March 20th-Ravioli, Mr. Rogers, Jerry Reed, Spike Lee, Holly Hunter, Linkin Park, Kenny Rogers, Carl Reiner

0:19 Hey, hello, and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today. I am Jeff. Today's the first day of spring. It arrived at eight forty six am Mountain time, So happy spring. So what else can we celebrate on March the twentieth? Oh, ravioli, Hilo, ravioli, ravioli. It's the stuff for me. Do I have it on my nose? Yes? You have it on your nose, on my nose, on your nose. Whoa ravioli, Hilo, ravioli, ravioli, it's the stuff for me. Today is National Ravioli Day. Now, large ravioli they are called ravalani. Small ravioli they're called raveladi ravioli. It's pretty basic. Two piece a pasta filled with meat, cheese, vegetable that whatever you want. And then there, of course, are covered in sauce. Now there are dessert ravioli, so don't forget about those today. If you're gonna celebrate raviol it goes back to the thirteen hundreds. Over in the Italy area.

1:12 We can't say Italy because it won't be a country until eighteen sixty one. Now, no no national deals today, so hit up your local Italian restaurants. Sorry, you can bake it yourself, you know, just enjoy some ravioli. Remember there's always a chef, boy or d all Right, this is going on entertainment On March twentieth, it's back to twenty twelve. Number one album was twenty one by Adele fun and Janelle. Money had the number one song with We Are Young O'll Carry You Home. Derek's Bentley had the number one country song with Home There was. The number one book was The Thief by Clive Klessler and John Scott. They co wrote it. The number one movie was a Hunger Games. Well, it's a TV competition where teenagers fight to the death. Stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutchison and Leen at Helmser. It's kind of a take on The Running Man, which is a better movie.

2:41 All right. What happened on March the twentieth, eighteen hundred Alessandro Volta. He announced his newest invention, the electric battery. Now the term volt It was officially adopted in eighteen eighty one to honor Volta. Besides inventing the first battery, he also did other pioneering work in lectricity. Eighteen fifty two, Harriet breecher Stowe's anti slavery novel Uncle Tong's Cabin was published. It is the first American book to sell one million copies. Eighteen fifty four, the anti slavery supporters and the Whig Party, Yeah, they broke away. They formed the Republican Party. So some of the politicians who left the Whigs to become Republicans or future presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison. Any guesses where the Republican Party was founded. Ripping, Wisconsin.

3:27 Nineteen twenty two, the USS Langley was commissioned. It was the world's first aircraft carrier. It was named after Samuel Langley. See Samuel He had unsuccessfully tried to catapult launch an aircraft from an houseboat. Yeah, back in nineteen o three. Witnesses said it flew like a bag of rocks. Well, still got the first aircraft carrier name for it, so it kind of worked. Nineteen thirty in North Corbin, Kentucky, Colonel Sanders he created Kentucky Fried Chicken. Yeah, it was a little cafe owned out there in North Corban. Now the cafe it went bankrupt, but the chicken survived nineteen fifty four in Columbia, Pennsylvania, but at the first newspaper vending machines, see, I don't see those anymore. Well, they stopped making them in twenty nineteen. Nineteen ninety nine, the first lego land outside of Europe opened up. It was in Carlsbad, California, outside San Diego. Two thousand and three of the ground war began in the Iraq War. Previous couple of days has just been bombing from airplanes and missiles, and so today the men and women on the ground they joined the fight. Two thousand and six, cyclone Larry made landfall in Australia. Let's be honest, cyclone Larry doesn't sound that bad. Well, Larry, he destroyed most of the country's banana crop. In twenty seventeen, in India, a court ruled that the Yamana and the Ganges rivers are living entities that granted them legal status as a person. So yeah, basically they have all the legal rights as people do.

4:47 Jokejke, joked, joke, sho, just shiver oday, We're gonna he left this shivery. We got simple tage. Just shivers day. You don't okay, who was born on March the twentieth, Well Carl Reiner was He was born in New York City in nineteen twenty two. He created The Dick Van Dyke Show and then he played Alan Brady in it. I think most of us all remember him. Most were playing sal in all those Oceans movies, Oceans eleven, twelve, and thirteen. Now some movies that Carl directed were Oh God, the Jerk dead Men, Don't wear a plaid, Fatal Instinct. He made a stell Back in nineteen forty three, and they had three children. One of them, of course, is Rob Reiner. Carl died from natural causes in twenty twenty, ninety eight years old.

5:32 It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Couldn't you be mine? It's a neighbor day, MS week, neighbor League team. Would you be mine? Fred Rogers he was such a badass, everybody just called him mister Rogers. He was born in Latrop, Pennsylvania, in nineteen twenty eight. He was a Presbyterian minister in side of a TV show You see Mister Rodgers Neighborhood from nineteen sixty eight to two thousand and one. Now over forty colleges in the universities gave him honorary doctor degrees. Now he rarely talked about his deep Christian faith in public. He totally by leading by example. Married nineteen fifty two and they had two sons. Fred died two thousand and three from semi cancer. Seventy four years old. Actor Hal Lindon, and he's ninety five. He's one of the Bronx New York in nineteen thirty one. Started out as a big band singer, then he joined the army. When he got out of the army side to go into acting. He get really big on Broadway, even one of Tony. He cut Broadway to star on the TV show Barney Miller.

6:34 Then he did Jack's Place. Some of his movies are the Others. Out to See Granddaddy Daycare. Married nineteen fifty eight. His wife died in twenty ten. They have four children. We going to Dusty Jones. Country singer Jerry Reid was born Atlanta, Georgia in nineteen thirty seven. Guy won three Grammys. Some of his number one songs when You're Hot, You're Hot, Lord, Mister Ford, She got the gold mine, I got the shaft. The bird that song, she got the gold mine and I got the shaft. It was so big. It's about basically him getting screwed over by his ex wife and Dolly Parton she did a counter to that song where she explains why the ex wife got the gold mine and he got the shaft. Jerry, he did quite a bit of acting. Some of his movies were Gators Smoking, the Bandit Movies, Bat twenty one, The water Boy married nineteen fifty nine and they had two daughters. Jerry died from emphysym in two thousand and eight, seventy one years old.

7:41 Actor William hurt He was born in Washington, DC in nineteen fifty. He was in over seventy movies. One An Oscar for Kissing the Spider Woman was nominated for Oscars for her Children, Over Lesser God, Broadcast News, The History of Violence. He played Thattius Ross and a Whole Bunch of Avenger Hulking Captain American movies. He had one child from a fling, two children from a set Gocko wife. Then he had another daughter just messing a round. William died from pancreatic cancer in twenty twenty two, seventy one years old. Movie maker Spike Lee is sixty nine. He is born in Atlanta, Georgia in nineteen fifty seven. Grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Started making movies as he was getting his master's degree in college. He won an Academy Award for Best Student Film. It's called Joe's Bedsty Barbershop. We cut hiss up after graduating. Keep on rolling. She got to have it, do the right thing, Jungle Fever.

8:27 He got game. He did win another Oscar for Black Clansman. Now, if you're old enough to remember the nineteen nineties, he played Mars Blackman and a whole bunch of TV commercials with Michael Jordan. They were selling shoes. Spikey married nineteen ninety three and they have two children. Access Holly Hunter. She is sixty eight. She's born in Conyers, Georgia, in nineteen fifty eight. Her best movie is Raising Arizona, but she didn't win anything for it. Now she got squat. She was nominated for Oscars for Broadcast News, The Firm, and thirteen. She did win an Oscar for the piano. She married once for six years and she's been with her boyfriend since two thousand and one and they have twin sons. It starts with. I don't know why it s doesn't need no matter how hard trot.

9:07 Keep that in mind. On the signs, Roger was slaying a two times. No time is a valuable thing. Watch it flop by is the fangelum swings. Watch it countdown to the end of the days of clock takes like a way so much really. Chester Bittington he was the lead vocalist for the band Lincoln Park. He's born in Phoenix, Arizona, in nineteen seventy six. He joined Lincoln Park in nineteen ninety nine. Now they sold over seventy million records, with him singing lead and co writing the songs. Some are numb What have I done? In the end? Chester He had two sons from a girlfriend. Then he had a daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife in two thousand and six and they had three children and Chester he hung himself in twenty seventeen, only forty one years old.

9:50 Already. Quote of the day it comes from Kenny Rogers. You got to know when the who. No, when the. Fool those now, when the walk week no when to run. You never count you money when you're sitting at the stables, and there'll be timing out count when the dne. Kenny died today in twenty twenty at eighty one years old. He said, don't be afraid to give up the good for the great. I like that. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. Are you listen to the son so we're easy to find. Check out the show notes so you can figure out all the links, like going to Spotify.

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