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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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| Terry and the Pirates 1947-09-12 - Burma Tries To Help Terry | |||||||||||||
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| The Unexpected 109 - Horoscope | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The horoscope of a woman shows that she's destined to commit murder. | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 3 - The Vendetta | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on the story written by Honoré de Balzac. The tragic story of the old Italian custom of, "an eye for an eye" which causes a father to kill his own daughter. A gory tale with a tragic ending. | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 87 - Letter of Warning | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 474 - Confidential Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | $80,000 and a beaten girl ... both missing! Then, one of the two is found and a bombshell explodes! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 93 - Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere ep9 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Superman takes the dying Captain Maddox to port and medical assistance. Bill Wentworth and Jimmy Olsen run from Escobar's men and are trapped in a burning building! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1117 - Dr. Bly's Confidence Gang ep7 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1377 - George Latimer, Crooked Political Boss ep9 | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 58 - Cupid's Agents | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The female owner of a ranch is accused of murdering her husband when he leaves town to try to succeed on his own. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 36 - Bill Crane Attorney | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Bill Crane, the lawyer for Jack King asks Blackie's help. The lawyer lost the case, even though Jack was framed. | ||||||||||||
| Buster Brown Gang 1952-09-13 - Little Fox's Moose | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 921 - The Landlady | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1932-09-13 137 - Betty Reminisces | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1935-09-13 xxx - Ruby Mine in Burma | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-09-13 56 - Cairo Restaurant | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1955-09-13 - 329) Lynch Mob | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1946-09-13 - 914) The Case of the Broken Window | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1945-09-13 - 653) The Case of the Buried Treasure | |||||||||||||
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| Dragnet 118 - The Big Waiter | |||||||||||||
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| Dragnet 317 - The Big Daughter | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 200 - The Abominable Snowman | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 111 - Nayland Denounces Relics As Fakes | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 371 - Bronco's Aunt Victoria | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1941-09-13 - Hot Guns For Sale | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who is it in the police department that's re-selling weapons that have been used to commit crimes? | ||||||||||||
| The Green Hornet 1945-09-13 - The Black Feather | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 21 - Home Surgery | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon is forced to amputate the leg of a settler on the prairie. The man's beautiful daughter is the object of Ben Walling's affection. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 126 - Dooley Surrenders | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A buffalo skinner named Emmett Dooley confesses to Marshal Dillon that he's killed a man, but Matt has a good reason for refusing to put him in jail. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on March 8, 1958. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 388 - Johnny Red | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Billy Krale returns to his old mother seventeen years after he ran away from home. But he's not really Billy Krale! The script was used previously on the show on August 13, 1955 and on the Gunsmoke television series on October 3, 1959. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 43 - Treasure Hunt | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin and a fourteen-year-old-boy journey to Sacramento to find a mining claim left by the boy's father ... in the form of a treasure map! | ||||||||||||
| Inspector Thorne 9 - The Two Fiancees Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A brash Broadway star recklessly hosts a party to which the two women he’s asked to marry him attend. They soon find out about each other. Then the actor is murdered! | ||||||||||||
| Journey into Space - The Red Planet 2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Jet manages to rescue Mitch, using a miniature rocket unit. Frank Rogers, of #2, tells Lemmy he's not getting on at all well with Whitaker, his shipmate. Later, Control requests information about Whitaker; and Whitaker starts behaving very strangely while ... | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 105 - The Father Who Had Nothing to Say | |||||||||||||
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| Let's Pretend 1947-09-13 - The Donkey, the Table, and The Stick | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 166 - Babs Has Two Dates | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1192 - Leap from Ambush | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1661 - Cattle for Sale | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | To free a man framed for cattle rustling, the Ranger announces that he will capture the real crook within 24 hours! John Todd plays the part of a rustler as well as Tonto! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1818 - The Angelus, (part 3) | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2129 - Wolf Hunters | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2755 - Special Deputy | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 141 - A Star Is Born | |||||||||||||
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| Philo Vance 62 - Checkerboard Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 64 - The George Lexington Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. George Lexington has been found shot. June Morris is found standing beside him with a smoking gun. Mr. Lexington however, has also been stabbed with a carving knife! Dick Powell doesn't sing on this program. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 161 - Birth of the Blues | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 158 - The Furnished Floor | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 36 - Tarzan's Magic Amulet | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 18 - Mirage | |||||||||||||
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