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 Factoid's about today? Today is March the thirty first. Well, let's maketats for you and me. Oldtatos, old tators. I love that stuff. Potatos, old taters round the ground to the drug. You can make your dat around na stab just serve potato baby. Today is National tater Today. Now, potatoes. They are the most vegetables 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 But I enjoy some taters today. She is going on. In entertainment on March thirty first, Let's Got Your nineteen ninety two number one album was Roping the Wind by Garth Brooks. Vanessa Williams at the number one song with Save the Best for Last. Now we're standing face to face. This craze and place just chance hand go save the best fleas. Reba McIntyre. She had the number one country song with is There life out there? Snap so much?

1:49 She hasn't he stay off the family? She used, don't want she shoot? Should she know? And she she doesn't want. Leave, She's just. The top selling book was The Pelican Brief by John Grisham. The top movie was White Man Can't Jump Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson. They team up to win money on the basketball court Condom People. It also stars Rosie priz Ah. What happened on March the thirty first, fourteen ninety two, Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella they issued the Alberamba Decree.

2:29 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 guesses 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. 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.

3:47 Nineteen forty nine, Newfoundland they became Canada's ten province. Now Canada they have ten provinces and three territories. The state 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. Doke joke joked, joke, shot dish Shivers day. Please gonna pause. He left this shuverday. We want simple targe. He let thish shivebirth day and you know you don't do that's birthday.

4:30 Well, let's check out who it's born on Marsh the thirty first. If you got the money, I've got the time. We'll go homepy homing man. We'll have a time. Will ain't all the night spots dance, drang, beer and wine. If you got the money, Honey, I've got the time. Country singer left to Frazel. He's born in Corsicana, Texas. In nineteen twenty eight. 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 one, Give me more and more and more and more of your kisses. I want to be with you always. She's gone, gong gone now.

5:15 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. I 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. Come now, everybody. Hear us sing. It's nothing bad me and together? When was sing. Five and mom moan all day we go to. Help her and music for me.

5:56 Shirley Jones, she's ninety one. She's born in Charlotte, Pennsylvania. She played the mom on the TV show That Parked his family. Now, before then she was really successful in movies. She starred 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 winning. Then they had three sons together, one of those of 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 Killed There. Then he was in the miniseries Centennial, on 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 gaining 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 he died two days ago on March twenty ninth. Yeah, I was from a stroke.

6:55 Ninety years old. Actor Christopher walk In is eighty two. He was born in Queens, New York. 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 Boys Slim. He's been married since nineteen sixty nine. Welcome Back Your dreams were your chicken out. Welcome that same old place, the names Simul James, since you hung around with those dreams every day and turned around.

7:40 Actor comedian Cabe Kaplan. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He's eighty today now. He started out doing stand up then he got his own TV show, He was Catter and Welcome Back Catter. Some of his movie is were 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 It's really good. He is in all those big world, the series of poker tournaments and all that kind of stuff. His career innings, he made over two million dollars. Gabe. He 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 Heath. He sang lead for Tommy two Tone. Tommy is seventy eight born in Pure Illinois. Now the band is called Tommy two Tone.

8:45 It's not him. The band start out, they call themselves Tommy and the two Tones, but they shortened up 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 computers, retired from the software job. Yeah, and 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 it taking a break from all your worries. I'm sure it would help a.

9:26 Lot, wouldn't you like Catway? Everybody? I like that version better. Actress Real Pearl Mon seventy seven. She's worn in Coney Out of New York. She's best known for playing Carla on the sitcom Cheers. She won four Emmy's playing Carla. Her newest TV series she has that 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 Rieah. 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. Actor Tony Cox.

10:15 He was born in Union Down, Alabama. He's sixty seven 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's Willow, Me and Myself and Irene. He was in the Bad Sand of movies. Now he met his wife and he was still in nigh 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 Ewen McGregor. He's fifty four. He's one of Perth, Scotland. 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'ster at Goats. He has four daughters from his first wife and he has a son with this getting current wife. Alright, we're gonna end with our quote of the day. We're gonna go with Selena.

11:12 Killed to listening. 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 you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on however. You listen to as on 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.

11:55 Send enjoying the view man of my own and having up you, then you won't. I caught my eye and I leaned over and tried to say how, And I fell off that old barstow. And if you just signed up one more drinking, I don't leave this barter one more drink? Man, where's my coffer? One more drinking? Then I'll shick sometass. One more drink and then I. Smoke and dress. One more drink and then I'll find me a girl.

12:37 One more drink, and then I'll pocular. One more drink. So I dusted myself offer that floor. No need to cuss because I've been there before. So I jumped up and threw down my hat. I looked her around and said, Huntin, did that? You're looking white? You? But everybody and the bar was amused.