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

0:10 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and Factoids about today is in a by Cool Media. Hope you're all having a great Thursday. It's a blizzard day here in Colorado today. Now, don't get too excited just yet. Today is National Pie Day. But not the kind of pie that you like. No, this is the pie pi you know, the mathematical constant. It goes three point one four nine, and yeah, it just goes on forever. Now, I don't know why you'd want to celebrate that, and I don't know why you'd want to do this. In twenty nineteen, Emma haraku Ioa, she set the record. She calculated pie to thirty one point four trillion digits. Now that might sound impression, but I'm kinda think you need to get a life. But now this is impressive. This is an awesome way to celebrate March the fourteenth. Potato tips, How potato tips? My mouth? Rip, crunch, crunch. I don't want no lunch. All I want is potato chips. Potato chips, How my mouth, potato chips? It is National Potato chip Day. Told you it was awesome. In eighteen fifty three, at the Saratoga Inn, and Saratoga Springs, New York. A customer in a restaurant he kept sending back his potatoes saying that they were thick and sogging. So the chef, George Crume, he really got pissed off. So he just sliced those potatoes as thin as he possibly could, and then he fried him up as chrisp as he could.

1:34 Then he put a whole bunch of extra salt on him and sent him back to today. Wow, the customer, he loved him, and the potato chip was born. The only downside about today is potato chips are one of the most unhealthy foods that you can possibly eat. That won't worry about that later on today, We're just gonna celebrate the potato chip. All right, this is going on in entertainment on March the fourteenth, Let's go back here, two thousand and seven number one album was Not Too Late by Norah Jones. MIMS had the number one song, and this is why I'm hot. This is what this is wat This is whim hot. This is wim hot hot, this is wim hot. This is why this is why this is wam hot. I'm hot because I'm flying. Ain't because this is what this is wat this is Sam Hot. I'm hot because I'm flying. Ain't cush this is this is trace Atkins had the number one country song with Ladies Love Country Boys. She ran in the middle of a speaker truck, claring Charlie Daniels him. In turn, they raised her up a lady. But there's one thing they club ball Ladies Warm Country Boy. The number one book was Shoppahallock and Baby by Sophie Kinsella. The top movie was three hundred three hundred Spartans. They have to fight a massive Persian army, stars Conrad Butler, Lena Headley, and David Winham. Nineteen seventy two, California Governor Ronald Reagan he pardoned Merle Haggard. Yeah, the country singer. See he absolutely

3:07 absolved Merle for a burglary that he had committed. We had to spend three years in prison for it. Merle, he can now vote again. All right, Let's see what this happened in the world. On March the fourteenth, Now way back the city of Boston. They were all Puritan and seeing they outlawed being a Quaker see Quaker, as they believe that God talked to everybody, not just the clergy, to the Puritans. That was just pure heresy. So if you were a Quaker in Boston, you could be branded with an age for heretic. You could have a hot iron bore a hole through your tongue, or you could have your ears cut off. Why are you could just be hung well out today? In sixteen sixty one, the fourth Quaker to be hung was His name was William Hedro. Now word of hedderas hanging made it all the way back to England. Yeah, England's King Charles, he heard about it and he put a stop to that really fast, told him basically to start playing nice. Now, those four who were hung for it, they're actually known today in the Boston Martyrs. Seventeen ninety four, L. Whitney, he got his patent for invented the cotton gin.

4:01 It separated the cotton from the seeds. See, a person could clean around two pounds of cotton a day, but the gin, it can clean almost fifty five pounds. So that revolutionized the cotton industry, made it hugely profitable. The United States went from exporting five hundred thousand pounds of cotton a year and seventeen ninety three ten million pounds in eighteen ten. That came with a really bad downside though. Cotton was grown down in the South, so to keep it super profitable, yeah, they had to use a lot of slave labor and it really grew a lot. Eighteen twelve, the United States sent started selling war bonds for the first time. It was to pay for the War of eighteen twelve. Sold about eleven million dollars worth of them. Nineteen twenty three, the twenty ninth President of the United States, William G.

4:44 Harding, made history became the first president who had to pay an income dext Nineteen thirty one, in New York City, they built the first movie theater where the movie projector is actually in the back of the theater. Nineteen sixty four in Dallas, Texas, Jack Ruby. He was sentenced to death for kill Lee Harvey Oswald, who had killed President John F. Kennedy. Nineteen ninety seven President Bill Clinton. He tripped, injured his knee really bad. It required surgery, but it's still classified. They won't say whether he's running away from Hillary or an irate husband. Coke Coke goat shage this shibirth day. We're gonna tag he left this shibirth day. We don't simple targe. He's like this shibirth day. And you know, we don't give up because that's birthday, all right. It was born on March the fourteenth.

5:30 Albert Einstein. He was born in Olm, Germany, in eighteen seventy nine. He's the most famous physicist of all time. Now, just regular people like me, We even know about his theory of relativity. You know, E equals MBC squared. That's the most famous equation of all time. You know what it is though, E equals mc squared. It is energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. Einstein he fled Germany for the United States in nineteen thirty five, sold them Princeton, New Jersey. Now he didn't actually work at Princeton University. Now, he just kind of did his own thing. His first wife in nineteen oh three, and they had a daughter and two sons. They divorced in nineteen nineteen. Now, part of the divorce degree has stated that if Einstein ever won the Nobel Prize, she got the money. She got the money in nineteen twelve. He married his cousin in nineteen nineteen and they were together until she died in nineteen thirty six.

6:17 Albert He died nineteen fifty five from abderm abdominal aortic aneurysm. It's seventy six years old now. He had actually refused treatment for it. He said he was ready to go. Actor Sir Michael Caine is ninety one. He's born in ruther Hike to England in nineteen thirty three. Won Oscars for Hanna and her sisters in The Cider House Roles. Nominated for four other movies Ben and over one hundred and thirty movies. They've made almost eight billion dollars. Some of his recent movies that you'll know he was Alfred and three of the Batman movies. He did that Now You See Me movies, Journey to the Mysterious Island. He was actually in The Great Escaper just last year and that was it. Said. He's done, he's retired. He had a daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen ninety three or nineteen seventy three, and they have a daughter. One of the most famous names in music history, Quincy Jones. He's also ninety one, born in Chicago in nineteen thirty three, He's a record producer, songwriter, musician, composer.

7:12 Started out in nineteen forty nine, still going. He's been nominated for Grammys a record eighty times. He's won twenty eight of them. But that's not the record. No, Beyonce old the records. He's won thirty two Grammys. He's worked with everybody, so there's no reason to start name dropping ninety year and yuarro Quincy Jones. He's never learned how to drive a car. He had a daughter from his first wife, then he had a daughter from a fling. Then he had a daughter and a son from his second wife. His third wife was actress Piggy Lipton. Their two daughters are both actresses, Kadida and Rashida Jones. Now, after that a divorce in nineteen eighty nine, he decided that was it and he wasn't getting married anymore. I mean he did have one more daughter for fun, though so much the body of a stage to Kaz and neverever, tell me what's forever. Country singer Michael Martin Murphy is seventy nine, born in Dallas, Texas in nineteen forty five. Now he's going out on tour on March fourteenth if you want to check Michael out. Start out as a folk singer. Then he started a band called the Trinity River Boys. One of that guys in the band his name is Michael Nis Smith. Yeah. He went on to be a member of the Monkeys kind of Michael Murphy with him. Murphy actually wrote some of the Beatles songs until he got his own record deal in nineteen seventy two.

8:37 Nineteen seventy five, he crossed over and had the number one hitting the country on the pop chart with Wildfire. Some of his country hits are What's Forever for, still taking Chances along line of love, I'm Gonna miss You Girl. He has four times divorced and thirty has one daughter and one son. Actor comedian Billy Crystal. He was born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen forty eighty seventy six. First got known on the TV sit On Soap. Then he was on Saturday Night Live for one season. His first movie was Rabbit Test, then he had Running Scared, Throw Mama from the Train, when Harry Met Sale, did the City Slickers movies. He hosted the Academy Awards nine times. He has won two Emmys for hosting the Academy Award shows. He married his high school sweetheart in nineteen seventy and they have two daughters. Wow disc jockey actor TV host Rick D's. He was born in nineteen fifty in Jacksonville, Florida, seventy four year old. In nineteen seventy six, he was a DJ at station in Memphis, Tennessee. You're just goofing around and recorded that song Disco Duck ended up going number one, sold over six million copies. It was also a huge hit in Australia and Great

10:09 Britain, and he said, okay, he started to releasing another parody. Is that nothing that big? He did get some small acting roles in some movies and TV shows. He got his on late night TV talk show though for a couple of years. He is best known though for a syndicated radio show, Rick D's Top forty Countdown. Been doing this since nineteen eighty three. It's on over too in a radio station. Been married to a second wife since nineteen seventy eight and they have a son. So how much time have you wasted over the years playing the game tetris? Alexi Tajatov. He was born in Moscow, Soviet Union in nineteen fifty five. He's sixty nine.

10:52 He created Tetris back in nineteen eighty four. He's working for the Soviet government. No, it wasn't his job. He was just goofing around and came up with the Then it became a big hit over in the Soviet Union. A guy named Hank Rogers, an American, he heard about that game, so he went to the Soviet Union. He's able to get the light their rights to the game, so then he licensed those rights to the Nintendo. They're the ones who brought it to the United States. In Japan, Oh Alexi, he didn't get a dime for it, so he came to the United States in nineteen ninety one and him and Rogers they formed the Tetris Company now Alexi. He was able to get paid. He's married and they have two sons. I honestly have no idea if there's a difference between the old Hawaiian five Zho and the new one that they did. Grace Park she's fifty. She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy four, moved to Canada when she was till She's best known for playing Tono on Hawaii five Oh played at from twenty ten to twenty seventeen. Then she did A Million Little Thing for five years. Before both of that, she was on Battlestar Galactica for five years. Some of her movies were West thirty, Second, Straight, Adventures in Public Schools, Freaks. She got married in two thousand and four and they have a son. Actor Chris Klein. He was born in nineteen seventy nine and Hinsdale, Illinois, forty five year first hit playing Odds in the American Five movies, Then Say It Is and So We Were Soldiers Just Friends on TV. He's best known for playing Cicada in The Flash.

12:24 He's been on Sweet Magnoia since twenty twenty. I think that's on Netflix. Chrissy married in twenty fifteen and they have a son and a daughter. Taylor Anson's forty one. He was born in Tulsa, Clomb in nineteen eighty three. He his older brother Isaac, and his younger brother there' Zach formed Hanson in nineteen ninety two. Now there are actually seven handsome kids, but those three hit big. Taylor he's their lead singer, plus he plays the keyboards.

13:07 Some of their biggers hit sorry, where's the love. I will come to you this time around, Bob. They're actually releasing a new movie and getting ready to go out and do some turn If you want to go check out Hanson Taylor. He got married in two thousand and two and they have seven children, four boys and three girls. All Right, today's factoid that will win you beer. Scientists they have proven that people who listen to classical music have the same personalities as people who listen to heavy metal. I wouldn't they all right, let's end of Stephen Hawking. He died today in twenty eighteen, seventy six years old. However difficult life may seem, there's always something that you can do and succeed at. Well, thank you for being here today. We fear appreciate you get a chance follow us on whoever you're listening to us on, and if you get a chance to, I have at coolmedia dot com and see what we're doing on the podcast and the radio stations all that good stuff. You guys all have yourselves an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow to clesing nation.