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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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| Boston Blackie 221 - Duke Murders Jo Jo | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jo Jo Thomas is murdered by "The Duke", who is surprisingly still in jail! | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 323 - Edward Carson | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-04-06 - 179) Killers at Large | |||||||||||||
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| Comic Weekly Man 259 - Mr Bigger Riddle, First Comic - Hopalong Cassidy | |||||||||||||
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| Crime and Peter Chambers 1 - Bruce Burke Murder Frame-up | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bruce Burke has sent beautiful Elsa Corey to kill Peter Chambers. Bruce is a millionaire who owns a nightclub called, 'The Flame '. He also happens to be dead! Elsa is Peter's only alibi, but she's been murdered too! | ||||||||||||
| Dr Kildare 63 - Gillespie's New Suit For Henderson Award | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr. Gillespie has been invited to deliver a paper about his work on antibiotics, and may win the Henderson award. But first, he needs a new suit. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 242 - The Big Saw | |||||||||||||
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| The FBI in Peace and War 497 - The Business Trip | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Gentleman 10 - Powder River Kid | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 322 - Birthday Party Confflicts | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1946-04-06 - The Gas Pen | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 313 - Yorky | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Yorky Kelly tells the Marshal that his father has been kidnapped and his horse stolen. Yorky's step-mother is something else again. The script was used previously on October 17, 1953 and on the Gunsmoke television series on February 18, 1956. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 20 - The Return from Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A scientist accepts an offer from his former professor to assist him in an effort to restore the dead to life. He has had success with small animals, but is eager to experiment on a human being. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 121 - Frank Parker's Music Store | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 406 - Quiz Kids Versus Jell-O Kids | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 107 - Riley Finds A Silver Fox Fur Coat | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 810 - Tonto Accused | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 823 - Angels in the Outfield | |||||||||||||
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| Meet Corliss Archer 1947-04-06 - The Beauty Contest | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 1285 - The Case of the Murdered Detective | |||||||||||||
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| New Adventures of Nero Wolfe 24 - A Slight Case Of Perjury | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2757 - Perry Questions Bus Station Manager and Mona; Gus Wants Disguise | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 81 - Lucky Partners | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 222 - Murder from the Grave | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 171 - Octopus Gang Member is Questioned | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 36 - Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A production of Macbeth is the backdrop for murder when a Shakespearean actress begins receiving threatening letters from a dead husband. She is killed by a long blade through her eye! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 86 - The Woman in Red | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young woman with no family connections answers an ad that gets her mixed up in the plot of a pair of Nazi spies. Story by: Anthony Gilbert | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 745 - Just One Happy Little Family | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A soldier deserts from the Army, kills his fellow deserter, and finds himself accused of beating up an old rancher. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-06 - 131) April Will Sing | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 514 - Element X | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 209 - Sulphur and Brimstone Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 365 - Salt City Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Love and hate ... the usual ingredients for a big explosion. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 581 - Eastern-Western Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A whole herd of cattle has been stolen ... in Florida! | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 39 - The Collar | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A domestic dispute becomes complicated when the husband pulls a gun on a patrolman. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 26 - The Tolling Bell | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 260 - Sam Shovel - He Was A Short Order Crook | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 181 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1522 - Man Without a Face ep15 | |||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1949-04-07 - 458) Blind Date | |||||||||||||
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| Bold Venture 55 - With Friends Like These | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Slate's friend Rudy Keijon was killed five years ago in New Orleans. However, Rudy is alive and well and in Havana ... tied up by a beautiful woman. Slate is held at gunpoint. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 169 - Clyde Winston Photographer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Photographer Clyde Winston has been murdered with a shotgun. The main suspect is Evelyn Anderson, a beautiful model. Model agency owner Harry Conover appears as an actor, playing himself. | ||||||||||||
| Buck Rogers 2 - Killer Kane Escapes | |||||||||||||
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