CarveHerName on Nostr: #OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an ...

#OnThisDay, 19 Jan 1953, American actress Lucille Ball gets more viewers for an episode of her sitcom, I Love Lucy, than watch the inauguration of the US President Eisenhower the following day.

‘Lucy Goes to the Hospital' got a 71.9% audience share with 44 million viewers. Eisenhower's inauguration got 29 million.

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