Week of August 21st

Take a look back at this week in History

Episode Transcript

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And now I look back at thisweek in History on iHeartRadio. This week
in eighteen seventy five, Captain MatthewWebb of Great Britain becomes the first man
to successfully swim the English Channel withoutassistance. After the feat, Webb became
an international celebrity, admired for bothhis prowess and the water and his pension
for risk taking. This week innineteen thirty nine, The Wizard of Oz,

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which would become one of the bestlove movies in history, opens in
theaters around the United States. Basedon the children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz, the film starred Judy Garlandas the young Kansas farm girl Dorothy.
Filmed at MGM Studios in Culver City, California, The Wizard of Oz was
a modest box office success when itwas first released, but its popularity continued

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to grow after it was televised forthe first time in nineteen fifty six,
and estimated forty five million people watchedthat inaugural broadcast. This week in nineteen
fifty five, the first edition ofthe Guinness Book of Records is published in
Great Britain. It quickly proves tobe a hit. Now known as the
Guinness World Records Book. The annualpublication features a wide range of feats related
to humans and animals. To date, the book is sold more than one

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hundred and thirty million copies, beentranslated into more than a dozen languages,
and it's the top selling copyrighted titlein history. And this week in the
year two thousand, Richard Hatch,a thirty nine year old corporate trainer from
Rhode Island. Whence the season onefinale of the reality television show Survivor takes
Home the promised one million dollar prize. Survivor became a huge rating success and

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spawned numerous imitators in the reality competitiongenre. The show is still going,
and that's what happened. Thanks forlistening to This Week in History on iHeartRadio.