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- The radio program “15 Minutes with Bing Crosby” premiered on CBS.
- Bing Crosby broadcast his “Philco Radio Time” program on ABC as the first radio program to be prerecorded on magnetic tape. A Magnetophon tape recorder was used for the recording, a technology originally developed in Germany; Crosby later became an investor in the technology, which contributed to the further development of multitrack recording.
- Bing Crosby and his second wife Kathryn had their first child together, Harry Lillis Crosby III.
- Bing Crosby, co-owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates baseball team, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game Four of the World Series against the Baltimore Orioles.