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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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Boy's Cinema 706 - Silent Men - Tim McCoy | |||||||||||||||||
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Amazing Stories v9 2 - Subjugating the Earth - Walter Kateley | |||||||||||||||||
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Wonder Stories v6 1 - Into the Infinitesimal - Kaye Raymond | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | Romance, Tragedy and Death on the Lunar World. A strangely compelling story that might be told to readers in the year 1988, with all the amazing wonders of the future laid befoer you. Short story by D. G. Turner |
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The Magnet 1372 - The Worst Master in the School! | |||||||||||||||||
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Description: | From common carbon he made diamonds, made and sold them so cheaply that the bottom fell out of the diamond market. He sought to bedeck servant girls with costly gems, but his dream went with the flames of the furnace in which he performed his apparent miracle. ... |
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The Magnet 1374 - The Bunking of Billy Bunter! | |||||||||||||||||
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Amazing Stories v10 3 - The Moon of Arcturus - Richard Tooker | |||||||||||||||||
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