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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: | Professor Henry Poggioli, psychologist, investigates a murder in Trinidad. Story by: T.S. Stribling | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Classic tale of a world-renowned hunter who gets shipwrecked on an island owned by a madman who shares his passion for the hunt, except that he hunts only the most dangerous of game—human beings. Two versions were made, one with Orson Welles, the other ... | ||||||||||||
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| Leonidas Witherall 16 - Murder at the State Fair | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Three different people threaten the life of a miserable old women. When she is found dead at the state fair, all are suspect. | ||||||||||||
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| The Falcon 300 - Friendly Target | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mitch and Connie are two criminals trapped in a dark alley. Connie gets away by turning on Mitch, and the cops kill Mitch. | ||||||||||||
| Bold Venture 27 - Murder in the Yucatan Peninsula | |||||||||||||
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| Boston Blackie 89 - The Abbott Painting | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Blackie promises to steal the valuable Abbott painting in just 5 hours. He plans to exchange it for a cigarette lighter that links Shorty to a murder. Henry Rice promptly double-crosses Blackie and calls the cops. | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 141 - "Old 86" is Missing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | In a plot stolen from Arthur Conan Doyle, a steam train named "Old 86" disappears along with a shipment of diamonds. | ||||||||||||
| Bulldog Drummond 214 - Escape Into Death | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 553 - Old Ben's Gold | |||||||||||||
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| The Cisco Kid 1953-09-24 - 124) The Brimstone Stampede | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1945-09-24 - 660) The Case of the Man Without a Head | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1944-09-24 - Dorothy Lamour | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1939-09-24 - 125) Guest Anita Louise | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Town 30 - The Case Of Oil Trouble | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Chief Blue Fox has signed over the oil drilling rights on the tribe's land to K.C. Leonard, an unscrupulous promoter from Kansas City. aka Six Gun Lawyer | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Wesson's feud with Doherty leads to a ranch-hand being killed and $5000 stolen. Wesson's ranch is in danger of foreclosure! Dan Reid appears in the story. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man needs $1500 for a brain surgeon to save his wife's life, but the money is not that easy to get. The story has a fine ironic ending. Jock MacGregor speaks on behalf of the National War Fund. A version later aired on The Sealed Book. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | How to get $200,000 from Richard Diamond? Keep beating him up for it! What's in the black bag? Dick sings, 'Little Girl' after the story. | ||||||||||||
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