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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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| Description: | Ed Taylor kills George Conrad in an argument about money. Conrad doesn’t know it but Taylor is working with a guy named Moody who then decides to kill two birds with one stone. He takes Conrad’s gun and kills Taylor so framing him for the murder. | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1943-04-15 - 189) Props for School Play | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | We go back to the old west back when the lack of conveniences and accommodations forced the cowboy into trials and hardships that were someday destined to become extinct when trucks, railroads and modern inventions would replace such labors. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The inventor of perfect humanoid robots, created to serve mankind, must find a way to destroy them. Alternative: A manufacturer of domestic robots finds his livelihood threatened by a new competitor, whose 'humanoids' are vastly superior to his and are devoted ... | ||||||||||||
| The Charlie McCarthy Show 1956-04-15 - Ben Him | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Gloria Jean & Nan Grey. A young city girl from a poor family is invited to spend the summer at a camp for girls from wealthy families. At first ridiculed and scorned because of her background, she determines to show the snooty rich girls that she's ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs Dudley Banks calls at the police station. She has been robbed and her Persian cat, called Fluffy, is missing. She is certain that she has been stolen. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Conklin plans to sell his car. . . with no motor! Mr. Conklin receives his induction notice! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two old maids believe their neice and nephew are trying to kill them. The script was previously used on "The Mysterious Traveler" on April 23, 1944. | ||||||||||||
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