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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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| Flash Gordon 22 - Trapped Behind the Iron Door | |||||||||||||
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| Frontier Gentleman 34 - The Gold Digger | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Kendall meets two gold miners who have just struck it rich - and a saloon lady very determined to take it away from them. | ||||||||||||
| The Great Gildersleeve 5 - Hiccups | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 338 - Kitty's Rebellion | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Billy Kritt comes to Dodge from Louisiana to visit Miss Kitty and to defend her honor, whether she likes it or not! The script was used on the Gunsmoke television series on February 7, 1959. | ||||||||||||
| Inner Sanctum Mystery 526 - The Dead Walk at Night | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | The tap ... tap ... tap ... of a blind man's cane drives a young man to murder. | ||||||||||||
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| Life of Riley 124 - Riley Bribes Jr. to win Football Game | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 885 - Mortgage Payment Due | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2918 - The Stray Wagon | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 363 - The Magnificent Dope | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 848 - The President's Lady | |||||||||||||
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| Philo Vance 12 - The Argus Murder Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A man's wife is murdered after she visits an off-shore gambling ship. She was a victim of compulsive gambling. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 416 - Death Takes the Wheel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Leonard Snell is an insurance agent who has gambled all his money away and has some rather large debts to pay. He confronts his wife, demanding the money that she has kept away in a safe-deposit box. She refuses, so he kills her, but now has another problem—how ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | The last show of the series. An electric torch is in the 'Black Museum' because it made an excellent weapon. A drunkard has been killed, by a man in love with the alcoholic's wife | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 486 - Meg's Palace Matter ep5 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Conclusion: A killer strikes again, but one of his victims rises from the grave to strike back. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tommy Hargrave has been killed in a traffic accident in Bethel New York. But was it an accident? Johnny doesn't think so! | ||||||||||||
| 21st Precinct 13 - The Shooting Gallery | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Junkie Hal Brider turns in a false alarm so he can kick the habit in jail. | ||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 256 - Metropolis Football Team Poisoned ep13 | |||||||||||||
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| All-Star Western Theatre 8 - The Cowboy Dentist - Smiley Burnett | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Smiley portrays a country dentist who solves a bank robbery...it's a gas! Smiley sings, "The Dentist Song." | ||||||||||||
| Boston Blackie 194 - Carl Grady Golf Instructor | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A racketeer sends one of his henchmen to kill his wife’s golf teacher because he’s jealous. The henchman is killed and found with a list of colleges in his pocket. | ||||||||||||
| Challenge of the Yukon 555 - Ghost Town | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Charlie' is a drunken old bum in Canton, China during the Japanese occupation. However, 'Charlie' is really an O. S. S. agent! A mixed race 'tavern girl' agrees to help 'Charlie' gather information. | ||||||||||||
| Danger Doctor Danfield 7 - Harriet Miller | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Muggs Verando is found dead in Harriet Miller's bedroom. A false suicide note and 'The Marble Fawn' nightclub supply the clues. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | As though wiping out the Martian race with Earthborn diseases weren't enough, humans demonstrate a hostile contempt for what relics and monuments the Martians left behind—until one man with a conscience and a gun decides to stand up for the dead. ... | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | A husband and wife extortion team find they've picked a victim who is himself an embezzler. | ||||||||||||
| Gang Busters 401 - Case of John K Giles, Escape Artist | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 295 - Name the Baby Contest | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Marshal Dillon tries to keep two men, both married to the same woman, from killing each other. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Returning from a holiday abroad, Sid tricks the lad and Bill into smuggling watches. | ||||||||||||
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| Description: | Frank Crawford has become hated in the town of Sperlock. When he's shot and killed, Hoppy is arrested for the murder! | ||||||||||||
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