June 27th-Onions, Helen Keller, Captain Kangaroo, Lorrie Morgan, Tobey Maguire, Supernanny

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Hello, everybody, I am Jeff. Welcome to history and factoids about today

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because about cool media. There's Gin
the twenty seventh. I'm not onion,

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Onion, Onion, onion. It's
National Onion Day. Onions. They are

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the world's old oldest cultivated vegetable.
They've been farmed for over five thousand years,

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start out in Central Asia before spreading
across the planet. Now, obviously

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they were eating before they were farmed. Onions. They're really good for you,

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lots of nutrients. A recent studies
show that onions help body fight colon

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and breast cancer, and they help
with heart disease and diabetes. Plus they

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taste really good, especially if they're
cooked. Now, the best way to

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cut onions without tearing up freeze first. All right, let's he's going on.

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In entertainment. On June twenty seven, Let's go to your nineteen eighty

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number one album was Glasshouses by Billy
Joel. Lip Sync had the number one

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song with Funky Town two two.
The Oak Ridge Boys had the number one

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country song with Trying to Love two
Women, Women's Tearing Me Apart. Trying

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Women's Tearing Me got the money,
the others got him hard. It's a

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long and charge. The number one
book was The Bourne Identity by Robert Leatham.

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The top movie The m Fire Strikes
Back Luke. He begins Jedi trading

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while its friends are chased across the
galaxy by a bounty hunter on Darth Vader

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stars Mark Camill, Harrison Ford,
and Kerrie Fisher. All right, let's

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see what happened in the world on
June the twenty seventh. America's first speed

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limit in sixteen fifty two in New
Amsterdam that's New York today, they issued

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a law saying that wagons, carts, and slaves can't be driven at a

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gallop. First offense fors two pounds. That's one hundred fifty bucks today.

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Eighteen thirty three, in Canterbury,
Connecticut, a white woman, twenty year

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old Prudence Crandell. She was arrested. Yeah, she was running a school

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for black females. She spent one
night in jail and then the whole town's

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people ran around of town, never
to come back. Eighteen ninety eight,

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Canadas, Joshua Slocum. He arrived
in Newport, Rhode Island. First person

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ever to sail around the world solo
did in a thirty seven foot fishing boat

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took in three years, two months
and two days, so forty six thousand

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miles. Asked why he did,
he said, because they said it couldn't

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be done. Get this, Joshuma
never learned how to swim. Nineteen fifteen

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in fort Yukon, Alaska hit one
hundred degrees, still the hottest temperature ever

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in Alaska. Nineteen twenty three,
over rockwell Field in California, Captain Lowell

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Smith and Lieutenant John Richter did the
first ever airplane refueling in the air.

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Nineteen fifty four, Soviet Union began
operating the world's first nuclear power plant near

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Omanisk. Nineteen seventy eight the first
erasable ink Ben, wasn't it the eraser

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mate still going today. Nineteen ninety
four, Lakewood, New Mexico, tied

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their state record for hottest temperature ever
one hundred and eighteen degrees. Coop this

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sugar stake. We're gonna this sugar, this sugar steak, and you know

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we don't get well, Let's see
what's born on you. In the twenty

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seventh writer Helen Keller. She was
born at Tescambia, Alabama, in eighteen

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eighty. She lost her sight in
her vision when she was nineteen months old.

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She had gotten an unknown illness that
took him when she was seven,

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Her father hired Anne Sullivan to be
her teacher, ended up becoming lifelong friends.

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Helen became the first deaf and blind
person to get a college degree when

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she graduated from Radcliffe College. Now
Helen, she read over twenty books in

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her lifetime. She lived with Anne
until Anne died in nineteen thirty six.

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Then Polly Thompson, Ann's housekeepers,
she took care of Helen. They actually

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traveled around the world raising money for
the blind Well Polly she died in nineteen

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sixteen, so her nurse, Winnie
Connolly she took care of Helen the rest

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of her life. Helen died in
her sleep in nineteen sixty eight, a

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few weeks sly of her eighty eighth
birthday. Actress Antoinette Perry. She was

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born in Denver, Colorado, in
eighteen eighty eight. Started doing local theater

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at eleven years old. By the
time she was eighteen, she was starting

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at all the big shows that came
through Denver. When she was twenty one,

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she retired from acting. Yes she
got married and had three daughters when

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her husband died in nineteen twenty two. She headed East hit big on Broadway.

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Even worked as a stage director,
which wasn't done by women at the

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time. She had a really big
shot in the theater world. She died

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of a heart attack in nineteen forty
six of fifty eight years old. After

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her death, all her friends in
her colleagues, they wanted to honor her

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for high standards that she had set
for theater, so they started the Antoinette

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Perry Awards for Excellent and Broadway.
Now they still issue those awards, they

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just go by her nickname, the
Tony Awards. So or any of you

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old enough to remember the Kids show
Captain Kangaroo Bob Keshan. He was born

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in lynn Brook, New York in
nineteen twenty seven. Started off playing Clara

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Belle, the clown on The Howdy
Duty Show. That was in nineteen forty

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eight. Then he started as Captain
Kangaroo in nineteen fifty five. That was

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with Mister Green Jeans and a Couple
of Puppets. That's show rand in nineteen

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eighty four. Bobby was married to
his wife for forty five years when she

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died, and they had three children. Bobby died in two thousand and four,

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seventy six years old. He had
been fighting heart problems for about twenty

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years. That's New Heart. Actress
Juliet Duffy seventy two. She was born

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in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in nineteen
fifty one. She was on the daytime

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soap opera The Doctors for a while, and then she had her biggest success

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on New Heart. Then she was
on Designing Women and Mommies. She's been

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I'm doing a lot of Broadway for
the last decade or so. She got

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married back in nineteen eighty four and
they have two children. What I know,

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simple day be glad to country singer
Laurie Morgan. She was born in

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nineteen fifty nine and nash Will,
Tennessee, sixty four year old. Her

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dad was country singer George Morgan,
so when Laurie was thirteen years old,

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she performed at the Grand ol Opry
with him. Now, she did chart

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a song in nineteen seventy nine,
but she really didn't hit until in late

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nineteen eighties. Some of her biggest
hits are out of Your Shoes, five

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Minutes, something in Red, Watch
Me But Pardon Now. She is playing

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shows this summer if you want to
go see him. She had a daughter

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from her first husband. She married
her second husband, Keith Whitley, in

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nineteen eighty six. They had a
son. Then Keith died from alcohol poisoning

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in nineteen eighty nine. Her fifth
husband was country singer Sammy Kershaw for six

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years. She's been married to her
six seven since twenty ten. TV show

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creator movie maker jj Abrahams was born
in nineteen sixty six in New York City.

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Fifty seven year old. He created
the TV shows Felicity, Alias and

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Lost. He wrote the movie Armageddon. Then he made two Star Trek movies,

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two Star Wars movies, and four
Mission Impossible movies. He got married

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in nineteen ninety six and they have
three children. Any of you ever watched

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that TV show Supernanny? She was
Joe Frost. She was born in London,

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England, in nineteen seventy fifty three
year started working as nanny when she's

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eighteen years old, Then in two
thousand and four they put her on TV.

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She's written at least six books on
parody. She got married in twenty

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sixteen and no, she didn't have
any kids. Actor Toby Maguire. He's

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forty eight years old, born in
Santa Monica, California, nineteen seventy five.

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In the sixth grade, Toby told
his mom he wanted to be a

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chef, so she wanted He wanted
her to let him take a home economics

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class. His mom gave him a
hundred bucks to take a drama instead.

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He's best known for playing Spider Man
in the firstly Spider Man movies, also

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in Pleasantville beside her House Rule see
Biscuit. He was in the two last

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Spider Man movies, but kind of
as a cameos. He was married for

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nine years and he has a son
and a daughter From it all right,

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today's st but fact to it that
all wind yet beer Venus. It's the

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only planet that rotates clockwise. Well, I have to get a chance.

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That's end of day with actor Jack
Limon. Jack died to Day in

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two thousand and one. It's seventy
six years old. Failure and seldom stops

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you. What stops you is the
fear of failure. You guys, have

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an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.