March 17th-St. Patrick's Day, Nat King Cole, Lovin' Spoonful, Kurt Russel, Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, Smashing Pumpkins

0:19 Welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff and today's March the seventeenth. I'm a little Leprikhan's sting green, the tiniest men. That you have seen. If you ever catch me, so it's told, I'll give you my big part of gold. Today is Saint Patrick's Day. Today we celebrate Saint Patrick and the arrival of Christianity to Ireland. It also celebrates Irish culture and heritage. So why wear green? Well, it makes you invisible to leprecauns. See leprechauns, they like to pinch people they can see. Most countries around the world celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. It's one of the biggest one day festivals worldwide. Now the Catholic Church it recognized Saint Patrick's Day in sixteen thirty one, say in March seventeenth.

1:09 It usually falls during Lynt and you can't drink alcohol during Lent, so they thought it was a good excuse to allow everyone to drink some alcohol and saying it celebrate Saint Patrick's Day. First Saint Patrick's Day Preade though, is even older than that sixteen thirty one. The first Saint Patrick's Day Preye, Yeah, It was held in what is now Augusta, Florida, in sixteen oh one. So yeah, the Spaniards did that one Saint Patrick's Day. It's always been bigger in the United States than Ireland. Ireland they didn't even really celebrate it until the nineteen seventies. Then they looked across the pond and saw how much fun America was having and decided to particke in the festivities. Yep, everybody is Irish today, so I have fun and made the luck of the Irish be with you. And no, Saint Patrick's did not drive all the snakes out of Ireland. Ireland never had any snakes. It's on an island and it's really cold, all right? This Who's going on entertainment on March seventeenth. Back in nineteen eighty two, now one album was Beauty in the Beat by the Go Gos.

2:00 Jake Ole's band had the number one song with Centerfold years ago and there's the hole age on the pages and tweet sent apol Scle. Charlie Pride had the number one country song with Mountain of Love panding on. The mountain looking down on the city. Oh happy is a dog bone Pity Kid dropped the ball and down the mountain. Inside. Many times I've been geared, and many.

2:42 Times I pray we used to be so happy when we. Were in love. Pie on the Mountain. The number one book was The Parsifal Mosaic by Robert Letningham. The top movie was Porky's in Florida in nineteen fifty four. Some high school guys. They want to revenge John, a sleazy nightclub owner, and his corrupt brother The Sheriff stars Dan moynihan, Mark Harrier and Whyaet Knight. Twenty fifteen, at a Saint Patrick's state concert in Brussels, Belgium, the band The Script they were the headliners. They bought all eight thousand people in the crowded drink. According to the Guinness Book, a world's record. That's the largest round ever paid for. Okay, what happened on March the seventeenth, Now, there is more to why Saint Patrick's Day is held on March seventeen than just so Catholics can drink. A sixteen year old boy in around the year four hundred ended up becoming Saint Patrick.

3:31 He was captured by Irish pirates from his hometown in England. He was taking Ireland as sold as a slave, works as a slave for six years before he's able to escape and go back home to England. And when he got home he became a priest and later on he became a bishop. And then God called him to return to Ireland and introduce that pagan land to Christianity. So he did became very well loved and respected, and Irish they did take to Christianity also, Saint Patrick. He died on March seventeenth, and for sixty one they estimated he was in his late seventies. London, England. In eighteen forty five, Stephen Perry invented the rubber band, probably a bigger invention than we give credit. Eighteen ninety eight, in New York, off the coast of Staten Island, John Philip Poland he successfully tested the first modern submarine submarine. Yeah. It state submerged for one hour and forty minutes. Yeah, came back to the top. That's why it was successful. Nineteen fifty, scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, they announced they had to discover the element californium number ninety eight on your periodic table. Now it's a man made elements. I guess they didn't discover it. They're kind of messing around, said hey, look a we mane an element, and now it is radioactive. It is the second heaviest of all the elements, the most expensive element in the world. Got twenty seven million dollars a gram and they only make half a grammy a year. So what would you use californium on. Well, you can use it to decked oil and water layers and oil wells, and you can use it for metal and stress fatigue in airplanes. But for twenty seven million dollars in radioactive, you can't really use it for anything. Nineteen fifty eighth, the United States launched itecond satellite in the space that was only six inches across.

5:03 It was the first satellite powered by the Sun. It was to measure the Earth shape. Went silent in nineteen sixty four, but it's still up there, just going round and around. It's the oldest man made object in space. Twenty twenty, in Africa, Oh God bless them. Over one thousand cows arrived in the Angola border. Yeah, they came from the country of Chad. See Chad said they wanted to start paying back the one hundred million dollars they had borrowed from Angola. Joke joke, Coop joked cojke shod thish shivers day. Please Donna pause. He left this shiverday. We won't simple targe. He left this shivers day. And you know you don't give up because that's work. Well, let's check out us. Born on March the seventeenth. Unforgettable.

5:49 That's what you are. Unforgettable. Bone of Fall. Nat King Cole. He was born in Montgomery, Alabama, in nineteen nineteen. Started out doing jazz and then he slid into mainstream music. Had over one hundred hit songs, some of them are unforgettable. Smile, Let There Be Love, Stardust sold over fifty million records. Married his second wife in nineteen forty eight and they had five children. One of those is his daughter, the singer Natalie Cole and Now. He died young forty five years old from lung cancer. Actors Eunus Gayson. She was born in Croydon, England, in nineteen twenty eight. She was the first Bond girl. She was actually James Bond's love interest in the first two Bond movies, Doctor No and From Rushwood Love. She played Sylvia Trench. Guess her other biggest movie. That'd have to be Revenge of Frankenstein. She divorced twice and had a daughter from her second husband. You know. She died in twenty eighteen at ninety years old. Music whatever, Son, Since it's the music.

7:01 An old times, I'll tell you age. To tell us Angel. That was John Sebastian singing for The Love and Spoonful. John's eighty two, born in New York City in nineteen forty four. His godmother was Vivian Vance. Yeah, the lady who played Ethel and I Love Lucy. Johnny started out in blues. He played the harmonica, and he switched to rock and roll and helped form the band The Love and Spoonful nineteen sixty five. Love and Spoonful. They got their name from a commercial for Maxwell Hell's coffee. Well that might not be original, but they are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Some of their heads are Summer in the City. Did you ever have to make up your mind? Day dreamer? Do you believe in magic? Now?

7:42 John's biggest is when he went solo. Yeah. It was the theme for the TV show Welcome Back Godter Welcome Back When number one in nineteen seventy six. John He married his third wife in nineteen seventy two and they have two children. Actor Patrick Duffy. He was born in Towns in Montana in nineteen forty nine. Seventy seven years old. He was most know TV. Started in The Man from Atlantis. Then he has Bobby Ewing on Dallas. Then he's a step by step for seven years of Suzanne Slimmers. Patrick he married nineteen seventy four. They are together. His wife died in twenty seventeen. They had two sons. Now Patrick he started dating again and I guess he's got a long term girlfriend. I don't know anything about her other than that she played Fonzie's girlfriend in Happy Days. Actor Kurt Russell. He's seventy five. He's born in Springfield, Massachusetts in nineteen fifty one. Started acting at twelve years old.

8:26 Nineteen seventy he was Disney's biggest star. You know what the movie is a computer war, tennis shoes and the Strongest man in the World and all that. Then he made that really rare leap. He went from child star to adult star. Made seventy movies since he left Disney Escaped from New York, The Thing Overboard Doombstone. He's played in Elvis twice, Yeah in the TV movie in nineteen seventies, and then he played Elvis in Forrest Gump. He was married for four years and they had a son. Been with actors Goldie Hans Is nineteen eighty three and they have a son. Actor Gary Sinisee is seventy one. He's born in Blue Island, Illinois. In nineteen five he was in Forrest Gump. He was nominated for an Oscar for playing Lieutenant Dian. Some other movies are Apollo thirteen, The Green Mile, The Quick and The Dead Ransom on TV start on CSI in New York for nine years. For all his success as an actor, Gary's a bigger humanitarian.

9:14 He is a huge supporter for the men and women in our military and our veterans. He's received over twenty really prestigious humanitarian awards over the years. Also has the Gary sonise Foundation. Gary married nineteen eighty one and they have three children. Since two thousand and four, Gary has played in the Lieutenant Dan Band's Right. He plays bass guitar. He lit's the other Guy's sing Now Since then, they've been in over two hundred or over six hundred shows, and most of them for charity. I told he was a good guy. My friendsly all lie me, elam my back and told me how. The thought I was insane. He said, son, you're too young to wear and ball and chain.

9:57 Bl Country singer Paulo over Street's also seventy one. He was born in Van Cleeve, Mississippi. Now he had a lot of successful songwriter just some of the people he's written number one songs for Randy Travis, Keith Whitley, Blake Shelton, The Judge, Kinny Chesney, Tanya Tecker. Now Paul He's done really good on himself singing some of his hits. Sorry help love helps those I see my father and me, Daddy's come around, balling change. His first wife was Dolly Parton's youngest sister, Freda. They only married a couple of years. Then he married a second wife in nineteen eighty five and they have six kids. Actor Rob Lowe was sixty two. He was born in Charlottesville, Virginia, in nineteen sixty four.

10:38 Now Rob is right, death in his right ear. That's right. When he was a baby, he had mumps that was undiagnosed led to a complete hearing loss in his right ear. His first movie was The Outsiders and Class sant Almo's Fire About Last Night. They had a couple of those Austin power movies on TV. Start on the West Wing Brothers and Sisters. He's been on nine one one Loadstar since two thousand. It's also been hosting the Games the Floor since twenty twenty four. That's actually a pretty good show for the game show. Robbie married nineteen ninety one and they have two sons. Ninety kids have.

11:29 The lead singer for the Smashing Pumpkins is Billy Corgan born in Chicago in nineteen sixty seven fifty nine today now a foreign Smashing Pumpkins in nineteen eighty eight. He sings lead, write their song and plays lead guitar, and he's the only original member still in the band. They have the heads Bullet with Butterfly Wings nineteen seventy nine, zero Tonight Tonight Now. Billy is really big and professional wrestling. He owns the National Wrestling Alliance there in wa. He was married once for four years. He's been with his girlfriend since twenty thirteen and they have two kids. Alrighty our quote of the day, You know what, let's just go with Saint Patrick. He said, the Lord is the greatest of all. I have said enough. Well, thank you all for listening to and don't forget to follow us who you listen to us? So on it's whatever easy to find and check out today's show description for links to like the home page and Country and Ground Radio and that kind of stuff, and the link to Spotify.

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