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

0:10 Hello everybody. I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about to day presented by Cool Media. Today is June the twenty seventh. I'm the onion, Onion, Onionion, Onion. It is National Onion Day. Now. Onions. They are the world's oldest cultivated vegetable. They've been fared for over five thousand years, start out in Central Asia before spreading across the rest of the world. Now they're really really good for you. Recent studies show that onions they help your body fight colon ambreast cancer, and they help with heart disease and diabetes. I think they taste good, especially if they're cooked. Now, the best way to cut onions without tearing up freeze the first I know onions really aren't something to celebrate. So there are other national days today that are worth celebrating. You got National Bomb Pops Day, ice Cream Cake Day, Dingo Day, Sunglasses Day, and National Women's fly Fishing Day. So you should be able to have fun with one of those, maybe a couple of them. She's going on In entertainment nine June twenty seventh, Let's go back to your two thousand and two number one album was the eminem Show by eminem A Shunk Day had the number one song with Foolish Baby. I don't know why you wanna do me wrong? See home and you will always gone more. You know more than I can't do that.

1:37 Okay, see hell, you can bring me so many teas. That's all easya. King George Straight had the number one country song with Living and Living Well Your sh The number one book was The Beach House by James Patterson and Peter du Jon. Top movie was Mister Deed's. A small town simple man inherits being in charge of a huge corporation, decides to do business his way.

2:23 Stars Adam Sandler, my known a writer, and John Tuctru. See what Happened in the World on June the twenty seventh. America's first p limo was enacted Today. In sixteen fifty two in New Amsterdam that's New York City today, they enacted a law saying that all wagons, carts, and slaves cannot be driven at a gallop. First offense was two pounds about one hundred and fifty bucks today. Eighteen thirty three, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a white woman, Prudence Crandall. She was arrested. She was running a school for black women. Yeah, she spent one night in jail and the next morning the whole people in the town ran her out of town. Never got let her back again. Now there should have been a lot bigger story, But see, the Spanish American War was being fought, and that was kind of what was taking all the press up. But eighteen ninety eight, Canada is Joshua Slocum. He arrived in Newport, Rhode Island. He had just become the first person to sail around the world solo. Did it on a thirty seven foot fishing boat. Wasn't even that fancy of a boat either.

3:17 Took him three years, two months in two days, sold forty six thousand miles. And asked why he did it, and he said, because they said it couldn't be done. I get this, Joshua, he ain't never even learned how to swim. Nineteen fifteen and fort yukon Alaska temperature hit one hundred degrades, hottest temperature ever recorded up in Alaska. Nineteen twenty three, over Rockwell Field in California, pilots Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter, they did the first airplane, airplane refueling in flight. Yeah, the first aero refueling. Nineteen fifty four, the Soviet Union and began operating the first nuclear power plant over an Omnisk that's near Moscow. Nineteen seventy eight, the first erasable ink bent went on sale. It's called the eraser Mate. Nineteen ninety four in Lakewood, New Mexico, had one hundred and eighteen degrees.

4:03 That's their state record. Nineteen ninety nine, Tony Hawk became the first skateboarder to land at nine hundred. That's where you go spin around two and a half times in the air. That was at the X Games out in California, gop Co cop Goat show. This shibth day, we're gonna pause. He left this shiverfday. We gonna simple cage. He left this shimbirthday. And you know we don't do the birthday. Who was born on gym in the twenty seventh rid Helen Keller. She was born in Tescymbia, Alabama, in eighteen eighty. She lost her sight in her hearing when she was nineteen months old. She had gotten an unknown illness that left her death and blind.

4:45 Now when she was seven years old her fire, her father hired Anne Sullivan to be her personable teacher. They ended up being lifelong friends. Helen she became the first death and blind person to get a college degree when she graduated from Radcliffe College. Helen went on to ride over twenty Bucks. She lived with Anne until Anne died in nineteen thirty six. Then Polly Thompson, who was Anne's housekeeper, she took care of Helen. They traveled the world raising money for the blind. Then Polly died in nineteen sixty so her nurse why Noa, she took care of Helen and Helen she died in her sleep in nineteen sixty eight, just short of her eighty eighth birthday. Actress Antonette Perry. She was born in Denver, Colorado, in eighteen eighty eight.

5:26 Started doing local theater eleven years old. Then by the time she was eighteen, she starred and all the big shows that were performed in Denver. When she was twenty one, yeah, she retired from acting, got married, had three daughters. When her husband died in nineteen twenty two, it was time she moved East ended up hitting big on Broadway. She even worked as a stage director just wasn't done by women at that time. She just became a big, big shot in the whole theater world. She died from a heart attack in nineteen forty six of fifty eight years old. So all her friends and colleagues, they got together. They wanted to honor, you know, for the high standards that she had set for the theater seen out there on Broadway. They started that Antinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Broadway. Now they still give those out, but they go buy her nickname. They just call them Tony's Shine on the Range. Are any of you have it old enough to remember? The kids show Captain Kangaroo. He was Bob Keishin.

6:30 He was born of lynn Brook, New York in nineteen twenty seven. Start off playing Clara Belle the clown on the Hattie Duty Show. Then he started as Captain Kangaroo in nineteen fifty five. That was with Mister Green Jeans, a couple of puppets and hocastic characters. That show ran until nineteen eighty four. Bob he was married to his wife for forty five years when she died, and they had three each other. Bob died in two thousand and four, seventy six years old. He'd been fighting heart failure for about twenty years. That was from Newhart. Actress Julia Duffy. She's seventy three. She's born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in nineteen fifty one. Started out on the Daytime So Far for the Doctors, but her biggest success was on Newhart.

7:17 She was nominated seven years in a row for Primetime Emmys for it didn't win, but I'm sure she was just happy to be nominated. She was in Designing Woman and the Mommy's biggest movie was Dumb and Dumber when Harry met Lloyd. She has been married since nineteen eighty four and they have two children. What Lord No forty simple, too long? Nuda two each side, He's too hot. Country singer Laura Morgan is sixty five. She's born in Nashville, Tennessee, and nineteen fifty nine now. Her dad was country singer George Morgan. Now, when Laurie was thirteen years old, she performed in the Grand Old Opera. Your dad pulled her up on stage to sing with him, So I'm a Lauria's biggest hits are out of Your Shoes five minutes something in red Watch me what part of no? Don't you understand? She's on tour right now. Shehouldn't be doing until the end of summer if you want to go see her. She had a daughter from her first husband. Her second husband was king singer Keith Whitley. They were only married three years before he died, but they had a daughter now. Her fifth husband, that was country singer Sammy Kershaw. They were married for six years. She's been married a husband number six since twenty ten. He must be a keeper.

8:37 TV show creator movie maker JJ Abrams was born in nineteen sixty six in New York City fifty eight. Created the TV shows Felicity, Alias and Lust. Then he wrote the movie Armageddon. Then he made two Star Wars movies, to two Star Trek movies, two Star Wars movies, four Mission Impossible movies, and joy Ride. He got married in nineteen ninety six and they have three children. Did you ever watch that TV show Super Nanny? Oh? She was Joe Frost. She was born in London, England, in nineteen seventy. She's fifty four. Started out working as a nanny when she's eighteen years old, after she'd been doing it for thirty years, they put her on TV. She's also written six books on parenting. Now she doesn't have any kids, but she did get married in twenty sixteen. Actor Toby McGuire's forty nine. He's born in Santa Monica, California. In nineteen seventy five, in sixth grade, Toby asked his mom if he could take in a home economics class because he wanted to be a chef. Well, his mom gave him a hundred bucks to take a drama class instead and worked. He played Spider Man in the first three Spider Man movies. He's also on Pleasantville side her house, Roll Sea Biscuit, The Great Gatsby. He married once and has a son and a daughter from it. Alright, we talked about the Soviet Union opening up the first nuclear power plant. You know, nuclear power that is the cleanest source of energy there is out there. It produces no carbon dioxide or greenhouse gases. Well, thank you for being here today.

10:11 We sure appreciate you. If you haven't gone in a wild don't forget about Country Underground Radio. It's anywhere they play Internet radio, or you can always go to Country Underground Radio dot com or even cool Media dot com. Okay, that's end with actor Jack Lemon. Jackie died today in two thousand and one, at seventy six years old. Jack said, failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear failure. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No. No,