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1940: Booker T. Washington first African-American to be depicted on a U.S. postage stamp
1941: The America First Committee holds its first mass rally in N.Y. City
1942: Lieutenant Colonel James 'Jimmy' Doolittle plans & leads the first U.S. air raid to strike the Japanese Home Islands
1943: Swiss scientist Albert Hofmann is the first person to use LSD
1944: Rudi Vrba & Alfred Wetzler escape from Auschwitz
1945: Adolf Hitler & Eva Braun, commit suicide in a bunker in Berlin
1946: John Maynard Keynes influential economist dies
1947: Jackie Robinson becomes the first African American in modern Major League Baseball after joining the Brooklyn Dodgers
1948: Ralph Alpher & George Gamow publish 'The Big Bang Theory'
1949: 12 nations sign the North Atlantic Treaty, creating NATO
1950: 'The Eagle' launched featuring 'Dan Dare, Pilot of the Future'
1951: Philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein dies
1952: The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress makes its maiden flight.
1953: Casino Royale written by Ian Fleming is published. It introduces James Bond (Agent 007)
1954: Arturo Toscanini. aged 87, makes his last last public performance
1955: Physicist Albert Einstein dies. He developed the general theory of relativity
1956: Lionel 'Buster' Crabb, a MI6 diver, vanishes on reconnaissance mission to a Soviet cruiser
1957: The Sky at Night is first broadcast. It was presented by Patrick Moore until his death in 2012
1958: C.N.D. march 52 miles to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment at Aldermaston
1959: Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom, John Glenn, Scott Carpenter, Wally Schirra, Gordon Cooper & Deke Slayton become astronauts
1960: U.S. launches world's first successful weather satellite, TIROS-1 from Cape Canaveral, Florida
1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes first human in space, orbiting the Earth once in Vostok 1
1962: Due to computer failure the Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the far side of Moon
1963: Yugoslavia becomes the "Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" & Tito named Life President
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| Suspense 424 - Early to Death | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 14 - Gold Coast Robbery | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 369 - Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Things and people start to line up on the case, enough to blow things sky high! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 632 - Fair Weather Friend Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead rattler helps Johnny to catch an even deadlier snake. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 92 - The Communication | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A simple traffic violation stop turns into a much more important case. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Sam Spade 243 - Civic Pride Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After an auditorium collapses, Garrett Welsh, the architect, hires Spade to find out why it happened. The town's building inspector is shot in the back four times! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1722 - Skin Game ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 373 - Handy Helpmate | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Some boys have come to "The Falcon" with a proposition ... it may mean a killing! | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1944-04-13 - 233) Close That Door | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 222 - Jewelry Store Owner is Killed for a Watch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie's watch and gun are found next to a corpse. It looks like one of Blackie's enemies is trying to frame him! | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 324 - The Plaid Coat | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1932-04-13 28 - Betty & Bob Disappear | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-04-13 - 181) The Braggart | |||||||||||||
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| Comic Weekly Man 260 - Wet Coat Riddle, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Crime and Peter Chambers 2 - Charles Avon Druggist | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Charles Avon hires Peter Chambers to help him find the killer of Alan Lewis. Lewis was blackmailing Charles Avon, who happens to be a pharmacist and a dealer in illegal drugs as well! | ||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy 1938-04-13 - 73) Who is the Purple Rider? | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dick Tracy has been trying to bring to justice the notorious outlaw of the Great Northwest Vernon Kyle. In our last episode we heard how the mysterious Purple Rider had kidnapped one of Kyle's men. But Kyle and his men made good his threat to stop the dog sleds ... | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 64 - Yukon Joe's Gold Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Nurse Parker is acting strangely. "Yukon Joe" Moran has a bad ankle and a gold mine! | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 498 - The Literary Touch | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Gentleman 11 - The Trial | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Kendall becomes a backwoods barrister to defend an ex-Indian scout accused of murder. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 323 - The Circus | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1946-04-13 - Figure in the Photograph | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 314 - Livvie's Loss | |||||||||||||
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| Hall of Fantasy s2 21 - Demon of the Night | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An enigmatic recluse purchases an old mansion on the outskirts of a small town and, soon after, a woman is found torn gruesomely apart. Yet clearly the stranger cannot be responsible - the evidence would point to a rabid wolf. | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1946-04-13 - 59) Trading in the Old Car | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 108 - Riley Thinks Jr. is a Shoplifter | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 313 - Riley is in a Rut (aka Civil Serv Exam-Riley Contemp. Job Change) | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 813 - Reward Money | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1439 - The Broken Spur | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2846 - Shadow of the Gallows | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3159 - Silver Bullet for Speck | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Carl Justice has been robbed of $10,000, an attempt has been made to rob the bank, and Wichita has been pistol whipped! Suspicion falls on a small wagon train. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 347 - North West Mounted Police | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Gary Cooper & Paulette Goddard | ||||||||||||
| Mr Keen 980 - The Case of the Leaping Dog | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 1286 - The Eccentric Millionaire Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | John Prague visits Mr. Keen after the death of his half-brother Otis in Pennsylvania Dutch country. Keen’s name and phone number were on a slip of paper found near the body. | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 99 - Dark Destiny | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man's wife faces a lifetime of invalidism unless she risks a very delicate operation. But how do you raise the necessary cash when you don't have a steady income, your mortgage is underwater, and all your credit lines are already tapped out? | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 283 - The Case of the Chemical Chickens | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When they start to lay eggs with nitro-glycerine, Nick proves no cluck with a Tommy Gun! Lon Clark. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2762 - Landlady Tells Gus That Suzanne Returns Every Month | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 172 - Clint Worries About Landing | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 37 - Fear Paints a Picture | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman will inherit a fortune provided that she doesn't go insane by her 21st birthday. All is well until she notices a painting mysteriously changing as her birthday slowly draws near. Story by: Sigmund Miller | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 87 - The Marvelous Barastro | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Orson Welles stars as "The Marvelous Barastro"—a Russian magician traveling across Europe. He meets a blind woman named Anna who asks for her palm to be read. Barastro foresees only pain and torment within her future, but overtaken so much by her beauty ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 746 - Win, Place or Die | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 508 - The Great Train Robbery | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 380 - Six Feet Under | |||||||||||||
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| Tales of the Texas Rangers 1 - Just a Number | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An NBC audition recording. All three members of the Evans family have been murdered. A clump of mud and some missing hogs are clues to the killer. Jace Pearson tracks the killer across Texas. (Audition) | ||||||||||||
| Tales of the Texas Rangers 73 - Uncertain Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man's wife drowns in the bathtub, just as his previous wife had died, and just like his next wife is about to die! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 210 - Magnolia and Honeysuckle Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny visits Charleston, South Carolina, to find out why a paper factory has burned down for the second time. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 370 - Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Conclusion of story. All the cards are on the table, and the deck was stacked right from the beginning! | ||||||||||||
