March 2nd-Egg McMuffins, Dr. Seuss, The Carpenters, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Luke Combs, Daniel Craig, Desi Arnaz

0:19 Hi, and welcome to history and factor. It's about today. I am Jeff. And today is March the second, a. Muffins much and now it's just ninety nine and now there's nothing like the christ you. Today is National egg McMuffin Day. McDonald's. They are celebrating the egg mcmuffins fifty first birthday today. Now they as you heard in the commercial, they started selling them for ninety nine cents back in nineteen seventy five. Today they're selling them for one dollar. Guessing in flation. Now you can actually get the sausage McMuffin with egg if you prefer so, we're gonna pay a buck. Might we'll get a piece of sausage in it, right, all right? List who's going on entertainment? On Marks the second? It's back to nineteen ninety. Number one album was Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdull. She had the number one song with opposites of tract.

1:17 Steps Steps, We Got You, Gather. A Wee cot you. A week Good Love. The number one country song was from the Oak Grades Boys. It was no matter how high, No matter how high, I'll. Always look love to you. You will always be number one. I'll settle for a number. You've always been there for me, Baby, I must confess I'll always look come to you no matter.

2:04 The Number one book is Oh the Places You'll Go by Doctor Seuss. The top movie was The Hunt for Red October. Both the Soviets and the United States are tracking a Soviet submarine captain and still learn of their nuclear subs went rogue stars Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, and Sam Neil. All Right, what happened on Mars the second eighteen oh seven? The United States? They outlied importing slaves. Now in the United States, where slavery was legal, you can still buy and sell slaves, but they had to already be here. You couldn't bring him in from the outside. Won't go, in fact, until January of eighteen oh eight, eighteen thirty six, Texas declared their independence from Mexico. Now he's not as famous as Thomas Jefferson, but George Childers wrote the Texas Declaration of Independence. Yes, the Alamo is being fought right now at the same time, So in the next couple of days we'll find out how it turned out. Do you know what a peon is? I know you've probably heard the name. A peon is basically an indentured servant. It's called P and G. Now it's where a work is stuck with an employer that he can't get away from. They used to have to pay off a debt or something. Eighteen sixty seven, the United States they outlied P and H. Yeah, they fought a whole war getting rid of slavery. They weren't going to allow a loophole. Nineteen seventeen, the Jones Act went into offense.

3:13 It gave the people in the US territory of Puerto Rico US citizenship. Now, this might kind of hurt some of you golfers out there your egos. Florida in nineteen thirty two, an Australian golf trick shot artist Joe Kirkwood. He shot in eighty three using only his putter on all eighteen dollars, got six pars and a birdie. Now a couple of years ago, guy in Arizona he got in eighty four. But he's the closest to never go eighteen holes with just a putter. No one's ever gotten into the house that eighty three. Nineteen forty nine, the US Air Force bomber the Lucky lady too. It landed at Fort Worth, Texas. Now I'd taken off there on February the twenty seventh. It was the first plane to fly NonStop around the world and at fourteen crew members and they worked in eight hours, chefs, they went twenty three thousand, four and fifty two miles in ninety four hours.

3:55 Now they were refueled in air, but over the Philippines, the refueling taker crashed and killed all the crew members on board. So, yeah, the celebration flight in historic event. Yeah, it was really somber. Also in nineteen forty nine, So do you give much thought when the street lights come on at night? Oh? Remember back in the day someone manually had to go turn those street lights on. It was in New Milford, Connecticut. They were the first town to install streetlights that came on automatically. Nineteen eighty three, the first Compact disc went on south which makes no sense who would own a compact disc player? Now? Since the nine eleven terrorist attacks in two thousand and one over in Afghanistan, the United States ground troops the only ones doing the fighting were special Forces. Today. In two thousand and two, Operation and a Conda began. It was the first time the United States conventional soldiers joined the fight. Twenty twenty, after thirty five Yeah, this was a sad day. In twenty twenty, after thirty five years, the rap group Public Enemy fired Flavor Flave.

4:50 Yeah. It played a Bernie Sanders rally for free Coke. Coke shot dis shimmer Oday. Pause. He left this shiver on simple cars. He left this shiversday. And you know we don't give. Well, let's see what's born on March. The second writer, Theodore Geizel, you know him as Doctor Seuss. He was born in Springfield, Massachusetts in nineteen oh four. One of the best known children writers of all signed sold over on six hundred million books. Now he illustrated the books. Oh yeah, he did his own artwork. Some of his books you might remember were hort Nears or Who the Cat and the Hat? How the Green Stole Christmas Green Eggs? And Him? Now eleven his books were made into TV movies.

5:33 Six of them became movie movies, you know for the theater. Now, three of his books were turned into TV series Get This you wanted? You know how cool doctor SEUs was. He's a guy invented the word nerd. He married his first wife in nineteen twenty seven until she died in nineteen sixty seven. Married his second wife in nineteen sixty eight, and they're together until the doctor died in nineteen ninety one and eighty seven years old from cancer. Nope, doctor SEUs never had any children of his own.

6:14 It's not been slo. That song is called Baba looo babloh. It's one of the funnest words to say now. The song was done by Desi Arnaz and his orchestra Deasi. He was born in Santiago to Cuba, Cuba. In nineteen seventeen, his family moved to the United States so he could go to high school there. He started out playing conga, drugs and singing. He turned that into the Desi Arnaz Orchestra. Now they were big. They're the ones who introduced the conga line in the United States. He did some movies and he met luci O Ball and they fall and Live. Yeah. They formed Desilu Productions. First show they produced me Yeah, I Love Lucy Now Deasy. He was really good in the entertainment business and all that. He came up with using three cameras to film a TV show instead of one, and he came up with taping shows. See at that time, all the shows were done live in New York and everyone else has had to watch him at that time, Daisy, he had him to the show live in New York and then tape it and play it back later in the rest of the country. He also came up with the idea reruns. Now Desi and Lucy, they divorced in nineteen sixty after twenty years of marriage. They had a son and a daughter. Desi married his second wife in nineteen sixty three. She died nineteen eighty five. Des He died nineteen eighty six from lung cancer, sixty nine years old.

7:22 Now after he died, he didn't know this. They found out that he had fathered a daughter when he was only fifteen years old. Yeah, they were able to confirm it with DNA testing. Hitchhiked away across the USA, plugged her eyebrows on the way, shaved their legs, and then he was a She She says, he babe, take a walk on the wild side. Said hey, honey, take a walk on the wild side. That was lou Reed. He was born in New York City in nineteen forty two. Help formed the band Velvet Underground that was nineteen sixty four. They're considered one of the most influent, influential undergod bands in American music history. They were kind of a bridge from the underground scene to the punk ro Syne read. He went solo in nineteen seventy three. Some of his songs you might know Walk on the wild Side, Satellite of Love, Sally Can Dance Now. All his songs are about drugs, abuse and pressure.

8:17 That was his life story. He was addicted to drugs and alcohol and son Ford from mental illness. He's married to his third wife in two thousand and eight. Their together until he died in twenty thirteen at seventy one years old from liver disease. That she is considered that one of the best voices of all time. Karen Carpenter. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut in nineteen fifty now and she and her brother Richard when they formed The Carpenter she was the drummer. Yeah, she had to work her way to the front.

9:02 Now. During her lifetime, The Carpenter sold thirty five million records. Today they sold over one hundred million. Some of their heads are close to you. We've only just begun rainy days and Monday hurting each other. She married once for two years. Then in the nineteen seventies she developed an eating disorder. It had ended up being anarexa, but nobody knew anything about it back then. Nobody could blieve that somebody just wouldn't need it was incomprehensible back then, Well, Karen, she died from anarexia in nineteen eighty three, at thirty two years old. Now everyone knew that there were such a thing as eating disorders. That song Runaway started it all for bon Jovin got up to number thirty nine and iineteen eighty four. Now they sold over one hundred and fifty million records there. Lit Singer John bon Jovi sixty four. He was born in Perth, Damn Boy, New Jersey, in nineteen sixty two. Now, originally they call themselves Johnny Electric.

10:12 They were quickly told to change that name. Bon Jovi. Yeah, it was a good call. Now, John, He's done some acting too. Biggest movie was U five seventy one. It was a submarine movie. He married his high school sweetheart in nineteen eighty nine and they have a daughter and three sons. Actor Daniel Craig. He was born in Chester, England in nineteen sixty eight. Fifty eight year old started out doing theater over in London. He still does, but now he also does theater on Broadway. Now. He is most known for playing James Bond in the last six James Bond movies. Yeah, the last one was No Time to Die in twenty twenty one. Now they want to do the newest one, but they can't figure out who to replace him with. So I'm just saying I have some free time, you know, I could probably do it. He was also in Cowboys and Aliens The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Knives Out. He had a daughter with his first wife, married actress Kates Rachel Why Is in twenty eleven. They have a dog.

11:18 That was. Chris Martin. He sings league for the band Coldplay forty nine. Born in Extra, England in nineteen seventy seven. Now, the guys in cold Play they got together in college, except they call themselves Starfish. Now some of their friends were in another band called Coplay. When those guys broke up, the guys in Starford said, hey, man, can we use your name? This guy said, yeah, go for it. Coldplay is now sold one hundred million records. Some are yellow something just like this my universe Viva Levite. Chrissy was married to actress Gwyneth Pelthrower for twelve years and they had a son and a daughter. He was engaged to actress Dakota Johnson for a few years. They called it off and broke up last summers.

12:00 Yes, when I said man coming back, I mean. But everywhere you see, oh crazy in my brain down everywhere. But I'm still on number. Country singer Luke Combs. He's thirty six, born in Huntersville, New North Carolina in nineteen ninety. Now his first thirteen songs I Went Number one is eighteen number ones. Now he is kicking off a stadium tour on March twenty first. He married in twenty twenty and they have three sons. That third son he was just born on February the nineteenth. Alrighty are quote of the day. It comes from Dusty Springfield.

13:03 Dusty died today in nineteen ninety nine, at fifty nine years old. She said, my affections are easily swayed. I can be very unfaithful. Well, thank you all for listening. They don't forget to follow us. We got some kind of cool news for you. If you look on the show description, there's a link over to Spotify. Now. On Spotify, we have our own history and factoids about today playlist. Well, for each month, we're gonna play every song that I played here. You can actually go listen to the whole song. Well I don't belong to Spotify, Well, click on the link. They're gon say, hey, you want to sign up? You say yeah. All you basically have to do is give your name and your email address and they'll say, hey, do you want to pay? And say no. Sounds that simple. Really. They don't like Christy to asking upgrade either. So yeah, you can hear all those songs in their entirety if you would like. Now, if you're already on Spotify, and it's easy, you just come over to the history of factorids.

13:50 About to day playlist. All right, our country inderground Radio act of the day. He has some Cody after in San Antonio. He wants to hear Douglas Riley song Home Bar. You guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. We'n watching the doors. They'll be waiting for me. Even with our reminis about our days. A glover who shoots some made ball, and after that there's a coin hole tournament in the yard. Out bag key's inside, she's waiting at tables. I'm gonna make her mind if I'm ever able. We all need a hole bar miss. We all go barn really too far just down the road bar with the lights are around the hun We all agree that we're all friends here as long as here's cold here.

14:43 I need a home, sweet. Home home ball. Sometimes rise, sometimes are wrong, sometimes fight instead of getting as the old world to see things my way, fly like a bird down at two lane Highway. Keep that water red hole on the county line with the old dance float and the flicker inside. We all need a home fark pleas we all gold far really choosing far just down the road park.

15:26 With a laser on eh. We all agree home to the world of friends here, as long as there's cold beer. I need a home, sweet home home ball.