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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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| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-03 - 130) Dragon Lady's Secret | |||||||||||||
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| Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 28 - Double Cross in Space ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Manning is accused of stealing the explosive N72C and is also wanted for murder. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 356 - Rawhide Coffin | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman in an Hawaiian bar is given the opportunity to impersonate an heiress ... with predictable complications. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 143 - Coyote Kid's Return | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man orders a robotic dog kit in the mail, and instead receives an android—one ready to serve in every capacity and equally ready to reproduce himself a thousand-fold. All his problems vanish - until the government sticks their bean-counting nose into ... | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 95 - Martian Sam | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The losing LA Dodgers bring in a stringer to bolster their chances for a winning season - a Martian with eight arms Story by: Ernest Kinoy | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 683 - Double Exposure Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A fighting Irishman is accused of cashing the same $3000 check twice! | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 78 - The Man on the Roof | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young man is trapped on a roof as the cops close in. Marlowe tells this story of murder and robbery in flashback before trying to talk him down. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 180 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep14 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1521 - Man Without a Face ep14 | |||||||||||||
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| Candy Matson - The Donna Dunham Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Candy solves a jealous-lover murder and nearly falls victim herself. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 425 - The Return of Pete Hunt | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1957-04-04 - 495) Westward from St Joe | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1943-04-04 - Bill Thompson and Mary Bolen | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1948-04-04 - Rudy Vallee and Ken Murray | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 35 - Action (Berry Kroeger) | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 232 - Case of the Missing Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 76 - Gildy Repairs His Car | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A band of Jayhawkers has been preying on a cattle drive from Texas. The Marshal lends a hand. | ||||||||||||
| Harold Peary 28 - Modernizing Doc's Office | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 416 - Death Wears a Lonely Smile | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 23 - Jim Visits Lo Tung At Hotel | |||||||||||||
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| The Lives of Harry Lime 36 - Fool's Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harry flies from Kuwait to Karachi to Goa with a planeful of stolen gold. Gold is more profitable being smuggled to Asia, then sold on legitimate market. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1279 - Landgrabbers Loss | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 170 - Dark Victory | |||||||||||||
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| Mandrake the Magician 63 - Mandrake, Tommy And Lothar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mandrake, Tommy and Lothar jump from the car before it crashes. Highpitch and his truck receive orders. What's Princess Narda getting into a car with a stranger named Mr. Slade. Tommy jumps onto the rear bumper! | ||||||||||||
| Mysterious Traveler 249 - Man from Singapore | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two schemers kill their ex-partner in Hawaii, planning the perfect crime. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 334 - The Case of the Star of Evil | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Maharajah has taken over two floors of a hotel ... but a large diamond, and his Highness himself are phonies. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2234 - The Gunshot Test | |||||||||||||
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| Philo Vance 91 - Mimic Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Police Reporter 15 - The Case of Ludwig Brandt | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1942-04-04 - 27) Bank Robbery | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Wilson's bank in Devil's Hole has been robbed, and Kirby seems determined to string up the banker. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 129 - The Enigma Of Big Ed | |||||||||||||
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| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1944-04-04 - 57) Danger is My Business | |||||||||||||
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| Rogues Gallery 41 - The Message | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | While dining in a restaurant with Betty Callahan, a plainclothes detective arrests her for underage drinking. | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1952-04-04 - 27) Frogs and Rustlers | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 442 - The Ghost That Gleams | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 187 - Post Mortem | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 67 - Rescue at Salvation Falls | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 43 - Story of the Big Red Schoolhouse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Manhattan, Nebraska, school burns, due to corruption. Big Jim Madden and his boys look guilty. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 363 - Salt City Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| 21st Precinct 131 - The Six Hundred | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The safe of paint store owner, Peter Ristollis, is stolen. | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 94 - Trying to Hire the Andrews Sisters | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 24 - Secret of Stone House | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A cab driver has brought "two little brown men" out to the house... and one of them has a blowgun! Dr. Beecham mentions a "sacred emblem of the Incas" that "may save the whole human race," and then he passes out! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1262 - Story of the Century ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1942-04-05 - 140) Henry's Missing Left Rubber | |||||||||||||
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