In 1932…George Burns and Gracie Allen made their first appearance as regular players on CBS Radio Network's, "The Guy Lombardo Show". When Lombardo accepted an offer to move to NBC, Burns and Allen took over his CBS spot with "The Adventures of Gracie," beginning in September of 1934.
In 1943…The ABC Radio Network aired "My True
Story" for the first time.
In 1965…Singer Nat King Cole died of cancer on this day in 1965. He was 45.
In 1993…The Howard Stern Radio Show begain airing on WNVE-FM
in Rochester, New York.
In 2014…Journalist/associate minister/Detroit radio personality (WCHB 1200 AM) Angelo Henderson, who served two terms as a parliamentarian of the National Association of Black Journalists and was the only African-American reporter to win a Pulitzer Prize for The Wall Street Journal (1999), died at the age of 51.
He had been recovering from surgery conducted last month to repair a quadriceps tendon rupture.
Henderson hosted the morning weekday WCHB radio show "Your Voice with Angelo Henderson," focused on Detroit issues and a daily rundown of area crime.
He had been recovering from surgery conducted last month to repair a quadriceps tendon rupture.
Henderson hosted the morning weekday WCHB radio show "Your Voice with Angelo Henderson," focused on Detroit issues and a daily rundown of area crime.
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