March 7th-Cereal, Ronald McDonald, J. Geils Band, Bryan Cranston, Taylor Dayne, Wanda Sykes, Rachel Weisz

0:00 Hi, Welcome to history and fact. Du it's about today. I'm Jeff. Today's March the seventh. Hi Late, say. What you like to meet together? This let cirial. Cerri. What is your favorite one?

0:40 Two week? Today is National Cereal Day. Oreo cookies yesterday, Cereal today? What a good week? Technically oatmeal it was the first cereal. Quicker oat started making it in eighteen fifty four. By the late eighteen hundreds, we got grape nuts and corn flakes, and that's cool, but we're going to celebrate the good step. Health be damned. They started making cereal sugar in nineteen thirty nine. First one was Ranger Joe. It was sugarcoateded wheat and rice. Now Cereal it's not just for breakfast anymore. You can eat it anytime you want, day or a night. Cereal is actually one of the top choices for before bedtime snack. Now it's Saturday, so grab some milk your favorite cereal. Watch some classic cartoons. Now, remember, no matter how bad a cook Yeah, you can't screw up cereal.

1:24 Number one selling cereal is cheerios. Yeah. It's followed by frosted flakes. The most unhealthy cereal Captain Crunch. Okay, let's see what was going on in entertainment on March seventh. Let's go back to nineteen sixty. Number one album was the Sound of Music, the movie soundtrack. Piercy faith In his orchestra had the number one song with a theme from a Summer's Place. Jim raeves he had the number one country song with He'll have to Go.

2:07 Let's pretend then we're two together all over. I'll tell the man to turn the duke s way down, and you can tell your friend there with you he'll have to go. The number one book was Hawaii by James Mitchener. The top move was cancn in Paris in eighteen ninety six. A female nightclub owner. She fights for her right for a dancers to be able to do the Can Can stars. Frank's not turned Shirley MacLean, All right? What happened on March the seventh? Roman Emperor Constantine? Now he had already switched the Roman Empire from the Roman pagan gods over to Christianity. Day in three twenty one, Constantine he decreed that so let's see Victy or Sunday, it would be a day of rest for the entire Empire, even slaves.

3:03 Baseball eighteen fifty seven, it was decided that a baseball game would be nine innings long, and before then it was the first team to nine runs. Nineteen twenty nine, no win, and Calvin Kraiat made history. Yeah, they were the first to find NonStop from America over to Asia. Pretty impressive. Well, it actually wasn't that big a deal. They just flew across the Bearing Strait nineteen thirty in Illinois. In their high school basketball game, Chicago's Georgetown High School had beat Homer High School. One did nothing. Now, after World War Two, the United States they needed someplace to test their nuclear bombs. Well, they found Bikini a toll. It's in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Yeah, it was perfect. It was in the middle of nowhere, so no ships are playing or anything would pass by. So they made a deal with its king and they moved to all the people today nineteen forty six, all one hundred and sixty seven people were who lived there. Yeah, they were moved to Ragorick Island or Ragrick Actoll something like that. Anyway, two years later, the United States, Yeah, let's stop and see how those Bikini people are doing well.

4:02 It turns out that island didn't have enough food to support them. Yeah, the people were about to starve to death. United States and hoops and decided to help. They ended up moving them three more times to other islands. Finally they put them on Kill Island. Now that one, they said, it's got to be perfect. But then they found out the ocean waves were around the island. They have are two rough they couldn't go fishing. So finally the United States just set screw it, We'll just feed you. So the islanders had to rely on us food drops. Then in nineteen sixty eight, the United States was all done testing on Bikini Atoll. President Lyndon Johnson he told those islanders that, hey, you can go back when the radiation levels dropped. So years is that, oh, you know? And then in nineteen eighty six, the United States just paid the Bikinis seventy five million bucks for all their troubles.

4:44 Called Bloody Sunday nineteen sixty five and Sema, Alabama, a march was organized to show support for Deacon Jimmy or Deacon James Lee Jackson. He was shot by a state trooper. For a month earlier. So the march is going to go from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. Now, as soon as the six hundred marchers crossed the county line, the Alabama State Police on that county posse just attacked the marchers, beat the hell out of him with billy clubs, used tear guys. It was horrible. Seventeen marchers ended up in the hospital, over fifty retreated for their injuries. But the whole thing was shown on TV. So that laid to eighty marches breaking out in cities all across the country, and they were all peaceful. In nineteen eighty one, Disneyland had its first homicide, eighteen year old Mel Yorba. He was stabbed to death by James O'Driscoll. Yeah, save Mel had actually pitched James girlfriend's But nineteen ninety seven, five people see Japan's Prime Minister Hashimoto. They said his smoking violated Japan's constitution with guaranteed them a wholesome life. Well, they lost. The court said his smoking wasn't unconstitutional. Last year, twenty twenty five, Denver Nuggets Nicola Jokic. He became the first player in NBA history to have a triple double of thirty points, twenty rebounds and twenty assists.

6:00 Joke show dish shimmer Day. Please don't he left this shim Day. We got simple tag. Like dish Shiburt's Day. And you know we don't do work. Well, let's check out who was born on March the seventh, mc donald. Pamberger, Rick Ryans and milkshake. Watch for me on TV. We'll have lots of fun McDonald. That was nineteen sixty three. That's when McDonald's ran their first TV commercial feature in Ronald McDonald. Ronald was played by Willard Scott. He was born in Alexandria, Virginia, in nineteen thirty four. Most of us don't really probably remember Willard as being Ronald McDonald. We probably remember him though, as the weather man for The Today Show from nineteen eighty to twenty fifteen. Now it's six foot three, two hundred ninety five pounds. He didn't start out as a weatherman, Nope, start off playing both of the clown for three years.

6:54 Then he was Ronald McDonald. After that, Willard, he was just working at a local TV station behind the scenes. You know, I'm doing his job. Well, the weather man got really pissed off and quit right before he's supposed to go on the air. So the maner said, hey, well you're a new weather man, get out there. Worked out pretty good for Willard. He married nineteen fifty nine. They were together until she died in two thousand and two, and they had two children. He married again, and his second wife was twenty fourteen. They were together until he died in twenty twenty one at eighty seven years old from natural causes. Good until the day this same show losting.

7:44 Peter Wolf. He was the singer for the Elite Jay Giles band Peter's eighty years old today. He was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen forty six. Start out singing for the band Hallucinations. Well He's done that. He was an overnight DJ in Boston. Well, Jay Giles was hanging out with Earth, his band. He said, hey, man, you want to join our band. That was in nineteen sixty eight, so both said sure and they all moved to New York City. Peter He sang lead and co wrote all their songs. Some of their heads are come Back, Love Stinks, Centerfold, Freeze Frame. He went solo in nineteen eighty four. Yeah, a couple of minor hits. I guess you'd call it. Always did go back for the Jay Galls reunion concerts, So Peter. He was married to actress Fate Dunaway for five years. Actor John Hurdy. He was born in Washington, d c. In nineteen forty six. He's in over one hundred movies. Biggest We're the Home Alone movies.

8:31 He played the Dad. He is also in Between the Lines, Big, The Pelican, Brief, White Chicks. He married actress Margo Kidder for six days. Then he had a son from a girlfriend. He married his second wife for eight years and they had two kids. Married his third wife for seven months. Johnny died from a heart attack in twenty seventeen at seventy one years old. Actor Brian Cranston. He's seventy. He's born in Hollywood, California, in nineteen fifty six. Hey, he's done a lot of acting. He's done ninety six TV shows. Biggest ones were when he started out Come in the Middle on Them, Breaking Bad, did sixty two movies, The Lincoln Lawyer, Argo, Godzilla, Power Ranger. That's something. He married his second wife in nineteen eighty nine and they have a daughter. I think Leslie Wonderman would be a cool stage name. Well she didn't think so, so that's why she's Taylor Dane. Born in Manhattan, New York in nineteen sixty two, sixty four year. She's got some show schedule coming up. If you're gonna go do some dancing now.

9:43 On college, she sang for rock bands, and after she graduated she said enough of that. She didn't dance songs. Some of her big hits here, I'll Always love You, Don't rush me with every beat of my heart, tell it to my heart. Now she has twins. Now, Taylor, she is a colon cancer survivor, so that's totally awesome. Comedian actress Wanda Sykes is sixty two. She was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, in nineteen sixty four. After college, she went to work for the NSA, the National Securities Agency. Yeah in Washington, d C. Yeah, at night she could go do the stand up in the comedy clubs. After five years, she just went all in and stand up. You know that whole premise is funny. A comedian handling national security information. She first got known on the TV show The Chris Rock Show. Then she was in the New Adventures of Old Christine. She's been on the upshot since twenty twenty one.

10:29 Now. She was married to a guy for seven years and then she married her wife in two thousand and eight and they have a son and a daughter. I know it seems backwards, but she's a comedian. Actress Rachel Weiss. She was born in Westminster, England in nineteen seventy fifty six. Show she had a nice career acting on British TV before going into movies. Some of those are the Mummy movies, Deep Blue Something, The Born Legacy. She was nominated for an Oscar for the Favorite and she won an Oscar for the Constant Gardner. She had a son from a boyfriend. Then she married actor Daniel Craig James Bond in twenty eleven. They have a daughter, Actress Jenni Fisher. She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, in nineteen seventy four fifty two. Today she grew up in Saint Louis, Missouri. Now she hit playing on TVs. What with Pam Beasley on the Office. Yeah.

11:16 Some of her movies were Blades of Glory, the promotion hap Ass Kissed Me Jenna. She married her second husband and twenty ten and they have a son and a daughter. Jenna. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in twenty four and currently she says that she is cancer free. So good job, I hope stays up. Congratulations with Jenna. Actress Laura Preppond. She's forty five. She was born on Watch on New Jersey in nineteen eighty played Donna on that seventy show. Then she was on the Oranges of the New Black. Some of her movies Slackers, Lightning Bug Hero. Laura and her husband they're going through a divorce and they have two children. Alright. Here quote of the day. It comes from movie director Stanley Kubrick. He died today in nineteen ninety nine and seventy years old. Stanley said, it's a mistake. Fuse pity with love. That's true. Well, thank you all for listening today, and don't forget to follow us, and now you listen to us on it makes it easiest to find and don't forget to check the show description or show notes whatever your show things shows us for at the bottom. Yeah, and that there's a description on there that links you over to Spotify. So if you haven't heard me talking about it, and on Spotify, we have a playlist our own and it basically pluts every song that we play and you can actually hear the whole version of it on there. So if you don't hear Taylor Dane or Jay Giles or even Jim Reeves, but yeah, you go on there and it doesn't cost you anything. They do make you sign up, but they don't bug you about upgrading and that kind of stuff. They're pretty cool about that.

12:37 All right. Our Country Inderground Radio Arts Today comes from Shelley and Fort Collins, Colorado. She gos to here Lee Sims song Summerfall. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. South of the border on a beach of what saying, She SIPs Mart Readers and works on her tan sees enjoyed her vacation. In fact, she's had a fall. Last night at the fiesta, we danced all nine long. She held me closer with every song, but back at the hotel we got no sleep at all. She's just here for a good time to let down her hair. But I'm having a hard time trying hard not to care.

13:34 I'm head over hears, swept on my feet by it all She's had a great summer and I've had quite a fall. Like a postcard picture the sea in the sand, two lovers and sun said on the beach, holding hands, a polder of roommates, A time to recall the connerly morning, willboard separate planes.

14:16 She'll get life back to normal. Mine won't be the same. She's off to Agustine. I'm headed back to Saint Paul's. She's just here for a good time to let down her hair. But I'm having a hard time, trying hard not to care. A held means swept up my feet by aye. She's had a great summer and I've had quite a fall.