October 6: Poland Battle of Kock ends the Polish Campaign. Polish resistance moves underground.
October 8: Germany annexes Western Poland.
October 11: Manhattan Project: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt is presented a letter signed by Albert Einstein, urging the United States to rapidly develop the atomic bomb.
October 14: The German submarine U-47 sinks the British battleship HMS Royal Oak.
October 15: The New York Municipal Airport (later renamed La Guardia Airport) is dedicated.
October 17: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington premieres in Washington, D.C.
October 24: Nylon stockings go on sale for the first time anywhere in Wilmington, Delaware.
October 25: The Time of Your Life, a drama by William Saroyan, debuts in New York City. (source: Wikipedia)
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| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1939-10-01 - 126) Guest Constance Bennett | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 24 - Imperfect Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Clark Gable, Ginger Rogers, Margaret Lindsay, Spencer Charters. A farce about Hollywood movie stars' love and hate, marriage and divorce. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 167 - The Night Marauders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Police suspect the Shadow of several apartment-house jewel robberies. In one of the series' looniest plot lines, the real criminal turns out to be a kindly gorilla, trained by an evil zookeeper. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 127 - Beating Drums | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 231 - You Can't Take It with You | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A screwball comedy about the boy from a wealthy banking family romancing a girl from a decidedly unusual household. Stars: Edward Arnold & Walter Connolly. The fifth-anniversary program of the series. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 130 - The Silver Heels Explode | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 131 - Murder On Camera | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 145 - Fumes Overcome Everyone | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Treachery from a jungle chieftain ... and a horrible doom on its way. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1939-10-08 - 127) Guest Charles Laughton | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 25 - Variety | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bob Hope, Connie Boswell, Gary Cooper, ZaSu Pitts, Connie Boswell starts the show with "Oh, You Crazy Moon." Gary forgets his lines and the sound effects don't work! | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 168 - Murder at the Ball Park | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is announced as above. However, just before the program went on the air, the title was changed to, "The Diamond Murders." Only on "The Shadow" would they dramatize a baseball team with a hunchback on the roster! At a night game, the pitcher is electrocuted! | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 232 - The Sisters | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a woman from a small town who falls in love with, and marries a disreputable sports writer. Stars: Irene Dunne & David Niven. Host Cecil B. DeMille has laryngitis during this broadcast. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 134 - Assassination Of Pierre Delibes | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 135 - A Strange Animal Attacks | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 146 - In the Path of Cannibal Ants | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Escape from the cannibal ants through the "Forest Of Death." | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 26 - None Shall Part Us | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Joan Crawford, Lew Ayres, Montagu Love, Ronald Colman. A story about a pair of newlyweds, and the strange secret kept by the groom. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 169 - Village of Doom | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | While on a picnic with Margot Lane, Lamont Cranston is unable to open a jar of olives! He says, "It's the toughest case I've ever had." The citizens of "Old Mill" are being killed by a strange disease. The cause? It's an "old hag" using her pet jackdaw as a flying ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 233 - If I Were King | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Francois Villon is given the chance to indeed be the King of France in 15th century Paris. Stars: Douglas Fairbanks Jr. & Frances Dee. The story was done on The Lux Radio Theatre previously on August 17, 1936 and subsequently on December 25, 1944. | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1939-10-17 - 16) Girl Trouble aka Date Mix-Up | |||||||||||||
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| Captain Midnight 167 - Pareda Treasure 1 - Meeting Juan Pareda | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Juan Pareda tells Captain Midnight of Ivan Shark's treachery. | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 168 - Perada Treasure 2 - Von Grippe Attacks | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Von Grippe attacks in his plane and is driven off with a machine gun. | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 169 - Perada Treasure 3 - Landing in the Lake Bed | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The cabin is surrounded by men with rifles. Capt. Midnight's plane is stuck in the mud of a dried lake bed. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 142 - A Visit From Florette | |||||||||||||
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| Captain Midnight 170 - Perada Treasure 4 - Stuck in the Lake Bed | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Where are Captain Midnight's friends? The door is open and the cabin is deserted! | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 143 - Nayland Smith And Paul Sterling, Zombies | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 144 - Nayland Smith - A Member Of Sci Fan | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 147 - The Octopus Suspects Trap | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Octopus plans jungle warfare. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 170 - House of Fun | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A carnival concession is a front for a kidnap ring and stock manipulation gang. | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 171 - Perada Treasure 5 - Bombing the Cabin | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Captain Midnight and Chuck some upon the bombed out, deserted cabin ... where is everybody? | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 145 - The Orchid Of Life | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 234 - Invitation to Happiness | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An uneducated prize fighter and a society woman fall in love and marry, both knowing that there are few similarities in their worlds. Stars: Fred MacMurray & Madeleine Carroll. A boxing/romance story based on the life of boxer King Cole.. A girl's trio, ... | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 172 - Perada Treasure 6 - Zollinger Captured | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ma, Patsy, Slim, and Pinky escaped from the cabin before it was bombed and took shelter in a cave. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 146 - Formula For 654 | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 147 - Fu Whips Fa Lo Swee | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 148 - Fu Recaptures Nayland Smith | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 149 - Death Dealing Flies | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 150 - A Message From Fu's Submarine | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 148 - Warriors Help in Searching for HQ | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An Octopus hunt in lion country. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1939-10-29 - 130) Guest Clark Gable | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 28 - We Were Dancing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Binnie Barnes, Adolphe Menjou, Robert Montgomery, Hedda Hopper. A married woman who falls in love with a divorced man at a dance on a South Pacific island. They plan to go to Australia, but in the cold light of morning, they realise that they have nothing ... | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 171 - Phantom Fingerprints | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The grisly story of a murderer who transplants the prints of a dead man onto a pair of gloves made from human skin! | ||||||||||||
| Blondie 1939-10-30 - 18 Dagwood Buys A New Suit | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 151 - Secret Hideout Explodes | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 235 - The Old Maid | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A melodrama of mother love and sacrifice through the years. Stars: Loretta Young & Miriam Hopkins. A girls' trio sings a Lux commercial to the tune of "In An Eighteenth Century Drawing Room." Playwright Zoe Akins is interviewed after the story. | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1939-10-31 - Cash on the Parking Lot | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Hornet breaks up a protection racket which is preying on parking lots. aka The Parking Lot Racket | ||||||||||||
