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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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Mr Keen 1390 - The Mother's Plea Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Shirley Spears has been murdered...by the wife of the wealthy man she's trying to victimize. Agnes Gray seems to be the killer, but she swears that she's innocent. Agnes' son Jack confesses to the crime! Despite two other confessions, Mr. Keen names ... |
Night Beat 10 - I Know Your Secret | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Randy Stone fishes Wanda Rhodes out of the river. She had been receiving unsigned notes, all of which say, 'I know your secret!' |
Our Miss Brooks 36 - Mr.Conklins Wake-up Plan | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The 'Conklin Wake-Up Plan' is complicated by Mrs. Davis' sleeping pills being stored in an aspirin box! |
Our Miss Brooks 284 - Tears for Mr Boynton | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Miss Brooks discovers the power of a woman's tears. |
Perry Mason 2238 - Perry's Decoy - Bus Ticket to Denver | |||||||||||||
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Rocky Jordan 24 - My Quiet Friend | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Two gangsters from New York City offer to buy the Cafe Tambourine for $500! |
Screen Guild Theater 191 - A Farewell to Arms | |||||||||||||
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The Shadow 115 - The Fire Bug | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The Shadow rescues Margo who's been kidnapped and tortured by a pyromaniac and his Italian stereotype henchman. |
Sleep No More 19 - A Passenger to Bali | |||||||||||||
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Description: | As the good ship Roundabout readies for departure from Shanghai to Bali, a stranger approaches Captain English and asks for passage. The stranger claims to be a Dutch missionary bringing Bibles and religion to the natives; he presents his passport, character ... |
Speed Gibson 15 - Clint to Stay with Dr Kingsley | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The doctor's house is surrounded! |
The Strange Dr Weird 23 - When Killers Meet | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A clever plot about two mad-dog killers on the lam who meet their match. |
Suspense 848 - Two Horse Parlay | |||||||||||||
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Suspense 240 - Community Property | |||||||||||||
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Suspense 292 - Crossfire | |||||||||||||
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Suspense 645 - The Lonely Heart | |||||||||||||
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Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 66 - Tarzan and the Arena of Death | |||||||||||||
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Terry and the Pirates 1942-04-10 - 135) Slugger Uses Rainbow | |||||||||||||
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Tom Corbett, Space Cadet 30 - The Mystery of the Sparkling Meteor ep2 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The sparkling meteor turns out to be contra-terrene matter. |
The Whistler 357 - Murder at Twin Pines | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Who murdered Margo? The evidence appears at just the wrong moment! |
Wild Bill Hickok 145 - Tarnished Gold | |||||||||||||
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X Minus One 46 - Star, Bright | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Children are apparently evolving at an alarming rate; what to do when your six-year old daughter demonstrates an IQ of over 400, and starts to experiment with previously unknown physical dimensions? A version of this story was produced for Future Tense. Story ... |
X Minus One 96 - Something for Nothing | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A down-on-his-luck nobody wakes up to find a wishing machine from the future in his room, and an army of service techs ready and willing to see to it that his every desire is fulfilled. Of course, there couldn't be any catch to it all... Story by: Robert ... |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 367 - Laird Douglas-Douglas of Heatherscote Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A doggy case ... and this one begins to smell of murder! |
Abbott & Costello Show 131 - Lou Is Working in the Garden | |||||||||||||
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Philip Marlowe 79 - The Anniversary Gift | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Marlowe is hired to retrieve a valuable platinum watch, a year after the owner's death. It's worth its weight in murder! |
Adventures of Superman 183 - Last of the Clipper Ships ep17 | |||||||||||||
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Adventures of Superman 1006 - Ghost Car ep7 | |||||||||||||
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Adventures of Superman 1266 - Story of the Century ep9 | |||||||||||||
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Adventures of Superman 1526 - Mystery of the Lost Planet ep3 | |||||||||||||
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Challenge of the Yukon 426 - Ned's Wife | |||||||||||||
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The Cisco Kid 1957-04-11 - 497) The Angry Constable | |||||||||||||
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Dick Tracy 1938-04-11 - 71) Mounties at Pitchblende | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The notorious outlaw of the Great Northwest Vernon Kyle has terrorized the inhabitants in the town of Pitchblende in the Yukon into sharing their mines with him. Kyle plans to force the miners to ship their pitchblende ore containing radium to Peal River by way of his airplane ... |
Chase and Sanborn Program 1948-04-11 - Dr Max Mason | |||||||||||||
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Chase and Sanborn Program 1943-04-11 - Martha Raye and Bill Thompson | |||||||||||||
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Escape 36 - The Brute | |||||||||||||
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The Great Gildersleeve 77 - Car Wreck with Hooker | |||||||||||||
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The Great Gildersleeve 400 - Gildy the Worry Wart | |||||||||||||
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Gunsmoke 51 - Gonif | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Frank Bissell and his gang have come to Dodge. Marshal Dillon gives them until sundown to leave Dodge. Features a showdown between William Conrad and John Dehner. |
Hancock's Half Hour s4 4 - Income Tax Demand | |||||||||||||
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Description: | With a bill looming, the Lad consults crooked chartered accountant Sid. |
Jungle Jim 24 - Shanghai Lil Goes To Jim's Camp | |||||||||||||
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The Lives of Harry Lime 37 - Man of Mystery | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Gregory Arkadin summons Harry from Vienna to Antibes. He's a wealthy man with amnesia for twenty years who hires Harry to find out who he really is. It's worth $10,000 to Harry if he succeeds. |
The Lone Ranger 1282 - Ghost Town | |||||||||||||
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The Lone Ranger 812 - The Raiders | |||||||||||||
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Lux Radio Theater 171 - Mary Burns, Fugitive | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Stars: Miriam Hopkins & Henry Fonda |
Mandrake the Magician 66 - Tommy Has Found Princess | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Tommy has found Princess Narda, she's unconscious on the front seat on a coupe! Mandrake, Tommy and Lothar are locked in the back of a van. |
My Friend Irma 105 - Piano Lessons | |||||||||||||
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My Friend Irma 1 - Jane Meets Irma | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The first show of the series; how Jane met Irma. Irma invites Jane's wealthy boss to dinner. Al, Irma's impoverished boyfriend, shows up. |
Mysterious Traveler 250 - Operation Tomorrow | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A time traveler discovers a future writhing in perpetual war; knowing the future, can he return to the present and prevent it? |
Nick Carter, Master Detective 335 - The Case of the Henpecked Husband | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A meek little Professor claims to have invented a system to beat the roulette wheel ... a promptly proves it by winning $90,000 and getting himself killed! |
Perry Mason 2239 - Mae Escapes in Fake City Ambulance | |||||||||||||
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