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1940: Coventry attacked by 500 Luftwaffe bombers
1941: HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed
1942: Casablanca premieres at the Hollywood Theater in New York
1943: Roosevelt, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet at Cairo in Egypt to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1944: 32 Lancaster bombers finally sink German battleship Tirpitz
1945: The Nuremberg Trials begin at the Palace of Justice
1946: U.N.E.S.C.O. a specialized agency of the U.N. is formed
1947: Hughes H-4 Hercules ('Spruce Goose') makes first & only flight
1948: Takahe, thought to be extinct rediscovered in New Zealand
1949: Gandhi's assassin Nathuram Godse & Narayan Apte are executed
1950: Harry Hay helps found the 'Mattachine Society', one of the first gay-liberation organizations
1951: 'Gigi' opens on Broadway starring Audrey Hepburn
1952: The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie opens in West End of London
1953: British Natural History Museum announce Piltdown Man is a hoax
1954: Godzilla directed by Ishiro Honda, premieres in Tokyo, the first Japanese Kaiju film
1955: Johnny Cash, 'The Man in Black', makes his 1st chart appearance with 'Cry Cry Cry'
1956: Aged 21, Floyd Patterson becomes youngest undisputed World Heavyweight Boxing Champion
1957: Soviet Union launch Sputnik 2, on board is a dog named Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth
1958: Missile, part of the Atlas program, becomes first InterContinental Ballistic Missile to fly full range
1959: MGM releases Ben-Hur starring Charlton Heston. The movie will win 11 Academy Awards
1960: Another Polaris missile is test-launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida
1961: United Nations General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant to position of acting Secretary-General
1962: Britain & France sign agreement to develop the iconic Concorde supersonic airliner
1963: President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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| Gunsmoke 398 - Paid Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lawson Hale hires a killer to gun down Marshal Dillon for $1000 in gold. The script was first used on the broadcast of January 17, 1953. Strangely enough, in 1953, the price offered to kill the Marshal was $5000! | ||||||||||||
| Harold Peary 10 - Thanksgiving Play | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Honest Harold is directing and starring in, "The Story Of Miles Standish, A Story Of Thanksgiving". The program is also referred to as, "Honest Harold, The Homemaker"; Harold and The Firehouse Five sing, "When You Were Sweet Sixteen" ... | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 53 - Fair Fugitive | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin agrees to transport a prisoner for The Texas Rangers, but she's a beautiful Hungarian lady ... and an old friend of Paladin's! | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1940-11-22 - Luminous Dragon Eye Ring ep40 | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 233 - Buck Benny Rides Again Two | |||||||||||||
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| Joe Palooka 9 - The Roadside Incident | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Joe is now in Midville. He changes his name and appearance and tries to get a job. | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - The Red Planet 12 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Discovery crew travel west across the Mare Australis in pursuit of the mysterious ship. Meanwhile, Frank and Grimshaw, currently crew members of Freighter #1, reach the wrecked #2 and take up residence for the night. However, during the night, a 'sphere' ... | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 115 - Who Is Sylvia | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 176 - Bean Counter (aka Win a Buick Contest) | |||||||||||||
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| The Lineup 63 - The Keenly Clipped Kenovak Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Virginia Kenovac has disappeared. Her boyfriend suspects that her mother has killed her. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1691 - Dan Tells a Story | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Even though this program is part of the "California Series," by using the device of having Dan Reid tell a story to Arnold Gearson's son, the story, which has nothing to do with the "California Series," is made a part of it. The Collins ... | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1848 - Smuggler's Feet | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2159 - The Newcomer | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2785 - The Road Show | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 151 - The Petrified Forest | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 415 - China | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 633 - The Big Clock | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Ray Milland & Maureen O'Sullivan | ||||||||||||
| Mark Trail 98 - Poisoned Turkeys - aka Jim Pilgrim's Prized Turkeys - | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 224 - The Butcher | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs. Davis is in love with Henry Pringle, the butcher. | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 72 - Nightmare Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman tells Vance that she's had two dreams, both of which came true! Her third dream is that she's going to kill a man. He ends up murdered. | ||||||||||||
| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 74 - The Cover-Up Murders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story about a madman who calmly keeps calling the police to announce his next murder | ||||||||||||
| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1940-11-22 - Guest - Colonel Stoopnagle | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 259 - The Lady in Black | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A murder and a suicide, and a beautiful portrait behind black curtains! The plot includes a poison gas that really existed, and whose inventor died shortly after this program was broadcast. | ||||||||||||
| The Six-Shooter 10 - Gabriel Starbuck | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Gabe Starbuck is getting too old to be the sheriff any more, and the town thinks the job should go to a younger man. Then the bank is robbed. | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1952-11-22 - 8) The Giant Bubble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In Commander Corry's central office at Space Patrol headquarters on Terra, Cadet Happy is puzzling over some reports from the security section as Buzz enters. 'No, I can't make head or tails of this thing...' | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 168 - Nineteen Deacon Street | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 828 - The Thimble | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 625 - Classified Secret | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Spies and counterspies match wits on a cross-country bus. | ||||||||||||
| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 46 - Message to Fort Shabier | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan of the Apes 52 - Sounds in the Cave | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 28 - The Other Woman | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman about to be divorced plans revenge on her husband's secretary ... the other woman. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 257 - Timber Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 267 - Amy Bradshaw Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | At the Criterion theatre, a third act curtain that wasn't in the script! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 664 - Fancy Bridgework Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | It's obvious that there's been a murder on the famous "Sunshine Bridge" in Florida, but it's a chicken that scratches up the killer! | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 7 - The Adventure of Sally Martin | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Starring Tom Conway as Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson. | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes 9 - The Case of the Stolen Naval Treaty | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A retelling of "The Bruce Partington Plans." The script was used previously on January 19, 1931, March 16, 1932, August 15, 1936 and December 15, 1940. Holmes and Watson discover who stole the secret papers and use a clever ruse to recover them. | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 76 - Formal Thanksgiving Dinner | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 386 - Midnight Intruder ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman v2 123 - Story of Marina Baum | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jimmy Olsen has gotten into a fight about comments made about his girlfriend. | ||||||||||||
| The Aldrich Family 1952-11-23 - 560) The Thanksgiving Turkey | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | It's Thanksgiving time and there's only one turkey left. Both the Aldrich and Brown families want it. | ||||||||||||
| The Avenger 25 - The Shot in the Dark | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Woodrow Wilson serves as the managing editor of the Evening Gazette. A photographer from the Gazette had captured an image of a routine accident. While Woodrow was processing the photograph, he observed something alarming! Ripley and Coburn had visited Armstrong’s ... | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 708 - The Stolen Box | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1932-11-23 188 - To the Temple | |||||||||||||
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| Comic Weekly Man 292 - Gobble the Gobbler, First Comic - Beetle Bailey | |||||||||||||
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| Dragnet 275 - The Big Switch | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1941-11-23 - Albert E. Wiggam | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1947-11-23 - Carmen Miranda | |||||||||||||
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