March 31st-Taters, Lefty Frizzell, Tommy Tutone, Mr. Kotter, Christopher Walken, Rhea Perlman, Ewan MacGregor

0:19 Hey, hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to History and Facto. It's about today, today's March the thirty first. Well, let's maketats for you and me. Oldtatos. Old tators love that stuff. Potatos, old taters round the ground. To the drug you can make your dad around NASA just serve Pat the baby. Today is National tater Today. Now, potatoes. They are the most vegetable in the United States. Yeah, they're vegetables. They're high in vitamins and minerals and fibers. There are over two hundred different types of potatoes that are grown in the US. So how do we celebrate today, Well, wakem bake them and cover them with all kinds of great toppings. They can mash them, boil them, slice them, fry them. Now, they do have a lot of starts in fat, so we don't want to go overboard them.

1:09 I enjoy some taters today. Let's just see what's going on entertainment on March the thirty first, And it's back nineteen eighty four and when album was Thriller by Michael Jackson, Kenny Loggins having everyone song with Footloose Loose, Jenny Frickey having in my country song with let's stop talking about it, Let's let's talk you down to stop. The number one book was The Aquitine Progression by Robert Ludlam Todd. Movie was Police Academy. Yeah, the original one. See as mayor he declares that anybody wants to can join the police force, that they have to go to the Police Academy. So a whole bunch of midst fits and losers they all joined.

2:21 Stars Steve Gutenberg, Chemic Control, and Bubba Smith. Ah what happened On March the thirty first, fourteen ninety two, Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella they issued the Alberamba Decree. Now it ordered that all Jews living in Spain had to convert to Catholicism or leave Spain. They had until July thirty first to do it. Now, if they didn't leave or convert, they would be tortured in or executed. Around twenty thousand converted another eighty thousand. They left that degree. It was still around until nineteen sixty eight. Yeah, that's when they finally took it off the books. Now, Jews they had been able to practice openly for a number of years before then, though, and he guess says on what the first town was to be completely lit by electric electric lights. It was eighteen eighty Wabash, Indiana. Eighteen eighty nine in Paris, Eiffel Tower opened up. Now it was built to be the entrance to the World's Fair.

3:09 Nine hundred eighty four feet tall. That was the world's tallest man made structure until nineteen thirty when the Chrysler Building opened up in New York City. Six million people. They still pay to go to the top of the Eiffel Tower every year. Nineteen seventeen, the United States officially took possession of Danish West Indies. Danish West Indies, that's right. See, the United States has paid Denmark twenty five million dollars in gold for it. The US they renamed them the Virgin Islands. That's the only place in the United States where cars they drive on the left side of the road. Yeah, Denmark didn't even do that anymore. Nineteen eighteen, the first daylight savings time the United States went into effect. They stopped doing it in a couple of years. Yeah that one's World War One ended, but they brought it back in World War two. And yeah, it's been going ever since nineteen forty nine, Newfoundland they became Canada's ten province.

3:54 Now Canada they have ten provinces and three territories. Stay in Canada. Nineteen seventy two, Yeah, that was a really sad day for the Canadian Navy. It was their black top day. Yeah, it was last day that they were allowed their daily rations of rum. Yeah. Eight soldiers used to get a roster of rum every day. Nineteen ninety nine, the movie Ten Things I Hate About You was released in the theaters. I never knew this. That movie is based on the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew. Joke joke, joke show, dish Shivers Day. We're gonna pause. He left this shubard. We gonna sit with Targe. He like Thish shivers Day, and you you don't. That's your birthday. Well let's check out. It's born on Mars the thirty first.

4:37 If you got the money, I've got the time. We'll go homey tome and will have the time. We'll make all the nine spots, dance, strang beer and wine. If you got the money, honey, I've got the time. Country singer left to Fazel. He's born in Corsicana, Texas in nineteen two. One of the most influential country artists of all time. Nineteen fifty two, he had four songs in the top ten at the same time on the pop charts. Yeah, if you got the money, honey, I got the time, give me, give me more and more and more of your kisses. I want to be with you always. She's gone, gong gone now. As fast as left to his career went up, it came down just as fast. Yeah. He was a big time alcoholic, made him really unreliable, hard to work with. He was always in trouble with the police, was constantly crashing cars. Finally, God him in nineteen seventy five, died from a massive stroke forty seven years old. He was married and had three kids. Actress singer Shirley Jones is ninety two. She's born as Charlotta Pennsylvania. In nineteen thirty four, she played the mom on the TV show That Parked his Family. Now, before then, she was really successful in movies. She started in Oklahoma Carousel, The Music Man. She won an oscar for Elmer Gentry. So as you can tell from those movies. Yeah, she did a lot of Broadway Her first husband was Jack Cassidy. When they got married, he brought his son, David Cassidy into the Milinnings. Then they had three sons together.

5:59 One of those they Sean Cassidy. She married her second husband in nineteen seventy seven. They were together until he died in twenty fifteen. Actor Richard Chamberline. He was born in Beverly Hills. In nineteen thirty four, started on the TV show starring as Doctor Kildare. Then he was in the miniseries centennialll in the miniseries Shogun. Some of his movies were Julius Caesar, The Three Musketeers, The Four Musketeers. He did a couple of those Alan quartermain movies. Now he was outed in nineteen eighty nine, but he didn't admit that he was gay until two thousand and three. Now he had a thirty tier thirty two year long year relationship with the guy, but they broke up in twenty ten. Richard died last year from a stroke. Ninety years old. Actor Christopher Watkins eighty three. He's one in Queens, New York. In nineteen forty three, been and over one hundred movies. The Deer Hunter. He won an Oscar for that one, The Dogs of War, Suicide Kings, Joe Dirt, Wedding Crashers, nominated for an Oscar for Catching Me If You Can. He's been in music videos for Madonna, Skidro and Fat Boy Slim. He's been married since nineteen sixty nine.

6:56 Actor comedian Gabe Kaplan was born in Brooklyn, New York, in nineteen forty one, five eighty one today. Now. I started doing stand up. Then he got his own TV show, He was Catter and Welcome Back Catter. Some of his movie is were A Fast Break, Nobody's Perfect nineteen seventy eight. Gabe. He became a professional poker player. Yeah, he played. Just retired from playing boker in twenty twenty one. He was he was really good. He was in all those big world the series of Poker, Turing, Thements and all that kind of stuff. His career innings he made over two million dollars. Gabe has one daughter. You know, I might have a little trouble telling you my cell phone number, but I won't have any trouble telling you Jenny's number. And that was forty years ago. That was Tommy.

7:53 He he sang lead for Tommy two Tone Tommy seventy nine born in Priora, Illinois, in nineteen forty seven. The band is called Tommy two Tone. It's not him, say the band start out they called themselves Tommy and the two Tones, but they shortened it the Tommy two Tone. Yeah, they're a one hit wonder with eight six, seven, five three on nine. Jenny Now Tommy, he said, yeah, he knows there are one hit wonder. He'd rather be a three hit wonder, but one hit wonder is better than no wonder at all. He eventually left music became a software engineer. He got married and they had three daughters. Then he made enough money from computer retired from the software job. Yeah, I brought the band back together. They're out there releasing new music and touring. Making you way in the world today, Tink saying everything you got taking a break from all your worries. I'm sure it would help a lot.

8:44 When you like Catway everybody I liked that version better. Actor is real Pearlman and she was born in Coney Island, New York in nineteen forty eight. Seventy eight year old. She's best known for playing Carla on The sickcom Cheers. She won four, Emmy's playing Carla. Her newest TV series she has out is called Curses. She's been voicing on it for the last two years. Her biggest movie was Barbie. She played Ruth Handler in the show Riea. She married Danny DeVito in nineteen eighty two and they have three children. They've been separated since twenty twelve, but even though they don't live together, they have absolutely no intention of ever divorcing.

9:30 Retired actor Tony Cox. He's born in Uniontown, on Alabama in nineteen fifty eight sixty eight. Tony he's three foot six inches tall. He's been in over fifty movies. He was an Ewok in Return of the Jedi, then movies that you've actually seen him in. He was a black actor in Spaceballs. I think he played Dink and he is Willow, Me and Myself and Irene. He was in the bad sand of movies. Now he met his wife and he was still in nice school. They got married in nineteen eighty one. They have one child, Tony. He retired from acting in twenty sixteen. He made his money and he's done. Actor McGregor. He's fifty five born in Perth, Scotland in nineteen seventy one. His first big movie was Trained Spotting, and then he played Obi Wan Kenobi in the Three Star Wars prequel movies. He's also in Mulin Rouge, Black Hawk Down Men Who Steric Goats. Yeah, has four daughters from his first wife, and he has a son with a second and current wife. Alright, and we're gonna end with our quote of the day. We're gonna go with Selena.

10:29 Killed. Selena was killed today in nineteen ninety five, at twenty three years old. She said, if you have a dream, don't let anybody take it away from you. Always let the impossible be possible. Well, thank y'all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on however. You listen to a son now from our Internet radio station and Country Underground Radio. We're gonna play our Country and around radio artist of the day. We're gonna go with Cody Joe Hodges and his song one More Drink. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

11:11 Rely sending me there enjoying the views mint of my own and having a few than you won't by caught my eye and I leaned over and tried to say hi, and I fell out that old bars too, And if you do us up, one more drink and I'll leave this. But one more drink, man, where's my coat? One more drinking, then I'll pick some asks. One more drink and then i'll smoke and dress. One more drink and then i'll find me a girl. One more drink, and then i'll popular.

12:01 One more dream. So I dusted myself, offered that floor. No need to cuss, because I've been there for so I jumped up and threw down my hat. I looked around and said, hunting did that? You're looking white with you? But everybody in the bar was amused.