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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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| 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! | ||||||||||||
| Sherlock Holmes (Stanley & Shirley) 3 - The Adventure Of The Bruce Parthington Plans | |||||||||||||
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| 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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| Description: | A taxi dancer pretends that she's a millionaire's niece in order to collect a huge inheritance. | ||||||||||||
| 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. | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 5 - Declared Insane | |||||||||||||
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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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| Buster Brown Gang 1952-09-27 - The Monkey Gods | |||||||||||||
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| Captain Midnight 2071 - Flying Ruby | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A huge ruby and a model airplane have been stolen. What's the connection? | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 554 - Pot Luck Killers | |||||||||||||
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| Challenge of the Yukon 927 - Uncle Ben | |||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1948-09-27 66 - Mirror of Life | |||||||||||||
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| Comic Weekly Man 336 - Truman in American Weekly, First Comic - Sword and the Rose | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 202 - The Untouchable | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 373 - Gildy the Pianist | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 128 - Helping Hand | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 390 - Personal Justice | |||||||||||||
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| Have Gun, Will Travel 45 - Like Father | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Klell Thomas has been accused of murder in Yreka. Paladin is hired to find the truth. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 390 - Murder by Prophecy | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man inherits an old mansion, and perhaps a lot more, if he can correctly interpret the cryptic prophecy that begins with a murder! | ||||||||||||
| Inspector Thorne 11 - The Society Writer Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Christopher Hudson has been shot and killed. Why cannot his biographies be found? The last show of the series. | ||||||||||||
| Jack Armstrong 1940-09-27 - Easter Island Adventure | |||||||||||||
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| Journey into Space - The Red Planet 4 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Control discovers very odd information about Whitaker - the only man answering to his description was apparently born in 1893, and has been missing since 1924. The fleet changes course twice to avoid the meteor swarm, but both times it moves to block their ... | ||||||||||||
| Let George Do It 107 - The Little Man Who Was Everywhere | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 420 - The Ghost of Ireland Betty | |||||||||||||
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| Let's Pretend 1947-09-27 - Cinderella | |||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 168 - Venus w Radio in Stomach is Art Object (Statue) for the Piano | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1198 - Missouri Is the Law | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1667 - A Watch Was the Target | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Young Clem Kelly is blinded while rescuing Mrs. Conover from a burning ranch house. Ten years later, Snake Higgins returns and Clem wants to shoot it out with him! | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 1824 - The Killer's Code, (part 2) Special Series | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2135 - Trail to Danger | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2761 - Terror Trail | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 407 - Ladies in Retirement | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 25 - Glass Coffin | |||||||||||||
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| Philo Vance 64 - The Shoeless Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Richard Diamond, Private Detective 66 - The Oklahoma Cowboy Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Screen Guild Theater 163 - Thank Your Lucky Stars | |||||||||||||
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