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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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| The Green Hornet 1946-04-13 - Figure in the Photograph | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 314 - Livvie's Loss | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Livvie Redgate threatens to burn down every saloon in Kansas to keep her son from becoming a drunk like her husband. | ||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 617 - Jack Fixes a Phonograph and Buys a Baseball Team | |||||||||||||
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| 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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| Luke Slaughter 7 - Wagon Train | |||||||||||||
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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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| Description: | An abandoned dog on the street leads Mr. Keen to a missing old couple and a vicious extortion plot. | ||||||||||||
| 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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| Description: | A reluctant Shadow investigating murder and mayhem on an isolated retreat. | ||||||||||||
| 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: | The Rangers are called in when two fishing buddies hear shots, and although there is evidence of foul play, there is no body. | ||||||||||||
| Whitehall 1212 ep20 - Case of the Fatal Bath | |||||||||||||
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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! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 582 - Wayward Money Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A tobacco company safe has been "opened" and $104,000 taken. Elmer, the meek little bookkeeper, disappears the next day, but is found dead. | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 40 - The Brother | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Patrolman Brennan returns fire and shoots a young thief, but the thief's gun can't be found. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 27 - The Adventure of the Carpathian Horror | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 210 - Trip to France | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 184 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep18 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Superman" rescues Clark Kent! He then takes over the ship and throws Barnaby in irons. | ||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1949-04-14 - 459) Henry The Shortstop | |||||||||||||
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| Bold Venture 56 - Marriage and Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 170 - Murder at the Circus | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Rondo the Magician" has been killed at the circus. The main suspect is Charlie Peterson, a knife thrower! Parker Fennelly is heard in the preview of next week's program. | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 5 - Kane & Ardala Turn Psychic Restriction Ray on Barney | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1949-04-14 11 - The Voice of Darkness | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-04-14 - 77) The Disappearing Cabin | |||||||||||||
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| Crime Classics 41 - James Evans, Fireman, How He Extinguished A Human Torch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | True love conquers all, starting with a human torch! | ||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy 1938-04-14 - 74) Junior Is Kidnapped | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Pat and the miners who were dog sleighing to Peel River have been rescued from a snow slide, caused by Vernon Kyle. After rescuing Pat and the others Tracy went to Kyle's headquarters, to have a showdown with the outlaw But before he arrived Kyle received ... | ||||||||||||
| Escape 106 - The Golden Snake | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 321 - Spring Festival Parade | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 206 - The Bank Robber | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 284 - Gildy's Radio Broadcast | |||||||||||||
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