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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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| The Lone Ranger 2131 - Many-cave Mountain | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 229 - Wuthering Heights | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The classic tale from an 1847 novel by Emily Brontë, of love on the moors of England. Stars: Barbara Stanwyck & Brian Aherne. The story was heard again on The Lux Radio Theatre on November 4, 1940 and September 14, 1954. | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 449 - Suspicion | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: William Powell & Olivia de Havilland (repeat) | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne 1948-09-18 - 12) Case of the Pursuit of Death | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 410 - The Case of the Vanishing Weapon | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mary Callahan offers to sell information to Randy Stone about the murder of gambler Marty Crain ... for $500! | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 111 - Policy Wheel Racket | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who beat up Brother James, the organist at a Skid Row mission? Who threw a hand grenade into the mission ... and why? | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 307 - The Aluminum Mousetrap | |||||||||||||
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| Our Miss Brooks 58 - The Sweater | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Who will be faculty cheerleader at Madison High? Mr. Conklin is determined that he's going to be the one! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | There's a boat on the bank of the Nile that's filled with wet cotton and a dead body. The return of the Egyptian god of war! | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1952-09-18 - 4) Red Danger and Black Gold | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Murders take place on an ocean liner, including the death of Barbara Brooks, pushed overboard. Simon Templar solves the case of a color-blind killer. aka The Colorblind Killer | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A race between the Secret Police and The Octopus to the hiding place of Marsha Winfield. | ||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 117 - Hot 100 Grand Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A boy hires Dan Holiday to help his father, who has been arrested for jewelry theft. | ||||||||||||
| Casey 151 - The Duke of Skid Row | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A rich foreigner, who lives in a flophouse, is hanged by two strange men in search of a European crown. The script was subsequently used on the program of September 28, 1950, under the title, "The Man of Mystery". | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 449 - Preston Sells King | |||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 214 - Newspaper Column | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 116 - Imitation Relics | |||||||||||||
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| Gene Autry's Melody Ranch 1948-09-19 - Uncle Billy Harlow - Make the San Fernando Valley My Home | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 92 - Preparing for Leila's Return | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 410 - Falling for Bullard's Sister | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1942-09-19 - Murder Traps a Rat | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | William Stockman is shot dead after telling the cops about counterfeit war bonds. An infra-red photograph helps the Hornet catch the real killer after the murderer's girl friend confesses for him. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Ken Creed comes to Dodge. He's the fastest gunman ever (faster even than Marshal Dillon), and he's looking for a shootout! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on May 16, 1959. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 5 - The Steps That Follow Me | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Loosely inspired by the classic story, "Count Magnus", by M.R. James. A traveling couple innocently venture into an open mausoleum, and in so doing incur the eternal wrath of its occupant. | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-09-19 1295) - The Channel Wing Plane 18 | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 440 - Honeymoon with Death | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman on her honeymoon finds out that her husband is a killer. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1946-09-19 - The Mystery of the Devil's Castle | |||||||||||||
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| Jungle Jim 47 - New Sentry | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 881 - A Bullet For Tonto | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 668 - Green Dolphin Street | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 358 - The Case of the Homely Bride | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A heartless scheme to marry for wealth ends in murder. | ||||||||||||
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