Week of October 2nd

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 seven, sculpting beginson the face of Mount Rushmore in the
Black Hills National Forest of South Dakota. It would take another twelve years for
the granite images of four of America'smost revered presidents, George Washington, Thomas
Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and TheodoreRoosevelt to be completed. This week in

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nineteen fifty seven, the Soviet Unioninaugurates the space age with its launch of
Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite. The spacecraft, named Sputnik, after
the Russian word for satellite, ata diameter of twenty two inches and weighed
one hundred and eighty four pounds andcircled Earth once every hour and thirty six
minutes. This week in nineteen ninetyfive, at the end of the Trial

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of the Century, former football starO. J. Simpson is acquitted the
nineteen ninety four double murder of asa Strange wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her
friend Ronald Goldman. In the epictwo hundred and fifty two day trial,
Simpson's dream team of lawyers employed creativeand controversial methods to convince jurors that Simpson's
guilt had not been proven beyond areasonable doubt. And this week in twenty

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eleven, we lost a visionary.Steve Jobs, the co founder of Apple,
which revolutionized the computer, music,and mobile communications industries, died at
age fifty six of complications from pancreaticcancer. In late nineteen ninety six,
Apple, which had floundered without Jobs, announced it would hire Jobs as an
advisor. The following year, hebecame Apple's interim CGO. The interim was

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dropped in two thousand and Under hisleadership, a nearly bankrupt Apple was transformed
into one of the planet's most valuablecorporations. And that's what happened. Thanks
for listening to This Week in Historyon iHeartRadio.