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1940: Cave paintings in Lascaux, France discovered
1941: A decree signed by Reinhard Heydrich requires Jews aged 6 or over to wear the Star of David with 'Jew' inscribed
1942: The Battle of Milne Bay begins
1943: Italy invaded Allied forces & swiftly surrenders
1944: The British 11th Armoured Division liberates Antwerp in Belgium
1945: Japan's surrender accepted by General MacArthur
1946: Cathay Pacific founded in Hong Kong
1947: A moth causes a malfunction in a Harvard Mark II electromechanical computer. Logged as 'First actual case of bug being found.'
1948: Kim Il-sung declares Democratic People's Republic of Korea
1949: Due to public pressure Iva Toguri D'Aquino is tried & found guilty of broadcasting for Japan as 'Tokyo Rose' during the war
1950: After a single outing in 1941, radio game show 'Truth or Consequences' hosted by Ralph Edwards premieres on television
1951: Science fiction film 'The Day the Earth Stood Still' premieres
1952: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) opens first station in Montreal, Quebec
1953: Future US President John F Kennedy marries Jacqueline Lee Bouvier
1954: The last new episode of The Lone Ranger radio program is broadcast
1955: James Dean dies when his Porsche 550 Spyder has a head-on crash with another car on Route 466
1956: Bell X-2, nicknamed 'Starbuster', first manned aircraft to reach Mach 3, pilot 'Mel' Apt is killed
1957: 101st Airborne Division escort African-American students ar Little Rock Central High
1958: Jack Kilby demonstrates first working microchip, it will revolutionize world of electronics
1959: Luna 2 first spacecraft to reach surface of the Moon (it crash lands)
1960: Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) wins light-heavyweight boxing gold medal at 1960 Olympic Games
1961: U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in air crash
1962: Sonny Liston knocks out Floyd Patterson in first round becoming World Heavyweight Champion
1963: U.S. Senate ratifies Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty between Soviet Union, United Kingdom & U.S.
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Gene Autry's Melody Ranch 1950-09-xx - Heart As Big As Texas | |||||||||||||
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21st Precinct 9 - The Friend | |||||||||||||
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Description: | An ex-model, Edyth Campton, is murdered and found by her maid, Doris. A married boyfriend, Walter Bellary, is the suspect. |
21st Precinct 60 - The Copperhead | |||||||||||||
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Description: | The police look for missing Eddie Campton and a poisonous snake. |
Horatio Hornblower 9 - Protecting the Convoy | |||||||||||||
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Philip Marlowe 99 - The Soft Spot | |||||||||||||
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Description: | An old man dead in a flop house, a sot who carves wood, a fallen lady with an eye for gold lockets, and a snake with big ears all lead Marlowe to a soft spot in a killer's hard heart! |
Philip Marlowe 112 - Nether Nether Land | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Another damsel in distress wakes up Marlowe to protect her from someone who is stalking her then she disappears. Murder and blackmail. |
Adventures of Superman 244 - Metropolis Football Team Poisoned ep1 | |||||||||||||
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Adventures of Superman 1823 - Mystery of the Silver Buffalo ep2 | |||||||||||||
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All-Star Western Theatre 4 - Back to Old Wyoming - Eddie Dean | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A rich rancher sets out to prove to himself and his girl that he 'can take it'. |
Boston Blackie 190 - Reynolds and the Stolen Goods | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Shopping for a present for Mary in a jewelry store, Blackie gets a special price on a $10,000 necklace .... ten cents! |
Chandu the Magician 1948-09-01 48 - Lost in the Cave | |||||||||||||
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The Cisco Kid 1955-09-01 - 326) Silk Hat Herbert | |||||||||||||
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The Cisco Kid 1953-09-01 - 117) Renegade | |||||||||||||
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Cloak and Dagger 17 - War of Words | |||||||||||||
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Description: | An American agent is asked to deliver a message to the commandant of a Japanese camp. An exciting adventure in the jungle. |
Danger Doctor Danfield 3 - Murder of Cora Rogers | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Cora Rogers, an aspiring and blackmailing actress, has been killed. It looks, however, like murder! |
Dimension X 22 - The Roads Must Roll | |||||||||||||
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Description: | In the future the country depends on an electro-hydraulic road system which acts as a conveyor belt to transport people and cargo. The system works well, until the engineers' union which maintains the roads stages a strike as a bid to gain power. Another ... |
The FBI in Peace and War 466 - The Heart Case | |||||||||||||
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Gene Autry's Melody Ranch 1951-09-01 - Buck and Kate | |||||||||||||
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Gunsmoke 282 - Jobe's Son | |||||||||||||
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Hop Harrigan 1947-09-01 1281) - The Channel Wing Plane 4 | |||||||||||||
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The Judy Canova Show 1945-09-01 - 27) Judy Comes Back from the Farm | |||||||||||||
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The Lone Ranger 1343 - Wagons Round the Mountain | |||||||||||||
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The Lone Ranger 1656 - Logan's Legacy | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Who shot Jim Logan? The Marshal thinks it was the Lone Ranger and Dan Reid. The Masked Man rides to Arizona to help solve the crime. Tonto does not appear in this episode. |
The Lone Ranger 1813 - Old King Cole | |||||||||||||
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The Lone Ranger 2280 - Faith and Guns | |||||||||||||
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The Lone Ranger 2750 - Lead for a Quitter | |||||||||||||
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Lux Radio Theater 579 - Three Wise Fools | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Stars: Margaret O'Brien & Lionel Barrymore |
My Little Margie 1955-09-01 - Quiz Show Trip To Hawaii | |||||||||||||
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Description: | After winning a trip to Hawaii on a radio quiz show, Margie becomes queen of a tribe of cannibals. |
Mysterious Traveler 75 - No One On the Line | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A man suspects his wife is cheating on him, so he kills her lover. Story by: Robert A. Arthur and David Kogan |
Nick Carter, Master Detective 251 - The Case of the Red Goose Murder | |||||||||||||
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Description: | aka "The Case Of The Extra Husbands". The story of Phoebe, a good looking gal who got married ... six times! |
Perry Mason 2863 - At the Women's Jail | |||||||||||||
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Suspense 714 - Man from Tomorrow | |||||||||||||
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Suspense 348 - Nightmare | |||||||||||||
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Theatre Royal 48 - Country of the Blind | |||||||||||||
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Walk Softly, Peter Troy 39 - The Forlorn Lady | |||||||||||||
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The Whistler 325 - Payment in Full | |||||||||||||
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Description: | After a lawyer murders his wife, he finds himself defending the man he framed for the crime. |
X Minus One 16 - Shanghaied | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A man is drugged and press-ganged from his own stag party to serve on board a deepspace freighter outward bound on a fifteen-year round trip to Alpha Centauri. Story by: Ernest Kinoy |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 178 - Stanley Price Matter | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A fortune of jewels and a photo on a fishing license. |
Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 550 - Poor Little Rich Girl Matter | |||||||||||||
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Description: | A $200,000 policy on a playboy husband ... and he doesn't even know about it. |
Adventures by Morse 35 - The Prowler Dead Walk Again | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Dead Men Prowl Part 9 |
Adventures of Superman 88 - Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere ep4 | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Clark Kent joins the professor for the first dive in the bathysphere. Suddenly, the air supply fails! |
Adventures of Superman 1368 - Candy Meyer's Big Story ep8 | |||||||||||||
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Adventures of Superman 1824 - Mystery of the Silver Buffalo ep3 | |||||||||||||
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Adventures of the Sea Hound 1946-09-02 - The Rescue Of Balou | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Captain Silver is on Tahiti, battling an underground organization planning to take control of the world ... as a big storm approaches. |
Challenge of the Yukon 916 - Boy Alone | |||||||||||||
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Chandu the Magician 1948-09-02 49 - Chandu's Rescue | |||||||||||||
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The Cisco Kid 1958-09-02 - 642) Holdup at the Pass | |||||||||||||
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Fort Laramie 32 - The Return of Hattie Pelfrey | |||||||||||||
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Description: | Hattie Pelfrey, a most unusual old lady, is feeling poorly, so she visits Fort Laramie to visit her son ... Captain Quince! |
The Great Gildersleeve 174 - Labor Day at Grass Lake | |||||||||||||
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The Great Gildersleeve 512 - Leroy's Girl Jo Mac | |||||||||||||
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