March 30-Van Gogh, Warren Beatty, Eric Clapton, MC Hammer, Celine Dion, Justin Moore, Thomas Rhett, Nora Jones

0:19 Hello, and welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff and today is March the thirtieth. O laundry, the laundry undry day, laundry, the laundry, hundry, laundry, laundry undryday. Today is full laundry day. Yeah. I concur today is it gets you get off your butt? Now? If you have clothes that you've been putting off washing, yeah, wash them. That includes blankets and throws in that kind of stuff. Now, if you have clean clothes they're on a chair or on a piece of exercise equipment, fold them up and put them away. Not today. You're also supposed to go through your clothes and the ones you haven't worn in the past year. Yeah, donate him to a charity. You know what. Just make sure you fold them first. Okay, let's see what's going on entertainment on March thirtieth. Let's back to nineteen ninety four. Number one album was super Unknown by Soundgarden. He's a Bass had the number one song with the sign is Little Text has said the numer one country song with My Love.

1:42 When you Standing Steel, I Can Turn it around. You had a man Clouds and Big comfet around My Love, Are You My Love? My Love. Reading volume? The number one book was The Celestine Prophecy by James Redfield. The top movie was Major League two. Now the Cleveland Indians there's world can serious contenders, but they're still really dysfunctional star as Tom Barringer, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Burnson. Okay, let's see what happened. On March the thirtieth, eighteen forty two, the first operation under general anesthesia was performed in Georgia doctor Crowfitt Long. He is ether to remove a tumor from a guy's neck. Guy who made a full recovery. Eighteen fifty eight in Philadelphia, Hymen Lipman, he invented the pencil that has the eraser attached to it eighteen sixty seven. In the United States, that cut it check to Russia for seven point two million dollars.

2:44 The United States pip they just bought Alaska cost us around two cents an acre. Now, I think that's a really good deal. Now, even with the inflation. Can you imagine if we bought Alaska to day for one hundred and ten million dollars. See, at the time it was a great, big joke. It was called Sea where It's falling. The whole deal was done by the Secretary of State William Seaford. No one could believe that anyone would be so stupid to buy all that worthless land way up there. Well, it turns out he made a pretty good deal there all right. In eighteen seventy, Texas became the last Confederate state be readmitted to the Union. Nineteen eighty one, John Hinckley he shot President Ronald Reagan and three others as they were leaving a hotel after Reagan had given his speech there. All four of them lived, but Press Secretary James James whatever his name was, Sorry James. Yeah, he was all messed up though. Now. Hinckley he was trying to press the actress Jody Foster. When he did, he had a crush on her. I wonder what his reaction was he found out she was gay. Nineteen eighty four, New York City police officer Robert Cunningham, Well, he was at launch. He didn't have any money to pay for the tip for his meal, so he told his waitress, her name is Phillis Pinzi, Hey, I'll give you half of whatever this lottery ticket in my pocket wins. Oh, that lottery ticket in his pocket went six million bucks.

3:56 Good to his work. He gave her half. Joked, joked joke shog this shibirth day. He's gonna pu He left this shiverfday. We won't simple cage. He left this shibirth day. And you don't give that's a birthday, okay. He was born on March the thirtieth. Artist Vince E Van go Hes bunting Zundrt, Netherlands in eighteen fifty three. It's one of the most famous painters of all time created over twenty one hundred pieces of art, eight hundred and sixty of them were oil paintings. Now, he was broke his entire life yep, and was really ironic because six of his paintings today there worth one hundred million dollars each. He only sold one painting his entire life, and he hadly got any money for it. But he did have really serious mental issues. Now, the story of him cutting off his ear, yeah, it's half true. Well, I guess it's a third true. See, he only cut off the bottom third, not the whole era like rumors said. But he did give that third of his zero to a prostitute eighteen ninety, when van Go was thirty seven years old, he shot himself in the chest. That took him thirty hours to die. Well that's the official story, but some investigators now they're trying to reopen that case. They think that he was murdered. But you know, be kind of hard for him to prove it happened so long ago, but he sure seems fishy. Actor John Aston's ninety six.

5:08 He's born in Baltimore, Maryland, in nineteen thirty but Gomez Adams on the TV show The Adams Family. He's the only cast member still alive from the Adams Family. Some of the movies he was in were West Side Story, Freaky Friday, Step Monster. Now. He didn't retire from acting until twenty nineteen. He had three sons from his first wife. His second wife was actress Patty Duke. They had one son, then he adopted her son, who's actor Sean Aston. John he married his third wife nineteen eighty nine. Actor director Warren Beatty. He's eighty nine, born in Richmond, Virginia, in nineteen thirty seven. Now his older sister Shirley Maclain Warren. He's been nominated for Oscars fourteen times. He won one for Best Director for reds So, Bonnie and Clyde, Shampoo, Heaven, con Waite, Bugsy Bulworth. He's been nominated for Oscars and all of them from all different things, from acting, directing, to writing and all that. But he didn't win him.

5:57 So don't worry about it now, Warren. He was the biggest playboy in Hollywood history. Yeah, they asked me. He was within over one hundred Hollywood starlets. Settled down though, in nineteen ninety two, married actor as Anette Benning. They have four children. Long considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time, Eric Clapton, He's eighty one today, born in nineteen forty five, born in Ripley, England. Eric, you started out in the Van the Yardbirds, then he went to Cream and Derek and the Dominoes. Went solo in nineteen seventy. See you add all that into some collaborating with other artists, did sol over two undred eighty million records. Now, some of his solo hits are after Midnight, Lay Down, Sally.

6:54 It's the way that you use it. He's actually the only guy in the rock and roll holler famed history. He's in there three times, first for solo, one with the Yardbirds and one with Cream. Now he had a son from a fling, then he had a daughter from a fling. Married his second wife in two thousand and two and they have three children. Actor comedian Robbie Coltrane. He was born in rudder Glynn, Scotland in nineteen fifty. He played Rubius hick Reed in all those Harry Potter movies, some movies that he made over in America where Nuns on the Run, The Adventures of Huck Finn, the Van Hessling movies. He married once and had a son and a daughter from it. Robbie died in twenty twenty two at seventy two years old. He had a lot of medical issues. Actor comedian Paul Reisner. He's seventy today. He was born in New York City in nineteen fifty six.

7:39 Started out doing stand up comedy. He had really successful he still is. He's actually going out on tour here in a couple of weeks if you want to go check out Paul's stand up show. And he had really big on the sitcom mat About You. First movie he was in was Diner, then he played Jeffrey and all those Beverly Hills cop movies. Now, I guess he wasn't a comedy, but he really did a good job in the series movie as Alien. Yeah, I did a good job there. Pal. He married Paula in nineteen eighty eight and they have two sons. Got like you, I get a. Rolling hold, A little bit like that? Like that?

8:20 No too much, I told him. Stanley Burrell he was born in Oakland, California, in nineteen sixty two. That makes him sixty four to day now. When he was a little boy and he's a bat boy for the Oakland ras Ace. Yeah, they nicknamed him Hammer. I thought he looked like Hammer and hink Aaron still goes by Hammer. You get huge. In nineteen ninety you can't touch this, pray too legit to quit. Pump and bump Now. They even had a Saturday morning cartoon called Hammerman. It didn't last very long, though he still work some of the music business. He got married in nineteen eighty five and they have five kids. You saw you, Boss and me.

9:14 Coming. Because the Queen of power ballads is fifty eight Celine Dion. She's born in Charlemagne, Canada, now she sold over two and fifty million records. That makes her the best selling Canadian artist and the best selling French languine artists of all time. She didn't even learn how to speak English until she was twenty one. Now, for the past few years, she's really been suffering from this neurological disorder that really affects her muscles and all that kind of stuff. So she hasn't really been able to tour at all. And she's been really She performed at the Olympics and everybody thought that, but now she still can't go out on tour or anything like that. She wasn't married for twenty two years. Her husband died in twenty sixteen. They had three kids.

9:54 Wait, harm, I don't know what. Left you. That's Norah Jones. She's forty seven. She's born in Manhattan, New York, in nineteen seventy nine. Her dad is Rabbi Shanker Nora. She is considered the best jazz performing this century. Sold over fifty million records. Now that is huge for jazz. It's when nine Grammys. She is married and they have two children. No, rasty, mame, how we're value a train sl tell you most good Jesus.

10:40 Smile, Swing o'fronnel, take the changing swam so standing slackness, making the worst fire stream. She smile. Country singer Justin Moore was born in Point In, Arkansas in nineteen eighty four. He's forty two today. Some of us nine number one songs are a small town USA. You look like you need a drink. That's why we drink. Somebody else will Justin. He'll be going out until April sixteenth, if you want to check him out over the summons, going all the way through September. He got married in two thousand and seven and they have three daughters and one son. In that way, so.

11:20 Much you singing. Now, you're probably thinking that it's crazy. I remember every sailboat too, from your blue jees to his shoes. Chill the night was just like you. That is country singer Thomas Rhett. He is thirty six today, born in Valdosta, Georgia, in nineteen ninety. Now his dad, whose country is country singer rehd Akins, So Thomas he was actually born Red Aikins Junior, but the thought too Red Aikins would be a little confusing, So now he goes by Thomas Rhet He's already so forty million records. Two of his albums have gone to number one on the pop charts, already has twenty number one songs, plus he's one of the biggest highlighted music country music writers in all of Nashville. Some of his number one songs are make Me Wanna Die, a Happy Man, Ain't nothing a beer can't fix, Unforgettable. Tom I said, we go down on tour around July the ninth through the end of October. During that time, he's also gonna do some opening for Morgan Wallen and Luke Combs on some of their stadium shows. That'd be pretty cool to see him now.

12:20 He got married in. Twenty twelve and they have four daughters. Alright, hey, let's do The quote of the day comes from actor James Cagney. He died to day in nineteen eighty six at eighty six years old. James says, perhaps people, especially kids, are really spoiled today. All the kids we see have cars, at least it seems that way. When I was young, we were lucky if we had a bicycle. Well, thank you for listening. Don't forget to follow us now you listen to this on check out the links to go to like Country Inderground Radio, Coolmedia dot Com and Spotify. Yep, every song we've played this month, nip It's all on there on Spotify if you want to check any of them out. Our Country Underground Radio Artists Today comes from kra and Tupelo, Mississippi. She goes here Jesse Lynn song, I'm digging it. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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