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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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| Chandu the Magician 1932-04-20 33 - Abdallah Joins Chandu | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-04-20 294 - Cigarette Poison Discovered | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-04-20 - 183) Mistaken Identity | |||||||||||||
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| Comic Weekly Man 261 - School Poem, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Crime and Peter Chambers 3 - Cemetery Attack | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Peter Chambers is paid $1000 to deliver $250,000 to a graveyard at midnight. It's a complex kidnap plot against a very cheap millionaire! | ||||||||||||
| Dick Tracy 1938-04-20 - 78) The Purple Rider Exposed | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The identity of "The Purple Rider" is revealed. Professor Shelby asks Tess Trueheart for help from Dick Tracy. After he'd invented something valuable, Prof. Shelby's life has been threatened by, "The Brain." Tracy shames the citizens ... | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 45 - The Big Trial | |||||||||||||
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| The FBI in Peace and War 499 - Expert Testimony | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 54 - Street Car Motorman | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok. Why 'Aces and Eights' are known as 'The Dead Man's Hand '. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 324 - The Haunted House | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1946-04-20 - Grand Larceny on Wheels | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two itinerant gamblers stage a "William Tell" act, with deliberate bad aim! | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 22 - Out of the Sky | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An alien descends to Earth on a scout mission to test our capability to defend ourselves against the forces of his planet. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1948-04-20 - House of Darkness | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1942-04-20 - Land of the Sky | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 408 - Jack's Upset About His Appearance on the Quiz Kids | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 618 - The Egg and I | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 109 - Giant Easter Bunny | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 816 - The Price of Wool | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3370 - Friend In Need | |||||||||||||
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| Luke Slaughter 8 - The Henry Fell Story | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Henry Fell, a dude from back East has come to Luke's ranch to paint portraits of the Apaches. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 348 - One Foot in Heaven | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | One Foot In Heaven Stars: Fredric March & Martha Scott (Program is 45 minutes in length because of a special government broadcast) | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 825 - Deadline, USA | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 1287 - The Country Club Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A strangulation at a exclusive Westchester Club leads to forgery as well. | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 150 - Murder in Jazz Time | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man murders a jazz musician in New Orleans. The musician's music comes back to haunt the killer. With Hazel Scott recordings. | ||||||||||||
| New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 25 - The Lost Heir | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 284 - The Case of the Lucrative Wrecks | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Automobile wrecks to order are feeding a clever racket in stolen cars. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2767 - Kate Tells Gordy That Gus Is Teaching Her to Drive | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1948-04-20 - Roar of the River | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 83 - Hired Wife | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 173 - Clint's Plane Catches on Fire | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The airplane of the Secret Police is afire ... is it the fault of deceitful Saari? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 38 - The Moment of Darkness | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | During a train ride from Paris to the French Riviera, a niece tries to protect her wealthy aunt from a medium, who she believes is a fake. Story by: John Dickson Carr | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 88 - The Palmer Method | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man who specializes in forging people's signatures joins the army to escape the law. Realizing that he will be sent to the battlefront, he sees an opportunity for further escape when he switches identities with a dead man. Story by: Robert L. Richards | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 747 - Alibi Me | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story is based on the events of October 3, 1945. A crazy woman and poison. But is she crazy? Is it poison? | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-20 - 141) Jigger | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 211 - Nathan Swing Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A smalltime hoodlum killed ... what's the connection between Mr. Big and the Prosecutor's daughter? | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 375 - Shepherd Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The conclusion of the story. How hard it is to kill a lie, sometimes you have to kill it twice! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 583 - Wayward Trout Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dead fish always floats, or does it? Another mystery at Lake Mojave Resort. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 28 - The Lion's Mane | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 211 - Opening a Marriage Bureau | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The start of a new adventure. There are several plans for intrigue involving a treasure map. | ||||||||||||
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