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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 229 - Trigger Treachery | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 376 - Lonely Hearts Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A "Lonely Heart" finds plenty of company ... in the nearest morgue! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 735 - Rat Pack Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A "message" drama about a gang of juvenile delinquents terrorizing a small town. | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 172 - Lou Builds a House | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 40 - Spain Becomes Neutral | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 16 - The Adventure of the Empty House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In April 1894, Watson (now a widower) checks 427 Park Lane where a young gambler, the Honorable Ronald Adair, was shot in a closed room on the 30th of March. He bumps into a wizened old book collector, who follows him home to his Kensington practice study then ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen are lost in the woods, which are afire! Clark Kent to the rescue...is he flying? | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | What is the secret of the windmill that turns when there is no wind? | ||||||||||||
| Babe Ruth 1947-04-24 - Story of Babe Ruth - Hallmark Radio Playhouse | |||||||||||||
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| Blackstone 30 - The Cellini Statuette | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A valuable statuette disappears in a puff of smoke. Blackstone explains the "Balancing An Egg" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep36 - Find Me, Find Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Someone writes to Box 13, telling Holiday that they plan to learn his true identity and kill him in four days unless he can find the killer first. | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 9 - Willie Crash-lands His Rocket Roadster | |||||||||||||
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| Case Dismissed 13 - Juvenile Delinquency | |||||||||||||
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| Casey 182 - The Gentle Strangler | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A deranged murderer polishes off three victims and sets his sights on Casey. This script was subsequently used on the program on October 12, 1950, under the title of, "The Eyes of Death." | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 527 - Rusty | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-04-24 296 - A Man Looks Like Vindion | |||||||||||||
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| Damon Runyon Theater 30 - The Lily of St Pierre | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jack O'Hearts returns to NY to kill Louie the Lug. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 526 - Case of the Quincy Killers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Likeable Lee Prentiss has been shot from ambush. Jake Harbin is not so likeable, but he's a deputy sheriff with a warrant for Prentiss' arrest. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on April 18, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 420 - Stage Snatch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Big Foot kidnaps Rowse, a killer being brought to trial by Marshal Dillon. Big Foot is determined to take his own justice ... Indian style! | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s1 5 - Markheim | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A stock exchange gambler commits murder on Christmas eve, and receives a strange visitor. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 75 - Irish Luck | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin makes friends with an Irishman named O'Bannon on St. Patrick's Day. Shortly thereafter, O'Bannon finds himself on trial for a robbery and murder. Paladin testifies at the trial, and O'Bannon is acquitted. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 225 - Song of the Slasher | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A riveting yarn about a cop who discovers that he's living in the same building with a homicidal maniac. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 294 - Show White and the Seven Gangsters | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 692 - Jack Decides to Trade in the Maxwell | |||||||||||||
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| The Judy Canova Show 1948-04-24 - 150) Judy Sees Mrs. Pierce about Publicity | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 189 - Death Begins at 45 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lineup 35 - The Bromell and Bellows Bloody Bullet Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After 3 years of police work and the day before the trial, the only witness to a murder is himself murdered. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1444 - Raising the Siege | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1757 - Sam Bass | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 216 - Broadway Bill | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A romance of the race track. A young man gives up wealth, home and career to race a thoroughbred. Stars: Robert Taylor & Frances Dee. The intermission guest is Alfred Vanderbilt, president of the Maryland Jockey Club and owner of Sycamore Farms. Mr. Vanderbilt ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 436 - This Land Is Mine | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Charles Laughton & Maureen O'Sullivan | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 699 - Mrs Mike | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Dick Powell & Gene Tierney | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 38 - Dress Code Protest | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Madison High goes through 'Let's Dress Up' week. Walter protests by wearing a dress, Miss Brooks winds up in Mr. Conklin's pants! | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 286 - Take Him or Leave Him | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | While Mr. Conklin is cracking down on pets at school, Miss Brooks manages to hide the cat, but what about the cow? | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2248 - Disguised as Waitress, Della Evades Cops | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky accepts a check from an insurance company for five hundred Egyptian pounds for his lost cargo. Suddenly, everyone hates Rocky, and the pilot of the plane in which his cargo was flying is murdered. | ||||||||||||
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| Sleep No More 21 - The Evening - Flowering of the Strange Orchid | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ernie Mendenhall: 42 years old. Alone. Works as a secretary for a writer and collects antique furniture. Rarely interacts with people. One bright summer weekend the writer for whom Ernie works holds a house party and Ernie Mendenhall meets the woman of his dreams. ... | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 17 - Marsha is Kidnapped | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Chinese tea shop visited ... Marsha has been kidnapped! | ||||||||||||
