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

0:09 Hello, everybody, I am Jeff. Welcome to history and factoids about today because about cool media. There's Gin the twenty seventh. I'm not onion, Onion, Onion, onion. It's National Onion Day. Onions. They are the world's old oldest cultivated vegetable. They've been farmed for over five thousand years, start out in Central Asia before spreading across the planet. Now, obviously they were eating before they were farmed. Onions. They're really good for you, lots of nutrients. A recent studies show that onions help body fight colon and breast cancer, and they help with heart disease and diabetes. Plus they taste really good, especially if they're cooked. Now, the best way to cut onions without tearing up freeze first. All right, let's he's going on.

1:02 In entertainment. On June twenty seven, Let's go to your nineteen eighty number one album was Glasshouses by Billy Joel. Lip Sync had the number one song with Funky Town two two. The Oak Ridge Boys had the number one country song with Trying to Love two Women, Women's Tearing Me Apart. Trying Women's Tearing Me got the money, the others got him hard. It's a long and charge. The number one book was The Bourne Identity by Robert Leatham.

1:57 The top movie The m Fire Strikes Back Luke. He begins Jedi trading while its friends are chased across the galaxy by a bounty hunter on Darth Vader stars Mark Camill, Harrison Ford, and Kerrie Fisher. All right, let's see what happened in the world on June the twenty seventh. America's first speed limit in sixteen fifty two in New Amsterdam that's New York today, they issued a law saying that wagons, carts, and slaves can't be driven at a gallop. First offense fors two pounds. That's one hundred fifty bucks today. Eighteen thirty three, in Canterbury, Connecticut, a white woman, twenty year old Prudence Crandell. She was arrested. Yeah, she was running a school for black females. She spent one night in jail and then the whole town's people ran around of town, never to come back. Eighteen ninety eight, Canadas, Joshua Slocum. He arrived in Newport, Rhode Island. First person ever to sail around the world solo did in a thirty seven foot fishing boat took in three years, two months and two days, so forty six thousand miles. Asked why he did, he said, because they said it couldn't be done. Get this, Joshuma never learned how to swim. Nineteen fifteen in fort Yukon, Alaska hit one hundred degrees, still the hottest temperature ever in Alaska. Nineteen twenty three, over rockwell Field in California, Captain Lowell Smith and Lieutenant John Richter did the first ever airplane refueling in the air.

3:15 Nineteen fifty four, Soviet Union began operating the world's first nuclear power plant near Omanisk. Nineteen seventy eight the first erasable ink Ben, wasn't it the eraser mate still going today. Nineteen ninety four, Lakewood, New Mexico, tied their state record for hottest temperature ever one hundred and eighteen degrees. Coop this sugar stake. We're gonna this sugar, this sugar steak, and you know we don't get well, Let's see what's born on you. In the twenty seventh writer Helen Keller. She was born at Tescambia, Alabama, in eighteen eighty. She lost her sight in her vision when she was nineteen months old.

3:57 She had gotten an unknown illness that took him when she was seven, Her father hired Anne Sullivan to be her teacher, ended up becoming lifelong friends. Helen became the first deaf and blind person to get a college degree when she graduated from Radcliffe College. Now Helen, she read over twenty books in her lifetime. She lived with Anne until Anne died in nineteen thirty six. Then Polly Thompson, Ann's housekeepers, she took care of Helen. They actually traveled around the world raising money for the blind Well Polly she died in nineteen sixteen, so her nurse, Winnie Connolly she took care of Helen the rest of her life. Helen died in her sleep in nineteen sixty eight, a few weeks sly of her eighty eighth birthday. Actress Antoinette Perry. She was born in Denver, Colorado, in eighteen eighty eight. Started doing local theater at eleven years old. By the time she was eighteen, she was starting at all the big shows that came through Denver. When she was twenty one, she retired from acting. Yes she got married and had three daughters when her husband died in nineteen twenty two. She headed East hit big on Broadway.

4:53 Even worked as a stage director, which wasn't done by women at the time. She had a really big shot in the theater world. She died of a heart attack in nineteen forty six of fifty eight years old. After her death, all her friends in her colleagues, they wanted to honor her for high standards that she had set for theater, so they started the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellent and Broadway. Now they still issue those awards, they just go by her nickname, the Tony Awards. So or any of you old enough to remember the Kids show Captain Kangaroo Bob Keshan. He was born in lynn Brook, New York in nineteen twenty seven. Started off playing Clara Belle, the clown on The Howdy Duty Show. That was in nineteen forty eight. Then he started as Captain Kangaroo in nineteen fifty five. That was with Mister Green Jeans and a Couple of Puppets. That's show rand in nineteen eighty four. Bobby was married to his wife for forty five years when she died, and they had three children. Bobby died in two thousand and four, seventy six years old. He had been fighting heart problems for about twenty years. That's New Heart. Actress Juliet Duffy seventy two. She was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in nineteen fifty one. She was on the daytime soap opera The Doctors for a while, and then she had her biggest success

6:25 on New Heart. Then she was on Designing Women and Mommies. She's been I'm doing a lot of Broadway for the last decade or so. She got married back in nineteen eighty four and they have two children. What I know, simple day be glad to country singer Laurie Morgan. She was born in nineteen fifty nine and nash Will, Tennessee, sixty four year old. Her dad was country singer George Morgan, so when Laurie was thirteen years old, she performed at the Grand ol Opry with him. Now, she did chart a song in nineteen seventy nine, but she really didn't hit until in late nineteen eighties. Some of her biggest hits are out of Your Shoes, five Minutes, something in Red, Watch Me But Pardon Now. She is playing shows this summer if you want to go see him. She had a daughter from her first husband. She married her second husband, Keith Whitley, in nineteen eighty six. They had a son. Then Keith died from alcohol poisoning in nineteen eighty nine. Her fifth husband was country singer Sammy Kershaw for six years. She's been married to her six seven since twenty ten. TV show creator movie maker jj Abrahams was born in nineteen sixty six in New York City.

7:44 Fifty seven year old. He created the TV shows Felicity, Alias and Lost. He wrote the movie Armageddon. Then he made two Star Trek movies, two Star Wars movies, and four Mission Impossible movies. He got married in nineteen ninety six and they have three children. Any of you ever watched that TV show Supernanny? She was Joe Frost. She was born in London, England, in nineteen seventy fifty three year started working as nanny when she's eighteen years old, Then in two thousand and four they put her on TV. She's written at least six books on parody. She got married in twenty sixteen and no, she didn't have any kids. Actor Toby Maguire. He's forty eight years old, born in Santa Monica, California, nineteen seventy five.

8:33 In the sixth grade, Toby told his mom he wanted to be a chef, so she wanted He wanted her to let him take a home economics class. His mom gave him a hundred bucks to take a drama instead. He's best known for playing Spider Man in the firstly Spider Man movies, also in Pleasantville beside her House Rule see Biscuit. He was in the two last Spider Man movies, but kind of as a cameos. He was married for nine years and he has a son and a daughter From it all right, today's st but fact to it that all wind yet beer Venus. It's the only planet that rotates clockwise. Well, I have to get a chance. Stop at coolmedia dot com. See what's going on on the radio stations and the podcast. Don't forget to follow us on whoever you listen to us on and thank you as always for joining us. We sure appreciate you being here.

9:16 That's end of day with actor Jack Limon. Jack died to Day in two thousand and one. It's seventy six years old. Failure and seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.