June 27-Captain Kangaroo, Lorrie Morgan, Tobey Maguire, 1st Speed Limit, Onions, Helen Keller, Tony Awards

0:19 Well, Hi, I'm Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today. Today's June twenty seventh. I know onion, you onion, onion, onion, onion. Today is National Onion Day. Onions. They are the world's oldest cultivated vegetable. They've been faring for over five thousand years, start out in Central Asia before spreading across the planet. Onions they are really really good for you. Recent studies show that onions they help you fight colon and breast cancer and help with heart disease and diabetes. I think they taste good, especially if they're cooked.

0:59 Now. The best way to cut an onion without tearing up, yeah, freeze it first. It will help you out there. Now, if you don't want to celebrate onions, today's actual National Bingo Day. Let's see what happened in entertainment on June twenty seventh. Let's go back to nineteen sixty six. Number one album was What Now My Love? By Herb Aalbot and his Tijuana Brass Orchestra The Beetles at the numb one on with Paperback Rider. We based on offside. Jump Jack Green had the number one country song with there Goes My everything.

1:44 There go, Oh my dreams there, Coles smiles. The number one book was Value of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susan Todd. Movie was Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A professor and his wife. They throw a party now using alcohol, they get their guests to have a horrible and distressing time. Stars Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, and George Siegel. All right, let's see it happened on June the twenty seventh.

2:26 America's first speed limit was enacted today in sixteen fifty two. Now was in New Amsterdam, which is New York City today. The law read that all wagons, carts, and slaves couldnot be driven at a gallop. First defense was two pounds of one hundred and fifty bucks to do. Eighteen thirty three, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a white woman named Prudus Krandall. She was got arrested. Yeah, she was running a school for black women. Well, she had to spend the night in jail. Then they ran around of town. She wasn't able to come back ever. Eighteen ninety eight, Joshua Slocum from Canada. He arrived in Newport, Rhode Island. He had become the first person to sell solo around the world. Yeah. He did it on a thirty seven foot fishing boat. Yeah, I wouldn't fancy or anything at all. Took him three years, two months in two days, sailed over forty six thousand miles.

3:12 When asked why he did it, he said, because they said it couldn't be done. I get this, Joshua. Yeah, he never learned how to swim. Nineteen fifteen, fort Yukon Alaska temperature at one hundred degrees hottest temperature ever recorded in Alaska still is nineteen twenty three over Rockwell Field down in California. They were flying biplanes. Pilots Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter did the first in air airplane refueling or air aerial refueling whatever. Nineteen fifty North Korean troops they reached the Seoul in South Korea. Now the Outskirts saw United States President Harry Truman ordered the United States Navy and Air Force to enter that Korean War. Nineteen sixty seven, the world's first ATM machine was installed.

3:52 It was over in London. Was that a branch of the Barclays Bank nineteen seventy eight the first erasable ink pin went on. So that racer mate. Nineteen ninety four in Lakewood, New Mexico, they had one hundred and eighteen degrees. That's their state record for hottest temp. Now, just so you know, that means we got like forty eight more of those outest tempts to go pretty much over the next month, nineteen ninety nine, Tony Hawky began the very skateboarder to land a nine hundred. That's where you has spend two and a half times in the airport landing on your board. Two thousand and three, United States, they formed a national do not Call list. So when's it gonna start? Coke co joke joke, huge dish shibf Day.

4:37 We're gonna par he left this shiver day. We want simple tage like this shibs Day. And you know we don't give birthday. Okay. It was born on Gne the twenty seventh rider Heller Helen Keller. Yeah, she was born just come to be, Alabama in eighteen eighty. Now she lost both her sight and her hearing when she is nineteen months old. Man, she got some unknown disease now that left her deaf and blo and when she has seven years old, her father hired Anne Sullivan to be her personal teacher. Ended up becoming lifelong fans. Yeah, Helen. She became the first death Anne blind person to graduate from college. Yeah. She got a degree from Radcliffe College and she went on to write over twenty books. She lived with Anne until Anne died in nineteen thirty eight. Six. Then Anne's housekeeper her name was Polly Thompson. She took over taking care of Helen. They actually traveled the world raising money for the blind. But Polly she died in nineteen sixty so were her nurse why know, and it took over taking care of Helen. She did until Henrolyn died nineteen sixty eight in her slate, just short of her eighty eighth birthday.

5:36 Actress Antoinette Perry. She was born in Denver, Colorado, in eighteen eighty eight, and when she was eleven she started doing local theater. By the time she was eighteen, Yeah, she was the one who started all the big shows that were played here in Denver. Then she retired when she was twenty one. Yeah. She got married and had three daughters. Her husband died in nineteen twenty two, so she decided to move east. She ended up hitting really big on Broadway. She even worked as a stage direct her and all that kind of stuff. Yeah, she that wasn't even done by women at the time, but she was really big on the Broadway seeing one of the top names of it. Well, then she died from a heart attack in nineteen forty six at fifty eight years old. So all her friends and her colleagues and everybody out there on Broadway, they decided that they wanted to honor her, you know, for her high standards that she had set for the theater production on Broadway. So they started the Annette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway. Now they still give that word out, but now they go by her nickname. They caught Tony Awards on Some Shine. How many of you old enough to remember the kids show Captain Kangaroo. He was Bob Keisham.

6:52 He was born in lynn Brook, New York in nineteen twenty seven. Start off playing Clara Belle, the clown on The Hottie Duty Show, started starring as Captain Kangaroo. Fifty five was him and Mister Green Jeans Some Puppets, A whole cast a character. That show ran until nineteen eighty four. Bob was married to his wife forty five years when she died. They had three children. Bobby died in two thousand and four at seventy six years old. He'd been fighting heart disease for like twenty years. Actress Julia Duffy is seventy five. She was born in Minneapolis in nineteen fifty one. She started out on the daytime soap opera The Doctors. Of course, her biggest success was on Newhart. She was seven years in a row for Primetime Emmy. Yeah, she didn't win. I'm sure she was just happy to be nominated though, and she did Designing Women The Mommy's biggest movie was Granddaddy Daycare. Julia married nineteen eighty four and they have two children.

7:40 Long Same, Simple, Too Long Nuda two is. He's too had. Country singer Laurie Morgan is sixty seven. Born in nineteen fifty nine in Nashville. Her dad was country singer George Morgan. Now, when Laurie was thirteen years old, she performed at the Grand Ole Opry. Yeah, her dad pulled her up on stage to sing with him. She made a name for herself in nineteen eighty nine, when she released her first album. Some of her big hits are out of Your Shoes, five minutes, something in Red, watch Me what part of note?

8:24 Don't you understand? She's actually out on two right now. Yep, she even has a show tonight in Augusta, Georgia. Now. She had a daughter from her first husband. Then her second husband was country singer Keith Whitley. They had a daughter, Keith. He died after only three years of marriage. Her fifth husband was country singer Sammy kershawf for six years, then she made her six husband and twenty ten. Sadly, he died one year ago. Movie maker, TV show creator JJ Abrams. He was born in New York City in nineteen sixty six, sixty years old today now. He created the TV shows Felicity, Alias and Lost. He wrote the movie Armageddon. Then he's made two Star Wars movies, two Star Trek movies for Mission Impossible movies, and Enjoy Right, yeah, that's the best out of all them. Abrams. He got married nineteen ninety six and they have three children. Actor Toby Maguire's fifty one.

9:10 He's going to Santa Monica, California. In nineteen seventy five. In sixth grade, he wanted to be a chef, so he asked his mom if he could take a home economics class. His mom told him she'd give him a hundred bucks if he took a drama class instead. That worked out really well. Now he played Spider Man in the first three Spider Man's movies. He was in Pleasantville, cider House, Rules, Sea Biscuit. He married once for thirteen years and they have a son and a daughter. All Our quote of the day goes to actor Jack Lemon. He died to Day in two thousand and one at seventy six years old. Jack said, failure, It seldom stops you. What stops you is a fear of failure. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on you listen to us. On comes He's a cool media dot com. It's cool three US our country underground radio artist. Today Today comes from Jesse after an Albuquerque.

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11:17 I wish you hadn't left me like you left me. When you left me, baby, I was not expecting letting going to be this hard to. I'm still not over a good