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1940: Booker T. Washington first African-American to be depicted on a U.S. postage stamp
1941: The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in N.Y. City
1942: Lieutenant Colonel James 'Jimmy' Doolittle plans & leads the first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands
1943: Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann is the first person to use LSD
1944: Rudi Vrba & Alfred Wetzler escape from Auschwitz
1945: Adolf Hitler & Eva Braun, commit suicide in a bunker in Berlin
1946: John Maynard Keynes influential economist dies
1947: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in modern Major League Baseball after joining the Brooklyn Dodgers
1948: Ralph Alpher & George Gamow publish 'The Big Bang Theory'
1949: 12 nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO
1950: 'The Eagle' launched featuring 'Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'
1951: Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein dies
1952: The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress makes its maiden flight.
1953: Casino Royale written by Ian Fleming is published. It introduces James Bond (Agent 007)
1954: Arturo Toscanini. aged 87, makes his last last public performance
1955: Physicist Albert Einstein dies. He developed the general theory of relativity
1956: Lionel 'Buster' Crabb, a MI6 diver, vanishes on reconnaissance mission to a Soviet cruiser
1957: The Sky at Night is first broadcast. It was presented by Patrick Moore until his death in 2012
1958: C.N.D. march 52 miles to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston
1959: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper & Deke Slayton become astronauts
1960: U.S. launches world's first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1 from Cape Canaveral, Florida
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space, orbiting the Earth once in Vostok 1
1962: Due to computer failure the Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the far side of Moon
1963: Yugoslavia becomes the "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" & Tito named Life President
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| The Magnet 686 - Marooned! | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Liberty Boys of 76 1058 - The Liberty Boys and the Tory bandit | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Magnet 687 - Waking Up Alonzo | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | [v133 #1, April 16, 1921] (The Frank A. Munsey Company, 10¢, 144pp, pulp) 1 · Jason, Son of Jason [Part 1 of 6; Jason Croft] · J. U. Giesy · 21 · The Jumping-Off Place · Harold Lamb · 32 · White Heather ... | ||||||||||||||||
| Nelson Lee Library s1 306 - The Ship of Mystery | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Magnet 688 - Skinner's Secret Society | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Contents: Skinner's Secret Society - A Greyfriars story by Frank Richards (G. R. Samways) | ||||||||||||||||
| Les Histoires en Images 7 - Pif le Bon Petit Lutin | |||||||||||||||||
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| Nelson Lee Library s1 307 - The Mountain Stronghold | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Magnet 689 - Deaf Bunter | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Liberty Boys of 76 1061 - The Liberty Boys Up North | |||||||||||||||||
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| Nelson Lee Library s1 308 - In the Brigand's Lair | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Contents: In the Brigand's Lair - a St. Frank's story by Nipper Beyond the Desert [Part 14 of 20] by Reid Whitley | ||||||||||||||||
| The Magnet 690 - Bob Cherry's Luck | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | YOUR old friends, Jack Hallonby and Alec Mayne, of whom you read in "Gridiron Cove" and "Two on a Trail," have now been granted commissions in the Royal Navy. Here is the thrilling story cf their first voyage. H.M.S. Furioso was supposed ... | ||||||||||||||||
| Nelson Lee Library s1 356 - The New Page Boy | |||||||||||||||||
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| Adventure 30 - Fighting Frank's Great Stunt! | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank Murdoch, the Young Boss of the Shows, needs no introduction to "Adventure" readers. They will remember his fight against Marcus Field. The unscrupulous rival showman was at length cleared out of the country, but not for good, as you will find ... | ||||||||||||||||
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| Nelson Lee Library s1 357 - The Fooling of Archie | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Contents: The Fooling of Archie - a St. Frank's story by Nipper Nipper's Magazine - The Journal of the Remove of St. Frank's Tom Tartar at School [Part 20 of 29] by Harcourt Burrage | ||||||||||||||||
| The Magnet 739 - Bagging Bunter! | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Liberty Boys of 76 1111 - The Liberty Boys and Capt. Huck | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | TIM HAMMOND, the hot-shot merchant whose play you watched breathlessly in "Come on, Trinity," has signed on for Woolton Arsenal, and is at the top of his form. His experiences with the remnants of the "White Diamonds" provide a long complete ... | ||||||||||||||||
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| Nelson Lee Library s1 358 - The Mystery of Handforth's Pater | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Contents: The Mystery of Handforth's Pater - a St. Frank's story by Nipper Nipper's Magazine - The Journal of the Remove of St. Frank's Tom Tartar at School [Part 21 of 29] by Harcourt Burrage | ||||||||||||||||
| The Magnet 740 - The Greyfriars Exile! | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Contents: Page 2: The Editor's Chat - Editorial Page 3: The Greyfriars Exile! - A Greyfriars story by Frank Richards (S. Rossiter Shepherd) Page 9: The Greyfriars Herald #68 - School Magazine Page 9: The Dark Horses! - A Greyfriars story by Peter Todd (G. R. Samways) Page ... | ||||||||||||||||
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| The Liberty Boys of 76 1112 - The Liberty Boys and the Liberty Pole | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Long Complete Story of DIXON HAWKE, Detective, and his boy assistant, Tommy Burke, showing how, by pluck and skill, they solved a baffling mystery. | ||||||||||||||||
| Nelson Lee Library s1 359 - The Fun of the Fair | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Contents: The Fun of the Fair - a St. Frank's story by Nipper Nipper's Magazine - The Journal of the Remove of St. Frank's Tom Tartar at School [Part 22 of 29] by Harcourt Burrage | ||||||||||||||||
| The Magnet 741 - His Excellency Count Bunter! | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Contents: Page 2: The Editor's Chat - Editorial Page 3: His Excellency Count Bunter! - A Greyfriars story by Frank Richards (S. Rossiter Shepherd) Page 9: The Greyfriars Herald #69 - School Magazine Page 9: Greyfriars in the Stone Age! - A Greyfriars story ... | ||||||||||||||||
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| Les Histoires en Images 60 - Les Dynamiteurs de l`Atlantique | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Liberty Boys of 76 1113 - The Liberty Boys and the Masked Spy | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Man of Mystery. scanned by the University of South Florida | ||||||||||||||||
| Adventure 33 - Peter Gets His Own Back | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | It was bad enough that the Red government I should have commandeered the Nicholls liners, but when payment was sent in worthless paper money it got Peter's "goat." He set out with his Irish pal, Micky Somers, to collect the hard cash. The fun started ... | ||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | (partial) NOT my scans, and sadly couldn't find out whose they are to attribute. Please LMK if anyone can identify. Maybe they have the other 4 pages =/ | ||||||||||||||||
