- Good day and welcome back to Touring History, the only show where we recap
humanity's greatest hits and even more of its total misses. I'm Lane. - And I'm
Dave. It's April 30th. And if you like presidential drama, which there tends to be
a lot of these days, awkward land deals, tech breakthroughs and charming bunker
endings. Oh boy, do we have a show for you. - But first, birthdays.
First up, happy birthday to Carl Friedrich Gauss, born 1777,
mathematician, genius, and the reason you failed calculus. Ah, good old Carl. Also
born today, Queen Juliana of the Netherlands, who reigned from 1948 to 1980,
and somehow kept her cold despite living through both World Wars and disco.
And in 1982, we got Kirsten Once, Spider -Man's MJ, interview with the vampire's
child vampire, and the only person who has chemistry with both Toby McGuire and the
cursed fountain. But first, back to the 18th century. On this day in 1789,
George Washington, the famous wooden tooth player, became the first U .S. president.
Fun fact, he won unanimously. How about that? Because there were no political
parties, no Twitter, and no Florida recount, Chad. - It was so popular he could have
run unopposed by a bald ego holding a cheeseburger and still won by a landslide.
Moving forward to 1803, the U .S. bought Louisiana from France for $15 million,
which is like buying half of America for the price of a Manhattan studio "Ah,
you can't have it. We are not interested." "Yeah, we paid about four cents an acre,
which proved once again, France is great at pastries. Terrible at real estate." In
1945, Hitler commits suicide, and, well, he died by suicide in his Berlin bunker,
finally fulfilling his dream of being underground and unpopular. "Hmm, That's like me
when I play golf two shots in a bunker. Oh Nice nice nice He died alongside his
wife of one day and a brawn because even in death Hitler managed to make bad
relationship decisions Yes, it's the end of the war. I think I'll ask you to marry
me
Yes, I know you very long we'll do it now We've done everything we can do now.
Let's go. Now to the messy stuff. So before the 1973 lane, glad you asked,
Dave, in 1973 top Nixon AIDS, Haldeman and Ehrlichman resigned over the Watergate
scandal. Yeah, it was the political version of you can't fire me. I quit. Except
with more wiretaps and less dignity. Nixon would later resign to proving that, yes,
even In the 70s, accountability was possible, just incredibly reluctant. Yeah, it took
a while. Well, in 1993, CERN released the World Wide Web into the public domain,
and just like that, the internet was born and then immediately misused for cat
videos and conspiracy theories. So thanks, CERN, we got access to all human knowledge
and decided to spend it looking at memes of Shrek. Yes, it gave new light to the
infamous algorithm. Ah, in 1967, the first radio ad for Rolling Stone magazine aired,
which, like the magazine, was edgy, iconic, and deeply committed to reminding you
that you weren't cool enough. Yeah, man, you weren't. And honestly, you still aren't.
That's right. And in 2017, Heineken released its "Worlds Apart" ad,
where people with opposing views built IKEA furniture together and discovered they had
feelings. It was heartwarming. It was human. It was peak 2017 and somehow still less
manipulative than every Pepsi ad from that decade. And speaking of ads, let's talk
about today's sponsor. Today's episode is fueled by Rise Donuts in Wilton,
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right is breakfast. So, Back to our show in 1900.
Oh, I became a U .S. territory officially joining the Empire of pineapple and poor
pronunciation It would take 59 more years to become a state because you know
democracy, but slow. That's right colonization is too 1939 Lang well in 1939 on this
day Dave NBC aired the first major TV broadcast in the U .S. featuring a speech at
the World's Fair, which means we've been interrupting important moments with static
and awkward ad breaks for exactly 85 years. Good times. So,
back to 1948, the Land Rover was unveiled today at the Amsterdam Auto Show in 1948.
It was rugged, boxy, and designed to survive the apocalypse, or your dad's midlife
crisis. It's the car that says, "I want to go off -roading, but I also want
espresso." And I probably won't go off -roading. I still look good, though. In 1975,
Saigon fell, making the official end of the Vietnam War. Ooh, and with that,
America closed one of its darkest chapters. For now. Until, of course, the next one.
Spoiler alert, there will be many. - In 2018, was there one then? - Yeah,
of course. The Armenian prime minister resigns. Who doesn't remember that? Gosh.
- It was a peaceful-- - After weeks of mass protests, who wouldn't remember that
either? - Huh? It was a peaceful transfer of power, proving once again that when
people show up, leaders step down. - Perhaps, unless it's Florida, then they just run
again. (laughs) So that's April 30th, a day of presidents, dictators, pop culture,
coups and carbs. Just join us tomorrow where the past gets even messier, and we
keep pretending we're qualified to explain it. Until then, stay curious, stay
caffeinated, and stay historical.
Bye everybody! See ya!
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