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1939: Theodore Roosevelt's head dedicated at Mount Rushmore
1940: The 'Battle of Britain' begins
1941: The British Army form the Special Air Service (SAS)
1942: The Messerschmitt Me 262 flies using only its jets
1943: The Battle of Kursk begins
1944: Hitler survives assassination attempt by Claus von Stauffenberg
1945: U.S. Army detonates first nuclear device
1946: Modern bikinis go on sale in Paris, named after Bikini Atoll
1947: News breaks that a UFO has crashed near Roswell, New Mexico
1948: The 1948 Olympics open in London
1949: Prototype of de Havilland Comet, first commercial jetliner makes maiden flight
1950: Entrepreneur Richard Branson is born he will found Virgin Group
1951: Marshal Petain Vichy France leader dies
1952: Eva Peron First Lady of Argentina dies, aged 33
1953: Armistice signed at Panmunjom ending Korean War
1954: Nearly a decade after the end of World War II, food rationing finally ends in Great Britain
1955: Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, the only theme park to designed by Walt Disney
1956: Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis perform their last show together at New York City's Copacabana Club
1957: John Glenn flies an F8U supersonic jet from California to New York in 3 hours & 23 minutes
1958: National Aeronautics & Space Administration (NASA) replaces National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)
1959: Louis Leakey & his wife Mary discover first skull of Australopithecus in Tanzania
1960: Ceylon elects Mrs Sirimavo Bandaranaike as world's first elected female government head
1961: Gus Grissom, piloting Mercury-Redstone 4 capsule Liberty Bell 7, becomes second American in space
1962: AT&T's Telstar world's first commercial communications satellite launched
1963: ZIP (Zone Improvement Plan) codes introduced into service by the United States Postal Service
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| Lux Radio Theater 271 - To the Ladies | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Behind every successful man is a successful wife, doing the thinking for him! The last show of the season. Stars: Helen Hayes & Otto Kruger | ||||||||||||
| Mr. Moto 9 - Sabotage | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story of danger, as Mr. Moto searches for a saboteur. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2824 - Halverson and Tony Talk | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1954-07-08 - 24) Song - The Spell of Indian Magic | |||||||||||||
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| The Saint 178 - Satan's Angels | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A trombonist in an all-girl orchestra has disappeared. Two of her fellow "angels" enlist the Saint's help. X-Ray pictures provide the clue to the dead body of Frenchy La Salle. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 305 - The Great O'Malley | |||||||||||||
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| The Sealed Book 17 - Till Death Do Us Part | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A husband plans to murder his wife because she loves him too much! He drowns her, but she returns from the dead. | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 132 - Discovered in the Desert | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Riders Of The Desert ... who are they? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 933 - The Sin Eater | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 215 - The Confession | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man going to die in three months tries unsuccessfully to get life insurance. A man offers him $10,000 for his wife if he'll confess to a murder. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 475 - The Witness | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A thoroughly rotten architect is made a success by his secretary, who makes no secret of her love for him. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 15 - Ghost Town Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 797 - Rilldoe Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny goes fishing and catches a corpse. | ||||||||||||
| A Case for Dr Morelle 12 - Poisoned Air | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dr Morell tackles a case of risky experiments and thwarted love. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 221 - White Plague ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Bold Venture 16 - The Mystery of the Mary K | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Slate Shannon and Sailor find four men in a drifting boat ... machine gunned to death. They are in a lifeboat from the "Mary Kay," a ship missing for a year! | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 27 - The Worthington Pearls | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Worthington Pearls have been stolen and they've turned on Blackie! Inspector Farraday thinks he's got his man. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 78 - The Skating Rink Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A girl is found murdered at a skating rink with a $50,000 diamond ring on her finger. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 130 - Death Comes to the Harmonica Man | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harmonica-player Henry Peterson is shot by his girlfriend and dies, but then walks into a police station, playing the harmonica! | ||||||||||||
| Chandu the Magician 1935-07-09 xxx - The Cave | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-07-09 10 - Secret Place aka Journey Up The Nile | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-07-09 - 102) The Golden Bullet | |||||||||||||
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| Cloak and Dagger 9 - The Trap | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An O. S. S. operative is sent to a German-occupied town in France to find out if the Nazis really hid re-inforcements in the woods. The spy's abilities as a cartoonist is a definite plus, but his escape from the pursuing Nazis results in a wild flight. | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1939-07-09 - 114) Guests Stuart Irwin, Tony Galento | |||||||||||||
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| Encore Theater 6 - White Angel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story of Florence Nightingale and the start of the science of nursing. | ||||||||||||
| Frontier Town 19 - Five Gun Final | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dishonest newspaper publisher seems to be able to get the news before his competition. How does he do it? | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 452 - Fishing With Miss McKinley | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 169 - Uncle Oliver | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Oliver and Viney Stang decide to get Chester's job, and the easiest way to do that is to shoot him...which is exactly what they do! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 25, 1957. | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-07-09 1243) - Mystery Of The Vanishing Men 3 | |||||||||||||
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| Hopalong Cassidy 28 - Hoppy Sees Red | |||||||||||||
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| Jeff Regan, Investigator 64 - She's Lovely, She's Engaged, She Eats Soybeans | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a new miracle health food. A professional bathing beauty named Jerry Shoulder needs protection. | ||||||||||||
| Let's Pretend 1949-07-09 - The Tinderbox | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1320 - Murder at the Schoolhouse | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1633 - Tinker's Dam | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1945 - Ambush | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2257 - Gun Runner's Boy | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2883 - The Elusive Gunslingers | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3040 - Western Union Story | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3353 - Trouble at the Rafter H | |||||||||||||
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| Michael Shayne s1 39 - Gossip Writer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Society columnist Winifred Spencer has received a threatening letter. She's having a dinner party tonight and expects her would-be murderer to attend. | ||||||||||||
| Perry Mason 2825 - Kate and Della with Tony | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 12 - Charles Walsh and Bob Wells | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two convicts escape from Sing Sing with plans to kill Richard Diamond. They start by kidnapping Diamond's girlfriend Helen Asher. Diamond's alcoholic friend "Wilbur" is similar to the character "Jocko" heard on, "Pat Novak, ... | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 88 - Interlude With Laurena | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The program begins (in Cairo) with the striking of Big Ben! Who killed Eddie Largo? Was it Lorraina Maxwell, the wealthy widow of Paul Maxwell? | ||||||||||||
| The Saint 131 - Problem of the Peculiar Payoff | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The program is preceded by a Korean War news bulletin. Who wants "The Saint" killed, and was he given $15,000? | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 253 - Romance | |||||||||||||
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| Speed Gibson 80 - Speed Caught by the Octopus | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | During the murderous hail storm ... shelter in the home of The Octopus! | ||||||||||||
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