May 25-Memorial Day, Mr. Bojangles, Gandalf, Yoda, Scorpions, Mike Myers, SpiderDan, Jesse Owens, Tom T. Hall

0:10 Hi there, I am Jeff and welcome to history in fact joins about today presented by Cool Media. This is May the twenty fifth. There we say them are in the s. Wine. Drink the drink that I have made, brother, the wine that there's sunny. I'm in Lowe lipsavanyway, let me see Louise. He walks to. Favor the wine. It is National Wine Day. We do know that people were drinking wine at least by six thousand BC. Now, before you start to celebrate, do you know what the optimal temperature for storing wine is. It's fifty five degrees. There are also sixty gallons of wine in one wine barrow. There are between one hundred and one hundred and fifty calories and every glass of wine. Now, wine and moderation, it is healthy for you. Wine not in moderation, that can be really fun. Sported grapes to make a bottle of wine. So we know all the essentials now, So now it's time to just go celebrate and enjoy having a glass of wine or two. Today's going on in entertainment on May the twenty fifth. Let's back to nineteen sixty seven. Number one album was More of The Monkeys by The Monkeys. The Young Rascals had the number one song with Groobin.

1:19 I can't imagine, well never went to. Selected. The number one country song was Sam's Place by Buck Owens. There's a place down the street we call Sam's Place. It starts jumping in, but even when the sun golds down, you can't ah waits fine me. Now that's Sam's Place. Well, that's where the gang hall hangs around.

2:03 The number one selling book was The Arrangement by Eliahkazan. The top movie was The War Wagon. A man he has shot, robbed and in prison, Well, he steals a large gold shipment by those guys who did it to him. Stars John Wayne, Kirk Douglas and Howard Keel. All right, unless it had happened in the world. On May the twenty fifth, seventeen eighty seven, in Philadelphia, the Constitutional Convention began. Delegates from all the states are there. Now. Most of them didn't know they were there for a constitutional convention. No, they just thought they were there to make improvements to the Articles of Confederation that were governor in the country. Nope, they locked the doors and told them we're gonna get a new US Constitution, whether you like it or not. They elected George Washington to preside over the proceedings and basically change the world. Well after a whole bunch of fighting.

2:46 Seventeen ninety three in Baltimore, Father Stephen Baden, He became the first Roman Catholic priest ordained in the United States. Seventeen thirty two, Goofy. He made his big screen debut, was in Mickey's Review. He went by the state He's named Dippy Dog. Nineteen thirty five is called the greatest forty five minutes in sports history. Took place in ann Arbor, Michigan, at the Big Ten Conference Track and Field Championships Ohio State Jesse Owens. At three point fifteen he tied the world record for the one under yard dash. Then at three twenty five he set a new world record for the long jump. Three forty five, he set a new world record for the two hundred meter dash. Then at four o'clock set a new world record for the two hundred meter hurdles. Yeah, he set three world records and tied a fourth and just over forty five minutes. Nineteen seventy seven and the original movie Star Wars premier nineteen seventy nine, the deadliest aviation disaster United States happened in Chicago American Airlines Flight one ninety nine. It was taking off from on his flight to Los Angeles. Well, one of his engines fell off. Yeah, killed all two and seventy one people on board and two people on the ground.

3:49 The causes rule improper maintenance of the airplane. Nineteen eighty one is still in Chicago. Dan Goodwin Now he was wearing a Spider Man costume and then he used ropes and suction cups to climb the outside of the Series Tower. That was the world's tallest building at the time. Now it's called the Willis Tower. It took him seven hours to climb up that fourteen hundred foot building. He got the nickname Spider Dan from it. Now police they were waiting for him. Once he came to the top, they arrested him and Dan had to pay a thirty five dollars fine. In two thousand and one, both of Colorado's Eric Weinmeyer, he became the first blind person to summit Mount Everest. In twenty twelve, the SpaceX Dragon It became the first commercial spacecraft to actually dock with the International Space Station.

4:31 Go go go go, goat coat, goat shog. This shivers day, we're gonna pause. He left this shiver day. We're gonna sit with cars. He like this shivers day. And you know we don't get work to you. All right, Let's see his born on May the twenty fifth. Listen to this little ditty of mine. It ain't no song. It has no wood, so you know it. It has no rhyme to make a happy ass can be? You just try and follow me. You say, ha ha ha hey Heity, hold hey Haiti hold hold to Heidi heat Holy Heidie heat. Wow Wow wow wow wow wow. Just crazy song. Justify I'm singing. All night long, all night lost. That was mister bo Jangles himself, Bill Robinson. He's one of Richmond, Virginia. In eighteen seventy eight. Bill was the highest paid black entertainer in the world. For the first half of the twentieth century.

5:21 He did everything from music to Broadway movies, TV radio. Possibly he still might be the best tap dancer of all time now. He broke a lot of barriers for black entertainers. He set a world record in nineteen twenty two. He ran one hundred yard Dash backwards. Yeah, he did in thirteen point five seconds. That record stood until his nineteen seventy seven Yeah, fifty five years. I don't think a lot of people knew that were the record. Agett he existed now, Yes, the song mister bo Jangles was written about him. It was written by Duke Ellington now Robinson. He married his third wife in nineteen forty four and they were together until he died in nineteen forty nine from heart failure at seventy one years old. Sadly, after earning over two million dollars during his career Mister bo Jangles, he died almost penniless. At Sullivan actually paid for his funeral.

6:04 Blowia kiss from across the rooms, say I look nice when I'm not touch my hair as you passed my chair. Little Things mean a law. That was Kitty Kaylen. She was born in Philadelphia in nineteen twenty one. She was a top big band singer in the nineteen forties. Then with music changed, so did she. Nineteen forty five, she released that song that he played Little Things Mean Luck, went to number one for nine weeks and ended up being the song of the year. That actually made her a very famous international star. She retired in nineteen sixty five. Kitty she married nineteen forty eight and they had a son. Her husband died in nineteen ninety six. Kitty She died in twenty sixteen at ninety four years old.

6:54 Some of my songs I have casually mentioned the facts that I lie for drink beer. This little song is more to the point. Roll out the barrel, Emalin Meersiers. I like beer. It makes me a jolly good power. I like beer. Country singer songwriter Tom T. Hall. He was born a tick Ridge, Kentucky in nineteen thirty six. He was nicknamed the Storyteller. He is considered one of the best songwriters of all time. Biggest song he wrote was that huge hit for a gene c Rally Harper Valley Pta. Some of his number one songs were A Week in the County Jail, Old Dogs, Children, and Watermelon Wine.

7:38 I Like Beer, Your man loves You, Honey Tom. He performed up until he was seventy five years old. He had a son from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen sixty eight. He died in twenty twenty one at eighty five years old. Yeah committed suicide shot himself in the head actor Sirene McKellen. He's eighty five. He's born in Burnley, England, in nineteen thirty nine. Over in England, he has won every act award you can possibly win over here, not one. Some movies that you know that he was in, he was Mgnetto in the x Ben movies. He his Gandolf and Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit movies. He was Gust the Cat and Cats and did a whole lot of Shakespeare. Yeah, and he is gay now. He never really hit it and he'd been out publicly since nineteen eighty eight. Puppeteer Frank Oz he's eighty years old. He's one of herd Forerd England. In nineteen forty four. Started out as the Cookie Monster Burt and Grover on Sesame Street. Then he went up to the Muppet Show. He had He was Miss Piggy Fozzy Bear an animal. Can't get any bigger than that, Yeah he can. He was Joden all the Star Wars movies. He had four kids from his first wife.

8:37 Married his second wife in twenty elevens Mine. He has been the lead singer of Scorpions since nineteen sixty nine. When they started class. He's born in Hanover, Germany, in nineteen forty eight. He's seventy six. Scorpions have sold over one hundred million records. Some of their biggest hits are No One Like You, Rock You Like a Hurricane, Still Loving You. I can't explain wings that change. Now they've already done their farewell to her, so that meant they could go into her Europe this summer. Class. He's been married since nineteen seventy six. Actor Connie Silica. She was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen fifty five.

9:28 She's sixty nine. Start out as a model, then she went to TV and started on the TV show Hotel, did a whole lot of TV movies. Her first actor, or her first husband, was actor Gil Gerard. They're married for nine years. Gil, he's the guy who played Buck Rogers on TV. They had one son. Then she married Don John Tesh in nineteen ninety two and they have a daughter. Actor Comedian Mike Meyers a sixty one. He is born in Toronto, Canada, in nineteen sixty three. Now, when he was ten years old, he's starting a soap commercial with Gilda Redner. But he didn't really get known until he was on Saturday Night Live for six years. Then he he had the Waynes World movies, Austin Bauer Movies, Shrek movies. He got married to a second wife in twenty ten and they have a son and two daughters. Actress Anne Hayesh. She was born in Auroral, Ohio in nineteen sixty nine. She started out on the daytime soap opera Another World for four years, and then she went into movies. Some are Volcano, six Days, seven and nine Psycho returned to Paradise. She actually really got known though, when she started dating others degenerous. Then when they broke up after three guys, she went back to guys. Yeah.

10:28 She married a guy in two thousand and one to two thousand and seven and they had one son. Then she had another son from another guy, and she was killed in the car crash in twenty twenty two at fifty three years old. You know what, Let's do a trivia question. Who is the youngest actor, male or female to be nominated for an Academy Award? That would be Justin Henry. When he was eight years old, he was nominated for Best Supporting Actor for Kramer versus Kramer. After that, in the movie Sixteen Candels, he played Molly Ringwald's younger brother Mike. After that, he's just done occasional acting appearances. It's fifty three today, right in New York in nineteen seventy one. All right, we want to wish you all a safe and enjoy Memorial Day weekend. And please don't forget what Memorial Day is all about. Let's end at the first self made female millionaire in US history, c J. Walker.

11:14 She died today in nineteen ten, at fifty one years old. Cjys said, don't sit down and wait for opportunities to come, get up and make them. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. No, no,