1842 Grace Darling – British heroine of the wreck of the Forfarshire in 1838. She died from consumption. On a wild and stormy night on the cruel sea,

Always a great line for starting a story.

1930 Sherlock Holmes debuted on the radio. The program ran, with some interruptions, until 1956. In the late 1920s, actress and writer Edith Meiser, a lifelong mystery addict, proposed that NBC launch a radio series based on the ingenious sleuth. Once she recruited her own sponsor, the network agreed. Meiser spent the next 12 years writing for the program. The radio show debuted starring William Gillette as Holmes, with several other actors playing Holmes during the next several years. In 1939, Basil Rathbone took on the part, supported by Nigel Bruce as his faithful sidekick, Watson. Rathbone had already played the detective in a film version of The Hound of the Baskervilles, which opened earlier in the year. Rathbone and Bruce stayed with the radio show until 1946, during which time they also starred in some 16 Sherlock Holmes movies. From 1946 to 1956, a variety of other actors played Holmes and Watson on the radio

I've probably seen most of those 16 when I was a teenager, but don't remember most of them. They were always on late night TV during those early years.