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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: | Dennis Cullen, raised as a white boy but really an Indian, leaves to join the Cheyenne during an Indian uprising. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series October 27, 1956. The script was written by sound effects man Tom Hanley. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Les Tremayne Show - Jackie tries to find a cast for his new opera, and then tells the very funny tale of his romance with a jukebox. | ||||||||||||
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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: | Stars: Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney, Cary Grant, Ann Sothern. Mickey tries to get Cary to act in his play, Cary sings a novelty tune about radio. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A scientist has discovered a drug that simulates death while the victim remains aware of all that is going on around him. An old rivalry leads to a practical test of the new drug | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marsha Winfield tells her story, Chief Ty Po decides to arrest The Octopus. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on the short story by Herman Melville. The tale of an Italian genius who built the world's most beautiful tower. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A woman slowly comes to realize that her scientist-boyfriend has injected her with a deadly sleeping sickness to prove his new serum. A fortune teller's prediction seems to be coming true! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | There's a reward for the capture of a British bandit, the one who has robbed a London bank of ten thousand pounds. A little old lady cashes in, in the strangest way! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A string of strange robberies in which nothing is ever taken takes Johnny on a wild dove hunt! | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Johnny is hired by "Byron Kane" of the Intercoastal Maritime and Life Company to investigate a restaurant in Cod Harbor, Massachusetts, which is run by "Meg." One of Meg's competitors is called "Tony Fortino" (after one of the music ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old college and OSS buddy makes a desperate call to Frank Race for help. The man is a partner in a large law firm. The matter deals with an old man named Collins who is a recluse and one of the country's 10 richest men. Race's lawyer friend is concerned ... | ||||||||||||
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