Oct 7-National Taco Day, John Mellencamp, Toni Braxton, Radiohead, Yo-Yo Ma, Simon Cowell, Michael W. Smith

0:19 Hello, I am Jeff, and welcome to history. In fact, it's about today. Day's October the seventh. Who is strain and tacos frum out of the sky tacos. No need to ask why, just open your mouth and close your eyes and strain and taaco safe stream. Taco Today it is National Taco Day. Now. They started making tacos in Mexico and Central America around three thousand years ago. Then at fifteen twenty Herman Cortez he named the flatbread that they were using tortillas. Now, they made their way up to the United States in the early nineteen hunders.

1:01 Nineteen eighty nine. Taco Johns they trademark Taco Tuesdays that they really don't enforce it too much. In fact, National Taco Day, Yeah, it's always on the first Tuesday of every October. Now, I'm gonna make this pretty easy for you. Basically, everybody who sells tacos is Evan deals today, from Taco Bell, Taco Johns, Chipotle, del Taco, Jack in the Box seven to eleven, even Taco Johns. Yeah, we'll let their fish tacos. So go get the tacos you I can just enjoy some tacos today. Now, if you need something to Washington down, it's also a national frop by day. All right, this is going on entertainment in October seventh, It's back to nineteen eighty nine. Number one album was Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul Janet. Jackson had then ms on with miss You Much.

1:42 I Tell Him. Steve Warner he had the number one country song with I Got Dreams. Shouts two years and uber. I want to Keep on cry on slip given I Got Dreams, Say you Don't Love It? One of these sings.

2:30 The number one book was Clear and Present Danger by Tom Clancy. Top movie was Black Rain. To New York City cops, they arrest a violent gang member and now they have to escort him back to Japan. Stars Michael Douglas, Andy Garcia and Ken Takamira. Now in Japan, it was nominated for Best Foreign Film and there Japanese Academy Awards. All right, what happened on October the seventh. Now we all know that Christopher Kalumbus never set foot on or even saw America. But today in his logbooks it shows that in fourteen ninety too, he actually changed his original course. Now had he stayed on that course, yeah, he had to run right into Florida. Fifteen seventy one, the Battle of Lapento is one of the most important naval battles in world history, was fought. Now Muslims and Christians. They'd been fighting since six twenty two. Then by fifteen seventy one, the Muslims, they were led by the Ottoman Empire, that's basically in Turkey. Now they controlled pretty much all the Middle East, North Africa, the Balkans, that's southeast Europe. But now the Muslims out their site set on Europe and all of Europe. So Pope Pius a fifth he organized a coalition of the states in Italy and Spain and pretty much Austria and Germany and that whole thing to try and stop them. So the Christians and the muslim they met off of Greece. Now, the Ottomans they did not know that the Christians had actually improved their ships. Yeah, they add a technical advantage there. So the Christian fleet was led by a twenty four year old he had Don Juan. Yeah he wasn't a real guy. He was from Austria. I know naval power, but Usian leaders and officers.

4:01 After years of just getting crushed by the Muslims, they're pretty hesitant to go into battle. Not done one. He simply said, gentlemen, this is not the time to discuss. It is time to fight. Then he ordered the attack. Now, don and the Christians ships put a major. Butt whooping on the Muslims. In five hours, over thirty three thousand Muslims were killed, eight thousand Christians were killed. Now, it would end up being the deadliest one day battle up until World War One. So that's a long time ago. Now it was the last battle that was fought by or powered ships. That's kind of cool. Now that Ottomans they pretty much lost most of their navy, so they were really never a power again after that. Now, get this on the ships for sinking all that. They ended up getting twelve thousand Christians who were actually being held as slaves on those ships that were sinking. Now, before that battle, Pope Pious the Fifth, he and other paper leaders and Christian leaders and stuff, they asked for a prayer for all of Europe to try and help bless the soldiers, and so a lot of the Catholics they were playing or praying the rosary.

4:58 So it worked. Stop the Muslim and that's why if you're Catholic. Yeah, October is national Rosary run, so you're supposed to say the Rosary a lot this month. Seventeen fourteen, Alkma, Netherlands, one of the biggest riots in the history of the Netherlands took place. See the citizens they were told that the government was going to start taxing beer. Yeah, the people went back crap crazy. Seventeen thirty seven, a cyclone it hit Calcutta, Indy, came to shore with forty foot waves, killed over three hundred thousand people. Eighteen oh six, Ralph Wedgwood in London, England. He invented carbon paper. I don't know how many of you are old enough to mirror that stuff. They pretty much stopped using carbon paper in the nineteen eighties. But he was to go buy it. Yeah, some people still use it. I don't know what for.

5:40 In college football, in nineteen sixteen, Georgia Tech now they were coached by John Heisman, the guy that the trophy is named after. Well, they beat Cumberland College two hundred and twenty two to nothing. That's the most lopsided score on football history. Nineteen fifty nine Soviet spacecraft Luna three. It took the first pictures of the back side of the moon, or the far side of the moon. Some people call it the dark side of the moon, but it gets just as my sunlight as the side that we see now, the two sides of the moon, they are different in appearance wise. See, the far side of the moon is really covered in craters of all different sizes and all that kind of stuff, and the crust is thicker than the side that we see. Now. This record still stands. It was nineteen sixty five and Omaha, Nebraska at the tenth hole in Miracle Hills golf Course a fifty mile an hour wind gust. It helped Robert Matira.

6:25 He had a four hundred and forty seven yard hole in one. He has still the longest hole in one ever hit. Nineteen ninety six, Fox News went on the air, my dad, most of the people over seven. You're pretty happy today two thousand and three are No. Schwarzenegger is elected governor California. Yeah, he served eight years. Two years ago in twenty twenty three, that's when Nahamas attacked Israel and a horrible terrorist attack. Now suppose it's Israel's equivalent to the United States is nine to eleven. Is what it is. But as today it sounds like what if. According to Fox News and some others, looks like the fighting might finally be over. So I guess we'll pay attention for the next couple of days being kind of dashed for though, joke, dope. Joke, joke joke, show this Shiverthdayle's gonna pause.

7:09 He left this shiverday. We gonna simple target this shibirthday. And you know you don't give up. That's birthday. Check out. It was born in October the seventh to Now I need a lever. That was the first hit sign that John Mellencamp ever recorded, released it back in nineteen seventy eight, but under the name John Cougar. See John. He's seventy four today. He was born in Seymour, Indiana, nineteen fifty one. Now, he actually did start out as John Cougar, but his recording company they didn't like the name Mellencamp at all, but John like, so as soon as he got big enough, he changed it to John Cougar Mellencamp and then by nineteen ninety one he is big enough he could just be John Cougar soldo over sixty million records. He has three times divorced. He had one child from his first wife, two from his second, and two from his third. For those of you who don't know the cello, yeah, that is really good.

8:33 That was Yo Yo Ma. He is an American cellist who was born in Paris, France to Chinese parents. Seventy years old today now Yo Yo now Yo Yo Ma in China has pronounced ma yo yo Now. He is most known famous cellist of all time, probably the cellist. Anybody ever knew. Now. He was a child prodigy. He was performing by the time he's four and a half years old. He's recorded ninety two albums when nineteen Grammys. Now he goes music. It goes from traditional Chinese melodies to American bluegrass to Argentina diango, everything in between. And he does perform classic orchestra stuff. He's on tour. Yep, you're gonna see him'll beible too. He's on tour till June, so you can check him out. Got married in nineteen seventy eight and they have a son and one daughter.

9:20 Looking for e. Ninety five My pa world. That was Christian singer Michael W. Smith. Now he took that song place in this World up to number six on the pop chart. Yeah, he's considered a contemporary Christian singer. Michael. He's sixty eight. He's born in Canovo, West Virginia, nineteen fifty seven. He's won forty five Double Awards, three Grammy's. Thirty three of the songs have gone to number one on the Christian chart. Now he's also written fourteen books. Now he kicks off his yearly Christmas tour on November twenty eighth. It's gonna be a good show. He's with CC Winings and Amy Grant.

10:03 Ends December twenty first. Now, Michael he married nineteen eighty one and they have five children. No, he's not Catholic, He's Protestant. Simon Kall he's sixty six. He was born in Lambeth, England in nineteen fifty nine. Now he was a maybe a. Semi successful record producer talent Scott kind of except then he had huge with the idea of TV talent shows. Started off with The X Factor in Britain and then Britain's Got Talent, then of course American Idol. Now that American Idol franchise. They have shows all over the world like Canadian Idol, Australian Idol, Iraq Ido, Brazil Idol, Pakistan Idol, Taiwan Idol, all that kind of fifty six different versions of American Idol. Well, yeah, so it's quite the franchise.

10:44 Old Simon's got going there now. He's been engaged since twenty thirteen and him and his fiance have one son. To walk down the door down. By Fine the many nights. On Tony Braxton. She was born in nineteen sixty seven and seven Michigan, fifty eight years old today, she's sold over seventy million records. You Make Me High and Break My Heart. He Wasn't man. Enough Breathing In That's some of her biggest hits. And she had a reality TV show he ran from twenty eleven to twenty twenty. It's called Braxton Family Values.

11:31 Now. She had two sons from her first husband. She married her second husband just last year. It's a beautiful I wish how special, so full special. That's Thomas Jork. He is the lead singer for the band Radiohead. He is born in well Borrow, England, in nineteen sixty eight fifty seven year olds helped formula Radiohead nineteen eighty five. This will over thirty million records. Some of their hits over here in the United States are creep Pie and Dry No surprises Now. He does a lot of solo stuff on the side, and it's nothing like Radiohead. His solo stuff is all electronic. Ye have no instruments, just all electronic. He had one son and one daughter from his first wife. Married his second wife in twenty twenty. Alrighty, our quote of the day. It comes from writer Edgar Allen Poe. He died today in eighteen forty nine at forty years old. He says, if you want to forget something right away, make a note that you have to remember it well. Thank you all for listening today. Make sure you follow us now you listen to this hun check out today's show descriptions, you can figure out how to connect with this. Our country underground radio artists Today comes from Misty in Sarasota, Florida.

12:47 She wants to hear lean it page this song. I cry, he guys have an awesome day. We'll talk tomorrow. I cry settled, I cry have some cartoon. I cry every week when I don't even know the bride over. I cried when dogs had puppies. I cry at funerals too, So tell me, if you can, you rip it much, omen, Why did not cry over you? Why was I shuting Hellujah when your tail has disappeared down street?

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