March 14th-Potato Chips, Albert Einstein, Disco Duck, Billy Crystal, Tetris, Hanson, Quincy Jones

0:19 Welcome to history and factor it's about today. I am Jeff. Today's March fourteenth. Potato chips. How ma fout potato chips? How my mouth drifts crunch, crunch. I don't want no lunch. All I want is potato chips. Potato chips. How my val potato chipsy? Today is National Potato Chip Day eighteen fifty three. At the Saratoga Inn and Saratoga Springs, New York, a customer in the restaurant kept sending back his potatoes saying they were thick and soggy. So the chef, George Crumb, he really got pissed off. So he sliced those potatoes as thin as he could, and then he fried him as Christmas he could, and he put a whole bunch of extra salt on him and send him back out.

1:06 Wow. The guy absolutely loved him, and the potato chip was born. The only bad thing about today is potato chips are one of the worst and most unhealthy foods that you could ever eat. So I guess we'll worry about that later and celebrate the potato chip today. All right, this is going on entertainment. On March fourteenth, it was back to nineteen sixty one number one album was Calcutta by Lawrence Walk. Chubby Checker had the numb one song with pony Time. It's pony Time, Get up, head out. So.

1:50 Marty Robbins had the number one country song with Don't Worry. Don't bull Me. It's so over the. High Wild many So. The number one book was Hawaii by James Mitchener. The top movie was Absent Minded Professor. A college professor invents an anti gravity substance, well crooked businessman he wants It. Stars Fred McMurray, Nancy Olson, and Keenan Winn. Okay, what happened on March the fourteenth Back when Boston was founded the Puritans, they outlawed being a Quaker. See, the Quakers believe that God talked to everyone, not just the clergy.

2:37 To the Puritans, that was just playing heresy. So if you were a Quaker in Boston, you could be branded with an age for heretic, or you could have a hot iron bore a hole through your tongue, you could have your ears cut off, or you could simply be hung. Today, in sixteen sixty one they hung the fourth Quaker, William Hedra. Yeah. Now, word of his hanging actually made it all the way back to England. Yeah, King Charles, or yeah, King jar he heard about it. So he told those Puritans, he said, if they didn't start playing nice, he was going to come over and come down on him. Wow, that put a stop to all that. Now, there were four Quakers who were actually hung during that time. They're still known today as the Boston Martyrs. There's some monuments back there and everything for him. Seventeen ninety four, Eli Whitney, he invented the cotton gin. Now it separated cotton from the seeds.

3:20 Now a person can clean around two pounds of cotton a day. The gin came in and it could clean almost fifty five pounds a day. So that revolutionized the cotton industry, made it hugely profitable. United States went from exporting five hundred thousand pounds of cotton a year in seventeen ninety three ten million pounds in eighteen ten. But it came with a really bad downside. See, cotton was growing down south, and to keep it from being possible, they really really increased the slave labor. Say, yeah, you need a lot more pickers to go with all that demand. So yeah, caught slavery to spike in the United States. Eighteen twelve, the United States started selling war bonds for their first time. It was to pay for the War of eighteen twelve. During that war, they actually called it the Second War of Independence. It was after the ward over they called it the War of eighteen twelve. Did so eleven million dollars in bonds. Nineteen twenty three, a US president Warranty Martin. He became the first US president that have to pay income taxes. New York City. In nineteen thirty one, they built the first movie theater where the projector was in the back of the theater. Nineteen ninety seven, President Bill Clinton. He tripped injured his knee really really bad. He had to have surgery on it.

4:26 Now the incident still listed as classified. So knowing sure if he was running from Hillary or an Ira husband. Joke joked, joked, joke, show dish Shibbert day. He left this shiver day. We got simple cage. He left this Shibbert day. And you you don't. All right? Who was born on March the fourteenth. Albert Einstein was born in Homem, Germany, in eighteen seventy nine. The most physicist in all time. Now, even regular people like me, we know his theory of relativity. He equals mc square, the most emphasian, Yeah, the most famous equation of all time. You know, he equals mc square. It means energy equals mass times the speed of light q are squared. Einstein. He fled Germany for the United States in nineteen thirty five and settled in Princeton, New Jersey.

5:14 Now I never worked at Princeton University. He just did his own thing over there. Married his first wife back at nineteen oh three, and they had a daughter and two sons. Divorced in nineteen nineteen. In their divorce settlement and said that if Einstein ever won a Nobel Prize, she got the money. She got the money in nineteen twenty two. Now he married his cousin in nineteen nineteen, just a few months after that divorce was final. His cousin died in nineteen thirty six. Albert died in nineteen fifty five from an abdomino aortic aneurysm seventy six years old. Now he refused all treatment or surgery. Thing. Yeah, he said he was ready to go. Actor Sir Michael Kaine He's ninety three. Born in London, England, in nineteen thirty three. Now, when he was serving in the British Armor and fighting in the Korean War, he caught malaria, so he sent him home in discharged him, so he went into acting.

5:59 He's won two Oscar for Handing Her Sisters and the Ciderhouse Rolls. Nominated four other times for Oscars. He's been over one hundred and thirty movies. Let's say some fairly recent ones that you probably know of. He was out from three Batman movies. He was in Now You See Me movies, Journeying to the Mysterious Island. Last movie was The Great Escape in twenty twenty three. He retired after that one. Michael had a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen seventy three and they have a daughter. Quincy Jones, one of the most famous names in music history, was born in Chicago in nineteen thirty three. Record producer, songwriter, composer, record executive, trumpet player, you name it, he did it. He was nominated for Grammy. He's a record eighty times. He won twenty eight times. That's not the record. Beyoncely has the record of thirty two, but she wasn't nominated near eighty times. Now, with all his success, he never learned how to drive a car.

6:45 They seem a little bit normal now. He had a daughter from his first wife, then he had a daughter from a fling, and then he had a daughter and a song from his second wife. His third wife was actress Pey Lipton. Now their two daughters are both actresses, Kadida and Rashida Jones. That divorce, Quincy said enough he wasn't getting married again. I mean he did have one more daughter. Quincy died in twenty twenty four at ninety one years old from pancreatic cancer. So much. Body of stage to Cather and never forever tell me what's more. Country singer Michael Martin Murphy. He was born in Dallas, Texas, nineteen forty five. He started out as a folk singer. Then he started the band called Trinity River Boys, and one of the guys in the band was Michael Nesmith. Then when Michael became a member of the Monkeys, yeah he brought Murphy along with him. So yes, Michael Martin Murphy. He did write some of the Monkey songs that did get him a record Deal nineteen seventy five, he crossed over and had then a huge number one pop tart song called Wildfire. Some of his country hits are What's Forever for still making chances along the line of love, I'm Gonna miss You. Girl still performs a little bit. He has four times divorced and has a daughter and son from those marriages. Actor comedian Billy crispal Is seventy eight. Billy's been a mad at in New York in nineteen forty eight and first got known on the sitcom Soap. Then his first movie was Rabbit Test,

8:18 then Running Scared that was his best movie, then Throw Mama from the Train when Harry met Sally the City Slickers movies. He hosted the Academy Awards nine times and he won two Emmy Awards for hosting the Academy Awards. Billy he married his high school sweetheart in nineteen seventy and they have two daughters. If you're wondering Billy's nine time hosted in the Academy Wars, that's the second most. Bob Hope He'll hosted in the most. He listened him nineteen times. Wow Tis Jockey TV is Rick D's was born in Jacksonville, Florida, in nineteen fifty grew up in Greensboro, North Carolina. Seventy six years old today in nineteen seventy six, he's working as a DJ at a radio station at Memphis Tendency. He was just goofing around, recorded that song Disco Duck went to number one, so hold over six million copies. So that made him nationally known. It is on Late nine TV show for a couple of years.

9:27 Rick's best known know for his syndicated radio show, Rick D's Top forty Ken Down. Been doing it since nineteen eighty three. Yeah, still on over too in the radio stations. Rick married his second wife in nineteen seventy eight and they have a son, Alexei Pajnatov. He is seventy one. Also, he was born in Moscow, soviean Union. Now he has caused a whole lot of people to waste a whole lot of time over the years, maybe the most of any But he created the game Tetris in nineteen eighty four. Yeah, I've wasted a lot of time playing that too. Now, he was working for the Soviet government. Now it wasn't his job, he was his wasted time and goofing off well and then came up with Tesser. Became popular over in the Soviet Union. When American named Hank Rogers actually heard about it, he went over to the Soviet Union.

10:09 He was able to get the rights for the game, so he licensed those too Nintendo. So basically, the game invented in the Soviet Union, discovered by an American and was brought to the United States by a Japanese company. Now as huge as Tetris was, a Looxi didn't get any money from it at all, So in nineteen ninety one he came to the United States. Simon Rodgers founded the Tetris Corporation now Alexi. He's gotten paid, he's married, and they have two sons. Act as Grace Park. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy four. She's fifty two. Moved to Canada when she was two years old. Got known on TV, first on Edgemont and then Battlestar Galactica. Most known know for playing Kona on the Hawaii five Ou Show. She was on A Million Little Things for five years after that. Grace she married in two thousand and four and they have a son. After Chris Klein.

10:54 He was born in Hinsdale, Illinois, in nineteen seventy nine. He's forty seven. He played Odz in the American Pie Movies. Then after that he's a say it isn't so when we were soldiers just friends on TV. He played Cicada on Flash. Chris married in twenty fifteen and they have a son and a daughter. Taylor Hanson is forty three. He is born in Jinx, Oklahoma, in nineteen eighty three.

11:35 It's a suburb of Tulsa now. His older brother Isaac and younger brother Zach and him. They formed Hanson in nineteen ninety two. They're actually seven handsome kids, the other four. I guess I had to buy tickets to the show. Taylor he is their lead singer and plays keyboards. Some handsOn hits are Where's the Love I Will Come to You Now. They release new music still and they perform and later on this year they're actually opening up for Shine Down Now. Taylor he married in two thousand and two and they have seven kids, four boys and three girls. Alright, here go to the day cause from Stephen Hawking. He died today in twenty eighteen. He was seventy six. Years old, Steven says, however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. Well. Thank you all for listening day. Don't forget to follow U who you listen to us on and always hit those links down at the bottom of the page, like if you want to go to Spotify and hear the complete song of any of those clips I play. That's all right there country and around radio artists a day. It comes from Patty in Minneapolis. She wants to hear Christy Lamb song.

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