Week of October 30th

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,
way back in fifteen twelve, theceiling of the sixteen Chapel in Rome,
one of Italian artist Michelangelo's finest works, is exhibited to the public for
the first time. Michelangelo worked untilhis death in fifteen sixty four at the
age of eighty eight. In additionto his major artistic works, he produced

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numerous other sculptures, frescoes, architecturaldesigns, and drawings. Jumping way ahead
this week in nineteen sixty eight,in one of the closest elections in US
history, Republican challenger Richard Nixon defeatsVice President Hubert Humphrey to become President of
the United States. Because of thestrong showing of the third party candidate,
George Wallace, neither Nixon nor Humphreyreceived more than fifty percent of the popular

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vote. Nixon beat Humphrey by lessthan five hundred thousand votes. Nixon campaigned
on a platform designed to reach thesilent majority of middle class and working class
Americans. He promised to quote bringus to together again, and many Americans,
weary after years of anti war andcivil rights protests were happy to hear
of peace returning to the streets.This week. In nineteen eighty three,

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the MLK Federal Holiday is declared.President Ronald Reagan signs a bill in the
White House Rose Garden designating a federalholiday honoring Martin Luther King Junior, to
be observed on the third Monday ofJanuary. And this week in twenty fourteen,
one World Trade Center officially opens inManhattan. The new tower, along
with the rest of the World TradeCenter complex, replaced the twin towers and

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surrounding complex, which were destroyed bythe terrorist attacks on September eleventh, two
thousand and one. And that's whathappened. Thanks for listening to This Week
in History on iHeartRadio.