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1940: The Dunkirk evacuation ends
1941: Over 4 million Axis soldiers invade the USSR
1942: Czech paratroopers attempt to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich, a main architect of the Holocaust. He dies 8 days later
1943: BOAC Flight 777-A, a civilian airline flight is attacked by 8 German Junkers. On board is the film actor Leslie Howard
1944: 155,000 Allied troops arrive on the beaches of Normandy. D-Day landings are the largest amphibious operation in history
1945: Aris Velouchiotis, leader of the Greek People's Liberation Army (ELAS), the major resistance in Nazi occupied Greece dies
1946: A referendum held in Italy declares the country a republic
1947: U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall outlines the Marshall Plan for American reconstruction & relief aid to Europe
1948: Columbia Records launches long playing 33 1/3 rpm record format
1949: George Orwell's 1984 published. Introducing doublethink, thoughtcrime, Newspeak & Big Brother
1950: North Korean troops cross 38th parallel into South Korea & capture Seoul, starting Korean War
1951: The first UNIVAC (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) is dedicated at the U.S. Census Bureau
1952: U.S. Army Special Forces, known as the 'Green Berets' is created
1953: Julius & Ethel Rosenberg are executed for passing information about atomic bomb to Soviets
1954: Joseph Welch asks Senator Joseph McCarthy: 'Have you, at long last, no decency?'
1955: The 'Johnny Carson Show' debuts on CBS-TV. It is short lived, but Carson would later host 'The Tonight Show' for 30 years
1956: The Flag of the United States Army is officially adopted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower
1957: Composer & big band leader Jimmy Dorsey, known as "JD", dies aged 53
1958: Due to a crisis in the Fourth Republic, Charles de Gaulle is called out of retirement to lead France
1959: USS George Washington, the first submarine to carry ballistic missiles, is launched
1960: Civil unrest leads to resignation of Japanese prime minister, Nobusuke Kishi
1961: Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev defects from Soviet Union while in Paris with the Kirov Ballet
1962: Frank Morris, John Anglin & Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz. They are never heard from again
1963: Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space piloting Vostok 6
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| v4 83 - Across the Frozen Sea | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 883 - New York Nat's Crook Chase | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Downing the King of Diamonds. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 932 - New York Nat's Drop | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Ex Ferret Sykes' Bold Game. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Horner's Penny Stories 146 - H. Fitzgerald - Those Dacres | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 933 - The Two Midshipmen | |||||||||||||||||
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| v5 109 - Lost in the Great Undertow | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Alternative Title: Frank Reade, Jr.'s Submarine Cruise in the Gulf Stream. | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 934 - Deadwood Dick Jr. at Flush Flats | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 935 - The Ex-Newsboy Detective's Chum | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Or Bob Buckle's Big Inning. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| The Black Cat v1 9 - The House Across the Way - Leo Gale | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | [v1 #9, #9, June 1896] (The Shortstory Publishing Co., 5¢, 52pp+, standard). 1 · The House Across the Way · Leo Gale. 25 · Mrs. Sloan’s Curiosity · Mabell Shippie Clarke. 31 · The Seaweed Room · ... | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 984 - Scaler Sam, Detective of Hook and Ladder 6 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Sheeny Fire-Bugs. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 60 - Frank Merriwell's Desperate Drop | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, Wild Adventures in the Rockies. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 8 - Frank Merriwell's Fag | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 985 - Gideon's Band | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, Jolly Jack in Mexico. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| v6 135 - The Sunken Isthmus | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Alternative Title: With Frank Reade, Jr., in the Yucatan Channel, With His New Submarine Yacht the 'Sea Diver'. | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 9 - Frank Merriwell's Furlough | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Mystery of the Old Mansion. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 986 - Deadwood Dick Jr's Best Card | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, Diamond Dell the Sport. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| Old Sleuth Library 73 - Phenomenal Joe | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or The Weird Adventures of a Ventriloquist, Hypnotist and :Metamorphosist. Scanned by Oberlin College | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 10 - Frank Merriwell on his Mettle | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, Field Day at Fardale. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 987 - Paul, the Wharf-Rat | |||||||||||||||||
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| v6 136 - The Lost Caravan | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Alternative Title: Frank Reade, Jr., on the Staked Plains with His 'Electric Racer'. | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 11 - Frank Merriwell's Fate | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Old Sailor's Legacy. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 988 - Buffalo Bills Lasso-Throwers | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, Shadow Sam's Short-Stop. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Black Cat v2 9 - The Man-Hunt of Mendocino - Frank Bailey Millard | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | [v2 #9, #21, June 1897] (The Shortstory Publishing Co.; Boston, MA, 5¢, 64pp+, octavo, cover by Nelly Littlehale Umbstaetter). 1 · The Man-Hunt of Mendocino · Frank Bailey Millard · 10 · Silas Bartle’s Snake-Bite ... | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 1036 - Dandy Dick's Double | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Severed Head of Paradise Pocket. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Five Cent Wide Awake Library v2 1322 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Young Jack Harkaway in the Wilds of Siberia | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 1037 - Dick Doom, the Artist Detective | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, Hugh Huntington's High-Handed Game. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Five Cent Wide Awake Library v2 1323 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ocean Wolf | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 61 - Frank Merriwell in the Mines | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Blind Singer of Silver Bluff. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| The Union Jack 164 - Hade, Chief of the Ojibways | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 1038 - The Kansas King | |||||||||||||||||
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| Army and Navy Weekly 1 - Mark Mallory at West Point | |||||||||||||||||
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| Tip Top Weekly 62 - Frank Merriwell Among the Mormons | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 1039 - Mustang Merle, the Boy Rancher | |||||||||||||||||
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| Army and Navy Weekly 2 - Winning a Naval Appointment | |||||||||||||||||
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| Tip Top Weekly 63 - Frank Merriwell on the Desert | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 1040 - Buffalo Bill's Pony Patrol | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Mysterious Boy of the OverLand. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| The Black Cat v3 9 - The Storm Warrior - Max Wagner | |||||||||||||||||
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| Starry Flag Weekly 5 - Uncle Sam's Special | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Hal Maynard's Telegraphic Strategy. scanned by Villanova University | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 112 - Frank Merriwell's Peril | |||||||||||||||||
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| Yankee Doodle 3 - Yankee Doodle with Sampson's Fleet | |||||||||||||||||
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| Young Klondike 7 - Young Klondike's Golden Island | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Half a Million in Dust. scanned by the University of Alaska - Fairbanks | ||||||||||||||||
| Starry Flag Weekly 6 - The Prisoner of Matanzas | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Hal Maynard in the Enemy's Clutches. scanned by Villanova University | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 113 - Frank Merriwell's Drift | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, With the Penobscot River Drivers. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Pluck and Luck 12 - Engineer Steve, the Prince of the Rail | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | by Jas. C. Merritt. scanned by Oberlin College | ||||||||||||||||
| Young Glory 7 - Young Glory with Gomez | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Raiding and Scouting in Cuba. scanned by Villanova University | ||||||||||||||||
| Starry Flag Weekly 7 - Tampas Dynamite Fiend | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Lieutenant Maynard's Secret Service Exploit. scanned by Villanova University | ||||||||||||||||
| Tip Top Weekly 114 - Frank Merriwell's Daring | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, Elsie Bellwood's Sacrifice. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| Yankee Doodle 4 - Yankee Doodle with Schley | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, Searching for the Spanish Fleet. scanned by the University of South Florida | ||||||||||||||||
| Young Klondike 8 - Young Klondike's Seven Strikes | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or The Gold Hunters of High Rock. scanned by the University of Alaska - Fairbanks | ||||||||||||||||




