May 17-Black Bart, Dennis Hopper, Bob Saget, Enya, Nine Inch Nails, NKOTB, The Corrs, Nikki Reed, Bill Paxton

0:19 Hello everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history and factoids about today. It is May the seventeenth. I love walmnuts. You love walnuts. We love walm nuts, womnus, walnuts, wollnuts, womnuts, woo woom nuts, wom nuts, woo nuts. I love woom nuts, You love wom nuts. Yep, today's National Walnut Day. Now I would have thought it would have been in the fall. But anyway, walnuts. They were invented by the Babylonians in two thousand BC. Oh, they didn't invent them, but they were the first ones to farm them. Now, walnuts, they are very, very healthy for you. They're also great for reducing swelling and forever. They freshen your breath. Now you can celebrate today with walnut cocktails. You can put them on cookies, salads, muffins, ice cream. Just take the shelves off. So eat healthy today and eat your walnuts. Let's see what happened in entertainment one May seventeenth. Let's go back to twenty twenty.

1:14 Then one album was here and Now by Kenny Chesney, Arianna Grond and Justin Bieber had in him. My song was Stuck with You. I could stay nice, sign sod and the cake and find the. Snow more in stressing and this's nothing n nothing night I can do stuck wheel. Why Marion Morris had the in One Country song with the Bones to. The Pine The class cuse shadows that the play Okay, do see you have a Man's come and then a crack in.

1:56 The foundation dnys Wild He stayed the house on Falling. The number one book was Comino Wins by John Grisham. The top movie was The Invisible Man. A woman's abusive X kills himself and he leaves her all his fortune. Now she thinks he faked that death because she has to try and prove that he's actually hunting her. Stars Elizabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson Cohene, and Harriet Dyer nineteen sixty five. Finally, after a two year investigation, the FBI ruled up that song Louis Lewis by The Kingsman. It was not obscene. Nope, you just can't understand the lyrics. Okay, Let's see what happened on May this seventeenth, seventeen ninety two in New York City, twenty four merchants. They started the New York Stock Exchange. Now it was on Wall Street, but it's just down the street from the building it's in today.

2:49 Nineteen hundred at L Frank Brahm's book The Wizard of Ohs was published. Now in that first edition The Wicked Witch, she sent a pack of wolves to kill Dorothy. Well, the tin man killed him with his axe. Then she sent a flock of crows to peck out Dorothy's eyeballs. Well, the scare crow rang their necks. Then she sent a killer winkie slaves to kill Dorothy, while the cowardly lion took care of that. She finally captured Dorothy by those line monkeys. Oh, pretty much the same book. Nineteen forty three, millionaire Howard who is He was test flying his Scorsky airplane. He ah, he crashed it into Lake Mead. Now Howard, he was okay though, but it killed the government agent who was on the plane making sure that it was safe to fly. Nineteen fifty four, the United States Supreme Court, they unanimously, unanimously overturned Plus versus Ferguson. You have a decision that came down in eighteen ninety six. They replaced it with Board versus the Board of Education Brown versus the Board of Education. See what it did. It basically ruled that separate black and white at schools, they were not equal, So it pretty much ended segregation in public schools.

3:51 Nineteen sixty one, Cuba's Fidel Castro he offered to give the United States all the prisoners Cuba captured during that Bots Bay of Pigs evasion. States was getting five hundred bulldozers Hawaii in nineteen seventy nine, and they set their record for coldest temperature ever recorded twelve degrees was the top of Monacia on the Big Island. Joke doked Coke joked joke, shuge dish shiverbf day. We gonna he like thish Shuverday. We don't simple targe he's like thish shubirth Day. And you we don't give up birthday. Let's check out a born on May the seventeenth. So do you think the name Bartholomew Roberts sounds scary or tough for anything like that? What about Pirate Black Part, Yeah, the movies about that guy and write books about him.

4:37 Now Black Bart He rolled the season only from seventeen nineteen to seventeen twenty two. Now before then he was a merchant navy captain for England, but he only made four pounds every month, so he was captain in a slave ship when it was over run by pirates and they realized that pirates made a lot more money than he did, so he switched sides. Now after he became a pirate, he's the guy who came up with the skull and crossbones for pirates. He captured over four hundred years during that quick three year thing. His legend has grown a lot bigger over the years. Though he was born in Wales in sixteen eighty two. He was killed fighting other pirates in seventeen twenty two, thirty nine years old. Actress Marino Sullivan. She was born in Boyle County, Ireland in nineteen eleven. She acted from nineteen thirty to nineteen ninety four. Now she became a huge star playing Jane in a whole bunch of Tarzan movies. Now some of her later movies that you might have heard of, where Hanna and her sisters and Peggy Sue got married. She was married to her first husband for twenty seven years when he died, and they had seven kids. One of their daughters his actress Mia Ferrell Marine. She married her second husband in nineteen eighty three and they were together until she died from well during heart surgery in nineteen ninety eight at eighty seven years old. Actor Dennis Hopper.

5:45 He was born in Dodge City, Kansas, in nineteen thirty six. His first two movies were with James Dean, Yeah, Rebel, Thout a Cause and Giant. Then Dennis wrote, directed, and acted in Easy Rider. He's nominated for an oscar for Hoosiers. He probably should have won that one. Tannis. He had a daughter from his first wife. His second wife was Michelle Phillips, remember from the Mama and Them Pappas. They were married for eight days. Dennis said the first six were pretty good. Then he had a daughter from his third wife, a son from his fourth wife. Married his fifth wife in nineteen ninety six and they had a daughter, Dennis. He died from prostate cancer in twenty ten at seventy four years old. Actor Bill Paxton. He was born at Fort Worth, Texas in nineteen fifty five. He was in a lot of big movies, weird science, Aliens, Tombstone, Apollo thirteen, Twister, That's just someone Now. He married a second wife in nineteen eighty seven and they had a son and a daughter. Bill.

6:34 He had gotten rumored rheumatic fever when he was a kid, a damnage his heart, and then in twenty seventeen he was having surgery to get it fixed. He didn't work. He died. He was sixty one years old. Comedian actor Bob Sagett. He was born in Philadelphia in nineteen fifty six. Started as a very successful stand up comedian. Now Bob did stand up his entire life. Now, despite his really clean cut image, he was one of the dirtiest stand up comedians on the stage now the other idiots. They would joke that Bob could have made Red Fox Bush. On TV, he started in Full House. He was the original host of America's Funniest Videos. He voiced Ted on How I Met Your Mother. Bob had three daughters from his first wife, married his second wife in twenty eighteen. In twenty twenty two, he died when he fell and in his head. Sixty five years old. She is Ireland's best selling solo artist of all time. She's actually Ireland's second biggest selling artist of all time. She's behind you too.

7:45 She's so big, she just goes by Inya. The sixty five year old. She was born in Windoor, Ireland in nineteen sixty one. Now she is the sixth of nine kids. Her whole family, including her parents, are really big in music and she soldo over eighty million records. Some hits that made it to this side of the pond in the United States are Oracle Flow Only, Time Ready or Not. The biggest hit over here was I Don't Want to Know. That was with mary O Williams and P Diddy. And yet she hasn't married yet, but she does have a South American fish named after her. Comedian Greg Ferguson and he's sixty four. He's born in Springburn, Scotland in nineteen sixty two. Yeah, it was a very successful comedian over in the UK. Came to the United States in the nineties to be on the Drew Carey Show. Never left.

8:26 He went and hosted The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, Celebrity Name Game, done a lot of voice working movies. He had wen child from his second wife, married his third wife in two thousand and eight and they have a son, Trent Reznor. He is the lead singer and song I had it for nine Age Nails trind sixty one. He's born in Newcastle, Pennsylvania, nineteen sixty five. He formed nine Nag Nails in nineteen eighty eight. Now, from nineteen eighty eight to twenty sixteen he was only a permanent member in the band. Then in twenty sixteen he let Atticas Ross become a permanent member with him. Nineties Nails.

9:16 They sold over twenty million albums. Now they've been nominated for thirteen Grammy he's won twice. Trent he had a really bad drug addiction when he was younger, but he beat it. Yeah, he's been sober since two thousand and one, so that's great for Trent. Got married in two thousand and nine and they have five kids. He won't champion number here yours to see your fincher of me All the ship set here. That was Jordan Knights singing for New Kids on the Block. Jordan is fifty six. He's born in Worcester, Massachusetts. In nineteen seventy. New Kids they formed a nineteen eighty four. Jordan's pretty much been their lead singer the whole time, sold over eighty million records.

10:05 The Right Stuff, Hanging Tuck, Hanging, Tough, Covered Girl, Step by Step. Those are some of their biggests. Jordan. You got married in two thousand and four and they have two sons. Andrea Carr. She sings lead for the chorus Andrea's fifty two. She's born in Dundal, Carland, in nineteen seventy four. Now she is the youngest of the chorus kids. She her two sisters and brother. They formed the chorus in nineteen ninety. Some songs that have played here in the United States are Runaway Dreams and Breathless. This Little over forty million albums. Besides singing Andrews, she also plays the tin whistle and the ukulele. She's multi talented. She got married two thousand and nine and they have one daughter and one son. Thirty eight year old actress Nikki Reid.

11:05 She was born in Los Angeles in nineteen eighty eight. She's most famous for playing What Rosalie Hale and all those Twilight Soaga movies. She was also in Chain Letter, Pond Balls Out. She retired in twenty nineteen. You have just wanted to be a wife and a mom. She got married to her second husband in twenty fifteen and they have a daughter and a son. All Right, our quote of the day, we're gonna go with Donna Summer Sunday Day, Yesday. Donna died it in twenty twelve at sixty three years old. She said, I'm just an ordinary person that did some extraordinary things. Thank you all for joining us today and don't forget to follow us now you're listening to us on check out the show notes for all the links to that podcast, the radio stations and all that fun stuff. Our country under ground radio artist today. It comes from Brent in Kansas City, Kansas wants to hear Chris Gunther song. This town ain't big enough for the both of us. Y'all have an awesome day.

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