Week of November 6th

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 fifty four, Ellis Island, the Gateway to America, shuts its
doors after processing more than twelve millionimmigrants since opening in eighteen ninety two.
Today, an estimated forty percent ofall Americans can trace their roots through Ellis
Island, located in New York Harboroff the New Jersey Coast, a name

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for merchant Samuel Ellis, who ownedthe land in the seventeen seventies. This
Week in nineteen sixty nine, SesameStreet, a pioneering TV show that would
teach generations of young children the alphabetand how to count, makes its broadcast
debut. Sesame Street, with itsmemorable theme song, went on to become
the most widely viewed children's program inthe world. It has aired in more

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than one hundred and twenty countries.As of the show's fiftieth anniversary in twenty
nineteen, Sesame Street has produced overforty five hundred episodes, thirty five TV
specials, two hundred home videos,and one hundred and eighty albums. This
Week in nineteen eighty, more thanthree years after its launched, the US
Planetary pro Voyager one hedges within seventyseven thousand miles of Saturn, the second

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largest planet in our solar system,the photos being back to California's Stun scientists.
The high resolution images showed a worldthat seemed to confound all known laws
of physics. Saturn had not six, but hundreds of rings. And this
week in the year two thousand,the presidential election results in a statistical tie
between al Gore and George Bush.The results in Florida were unclear by the

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end of election night and resulted ina recount and a Supreme Court case.
Was at the time the fourth USpresidential election in which the winner lost to
popular vote. And that's what happened. Thanks for listening to This Week in
History on iHeartRadio.