March 8th-Womens Day, Retro Video Games, The Skipper, The Monkees, Freddie Prinze jr, Gary Newman, James Van Der Beek

0:19 Welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff Day's March the eighth can. Limestones. Today is International Women's Day. Women all over the world will join together and celebrate. They will celebrate women's achievements, raise awareness for women's causes, and take action to drive gender equality. Guys, they did give us something to do today. It is National Retro Video Game Day. Go back before you have Xbox or PlayStation, Go way back, way way way back to the nineteen seventies.

1:28 That's when Natari first gave us Pong. Then we got asteroids, Gallagha, pac Man in honor women's name, Miss pack Man, Donkey Kong, Frogger. Yeah, that's when playing video games was actually cool. Now, if you don't have an old game system, you have stashed away that you can break out. Yeah, you can find most of those games online now while women are out there changing the world. Guys, go retro, go old school and play retro video games. I'm good with that. She's going on to entertainment on March the eighth. Let's back to twenty twenty. Then, when album was Map of the Soul seven by BTS, Roddy Rich had the number one song with the box, but I. Had to cope the lights twelfth to putting out the tails at the butt. I just see the leading with the box with stick in the box, the honte, I'm gonna get lazy, got the mojo neally like.

2:19 More And Morris said that in One Country Song with the Bones. Yeah, las sure canra. Y love cooling, but. This rife is so from Zebagoninal that when the bones. Are good restatant, out of the other pain kill the last good shadows of the Bokay. The number one book was One Minute Out by Mike Greenie. That movie was Onward Teenage Elf Brothers They Take One Last Quest with their late father voice by Tom Holland, Chris Pratt and Julia Luise Rifles. All right, it what happened in March the eighth and sixteen nineteen Pirates they captured a Spanish slave ship in the Caribbean. Now, they didn't want the Africans on the ship, and they had to get away from the Spanish, so they headed north.

3:07 When they got to the Jamestown colony that's in Virginia today, the pirates wanted the Jamestown people to take the Africans off their hands. Yeah, it wasn't much of a trade. They pretty much gave them to him, and then they got the hell out of there before the Spanish caught him. Now, those were the first Africans to set foot on North American soil today sixteen nineteen. Now, the Jamestown people, they didn't really make them slaves. They made them indentured servants. That's something they knew from Europe. I know, it's kind of the same thing. Now, one of those African men, they gave him the name of Anthony Johnson. He was able to work off that servitude, so they gave him his freedom and they gave him some land. He became a very successful farmer. He was so successful that he imported five African slave for his own to work his land. Now, those slaves, they figured out was going on. They sued Anthony.

3:49 They said a black African couldn't own slaves. Well, and what they had for a court system back there, the court actually found for in favor of Anthony. They said that free blacks legally could own slaves. Now, that actually stayed law in America all the way until the end of the Civil War, when. Slavery was ended eighteen sixty seven. Over in England. England passed the British North American Act. Now that was Canada's constitution for over one hundred years. Canadians finally wrote their own constitution nineteen eighty two. Connecticut at In eighteen eighty seven, Everett Horton. He invented the fishing ride made from telescoping metal tubes. Yeah, pretty much those same fishing poles we used today, except we don't use metal, we use graphite and fiberglass. Nineteen ten, the Baroness Raymond de LaRouche, she began the first woman to get a pilot's license.

4:33 Wow, she did it on Women's Day too. I don't know how he did it. You know what that kind of cameras and telescopes they had back then. In nineteen thirty four, Edwin Hubble he was able to take a photo that shows that there are as many galaxies as there are stars in the Milky Way. Nineteen thirty six, the first stock car race was held down there in Daytona, Florida. But it wasn't the first start car race in history. Now, that was back in nineteen thirty three and Elgin, Illinois Southerners are still pissed about that. Colorado teen seventy three, the Eisenhower Tunnel opened up. It's about an hour west of Denver on the Interstate. At that time it was the highest and longest tunnel in the world. Now it says about an hour if you're driving so you don't have to go over Loveland Pass down on US about one point seven miles. Now, if you're driving through, you're gonna see it kind of veers over. Yeah, it's because the drugging machine that they originally got stuck. They couldn't get it out, so they just hadn't ended up drolling another one around it.

5:24 Twenty fourteen, Malaysia Airlines flight MH three seventy, with two hundred and thirty nine people on board, disappeared, became the largest and most expensive search in world history. They still don't know what happened there. Joke dop joked, joke, shug this shivert day, we're gonna tar he left this shiver day. We won't simple tage like this Shibs day. And you know you don't give up. Okay. He was born on March the eighth. You know, let's start off with some trivia on the TV show Gilligan Island. What was. The skipper's name was Jonahs Gumbi. He was played by Alan Hill Junior, who was born in Los Angeles in nineteen twenty one. Now, his dad, Alan Hale Senior, was a really famous actor in the early days of Hollywood.

6:07 You and Your best known for playing the skipper on Gilligan's Island. He made his Broadway debute when he was ten, made his first movie at twenty, and over the next forty years he's in over two hundred movies and TV shows. Alan had four children from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen sixty four. They were together until he died of cancer in nineteen seventy, sixty eight years old. Actress Lynn Redgrave. She was born in merrily Bone, England, in nineteen forty three. She was actress Vanessa Redgrave's little sister. Now, I don't know if you'd call this an honor, but Lynn, she is the only person in history to be nominated for an Oscar, Tony, Emmy and Grammy and never win anyone. She was married for thirty three years and had three each oldren in they divorced. Lynn. She died from breast cancer in twenty ten, sixty seven years. Old then I saw her fame.

7:08 He is the only surviving Monkey that was Mickey Dolan's Mickey's eighty one. Today he just kicked off the Mickey Dolans sixty years a Monkey's tour. Yeah, he's saying lead, so you really don't need the other guys, right. He's born in Los Angeles in nineteen forty five. Started acting when he was ten. After high school. He sang lead and the rock band Mickey in the One Timers. Became a Monkey in nineteen sixty six. He played the Drugs and sang lead on most songs. I mean, Davey sang a couple of times, but he's usually Mickey singing now. When he got the gig on the Monkeys, yeah, he had never played drums in his entire life. Yeah, so they had to work with him and work with him and work with them so that when the Monkeys went out on their first tour, he was considered a competent drummer. He had a daughter from his first wife, three daughters from a second I've been with his third wife since two.

7:50 Thousand and two. That was Gary Newman. He was born in Amster, Hammersmith, England, in nineteen fifty eight. Sixty eight year old Gary start out singing in the new wave band Tubwey Army. Then he went solo and went all electric in nineteen eighty. Now critics hated the electric music he was planning. Pretty much every critic over in England just slammed him for coming up with this new concept of crappy music that they hated it. Now he's considered the key pioneer of electronic music. Now he's a lot bigger over in Europe and England than here I was over here. But he is touring in the States right now. Yep. He's gonna be doing it until the middle of April, so he got plenty of time if you want to go see Gary Newman in his electronics show. He got married in nineteen ninety seven and they have three daughters. Actor Aiden Quinn. He was born in Chicago in nineteen fifty nine. Sixty seven year old's been in over eighty movies. First starring role was in Desperately Seeking Susan, then Benny and June steak Out Legends in the Fall. He was on the TV show Elementary for seven season. Aiden married nineteen eighty seven and they have two Daughters. Actress Cameron Mannheim is sixty five. She's on of a West Calllowe, New Jersey. In nineteen sixty one, started out doing an off woman or one woman off Broadway play called Wake Up, I'm Fat Well that gut

9:22 Her on TV. If you remember, she was on the practice Ghost Whisper, Person of Interest in Law and Order. She has one son. Actor Freddy Prince Junior is fifty years old. He was born in Los Angeles in nineteen seventy six. His dad was Freddie Prince Sor. He was ten months old when his dad died. Junior made a name for himself and I don't know, I know what you did last Summer movies and then Scooby Doo movies on TV. He's done quite a bit of actually ww E stuff. Yeah. I don't picture him as a professional wrestling guy, but hey, it works, Freddie. He married actors Sarah Mishawe Geller in two thousand and two and they have a son and a daughter. Actor James Vanderbeek. He was born in Chirshire, Conecticut in nineteen seventy seven. James got known on the TV show Dawson Creek, then went to movies. Some of them are Varsity Blues, Texas Rangers, Whirls of Attacktion Final Draft.

10:10 He got married to a second wife in twenty ten. Six kids between them. James. He just died on February eleventh from color rectal cancer, forty eight years old. Alright here Code of the Day. It comes from baseball legend joltn Joe DiMaggio. He died today in nineteen ninety nine at eighty four years old. Jolton Joe says, a person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader just by example. Well, thank you for listening today. Don't forget to follow us now you listen to us on our country to ground radio artist today. It comes from Stu in Bloomington, Indiana. You want to see a mascot in bloodline saw me on you. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Girl, I hopeing daddy doesn't own a gun. If he does, hand them done for the things at you doing to me?

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