Welcome to the History Tricks, where any resemblance to a boring old history lesson is purely coincidental.

And here's your 30-second summary.

Bananas, boobies, Broadway, bravery, and babies.

These end.

Let's talk about Josephine Baker.

The first, let's place her into history.

In 1906, the first radio set is advertised, and it can receive signals up to a mile away.

The first federal penitentiary building is completed in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Theodore Roosevelt's daughter, Alice, is married in the White House.

The first animated cartoon is copyrighted.

Einstein introduces his theory of relativity.

Susan B. Anthony, Marshall Field, and Paul Sezon died.

Sacha Page, Anne-Marrow Lindbergh, and Samuel Beckett were born.

And on June 3, 1906, Frida Josephine McDonald was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Hi, this is Susan.

We just wanted to give a little disclaimer.

On this episode, Josephine Baker herself wrote five autobiographies, and each of them was a little bit different.

Once she died, there were several other biographies written about her life, also a little bit different.

So we've pulled the information that seems to be fairly consistent within the stories.

And the boys are upstairs.

So if you hear a little pear pattern of little people jumping off of dresses, two seven-year-olds playing quietly.

Now let's talk about Josephine Baker.

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