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1940: Coventry attacked by 500 Luftwaffe bombers
1941: HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed
1942: Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York
1943: Roosevelt, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo in Egypt to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1944: 32 Lancaster bombers finally sink German battleship Tirpitz
1945: The Nuremberg Trials begin at the Palace of Justice
1946: U.N.E.S.C.O. a specialized agency of the U.N. is formed
1947: Hughes H-4 Hercules ('Spruce Goose') makes first & only flight
1948: Takahe, thought to be extinct rediscovered in New Zealand
1949: Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse & Narayan Apte are executed
1950: Harry Hay helps found the 'Mattachine Society', one of the first gay-liberation organizations
1951: 'Gigi' opens on Broadway starring Audrey Hepburn
1952: The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie opens in West End of London
1953: British Natural History Museum announce Piltdown Man is a hoax
1954: Godzilla directed by Ishiro Honda, premieres in Tokyo, the first Japanese Kaiju film
1955: Johnny Cash, 'The Man in Black', makes his 1st chart appearance with 'Cry Cry Cry'
1956: Aged 21, Floyd Patterson becomes youngest undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1957: Soviet Union launch Sputnik 2, on board is a dog named Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth
1958: Missile, part of the Atlas program, becomes first InterContinental Ballistic Missile to fly full range
1959: MGM releases Ben-Hur starring Charlton Heston. The movie will win 11 Academy Awards
1960: Another Polaris missile is test-launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida
1961: United Nations General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant to position of acting Secretary-General
1962: Britain & France sign agreement to develop the iconic Concorde supersonic airliner
1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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| Saturday Journal 660 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Saturday Journal 661 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 157 - A Girl's Heart | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 158 - Bitter Mistake | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 159 - Lady Helen's Vow | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 208 - Bowie the Knight of Chivalry | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 24 - Loyal Lover | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 25 - Country Cousin | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 26 - His Idol | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 27 - Flirtation | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 76 - Because She Loved Him | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 77 - Strange Marriage | |||||||||||||||||
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| Waverly Library 78 - For The Woman He Loved | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Fateful Links. Scanned by Northern Illinois University | ||||||||||||||||
| Waverly Library 79 - Forbidden Bans | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or Almas Disguised Prince. Scanned by Northern Illinois University | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 485 - Git Thar Owney, the Unknown | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 486 - Sealskin Sam, the Sparkler | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 487 - Nevada Ned, the Revolver Ranger | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 488 - Wild Dick Racket | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 536 - Broadway Billy's Diffikilty | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 537 - Old Buckeye, the Sierra Shadow | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 538 - Dodger Dick, the Dock Ferret | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 539 - Deadwood Dick Jr. in Texas | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 540 - Captain Ku Klux, the Marauder of the Rio | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Buckskin Pards' Strange Request. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| Old Sleuth Library 42 - Bonanza Bardie | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 589 - Tom Cat and Pard | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 590 - Deadwood Dick Jr.'s Decree | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 590 - Deadwood Dick Jr.'s Decree | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 591 - Delmonte, the Young Sea-Rover | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 592 - The Boy Pinkerton | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, How Tom Hildreth Run the Rascals Down. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 641 - Dismal Dave's Dandy Pard | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 642 - Deadwood Dick Jr. In Buffalo | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 643 - Happy Harry's Big Find | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 644 - The Hercules Highwayman | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Mounted Miners of the Overland. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 693 - Violet and Daisy, the Posy Pards | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 694 - Spicy Jim, the Only One of His Kind | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 695 - Deadwood Dick Jr. at Danger Divide | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 696 - Broadway Billy in Texas | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 745 - Kansas Jim, the Cross-Cut Detective | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, The Raiders of the Range. Scanned by Northern Illinois University. | ||||||||||||||||
| The Boy's Own Paper v14 669 | |||||||||||||||||
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| The New York Detective Library 467 - Frank James, the Avenger, and his Surrender | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 746 - Quiet Jack, the Secret Service Spy | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Boy's Own Paper v14 670 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 747 - Deadwood Dick Jr.'s Doublet | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Boy's Own Paper v14 671 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 748 - Silverblade, the Friendly | |||||||||||||||||
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| The Boy's Own Paper v14 672 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Beadle's Half Dime Library 797 - Deadwood Dick Jr.'s Desperate Venture | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | or, How Eli Got There. scanned by Northern Illinois university | ||||||||||||||||
| v1 7 - Frank Reade, Jr., and His New Steam Horse | |||||||||||||||||
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| Description: | Alternative Title: The Search for a Million Dollars. | ||||||||||||||||
| Beadle's Half Dime Library 798 - Dick Doom in the Wild West | |||||||||||||||||
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