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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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| Description: | Frank Maclise is killed in a bar and an unexpected phone call provides an important clue. | ||||||||||||
| Philip Marlowe 102 - The White Carnation | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | When a man disappears on the day before he's to be married, his friend Casey hires Marlowe to investigate. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 253 - Metropolis Football Team Poisoned ep10 | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 7 - Drifty - Tim Holt | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The Holt family's first appearance as a team. A drifting cowhand with a hidden past come upon a ranch with gambling problems. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Barrie was on a stake out when temporarily interrupted by a thug. That's probably when Sam Jenkins slipped out or did he? Barrie gets stone-walled at the residence door then finds the deceased Sam Jenkins in the kitchen. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 552 - Icebound | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-09-22 63 - Betty and Bob | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1955-09-22 - 331) Messenger of Doom | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-09-22 - 123) The Gold Run | |||||||||||||
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| Cloak and Dagger 20 - Operation Sellout | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A two-man mission into occupied France to locate a German submarine base is turned into a three-man mission. | ||||||||||||
| Danger Doctor Danfield 6 - The Case of the Darkened Face | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An actress with a deformed face can be cured by a miraculous cream, but the formula for the cream has been stolen! | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 25 - Dr Grimshaws Sanitorium | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A private detective, after having an auto accident with a suspicious hearse from a sanitarium, investigates posing as a patient. To his horror, he discovers fiendish experiments performed by a Nazi doctor. Alternative: An Private Eye infiltrates an insane asylum ... | ||||||||||||
| Dimension X 49 - Requiem | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Two grounded astronauts are offered one more chance by an aging tycoon who will stop at nothing to achieve his lifetime dream of setting foot on the Moon. Versions of this story also appeared on Beyond Tomorrow and X Minus One. Story by: Robert Heinlein | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 626 - Dumb Luck | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dumb blonde tries to pull an inheritance swindle and winds up marrying the insurance man she's trying to gyp! | ||||||||||||
| The FBI in Peace and War 469 - The Windfall | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman picks the wrong bunch of bad guys to blackmail. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 400 - Case of the Red Evening Dress | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A stranger has murdered old man Granby, but Marshal Dillon can't prove it. The script was used on the series previously on November 21, 1953 and on the Gunsmoke television series on September 22, 1956. | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-09-22 1296) - The Channel Wing Plane 19 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Indian scout Breen has been shot by an arrow in Apache country; shot by a Pawnee arrow! | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 315 - Once a Crook | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dishonest sheriff plans to cheat young Peter out of his inherited gold mine. Dan Reid appears in the story. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Merle Oberon & Edna May Oliver | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 582 - Two Years Before the Mast | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 795 - I'll Never Forget You | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Murder stalks a large estate along the Hudson River, fifty miles north of the city (Croton?). The killer is apparently a bird of enormous size. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | As though wiping out the Martian race with Earthborn diseases weren't enough, humans demonstrate a hostile contempt for what relics and monuments the Martians left behind—until one man with a conscience and a gun decides to stand up for the dead. ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | An insured woman is murdered just before she was supposed to meet with her divorce attorney and the private eye who found evidence her husband was cheating. Her husband is the beneficiary of the insurance policy. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | An escaped convict sends Johnny on a mission to protect someone who doesn't know that his life's in danger. He's on vacation ... an ideal vacation! | ||||||||||||
| Abbott & Costello Show 232 - Fish Market Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | You'll Be Dead In A Week Part 2 | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 97 - Curse of Dead Man's Island ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The message of the turtle: 'Dead Man's Island ... Help!' The start of a new adventure as Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen are shipwrecked on a strange island. | ||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 925 - Trapper's Gold | |||||||||||||
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