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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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| Screen Guild Theater 162 - The Maltese Falcon | |||||||||||||
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| The Six-Shooter 1 - Jenny | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Britt Ponset finds a wounded man in the desert and brings him to Jenny Garber to nurse him back to health. No man seems to think much of Jenny. | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 159 - Library Book | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 820 - The Beetle and Mr Bottle | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 616 - The Stool Pigeon | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle 37 - Book of Araby | |||||||||||||
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| The Whistler 19 - Fog | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A young fisherman with a brief spell of amnesia has killed an enemy, but remembers nothing about it. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 480 - Imperfect Alibi Matter ep4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Up pops an eyewitness and drives the final nail into the wrong coffin! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 655 - Little Man Who Was There Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Howard Edwards' life is insured for $100,000, and he's disapeared near Yonkers, New York! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1123 - Dr. Bly's Confidence Gang ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1952-09-21 - 551) The Barter System | |||||||||||||
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| The Avenger 16 - Keys To the City | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A famous explorer visits town to share stories of his adventurous journeys. After Jim) Brandon attends one of the explorer's lectures, he discovers that while he and Fern were engrossed in the talk, several extremely rare books were stolen from the first ... | ||||||||||||
| Candy Matson - The Fortune Teller | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Industrialist Allison Gray is missing, and the stars tell Candy that an astrologer is involved. | ||||||||||||
| Chandu the Magician 1948-09-21 62 - Sonya Shoots | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1954-09-21 - 227) Pearls of Destruction | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1945-09-21 - 659) The Case of the Man Without a Head | |||||||||||||
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| Dr Kildare 35 - Sam Lubinski Has Spinal Paralysis | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Sam Nevitsky is brought to Blair Hospital with an iron bar stuck into his back. After a long operation, Sam survives, but is paralyzed! There's a small piece of metal still near his spine. | ||||||||||||
| Dragnet 67 - The Big Pair | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1947-09-21 - Walt Disney and Donald Duck | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1941-09-21 - W.C. Fields | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1941-09-21 - W.C. Fields | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 77 - The Fortune of Vargas | |||||||||||||
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| The FBI in Peace and War 521 - Scandal Sheet | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A magazine published only for blackmail picks on a young starlet, using an innocent reporter just out of school. | ||||||||||||
| Flash Gordon 21 - Pit of Fire | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Gentleman 33 - Indian Lover | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Crow Dog, an Indian accused of murder makes no defence - then escapes. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 4 - Marjorie's Girlfriend Visits | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 337 - Big Girl Lost | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The program is preceded by the end of a newscast. Laura Simmons, who works with Kitty in the Long Horn, is visited by her ex-fiancé from Philadelphia ... and who wants to take her back. The script was previously used on the program on December 19, 1953 ... | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 525 - The Corpse Nobody Loved | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman finds a dead body in a taxi. She calls the police for protection. . . a bad mistake. | ||||||||||||
| The Lives of Harry Lime 8 - Rogue's Holiday | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Harry's crossing the Atlantic on the Princess Ann, planning to swindle to Lady Barbara Follet. However, what about her lovely companion? | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 882 - Bad Water | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1508 - Set a Thief to Catch a Thief | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 889 - So Big | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 847 - I Confess | |||||||||||||
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| Mysterious Traveler 171 - Death Has a Thousand Faces | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After two attempts on his life, the older wife of a meek and mild man seems to be trying to murder him. | ||||||||||||
| Nick Carter, Master Detective 306 - The Case of the Two-Faced Firemaster | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A study in illegal guns and the clues that lead to their manufacturer. | ||||||||||||
| Philo Vance 11 - The Backstage Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | After a theatre has been robbed, the star receives a threatening letter and her understudy is murdered. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 415 - The Face | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A famous actor's face has been burned into a thing of horror. When plastic surgery fails, he goes off the deep end. This script would be used again on "The Shadow" on May 23, 1954 and re-titled, "The Orchid". | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 110 - The Bluebeard of Bellac | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A serial killer is at large in Nazi-occupied France. A woman begins to suspect her doctor husband may be the murderer in question. Story by: Sylvia Richards | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 769 - No Hiding Place | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 518 - The Empty Chair | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 395 - The Crowd | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan of the Apes 8 - Did the Bottle Really Go Overboard | |||||||||||||
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| Whitehall 1212 ep43 - Case of the Inoperative Wireless | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A wireless set that was never intended to be operative is in the 'Black Museum' because of its involvement with the murder of a bartender with strychnine. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 481 - Imperfect Alibi Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Conclusion: A gambler stakes his life on his hand ... and loses! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 604 - Johnson Payroll Matter | |||||||||||||
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| 21st Precinct 12 - The Homecoming | |||||||||||||
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