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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 Lone Ranger 1355 - The Train Robbery | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1825 - York's Cave, (part 3) | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 319 - Third Finger, Left Hand | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 583 - The Web | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 796 - Adam and Evelyn | |||||||||||||
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| Mr Keen 1258 - The Case of Murder With a Thousand Witnesses | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Stars: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan. A boy and girl who work as clerks in the same store, fall in love by correspondence. | ||||||||||||
| The Shadow 195 - Death in a Minor Key | |||||||||||||
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| Walk Softly, Peter Troy 43 - A Much Menaced Mermaid | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A reporter covering a flood uses the coming disaster to murder his hated ex-wife. The crime is complicated by an eye-witness! | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 182 - Amita Buddha Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 554 - Doubtful Dairy Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures by Morse 39 - You'll Be Dead In A Week The Conclusion | |||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1948-09-30 - 431) Rotating Parties | |||||||||||||
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| Candy Matson 15 - The Devil In The Deep Freeze | |||||||||||||
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| Casebook of Gregory Hood 18 - Gregory Hood, Suspect | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A rat named Jethro Bronson is blackmailing Dephne Boggs. After Hood pays him a visit, Bronson is found murdered, with Hood's fingerprints on the murder weapon. A locked room mystery. Ken Froelich is murdered in Washington, D. C. The two suspects are Gregory ... | ||||||||||||
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| Chandu the Magician 1932-09-30 150 - Estaben's Identity Learned | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | What happened at 92nd Street on a hot summer's evening in 1892. Since Lizzie was acquitted, who killed Mr. and Mrs. Borden? | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1945-09-30 - Fred Allen and Portland Hoffa | |||||||||||||
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| Gene Autry's Melody Ranch 1950-09-30 - The Caleb Hooten Story - Ragtime Cowboy Joe | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Young Trace Gore comes to Dodge to gun down Lafe Tugwell, who is a fast man on the draw ... or is he? | ||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 886 - Trouble at Fort Gardner | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A story based on "The Front Page," by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Stars: Claudette Colbert & Fred MacMurray. Hildy Johnson becomes a woman in this version of a mile-a-minute comedy about the newspaper game, complicated by that escaped killer ... | ||||||||||||
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