Week of December 11th

Take a look back at this week in History

Episode Transcript

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And now I'll look back at thisweek in history on iHeartRadio. This week
in seventeen seventy three, in BostonHarbor, a group of Massachusetts colonists disguised
as Native Americans board three British teaships and dump three hundred and forty two
chests of tea into the harbor.The Midnight Raid, popularly known as the
Boston Tea Party, was in protestof the British Parliament's Tea Act of seventeen

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seventy three, a bill designed tosave the faltering East India Company by greatly
lowering its tea tax and granting ita virtual monopoly on the American tea trade.
Jumping ahead this week in nineteen twentyfive, the New York Americans lose
to the Montreal Canadians three to onein the formal opening of New York's Madison
Square Garden, which would become oneof the world's most famous sporting venues.

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This week, in nineteen sixty three, one of the first major pieces of
environmental legislation in the United States becomeslaw. The Clean Air Act empowers federal
and state agencies to research and regulateair pollution, marking a major expansion of
government efforts to fight back against thedamage being done to the climate. And
this week in the year two thousand, Vice President Al Gore concedes defeat to

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George W. Bush in his bidfor the presidency, following weeks of legal
battles over the recounting of votes inFlorida. Gore had won the national popular
vote by more than five hundred thousandvotes, but narrowly lost Florida, giving
the electoral college to Bush two seventyone to two sixty six. And that's
what happened. Thanks for listening toThis Week in History on iHeartRadio.