Europe Day. 8 May – Victory in Europe Day in Western Europe. At 12:30 President of Germany Karl Dönitz broadcasts on his country's surrender to the nation. At 15:00 BST in the United Kingdom, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, makes a speech to the nation on the BBC from 10 Downing Street, and at 21:00 King George VI speaks to the British Empire from Buckingham Palace. Wynford Vaughan-Thomas reports from Lüneburg and Frank Gillard from Kassel. On 9 May (Moscow Time) the surrender is announced on Radio Moscow by Yuri Levitan. 28 May – U.S.-born Irish-raised William Joyce ("Lord Haw-Haw") is captured by British forces on the German border two days after recording his final (rambling and audibly drunk) propaganda broadcast. He is later charged with high treason in London for his English-language wartime broadcasts on German radio, convicted, and then hanged in January 1946. 29 July – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched, concentrating on the broadcasting of mainstream light music and entertainment, superseding the BBC General Forces Programme within the United Kingdom using its longwave frequency from the Droitwich Transmitting Station. 7 August – Radio Tokyo first reports, unspecifically, on the previous day's bombing of Hiroshima. 15 August – Hirohito surrender broadcast: Emperor Hirohito's recorded announcement of the unconditional surrender of Japan is broadcast on Radio Tokyo a little after noon (Japan Standard Time). This is probably the first time an Emperor of Japan has been heard by the common people. Delivered in formal classical Japanese, without directly referring to surrender and following official censorship of the country's weak position, the speech is not immediately easily understood by ordinary people. 5 September – Iva Toguri D'Aquino, a Japanese American suspected of being wartime radio propagandist "Tokyo Rose", is arrested in Yokohama. 11 September – Radio Republik Indonesia starts broadcasting. 1 November – Telechron introduces the model 8H59 Musalarm in the United States, the first clock radio. Radio Filharmonisch Orkest founded in Hilversum (Netherlands) by Albert van Raalte. Debuts 6 January – The Saint debuts on NBC. 8 January – A Man Named Jordan debuts on CBS' West Coast network. 15 January – House Party (1945–1967) debuts on CBS. 28 January – The Eddie Bracken Show debuts on NBC. 29 January – Lionel Barrymore becomes the host of Lux Radio Theater, replacing Cecil B. DeMille. 21 February – Brownstone Theater debuts on Mutual. 3 March – Superman