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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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| Frontier Town 7 - The Seminole Strip | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | King Carson and a dishonest senator plan to keep the Seminole Strip from becoming a part of the state, for their own evil purposes. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 887 - Case of the Punchdrunk Soldier | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 245 - The Whole Town is Talking | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 440 - Leroy the Beekeeper | |||||||||||||
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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. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 471 - Cooter | |||||||||||||
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| Hopalong Cassidy 16 - Red Death | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 729 - Jack Gets the House Painted | |||||||||||||
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| Journey into Space - Operation Luna 4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The crew are stuck on the Moon and unable to trace what has caused the power failure. A fortnight passes, with the air temperature rising uncomfortably in the absence of air-conditioning. A UFO is seen on the televiewer on the seventh day, and strange noises ... | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 240 - The Noose Hangs High | |||||||||||||
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| Let's Pretend 1949-04-16 - Snowdrop and the 7 Dwarfs | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2378 - Bob Strong's Legacy | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2847 - Find the Lone Ranger | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 479 - Only Yesterday (repeat) | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Ida Lupino & Robert Young | ||||||||||||
| Mandrake the Magician 68 - Highpitch Is Summoned To The Boss | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | At the secret mountain base, Highpitch is summoned to "the boss" (Dr. Carvass, who speaks with a Transylvanian accent). | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne s1 27 - Date at Cliff House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Patricia Wright's brother 'fell off a cliff. ' However, she suspects he was pushed. | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 20 - Accusing Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A journey to the grave to learn the secrets of the dead. An old scam leads to an accusation by a dead body. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 231 - Nine Hours to Live | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Nick has but a short time to prove his client's innocence before his electrocution ... and Nick fails! | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 10 - Go Away Dixie Gillian | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Pat is hired to scare Dixie Gillian with an empty gun, which grows bullets. Murder and a frame follows. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2765 - Perry Proposes Fake Funeral for Mrs Barkley; Jacobson Calls on His Editor | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The true case of the murder of Andrew Zabitsky in Brooklyn on March 27, 1931. | ||||||||||||
| Red Ryder 1942-04-16 - 32) Cowtown of Los Alamos | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red and Little Beaver ride for Los Alamos where Fresno Yorless has been raiding all the ranchers and blaming it on the Pancho Kid. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 76 - Adventure in Zaqaziq | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky accepts an assignment to visit a small town out in the desert, trying to break up a black market in scarce pharmaceuticals. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Andy Devine, Adrian Ames, Donald Meek. A light comedy about a pair of escaped convicts in a Kansas blizzard and a strange opportunity to do a good turn. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 241 - Mask of Dimitrios | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barney is in the clutches of The Octopus ... and his thought-reading machine! | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-16 - 139) Mind Reading Act | |||||||||||||
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| Weird Circle 34 - The Rope of Hair | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on a story by Guy de Maupassant. As a favor to an old friend, a man promises to retrieve a diary from the room in which the friend's wife died. The dead owner of the diary has her own ideas about who's going to get that diary! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 151 - To Rent Danger | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Killer Carter has escaped from prison and a reporter heads out to cover the story. Danny Pearson meets a beautiful girl at a lonely farm house, and another case of murder. A convoluted story resolved by the "Whistler's" narration. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 411 - Murder in Mind | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A couple trying to kill a woman is only temporarily foiled by a bodyguard. Blackmail and murder follow. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 70 - A Snap for Snooper | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 371 - Shepherd Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A doctor has increased his life insurance to $100,000, feeling that he may very well be killed. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 734 - Latrodectus Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A once great entomologist, now gone "bugs", is found murdered and his papers missing. | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 171 - Costello Invited to Join The Yankees | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 39 - With the 43rd Marines | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 147 - Report on Edith Hamilton | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr. Zoia asks Sam to look into an old case. Carter Hamilton was found by his mother three years ago. Sam is hired to get a confession from a beautiful girl, but he winds up falling in love with her. | ||||||||||||
| 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 ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 29 - Donelli's Protection Racket ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Gyp's" henchmen threaten Jimmy and Mrs. Olsen, but are scared off by Superman. Jimmy and Lois Lane are about to walk into a trap! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1270 - Hate Mongers Organization ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 89 - Gunsmoke | |||||||||||||
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| Blackstone 29 - The Riddle of the Eight Ball | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Dithers, who has just returned from the hospital, fires Dagwood and hits him with his crutch. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep35 - Sealed Instructions | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man asks Holiday to go to the Philippines and retrieve something that he left there. He gives Holiday a set of sealed instructions and warns him that there’s a person who might kill him if he knew that Holiday had the instructions. | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 6 - Dr Huer Searches for Impentrite | |||||||||||||
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