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

0:10 Hey, Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it is about today, presented by cool Media. It is July the twenty ninth. Oh cha shaquill wings. Let's sell again, zamonea chickin that coroney chilling m chaqueing chaquill wings. I sell again, zamonea chickin that coroney chilling Li Chica wing, chicken wing, chicken wing looneead. It is National Chicken Wing Day. Pretty Much everyone agrees that chicken wings were created at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York in nineteen sixty four, except for me. Yeah, I think chickens always had wings. It just jealous, you didn't think of it. All right, I do you want to celebrate today? Well, you can have your chicken wings bone in or boneus. You can have them super hot, spicy barbecue Asian stuff. Now almost everybody who's serves chicken wings are having deals today. Some of the big ones Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Hooters, Wingstop, Dave On Busters. I had no idea they sold chicken wings, but seven Elevens even doing a buy one, get one free. So enjoy your chicken today. Somebody must have been bored all right, this is going on entertainment On July the twenty ninth, Let's Back Here In nineteen ninety seven, number one album was Men in Black movie soundtrack. Buff Daddy and Faith Evans had the number one song with I'll be missing you.

1:33 I can't imagine all the pain I feels. Give me anything to hit half the breath. I know you're still living your life everything day. Tim Up Pray. George Strait had the number one country song with carrying Your Love with Me. Good Buck is So Lady, Roll. Sam Terry and Your Love. West Virginia Now of Tennessee, Lorde Mary and You Love.

2:20 The number one book was Unnatural Exposure by Patricia Cornwell. Top movie was Air Force One Communist Radicals a hijack air Force One with the President and his family on board. Stars Harrison Ford, Glenn Close, and Gary Oldman. All Right, what happened On July the twenty ninth, twelve seventy nine. Mongol Empire Kubla Khan. He sent five ambassadors to Japan with a letter. They gave a letter to the Emperor Japan. He read it and it said that if he surrendered, his life would be spared, and the Mongols would not invade Japan. Woh the Japanese Empire. He didn't respond to that letter. He just had those five ambassadors beheaded. Sixteen oh nine, French explorer Samuel de Champlain. He shot and killed two Iroquois Indian chiefs near Tykonda Rogan, New York.

3:03 Now the French in the Airquois. They fought for over one hundred and fifty years until they got together and fought the British. Nineteen thirty eight in Washington State, Olympic National Park was created. It's the longest undeveloped coastline in the United States. Nineteen fifty eight, President Eisenhower, he signed the law that created the National Aeronautics and Space Agency YEP NASA. Nineteen eighty David Bowie, he's starting to play the elephant man. YEP. He was the elephant man here in Denver at the Auditorium theater. It is a really quiet day to day. Co coke, coke, coke, co coat shage. This Shibf day were gonna pu he left this SHIVERBF day. We don't sit with Carge. He's like this Shibirf day and you know, we don't give Upthday.

3:48 All Right who was born on July the twenty ninth. Walter Hunt. He was born in Martinburg, New York, in seventeen ninety six. Now Walter, he was quite the inventor, but he never really got rich from it, And say he wouldn't be something get the patent, then he had to sell the patent for whatever he could get for it. Then he just moved on to something else. All the people who bought those patents, they got hugely rich. Some of the inventions that he pretty much just gave away the safety pin, the fountain pin, the sewing machine, a machine for making nuts and bolts, the firing cock for repeating iyfils, even those paper callers that you get when you buy a new shirt. While three, he was married and had four children. He died in eighteen fifty nine and sixty two years old. Actress that A. Bara. She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in eighteen eighty five.

4:31 She was a silent film movie actress, one of the most popular silent film stars. Now she is actually considered the first sex symbol. Now her picture is what we use for today's picture on the show If You Saw It Now. She mainly played fem fatale roles. That guy her the nickname the Vamp that means theeductress. From nineteen fourteen to nineteen twenty six, she made over forty movies, but then when talkie movies came out, even though she was a big star, she wanted nothing to do with them. She retired at forty one years old. Makes you wonder, though, if she that had that bad of a voice or she just couldn't remember lines. She had married nineteen twenty one and they were together till she died from stomach cancer in nineteen fifty five, at sixty nine years old. After Tony Circo, he was born in New York City in nineteen forty two. Biggest role was playing Polly on The Sopranos. They acted quite a bit, though he usually played the bad guy gangster, mobster. I guess that's redundant.

5:22 Some of his movies that he was in were One Man Jury, Good Fellows, Bullets Over Broadway, Copland, Mickey Blue Eyes. He had one son and one daughter. He died a couple weeks before his eightieth birthday in twenty twenty two. There is not one time in that entire song where he sings longer than nine seconds. The song is Tom Sawyer. The band Rush. They'd singer Getty Lee Geddy's seventy one. He was born in North York, Canada, in nineteen fifty three. They'll start Rush in nineteen sixty eight, and he started out as their bass player and then they moved him up to be their elite singer. He talked about not having many options, but they are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and sold over forty million records.

6:11 Some of their hits were The Spirit of Radio, Tom Sawyer, New World Man, Vital Science. Now Rush they call her quits in twenty fifteen. Geedy married nineteen seventy six and they have one son and one daughter, also seventy one years old. This filmmaker Ken Burns. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. Now he is a guy who made documentary and film's cool. Most of his documentaries they're not one movie though, they're actually a whole series. I'm sure you've all seen him. First. One that really got him known was the Civil War, then Baseball, the War that was about World War Two, Vietnam, Country Music. Now his movies are so thorough and well done and He's actually got projects that he's been working on that won't be released until twenty twenty seven and twenty twenty nine. 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.

7:00 He loves Miss Cilliann, He loves miss said. He think some pready, it's think some sod locks some love. He loves my home. She's always saying my bigga says. My baby loves me just the way that I am. Country singer Martina McBride. She was born in nineteen sixty six and Sharon, Kansas. She's fifty eight. Grew up on a dairy farm now. She started out actually selling t shirts at Garth Brooks concert Then she got her first record deal in nineteen ninety two. Some of her heads are my Baby loves Me, Independence Day, Safe in the Arms of Love, Wild Angels, Happy Girl. She married back in nineteen eighty eight and they have three daughters. Actor Will Wheaton. He was born in Burbank, California in nineteen seventy two. He's fifty two today. First hit in the movie stand By Me Yeah. He was the main lead character.

7:51 Might had the biggest success though on TV, he played Leslie Crusher on Star Trek The Next Generation hit a recurring role on The Big Bank Theory Bill. He married nighteen ninety nine and they have two sons. Wayna Morris. He's born in Philadelphia in nineteen seventy three. He's fifty one. Joined Boys to Man in nineteen eighty seven. Still there if they're out on tour right now through the end of the year. Now, if you go see him, I'm sure you'll hear end of the Road, I'll make love to you. I'm Bendnee. Four seasons of Loneliness Wayne. He got fourth plays on Dancing with the Stars in two sixteen.

8:42 He had four sons and two daughters from his first wife. Married a second wife in twenty nineteen. Ben mounds around. You know you colbacking mule Dolander. Well, I'm discussed all felt to swing. Your country singer James Otto. He's also fifty one. He was born on the Fort Lewis Army Base in Washington State. Some of his big guests hit sorry just started Loving You, These are the good old days, growing our groovy little summer song. Now he's actually really a good successful songwriter.

9:28 Also got married in two thousand and five and they have a daughter. Actor Josh Radner. He's best known for playing Ted on the TV show How I Met Your Mother. He's born in Columbus, Ohio, in nineteen seventy four, so he's fifty today. He actually first got known and not another teen movie Josh. He's a newly way nip. He got married in January. All right, if you want to celebrate chicken wing Day and you're a little bored, you feel like breaking a record. In twenty fifteen, Patrick Bertolodi he ate four and forty four chicken wings in twenty six minutes, So there's your target. Well, thank you for joining us today. We're glad you're all here, So forget to follow us on whoe have you listened to us on? Comes here? It's at coolmedia dot com. That's cool at three of us. Let's end with artist Vincent, then go.

10:10 He died it in eighteen ninety at thirty seven years old. Vincent said, great things are done by a series of small things brought together. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No, No,