Week of October 16th

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 thirty one, we lostone of the greatest inventors of our time.
Thomas Edison dies at age eighty four. His inventions, which include the
phonograph, the motion picture camera,and early versions of the electric light bulb,
had a widespread impact on the modernindustrialized world. This week in nineteen

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forty seven, the notorious Red Scarekicks into high gear in Washington as a
congressional committee begins investigating communist influence inone of the world's richest and most glamorous
communities, Hollywood. A small groupknown as the Hollywood Ten resisted, complaining
that the hearings were illegal and violatedtheir First Amendment rights. They were all
convicted of obstructing the investigation and servedjail terms. This week, in nineteen

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seventy three, after fifteen years ofconstruction, the Sydney Opera House is dedicated
by Queen Elizabeth. The eighty milliondollar structure, famous for its geometric roof
shells, contained several large auditoriums andpresent it's an average of three thousand events
a year to an estimated two millionpeople, and this Week. In two
thousand and three, the Senate votedninety seven to zero to approve the can

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Spam Bill. It was approved bythe House a month later, signed into
law in December. It was designedto cut down the amount of spam in
your email, but as of latetwo thousand and six, CAN Spam had
all but been ignored by spammers.A review of spam levels in October two
thousand and six estimated that seventy fivepercent of all email messages were spammed,

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and that the number of spam emailscomplying with the requirements of the law were
estimated to be zero point twenty sevenpercent. And that's what happened. Thanks
for listening to This Week in Historyon iHeartRadio.