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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 Shadow 136 - The Black Buddha | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | This statue from the far east should be gotten rid of as soon as possible ... or else! | ||||||||||||
| Space Patrol 1954-09-04 - 101) Locating Tyranna | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Commander Corry has recently learned an appalling fact: The United Planets are under threat of attack by enemy forces from another solar system called Tyranna. Agents from Tyranna are mingling undetected among citizens of the ten planets gathering information... | ||||||||||||
| Speed Gibson 36 - Speed Is Lost in the Tunnel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Rescue from the tunnel at last ... but where's Speed Gibson? | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 869 - A Rest for Emily | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 261 - The Argyle Album | |||||||||||||
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| X Minus One 66 - Tunnel Under the World | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Every day seems to be a repeat of June 15, but only one man in the entire city is aware of the anomaly. Two separate versions of this story were produced for X Minus One. Another version appeared on Future Tense, and more recently on the BBC. Story by: Frederik ... | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 17 - Expiring Nickels and the Egyptian Jackpot | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A leper in India and a lady stowaway on an airplane add up to adventure in the Middle East. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 468 - Curse of Kamashek Matter ep2 | |||||||||||||
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| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 702 - Killer Kin Matter | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Sam Spade 115 - Stella Starr Caper | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 246 - Metropolis Football Team Poisoned ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 1371 - George Latimer, Crooked Political Boss ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| The Aldrich Family 1940-09-05 - 60) The Generous Gentleman Movie | |||||||||||||
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| Box 13 ep03 - Blackmail Is Murder | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A little old lady with a passion for mysteries finds a dead body in her hotel room and recruits Dan Holiday to move the body and help her figure out who killed him. | ||||||||||||
| Casey 149 - The Handkerchief | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A tavern owner is killed and his $20,000 is missing. The identity of the culprit is obvious, or is he? | ||||||||||||
| Chase and Sanborn Program 1943-09-05 - Jean Arthur | |||||||||||||
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| Chase and Sanborn Hour 1937-09-05 - 18) Ida Lupino | |||||||||||||
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| Escape 52 - Dream of Armageddon | |||||||||||||
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| Fu Manchu 104 - Five Hour Old Corpse | |||||||||||||
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| The Great Gildersleeve 408 - Leroy Buys a Car | |||||||||||||
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| The Green Hornet 1944-09-05 - 669) Ramona | |||||||||||||
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| Gunsmoke 72 - The Sutler | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Mr. Jonas, the sutler at the army post, is about to lose his job, because of the Major and the sutler's assistant. | ||||||||||||
| Hall of Fantasy s2 3 - The Shadow People | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Convinced that malignant entities born of the darkness murdered her father, a young woman seeks help from a renowned expert on the paranormal. But what defense can there be against elementals that rise from the very shadows? The character of Dr. Hesselius ... | ||||||||||||
| Hop Harrigan 1947-09-05 1285) - The Channel Wing Plane 8 | |||||||||||||
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| Inner Sanctum Mystery 438 - Murder Rides the Carousel | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Murder and mystery on the fair grounds merry-go-round. | ||||||||||||
| Jungle Jim 45 - Lil Intercedes | |||||||||||||
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| Let George Do It 156 - Everything Is Nice | |||||||||||||
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| Let's Pretend 1942-09-05 - The Elves and the Shoemaker | |||||||||||||
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| The Lineup 54 - The Pointless Pierson Polemic Palarity Case | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tom Pierson has been identified as the killer of Michael Hunter. | ||||||||||||
| The Lone Ranger 875 - Forgotten Laws | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1345 - Two Sheriffs Are Better Than One | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 1969 - Law in Mustang | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 2282 - Frontier Town Lawyer | |||||||||||||
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| The Lone Ranger 3065 - When Death Waits | |||||||||||||
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| Lux Radio Theater 666 - Saigon | |||||||||||||
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| Nick Carter, Master Detective 356 - The Case of the Quiet Roommate | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A department store's designs are being stolen, and the guilty always run. | ||||||||||||
| The Roy Rogers Show 1948-09-05 - 2) The Horse Thieves of Paradise Valley | |||||||||||||
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| Space Patrol 1953-09-05 - Valley of Dread | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Far out, beyond the orbit of Pluto, a giant Space Patrol construction ship hovers in space. Scores of engineers and skilled workmen in spacesuits swarm over a nearby object that appears to be meteor. As they work with grim haste, a Space Patrol officer inside ... | ||||||||||||
| Suspense 209 - You'll Never See Me Again | |||||||||||||
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| Suspense 665 - The Security Agent | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A dramatized version of one of the first airplane hijackings. Three Polish men sick of living in communist Poland plan to hijack a plane bringing them to a conference in Prague. But who can they trust on the plane with the secret police everywhere? | ||||||||||||
| Tailspin Tommy 1941-09-05 - Murder in the Sky | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Tommy and his pals Skeeter and Mary Lou discover a gang who has taken over a tungsten mine. They have killed the owner of the mine and one of his sons, and are holding another son prisoner. | ||||||||||||
| The Unexpected 108 - Fool's Silver | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | An old prospector thinks his mine is filled with pure silver! | ||||||||||||
| Weird Circle 2 - The House and the Brain | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Based on the story written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton. An evil spirit kept alive 400 years haunts a house and murders the old woman living there. | ||||||||||||
| The Whistler 17 - House of Greed | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A good-natured man is victimized and taken advantage of by all his relations. When he suspects that he's about to be murdered, he gets an interesting idea. | ||||||||||||
| Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar 469 - Curse of Kamashek Matter ep3 | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | A wealthy man isn't, Donald is secretly off to Egypt. | ||||||||||||
| 2000 Plus 26 - The Rocket and the Skull | |||||||||||||
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| Description: | Communist spies, saboteurs, and extraterrestrials intrigue over a critical American space launch. | ||||||||||||
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| Adventures of Superman 90 - Professor Thorpe's Bathysphere ep6 | |||||||||||||
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