow us on whoever you're listening to us on. It comes He's a coolmedia dot com that's called three is our country underground radio artist today. It comes from Jim out there in Duringo, Colorado.

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