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September 4, 2023 1 min
Take a look back at this week in History
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And now I'll look back up thisweek in history on iHeartRadio. This week
in seventeen seventy six, the ContinentalCongress formally declares the name of the new
nation to be the United States ofAmerica. This replaced the term United Colonies,
which had been in general use.Jumping way ahead this week in nineteen
fifty six, the King of Rockand Roll teams up with TV's reigning variety

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program as Elvis Presley appears on TheEd Sullivan Show for the first time.
After earning big ratings for The SteveAllen Show, The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show,
and The Milton Borough Show, Sullivanfinally gave in on his Pressley Band,
signing the controversial singing star to anunprecedented fifty thousand dollars contract for three
appearances. With sixty million viewers oreighty two point six percent of TV viewers

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at the time tuning in. Theappearance garnered the show's best ratings in two
years and became the most watched TVbroadcast of the nineteen fifties. This week
in nineteen eighty six, the OprahWinfrey Show is broadcast nationally for the first
time. It was a huge ordaytime television talk show turned Winfrey into one
of the most powerful, wealthy peoplein show business and arguably one of the

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most influential women in America. Andthis week in two thousand and eight,
scientists successfully flipped the switch for thefirst time on the Large Hadron Collider at
the European Organization for Nuclear Research Labin Geneva, kicking off what many called
history's biggest science experiment. The goalof the LHC, as it's known,
was to create and discover the Godparticle. In nineteen sixty four, Peter

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Higgs and Francois Engler came up withthe theory that the particle, associated with
a mass transmitting energy field was thekey to how everything in the universe acquires
mass, and that's what happened.Thanks for listening to This Week in History
on iHeartRadio.
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