May 14-Dance like a chicken, Marmaduke, Bobby Darin, George Lucas, Talking Heads, Cate Blanchett, Youngest Mom ever

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. Today is May the fourteenth. Yep, you guess it is national dance like a chicken day. Yeah, today we are going to celebrate the chicken dance. In the nineteen fifties, it was created by a Swiss accordion player named Warner Thomas. Now he called it the duck dance. Now he played it at the local restaurant in Tavern.

1:00 Get for all the locals back then. Then in the nineteen seventies, a Belgium record producer was coming through town on vacation. He heard it, he loved it. Yeah, the rest is history. No, I'm sure exactly how it happened. In the nineteen eighties it became the chicken jans. Yeah, the duck dances no more now as wedding season fast approaching. Yeah, you better start practicing, so bust it out and do some chicken dancing today. Let's see what happened to entertainment on May the fourteenth. Let's back to your two thousand then one album was No Strings Attached by being Sync. Santana and Product GNB had the number one song with Maria Mariama. Mom Mommy of the West Stories who went up in Spanish hustle. She lived in a life just like a movies.

1:54 They fill had the number one country song with the Way You Love Me. I wish you could see ooh way you kids, why when you're driving me crazy? Love the way love. Away you love Me. The number one book was Before I Say Goodbye by A Marrigan Clark. That move his gladiator Russell Crowe. He is a former Roman general now he wants vengeance against an emperor who murdered his family and sent him into slavery. Won five Oscars, including Best Picture, and Crow won for Best Actor. All right, what happened on May the fourteenth, seventeen ninety six. Smallpox? It was a huge problem worldwide. Sixty percent of all people got it in twenty percent of those people died. Over in England a country doctor named Edward Jenner. He noticed that the milkmaids, you know, those women who milked cows every morning, they never got smallpox. So edwardy started figuring out that maybe the milkmaids they were exposed to cowpox, which is a less severe type of smallpox. He thought, you know what, maybe since they get exposed to that they can't get the smallpox. So what he did is he went, I don't know how he pulled this off. Somehow he was able to give an eight year old boy cowpox. Then they waited for a while, then they gave that eight year old boy smallpox. Well, Edward's there it was correct. Yeah, that little boy didn't get smallpox. That's actually the world's first vaccination. Word quickly got around and spread that there is a cure for smallpox. It took until nineteen eighty,

3:26 but smallpox is the only disease ever eradicated by man. Now it turns out that eight year old little boy, his name was actually James Phillips. He was Edwards Gardner's son. Eighteen oh four, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark left Saint Louis, Missouri on their expedition to the Pacific Ocean. Yes, President Thomas Jefferson want to know exactly what he bought in that Louisiana purchase. They gave back to Saint Louis in September of eighteen oh six. Eighteen seventy eight, Robert chessbro He invented vassilene. Now it is from a study they say vasolene is almost in like ninety seven percent of all American households. Eighteen ninety six is the lowest temperature ever recorded in the continental of the United States. In May, negative ten degrees was in Climax, Colorado. Climax that's just a few miles from where I was born in Leadville, Colorado. Now, if you're looking for a job, they have a huge mo libdum mine there. Yeah, they're always looking for help.

4:17 Start out at one hundred thousand dollars a year if you look it up at climax dot com. Now, I'm probably one of the reasons that it gets down to ten negative ten degrees. In May eighteen ninety seven and Washington, Iowa, the State Theater opened up. It's the oldest continue US operating movie theater in the world. Today they have Thunderbolts, the Accountant and Centers that are currently playing Saturday nights, yep, every night every Saturday at midnight Rocky Oor Picture Show. So I have you find yourself in Washington, Iowa. Hey, you know what to do. It's in the southeast part of the state. Nineteen thirty nine, in Peru, Lena Medinas she became the youngest mother to get birth. She was five years seven months old. Yes, it is confirmed. They have pictures and everything. Now you're probably wondering how and who did it. Well, she had this thing called precocias.

5:00 It's basically early on set puberty. Yeah, it's really rare. The doctors they didn't even realize she was pregnant. She was eight months long. Yeah, they thought she had a really aggressive stomach tumor. Well, once they realized that she was pregnant, they knew that she was way too small to give birth, so they gave her a c section. She had a healthy, six pound baby boy. Now they don't know who got her pregnant, pregnant, and she didn't know. See, they don't think that she even knew what was going on when she conceded. I mean she was only four. Her father did go to jail for a little while. They were pretty much depended on him, but they could never prove that he was responsible for it. Now, Lena, she got married nineteen seventy and they had a son. She's still alive. She's ninety one years old now. That son she had when she was five, he died nineteen seventy seven at forty years old from bone marrow disease.

5:42 Nineteen forty eight. Israel, they declared their independence, so now they weren't being occupied, but Great Britain was actually in charge of them. They were kind of like they're administering, did all the paperwork and that kind of stuff. So they didn't really fight it. Why how things have changed? In nineteen seventy, President Richard Nixon, he nominated Henry Blackbaum to be that judge on the United States Supreme Court. Senate conferred in ninety four to nothing. Coke jokejke joke, joke, shage this shiver day. Please gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We won't simple tage. Like this shivers day. And you know we don't give up because that's a birthday. Okay. So it was bart Id May of the fourteenth, Brad Anderson.

6:23 He was born in Jamestown, New York in nineteen twenty four. So what that Brad did well? He created the comic strip Marmaduke. Hey. He drew it from nineteen fifty four to twenty fifteen. He dude, Yeah, he did it pretty much right up until he died of heartfilu are ninety one years old. He was married and they had four kids. Now him in his family, and they never had a great Dane or a dog named Marmaduke. Fee me fine, fine, full full fund. I smell smooth in the heart of Tony Brown, Tarli Brown. He's a town tyld Brown. He's not again. Just you wait and see why everybody always picking on me.

7:06 That was Will dub Jones singing for the Coasters. He was that deep voice at the very end. Now I never sing lead, but you really hear his deep bass in that Charlie Brown and yakity yack some mother. He's in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the other Coasters. He was born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in nineteen twenty eight. He died in two thousand and seventy one years old him diabetes. Street Splash. I was taking the bill all about a Saturday night, rubbed. Double selection in the tub taking everything was all right, the wind. I stepped out the tuble to my feet on the float. I rapped the toddle around man open the door, and then utechplash, watch him back in the ball.

7:50 That was Bobby Dare And he was born in New York City, in nineteen thirty six, had to hit splitsh Splash, Dream Lover, Mack the Knife, Beyond the se Now that guy was huge worldwide. They'd also made a dozen movies. First wife, Sandra, d for seven years and they had a son. Married a second wife for just a couple of months when they divorced. Now, when Bobby was a kid, he got rheumatic fever. He left him with a whole bunch of medical issues. Ended up dying from heart problems from it when he was only thirty seven years old nineteen seventy three. Movie maker George Lucas is eighty two. He was born in My Desto, California, in nineteen forty four. That's first big movie that he made was American Graffiti. Then of course Star Wars and Dana Jones Howard the Duck. Now for all the success that he's had, yeah, he't never run any awards. Well, I'll take all the money he got over a trophy any day. Now. He had a daughter from his first wife. After they divorced, he adopted a son and a daughter. Married a second wife in twenty thirteen and they have a daughter. That was David Byrne. When he sang for The Talking Heads. He's seventy four, born Dumbarton, Scotland in nineteen fifty two. Co founder The Talking Heads in nineteen seventy five. They called her quits in nineteen ninety one they had the take Me to the River, burning down the house, and she was wild wildlife. Now he pretty much just writes movie scores and does radio. He married once for a couple

9:20 of years and they had a daughter from it. That was Tom Cochrane. No, he still sings lead for the band Red Rider. He's seventy three, born in lind Lake, Canada, in nineteen fifty three. Help Forum Red Rider nineteen seventy five. They took the nineties off, but they've been back together since two thousand too. Some of their head star Lunatic French Human Race Big League. Now they're actually a lot bigger up north than they are down here out down South. Tom.

10:07 He's married and they have two daughters. Actress Kate Blanchett's fifty seven. She's born in I Have a No, Australia in nineteen sixty nine. It's a suborb of Melbourne. Been in over seventy movies. Biggest ones were The Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies. One oscars for The Aviator and for Blue Jasmine. She got married nineteen ninety seven and they have three sons and one daughter. Mark Suckerberg he's forty two. He's born in White Plains, New York in nineteen eighty four. Now he stole the concept for Facebook. Way He's going to Harvard, dropped out of school and made it one of the biggest companies in the world. I guess I should call it meticide. I now Mark. He's married and they have two children. Actress Miranda Crossgrove. She's thirty three, born in Los Angeles in nineteen ninety three. Now she started acting young. Her first movie with School of Rock. She's Wise Margo and all those Despicable movies On TV. Shehit really big on Drake and Josh and then I Carly. Now, although she was actually a successful working actress, still graduated from the University of Southern California. She also doesn't drink our smoke. She's a really big supporter of Saint Jude's Children Hospital, and she's a national spokesperson for a Light the Night Walk.

11:10 It's an organization for blood cancer. So see Hollywood, you can be a good person and a successful actress. All right. Our quote of the day to day, We're gonna end with Frank Sinatra. The Strangers in the Night, true lonely people. We were strangers in the night up to the moment when we set off first tell little did we know? Love was just a glance away, warm, embracing, done away. Frank. He died to day in nineteen ninety eight, at eighty two years old. He says, the best revenge is massive success. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us. I know you listen to us on check us out at coolmdia dot com. That's cool with three us we want to road. Thank you for listening to the Country Indeground Radio and our numbers. Our listening ship is really going out for glad. You guys really like that, so our country Inderground Radio artists of the day Brinley Addington in his movie Another Heartache. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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