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July 20, 1935: The Premiere of "G-Men" on NBC

  July 20, 1935: This day is the first debut of G Men on NBC. In the future, the show changed the title became Gangbuster . Gangbuster  was known as authentic police case histories that was premiered as G-Men, sponsored by Chevrolet, on July 20, 1935. The radio series was adapted for DC Comics and Big Little Books. Enjoy this later  Gangbuster radio broadcast  titled "Quincy Killers":

July 19, 1942: Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7 first heard in The U.S.A.

  July 19, 1942:   For the first time,  Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra performed The Seventh Symphony, by Shastakovich in the United States. Dmitri Shostakovich's Symphony No. 7 had its North America premiere on July 1942 by the NBC Symphony Orchestra with Arturo Toscanini as the conductor. The studio concert took place in New York and was broadcast nationwide over NBC. The symphony is the composer's longest, greatest and the most popular composition in his repertoire.

July 18, 1936: Debut of Columbia Workshop: A Live Experimentation

July 18, 1936: The Columbia Workshop aired the experimental theatre on CBS. That was their critical achievement. The nature of this said experimental program can be attributed to the fact that the conceptual designer was an engineer with high fascination and hopes to develop new medium and enhancement for radio broadcasting. Irving Reid’s idea was to use the program as a live experimentation wherein new ways of projecting sounds, removing noise, adding sound effects were being tested on air. The Columbia Workshop radio program wanted to get away from the mainstream media of using media celebrity and commercial-oriented shows. Thus, the program’s first show was Alice in Wonderland. Afterwards, they started airing news clips and were eventually followed by the usage of classical novels of Shakespeare , Poe , and more. Enjoy this premier broadcast "Comedy of Dangerfield of God" from July 18, 1936: