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1940: Soccer star 'Pele' is born
1941: Carving on Mount Rushmore finishes
1942: First V-2 rocket successfully launches from Peenemunde Germany
1943: Chiang Kai-shek made Chairman of National Government of China
1944: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide
1945: Pierre Laval, former premier of Vichy France, is executed
1946: 10 Nazi War criminals are executed
1947: Chuck Yeager flies Bell X-1 plane faster than speed of sound
1948: T.S. Eliot awarded Nobel Prize in Literature
1949: Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China
1950: People's Liberation Army cross the Jinsha River & invade Tibet
1951: 'I Love Lucy' starring Lucille Ball makes its television debut on CBS
1952: United Nations move into their new building in New York City
1953: UNIVAC 1103 first commercial computer to use random access memory
1954: Texas Instruments announces first commercial transistor radio
1955: William Henry "Bill" Gates III is born. He & Paul Allen will found Microsoft
1956: The Ten Commandments, produced & directed by Cecil B. DeMille is released
1957: Space Age kickstarted when Soviet Union launch Sputnik 1, first artificial satellite to orbit Earth
1958: Pope John XXIII, born Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli elected 261st pope, succeeding Pope Pius XII
1959: The Guggenheim art museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright opens its doors to the public
1960: Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a meeting of the U.N.
1961: Joseph Stalin's body is removed from Lenin Mausoleum & buried in Kremlin Wall Necropolis
1962: A U-2 flight over Cuba takes photos of Soviet nuclear weapons being installed
1963: Edith Piaf ('The Little Sparrow'), singer & one of France's greatest stars dies aged 47
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 66 - Richard Splain Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A ship's carpenter has disappeared in New York City. He had been smuggling narcotics into the country, hidden in the ship models that he collects. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 235 - Macormack Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 184 - The Vanishing Elephant | |||||||||||||
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| Sherlock Holmes 28 - The Copper Beeches | |||||||||||||
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| Leonidas Witherall 17 - Murder on the Train | |||||||||||||
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| Philip Marlowe 53 - The Open Window | |||||||||||||
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| Barrie Craig 53 - Murder By Threes | |||||||||||||
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| Blondie 1944-10-08 - Baby Snooks Visits The Bumsteads | |||||||||||||
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| Bold Venture 29 - Slate Shannon Held for Ransom | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 91 - Murdered Show Dog Owner | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 143 - Dead Aunt Sarah | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Robert Williams hires a man to provide an alibi for him whenever his Aunt Sarah is killed. But his alibi is murdered too! | ||||||||||||
| Captain Midnight 658 - Assignment Under the Sea | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | There's a secret Nazi headquarters with a Gestapo agent, Baron von Karp, operating in the United States. The Gestapo is trying to find out what the Secret Squadron is up to. The Secret Squadron takes off on a "long mission" toward the Atlantic ... | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 559 - Parson Shorty Meadows | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-10-08 75 - Landmark Spotted | |||||||||||||
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| Charlie Chan 1936-10-08 - Meeting Gerald Willoughby's Plane | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-10-08 - 128) Planted Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1939-10-08 - 127) Guest Charles Laughton | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 256 - Fibber Gives Up Cigars | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Town 32 - The Glory Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The town of Angels' Draw is booming due to the demand for silver. A minister speaks out against Pablo Perkins and Chad Remington and Cherokee O'Bannon help him do the Lord's work. aka "The Range Detective and The Case Of Angels' Draw | ||||||||||||
| Gasoline Alley 13 - Adventure of the Gold-Digging Deceivers | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 138 - The Jolly Boys Club Formed | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 257 - Gildy's New Flame | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 465 - Ladies Man | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 182 - Good Girl - Bad Company | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After the Army payroll has been robbed, Major Harris threatens to declare martial law in Dodge! Jenny Lane, a good girl keeping bad company, becomes the key to the crime. This is a re-use of the script originally broadcast on May 31, 1952 and June 21, 1959. ... | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-10-08 1308) - Descending Into The Temple 9 | |||||||||||||
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| Hop Harrigan 1942-10-08 xxxx) - The Aerial Cannon | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Armstrong 1940-10-08 - Luminous Dragon Eye Ring ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Jack Benny 343 - Introducing Dennis Day (west Coast) | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 39 - Muley's Surprise Party for Riley | |||||||||||||
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| The Lineup 101 - The Teacher's Pet | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A narcotics dealer has been murdered. He had been living with a proper schoolteacher under a different name. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1359 - Wires and Hoofs | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 152 - The Numbers Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 100 - Radio Bombay | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 24 - Gibson Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Esther Blodget reports a corpse in a room that was locked from the inside. After solving the case, Dick Powell sings, "So In Love." | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bob Hope, Connie Boswell, Gary Cooper, ZaSu Pitts, Connie Boswell starts the show with "Oh, You Crazy Moon." Gary forgets his lines and the sound effects don't work! | ||||||||||||
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