Week of January 1st

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 sixteen forty three, the firstrecord of a legal divorce in the American
colonies occurred, and Clark of theMassachusetts Bay Colony is granted a divorce from
her absent and adulterous husband, DennisClark, by the Quarter Court of Boston,
Massachusetts. This week in eighteen thirtyeight, Samuel Morse's telegraph system is

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demonstrated for the first time at theSpeedwell Iron Works in Marstown, New Jersey.
To Telegraph, a device which usedelectric impulses to transmit encoded messages over
a wire, would eventually revolutionize longdistance communication, reaching the height of its
popularity in the nineteen twenties and thirties. Jumping ahead this week in nineteen seventy
five, Wheel of Fortune, thelongest running syndicated game show in American television,

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premieres on NBC. Created by televisionlegend MERV Griffin, the show has
been hosted since the early eighties byPat Sayjack, who announced his retirement in
twenty twenty three and assisted by FanaWhite. And This week in two thousand
and nine, media outlets report thata rare, unrestored nineteen thirty seven Bugatti
Type fifty seven s at Alante Couphad been found in the garage of a

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British doctor. A month later,on February seventh, the car sold at
a Paris auction for four point fourmillion dollars. The black two seater,
one of just seventeen ever made byBugatti, had been owned by English orthopedic
surgeon Harold Carr since nineteen fifty five. Car who died in two thousand and
seven, reportedly had kept the rarevehicle parked in his garage since the early

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sixties and hadn't driven it in fivedecades. And that's what happened. Thanks
for listening to This Week in Historyon iHeartRadio.