April 1: EOKA A starts a terrorist campaign against British rule in the Crown colony of Cyprus.
April 5: Winston Churchill resigns as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom due to ill-health at the age of 80. - Richard J. Daley defeats Robert Merrian to become Mayor of Chicago by a vote of 708,222 to 581,555.
April 6: Anthony Eden becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
April 11: The Taiwanese Kuomintang put a time-bomb on the airplane Kashmir Princess, killing 16 but failing to assassinate the People's Republic of China leader, Zhou Enlai.
April 12: The Salk polio vaccine, having passed large-scale trials earlier in the United States, receives full approval by the Food and Drug Administration.
April 14: The Detroit Red Wings win the Stanley Cup for the 7th time in franchise history, but will not win again until 1997.
April 15: Middle East Treaty Organization (MENTO).
April 16: Burma-Japanese peace treaty, signed in Rangoon on November 5, 1954, comes into effect, formally ending a state of war between the two countries that has not existed for a long time.
April 17: Imre Nagy, the communist Premier of Hungary, is ousted for being too moderate.
April 18-April 24: Asian-African Conference held in Indonesia. (source: Wikipedia)
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon gets sick of killing and resigns his job. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 16, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 14 - The Golden Pince-Nez | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins comes to see Holmes at 221B Baker Street to tell him of a murder that defies solution. The dead man is Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram, an old invalid. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks is planning a weekend alone with Mr. Boynton in the woods. Will it be an 'American Tragedy'? | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The classic tale about "Drill" and the game of "Invasion." The script has been used on a few different shows. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ann Cabot comes to Dodge looking for Jack Schomer, who happens to be the town coward and drunk. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 284 - Tears for Mr Boynton | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks discovers the power of a woman's tears. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 918 - Stairway to Heaven | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: David Niven & Barbara Rush (repeat) | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A worker is planning to blow up the factory in which he works and must leave before his bomb goes off. Circumstances keep slowing him down. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A simple traffic violation stop turns into a much more important case. | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 498 - The Literary Touch | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 887 - Case of the Punchdrunk Soldier | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 157 - Gypsum Hills Feud | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshall Dillon is almost shot when he gets involved in the feud between the Peavy's and the Cades. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on December 27, 1958. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 15 - The Final Problem | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | This story, set in 1891, introduces Holmes's greatest opponent, the criminal mastermind Professor James Moriarty. Holmes arrives at Dr. John Watson's residence one evening in a somewhat agitated state and with grazed and bloody knuckles. Much to Watson's surprise, ... | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 285 - Writing Magazine Articles With Aliases | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks has written an article for True Family Romance magazine under a pseudonym. The article is titled, 'I Was The Mother Of A Quiz Kid. ' Walter Denton finds that he has to impersonate a quiz kid for Miss Brooks, at the same time he has to imitate a dunce ... | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1955-04-19 - 287) Stagecoach Race at Skeleton Bend | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 594 - Speed Trap | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A gripping tale about two highway cops on a treacherous, rain slicked road, chasing a drunken speeding driver. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A child disappears after returning to her home in a taxi. | ||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1955-04-21 - 288) Gold in the Conestoga | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Captain Yeager is washed up on the beach and reports his ship was just wrecked. But Captain Yeager and his ship were wrecked twenty-five years ago! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Joe Digger is lynched by two ranchers, but he's cut down before he dies and swears to kill the men who tried to kill him. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on November 2, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 16 - The Adventure of the Empty House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In April 1894, Watson (now a widower) checks 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room on the 30th of March. He bumps into a wizened old book collector, who follows him home to his Kensington practice study then ... | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 286 - Take Him or Leave Him | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | While Mr. Conklin is cracking down on pets at school, Miss Brooks manages to hide the cat, but what about the cow? | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A strange invisible barrier is frustrating Man's attempts to explore the depths of space. Six expeditions have been lost trying to cross it, their fate a mystery since no signal can pass through the barrier. This is the story of the seventh... Story by: Ernest ... | ||||||||||||
| The Cisco Kid 1955-04-26 - 289) A Medal for Marksmanship | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 595 - Sight Unseen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A British story about two ordinary looking men, coming to "get" a London reporter. | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3214 - Dan Reid's Fight For Life | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1955-04-28 - 290) Bandits of the Great Swamp | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 672 - Letters from Aaron Burr | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A convict gets out of jail, gets a new suit and stops in for a drink. A bunch of Aaron Burr's correspondence is his path to financial freedom. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 3215 - The Vindictive Corrys | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 889 - Case of the Missing Detective | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | aka The Case of the Five Days of Danger | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 159 - Reward for Matt | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs. Hornsby gets pretty mad when Marshal Dillon kills her husband. She offers a $1000 reward for anyone who kills Dillon! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on January 28, 1956. | ||||||||||||



