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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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| Wild Bill Hickok 66 - A Shot in the Dark | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 361 - Salt City Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 732 - Wrong Sign Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An eccentric old woman has died, leaving over a million dollars..to the wrong the person! The signature on the new will matches exactly ... and that's the problem! | ||||||||||||
| Horatio Hornblower 37 - Hornblower's First Command | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | One wretched November night, Inspector Stanley Hopkins comes to see Holmes at 221B Baker Street to tell him of a murder that defies solution. The dead man is Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram, an old invalid. The murder happened at Yoxley Old Place ... | ||||||||||||
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| Blackstone 27 - The Locked Book | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Someone is trying to sabotage a restaurant in a series of bizarre ways. Dan tries to help the restaurant owner and find the motive behind the sabotage. | ||||||||||||
| Case Dismissed 10 - Responsibilities of Eye Witnesses | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 764 - Unfinished Note | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Spider McCoy wants to make a prize fighter out of a deposed king. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 147 - The Big Streetcar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After Neil Amber is caught stealing seeds from the General Store, Pete Fletcher (a wealthy rancher), accuses Amber's wife of stealing one of his calves. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 417 - Greater Love | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two gunmen are wounded while holding up the stage. Howard Brand is one of the robbers and is fatally wounded. Doc is kidnapped by the other members of the gang. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s1 3 - The Judge's House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hey Boy has disappeared from the Barbary Coast. Bubonic plague and a shanghai ensue. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 291 - Returning to Hollywood | |||||||||||||
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| The Judy Canova Show 1948-04-03 - 147) Famous PR Man Handling Judys Career | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 965 - Arizona Plays A Part | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 213 - Silver Dollar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The true story of Horace Tabor, who became fabulously wealthy from his silver mines in Colorado. Stars: Edward Arnold & Anita Louise. The intermission guest is the former United States Minister to Denmark, who also is the daughter of William Jennings Bryan ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 433 - Destroyer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Edward G. Robinson & Marguerite Chapman | ||||||||||||
| Mark Trail 28 - Coyotes of the Sky | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An artist offers Rocky ten Egyptian pounds to inquire about a certain Australian. The Australian knocks out Rocky with brass knuckles and steals a drawing by the artist. The Australian is then found murdered. Rocky is assisted by an Egyptian private eye named, ... | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1945-04-03 - 20) The Story of Joaquin Murietta | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 114 - Death from the Deep | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A millionaire lunatic has been torpedoing ships at sea from his private submarine. The show being syndicated, the date above is subject to correction. The script was used on the program subsequently on March 28, 1954 | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | An invitation to dinner and a "Dragon Knife" thrown in the night! | ||||||||||||
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