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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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| Red Ryder 1942-02-19 - 8) Shooting at Paradise Plateau, Part 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | he settlers are holding a meeting to deal with the water-rights assessments. Red miraculously escapes from death when he goes over the dam! | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 42 - The Jewel Thief | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Solving a $100,000 jewel theft plus a murder, leads to an unusual job for Diamond...romancing the widow! Dick sings, "Dear Hearts and Gentle People" after the story. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 68 - Paid in Full | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sergeant Greco arrests Rocky for "aiding and abetting the escape of a criminal." Greco then disappears in big trouble. Rocky reluctantly solves the puzzle. Did Greco really get the prisoner out of jail himself? | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1953-02-19 - 26) The Sheriff's Birthday Cake | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 7 - A Song for Clotilde | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Jeanette MacDonald, Charles Winninger, Robert Taylor, Tyler Brooke. Balkan royalty and their stormy romance. Jeanette sings swing. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 233 - Take a Letter Darling | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 160 - Friend of Darkness | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Because of threats against his seeing-eye dog, a blind man with a highly developed sense of touch is forced to help a gang of bank robbers. | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 60 - All Narrowly Escape | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A sudden departure for the Black Pass, to escape another Octopus trap. | ||||||||||||
| Terry and the Pirates 1942-02-19 - 99) Big Stoop Helps | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Very loosely based on the famous story by Mary Shelley | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 143 - The Dead Man Laughed | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A businessman is swindled out of his share of a construction company. A perfect murder is promptly planned. You can't be accused of murder ... if you're dead! An identity is switched with a bum. Sadly,a bad recording | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 403 - Five Cent Call | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackmail and double blackmail (does that make it whitemail?) in old San Francisco! | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 211 - Danger Down the River | |||||||||||||
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| Abbott & Costello Show 163 - Ski Jump | |||||||||||||
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| Horatio Hornblower 31 - Attack on Fort at Fisher's Half | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 8 - The Norwood Builder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are visited by "the unhappy John Hector McFarlane", a young lawyer from Blackheath who has been accused of murdering one of his clients, a builder called Jonas Oldacre. McFarlane explains to Holmes that Oldacre had come ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 318 - Ghost Car ep6 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1230 - Radar Rocket ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1490 - Monkey Burglar ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1685 - Kingdom Under The Sea ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 216 - Murder is a Knock-Out | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman takes it on the lam with $75,000. Murder soon follows. A complex viper's nest of greed and violence. | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1940-02-20 - 34) Pigeon Coops | |||||||||||||
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| Barrie Craig 21 - Motive for Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Death flies the Atlantic from Lisbon to New York, a corpse breaks the bank for $40 million dollars and Barrie Craig almost sprouts wings! | ||||||||||||
| Blackstone 21 - The Hand of Cagliostro | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A too-real hand and a too-heavy trunk lead Blackstone to a jewel thief. Blackstone explains the "A One Deck, Two Card Location" trick. | ||||||||||||
| Box 13 ep27 - Flash of Light | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young man is drugged, and when he wakes up, he’s in an unfamiliar place and can’t remember what happened over the last two days. Can Dan Holiday figure out what happened? | ||||||||||||
| Case Dismissed 4 - Child Support | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A louse of a father plans to skip town to avoid paying his ex-wife child support. | ||||||||||||
| Casey 173 - The Twenty Minute Alibi | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man commits suicide while on the phone with his insurance agent, but Casey suspects murder. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 471 - The Red Parka | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1933-02-20 251 - Situation Discussed | |||||||||||||
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| Crime Does Not Pay 20 - Death on the Doorstep | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An out-of-town hit-man does his job with a smile on his face and a silencer on his rifle. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 21 - A Piece of Pie | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A wager on an eating contest. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1938-02-20 - 42) Guest Gladys Swarthout | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1944-02-20 - Edgar's Birthday (with W.C. Fields) | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 432 - The Civic Coordinator | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 96 - Last Fling | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two harmless old geezers come to Dodge for a good time, and accuse Kitty of trying to kill them! Maybe they're not so harmless after all! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 23, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 216 - No Coffin for the Dead | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who killed Peter Frame? The assailant is identified as the insane son of Peter Frame's housekeeper. However, the son has been shot while escaping from an asylum and is unable to walk. | ||||||||||||
| Jungle Jim 69 - Tragedy | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 6 - Van Planten Thtr (part 1) | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1417 - Brothers of the West | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2041 - Indian's Son | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2354 - Pedometer No 2 | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2980 - Best Laid Plans | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3137 - Loyal Betrayer | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 207 - Stage Door | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A backstage story of Broadway as several actresses try for a career in the theatre. Stars: Ginger Rogers & Rosalind Russell | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 690 - Letter to Three Wives | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 3 - A World All of His Own | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Prizefighter Billy Candell, a punchy former middleweight champ, wants a final meeting with his love of years gone by. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 29 - The Frog | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Miss Brooks decides to get a girl frog for Mr. Boynton's pet frog, MacDougal. | ||||||||||||
| Pat Novak for Hire 2 - Jack Of Clubs | |||||||||||||
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| Rocky Jordan 17 - Twenty Fathoms Under | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An exciting story about a treasure map and a sunken ship. What was in that ship? | ||||||||||||
