May 30-Joan of Arc, Jennifer, Mel Blanc, The Marvelettes, Ted McGinley, Roxette, Wynonna Judd

0:20 Welcome to history and fact too. It is about today. I am Jeff. Today is May the thirtieth. It is International Hook your Cat Day, so that's pretty cool. It's also National Sophia Day. I don't know any Sophia's, but I do have a cousin in Pennsylvania I can celebrate with. Today. It is National Jennifer Day. The name Jennifer, it goes way back to the eight hundreds Jennifer King from King Arthur's Queen Genevie. But Jennifer was never really a popular name.

1:06 It just took It was really uncommon until nineteen fifteen. George Bernard Shaw he wrote the play The Doctor's Dilemma. Now the fed female character she introduces herself as Jennifer, and the doctor can't figure out why she was given such a strange name. Well, the name took off from nineteen seventy nineteen eighty four is the number one girl name in America. It's still popular. So Happy Jennifer Day to all you Jens, Jenny's Jennifers, and Jennifer Kaufman out in Pennsylvania. Okay this he was going on entertainment on May thirtieth in nineteen sixty two. The one album was a West Side story movie soundtracked Mister Aker Bilk. He had the number one song with Strangers on the Shore two minutes and forty seven seconds, so that went to number one. Back in nineteen sixty two, George Jones had the number one country song Were She Still Thinks? I Care?

2:13 Just be calls I spoke her name somewhere just be called b Bang? Her number five mistake today She Who Care? The number one book West Ship of Fools by Katherine M. Porter. The top movie was Lonely Out of the Brave Now Cowboy. He gets himself locked up in prison so he can escape with an old friend. Stars Kirk Douglas, Gina Rowlands, and Walter Matthow. Let's say it happened in the world on May the thirtieth, fourteen thirty one Joan of Arc She was burned at the stake. Why well, heresy? She was dresses in men's clothing. Women weren't allowed to do that back then, but she actually needed to wear men's clothing in order for it to fit underneath her armor as she was leading France's army against the war against Britain Breton. They actually captured her, made her wear women's clothing and threw into prison. But she realized she was gonna get raped that way, so she put on his men's clothing. Yeah, she was caught. They said, that's the second time we told you not to do that. So they tried her, convicted her, and then burned her at the stake. She was nineteen years old, Breton. They actually retried her twenty five years later, said they were sorry, and yeah, they found her not guilty. The Catholic Church they made her a saint. In nineteen twenty fifteen, thirty nine Spains Hernando de Soto, him seven hundred men and ten ships landed in Florida. Now they think that it was around Tampa Bay somewhere around there. Then they took off on land. Yeah, they were the first Europeans. They

3:43 walked all the way to the Mississippi River. Yeah, first Europeans to see that. De Soto. Yeah, he didn't make it back. He died there. Eighteen oh six, future US President Andrew Jackson, he got into a spat with Charles Dickinson over a horse race. Well, Dickenson then called Jackson's wife she was a big amus was fighting words, so a duel was agreed on, and since Jackson challenged the duel, Dickinson got first shot and he had Jackson in the chest. Well, he missed his heart though, broke a couple of ribs. But then it was Jackson's turn. Yeah, Jackson, he didn't miss. He did have to live the rest of his life with that bulletous chest, though, had chronic pain from it. Eighteen ninety six, America's first car accident happened in New York City. Henry Willis hit a bicyclist. Things still haven't changed.

4:25 Nineteen oh six, Hershey Pennsylvania opened up in Pennsylvania. It was only open to employees who worked for Hershey's. Yeah, they were allowed to go in and they had exclusive use of the whole thing. But it was actually just a picnic era. They didn't start adding rides for two years. Nineteen twenty two, fifty thousand people wised. William Howard Taft opened up the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, d C. The Lincoln Memorial. It's on the penny and the five dollars. Bill cot Co coke coat shot. This shim day were gonna call he left this shumfday. We gonna sit with car s birthday, and you know we don't do because that's all right. It was born on May the thirtieth.

5:07 The very very quiet I'm Hunting Weapons. The Man of a Thousand Voices Mel Blanc. He was born in San Francisco in nineteen oh eight. One of the most famous voice actors in history. His sixty plus career started out in radio. Then he did some of that biggest voices and animation bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Elmer Fudd, Barney, Rebel, Speed Buggy, Captain Cabman. That's just a few of them. He married nineteen thirty three and they had one son. Meil died in nineteen eighty nine and eighty one years old from emphysema. Oh yes, I don't lead. That was Gladys Horton. She was the lead singer for the Marvelettes. She was born in Gainesville, Florida, in nineteen forty five. Crupp in Detroit. Now her and four other girls in their Detroit high school, they formed the Marvelettes in nineteen sixty. They had the hits Please Mister Postman, Playboy, too Many Fish in the Sea, Don't mess with Bill Gladys. She was fifteen years old and they got their record deal. She married once and had three children from it, and she died in twenty eleven at sixty five years old after suffering a stroke. Actor Ted McGinley sixty eight. He is born in Newport Beach, California, in nineteen fifty eight. Now it seemed like he always started on TV shows the last couple of years before they went off. The year he was in Happy Days, the Love Boat Married with Children. Now he was in

6:38 one of the greatest movies of all times. He plays Stan Gable and Revenge of the Nerds. Well, he's also in Revenge of the Nerds three and four, but they weren't asthmatically cinematically as good. Ted. He married nineteen ninety one and they have two sons. Nineteen eighty two, Dad, he took Brooks Shilds to a senior prom. Sweet Marie Frederick soon she did this singing for Roxette. She was born in Ostjoe, Sweden in nineteen fifty eight. Now Marie and Pergasil they formed the rock Roxette in nineteen eighty six. Now, see Marie was already really popular in Sweden. Yeah, she did solo, and she was with the band called jillenel Tider.

7:32 They had a bunch of number one songs in Sweden, though Roxette Yeah that was able to take her to worldwide superstardom. Some of their ET's were the Look, Listen to your Heart, must Have Been Loved Dangerous sold over seventy five million records. She married nineteen ninety four and they had one daughter and one son. Now, after a seventeen year battle with brain cancer, and redied in twenty nineteen at sixty one years old. I saw too show country singer whine Own. Her judge is sixty two. She's born in Ashland, Kentucky, in nineteen sixty four. Now she and her mom they formed the Judds in nineteen eighty three.

8:22 They were huge, had fourteen number one songs, but Naomi had to retire for health reasons in nineteen ninety one. Whin on It she never missed a beat. Going solo sold over thirty million records. Some of her number one solo songs are she is his Only Need, I saw the light. No one else on earth to be loved by you. She had a daughter and a son from her first husband. She's been married to her third husband since twenty twelve, now actress Ashley dud That is our younger half sister. Let's end with Wilbur Wright. He died today in nineteen forty eight, at seventy six years old. Wilbur said, men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they give than what they received. Thank you for listening today, Sure appreciate it and make sure you follow us on whoever you listen to us on. So yeah, we're easy to find that way our country to ground radio artists today because from Clayton in West Virginia he has to hear Cody appman Son drinking state of mind. You guys have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow.

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