May 18-Toilet Paper, Pope John Paul II, Perry Como, Devo, George Strait, Tina Fey, Big Joe Turner

0:09 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, it is about today pas in the Vaccoon media. Today is May the eighteenth. I get up and going to work in the morning. I'll come right home at night. When I leave, the sink is empty when I come back home. She got us stocks up on a side two minutes dirty dishes in the scene just for us to It is national no dirty Dishes Day. Go so keep your sink clean and empty. That includes your dishwasher. No hiding him in there. It is no dirty dishes day. Now. You can use disposable cups, plates, and utensils, or you can do what today's all about it. It's washing your dishes as you make them dirty. Yeah, make it a habit. Don't let them sit now. If you dirty it, just clean it now, fun shue. It says that no dirty dishes freeze your mind for positive thoughts and what you truly desire. So we're gonna go out to eat, all right. This is going on entertainment on eighteenth. It's back to your nineteen sixty six number one album was Going Places by Herb Albert and his Tijuana Brass Orchestra, The Mama's In the Pappa has had the number one song with Monday Monday, Everyday, Umberday, So good

1:48 to me. Jack Green he had the number one country song with there Goes My Everything, Oh My Dream there Cole. The number one book was Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Who's in top movie was Doctor Chivago during World War One and the rough Russian Revolution. A married doctor, he falls in love with a political activist's wife. Stars Omar Sharif, Julie Christine, and Geraldine Chapwin. All right, let's see what happened in the world. On May the eighteenth, fifteen oh four, Michelangelo's statue of David. It was placed in front of the Piazza della Signora. It weighed six tons. Now, they originally hired Michelangelo to make the statue for the Florence Cathedral, but now they realized there's no way they can move that sixty ton statue that far, so they slid it across the street and said, hey, looks good here.

2:55 Sixteen forty two, in Canada, Williamrie was formed Yeah This later renamed Montreal. Eighteen thirty In England, Edward Budding he invented the first lawnmower. Nineteen twenty seven in Bath Township, Michigan, Andrew Keijo he committed the worst school massacre in history. Now, he was angry for losing his reelection as a school board treasure and he was having a lot of financial problems. His farm was about to be foreclose. So I put explosives all around the Bath school. Then he went home, killed his wife, went back to the school and detonated the explosives. Thirty eight elementary school kids and six adults were killed in the explosion. Now, in the aftermath of the explosion, as everybody was running around trying to put out the fires and looking for survivors, he was out there sitting in his truck. When he saw the school superintendent.

3:38 He called over to him, said, hey, come over here. When the superintendent got to his truck, yeah, he blew it up, killing himself, the superintendent and an eight year old boy who had survived the original explosion. It's known as the Baths School massacre. Now, after it's all over and authority as were investigating Kyo. They discovered that he had enough farm machinery on his farm that he could have sold it all and gotten out of his financial problems. Nineteen fifty three, American pilot Jacqueline Cochrane. She became the first female pilot to break the sound barrier. She did it at Rogers Dry Lake in California. Now, when she first proposed it, the United States said, hell no, she was a girl. They were gonna let her do that. So she borrowed a jet from Canada. Yeah, they let her do it. Nineteen sixty seven, Oklahoma, they became the first state to make artificial insemination legal in humans. In nineteen seventy four, India became the sixth country to explode an atomic bomb. Now everybody know it was going to blow up. In nineteen eighty, Washington's Mount Saint Helen's erupted flattened everything over two hund and thirty square miles. It caused the largest landslide that's ever been documented in human history. Now, most people had evacuated, but fifty seven people were killed before the eruption in Mount Saint Helens stood at nine thousand, six hundred and seventy seven feet After the eruption, eight three hundred and sixty three feet So yeah, almost thirteen hundred feet blew off.

4:53 It also caused a crater about a mile wide. Goat shage this shiver birth day, were gonna pause he left this shuverfday. We don't simple tage like this ship birthday. And you know we don't give up because that's birthday, all right. It was born on May the eighteenth. One of the greatest inventors of all times Seth Wheeler. He was born in Claythlamd, New York in eighteen seventy one. Seth he invited the invented the toilet paper that we used today on a roll and perforated and everything. Now, honestly, what would you rank the importance of toilet paper in your daily life? You might not think about it until you need it. Then it becomes very very high priority there now. Seth even invented the bracket to hold the roll of toilet paper. He was married and had four children. He died a very rich man in nineteen twenty five at eighty seven years old. You know what, wouldn't that been good if it was caught from the shape like a tube?

5:48 Will money go in? Shame? Roll shame, shake, roll shake row. That was big Joe Turner. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, in nineteen eleven. He's called the Blue Shouter and one of the most influential singers in the foundation of rock and roll. Dropped out of school at fourteen to support his family, became a well known singing bartender in the Kansas City club scene. His first song, actually to sell one million records, was in nineteen fifty one. It's called Change of Love. Then Shake, Rattle and Roll, flip Flop and Fling Korean Karina. He went into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in nineteen eighty seven. Posthumously. He was married performed mostly jazz festivals right up until he died in nineteen eighty five at seventy four years old from my heart failure. Two week to break the Change the findley I need no shackles to remind me Just Restler Perry Como. He was born in Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, in nineteen twelve. Start out as a barber. Now he would sing around the shop as he cut hair and swept floor and all that kind of stuff. All he, honestly ever wanted to do was he just wanted to be a barber. Well, a big band came to town and him and his friends they went to the show. His

7:18 friends urged him get up and sing with the band Well. He went on to sell one hundred million records after that. From nineteen fifty five to nineteen fifty nine, he won five straight Emmys for his TV show. He did a Christmas special every year from nineteen sixty seven. In nineteen ninety four, he was married for sixty four years when his wife died and they had three children. Perry died in a sleep six days before his eighty ninth birthday in two thousand and one. Pope John Paul the second. He was born Carol Wasjitaya and Vadaways Poland in nineteen twenty. Now he was ordained of Praise back in nineteen forty six, became a cardinal in nineteen sixty seven, became the Pope in nineteen seventy eight. He was Pope until he died in two thousand and five at eighty four years old. Now his twenty six years rain is Pope. That is the third longest and he pope has served in history.

8:03 He was canonized as saint in twenty fourteen. I'm gonna guess most of you don't remember the TV show Bonanza Well. Actor Pronell Roberts. He was born in Whitecross, Georgia. In nineteen twenty eight, he played the oldest son, Adam cart Right on Bonanza. Later on he started as Trapper John MD. It paired an over sixty TV series. He had a son from his first wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen ninety seven. They were together until he died from pincreatic cancer in twenty ten at eighty one years old.

8:46 Now it shape Yes, Say Go Forward. Mark mothers baw. He is the lead singer and keyboardist for the band Divo. He's seventy four. He's born Akron, Ohio in nineteen fifty. He co founded Divo when he was going to Kent State University. Now, after the shooting at Kains State, they came up with the term devolution. That's what their whole comment was on the way society was nowadays. They shortened it to Devo in nineteen seventy three.

9:26 Then it hit big. They did have a farewell tour, but they're still playing. They're actually on May twenty fourth, in the headline the Punk Rock Bowling and Music Festival out in Las Vegas. If you go, some of the songs you might error whip it. I can't get no satisfaction through being cool, the theme for Doctor Detroit movie now Mark. He's written a lot of movie and TV scores, but he writes a lot of songs for children TV shows. He is married to a second wife and they have two daughters. So got a problem. I'm able, drain O much, don't fail, nice down, old man, A head wrapped around it just comes.

10:11 Wow. That song Unwound. It was the first song that George Strait ever released. It was back in nineteen eighty one. Made it all up the number six on the country charts. Since then, he's had sixteen number one songs. Yeah, that is the most all time by a long ways. Actually he's had eighty six songs going into the top ten, but that's not a record. Eddie Arnold had ninety two songs going to the top ten, but he only had twenty eight good number one. George was born in Potit, Texas, in nineteen fifty two. He's seventy two now. I saw George on one of his farewell tours a couple of years back. He's out there still performing now. He eloped with his high school sweetheart back in nineteen seventy one. They had a daughter in nineteen seventy two. Sadly, she was killing the car crafts when she was thirteen years old. They have one son, he was born in nineteen eighty one, now George. He is the only artist in the history of music in any genre to have a top ten song every year for thirty straight years, and he's only second.

11:03 He's only behind Elvis and the Beatles for the most golden platinum records of all time. Actress comedian Tina fe is fifty four. She's blown an Upper Darby Township, Pennsylvania. In nineteen seventy she got the scar on her left jak which she was five years old. A stranger slashed her on the face in the alley behind their house. She first got known on Saturday Night Live, was on it from nineteen ninety seven to two thousand and six, Thens You're Created, Thirty Rock, and then The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt. Some of the movies she was in where Baby Mama, Whiskey Tango, Foxtrott, did The Mean Girls movie. She was actually a rider and producer for those. Tina married in two thousand and one and they have two daughters. All right today it's factoid that will win you at beer. One acre of green lawn it provides more oxygen than one acre in the rainforest. Yeah, grass produces more oxygen in the trees, for instance, like an average golf course that produces enough oxygen to support about seven thousand people. Well, thanks for being here.

11:56 We sure appreciate you joining us. That's end with actress Jill Ireland. She died today. In nineteen ninety at fifty four years old. Jill said, I'm a fighter, not a victim. Think of yourself and make the most out of what your life has left you. Guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No no no no no no no no no no no no, no, no matter