Sept 17th-Apple Dumplings, Hank Williams, John Ritter, Kyle Chandler, Anastacia, 1st Person Killed Airplane Crash

0:19 Hi everyone, I am Jeff and welcome to history. In fact, dud it's about today today, September the seventeenth legend. That is the only song we could find that even mentions apple dumplings. Today is National Apple Dumpling Day. A tasty little dessert. They go back to the seventeen forties. They're created up in the northeast, so New England. They're pretty easy to make. You just peel and course some apple, sprinkle alma, some cinnamon and sugar yep, wrap them in little pastries and baked. Yeah, it tastes like little apple pies. Today is also International Country Music Day. I know country music.

1:05 It is popular world wide. It is global and international. It really wasn't until the nineteen nineties. That's when Garth Brooks and Shania Twain and that whole crowd they got the worldwide attention to it. It's more popular every year now. As you've heard me talk about. We have an internet radio station called Country Underground Radio. We play independent and up and coming country radio country's artists. Now we don't mention listeners though we have listeners from all over the world. Every month we have over eighty countries that listen to us now most popular in Europe and South America. Yeah, we're really big in Brazil and don't know why, but for some reason we're like the number one internet country radio station over in Denmark. But we have listeners all over Africa, Russia, China, and Japan, Australia. Yeah, pretty much all over the world. So if you want to celebrate international country music today, we're a good place. We also play international artists though too. It's mostly American artists, but we do play some. We actually played quite a few country artists from Canada coming number.

2:02 That was just a wispy told said wat suit back. Followed up, that's wrongly to this, we haven't played some from England and you don't even know many. So Jay, he's I'm not gonna get blew up, not fright down, still say it don't make a fun Marry is down play quite a few country artists from Australia. No, two crazy things and I'm down care I'm the hul.

2:47 Thank you, Ritchie, No me, we don't play a guy from Ireland. Me frown the pond, Lody be too nice and you're Afred I'm mustay. Alright, this is going on entertainment on September seventeenth. It was about nineteen seventy six. Number one album was Frampton Comes a Live by Frieder Peter Frampton. Casey in the Sunshine Band had the number one song was shake your Booty.

3:28 Shit. Jim ed Brown and Helen Cornels had. The number one country song was I Don't want to have to marry you. I don't have to I have to say. TV three. The number one book was was Trinity by leon Yuris. The top movie was The Front in nineteen fifty three. A writer, he helps other entertainers who have been blacklisted, stars Woody Allen, Zero, Maustrel and Hershey Bernardi.

4:23 All right, what happened on September the seventeenth, sixteen eighty three. A Dutch scientist, his name is Antone van Leemanwook. He made his own type microscope and he's looking at some pond water and he saw these little animals in there, so he called them animal kules. Now now we call them bacteria now. The guy I had studied a lot after today, he actually the one who figured out protozoa and a whole bunch of other single cell organisms. Seventeen eighty seven in Congress, they sent the Constitution of the United States to the States. Yes, so they could be ratified, and they take two years or come back to Congress in seventeen eighty nine. Now I've told you about some of the great things that he had Tubman had done over the years. What all started today eighteen forty nine in Maryland. Now, her and two of her brothers, they actually escaped slavery nineteen oh eight, Orvile and Woverwright. They were at the U. S. Army base in Fort Myers, Virginia. Now, the Army was kind of interested on buying some of them airplanes, so it was Orval's job. He had to show the army how safe and practical the planes would actually be. So he took twenty six year old Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge on a test flight. Over two thousand people had gathered to watch them. They owed and odd as they flew over the parade grounds and everything. Then the propeller broke off, so they were about one hundred and fifty feet high, hit nose first rid into the ground.

5:38 Now they didn't have seat belts, so Orville and Thomas they were both thrown from the plane. Thomas he hit his head fractures a skull, and he died orvill He had just spent a month and a half in a hospital, had broken leg and hips and ribs and all kinds of things like that. So Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge, he was buried with honors at Arlington National Cemetery. He has the honor of being the first person ever killed in an airplane crash. I guess it's kind of an honor. Now. When the Army did the autopsy on Thomas, they realized that had he not hit his head, he would have lived, ye had None of his other injuries were life threatening. So the army they did buy some planes from the Wright brothers, but they made all their pilots for helmets. Now do you remember, not too long ago I told you about how Germany had invaded Poland from the west, and that's basically what started World War One? Both today in nineteen thirty nine, just a couple of weeks later, Soviet Union they invaded Poland from the east. Now they were not trying to help Poland out. No, the Soviets wanted Eastern Poland, so they wanted to get it before Germany got to it. On CBS, the TV State Network.

6:36 Nineteen sixty seven, both The Doors and The Who made their first appearances on American TV. The Doors they went on the Ed Sullivan Show. I think you might have heard about that. That's what Jim Morrison. He sang a song and he did not change the lyrics like he said he was going to. So he was really evnsive and they banned him from CBS after that. On the smother Brothers Comedy Hour. You know, the Smothers Brothers were big. They had their own TV show. Well, they had The Who and The Who. They rocked out their song My Generation. Then towards the end of the song, Who's drummer Keith Moon blew up his drum kit, made Pete de Townsend deafinite one ear now The Who. They were banned from CBS. Also nineteen ninety two, in a primary Democratic election in New York City, Ted wise one well Ted he had died three days earlier.

7:19 Joke doke coke cooke, joke joke show, dish Shivers Day. Please don't pause, he left this shivery. We want simple cage, just Shivers Day. And you know we don't get Let's check out it's born on September the seventeenth. Whatch how about cooking something me? Hay sweet baby? That was country legend. Henk william He was born in Butler County, Alabama, in nineteen twenty three. Now he started singing professionally at fifteen years old. Some of his classic hits are I'm so lonely, I could cry, You're cheating heart rambling man, there's a tear in my beer now, Hank, he was born with spina biffida. Yeah, so he had a lot of back pain in his whole life, so he decided to self medicate. Well, he actually over self medicated with alcohol, became a major alcoholic. The grand Ole Opry, they wouldn't even let him play there anymore because it was unpredictability. Now, he did get married in nineteen forty four and they had their son, Hank Williams Junior. Then they got divorced in nineteen fifty two. Then Hank had a fun night and that caused him to have a daughter.

8:37 Was he was born five days after he died. So yeah, New Year's Eve in nineteen fifty two, Hank, he had a college student driving him up to Knton, Ohio, where he's going to actually do a show. On New Year's Day, so they had to drive all night in order to get to the show. Well, that kid stopped for gas and okill West Virginia. Yeah, he decided to check on Hanko as asleep in the vaccine realized hank Yeah, he died although all that alcohol, yeah, pretty much damaged his heart killed him. Twenty nine years old after Riddy McDowell. He was born on Herne Hill, England, in nineteen twenty eight. Some of those movies you might know where the Longest Day, the Greatest story ever told, The Poseidon Adventure Cliff bat Now, he played Cornelius and all the original plan of the eight s movies Roddy. He was a confirmed lifelong bachelor and he was gay. Actress Anne Bacroft. She was born in the Bronx, New York in nineteen thirty one. She was a triple ground winner. She went to Tony Awards and she went an oscar for the Miracle Worker and she was a two time Emmy and Warn Wimmer Now her most famous movie though, She played Missus Robinson in The Graduate Now she was nominated for an Oscar for it, but yeah, she lost to Catherine hepburnh She also voiced the queen in the ants movies What's On There. Her second husband was mil Brooks, that mel Brooks. They got married in nineteen sixty four. They had one son. They were married until Anne died in two thousand and five at seventy three years old. She had uterine cancer.

9:54 Common knock on our door. We've been waiting for you, A person, person, I'm too. Actor John Ridder. He was born in Burbank, California, in nineteen forty eight. His dad was a singing cowboy text Ridder. Now John made a name for himself on the sitcom Three's Company. After that, he voiced Clifford the Big Red Dog. He was on Eight Simple Rules. Some of his movies are Americathon, did those Problem Child Movies, Sling Blade, Brady Chucky Now. He is married to his first wife for twenty years when they divorced and they had three kids. Married the second wife in nineteen ninety nine. They had one kid two thousand and three. On the set Set of Eight Simple Rules, John, he just dropped over dead. Yeah, he had an unknown heart condition that he didn't know anything about. It's five days before his fifty fifth birthday.

10:44 Comedian Rita Rudner's seventy two. She was born in Miami, Florida, in nineteen fifty three. She started out as a Broadway dancer the night most dancers. She went into stand up comedy. She's been headlining out there in Las Vegas since two thousand and one. I mean she does take breaks from God into her So if you want to see her and you don't have to go to Vegas, she'll probably come to a comedy club near you now. She's written five best selling books too, got married in nineteen eighty eight and they have a daughter. After. Kyle Chandler sixty. He's worn in Buffalo, New York in nineteen sixty five. He first got known on the TV show Home Front, but got really big, big known on the TV show Friday Night Lights. Some of his movies are Pure Country, Zero, Darc thirty, The Wolf of Wall Street. He's starting two Godzilla movies, so that's cool. He's been married since nineteen ninety five and they have two daughters. She just goes by Anastasia. She's big enough. I guess she can go by one name. She sold her fifty million records all in Europe, Nope, in the United States. She hadn't sold squad out nothing. And she's an American. She was born in Chicago in nineteen sixty eight. Now she was born Anastagia in Newkirk. She's fifty seven now. She still lives here in the United States. She lives out in California.

12:11 Now. Besides Europe, she's also really big in Australia. She won their third season of the Mass Singer, so that's really big. But yeah, she never has had to hit song in the United States. Fifty million oh worldwide. None in the United States. Now, they don't even really release her songs here in the United States anymore because it's not worth her time. I don't know, she's pretty and she can sing. I guess we just don't want to listen to her. She's actually on tour in the UK right now. So when she's done, she'll come back to the United States. She'll record an album, they'll ship it over to Europe and then she'll go over there and to Europe to sport it next year. She's a tough, tough lady. At thirteen, she was diagnosed with Crohn's disease. At thirty four, she beat breast cancer at thirty nine, she beat breast cancer again. So she's been happy and healthy for about eighteen years now.

12:52 She married one time for only three years. Alright here quote of the day. It comes from comedian Red Skelton. He died today in nineteen ninety seven and eighty four years old. Med said, all men make mistakes, but married men find out about them sooner. Well, thank you all for listening today. Don't forget to follow us on you listen to his son and check your show notes on the bottom of the podcast today. That tells all the links side of contact us. Don't tell who all those international artists are that I played at the beginning of the show too, that I didn't tell you what their names were? All righty, our country underground radio artists today in honor of international country music today, I get a pick, So I'm gonna go with Shane Noan song All the Beer in Alabama. You guys have an awesome day, and I'll talk tomorrow.

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