March 25th-Medal of Honor Day, Waffles, Aretha Franklin, Elton John, Sarah Jessica Parker, GA REP thinks Gaum will tip over

0:19 Hey, Hello one in all, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today Today's March. The twenty fifth today is National Medal of Honor Day. It recognizes all the military personnel who have been awarded the Medal of Honor. Medal of Honor, it's the highest award for valor that's given out, was established back in eighteen sixty one. Of the forty one million people have served in the United States military, only three thy five hundred and seventeen Medal of Honor have been given out now. The first six Medal of Honors they were given out today in eighteen sixty three, six Union soldiers. They had actually volunteered for our raid behind the line enemy lines back in eighteen sixty two, them and two civilian guides. They went down there and they stole the passenger train in Atlanta, Georgie.

1:00 Then they headed north. They were damaging railways, They took out bridges, took out telegraph lines. Well, the whole Confederate Army was chasing him the whole time. They were using hand carts and trains on other tracks to try and stop them. Well, the train that the Union soldiers had come endered ran out of wood around Chattanooga, Tennessee. So then they had to make a run for it. Oh, they didn't get very far before they were caught. Once they were caught, they were hung. Now, the two civilian guides, they weren't in the military, so they weren't eligible. But those six Union soldiers, yep, those are your first six Middle of Runner winners or recipients. Disney did make a movie of that whole thing, all the Great Locomotive Race, but it wasn't near as bloody you're destructive as the actual thing. Now, we want to thank all our Medal of Honor recipients for going above and beyond. Thank you very much. I guess the rest of us will just have to celebrate waffles.

1:44 I really really like yes delicious. I like to pull maple syrup on my waffle. I like to pull with cream on my waffle. Ooh, today is National Waffle Day. Now, waffles, they were created in France in the thirteen hundreds dope cook between two metal plates. Nineteen eleven, General Electric created the first waffle iron nineteen fifty three, Ego, they started selling the first frozen waffles. Now that really changed the popularityt waffles. Yeah, you could have waffles and then you have to make them most important thing about today? Who's avan Dale's, Well, everybody who sells waffles, I Hop, waffle House, Denny's, Chick fil A, Chick fil A. They're having deals on their waffle for us. Alrighty, let's see's going on entertainment. On March twenty fifth, Let's go back to nineteen seventy three.

2:40 Number one album was Doing Banjos by Eric Weissberg and Steven Mindeli del Jays having num song with Love Train Don't No. Lynn Anderson had the number one country song with keep Me in Mind. Yoho waits to sing Glady to care for so when it sings that has a life deeply.

3:36 The number one book was The Odessa File by Frederick Forsyth. Top movie was Charlie and the Angel. An Angel tells Charlie that he's a workaholic and he's about to die soon. So Charlie he tries to be a better person, a better husband, and better father before his time runs out. Stars Fred McMurray, Chlorus Leitchman, and Harry Morgan. Kurt Russell's in There Too. It was nineteen thirty nine Billboard. They released their first ever hill billy mus chart. Yeah, they changed it to Country and Western in nineteen forty four. So your first hill billy your country song ever, Yeah, it makes no difference now by cliff Burners Texas wanderers takes no door fence. Now what time the flag in me? I'll get along without you. Now that's plain. You see, I don't care what half Wednesday? Oh goodbye somehow.

4:29 Okay, what happened on March the twenty fifth. At twelve noon on Friday, March the twenty fifth, the city of Venice was formed. Yeah, it was supposed to be a trading post, but it took him almost thirty years for people to start selling there perpoctly. Yeah, I guess they didn't want to live in the lagoon. Eighteen oh seven. Britain, they have bolished the slave trade throughout the entire British Empire. Now that was the slave trade. They didn't ban slavery until eighteen thirty four, so you weren't allowed to sell slaves and if you were caught trying to one hundred and twenty pounds fine for every slavey you're trying to sell. In nineteen thirty four, the first masters was out. It was called the Augusta National Invitational Tournament. Horton Smith won the first time fifteen hundred dollars in prize money. Pretty good back then. The winner this year three point six million.

5:12 Nineteen forty nine, the Soviet Union begained Operation pre Boy. It was a mass deportation of over ninety thousand Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians. They are the ones who didn't accept Soviet rule in communism. What they did is they took them all out to Siberia and other inhospitable places across the Soviet Union. Yeah, then they dropped them off. I mean they didn't really need to guard them. There was no way they could walk out from there. Nineteen fifty four, RCAA started making the first color TVs. They had a twelve and a half inch screen and cost one thousand bucks. That'd be about eleven thousand, five hundred dollars today. In twenty ten, at a US House of Representatives hearing on the US military base over in Guam, a Democratic Congressman from Georgia, Hank Johnson. Yeah, as he was questioning a US General in the Air Force representative, Hank, he said, my fear is that I it's gonna become so overpopulated it will tip over and capsize. Wow, there, Force General, he just kind of reassured the congressman that their force really was pretty confident that wasn't gonna happen. Get this Georgia.

6:11 They keep relucting that guy every year. Twenty seventeen and ins Fium, Australia, they made the largest banana split of all time, just under five miles. You saw forty thousand bananas. Dope dope, dope, doop sharge this shiver birthday. We're gonna pause, he left this shiver birthday. Were gonna sit potage this shiver birthday. And you know we don't give up. That's birthday. Let's just check out us. Born on March the twenty fifth.

6:53 Means to me. The soul. Aretha Franklin. She was born in Memphis, Tennessee in nineteen forty two. Soldo over seventy five million records. Twenty of her songs went to number one, won eighteen Grammys. She was nominated forty four times. Some of her big number one hits were I never loved a man the way I love you. You make me feel like a natural woman, respect free way of love. Now. She had her first child when she was twelve years old. Then she had her second son at fifteen. Now, she never did say the father of those two boys was until she died. She really is the father's name in her will. You didn't know it. Now. Her grandmother and sister basically raised those two boys. Recently, she did divorce two more guys, and she had a son with each of them. She died from pancreatic cancer in twenty eighteen at seventy six years old. Actor was Bonnie Badia seventy eight.

7:44 She was born in New York City. She was born Bonnie Coulchin. Yeah, I'm Acaulay Culchin. That's her nephew, Bonnie. She's most known for playing Bruce Willis's wife in the Diehard movies. She played Holly MacLean. Started out on daytime soap operas and then she went to the primetime soap opera. She was in the Division and then Paranoid. Now. Our first movie was They Shoot Horses, Don't They? That was with Gene Fonda. Then she did The Boy Who Could Fly, Fat Man, A little Boy Presumed Innocent. She had two sons from her heart first husband married his second husband. Nineteen ninety five. Madam reason Slui had so much phone onden Ham that skim An Stones shot him the big skin Guy Mosca.

8:32 Rock Cracking that rock. That was the first number one song for Elton John. Elton is seventy nine. He was born in Pinner, England in nineteen forty seven. He was born Reginald Dwight. Now he is playing piano for a band called the Boozology. Now he's just getting ready to go solo. Yeah, he knew, Yeah, reginald' dwight, that's not gonna be a rock name. So he went to the sax player whose name was Elton Dean, and he went to their lead singer, whose named John Balderin. He says, hey, man, can I use your eyse his names? And they said sure. So Elton John was born sold over three hundred million records. Now when he wrote that song Candle on the Wind for Princess Diana after she was killed, that song has sold over thirty three million copies. That is second only to being Crosby as his White Christmas for the biggest selling songs of all time. Elton he has won two Oscars. Yeah for his songs for the movies The Lion King and Rocketman Elton. He retired from touring, but he still released his new music. He's gonna release something this week. He married a German woman in nineteen eighty four for some reason that didn't work out at all. They divorced in nineteen eighty eight. Started dating his future husband in nineteen ninety three. They got married in twenty fourteen when became legal, and they have two sons.

9:38 But I'm telling you love beautiful lovers. Country sing Eronomy daw was one of Portland, Tennessee in nineteen fifty seventy six. Today you ever wanted, There actually twenty five cities in the United States named Portland. Ronnie. He first hit with a song The King Is Gone in nineteen seventy seven. It was a tribute to Elvis after he died. That was big hit on the pop charts. Some of his big country hits are Watching Girls Go By, You're gonna ruin my bad reputation, older Woman. He got married in nineteen seventy three and they have five children.

10:23 Actress Martia Cross of sixty four. She was born in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Now She started out on the daytime soap operas, and then she moved to nine time soap opera Milbro's Place. It really did playing Brion Desperate Housebright Marsa. She's a cancer survivor. She's been an anal cancer survivor since twenty eighteen. That's cool now she didn't mind talking about either. She says she wants to end the stigma of anal cancer. She got married in two thousand and six and they have twin daughters. Actress Sarah Jessica Parker sixty one. She's born in Neilsonville, Ohio, in nineteen sixty five. She made her Broadway to Bute when she was eleven. She still does some Broadway. The biggest success was playing Kerry Bradshaw on Sex and the City on TV. In the movies, some of rother movies were Hocus Pocus, Edwood, Mars Attacks, Failure to Lunch. She married actor Matthew Brodrook nineteen ninety seven.

11:06 They have three children. That was Jeff Healy. He was born in Toronto, Canada in nineteen sixty six. He lost his eyesight when he was one year old. It was from a rare type of cancer that attacked your eyes. He started playing the guitar at three years old. Now, because he was so small, he played the car across his lap. Yeah, he never changed. He played it that way the rest of his life, played jazz, blues and rock.

11:48 Biggest hell was that song Angel Eyes, best known though, for when he was playing in the movie Roadhouse. He had a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in two thousand and four and they had a son. Sadly, just cancer came back again. Yeah. He died from it in two thousand and eight at forty one years old. Okay, today's quote of the day. You don't know me, but you don't like baby. You say you care less, hard feel? How many of you that's sudden? Judge me. Ever? Off the streets of makers Field. Country singer Buckowen's died today in two thousand and six at seventy six years old. Buck says, I am who I am, I am what I am, I do what I do, and I ain't never gonna do it any different.

12:36 Thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us whenever you listen to us on We're on Everybody our Country underground Radio Artist of the Day. We're gonna go with Jonathan Lynn. We're gonna play his song. A woman like that. See you guys, have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. Better fuck beauty going Townsend Beach, looking back while she's running way. Sexy little thing with the bitch can't catch me on her. Face, sundressed, flooding in the warm went long hair blowing in the breeze. I wonder if that lucky man noisy chasing the girl of mine dreams must be love.

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