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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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| The Aldrich Family 1946-09-26 - 351) Mary Has Joe Graham Over | |||||||||||||
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| Box 13 ep06 - Shanghaied | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Dan Holiday is kidnapped and taken on a very strange fishing trip. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 450 - Blind Man's Claim | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Program 1943-09-26 - Hedy Lamarr | |||||||||||||
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| Show: | Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy | ||||||||||||
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| Fibber McGee and Molly 215 - Fibber Is Too Sick | |||||||||||||
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| Gang Busters 809 - Case of the Well Traveled Ring | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 93 - Leila Returns | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 411 - Marjorie's Job | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1942-09-26 - Last Words Mean Sabotage | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1944-09-26 - 672) Story of a Dog | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 23 - The Railroad | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Libby Segar, an old widow, refuses to leave her land for the railroad right of way. Matt is forced to take action. No music, no sound effects, just the dialogue of the show. | ||||||||||||
| Gunsmoke 75 - Fawn | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mrs. Phillips returns to civilization after being a captive of the Indians for ten years. The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on April 4, 1959. | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-09-26 1300) - Descending into The Temple 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Journey into Space - The World in Peril 1 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | 15 April 1972. The Discovery and two freighters return to the Moon from the disastrous Mars expedition. The crew are subjected to intense questioning about their experiences on Mars, and Lemmy discovers that the Discovery is being readied for take off. Back ... | ||||||||||||
| Jungle Jim 48 - Showdown | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 159 - The Man Under the Elm Trees | |||||||||||||
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| The Lineup 57 - The Fur Flaunting Floozie | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Lorraine Oberhauser has been shot to death by her married boyfriend, named Claude. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 884 - Gold Mine Boundary | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 186 - Seven Keys to Baldpate | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A comedy about Jack Benny trying to write a movie script overnight for Cecil B. DeMille...in a haunted house! Stars: Jack Benny & Mary Livingstone. This is the first time DeMille played a dramatic role on The Lux Radio Theatre. Intermission guest Efrem ... | ||||||||||||
| Lux Radio Theater 669 - Emperor Waltz | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 359 - The Case of the Candidate's Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A political rally with a carnival sideshow and an oriental dancer (named Rosita) dead in the bathtub! | ||||||||||||
| Our Miss Brooks 256 - Mr Lanthrop Returns to School | |||||||||||||
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| Perry Mason 2097 - Perry Questions Hotel Manager | |||||||||||||
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| Ripley's Believe It or Not 1938-09-26 - 62) Song that Cannot be Played in China | |||||||||||||
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| The Roy Rogers Show 1948-09-26 - 5) The Plot Against The Bank | |||||||||||||
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| The Shadow 87 - Death House Rescue | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The first show of the series with "The Shadow" as a force against crime and not just a phantom announcer. Just before an innocent man is to be executed for murder, The Shadow uses mental telepathy to get the goods on the real killers. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 277 - The Gibbering Things | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A visit to Aunt Susan leads to a disquieting meeting with monsters and their mad creator! Bret Morrison's first appearance as "The Shadow." | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 453 - Death is a Colored Dream | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A secretary witnesses a murder and has "colored dreams" afterwards! | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1953-09-26 - Target: Jupiter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Commander Corry has Prince Baccarratti's chief henchman, Dr Melingro, in custody on the planet Terra following his capture on one of Saturn's moons. Baccarratti managed to escape while Buzz and Happy were rescuing Melingro from a perilous situation ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 212 - Statement of Employee Henry Wilson | |||||||||||||
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| Tarzan of the Apes 11 - Tarzan's Shack | |||||||||||||
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| The Unexpected 127 - Two of a Kind | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A guide takes a hunter into the Amazon jungle. The guide turns out to be the hunter's exact double. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on the story "Interdiction," by Honoré de Balzac. A story of the justice of French "Justice." | ||||||||||||
| Wild Bill Hickok 91 - Mayor of Mule Mesa | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 68 - The Map Makers | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A deepspace survey ship collides with a meteor during a jump through hyperspace, becoming hopelessly lost. Their navigation system destroyed, they have no way of even determining their own location. Then a crewman blinded in the accident begins to undergo a strange ... | ||||||||||||
| X Minus One 113 - The Native Problem | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An explorer marooned on a distant planet is ecstatic to witness a ship descending, until he discovers it is an antiquated generation ship filled with an archaic crew who mistake him for a hostile native. Story by: Robert Sheckley | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 114 - Protection Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The store of Benny Waxman has burned down and a man has been killed. William Conrad appears as a tough cop who suspects that there's a protection racket behind the crime. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 484 - Meg's Palace Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A trip to sea on "The Lily Ann" that starts out like an ordinary fishing trip. Somewhere on board lurks a man with murder in his heart and his next intended victim ... Johnny Dollar! | ||||||||||||
| 2000 Plus 29 - The Green Thing | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A psychiatrist perfects a machine to record the dreams of his mental patients, only to discover that some of them are having the very same dream. Alternative: Patients at a sanitarium complain of sharing the same nightmare of a 'green thing' threatening ... | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 99 - Curse of Dead Man's Island ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen try to solve the mystery of the strange island. Boris, the madman, returns to the hidden tunnel and its prisoner. | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1127 - Scarlet Widow ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | "The Scarlet Widow" and her henchmen break into the museum and steal the Kryptonite, despite the fifty policemen guarding it! | ||||||||||||
| Adventures of Superman 1387 - Dead Voice ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Buster Brown Gang 1952-09-27 - The Monkey Gods | |||||||||||||
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| Captain Midnight 2071 - Flying Ruby | |||||||||||||
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