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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: | Mrs. Lillian Baker commits suicide shortly after Diamond and Helen Asher spot her shoplifting in a department store. Harry Baker's romance with his secretary is complicated by a $300,000 jewel robbery. After solving the case, Dick Powell sings, "Younger ... | ||||||||||||
| The Saint 139 - Baseball Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old baseball player is concerned that bad guys are putting pressure on his ball-playing son to make him throw the game. | ||||||||||||
| Screen Guild Theater 261 - Flesh and Fantasy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Back with Marsha, Larry, and the prisoners, but a sniper strikes! | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 891 - The Juvenile Rebellion | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An interesting story about two robbers who are running a lending library. Things get weird when they plan to use a dwarf to commit a robbery against his will! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 68 - Destiny | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Milton Strong is a meek little accountant who has just lost his job. He leaves his wife and heads out west. Trying to buy a mining claim, Mr. Strong finds $10,000 in cash ... and a lynch mob! | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 171 - Ambition Perilous | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A scheming politicians plan to further his career by giving a job to an ex-con he helped send to jail has interesting results. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 275 - The Eleventh Hour | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A British working chap romances a wealthy woman, using his wife's savings to put on a show of wealth. A murder trial with a foregone conclusion has a surprise ending. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 431 - Whirlwind | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A Hollywood nightlife reporter (and a real louse) sows the wind, and reaps the whirlwind! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 467 - Curse of Kamashek Matter ep1 | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 754 - All Wet Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Frank Race 19 - Violent Virtuoso | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 89 - Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1110 - Black Market ep8 | |||||||||||||
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| Archie Andrews 1948-09-04 - The Big Dance | |||||||||||||
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| Blackstone 49 - The Vanishing Brooch | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | While in a jewelry store, Blackstone is asked to find how jewels in the store have been disappearing. Blackstone tells listeners about a card trick that's done to the tune of, "Yankee Doodle." | ||||||||||||
| Blue Beetle 45/46 - Asylum Of Doctor Drear | |||||||||||||
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| Casey 201 - The Loaded Dice | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The story of a pair of galloping dominoes and a three hundred pound corpse lying on top of them! | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 396 - Bear Trap | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A small time bookie has a girlfriend with bigtime ambitions. The syndicate takes an interest and a double murder follows. | ||||||||||||
| Damon Runyon Theater 49 - What, No Butler? | |||||||||||||
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| Dick Tracy 1947-09-04 - 1147) The Case of the Low Hi-jack | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 225 - The Boiling Sea | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Someone has stolen a professor's new-fangled invention. Frank and Bart, driving a float in a parade, discover the theft. | ||||||||||||
| Fu Manchu 103 - Nayland Smith Tortured | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 439 - The Peace Officer | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The first show of the season. Dillon ousts Clegg Rawlings, the dishonest sheriff of Tascosa, who swears to kill him. | ||||||||||||
| Have Gun, Will Travel 94 - Eat Crow | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Paladin helps Adam Foley when his wife injures her head. But Foley is an ex-convict in need of money, and the sheriff suspects that he's planning a 'job' to pay for the operation. | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1942-09-04 (0005) Plans For The Plastic Plane | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Hop and Aunt Agatha are captured by Nazis, planning to steal the plans for a plastic airplane. They're taken aboard a German submarine. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 235 - The Murder Prophet | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | During a dark and stormy night, Claudia Dale picks up a hitch-hiker on a road beside a cemetary. He seems to know all about her, where's she's coming from and the fact that her husband has just been murdered. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1946-09-04 - The Trial of the Silencer | |||||||||||||
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| Jeff Regan, Investigator 9 - The House by the Sea | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A mind reader needs protection from Grace Nicholls, a red-headed movie actress who has threatened to kill him ... and with good reason! | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 208 - Second Degree Affection | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1188 - Swamp Boss | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3221 - Stolen Money | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 447 - Maytime | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald | ||||||||||||
| Michael Shayne 1948-09-04 - 10) Case of the Generous Killer | |||||||||||||
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| Night Beat 109 - Ellen | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy Stone receives a tip that a bomb has been planted on a DC-4 airliner en route to Denver. His warning saves all the passengers aboard the plane, but the man who planted the bomb must be found. | ||||||||||||
| Night Beat 31 - Old Home Week | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Randy is vacationing at Paradise Lake. When Randy fishes Pat Torrance from the lake, her two friends and everyone else thinks that she jumped in and drowned. | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 305 - Summer Vacation | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Conklin is spending his vacation at Crystal Lake, Miss Brooks is planning a surprise visit, but Mr. Boyton has a surprise of his own. | ||||||||||||
| Rocky Jordan 44 - A Stranger to the Desert | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A strange looking man walks through the window of The Cafe Tambourine, and dies! He's an Eskimo! The story of Johnny Sealskin and his shipment of ambergris. | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1952-09-04 - 2) Smuggler's Stampede | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 210 - Too Many Husbands | |||||||||||||
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