Nov 6th-Nacho's, Sally Field, Glen Fry, Emma Stone, Ethan Hawke, Living Colour, Rebecca Romijn

0:19 Hi, I am Jeff, and welcome to History and Factoids About Today. Today's November the 6th. Today is National Nacho Day! Woo-hoo! In 1943, the wives of soldiers who were stationed in Fort Duncan in Texas went across the Rio Grande River to the Mexican town of Piedras Negras. They wanted to eat at their best restaurant over there called the Victory Club. Ah, the Victory Club had closed for the day, but their manager, Ignacio Enya, he was nicknamed Nacho, he told the women that he'd scrape some stuff up together for them. So he took some tortillas and he sloped them into triangles.

1:11 Then he deep fried them. Then he put on some cheese and slices of jalapeno peppers. Yeah, the nacho was then born. All you really need for nachos now is chips and cheese, but that's when the fun starts. You can top them however you want. Not many national deals today. No. So just local restaurants. That's okay. If you don't like going to your local place, yeah, just grab yourself, make your own nachos today. Alrighty, let's see what happened to entertainment on November the 6th. Let's go back to 2015. Number one album was Revival by Selena Gomez. The Weeknd had their number one song with The Hills. I only love it when you touch me. Luke Bryan had the.

2:03 Number one country song was Strip It Down. Dirty dance we slow in the summertime. Feel my belt turn loose from these old blue jeans. We both know that we lost. It somehow Let's get it found Strip it. Down, down, down. The number one selling book was Rogue Lawyer by John Grisham. Top movie was Spectre. A cryptic message from James Bond's past. It makes him go on the hunt for an unknown evil organization named Spectre. Daniel Craig, he's James Bond. Also has Christopher Waltz and Lea Seydoux. All right, what happened on November the 6th? Now, when Columbus landed in the Bahamas, him and his men, they exchanged gifts with the natives.

2:52 The natives, they gave them all clumps of leaves. Well, they accepted the leaves. They didn't want to offend the natives. So in Columbus's journal today that he wrote, it was dated today in 1492, Columbus wrote that he figured out what those leaves are about. See, what he did is he saw some natives who were smoking them. So some of his sailors, they actually tried to smoke them with the natives. They quickly became addicted to them. Now, one of his soldiers, his name was Rodrigo de la Jerez, he brought some of those leaves back to Spain with him. Yeah, when he was home, he was standing on the street corner just smoking some of his tobacco, blowing smoke out of his mouth. Yeah, he got thrown in prison. They thought the devil had possessed him. 1528, Spanish conquistador Alvaro Nunez Cabrisa de Vaca. Him and his men, they were exploring the Gulf of Mexico. Well, Gulf of America today.

3:36 Now, a hurricane totaled their three ships. Alvaro and about 80 of his men, they were able to survive by getting to an island. Today, it's Galveston Island in Texas. First Europeans to set foot in Texas. Now, they camped on the island all winter long. Only 15 of those men, of the 80, actually survived. Finally, some Native Americans saw him out there and came and rescued him. Well, they didn't really rescue him. What they did is they made him their slaves. So they brought him to the mainland. Then after four years of being a slave, Alvar and three of his men, they escaped, headed down south, made it all the way to Mexico City in 1537, nine years after they had actually been shipwrecked. Now they were shipped back to Spain. They were able to give the Spanish a very detailed account of what the southwest part of America looks like. 1865, the Confederate warship, the Shenandoah, it was the last Confederate combat unit to actually surrender in the Civil War. Shenandoah had been doing a circumnavigation of the world, so it had no idea the peace treaty had been signed. When they were docked in Liverpool, England, the people told them at the dock, yeah, you guys are no longer at war.

4:34 So the captain, he surrendered his ship to the British authorities. 1928, Jacob Schick, he invented the electric razor, formed the Schick Razor Company. Now Schick's basically known for disposable razors. 1947, NBC, they aired Meet the Press. It's still in the air, longest running TV show. Now, in the first Gulf War, when the Iraqi soldiers were fleeing Kuwait, they set fire to over 700 oil wells. Then in 1991, it was only 10 months later, the last oil well fire was put out. But what's actually more impressive is before they could put those oil well fires out, yeah, they actually had to remove booby traps and mines and all that kind of stuff. Let's see who was born on November the 6th.

5:14 Actress June Marlowe. She was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1903. She was billed as the prettiest girl in film. She's best known for playing Miss Crabtree. Yeah, she was the teacher in the Our Gang and Little Rascals movies. Yeah, on The Simpsons, they had their Edna Crabapple. It's kind of a parody of her, except, you know, Edna's actually ugly. Now, June, she retired in 1932 at 29 years old. See, she got married, so she became a stay-at-home housewife. She died in 1984 from Parkinson's, 80 years old.

5:58 And I can't. Deny the fact that you like me right now. You like me. Actress Sally Field is 80. She's born in Pasadena, California. Sally, she started out on TV. She started out like Gidget and then the Flying Nun. In the movie, she's won two Academy Awards. Yeah, one for the thing that I just played. It was the acceptance speech for Norma Rae. Then she won another Oscar for Places of the Heart. She was nominated for an Oscar for Lincoln. She had two sons from her first husband, and then she had one son from her second husband. glenn fry he was born in detroit in 1948 he was a founding member of the eagles now some eagles hits that he sang were take it easy hard ike night tequila sunrise new kid in town he was with the eagles from 1971 to 80 and then from 1994 to 2015 some glenn fry solo hits are smugglers blues you belong in the city the heat is on Now, he married his second wife in 1990, and they had a daughter and two sons. Glenn, he died in 2016 at 67 years old from complications from rheumatoid arthritis. Actress Lori Singer is 69. She's born in Corpus Christi, Texas. She grew up in Portland, Oregon.

7:26 She was a child prodigy. Yeah, she was a concert cellist. She ended up going to Juilliard when she was 14. After she graduated, ditched the cello and went into acting. That's right. Now, her first movie, she hit really big in. It was called Footloose. Then she did The Falcon and the Snowman, The Man with One Red Shoe. Now, she still plays the cello, and she does a little acting. Mostly, she works behind the scenes. She married for 16 years, and they had a son from it. I know. Your anger. I know your dreams.

8:09 That was Corey Glover singing lead for the band Living Color. Corey was born in Brooklyn, New York. He's 62. He joined Living Color in 1985. Some of their hits are Cult of Personality, Glamour Boys, Love Rears Its Ugly Head. He acted. Yeah, he was in the movie Platoon. He played Francis. He's the guy who stabbed himself in the leg at the very end. Now, if you want to piss Corey off, ask him if he's Danny Glover's son. He hates that. He's not. And he just, do not ask him. It really pisses him off. 56-year-old actor Ethan Hawke. He was born in Austin, Texas. His first movie was Explorers with Phoenix, or we have River Phoenix. They needed Dead Poets Society, Reality Bites, The Purge.

8:50 He's been nominated for Oscars four times, two of them for writing, for Boar Sunset and then Before Midnight. And he's been nominated for acting for Training Day and Boyhood. Now he married actress Uma Thurman for eight years. They had a son and a daughter. Now, the day after him and Uma divorced, he married their nanny. Now, we really don't know the whole story. What we do. Know is that him and the nanny now have two daughters, and she won't let him hire a nanny. Actress Rebecca Romijn. She's 54. She was born in Berkeley, California. Started out as a model. She's played Mystic in a whole bunch of X-Men movies. She's also voiced Lois Lane in four movies. On TV, she was on Ugly Betty and then The Librarians. Since 2022, she's been starring in Star Trek, Strange New Worlds.

9:33 She married John Stamos for seven years. Then she married Jerry O'Connell, 2007, and they have twin daughters. Actress Emma Stone is 38. She was born in Scottsdale, Arizona. Her first movie was Superbad, then Zombieland, then starred in three Spider-Man movies. She won Oscars for La La Land and then for Poor Things. Emma, she married in 2020, and they have a daughter. Today is my brother Scott's birthday. Now, he doesn't like it when I mention him on there. So when I talk about him... I have to be really quiet and subtle and all that kind of stuff. Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott. Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott, Scott. Scott.

10:16 Well, happy birthday, Scott. I sure hope you have a great day and get to see your kids, and have just a great day. All righty, our quote of the day comes from Peter Tchaikovsky. He wrote Swan Lake and the Nutcracker. He died today in 1893 at 43 years old. He says, inspiration is a guest that does not visit the lazy. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on how you listen to us on. Check out today's show notes for all the connections and how you can get in touch with us. Our country underground radio artist of the day comes from Tyler in San Diego. You want to see our Donnie Lee song, Garage Band. You guys have an awesome day, and we'll talk tomorrow. I was 12 years old when my brother's old fender had a buzz on the Lower East Strait. My buddy next door got a bass for Christmas. He told me he could back up a cent.

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11:57 O'clock we roll around Our books would shut us down But we'd hang around an hour. Or two Try. To pick out a name Talking about things Like groupies and penthouse views Then we'd ask each other How you gonna spend your millions When we get a first. Number one We practiced a lot for it.