Week of October 23rd

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 twenty nine, the stockmarket crashes. Black Tuesday hits Wall Street
as investors trade over sixteen million,four hundred thousand shares on the New York
Stock Exchange in a single day.Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out
thousands of investors, and stock tickersran hours behind because the machinery could not

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handle the tremendous volume of trading.In the aftermath of Black Tuesday, America
and the rest of the industrialized worldspiraled downward into the Great Depression. This
week in nineteen thirty one, eightmonths ahead of schedule, New York Governor
Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the GeorgeWashington Bridge over the Hudson River. The
four seven hundred and sixty foot longsuspension bridge, the longest in the world

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at the time, connected Fort Lee, New Jersey, with Washington Heights in
New York City. This week innineteen sixty five, construction is completed on
the Gateway Arch, a spectacular sixhundred and thirty foot high parabola of stainless
steel marking the Jefferson National Expansion Memorialon the waterfront of Saint Louis, Missouri.
The arch costs less than fifteen milliondollars to build and is designed to

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withstand both earthquakes and high winds.And this week in nineteen ninety eight,
nearly four decades after he became thefirst American to orbit the Earth, Senator
John Glenn Junior is launched into spaceagain as a payload specialist aboard the Space
Shuttle Discovery. At age seventy seven, Glenn was the oldest human ever to

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travel in space. During the nineday mission, he served as part of
a NASA study on health problems associatedwith aging. And that's what happened.
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