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December 18, 2023 1 min
Take a look back at this week in History
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And now I'll look back at thisweek in history on iHeartRadio. This week
in nineteen fifty seven, while spendingthe Christmas holidays at Graceland, his newly
purchased Tennessee mansion, rock and rollstar Elvis Presley receives his draft notice for
the United States Army. Fans senttens of thousands of letters to the Army
asking for him to be spared,but Elvis would have none of it.

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He received one deferment, during whichhe finished work on his movie King Creole
before being sworn in as an Armyprivate in Memphis on March twenty fourth,
nineteen fifty eight. This week innineteen sixty eight, Apollo eight, the
first man mission to the Moon,is successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with astronauts
Frank Foreman, James Lovell Junior,and William Anders. On Christmas Eve,

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the astronauts entered into orbit around theMoon, the first man spacecraft ever to
do so. This week, innineteen ninety seven, director James Cameron's epic
drama Titanic opens in theaters. Titaniccatapulted its young stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate
Winn led to international fame and woneleven Academy Awards, including Best Picture,

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Best Director, and Best Song forMy Heart Will Go On from Celine Dion.
Titanic is still the number four grossingmovie of all time with over two
point two billion dollars. And thisweek in two thousand and nine, Richard
Heen, who carried out a hoaxin which he told the thirties his six
year old son had floated off ina saucer shaped helium balloon, is sentenced

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to ninety days in jail in FortCollins, Colorado. The so called balloon
Boy saga riveted viewers around the globetwo months earlier when it played out on
live television. And that's what happened. Thanks for listening to This Week in
History on iHeartRadio
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