Week of November 27th

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 nineteen thirteen, Henry Ford installsthe first moving assembly line for the mass
production of an entire automobile. Hisinnovation reduced the time it took to build
a car from more than twelve hoursto one hour and thirty three minutes.
This week in nineteen fifty four,the first modern instance of a meteorite striking

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a human being occurs in Alabama,when a meteorite crashes through the roof of
a house and into a living room, bounces off a radio, and strikes
a woman in the hip. Thevictim, missus Elizabeth Hodges, was sleeping
on a couch at the time ofimpact. The space rock was a sulfi
meteorite weighing eight and a half poundsand measuring seven inches in length. This
week in nineteen seventy, a newfederal agency opens its doors. Created in

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response to the dawning realization that humanactivity can have major effects on the planet,
the Environmental Protection Agency heralded a newage of government action on behalf of
the environment. The EPA was floodedwith resumes from environmentalists excited by the idea
that the government would finally act ontheir concerns. It opened with fifty eight
hundred employees and a budget of onepoint four billion dollars. And this week

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in two thousand and four, afterwinning seventy four straight games and more than
two point five million dollars, arecord for US game shows, Jeopardy contestant
Ken Jennings loses Jennings extended Winning Streetgave the game show a huge ratings boost
and turned the software engineer from SaltLake City, Utah into a TV hero
and household name. And that's whathappened. Thanks for listening to This Week

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in History on iHeartRadio.