August 4: Martial law is declared in Laos.
August 7: Explorer program: The United States launches Explorer 6 from the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida. - United States The Roseburg Oregon Blast kills 14 and causes $12 million worth of damage.
August 8: A flood in Taiwan kills 2,000.
August 14: Explorer 6 sends the first picture of Earth from orbit.
August 15: Cyprus gains independence.
August 17: The Hebgen Lake Earthquake in southwest Montana kills 28. - Columbia Records releases Miles Davis' groundbreaking album, Kind of Blue.
August 19: The Central Treaty Organization (CENTO) is established.
August 21: Hawaii is admitted as the 50th U.S. state.
August 24: Cyprus joins the United Nations.
August 26: The original Mini designed by Sir Alec Issigonis is launched. (source: Wikipedia)
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| Description: | The Eastern All-Star Professional Baseball Club plays a team from Dodge, and the umpire is Doc Adams! | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 37 - High Wire | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin goes to Salamander Springs to persuade a girl to leave her acrobatic boyfriend. | ||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 648 - Deadly Chain Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A wealthy eccentric, who lives on a lake in Greater Hartford, named Amos Cartwright fears for his life ... from a chain letter! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 383 - Mavis McCloud | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Young and beautiful Mavis arrives in Dodge looking for a husband. Finding one in a short time, her troubles are just beginning, and so are Marshal Dillon's! A rebroadcast of a radio script first heard on August 16, 1954, and used on the Gunsmoke television ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Wong has been kidnapped. Paladin gets shanghaied when he visits the Barbary Coast! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A lumber yard has burned to the ground in Columbus, Ohio, and it was worth one third of a million dollars! The owner of the lumber yard is then found dead under the hair dryer! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young boy thinks Pokey Pete has buried treasure, but Pokey Pete never says a word! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Honorable Diane Coulter hires Paladin as a guide and interpreter for a trip to Shiprock. An exciting encounter with the Indians ensues. | ||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 650 - Night in Paris Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny flies to Paris to meet "The Grey Cat" and recover the Olney Diamonds. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young cowboy is tricked into killing Ephraim Hunt, the bible-quoting husband of a scheming woman. However, Lucy Hunt gets one more killing than she counted on. The script was used previously on June 18, 1955 and on the Gunsmoke television series on December ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Samuel Curry hires Paladin to rid his silver mine of ghosts! | ||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 651 - Embarcadero Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Both "The Grey Cat" in Paris and "Smokey" in San Francisco help Johnny recover the "Cellini Medallion." | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Taking a prisoner to Wichita, Marshal Dillon and the other stage coach passengers are trapped at a way station by robbers who are after a shipment of gold. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Holly Bannon, a thoroughly rotten broad, hires Paladin to kill her husband ... a nice guy! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 817 - A Matter of Execution | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 652 - Really Gone Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny flies to Oregon to find a missing beneficiary ... named Jonathan Doe! | ||||||||||||


