March 29th-Vietnam Veterans, Xena, Blues Traveler, Elle, Janes Addiction, Tarzan, Toto, Terry Jacks, Pearl Bailey

0:19 Well, hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today today's March the twenty ninth. Wes we salute thee let leave it all, we SUSA. No, we want to also salute the women. You know, over eleven thousand women served over in Vietnam. Today is National Vietnam More Veterans Day. Two point seven million American soldiers served in the Vietnam War. Sadly, over fifty eight thousand didn't make it home. Now there are around six hundred and ten thousand Americans who served over in Vietnam that are still alive today. We want to celebrate, honor and thank all our veterans from the Vietnam War. Now, the last US troops they left Vietnam today, nineteen seventy three, Master Sergeant Max bilk He gets credited being the last American to leave Vietnam today. If you can, you know, thank one of those who's served over there. You can go to like an American for Foreign Veterans or veterans organizations.

1:27 Hell if you can't buy one of them a beer, or you know, just send up a prayer for our men and women who served over there. So thank you Vietnam War veterans, and thank you all our veterans in general. Yeah, we appreciate what you've done. Let's see what's going on in entertainment. On March twenty ninth, It's got The nineteen sixty one number one album was Calcutta by Lawrence Walk. Elvis Presley had the number one song was Surrender. So my Darling, please, sir, So went Mile Steve. Shines, Marty Robbins. He had the number one country song with Don't Worry Joey bo.

2:17 It's all over now. O High made people wild, Lady. So. The number one book was the Last of the Just by Andrey schwartz Bart. The top movie was one hundred and one Dalmatians Corilla Develle. She steals a litter of Dalmatian puppies. Now the owner is apt to try and find him before she uses them for clothes. It's voiced by Rod Taylor, Betty Luke Garrison, and Jay Pattlemley. All Right, what happened on March the twenty ninth, Now it seemed a little early in history, so I had to go ahead and look this up. It turns out the city of Paris was actually founded around twenty five or two hundred and fifty BC, So that makes this whole story makes sense. In the year eight forty five, the Vikings they raided Paris. They were led by Ragner Lodvac. Now, after they attacked Paris, the city of parisians that they couldn't do anything to defend themselves. So finally the King Charles the Ball he offered the Vikings a huge ransom and they would just go home. Well, the Vikings took all their gold, silver and French money and they left.

3:24 Now it turns out the reason the ransom was so huge that the Vikings agreed that they never come back. All the Vikings kept they were. They never did come back to Paris. Sixteen thirty eight, Swedish Lutherans they founded the first European settlement in what is now Delaware. We call it Wilmington, Delaware today. Eighteen twelve, the first wedding was held at the White House. President James Madison his sister in law, Lucy. She married a Supreme Court Justice, Thomas Todd eighteen fifty two. In Ohio, they made it illegal for women and children auder eighteen to work under ten hours a day. Take this job and chully Over. In boxing in nineteen forty Joe Louis he knocked out Johnny Paycheck in the second round for the heavyweight Championship of the World. You know country singer Johnny Paycheck. He was only two at the times. I don't think that was him. Nineteen sixty one, the twenty third Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified. It allowed the people who live in Washington, d c. To vote for in presidential elections.

4:22 They actually get three electoral votes. That's the same as six states of real estates. Nineteen seventy four are Chinese farmers. They found the terra cotta army. Now it's eight thousand warrior statues that were buried to guard the tomb of China's very first emperor, King Shing Hung. Now pictures they look really cool, every one of those eight thousand statues of the soldiers. Yeah, they all look like different men. Now, there had always been rumors that pythons had swallowed grown men, but there's never any proof of it. All. Well, in twenty seventeen, in Indonesia, while people were looking for their missing friend Akbar su Laber, they came across a really fat twenty three foot p fun so they acting film cutting him open. Yep, there was Zach Barr who was no longer just a rumor, joke.

5:08 Joke, joke, show dish shibth day. He's gonna pause. He left this shiverthday. We won't simpletage. He left this shibirth day. And you you don't do that's your birthday, all right. Let's see who was born on March the twenty ninth, John Tyler. He was born on the Greenway Plantation in Virginia in seventeen ninety. Now, when he was nineteen years old, he was admitted to the Virginia Bar and started practicing law. Now technically he was too young, but his dad was governor of Virginia, so they looked the other way. He ended up becoming a career politician. He was elected as the tenth vice President of the United States in eighteen forty one after thirty one days. That's when William Henry Harrison died. So Tyler he was now the tenth president of the United States, served from eighteen forty one eighteen forty five. He wasn't reelected.

5:51 Now. He and his first wife, they had eight kids. She died in eighteen forty two. He married his second wife in eighteen forty four. They had seven kids, so fifteen that's the most everybody a US president. Now, when Tyler was sixty three, he had his twelfth child, which is the son named Lyon. That was in eighteen fifty three. Now when Lion was seventy five years old. In nineteen twenty eight, he had a son called Ruffin. Today, Ruffin's ninety six years old, so a grandchild from the tenth US president is actually still alive. Tyler, he died in eighteen sixty two at seventy one years old from a stroke. Fifteen years and I'm still serving time, serving time with that one man of mine. I've been married fifteen years, I'm fIF fifteen million tiers, fifteen years and I'm still serving time.

6:40 That was Pearl Bailey. She was born in Newport News, Virginia, in nineteen ninety eighteen. Started singing and dancing at nightclothes when she's only fifteen years old, made it to Broadway in nineteen forty six. Broadway pretty much the rest of her life. She won one tony Some of her big movies was Isn't It Romantic? Carmen Jones Porgy and Bess Pearl. She married a fourth husband in nineteen fifty two and they had two each other. She died nineteen ninety at seventy two years old. Yeah, she'd been fighting heart problems the last twenty years. Three girls are every single Mean, we joy fun. We had Seasons and this Sun We Climb produced Seasons of Time.

7:25 Terry Jakes, he's eighty one. He's going to Winnipeg, Canada. Now. He started out in the band the Chieese Mean. They did pretty decent successfully in Canada. Then he joined the Poppy Family. Now they had even bigger success in Canada. Now he decided to go solo in America. Now, he wrote that song, I just played Seasons in the Sun for the Beach Points. Now. They recorded, but they didn't release it as a single. So Jacks he took the song back and recorded and released it to himself. Sold fourteen million copies. Now he ate a couple of small hits after that. But in the nineteen seventies, Terry he kind of pushed music to the side. Yeah, he concentrated on being an environmentalist. He had a daughter from a fun Night and then he married a second wife. For twenty two years and they had a daughter, married his third wife two thousand and eight. It's not in a way you seventy the brands. It's not a the way that you stand.

8:12 To it's not the way you look a time. That was Bobby Kimball singing lid for the band Toto. Now he is born in Orange, Texas. He's seventy eight today, and he grew up in Vinton, Louisiana. Say they didn't have a hospital in Vinton, so that's why he had to go across the border to Texas to be born. Now, Bobby and the guys who would become Toto, see, they were just a backup band. Yeah, they toured for big names. They were the backup bands for Steely, Dan Steals and Cross, Bob Skags, Sony and Jeer. Then in nineteen seventy seven he said, what the hell are we doing? Why don't we just be our own band? So they called themselves Toto, and it's Slatin it means all encompassing. This is all over forty million records. Bobby, he said, all their heads Rosanna Africa, I want to I won't hold you back hold the line. He left Toto in two thousand and eight and he did a little solo stuff. He retired in twenty nineteen. He is married and Bobby is currently finding dementia, so our prayers go out to him and his family. Actor Christopher Lambert. He was born from a French diplomat who was serving in the United Nations. Yeah, so he was born in what Great Neck, New York or something like that. They actually grew up in Geneva, Switzerland.

9:26 Sixty eight years old. Christopher is now he big hit big playing Tarzan in Great Stroke, the Legend of Tarzan. Biggest movie is with a Highlander movie series. His first wife was actors Diane Lane. They were mayre for six years and had a daughter. Married his second wife for just a year. Now. Lambert he's pretty much blind. Yeah, without his glasses. Technically he is blind. So and he he has some kind of condition where he's not he can't wear contacts, He physically can't wear him so when he acts, yeah, he pretty much just acts blind. That was Perry Farrell singing Lid for Jane's Addiction Perry sixty six. He's born in Queens, New York. Now he is called the godfather of alternative music.

10:25 Start out in the band Psychoon. Then he helped form Jamee's Addiction in nineteen eighty five. Now they named it after one of his roommates. Her name was Jane, and she was the band's muse early on in their career. Some of their heads are Jane says, stop being cat stealing just because now, Perry and the guys from James Addiction, Yeah, the ones who found it Lolla Belusa back in nineteen ninety one. Do you have any idea what Lolla polouza means? That means extremely impressive. Now if you want to see Jane's Addiction in concert, yeah, you're too late. They broke up last year. Perry had one child just playing around in two thousand and two, and they have two children. Now. She is just simply known as the body supermodel El McPherson sixty one. She was born in Kilerara, Australia. Started modeling pay for law school, ended up having so much success modeling she didn't need law school. Now she's been on the cover at Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition five times now.

11:21 She is a very very successful business woman. She did some acting. She is twice divorced and she has two sons from an ex boyfriend. Still John Popper. He sings late for the band Blues Traveler. He was born in Cleveland, but he grew up in Connecticut. He's fifty eight today. Now. He helped form Blues Traveler in high school. If they were just a garage band, but after they graduated in nineteen eighty seven and they all hit the road at least sixteen albums since some of our baguettes are hook But anyway back in the day, run around. Now they're kicking off their summer tour here in Colorado on July fourth, up their Red Rocks, then their tour till the end of September. If you want to go see him. Since nineteen ninety four, actually Blue travel they played Red Rocks every single July fourth. Don't know why now because of John's weight. John actually had a heart attack when he was only thirty two years old, had to have an emergency angioplasty. After that he had gastric bypassed. I guess he's not quite a bit of weight since then. He married once and has a daughter from it. Now, if

12:57 you're like me, you remember that from coming home drunk from the back in the nineteen nineties, Actress Lucy Lawless is fifty seven. She was born in Mount Albert, New Zealand. She started off on the TV show Hercue Leaves and they spun her off as Xena Warrior Princess. Later on she was on Battlestar Galactica. In this particles on Broadway, she played Rizzo in Greece. Lucy she had a daughter from her first husband, married her second husband nineteen ninety eight and they have two sons. All right. Today's quote of the Day comes from actress Patty Duke. She died today in twenty sixteen at sixty nine years old. Daddy says, monitor your self pity self. Pity is very unattractive. Well, thank you all for listening, toy, don't forget to follow us on who you listen to us on. Now, we're gonna end today with our country Underground radio artist of the Day. That's gonna be Sherry Rowe. I'm gonna play her song take that shot. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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