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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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| Theatre Royal 30 - The Colonel's Lady | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 619 - Spell in Green | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 73 - Bullets at the Silver Bell | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 46 - Pearl Carrasa | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny gets beat up by Las Vegas narcotics crooks while trying to pay a beneficiary $5,000. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 378 - Lonely Hearts Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A scared girl ... a shot in the dark. Did thirteen knots make a noose? | ||||||||||||
| 2000 Plus 7 - When Machines Went Mad | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A couple escape from and underground city dominated by machines that will ultimately wipe out humanity. Alternative: A small knot of revolutionaries challenge the tyrannical Master Controller of a future computerized city. Story by: Donald Stapleton | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 134 - The Gorilla | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Precinct crackpot, Jenny Shandon, reports that a gorilla was in her apartment. The police find there is some truth to her claim. | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 96 - Making a Movie with the Andrews Sisters | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Andrews Sisters threaten to sue Bud and Lou, but the boys get out of it by agreeing to appear in a movie with the Sisters. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 33 - Donelli's Protection Racket ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Gyp" Donnelli plants a bomb, but is foiled by Superman. Donnelli is captured and the adventure ends. | ||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1953-04-26 - 582) The Delivery Bicycle | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Henry tries to deliver a bicycle. | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 10 - Black Barney Is Gathering Destructive Weapons | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-04-26 298 - Aboard Wilson's Sailing Vessel | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1955-04-26 - 289) A Medal for Marksmanship | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1938-04-26 - 82) Invisible Ink | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1948-04-26 - 1314) The Case of the Careless Crooner | |||||||||||||
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| Dr Kildare 13 - Philip Van Court's Amnesia | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Phillip Van Cort has disappeared. Dr. Kildare finds him at Brighton Beach, suffering from amnesia and psychological problems. Narco-synthesis is used as a cure. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 201 - The Big Scrapbook | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 180 - The Derelict | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 35 - Gildy's Goat Horace | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The first show of the series. A Dutchman draws a lynch mob after the whole town accuses him of murder. A very well-written story with a surprise ending. Georgia Ellis plays the widow of the dead man, not Miss Kitty! | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 368 - The Badge | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A not-too-bright bank robber named Augie shoots Marshal Dillon just because he wants his badge! His pal Rack does his thinking for him, and plans to keep Dillon alive for his own reasons! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on November 12, 1960. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 23 - The Gunsmith | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin goes to the defense of an old gunsmith who's been beaten by a young tough. Ben Wright appears on this program as both a Chinese and a German!) | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 217 - Boston Tea Party | |||||||||||||
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| Jeff Regan, Investigator 54 - It All Comes Back to Me Now | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss "Smith" can't remember her name. Miss Smith also had a loaded .32 calibre Smith and Wesson in her purse. | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1947-04-26 - 105) Opera Masquerade | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1601 - Death Warrant | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 130 - Magnificent Obsession | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jane is given the opportunity to become a model for "Manhattan Magazine." | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | After a robbery the two thieves are shot at by police, one of the thieves shoots the other. The dead man has a piece of paper with 'Live On' written on it. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 51 - The Ralph Baxter Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jean Lawrence's body is found floating off Pier 14. A prison break by Ralph Baxter seems to be behind it. Dick Powell sings, "If I Knew You Were Coming I'd Have Baked A Cake" after solving the case. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 141 - Casablanca | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 595 - Sight Unseen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A British story about two ordinary looking men, coming to "get" a London reporter. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 549 - The Bertillion Method | |||||||||||||
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