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, 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. Now.

0:59 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. All right, this is going entertainment on you. In the twenty seventh it'sbut Your twenty fourteen number one album was platinum by Miranda Lambert, Iggy Azelia and Charlie xc X had the number one song with Fancy. Cascos said Baby to date, some new is can't staying on here it is and nine is the t and My Florida to be dated, party can be. Department again my money. I'm sad, say no money, decline.

1:42 Georgia Florida line and look, Brian had the number one country song. But this is how we roll. Trucks, chacked up flat bill slip back. Here you can find and swear the parties, and this is how we we hang nun singing and everything. Up with our ransoms. The number one book was written In My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabbldon. The top movie was Transformer at the Age of Extinction Humans they're trying to eradicate The Transformers stars Mark Wahlberg, Kelsey Grammer, and Nicola Petz Beckham.

2:24 All right, let's see it happened on June the twenty seventh. America's first speed limit was enacted today in sixteen fifty two. Now I was in New Amsterdam, which is New York City today. The law read that all wagons, carts and slaves cannot be driven at a gallop. First defense was two pounds of the one hundred and fifty bucks Today. 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. Wow, she had to spend the night in jail. Then they ran out of town. She wasn't able to come back ever. In eighteen ninety eight, Joshua Slocum from Canada, he arrived in Newport, Rhode Island. Say 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. When asked why I did it, he said, because they said it couldn't be done.

3:16 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 Forest. They enter that Korean War nineteen sixty seven in the world's first atm Michine was installed. It was over in London, was at a branch of the Barclays Bank. Nineteen seventy eighth, the first erace bowl ink bin was went on. So yeah, that racermatee 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 Hawckey began the very skateboarder to land a nine hundred.

4:19 That's where he has spend two and a half times in the airfront 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 Coke. Goat show this shiverf day, we's gonna he left this shiverfday. We want simple tage like this shivers day, and you know we don't give up. Okay. It was born on Gin the twenty seventh rider Heller Helen Keller. Yeah, she was born just come to be a Alabama in eighteen eighty. Now she lost both her sight and her hearing when she is nineteen months old. Now she got some unknown disease now that left her deaf and blind. And when she has seven years old, her father hired Anne Sullivan to be her personal teacher.

5:06 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 Helerolyn died nineteen sixty eight in her slate just short of her eighty eighth birthday. Actress Antoinette Perry. She was born in Denver, Colorado, in eighteen eighty eight. Now, 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.

5:50 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 director and all that kind of stuff. Yeah 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. Come on out.

6:37 Shine. How many of you old enough to remember the kids, you know, Captain Kangaroo, he was Bob Keisham, he was born in lynn Brook, New York, in nineteen twenty seven. Start off playing Clara Belle, the clown on the Hottie Duty Show. Arted starring as Captain Kangaroo in nineteen 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. That was the opening for Newhart.

7:31 Actress Julia Duffy. She's seventy four. She's born in Minneapolis. She started out on the daytime soap opera The Doctors. Of course, her biggest success was on Newhart. She was not 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. Simple Too Long. Two. Country singer Laurie Morgan is sixty six. She was born in Nashville. Her dad was country singer George Morgan. Now, when Laurie was thirteen years old, she performed at the Grand Ole Opry Your 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.

8:30 Some of her big hits are out of Your Shoes, five minutes, something in Red, watch Me what part of No? 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 Kershaw for six years. Then she made her six husband and twenty ten. Sadly, he just died on or yeah, June. First TV show creator movie maker JJ Abrams was born in New York City. He's fifty nine to day now. He created the TV shows Felicity, Alias, and Lost. He wrote the movie Armageddon.

9:11 Then he's made two Star Wars movies, two Star Trek movies, four Mission Impossible movies, and joy. Right. Yeah, that's the best out of all them abrams. He got married in nineteen ninety six and they have three children. Actor Tolmy McGuire. He's fifty. He was born in Santa Monica, California. 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 gi 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, Ciderhouse, Rules, Sea Biscuit. He married once for thirteen years and they have a son and a daughter. All right. Quote of the Day goes to actor Jack Lemon. He died to day in two thousand and one at seventy six years old.

9:53 Jack said, failure, It seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. Well, thank you. A listen today, don't get to follow us and you listen to a song because it's a cool media dot com. It's cool thrill us, our cut trinderground radio artists today. They comes from Jesse after an Albuquerque. You have to hear Brindley Addington song, Still not over you. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. I think a. Couple of years, There's plenty of time, and meet them alone. Put you behind me. I can never even happened. I can never even loot you at off. But here I am hanging on the cud man want to do if I can do it all over again, trying to come.

10:35 Up with ours say in case you will never come. I'm still missing you like crazy. I still thinking about your baby every and now. I'll never tell you know. I wish you haven't left me like you left me when you love me, baby, I was not expecting to live going to be this hard, tom Still not over you got some pdiction in my wolence, the name and my phone you used to let me call you when we would on. You'll sweat us in a dress away you left it in the bottom. T seems like wherever I go, whatever I do, there's always something, little something that reminds me of you.

11:20 I can't take it. I can't take it, baby, I can't take it more. Still missing you like crazy. I still think about your baby every now and never tell you know, I wish you hadn't left me like you left me. When you left me, baby, I was not expecting leting going and be this hard to I'm still not over again