May 26-Blueberry Cheesecake. John Wayne, Marshall Dillon, Stevie Nicks, Hank Williams jr, Lenny Kravitz, South Park

0:19 Well, hello, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact too, it's about today Days made the twenty sixth. Blueberry cheesecake sipping some wine. Life is so sweet, bud bitter at times. It's blueberry cheesecake, taking some time looking at the stars and the team team nice tick a big. Big bite chicle beg big bies. It is National Blueberry Cheesecake Day. Cheesecake. It was created by the ancient Greeks. But blueberry cheesecake that's all USA. Pretty self explanatory, dad, even with the blueberries though. Yeah, cheesecakes still aren't very healthy for you, but they taste real good again, So ditch the diet and enjoy some blueberry cheesecake today. Let's see what's going on entertainment on May the twenty sixth, Let's back. In nineteen eighty two, number one album was Asia by Asia. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder had the number one song with Ebony and Ivory and.

1:20 Me to get them in person, palmy sign by side on my gon key, O Lord, why don't we. Waylon Jenning and Willie Nelson. They had the number one country song with just to Satisfy You. Some one's gonat get hurt before you go through. Some mos gonna pay for the things you knew? How many hearts whispering? How many miss. Goldst The number one book was The Parsifol Mosaic by Robert Ledham. The top movie was Rocky three. This was the one where Rocky fights clubber Le, mister T and Mickey dies in into all Right. What happened on May the twenty sixth, sixteen thirty seven, near what is New Haven, Connecticut today, The first War between European settlers and American Indians began the Pequot tribe. To be more specific, so the first battle, the Pequot War. It's called Mystic massacre. See, only the English settlers had guns, so you can kind of see how this is gonna go. Five hundred Peakcots were killed in that first valley of that first battle. Now, even though the Peaquads did not stand a chance, the fighting actually went on for a year. Sadly, when it was all over, the last seven hundred Peaquat soldier or people who lived there, you know, men and women and children whatever, They were sold into slavery and sent to

2:50 the Bermuda and the West Indies. Sixteen forty seven, the Puritans, who had left Europe due to religious persecution. They banned Catholic priests from entering Mass of Chusetts. The penalty was death. Ah the priest just stayed away. Eighteen ninety seven, Bram Stoker published his book Dracula. So would you trust an elevator? Back in eighteen ninety nine, it was today the Eiffel Tower. They opened up and they said you were giving your chance. You could walk up the one thousand, seven hundred and ten steps to the top, or you could take a lift. You know had walk. Have you ever taken a long car ride with a bunch of kids? Nineteen oh eight, mister and missus Jacob Murdoch and their three kids who were all under ten. Again the first family did drive across the United States. They had left Los Angeles and arrived in New York City. Took them thirty two days, five hours and twenty five minutes. Drove the little family packard.

3:38 Now in France they have a car race called the twenty four hours of Lamon's. I think you probably heard about. It's pretty famous. So it's what they do is they used team of drivers and they raced for twenty four hours and you know alternating. Well, the first one was out today in nineteen twenty three. Now, not the racetrack that they used today. See, that was being built and they didn't have it done yet. So that very first one, Yeah, they just raced through the streets the Lamons for twenty four hours. Andre la Gosh and Rene Leonard. He won. Nineteen twenty seven, Ford Motor Company built the fifteenth million Model T. Yeah, it was the last one. They made it too. Yeah, they discontinued it. They replaced it with the Model A. Yeah, I know team comes after A, but I wasn't there. Nineteen seventy seven mountain climber George Wielick, he climbed the South tower of the World Trade Center.

4:21 Now police tried to stop him. They lowered some officers down in one of those window washer things. He just moved over and went around and there's nothing they could do. Took him three and a half hours to climb from the street up to the top, and the when he got up to the top, he was in a lot of trouble. They arresting him. Had to pay a fine one dollar and ten cents, that's what they find him. One penny for every four that he climbed. Nineteen seventy eight, legal casino gambling actually started in Atlantic City. Yep, that's a New Jersey if you didn't know so. Yeah, Atlantic City wasn't always the gambling mecca it is today. Nineteen ninety eight, the United States Supreme Court ruled that Ellis Island that immigate immigration gateway for all those millions of m as the King in America. It's actually in New Jersey, not New York. In twenty twelve, the butler for Pope Benedict the sixteenth he was arrested. Yeah, for Lincoln confidential documents.

5:08 How do you think he thought he was gonna get away with that joke? Coop Coop Coop Coo Jake show dish Shivers day? Please gonna he left this shiver? We want simple Tagelet dis shibt day and you know we don't do that's worth. Let's check out who was born on May the twenty sixth. Love bird not singing? It is long time. Drumming shopping all. Might know that you you're calling cool Way, You're calling me Shawnee. I love y'all. How I love your ma? You're old swannee that.

5:50 Was out Joson. He was born in Lithuania in eighteen eighty six. Moved his family in the United States when he was five. Now he did vaudeville. He's saying he danced. He acted. In nineteen twenty seven he started in the movie The Jazz Singer. Yeah, that was the first talking movie picture. Now he was highest paid and most known entertainer in the world in nineteen twenties. Now he was known as the King of Blackface. Today it is considered extremely racist to see how he would perform in blackface to show the white audiences that he was performing black music. He wanted the white audiences to know that, you know, the black artist and writers deserve the credit for what he was singing about. He actually thought that if he performed in blackface, the white audiences would actually kind of accept black entertainers after him. Now, yeah, they just think it's just racist. How he had a son from his third wife, married his fourth wife in nineteen forty five.

6:36 They had a son and a daughter. Died in nineteen fifty, sixty four years old from a heart attack. The Duke actor John Wayne. He was born in winter Set, Iowa, in nineteen oh seven, weighed thirteen pounds and he was born grew up in California, and he got the nickname Duke. Yeah. As a boy, he never went anywhere with that is a great big dog named Duke. Someone stuck with him. Now. He got a football scholarship to USC the University of Southern California. But no, no, he actually broke his collar bone body surface, so he lost his football scholarship and had to drop out of school. All that's football coach. He was able to get him a job working in a movie studio. So starting in Silent Movie, John Wayne made one hundred and seventy movers movies. Now he was actually nominated for Oscars for Sanza Ewo, Jima and The Alamo.

7:19 He actually won an Oscar for True Grid. He had four children from his first wife. Married his third wife in nineteen fifty four and they had three children. Wayne. He died nineteen seventy nine from semi cancer, seventy two years old. Never know how much I love you, Never know how much I can't. When you put your arms around me, I gave it a fever. That's hard, Bame, You give me a fever when you kiss me fever. When you holy tight. That was Peggy Lee. She was born in Jamestown, North Dakota, in nineteen twenty. Now I was a kid. She really got known all across North Dakota singing on the radio. So when she turned seventeen and she grabbed her stuff and moved to Hollywood. It took her eight years, but she did hit really big. She wrote over eleven hundred songs, recorded two hundred and seventy em She did pretty well as an actress. She was nominated for an oscar once.

8:10 She did all the singing in the Disney movie The Lady in the Tramp. She divorced four times. She had a daughter from her first husband. She was still performing in the nineteen seventies, but when she went on stage, yeah, they had to push her out through a wheelchair so she could sing Beggy. She died from diabetes and heart failure two thousand and two, at eighty one years old. That TV show Gun Smoke ran from nineteen fifty five to nineteen seventy five six hundred and thirty five episodes, the only primetime show with more the Simpsons. James Arnsts He was born in Minneapolis in nineteen twenty three. His younger brother was actor Peter Grace. In World War Two, James he wanted to be a fighter pilot. Well, he stood six feet seven inches tall. Yeah, he was too tall to be a fighter pilot, so they made him a rifleman in the infantry over in the Pacific. At the Battle of anzio Is, the landing crafts was got to hit the shore of the beach. Yeah, they didn't know how deep the water was, and since he was the tallest one, they ordered him to get out and see how deep it was. Yeah, he got shot up really bad. Yeah. Obviously he lived, but it took him a long time, like over a year in the hospital before he could come back home. He did suffer from leg pain for the rest of his life. Of course.

9:25 The best known are starring as Marshall Dylan on gun Smoke Ardest. He had two sons and one daughter from his first wife, married his second wife in nineteen seventy eight. James died in twenty eleven from natural causes eighty eight years old. Stevie Nick is seventy eight. She's born in Phoenix, Arizone. Now. Her boyfriend at the time was Lindsay Buckingham. They were out in California and playing coffee at shops and then that kind of stuff. Well, Lindsay he got asked to be join the band. Fleetwood Mac said he would do it, but only if they took Stevie. Oh, they did, but they broke up shortly after they joined the band. But Fleetwood Mac. So there were one hundred twenty million records with those two in it. Now Stevie she did some solo stuff all along the years. Some of her biggest hits are Edge of seventeen stand Back Talk to Me, I Can't Wait. She did take seven years off in the nineties, but she was with Fleetman Mac other than that from nineteen seventy four until they call her quits in twenty twenty two.

10:35 Fucking ball. I had a guitar in my hand. I had my own man. I went on the road when I was eight years old. Seventeen, I was dealing the shows one of the bird and the girls. Didn't take me long to learn it. I was born the boot. Hey Williams Junior. He's seventy seven. He's born in Shreveport, Louisiana, in nineteen forty nine. Now Hank, he's going out on tour just in a couple of days. On the twenty ninth, he'll be touring through the Timber. If you want to see both Ciphas Now he is three years old when his legendary dad country singer Hank Williams died. Now his dad gave him the nickname bo Cephas Say where'd you get that? Well? Both Ciphas was a ventriloquist dummy that he used to perform at the Grand ol Opera. Nineteen seventy five junior, he was climbing a Jack's Mountain out there in Montana, fell over one hundred feet, hit his head on some rocks, got all messed up. Took me a couple of years to get somewhat back to normal.

11:25 But because of the stars, she will never see Hank Williams Junion without a cowboy hat on, sunglasses or a beard. Now. He sold over seventy million albums Whiskey Bent and hell Bound, Dixie on My Mind, Born to boogie family tradition. All my rowdy friends had some of their biggest hits. Now he had one child from his first wife, two from his second wife. His third wife, he married her in nineteen ninety and they had teach other and she died in twenty twenty two. He married his fourth wife twenty twenty three, actress Pam Grere. She's also seventy seven. She's born on Winston Salem, North Carolina. Yeah, she was a military bratch. He moved allar around the country, ended up settling out here in Denver, Colorado. Went to high school there, then college at Metro State. After she graduated for Metro, she left Denver for Hollywood. It big, starring in those blaxplitation movies and women in prison movies. Biggest one you might heard it was Foxy Brown. Later on she did mainstream movies Above the Law, Escape from La Mars Attacks, Jackie Brown. Now she was on the L word for five years on TV. Nineteen eighty eight, she was diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer. They gave her eighteen months to live. Thirty seven years later, she's living on a ranch out there near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Comedian Bob kat Glthwaite sixty four. He was born in Syracuse, New York in nineteen sixty two. Started out as a stand up comedian. Then he did the Move, three Police Academy movies, one crazy Summer Blow. He had one daughter from his first wife. He had a daughter from a second wife, married his third wife just last year.

12:48 To see Face Mama, I Got Mom, Problem Faced. And all with You. Lenny Kravitz is sixty two. He's born in nineteen sixty four in Manhattan, New York. His mom was actress Roxy Rooker. She played Missus Willis on The Jeffersons Now Lenny's solover forty million Albus. He holds a Grammy Award record Yeah for one artist, winning the same award the most consecutive years. He was Best Male Rock Performer four years in a row, nineteen ninety nine or two thousand and two. Some of his biggest hitter, it Ain't over Till It's over? Are you Gonna go My Way? Flyaway? American Woman now Lindsay or Lindy. He married actress Lisa Bonet for six years and they had daughter, Zoe's She's pretty famous. Actress Helen up Bottom Carter was born in Islington, England, in nineteen sixty six. She's sixty today. Some of her movies that actually we got to see on this side of the pond were Fight Club Playing into the Eights Laymimber, Rob four Harry Potter movies. She was nominated for Oscars for Other of a Dove and The King Speech. She was with Tim Burt for thirteen years and they had two children.

14:05 I'm going down South. I'm going around myself time day we were going damn south. I'm going to leave my would bag day to me my nay night. I know him South. I'm going to see if I can't on wine. Matt Stone he's fifty five. He was born in Houston, Texas in nineteen seventy one. Grew up in Littleton, Colorado, went to the University of Colorado. That's where he met Trey Parker. They created south Park in nineteen ninety seven. Now mad He voices. The main characters were Kyle and Kenney, and of course a bunch of the smaller ones. Besides south Park, they did the movie Basketball and the Broadway musical The Book of Mormon. I went nine Tony and Warrens in one gramm. Mad He got married in two thousand and eight and they have two children.

14:50 Three paces. We're looking for your. Friend when you and the calling to begin, but when he told you people about the friends of man's who are him they give them. Malda tramps and begin you think you wasn't down and told him again, would you give it up? So easy? Actress, rapper, singer, songwriter Laurenell. She's fifty one. She's born in East Orange, New Jersey, in nineteen seventy five. She's went eight grammy is that's the most of any female rapper. She started out on the daytime soap operas The Road Turns, and then she did the movie Sister Act Too. But back in high school she had helped form the band the Fujis. Now that band finally hit when he was doing Sister Active, so she didn't have to act no more.

15:31 She left the Fugues and did her album The mis Education of Laurenell. They had the big heads do Wop that thing X Foxter Everything is everything now Laurence. She hasn't married yet, but she does have six kids. Five of them are from Bob Marley's son wrote him all right today. Quote of the day It's gonna come from actor Eddie Albert. He died today in twenty two thousand and five, at ninety nine years old. Eddie said, courage is just fear plus prayers plus understanding. Well thank you, Thank you for joining us today. Don't read to follow us on whoever you listen to us on our history. In fact, though at National Day's puzzle book. I know I've gotten quite a few emails about that. It's easy to find. You can just go to Amazon and go National Days and then pretty much comes up. Or just go to cool media dot com. Yeh. Then we have a link to it there. And if you go down and we're cool media dot com is there's links to all our stuff too. Now I should have played this yesterday for our country underground radio song on the Day, but I'll play it today in honor Memorial Day. Roger in Virginia, he wants to hear shaneo One song nineteen.

16:28 You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. Nineteen the number on his backboard to captain Nervous high school football team. He took us song away. To stay, got a scholarship to play down of Tennessee. He could catch, he could throw, he could run, he could go like he never seen nineteen. Put on the bay those twin towers and down his hole turn rain. He told the mall, I can't play ball in the water. And he must ride in with a few good men join the Lornes in nineteen.

17:21 Now he's the boy next door. They used to carry your bags at the grocery store. He somebody son in a hole with a guard in a full round lane, trying to hold on his American drink. Nineteen. Here's a snapper out there in the dark somewhere and a soldier damn. And we need someone who can dug and run and get him mouth some to help. One one good man rain You see his hand and take one before the team, how bout you?

18:05 Nineteen Now he's the boy next going. They used to carry your bags at the grocery store. He saw somebody song and a whole weather gone in a four in land, signed a whole all his American drink. Nineteen. They brought him home today with a big parade down on Main Street.

18:54 He got a purple hard and a silver star. Soldier gave a speech. So he could catch, he could throw, he could run. He's the one that rescued me. He could have played for Tennessee. He was only nineteen