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What happened in history on this day: May 6?
On May 6 in ...
- 1957 - CBS-TV airs the final broadcast of I Love Lucy.
- 1981 - NBC airs the 100th episode of TV show Quincy, M.E..
- 1984 - The final episode of TV show The Jeffersons airs.
- 1989 - NBC airs the 100th episode of The Golden Girls TV show.
- 1992 - The final episode of US TV show Jake and the Fatman airs.
- 1995 - Classic Sports Network begins on cable TV.
- 2001 - ABC airs the 100th episode of The Practice TV show.
- 2004 - NBC airs the last episode of Friends.
- 2016 - Buena Vista releases the film Captain America: Civil War to theaters.
Births on May 6
- 1890 - Birth of Claire Whitney in New York City, New York, USA; silent film actress (Blind Fools, Haunted Mine).
- 1895 - Birth of Rudolph Valentino in Castellaneta, Italy; sheik/actor (Eagle).
- 1912 - Birth of Bill Quinn in New York City, New York, USA; actor (The Rifleman, Van Ranseleer - All in the Family).
- 1913 - Birth of Carmen Cavallaro in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Hollywood Canteen, Diamond Horseshoe).
- 1913 - Birth of Stewart Granger [James Stewart], London, England; actor (Prisoner of Zenda).
- 1915 - Birth of Orson Welles in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds).
- 1923 - Birth of Elizabeth Sellars in Glasgow, Scotland; actress (Chalk Garden).
- 1926 - Birth of [Martin] Ross Hunter in Cleveland, Ohio, USA; actor (Ever Since Paris).
- 1927 - Birth of Ettore Manni in Rome, Italy; actor (Fatal Desire, Heroes in Hell).
- 1936 - Birth of Joanna Dunham; actress (Possession, The House that Dripped Blood).
- 1941 - Birth of Ghena Dimitrova; actress (Nabucco).
- 1945 - Birth of Richard Eyers in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (My Friend Irma, Stagecoach West).
- 1946 - Birth of Sydne Rome in Akron, Ohio, USA; actress (What?, Candy).
- 1947 - Birth of Ben Masters in Corvalis, Oregon, USA; actor (Vic - Another World, Making Mr Right).
- 1948 - Birth of Richard Cox in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Mark - Executive Suite).
- 1953 - Birth of Lynn Whitfield in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA; actress (Josephine Baker, Equal Justice).
- 1959 - Birth of Aidan Quinn; actor (Avalon, Crusoe, Desperately Seeking Susan).
- 1959 - Birth of Kate Collins in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Natalie Hunter - All My Children).
- 1960 - Birth of Julianne Phillips in Lake Oswego, Oregon, USA; actress (Frankie Reed - Sisters).
- 1961 - Birth of Clay O'Brien in Ray, Arizona, USA; actor (The Wonderful World of Disney, Weedy - The Cowboys).
- 1961 - Birth of George Clooney in Lexington, Kentucky, USA; actor (Dr Douglas Ross - ER, Batman).
- 1961 - Birth of Roma Downey in Derry, Ireland; actress (One Life to Live, Touched by an Angel).
- 1964 - Birth of Dana Hill [Goetz] in Van Nuys, California, USA; actress (Two of Us, Shoot the Moon).
- 1964 - Birth of Roma Downey in Derry, Ireland; actress (JoAnna - One Life to Live).
Deaths on May 6
- 1963 - Monty Wooley, actor (Pied Piper, Man Who Came to Dinner), dies at age 74.
- 1971 - Helene Weigel, Austrian/German actress (Metropolis), dies at age 70.
- 1978 - Ko van Dijk Junior, Dutch actor (Zaak M P), dies at age 61.
- 1990 - Charles Farrell, actor (Vern - My Little Margie), dies at age 89.
- 1991 - Wilfrid Hyde-White, British actor (Peyton Place, 140+ films), dies at age 87.
- 1992 - Marlene Dietrich, born Marie von Losch, actress, dies in Paris, France at age 90 (born 1901 in Berlin, Germany).
- 1993 - Ann Todd, actress (Things to Come, Danny Boy), dies of stroke at age 84.
- 1993 - Minnie Gentry, actress (Def by Temptation), dies in New York at age 77.
- 1994 - Fred Sadoff, actor (The Quiet American), dies of AIDS at age 67.
- 1996 - Death of Edward Lovew; animator (The Flintstones TV show, Fantasia movie, The Jetsons TV show).
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