1952: CBS TV debuted "The Guiding Light" (Source)
Recommended sermon:
Being a Guiding Light to the Lost, by Rev. Ian Brown [Text: Romans 2:19 (Audio); 1 Corinthians 4:3&4 (Audio)
1857: Charles Dickens reads from A Christmas Carol at St. Martin's Hall in London, his first public reading (Source)
Recommended sermons and podcasts:
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, and His Evangelical Sister, by Rev. Ian Brown
A Tale of Two Cities, by Dan Bartel