Week of May 22nd

Take a look back at this week in History

Episode Transcript

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And now I'll look back up Thisweek in history on iHeartRadio. This week
in eighteen forty four, in ademonstration witnessed by members of Congress, American
inventor Samuel F. B. Morsedispatches a telegraph message from the US capital
to Alfred Vale at a railroad stationin Baltimore. The message with telegraph back
to the Capitol a moment later byVale. Morris, an accomplished painter,

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learned of a French inventor's idea ofan electric telegraph in eighteen thirty two and
then spent the next twelve years attemptingto perfect a working telegraph instrument. During
this period, he composed the MorseCode, a set of signals that could
represent language and telegraph messages. Thisweek in nineteen thirty seven, San Francisco's
Golden Gate Bridge, a stunning technologicaland artistic achievement, opens to the public

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after five years of construction. Theforty two hundred foot long suspension bridge spans
the Golden Gate straight at the entranceto San Francisco Bay and connects San Francisco
and Marin County. This week innineteen seventy seven, Memorial Day Weekend opens
with an intergalactic bang. As thefirst of George Lucas's blockbuster Star Wars movies
hits American theaters. Star Wars receivedseven oscars and earned four hundred and sixty

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one million dollars in US ticket salesand a gross of close to eight hundred
million worldwide. Success began with anextensive coordinated marketing push by Lucas and his
studio twentieth Century Fox months before themovie's release stage And this week in nineteen
seventy eight, Resorts Casino Hotel opensin Atlantic City, New Jersey. Resorts
was the first casino hotel in AtlanticCity, becoming the first legal casino outside

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of Nevada in the US. Andthat's what happened. Thanks for listening to
This Week in History on iHeartRadio.