May 11th-Minnesota Birthday, Irving Berlin, The Animals, MTV VJ's, Massachusetts Bans Christmas

0:10 Hello there, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today, presented by Cool Meeting. There is maybe eleventh Life, Healthy Food Life, Jump Food to your Life, Healthy food or your Life Jump Food Up Pop Jess sa Facons. Healthy fruit makes you strong, Healthy takes you fast, jump makes you weak, Jump food makes. You faking fat. It is national eat what you want to day. You can break your diet for the day. You can eat breakfast for dinner. It's something that you like that others think are gross. Get off you know for today, you know what, Just go for it now. Today started out as eat ice cream for breakfast day, but we can do better than that. Today is all about you have fun and eat whatever the hell you want. See's going on in entertainment On the eleventh Let's go back to your nineteen sixty five, the number one album was the Mary Poppins movie soundtrack. Herman hermits they had the number one song with Miss Brown, You've Got their Lovely ductor.

1:24 Let don't say she Do I Know down Home my niece uts it good to fine and She's drowns Don't. Love lad Tie Raeves. He had a number one country song with Girl on the billboard, Rolling Way, Jimmy hold On Parade from Chicago, Crusade, Lewis Lolos R. L. Appreciate a bunch of We's alike. Me can hardly ever got a girl to look at him like the girl worried nothing but a small tell in the picture on the billboard.

2:07 In the number one book was Up the Down Staircase by Bill Kaufman. The top movie was the Sound of Music. In nineteen thirties Austria. A young nun is sent to care for the seven children of a widowed naval officer. Stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. All Right, what happened in the world On May the eleventh, eight sixty eight. The Buddhist holy text, the Diamond Sutra. It was printed, yes, the oldest surviving book in the world that has the date when it was printed on it. It was found by a monk in a cave outside of dung Hung, China. In nineteen hundred ten sixty eight, the first Queen of England was crowned Matilda of Flanders. She was the wife of William the conquer. Ceremony took place in Westminster Abbey in London. How long how old is Westminster Abbey? It has built in seven fifty five sixteen fifty nine, Massachusetts.

2:57 They made Christmas illegal. They thought it was pagan and an idolitarian. So if you celebrated it, you're lucky if you were only received a fine from them. Now they brought Christmas back in sixteen eighty one eighteen twelve in London, John Billingham, he was sitting quietly by the fireplace and the lobby of the House of Commons when Britain's Prime Minister Spencer Percival walked in. Billingham, he just casually got up. He walked over, told him, pulled out a pistol and shot him in the chest. Perceval screamed out, I've been murdered. Well, he was right. He dropped dead to the floor. Now, Spencer Persval, he is the only British Prime minister who's been assassinated while he was in office. Now Billingam. He didn't run, try and escape for anything. He simply said to all those around him, you all know who I'm here.

3:39 I'm here to get payback. See Billingham, he'd been falsely thrown in prison in Russia for five years. Yeah, and the British. They didn't do anything to get him out, so now he was pissed off and wanted to pay back. Ended up getting hung for it. Happy Birthday, Minnesota. Eighteen fifty eight, Minnesota became the thirty second state Minnesota. It's a Dakota Sioux word. It means sky tinted water. Now the land have won ten thousand lakes. It actually has and forty two lakes. Capital of Saint Paul. Highest point is Eagle Mountain at two thousand, three hundred one feet.

4:33 State bird is the loon, butterfly is a monarch fish, Walleye Trey, Norway, Spine, frou Honeycrest Basketball. Minnesota state muffin it's the blue Bear. Some people born in Minnesota Prince Judy Garland, Bob Dylan, Wynona Ryder, Lindsay, Von Jessica Biale, Vince von Jesse Venturo and my Pillows Mike Lindell some of the people born in the North Star State. Eighteen sixty two, the Confederate Ironclad worsh up to Virginia. It's crew blew it up. Yeah. See the Union had it dead nuts man, it had no way of skating, so they blew it up themselves so it wouldn't be captured by the Union and mus against them. Francis Henry just grunge.

5:13 He will go on later to form the Tour de France bicycle race. But today, in eighteen ninety three set the speed record for bicycles. Yep, he got his bicycle up to twenty one point ninety five miles an hour. Nineteen forty nine in the country of Siam. It renamed himself Thailand nineteen sixty is really special force. The soldiers. They were able to capture German war criminal Adolf Ackman. Yeah, they did it in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Then they were able to sneak him out of that country and break him back to Israel in order to stand trial. Now, Argentina was pissed that Israel came into their country and did that. They threw a major fit, but it was Argentina, so no one really cared. Nineteen seventy two, on the Dick Cavet TV show John Lennon, he said that his phone was tapped by the FBI. The FBI, they weren't surprised, they said, yeah, they had heard him talking about it.

6:01 Go Cop Cop Goat shows this shiverthday. We're gonna pause. He left this shiverday. We gonna simple cause he left this shivers day. And you know we don't do That's. Birthday, all right? Who's born on May the eleventh? Slide the one too. No, not Bing Crosby. Nope, we're talking about the guy who wrote the song White Christmas. Irving Berlin. He was Jewish born in Russia in eighteen eighty eight. Came to the United States when he was five years old. Now, during his sixty year career, he wrote fifteen hundred songs, twenty Broadway shows, fifteen Hollywood movies. Some of his biggest songs you'll know, God Bless America. There's no business like show business, but non the rants. Now, he couldn't made music the first half of his career. His first wife, she caught typhoid when they were on their honeymoon in Cuba.

7:05 She died five months after their wedding. Married his second wife in nineteen twenty six, and they had four children. Berland. He died in nineteen eighty nine at one hundred and one years old. Actor Denver Pyle. He was born in Bathune, Colorado, in nineteen twenty most known for TV playing Uncle Jesse on The Dukes of Hazzard. Actually first got known on The Andy Griffith Show and then The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams. Now, when Denver was on the Envy Griffith Show, he used the money from the show to buy old oil wells, you know, the ones that they expected to be going to drive pretty sick. You know how they have a lifetime for the oil wells gonna Yeah, well, he kept buying up those going bankrupt oilwells. Everybody thought he was just wasting his money. See oil was only about two dollars a barrel, so that they knew there wasn't gonna be enough oil in those wells in order to get his money back. Then they came out with fracking. Yep, so all those old almost dried up oil wells. They had a second life, and he made a lot, a lot of money, a lot more money than he made from thirty years of acting. He had two sons from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen eighty three.

8:02 Died in nineteen ninety seven at seventy seven years old from lung cancer. Place we got. It's a manner life for me and you That was Eric Borden singing lead for the Animals. Eric he's eighty three. He was born in Walker, England in nineteen forty one. He joined the Animals in nineteen sixty two. Some of the hit songs that he sang where the House of the Rising Sun, we got to get out of this place, It's my life, don't bring me down. He left in nineteen sixty nine and formed the band War. They had they had spill the line the World's of Ghetto Cisco Kid.

8:50 Then he kind of went solo. He does a couple of Animal reunion shows here and there, but he pretty much performs by himself nowadays. His first wife she left him yep for Jimmy Hendrix. Then he had a die her from a second wife. Married his third wife in nineteen ninety nine, still TOGETHERTV. I want my TV, I want my MTV. I want my Mtvamo Company, I said, I want my MTV. I want my MTV. Now, a lot of you younger listeners you won't know this, but MTV they used to play music videos. Yes, seriously they did. They even had disc jockeys, but they didn't call them disc jockeys. They call them video jockeys or VJs instead of DJs, and they would actually talk about the music they were playing and all that kind of stuff. Yeah. The most popular vj av them all was Martha Quinn. She's sixty five today.

9:48 She was born in Albany, New York, in nineteen fifty nine. Now, since MTV quit using VJs and quit playing music, she has done national DJ work. Yeah, mostly on satellite radio. She did play Bobby Brady's Wife, and those are Brady Bunch Reunion TV specials. She married in nineteen ninety two and they have two children. Actress Natasha Richardson. She was born in London, England, in nineteen sixty three. Her mom was actress Vanessa Redgrave. Natasha she did quite a bit of theater. Some of her movies were A Fat Man, A Little Boy, The Parent Trap, made in Manhattan. Her second husband was actor Liam Neeson. They got married nineteen ninety four. They had two sons. Then in two thousand and nine, Natasha she died from head injury she got from a skiing accident. Forty five years old. Actor Corey Monteith.

10:33 He was born in Calgary, Canada, in nineteen eighty two. He's most known for the TV show Glee. He started as Finn Hudson on it. He was also in the movie's Deck the Halls and Final Destination three. Now Corey, he actually started having trouble with drugs and alcohol when he was thirteen years old. He's in and out of rehab now. He just completed rehab in twenty thirteen. Two months later. Yeah, he died from heroin and alcohol overdose. He's thirty one. All right, today's factoy. That will win you a beer now, I said earlier at Minnesota they have almost twelve thousand lakes. That's not the most for any state. No, the most is Alaska, they have over three million lakes. Well, thank you for being here today. We appreciate you. Get chanced at by Coolmedia dot com. That's cool with three of us. And let's end with Bob Marley. It was a Buffer.

11:20 In the America. Stolen from a Bramerica. Bob died today in nineteen eighty one, at thirty six years old. He said, open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with your life the way you're living it? You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No,