May 16-Bar B Q,, Liberace, Mr. Mister, Janet Jackson, New Edition, Megan Fox, 1st Person to die from AIDS

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, to it's about Today is May sixteenth. I'm tying barbecue. No so is trapping true slogan me and Si Bruce help me true old barbeque. Today is National Barbecue Day. A barbecue, it's a cookout and a celebration. Barbecues, they go back to colonial days. George Washington once wrote in his journal that he went to a barbecue that lasted three days. The definition of a barbecue is roasting large pieces of meat on an open fire. Or girl, I think you can handle that.

1:02 So if you can't, well let me just go to your favorite barbecue place. They're all having deals today. Well let's see what happened in entertainment on May sixteenth. Back in nineteen sixty and my album was themed from the Summer's Place. Elvis Presley had the number one song was Stuck on You. You can shake an apple apple tree, shahet goshoog, but you let the push no servy heel. I'm going to stick like clue sticks, stuck on you. Hank Lachland had the number one country song with Please help Me, I'm falling, Please help me, I'm fall in Lon with you.

1:53 Close the Door two camp Pen, Don't let Me walk through. Their number one book was Hawaii by James Mitchener. The top movie was Sergeant Rutledge, a really respected black cavalry sergeant. He gets charged with court martiall for killing and raping a white woman and then murdering her father, who is a senior officer. Stars Woody Strow, Jeffrey Hunter, and Constant Towers. Nineteen twenty nine, they held the first Academy Awards. It was at the Roosevelt Hotel in Hollywood. Now it was a private dinner for two hundred and fifty people. It cost you five bucks to get in. Probably didn't serve barbecue.

2:34 Now the only silent eligible or movies are eligible for this first one. Now it was hosted by Douglas Barrett Fairbanks. So the Best Picture was Wings. Best Actor was Emil Jennings. Best Actress of Janet Gaynor. Now they gave out their twelve Academy Awards in fifteen minutes. You know, I might actually watch the Oscars if they only lasted fifteen minutes. Alright, less. It happened on May the sixteenth, seventeen seventy in France fourteen year old Marie Antoinette. She married future king fifteen year old Louis the sixteenth. Now, if you believe in happy endings, yeah, that's not one. Eighteen seventy six, pharmacist Charles Hires he unveiled his newest creation, root Bear. More specifically Hires root Bear. It's the world's second oldest soda. Yeah.

3:15 The oldest soda is Vernon's carbonated mineral water that came out in seventeen eighty three. Now, Hires, he created root Bear. You know it was after a herbal tea that he'd actually drank on his honeymoon that he just left. Say, he didn't drink alcohol, and he's looking for an alternative to beer Booze Italy. In eighteen eighty four, Angelo Marino he invented the espresso machine. Nineteen twenty two Amelia Earhart. She became the sixteenth woman to get a pilot's license. Nineteen twenty seven, in the United States Supreme Court, they ruled that booleggers must pay federal income tax. Now that might sound funny, but they got copone on it. Nineteen forty eight Jane Wiseman. He was elected the first president of Israel. Nineteen sixty five, Spaghettios went on sale. I lived on those things going up. Nineteen sixty nine is Saint Louis, Missouri. A fifteen year old boy. He died from a d disease. He had no doctor could figure out what it was. They had no idea what it was.

4:09 They did store a sample of his blood. Then in nineteen eighty seven they retested that blood sample. Turns out the boy he died from AIDS Now AIDS. It wasn't even identified until nineteen eighty one because of his age. His name has never been released, but he is the first person that they know for a fact who actually died from AIDS. Nineteen seventy five Junkle Type Bay. She was from Japan. She began the first woman to summer Mount Everest. She also went on to climb All seven Summit. It's gonna be the first woman to do that. Seven some assess the highest mountain on his continent. Nineteen eighty three NBC they broadcast Motown twenty five. It was a live concert that celebrated twenty five years of Motown music. Had all their big singers performing there. Michael Jackson whipped it out. He did the moonwalk for the first time.

4:51 Now. Although Michael made the moonwalk famous, the stapdids are named Bill Bailey. Yeah, he was the first to actually do the moonwalk, did back in nineteen forty three. He called it the backslide joke. Joke, joked joke. Show dish Shiver Birthday. We're gonna tau. He left dish shiverfday. We won't simple to he like dish Shibirthday. And you know we don't give up. That's your birthday, all right. It was born on May the sixteenth. Actor Henry Fonda. He was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in nineteen oh five. First got known starring out on Broadway. Then he went and did almost under movies. Something that you might have heard of, where The Grapes of Wrath, The Longest Day Midway. He won an oscar and the last movie they hed ever made was on Golden pun He had two children from a second wife. Their actor is Jane and Peter Fonda.

5:36 He had a daughter from his third wife. Married his fifth wife in nineteen sixty five. They were together until he died in nineteen eighty two from heart failure seventy seven years old. We seeing you in all the all the familiar place that is hot of my embraces. From nineteen fifty four until the late nineteen seventies, Liberaci was the highest paid entertainer in the world. He was born what is law Liberacci in West Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in nineteen nineteen. Now. As a kid, he was a piano prodigy. Then in his early twenties he went from playing orchestra and classical music YEP, switched over and went to pop and pop infused classical music, and he did it in a really flambuoyant style. His career just skyrocketed. He had his own TV show from nineteen fifty two to nineteen sixty nine.

6:31 Of course he was a mainstay in Las Vegas. Now he ended at every TV show and every concert with that song I just played, I'll be seeing You Liberacci. He never said he was gay. In fact, if someone printed it, like in a newspaper, that he was gay, yeah, he would always swe him. It happened twice, he won both times. Liberacci died nineteen eighty seven at sixty seven years old from aids. Actor Pierce brosn In He's seventy three. He was born in drogead of Ireland in nineteen fifty three. Now in the United States, he first got known on the TV show Remy and Still. Then he was James Bond and four Bond Movies. He is also a Missus Dat Fire Dante's Big The Mama Mea Movies. He was widowed from his first wife. They had three children, married a second wife in two thousand and one and they have two children. That was Richard Page singing from Mister Mister.

7:36 He's also seventy three. He was born in Keilkok, Iowa. Grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. Richard he turned down singing lead for both the bands Chicago and Toto Stead. He founded Mister Mister in nineteen eighty two. Broken Wings, Currier, Is It Love? Some of their big hit songs. You're wondering, Currie. It's Greek. It means our Lord have mercy. Mister mister. They went their own ways in nineteen ninety. Richard, He's done quite a bit of success right now, songs for rather artisans. Then he is married and they have four children. Actress Deborah Winger. She's seventy one. He was born in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, in nineteen fifty five. She first hit big in the movie Urban Cowboy, then An Officer and a Gentleman terms of endearment shadow Lands. She was nominated for Oscars for Officer and Gentlemen in shadow Lands. Her first husband was actor Timothy Hutton for four years and they had a son. She married her second husband in nineteen ninety six and they also have a son. Actress Mary Winningham. She was born in Phoenix in nineteen fifty nine.

8:28 She grew up in California. She's sixty seven. She graduated from Chatsworth High School in Los Angeles Now. Her high school boyfriend was Val Kilmer, and she was co valedictorian with Kevin Spacey after the class of nineteen seventy seven Mayor. Her first big movie was Saint L's Fire, then made in Heaven, Turner and Hooch. She was nominated for an Oscar for Georgia. She's been nominated for two. Tony Is also. She had five kids from her second husband. Then she married her fourth husband and two was twenty twenty one. He's actor Anthony Edwards, you know from Revenge of the Nerds. Yeah, and he has four kids to go home with. Mary's five kids. Speaker.

9:25 The youngest of the ten Jackson kids is Jennet. Janet Jackson is sixty. She was born in Gary and Dana and just like all her brothers and sister, now Janet. She started acting when she was eleven years old. She was on the TV show Good Times. Later on she was in the movie's Poetic Justice Nettie Professor two. She's Done three Tyler Perry Movies had a singer. She sold over one hundred million records of her number one songs are what have You Done for Me Lately? Let's Wait Awhile, Miss you much, black Cat. She has three times divorced, and she had a son from her third husband, Man.

10:16 The lead singer for New Edition is Ralph Tresvont. He's fifty eight. He was born in Boston in nineteen sixty eight. New Addition they formed in nineteen seventy eight. It means they're the new addition for the Jackson five Now. No, Bobby Brown was never the lead singer. Nipple was always Ralph. That's why Bobby went solo, was because he got mad because he couldn't be the lead singer. The original lineup was Ralph, Ricky Bell, Michael Bevans, Ronnie Devo, Bobby Brown. Then when Bobby got mad and went solo, Yeah, he was replaced by Johnny Gill. Now when they get together and tour and perform it, if they all do it together, some of their hits are Mister Telephone Man, Candy Girl, Cool It Now Ralph. He actually had a platinum selling solo album. Over the years, he had a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in twenty fourteen, and they also have a daughter. Actor Tracy Gold. She was born in New York City in nineteen sixty nine.

11:03 That makes her fifty seven a day. Best known for Carol sever on sickcom Growing Pains. Started acting when she was four. Now she is one of the queen of TV movies. She's made a lot of them. I wouldn't get account the more. Now. As a teenager, Tracy, she had a very public battle with anarexka Antarexa in the late nineteen eighties. Well, luckily she beat it. Now she's an inspirational speaker helping other young women who are dealing with the dangers of eating disorders. Now, yeah, she turned it into a positive. Tracy. She got married nineteen ninety four and They have four sons backing. She was which.

11:48 Black country singer Rick Trevino. He's fifty five. He's born in Austin, Texas. In nineteen seventy one. Nineteen ninety three, he released this song just Enough Rope. It was the first mainstream country song ever released in English and Spanish. Some of those other big hits are she Can't Say I Didn't Cry, Bobby and Mason running Out of Reasons to Run. Rec could be on some shows over the summer if you want to check and see if he's coming to your area. He is married and they have two children. Forty year old actress Megan Fox. She was born in Oakridge, Tennessee, in nineteen eighty six, and she hit really big playing Michayla Baines and The Transformer movies and then April O'Neil and The Mutant Teenage Ninja Murder The Mutant Teenage Ninja Turtle movies. She married actor Brian Austin Green for eleven years and they had three sons.

12:37 She had a baby girl with singer Machine Gun Kelly. All Right, our quote of the day, We're gonna go with Sammy Davis Junior. With you. To the candy. Candy Man Sammy died today in nineteen ninety at sixty four years old. Sammy said, real success is not on the stage, but off the stage as a human being, and how you get along with your fellow man. Oh, thank you Sammy, Thank you all for listening. Then we get to follow us on whoever you listen to us on and check us out at cool media dot com. That's cool. Three of us our country underground radio artists.

13:20 Today we're gonna go to Ben Carter Band and their song Chasing Whiskey Down. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. That girls like a wild Mustang all he couldn't catch her if you tried. But I'm thinking, I mind you my best to night to show her my cowboys side. I got my booze on hend a guitar in my hand. I'm show her. I'm gonna be here. Man.

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