March 18th-Sloppy Joe, Charley Pride, Mike Rowe, Vanessa Williams, Queen Latifah, Adam Levine, Largest Art Heist

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Factor. It's about today visited by cool Media. Today is March the eighteenth. SLAD Today is National slop Beat Joe Day. I was Lupi Joe's. They were created by a bartender in Havana, Cuba, in nineteen twenty. His name was Jose Taro. Now what he did is pretty simple. He took some shredded beef mixed with a tomato sauce and some spices. But at the exact same time at a cafe in Sioux City, Iowa. The cook who was named Joe, he came up with the exact same thing. So take your bick on who you want to give credit for today.

1:00 By the nineteen sixty Sloppy Jos they were really popular hunts. They came out the Man Witch in nineteen sixty nine to make it even easier. But they're pretty easy to make it. Just make them to your own taste. So wear white shirt today and enjoy some sloppy Joes. All right, this is going on entertainment on March the eighteenth. It's back to your nineteen eighty number. When appened was the Wall by Pink Floyd Queen had the number one song with crazy Little Thing called Love. Conway Twitty had the number one country song with I'd Love to Lay You Down.

1:46 There's a lot of ways of saying what I want to say to you. There's songs and forms and promises and dreams. It might come true. But I won't talk of starst gys light on the grap I'll come right out and tell you I just loved lad that. The number one book was The Born Identity by Robert Ledlam. The top movie was Co Miner's Daughter. It's a story of country singer the red lyin stars Sissy Spasic and Tommy lead jokes A what happened on March the eighteenth. Now back in thirteen oh seven, Francis King Philip the Fourth he owed the Knights Templar a lot of money. Well, actually he owed everybody money. He was deep in debt, that's what he did. He one guy with the Pope and he had the Pope outlive the Knights of Templar. Yeah, the Pope did it. He called them all heretics. So they rounded up all the leaders and as many nights as they could get, and they'll throw them all in prison. Actually, most of the Templars escaped with all their riches and money and treasure and all that kind of stuff. So the king and the Pope, yeah, they had nothing to split between them. So it's today, in thirteen fourteen that the Templars, who had been held in prison for the last seven years, Yeah, including their grand master jock Stein Malay, they were all burned the stake. Yeah, that ended the knights Templar. But before he was burned, Jocks d Molet put a curse on the king and the Pope. Over the next three years, the king, the first three heirs to his thrown, and the Pope all died unexpectantly. Now no one has ever figured out what happened. All the nights Templars treasure, They're still out there somewhere. Let's stay

3:18 in Paris. In sixteen sixty two, the first public buses began running. Yeah. They were horse drawn carriages built to carry eight people. Started out just people, Yeah, they just rode it for fun. They were kind of in fun, but then they figured out that they were actually practical. But the wealthy took them over and they refused to have the peasants ride with them. So I without the peasants riding. Yeah, they couldn't afford to keep in business, so they shut down. In sixteen seventy five, YEP had to fall bankruptcy. Public gress buses they didn't run in another major city until eighteen ninety five. Nineteen twenty five, the deadliest single tornado ever to hit the United States. It was a huge F five with winds gusts over three in a miles an hour, called the Great tri State Tornado, ran for two hundred nineteen miles across southeast Missouri, southern Illinois, and south was Indiana, killed six hundred and ninety five people, injured over two thousand, and destroyed over fifteen thousand homes.

4:06 Nineteen thirty one, Shick, they started selling the first electric razors. Did we just staffed the dock when the truck started down the hill. Athletes in the Pennsylvania. Carrying thirty thousand pounds carrying a thirty thousand. Pounds n. Now, that song thirty thousand pounds bananas by Folks singer Harry Chapin hit really big in nineteen seventy four, but it all was inspired by what happened today in nineteen sixty four, so he had truck lost control going down a hill on Mosic Street over in Scranton, Pennsylvania, killed the driver and guess what spilled thirty thousand pounds of bananas.

4:51 Nineteen sixty five the Pillsbury dough Boy debut. Now his name is actually Popping Fresh, and he does have a wife. Her name is Poppy or missus dough Boy. They have kids. The son is named Popper and the daughter's named Bumbu. Their dog he's named flap Jack, and their cat, yeah, named Biscuit. Now you could actually buy dolls of all of them back of the day. I don't know if you can to do it or not. Nineteen ninety the biggest art robbery in US history went down in Isabella Stewart Garner Museum. It was in Boston. Two men, they dressed up of police officers. They just rained the doorbell and said, hey, we're responding to a disturbance call. We need to come in and check it out. Well, one of the security guards he broke protocol. That was a no no, but he let him in. So they handcuffed him and his partner and then they taped them all up with duct tape and everything. Stole themselves thirteen paintings worth five hundred million dollars. There are some rim brands and monaise thrown in there.

5:40 Now. They still haven't found the thieves. They still haven't caught the people who did it. Nothing but get this. If you have any information that leads the recovery event of that artwork, ten million dollar reward. I'll split it with you. Dot coat coat coat show shimmer day. Please he left this birthday. We know, simple tage like this shi birthday and you know we don't do that's a birthday, okay. He was born on March eighteenth, Grover Cleveland. He was born in Caldell in New Jersey in eighteen thirty seven. Start out as a lawyer. He was drafted by the Union Army to fight in the Civil War, but he paid a Polish immigrant one hundred and fifty bucks to go fight in his place. That was actually legal back then. Yeah, if you were drafting, yeah you could pay something to take your spot. They didn't care as long as somebody showed up. The one hundred and fifty dollars he paid that Polish immigrant. It'd be about thirty six hundred dollars today.

6:30 Cleveland he was the twenty second and the twenty fourth United States president. His first term was from eighteen eighty five eighteen eighty time. Then he lost his re election to Benjamin Harrison. Then four years later he came back and beat Harrison. Yeah, so he served a second one from eighteen ninety three to eighteen ninety seven. Grover, he had not married before he became president. Now, one year into his first term, forty nine year old Grover, Yeah, married himself a twenty one year old college students, Francis Cleveland. She's still the youngest first lady of all time. I don't see that being broke. Now they had children. He died from heart failure in nineteen oh eight at seventy one years old. Now, there was a TV show called Mission Impossible. Now, Tom Cruise, wasn't it. Peter Graves was though.

7:27 He was born Peter Arnest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in nineteen twenty six. His older brother was actor James Arnest. You know the guy who played Marshall Dylon on Gun Smoke all those years now, Peter, of course, he's best known for starring on Mission Impossible. He's in over seventy movies. Stalhoc's seventeen, Killer Us from Space, all those airplane movies, and some of what he did. He married nineteen fifty and they had three daughters, Peter. He died three or four days before his eighty fourth birthday in twenty ten. You got to kiss, I mean your good morning. I don't know you'd think about or when you're year go kissing angels and morn. I love her like the level when you get back.

8:08 Old country singer Charlie Pride Is born a Sledge, Mississippi, in nineteen thirty four. Started out playing professional baseball. It was a two time Negro League All start pitcher. Nineteen fifty eight, Charlie and another player they got traded to the other team for their bus. I was out days off on baseball. When he wasn't pitching, he spent them singing in clubs. Ended up paying out pretty good. He ended up selling over seventy million records, fifty two top ten songs, thirty number one songs, some of us number one hits, where someone loves You, Honey, just between you and Me, Burgers and fries, Kissing Angel, good Morning Charlie. He married in nineteen fifty six. They had two sons and one daughter. Then Charlie went and had another son on the side, Charlie. He performed right up until he died from COVID in twenty twenty at eighty six years old.

8:53 I'm going away else. Wilson Pickett. He was born in Prattville, Alabama, in nineteen forty one. Started out singing gospel, and he wanted to make some money, so he switched to R and B and rock and roll. He had the head landed him one thousand, Dan says Mustang Sally, Funky Broadway, It's the Midnight Hour, went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in nineteen ninety one. Now he really really struggled with cocaine and alcohol pretty much his entire life. Yeah, cut his career short, got him into a lot of trouble with the police.

9:36 Yeah. I finally got him in two thousand and six. Yeah, I killed him at sixty four years old from all kinds of different health problems. He had been married at one point from nineteen fifty nine to nineteen eighty six, and they had two children, so after they divorced, Yeah, his wife must have been holding them back. He had four children from four other women. That was Irene Kara. She was born in the Bronx, New York. In nineteen fifty nine, when she has six years old, she started doing Broadway and up Broadway shows. She really hit big in the movie Fame. She started and saying the theme song.

10:25 Then she'd even bigger singing that song Flash Dance. What a feeling. She wanted an oscar and a Grammy for it. Some of her other hits you might have heard where out here on my own Wymy. We basically irene. She did most of the retired stuff behind the scenes. She married once for five years. She died from heart disease at only sixty three years old in twenty twenty two. Television host and narrator Mike Rose sixty three. He's one of Baltimore County, Maryland Mike. He was hosting a local TV show out in San Francisco when one of the segments was Somebody's got to do it? Yeah, all about jobs no one wants to do Oh. That led to the creation of the show Dirty Jobs, debut on the Discovery Channel two thousand and three. It left in twenty twelve, but then they came back. It's been on the air since twenty twenty now Mike.

11:06 He is. He's pretty famous for narrating all those shows. Everybody kind of knows his voice. For get this. Before he did all that, he sang professionally, Yeah for the Baltimore Opera. Now, Mike, he has a big advocate for trade jobs. He's got this organization called micro Works. Now. It is really good at helping young people start careers and all kinds of trades, you know, welding, electricians, plumbing, all that kind of stuff. So if you or somebody you know need some yeah, I just go to micro Works. They'll set you up. Mike, he hasn't married yet, but he's been in a long, long, long term relationship. That might be one of the prettiest songs. On her birth announcement, it read here she is Miss America Vanessa william She's sixty two. She was born in Terrytown, New York. Now she got famous in nineteen eighty four when she won the Miss American pageant. But back there, they were kind of sticklers. They didn't like the fact that there were naked pictures of Miss America floating around. So yeah, she had to resign. She was only missic in America for ten months instead of the twelve didn't Know They're back though.

12:21 She's got a really good career, released eight albums. Some of her biggest hits are Dreaming, Just for Tonight, Love Is Saved, the Best for Last. She started on Broadway. On TV, she started on Ugly Betty and Desperate Housewives. Biggest movie probably Eraser Vanessa. She had three children from first husband. Second husband was basketball player Wreck Fox and they had a daughter. Then she married another guy for six years. In Sync Meets Me to will Number Flow Float. Every time I hear her brother pulled the girl up, picture of her trying to make us stip to loaf. You know, full of that gots to go. Now, everybody knows this exception to this rule. I don't be kicking bath when we playing. It's cool, but don't you. Be calling me my name. I'ming quests to those who just respect me like a name.

13:04 Fifty five year old Queen Latifa. She was born in Newark, New Jersey. Now as a rapper, she hit in nineteen eighty nine. She had the heads, Just Another Day, Dance for Me, Ladies First Unity. Then she made a seamless transition from rapping acting on TV. She started on Living single. She's currently starring on The Equalizer. She was nominated for an oscar for the movie Chicago. She's also an house party to the Bone Collector Beauty Shop. Now she's voiced Eli and all those Ice age movies. Now her and her partner. I don't think they're married, but I think him and her. I think both of those two girls, I think they Yeah, I don't. I think they're just partners anyway. They have one son, Love It, Love It splem me win youow way.

13:48 Okay, way to be that way? What lift Jange. That's Adam Levian, singing lead for the band Moon Five. He's forty six born in Los Angeles nineteen ninety four. Helped form the band Kara's Flowers. In two thousand and one, they changed their name to Moon five and their popularity took off. Imagine that now they sold there one hundred and thirty five million records. Some of their biggest hits are makes Me Wonder, moves like Jagger, Payphone, One More Night. Adam, he didn't become a househole name for singing with the band though. No, he became a househole name when he was a coach for the Voice.

14:31 He got married in twenty fourteen and they have three children. Leanic, New Orleans went back up in the woods among the evers alone, haven't made. A worth in one where in the country. Bar named Johnny B Woon who never ever learned to read a right so well, but he could play a guitar just like a ring in LaBelle. Oh jnny ho. Ho Chuck Barry Chuck died today in twenty seventeen at ninety years old. Chuck said, don't let the same dog bite you twice. Well, thank you all for listening today, and no free to follow us on whoever you're listening to a son now, Our country underground radio artist of the day is Robinson Freezer. We're gonna play a song.

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