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Title Director Cast Genre Notes 13 Lead Soldiers: Frank McDonald: Tom Conway, Maria Palmer, Helen Westcott: Mystery 20th Century Fox: 3 Godfathers: John Ford: John Wayne, Harry Carey Jr., Pedro Armendáriz, Mae Marsh
Ilan Ramon (Hebrew: אילן רמון; pronounced [(ʔ)iˈlan ʁaˈmon], born Ilan Wolfferman (אילן וולפרמן); June 20, 1954 – February 1, 2003) [1] was an Israeli fighter pilot and later the first Israeli astronaut.
Paramount Pictures, Inc. holding that the practice of block booking and ownership of theater chains by film studios constituted anti-competitive and monopolistic trade practices. Laurence Olivier's Hamlet becomes the first British film to win the American Academy Award for Best Picture.
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.
Title Director Cast Genre Notes 1948: Against the Wind: Charles Crichton: Robert Beatty, Simone Signoret, Jack Warner: World War II: Anna Karenina: Julien Duvivier: Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson, Kieron Moore
Space Cadet is a 1948 science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein about Matt Dodson, who joins the Interplanetary Patrol to help preserve peace in the Solar System.The story translates the standard military academy story into outer space: a boy from Iowa goes to officer school, sees action and adventure, shoulders responsibilities far beyond his experience, and becomes a man.
Actor Michael Peña portrays astronaut José Hernández in “A Million Miles Away,” which tells the story of a boy who grew up as a migrant worker but kept his eyes trained on the stars.
WTVR is the first TV station south of Washington D.C., giving it the nickname "The South's First Television station". April 30 – 21 American countries sign the Charter of the Organization of American States establishing the Organization of American States (in effect December 1, 1951).