Week of November 13th

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 eighteen sixty seven, the firststock ticker is unveiled in New York City.
The advent of the ticker ultimately revolutionizedthe stock market by making up to
the minute prices available to investors aroundthe country. Prior to this development,
information from the New York Stock Exchange, which had been around since seventeen ninety

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two, traveled by mail or amessenger jumping ahead. This week in nineteen
fifty nine, the Sound of Musicpremieres on Broadway. It was an instant
success, and numerous songs from itsscore, including do Rey Me My Favorite
Things and Climb Every Mountain, quicklyentered the popular culture. The original cast
recording of the Sound of Music wasnearly as big a phenomenon as the show

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itself. Recorded just a week afterthe show's premiere and released by Columbia Records,
the album shot up to the topof the Billboard Album charts. This
week in nineteen sixty eight, theOakland Raiders scored two touchdowns in nine seconds
to beat the New York Jets.And no one sees it because they're watching
the movie Heidi instead. With justsixty five seconds left to play, NBC

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switched off the game in favor ofits previously scheduled programming, a made for
TV version of Heidi. Viewers wereoutraged, and they complained so loud that
network execs learned a lesson they'll neverforget. And this week, in two
thousand and one, Microsoft releases theXbox gaming console. Microsoft CEO Bill Gates
first decided to venture into the videogame market because he feared that gaming consoles

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would soon compete with personal computers.In a twenty twenty study, PlayStation still
holds the market share over Xbox atfifty seven percent. And that's what happened.
Thanks for listening to This Week inHistory on iHeartRadio.