Episode Notes for This Week in History 8/7 1782 George Washington creates the purple heart 8/8 1988 The Lights go on at Wrigley 8/9 2010 Jet Blue Flight Attendant quits his job via airplane escape slide 8/10 1945 Japan accepts Potsdam terms and agrees to unconditional surrender 8/11 1984 Reagan jokes about bombing Russia 8/12 1990 The Skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is discovered 8/13 1981 Reagan signs the Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA)