May 4th, Star Wars Day, Beer Pong, Audrey Hepburn, NSYNC, Randy Travis, Bulldogging Invented

0:20 Hey, hello, and welcome to history and factoids about today. I am Jeff and today is March the fourth, May the fourth be with you. It is National Star Wars Day. The British actually came up with that in nineteen seventy nine. Margaret Thatcher became the first women Prime Minister of Great Britain. On May fourth, her party put an ad in the London Daily Newspaper that read, May the fourth be with you, Maggie. Congratulations. Star Wars fans they jumped all over that made it through him. So I have fun today doing everything Star Wars.

1:03 Let's see what happened and entertainment on me the fourth. Let's go back to nineteen ninety nine and one album was I Am by nas DLC. You add the numb one song with no scrubs. Oh I don't want you on bird Home. I don't want to give you mine angel, I don't want to lead you. Don't learn home, name of timon stuff scrub. From JA. Don't your side of history side trying to alla enemy. Mark Wells adding in one country song with wish you were here, wish. You, wish you could see this place, miss.

1:45 You, wish I could sess you face, the weather's nice, It's pairs. So. The number one book was Won't Meet Again by Mary Higgins Clark. The top movie was The Mummy in an Ancient City an American he accidentally awakens a mummy and then raises all kinds of hell as he tries to find the reincarnation of his long lost love. Stars Brendan Fraser, Rachel Whites, and John Henna. Nineteen fifty nine, the first Grammy Awards were held and giving out. The first song of the year was Neil Blue de Pinto de Blue by Dominico Mandingo. The first album of the year was The Music from Peter Gunn by Henry Mancini. Best Female Artist went to Ella Fitzgerald, Best Male Perry Como, Best Country, The Kingston Trio Best R and B. That was the Champs for their song te Quila, and the Best Album Cover went to Frank Sinatra for only the Lonely All Right, Let's see happened in the World. On May of the fourth, seventeen seventy six, two months before everybody else did it, Rhode Island they declared his independence from Great Britain. Eighteen forty six, Michigan became the first state to ban the death penalty. Eighteen ninety three eight Cowboy Bill Pickett he invented bulldogging, where a cowboy jumps off his horse and grabs a steer by the horns and wrestles into the ground.

3:04 Today we call it steer wrestling. Do you think alcohol was involved in that invention? Nineteen twenty three of the State of New York they repeal this Prohibition Enforcement Act. See all the prohibition laws were all federal laws. New York they said they were no longer going to enforce theirs. So that's pretty much what Colorado did when it came to marijuana. Nineteen forty two, in World War Two, the Battle of Korus Sea began Japan. It was verse the United States in Australia. Now, it was the first naval battle in history that was completely fought in the air, all by airplanes, no ships fired on each other. Japan actually kind of won the ballot of less secutable ships, but they were held off. Was the first time they'd ever been denied. Going forward. Nineteen seventy in Kent, Ohio, the Kent State Massacre happened during a Vietnam War protest. National guardsmen opened fire on the students protesting. Four students were killed and eight others were wounded. Twenty twenty one, helima s yesay, she set a world record. And we're in Morocco. Yep, she gave birth to non uplets, non uplets.

3:54 That's nine babies. Yep, they all lived. That's the first time that ever happened. Got coat goat show. This shibf day were gonna he. Left this shiver day. We don't simple car this shirebirth day and you know we don't do that. The birthday who was born on me the fourth Bartolomeo Christophi. He was born in Venice in sixteen fifty five. Now, if I told you Bartolomeo he was the most one of the most important people in the history of music, would you have any idea why? Well, around the year seventeen hundred he invented the piano. No one knows exactly how many pianos Christaphouri built, but three that he built in the seventeen twenties. They're still around.

4:35 Yeah, they're in museums in Rome, New York and Germany. The piano is actually unique. It's the only musical instrument that can be traced back to one person creating it now Christoph four. He is really a private guy, is almost reclusive. Don't know much about him other than that he died in seventeen thirty one and seventy five years old. Explorer Robert Speck. He was born in Devon, England in eighteen twenty seven. So what he'd do? He has the first person to find the source of the now River. It's Lake Victoria. Yeahs Africa's largest lake. It's in Kenya, the tazent Mania, Uganda. Yeah, it's a big ass lake. He was the first European actually to see Lake Victoria. So then now wherever it runs from Lake Victoria to the Mediterranean Sea four one hundred and thirty miles. Now before Africa, Speck he actually explored the Himalayan mountains. Then he died in eighteen sixty four, thirty seven years old. He accidentally shot in his self for bird Honey. Actress Audrey Hepburn. She was born in Excels, Belgium in nineteen twenty nine. Regarded as one of Hollywood's top three legends of all time. After World War Two, she starred on the London stage and theater. In that whole scene she came to Broadway, and then she hit huge in movies. She's an Egot winner, Yeah, one of only nineteen. She won an Emmy, a Grammy, two Tony's.

5:41 She won her Oscar for a Roman Holiday. She's nominate four more times after that. She had one son from her first thousand. She had one son from her second husband. She died from stema cancer in nineteen ninety three at sixty three years old. After Paul Gleeson. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, in nineteen thirty nine. He probably know him best for playing the principal in the movie The Breakfast clob He actual the first hit on the daytime soap op for All My children. Some of his other movies were Trading Places, Johnny be Good, die Hard Van Wilder. He had a daughter from his first wife, married a second wife in nineteen ninety five and they had a daughter. They were together until Paul died in two thousand and six from lund cancer at sixty seven years old. Way it was a little time.

6:36 The Ashford and Ashford and Simpson was Nick Ashford. He's one of Fairfield, South Carolina. In nineteen forty one, Nick and his wife Valerie Simpson. They're one of the most successful songwriting teams of all time. Some of the songs they wrote where Ain't no Mountain High Enough, Ain't nothing like the real Thing, I Am every Woman. But they did pretty good as a singing duo. They had the hits stuff like that, Count Your Blessings, I'll be there for You, solid like a rock. They got married back in nineteen seventy four and had two daughters. Nick died from throat cancer in twenty eleven and seventy years old. So Lie after Me.

7:22 That was Dolly Parton's younger sister, Stella. Stella Parton she's seventy seven, born in Ceverville, Tennessee, in nineteen forty nine. Now she's three years younger than Dolly. Dolly was the fourth and Stella was the sixth of the twelve Partner kids. Della, She's on these forty albums, but her biggest success was in the mid to late seventies. She had It's I Want to Hold You in My Dreams Tonight the Danger of a Stranger standard line number one. She's done some TV, a little Broadway. She spends a lot of time with the causes of domestic violence and drunk driving. She married right out of high school and they were there for four years and she has a son from that. I keep waiting to kill, didn't you keep saying you can start Jesus.

8:18 Country singer Randy Travis is sixty seven. He was born in Marshville, North Carolina, in nineteen fifty nine. Now, when Randy started out, all the major record deals said he was too country to be a country singer. Finally got a deal in nineteen eighty five. Ten of his first twelve songs went to number one. He's at twenty three number one's total. Some of them are on the other hand, Forever and ever am in deeper than the holler La carte, No hands Randy. He had to take a couple of years off. Yeah, he had a pretty massive stroke. But he has recovered enough that he's going to actually do some shows this summer. It's been married to a second wife since twenty fifteen. Actress, comedian and a gasteire. She's born in Washington, d C. In nineteen sixty seven. Fifty nine to day. She first got numb for being on Saturday in li for six years. Then she had a recurring role on The Old Burgers for six years. She's done five Broadway shows. Some of her movies are What Women Want, Mean Girls, Paul Blart, Mall Coop two. She got married nineteen ninety six and they have two children.

9:28 In Syncs. Lance Pass is forty seven. He's one of Laurel Mississippi. In nineteen seventy nine, during his junior in high school, Justin Timberlake called him up and asked him if he wanted an audition for a new band that Justin had just joined. Their bass singer had quit and they were looking to replace him. Lancey said okay, passed the audition and was a member of n SYNC. Since then, they've sold over seventy million records in saying they went thrown away when Justin left in two thousand and two. Lancey has his own production company and he did some acting, got third place on Dancing with the Stars. Married his husband in twenty fourteen and they have a son and a daughter. All Right, Our. Quote of the day comes from Hall of Fame football coach Don Shula. He died to day in twenty twenty at ninety years old. Don said, the superior man blames himself, the inferior man blames others. Well, thank you for joining us today. If we get to follow on who you listen to this on? Check out the show notes to get the links to the different podcasts, radio stations, Spotify playlist, Our Country and the Ground artists today. Actually, I'm going to play a song from t Graham Brown.

10:26 That's right. We play some of his music on Grayson Great Christian Countries Radio station too. This one's come from Alejandro out there in Nashville. He wants to hear wine into water. You guys, have an awesome day and we'll talk tomorrow. You've heard them to Jesus. The prayers online behind pray one more is not too moch. Trying to find this bottle by mysel. You're so that I can win without you. Tonight as love's that any mad ago, I'm down and I can't so much farther.

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