|
What happened in history on this day: March 9?
On March 9 in ...
- 1981 - Dan Rather succeeds Walter Cronkhite as primary anchorman of CBS-TV News.
- 1991 - The CBS TV network airs the last show of the series Lenny.
- 1994 - The TV show Thunder Alley premieres.
- 1994 - The ABC TV network debuts the series These Friends of Mine.
Births on March 9
- 1902 - Birth of William Aughe Ghere AKA Will Geer in Frankfort, Indiana, USA; actor (Grandpa Zebulon Tyler Walton - The Waltons) (dies 1978).
- 1914 - Birth of Fred Clark in Lincoln, California, USA; actor (Burns and Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard).
- 1918 - Birth of Marguerite Chapman in Chatham, New York, USA; actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars).
- 1920 - Birth of Carl Betz in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Alex Stone - Donna Reed Show).
- 1926 - Birth of Irene Papas in Corinth, Greece; actress (Moses The Lawgiver).
- 1931 - Birth of Taina Elg in Helsinki, Finland; actress (Hercules in New York, Les Girls).
- 1934 - Birth of Joyce Van Patten in Queens, New York, USA; actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show).
- 1935 - Birth of Joe Gallison in Houston, Texas, USA; actor (PT-109, Neil - Days of Our Lives).
- 1936 - Birth of Glenda Jackson in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England; actress (Hopscotch, Touch of Class).
- 1936 - Birth of [Aino] Elina Salo in Sipoo, Finland; actress (Hamlet Goes Business).
- 1938 - Birth of Charles Siebert in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA; actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper John).
- 1940 - Birth of Raul Julia in San Juan, Puerto Rico; actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Eyes of Laura Mars).
- 1943 - Birth of Trish Van Devere [Patricia Dressel] in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA; actress (Changeling, Movie Movie, Hearse).
- 1948 - Birth of Jamie Lyn Bauer in Phoenix, Arizona, USA; actress (The Young and the Restless, Centerfold Girls).
- 1952 - Birth of William Kirby Cullen in Santa Ana, California, USA; actor (How the West Was Won).
- 1953 - Birth of Henriëtte J Toll; actress (Soldier of Orange).
- 1955 - Birth of Ornella Muti in Rome, Italy; actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife).
- 1959 - Birth of Kato [Brian] Kaelin; actor (Beach Fever).
- 1959 - Birth of Lonny Price in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Muppets Take Manhattan).
- 1960 - Birth of Linda Fiorentino in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns).
- 1962 - Birth of Brian Green in Columbus, Indiana, USA; actor (Brian Bodine - All My Children, Sam Fowler - Another World).
- 1965 - Birth of Juliette Binoche in Paris, France; actress (English Patient, Unbearable Lightness of Being).
- 1971 - Birth of Emmanuel Lewis in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actor (Webster).
Deaths on March 9
- 1964 - Johanna W "Mina" Bakker; Dutch actress (Boefje), dies at age 87.
- 1969 - Richard Crane, actor (Surfside 6), dies at age 50.
- 1975 - Shirley Ross, actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller), dies at age 62.
- 1979 - Barbara Mullen, actress (Talk of a Million), dies at age 64.
- 1980 - Olga Chekova, actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession), dies at age 82.
- 1982 - Alan Badel, actor (Shogun), dies of a heart attack at age 58.
- 1982 - Rex Marshall, TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show), dies.
- 1983 - Death of Faye Emerson at age 65 of stomach cancer; hostess (Paris Cavalcade of Fashions (1948), The Faye Emerson Show (1950), Wonderful Town, U.S.A. (1951), Author Meets the Critics (1952), Faye and Skitch (1953)), panellist (I've Got a Secret, Masquerade Party), actress (The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre, The Philco Television Playhouse, Goodyear Television Playhouse).
- 1992 - Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless), dies.
- 1993 - Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers), dies.
- 1994 - Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection), dies of cancer at age 76.
- 2023 - Death of Robert Blake AKA Michael Gubitosi at age 89 of heart disease at home in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Mickey - Our Gang and Little Rascals film series, Little Beaver - Red Ryder TV show, In Cold Blood movie (1967), Baretta TV show, Emmy Award winner).
|
|
vvv advertisement vvv
^^^ advertisement ^^^
You can pick a particular day to view that day's events in history.
Bookmark this URL: http://kpolsson.com/thisday/tvmovie/ and revisit each day.
(this URL will automatically re-direct to the file containing the current day's events)
Or, visit my Timelines of History page.
|