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1940: Chamberlain resigns as U.K. Prime Minister
1941: Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland
1942: The Women's Army Corps (WAC) is created as an auxiliary unit
1943: The 'Dambuster Raid' is flown by RAF No. 617 Squadron
1944: USS England (DE-635), sinks 6 Japanese submarines in 12 days
1945: Allies accepted surrender of Nazi Germany
1946: Dr. Louis Slotin working at the Los Alamos Laboratory, accidentally begins a fission reaction receiving a fatal dose of radiation
1947: President Truman signs Act granting $400 million in military & economic aid to Turkey & Greece. This begins the Cold War
1948: David Ben-Gurion declares the State of Israel
1949: Berlin blockade lifted, leading to creation of 2 German states
1950: 4th century BC mummified corpse found in a Danish peat bog
1951: Festival of Britain opens
1952: William Fox founder of Fox Film Corporation dies
1953: Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest
1954: U.S. Supreme Court rules separate schools for black & white students unconstitutional
1955: The Pulitzer prize is awarded to Tennessee Williams for his play 'Cat on Hot Tin Roof'
1956: First Eurovision Song Contest is broadcast. Winning song is 'Refrain' sung by Lys Assia
1957: Anne Frank Foundation founded to prevent demolition of Amsterdam house she hid in
1958: Bodies of unidentified soldiers are buried at Tomb of the Unknowns
1959: Two monkeys, Able & Miss Baker first animals to successfully return to Earth from space
1960: American Lockheed U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet Union. Pilot Francis Gary Powers captured
1961: Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space aboard Mercury-Redstone 3
1962: As part of Project Mercury Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth 3 times in the Aurora 7 space capsule
1963: Eugene "Bull" Connor uses fire hoses & police dogs on protestors in Birmingham, Alabama
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| Adventures of Superman 37 - Airplane Disasters at Bridger Field ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen investigate the strange circus. Fodor the strongman attacks Clark Kent...no contest! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dean wants The Falcon to follow his partner Larrabee. But Dean is found dead when his nightclub burns down. Suspicion falls on the nosy bartender. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Aliens who have no concept of natural death have wiped out humanity, literally to the last man and woman, whom they put in a zoo as public curiosities. Versions of this story also appeared on X Minus One, Future Tense, 2000X (not to be confused with 2000 Plus) ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ellery is invited to spend the weekend protecting the famous Gallows diamond. But first, Ellery is shot (just a flesh wound)! Mark Gallows, who had a morbid fear of dirt, is found to have committed suicide. Of course it was murder, but whodunit? | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The daughter of Spotted Tail and a soldier fall in love. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | "Professor" Jacoby comes to Dodge to photograph "the violence of the west." Finding little action in Dodge, the "Professor" stirs up some excitement himself. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on April 6, 1957. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hancock decides to have a clean out and starts with a drawer of rubbish. But he puts almost everything back! When Sid James calls in the guise of his new profession as a rag and bone man, Miss Pugh sells some of Hancock's treasured possessions to him whilst ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A classic American play about life in a small town. Stars: William Holden & Martha Scott. This broadcast took place two years after the play opened, but only seventeen days before the premier of the film. This was the last program that The Lux Radio Theatre ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dolores Roberts has come to Madison High and seems to have caught the eye of Mr. Boynton and Walter Denton. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A couple moves into a haunted house and the man falls in love with a beautiful ghost. The script was also used on "The Mysterious Traveler" on January 29, 1952 | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a mail-order bride from Sweden who arrives to find her pen-pal groom about to be hanged for murder. Harry Bartell is billed as Harry 'Killer' Bartell. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A warm welcome is planned for the Secret Police in Marakesh. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Culver seems to have robbed the stage to Calvados. He was framed, but it will take Straight Arrow to prove him innocent. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Uncle Harvey is a concert pianist who never reads the legal papers he signs. Now, how to get him to sign his own suicide note? | ||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 32 - The Feminine Touch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Millionaire Baldwin Granville is concerned that his wild daughter Adrian is in danger. Her romance with a motorcycle daredevil leads to murder! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Pug escapes a second time and plans the rescue of Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen. Pug is spotted however, and falls into the sea! | ||||||||||||
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