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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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| Our Miss Brooks 87 - Dyeing Easter Eggs | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story of Walter's new invention: 'Tint-Tomorrow,' a revolutionary Easter egg dye. There's going to be a very colorful Easter parade! | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 9 - Sam Tolliver | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | It was Monday night when Pat Novak met an old friend, Sam Tolliver, he hadn’t seen him for years. And now here he was, he wanted to borrow a one of Pats boats to pick up a package and he wanted to borrow Pat to collect the package. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2760 - Perry Gets Druggist's Name from Doctor | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2237 - Kitty Urges Hospital Tests on Mae | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1942-04-09 - 29) Trouble Along Brimstone Way | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Red and Little Beaver stop a stagecoach robbery and rescue the driver before the stage goes over a cliff. Sheila Randall's stagecoach line is now in danger of failing. | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1938-04-09 - 38) Titanic | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Rosemary Lane, Rudy Vallee, Mickey Rooney, Joan Bennett, The King's Men. A revue and a skit titled "We're Taking Off." Mickey shows Rudy and Joan how to play a love scene. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 240 - Abroad with Two Yanks | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes (Rathbone & Bruce) 171 - The Viennese Strangler | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 67 - Kidnapping Plans | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Plans to capture Barney Dunlap. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-09 - 134) Kidnapping | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on a short story by Edgar Allan Poe. A nobleman named Montresor, plots revenge against fellow noble Fortunato. Angry over numerous injuries Montresor resolves to avenge himself without being caught, and also to make sure that Fortunato knows he is responsible. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 410 - Dark Voyage | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A good triangle story as two divers, both in love with the same girl, dive for sunken treasure. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 68 - Monstrous Toothache | |||||||||||||
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| Wild Bill Hickok 225 - Wires to the West | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 366 - Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An unusual case and a very unusual client. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 733 - Captain's Table Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old fashioned flourish in a letter from a dead man provides the clue to murder. | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 170 - Nuts and Bolts | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 38 - Prisoner of the French on the 'peek' | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 146 - Stopped Watch Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A house of horrors includes a butler who resembles Frankenstein, radioactive poisons and man-eating plants! aka "Time Stood Still" | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Superman flies off after the gyro-copter. He catches up to it and throws it down to float on Long Island Sound. Meanwhile, Dr. Beecham's house is on fire. Superman rescues the taxi driver, trapped in the basement, before the house collapses. Dr. Beecham ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 745 - Mystery of the Golden Pigeon ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1265 - Story of the Century ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 88 - Buffalo Springs | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Riders' are framed for murder! | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 28 - The Deathless Shots | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackstone recovers an opera-singer's jewels by getting shot with bullets that cannot harm him. Blackstone explains "The Turnover Bill" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep34 - Mexican Maze | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dan Holiday goes to Mexico to prevent a murder … maybe his own. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 997 - Out of the Past | |||||||||||||
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| Damon Runyon Theater 28 - Earthquake | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Cops are after Earthquake, biggest and strongest man known to Broadway. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 524 - Case of the High School Hotshots | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two gunmen are wounded while holding up the stage. Howard Brand is one of the robbers, and he's been fatally wounded. Doc is kidnapped by the other members of the gang. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 418 - Dave's Lesson | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When two of Matt's close friends die, their son Dave comes to Dodge to spend the summer. Trying to help the Marshal, Dave shoots a man and thinks that he's killed an old drunk. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s1 4 - Man Sized in Marble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A couple rents an old house with two statues that regularly come to life! | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 73 - So True, Mr Barnum | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hey Boy and the Celestial Dragon Society have spent $2000 on a phoney Mexican treasure map ... or is it a phoney? | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 223 - The Bog-Oak Necklace | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The discovery of a necklace around a skeleton recalls the forty-year-old murder of a woman's sister. | ||||||||||||
| The Judy Canova Show 1948-04-10 - 148) Judy Gets a Ticket on Sunset Blvd. | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 76 - In the Lion's Den | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 187 - Portrait by Priscilla | |||||||||||||
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| Let's Pretend 1954-04-10 - The Magic Cuckoo | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 968 - Caleb Bixby's Last Chance | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 214 - Lives of a Bengal Lancer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A tale about Her Majesty's Lancers in Northwest India, battling rebellious tribesmen. A story about the traditions of the regiment and its sense of honor! Stars: Errol Flynn & Brian Aherne. The intermission guest is General Hugh Johnson, former Administrator ... | ||||||||||||
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