A bit of TV history: #OnThisDay in 1953, 73.9% of TV viewers in the US watched the "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" episode of the I Love Lucy TV show.
"When the episode premiered [...], 73.9% of all American homes with television sets tuned in, amounting to 44 million viewers watching the episode, a record until September 9, 1956, when Elvis Presley appeared for the first time on The Ed Sullivan Show, at CBS, which drew a share of 82.6%, a figure unrivaled since. It received higher ratings than the inauguration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, which received 29 million viewers, the day afterward."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oz0Q9gaYtPo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucy_Goes_to_the_Hospital
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