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1940: Walt Disney's 'Pinocchio' released
1941: Lothar von Arnauld de la Periere killed in plane crash
1942: Executive order 9066 allows U.S. military to define exclusion zones
1943: Nazis arrest members of the White Rose Resistance movement
1944: Sue S. Dauser becomes first female U.S. Navy commissioned Captain
1945: Roosevelt, Churchill & Stalin meet near Yalta
1946: Trygve Lie elected first Secretary General of the U.N.
1947: Edwin Land gives first demonstration of his Polaroid instant camera
1948: Miranda a moon of Uranus is discovered by Gerard Kuiper
1949: Grady, a cow owned by Bill & Alyne Mach becomes trapped in a silo
1950: First credit card charge is made by founders of the Diners Club
1951: Last Shah of Persia, marries Soraya Esfandiary Bakhtiari
1952: King George VI of the United Kingdom dies after a long illness
1953: Watson & Crick announce discovery of structure of DNA
1954: Matt Groening creator of 'The Simpsons'is born
1955: Steve Jobs is born. With Steve Wozniak he will found Apple & become a huge influence in computing
1956: Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin as a 'cult of personality'
1957: "Toddlers' Truce" a TV closedown between 6pm & 7pm is abolished in the U.K.
1958: Members of Manchester United football team (The Busby Babes) die in Munich Plane crash
1959: Plane crash claims the lives of Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, 'The Big Bopper' & pilot Roger Peterson
1960: Winter Olympic Games begin at the Squaw Valley Ski Resort, in Placer County, California
1961: The Beatles perform for the first time at the Cavern Club in Liverpool, England
1962: Aboard Friendship 7, John Glenn becomes first American to orbit the Earth
1963: Suffering from severe depression Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London
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| Lux Radio Theater 733 - Battleground | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Van Johnson & John Hodiak | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 44 - Missing, Harold Ascort | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | aka "Nick Carter and The Great Kidnapping Mystery" | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 328 - Mr Conklin's Statue | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Conklin has instituted a 'carelessness code'. A fine is imposed for every mis-step, to go towards a fund to buy a statue of ... Osgood Conklin! | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2720 - Della Persuades Perry to Call Wallace | |||||||||||||
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| Red Ryder 1942-02-12 - 5) Trouble in Millersville, Part 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who is trying to put the Bruce Freighting Company of Millersville out of business? The Millersville train has been held up. Red is about to be framed for murder; Little Beaver to the rescue! Bert Parks becomes a driver for the Bruce Freighting Company and is promptly ... | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 41 - Elaine Tanner Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The search for Elaine Tanner, includes murder, mayhem, and a missing item of considerable value. Dick sings, "All Because You Kissed Me Goodnight" after the story. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 67 - Madame Dulac's Daughter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rocky accepts a $1000 bill to protect a woman's daughter from gambling and a bad influence. A murder complicates the job, and Rocky fits the frame! | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1953-02-12 - 25) The Greedy Trapper | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 6 - Three Days March | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Spencer Tracy, Olivia De Havilland, Akim Tamiroff, William Bakewell, Clarence Derwent. A newsreel photographer and a lady spy are thrown together in the African desert during the war. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 232 - Belle of the Yukon | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 159 - Hypnotic Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The evil Dr. Dharma uses his "telepathic hypnosis" to cause the death of innocent victims for their insurance. Lamont Cranston is his next victim; scheduled to die before morning! aka "Design For Murder" | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 59 - A Tibetan Avalanche | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An avalanche in Dar-Shen-Lu, gateway to Tibet! | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-02-12 - 94) Making a Smokescreen | |||||||||||||
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| Weird Circle 25 - The Heart of Ethan Brand | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on the short story, originally titled "The Unpardonable Sin", by Nathaniel Hawthorne. Ethan Brand is a thoroughly evil man who searches for the unforgivable sin. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 402 - Desert Reckoning | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two partners double-double-cross each other after their plane is forced down in the Mexican desert. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 209 - One Wrong Bullet | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 725 - Wayward Fireman Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 162 - Costello Buys a Boat | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 30 - Reception with the Czar | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 7 - The Dying Detective | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr. Watson is called to 221B Baker Street to tend Holmes, who is apparently dying of a rare Asian disease contracted while he was on a case at Rotherhithe. Watson is shocked, having heard nothing about his friend’s illness. Mrs. Hudson says that he has neither ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 315 - Ghost Car ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After the barn on the Bar-O-Ranch burns down, Clark Kent discovers that a real estate agent has made repeated offers for the property. Clark sets a trap. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1485 - Monkey Burglar ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1680 - Batman's Great Mystery ep9 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1225 - Is There Another ep12 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Superman finally remembers ... the fifty million dollar robbery will take place at the Metropolis Bank Note Company! | ||||||||||||
| Barrie Craig 20 - A Time to Kill | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barrie has a wow of a time in the kindergarten as a whimsical corpse insists on playing "hide and go seek". | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 20 - The Coin of Cleopatra | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A coin that brings back luck to thieves traps a diamond thief! Blackstone explains "The Magnetic Matches" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep26 - Delinquent's Dilemma | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A mother is worried about her son. When he was accused of breaking into a store, he denied it at first, but then he changed his story and started claiming that he did it. Why the change, and if he didn’t do it, why would he say he did? | ||||||||||||
| Case Dismissed 3 - Pitfalls of Buying a Home | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-02-13 246 - At Dimitri's Villa | |||||||||||||
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| Crime Does Not Pay 19 - For He's a Jolly Good Fellow | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The life-of-the-party has 'the life of Riley'. He has money, position and a beautiful fiancé. However, he's planning several murders! | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 20 - The Hottest Guy in the World | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ex-con is warned by a cop to keep clean. away from former boyhood friends. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1938-02-13 - 41) Charlie's Attorney, Gazolla, Wants A Raise | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 431 - The Engagement Ring | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 95 - The Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Crego is a cowardly killer who's very particular about whom he shoots. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 19, 1956. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s1 1 - The Perfect Script | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An insane radio producer entices a script writer to his isolated beach house to write, "The perfect script". Drugs and insanity await him. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Benny 503 - From March Field | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 68 - Strategy - Jim is Shot | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 179 - Go Jump in the Lake | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 5 - Telephone Story (Low Vol) | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 944 - Black Caballero (part 1) | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 206 - The Return of Peter Grimm | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old-fashioned melodrama about "Old Peter" who returns from the grave to clear up the family conflicts he left behind. Stars: Lionel Barrymore & Edward Arnold. The program includes a preview of the new Lux show, "The Life and Loves Of Dr. Susan." ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 689 - The Stratton Story | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 2 - The Night Is a Weapon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tom Morrison is a man with 'noctophobia,' a fear of darkness. He is being driven to commit murder by George Brewster. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 28 - Stretch the Basketball Star | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story of the attempt to get Stretch Snodgrass through an English exam, so he can play basketball against Clay City. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 16 - Red Stands for Blood | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Melnick wants to rent the Cafe Tambourine for the evening. He's a street photographer who actually doesn't want to rent the cafe. | ||||||||||||
