Week of September 25th

Take a look back at this week in History

Episode Transcript

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And now I look back at thisweek in history on iHeartRadio. This week
in eighteen ninety, an Act ofCongress creates Yosemite National Park, home of
such natural wonders as Half Dome andthe Giant Sequoiatries. Environmental trailblazer John Muir
and his colleagues campaigned for the congressionalaction, which was signed into law by
President Benjamin Harris and paved the wayfor generations of hikers, campers, and

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nature lovers, along with countless don'tfeed the Bear signs jumping ahead. This
week in nineteen sixty two, JohnnyCarson takes over for Jack Parr as the
host of the late night talk programThe Tonight Show. Carson went on to
host The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carsonfor three decades, becoming one of the
biggest figures in entertainment in the twentiethcentury. This week in nineteen ninety six,

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US astronaut Shannon Lucid returns to Earthin the US Space Shuttle Atlantis,
following six months in orbit aboard theRussian space station Mirror. She was the
first American woman to live in aspace station. In August, her scheduled
return to Earth was delayed by morethan six weeks because of last minute repairs
to the booster rockets of Atlantis,and then by a hurricane for one hundred

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and eighty eight days aboard mirrors ata new space endurance record for an American
and a world endurance record for awoman. And this week in two thousand
and eight, after Congress failed topass a seven hundred billion dollar bank bailout
plan, the dal Jones Industrial Averagefalls seven hundred and seventy seven point six
eight points at the time, thelargest single day point loss in its history.

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The S and P five hundred alsosuffered its biggest one day loss since
the nineteen eighty seven crash, andthe Nasdaq fell nine point one percent,
its biggest single day point loss ineight years. And that's what happened.
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