Believe It Or Not debuts on NBC. 12 May – Walter Winchell, newspaper gossip columnist for the New York Daily Mirror, does his first radio program on CBS. 16 June – Clara, Lu, and Em debuts on WGN. 31 July – The Shadow debuts on CBS Radio. 30 September – Death Valley Days debuts on NBC Blue. 2 October – The Lutheran Hour debuts on CBS Radio. Dr. Walter A. Maier will serve as the program's first speaker for the next twenty years. 27 November – The First Nighter Program debuts on the Blue Network. Births 2 January – Julius La Rosa, American singer, perhaps best known for being fired on the air by Arthur Godfrey (died 2016) 7 February – Peter Jones, Welsh-born sports commentator (died 1990) 4 June – Edward Kelsey, English actor (died 2019) 17 July – Ray Galton, British comedy scriptwriter (died 2018) References Radio by year