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What happened in history on this day: May 9?
On May 9 in ...
- 1946 - NBC debuts TV's first hour-long entertainment show, NBC's Hour Glass.
- 1955 - Sam and Friends debuts, marking the first television appearance of both Jim Henson and what would become Kermit the Frog and the Muppets.
- 1961 - US Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton N Minow criticizes TV as a "vast wasteland" in a speech to the National Association of Broadcasters.
- 1992 - NBC airs the final episode of The Golden Girls TV show.
Births on May 9
- 1895 - Birth of Richard Barthelmess in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Broken Blossoms, Noose).
- 1901 - Birth of Fuzzy Knight in Fairmont, West Virginia, USA; actor (Oklahoma Annie, Cowboy and the Lady).
- 1912 - Birth of Pedro Armendariz in México; actor (From Russia With Love).
- 1917 - Birth of John Arnatt; actor (Circumstantial Evidence).
- 1918 - Birth of Mike Wallace in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA; newscaster (Biography, 60 Minutes).
- 1919 - Birth of Arthur English; comedian/actor (Malachi's Cove).
- 1922 - Birth of Sheila Burrell; actress (Black Orchid, Paranoiac, Laughter in Dark).
- 1924 - Birth of Connie Russell in New York City, New York, USA; singer (Garroway at Large TV show (1949), variety TV shows of Morey Amsterdam, Ed Sullivan, Steve Allen, Milton Berle, Eddie Cantor).
- 1930 - Birth of Joan Sims; actress (Carry on Behind, Carry on Cleo).
- 1932 - Birth of Geraldine McEwan; actress (Henry V, Miss Jane Marple).
- 1934 - Birth of Alan Bennett in England; playwright/actor (Secret Policeman's Other Ball, Beyond the Fringe).
- 1936 - Birth of Albert Finney in Salford, United Kingdom; actor (Dresser, Under the Volcano).
- 1936 - Birth of Glenda Jackson in Cheshire, England; actress (Women in Love).
- 1936 - Birth of Terry Drinkwater; TV newsman (CBS).
- 1940 - Birth of James L Brooks; producer/director (Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic, Simpsons, Mary Tyler Moore).
- 1946 - Birth of Candice Bergen in Beverly Hills, California, USA; actress (Carnal Knowledge, Murphy Brown, Boston Legal).
- 1947 - Birth of Anthony Corlan in Cork City, Ireland; actor (Something for Everyone).
- 1950 - Birth of Matthew Kelly; actor/TV host (Holding the Fort, Relative Strangers).
- 1951 - Birth of Alley Mills in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actress (Norma Arnold - The Wonder Years).
- 1952 - Birth of Patrick Ryecart; actor (Silas Mariner).
- 1953 - Birth of Gregory Beecroft in Corpus Christi, Texas, USA; actor (Guiding Light).
- 1955 - Birth of Kevin Peter Hall in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Misfits of Science).
- 1956 - Birth of Wendy Crewson in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; actress (ReGenesis, 24, Crimes of Passion).
- 1956 - Birth of Jeanna Michaels; actress (Dallas, Santa Barbara, General Hospital).
- 1961 - Birth of John Corbett; actor/singer (Chris - Northern Exposure, Sex and The City, Lucky).
- 1982 - Birth of Rachel Boston; actress (American Dreams).
Deaths on May 9
- 1952 - Canada Lee, actor (Lost Boundaries), dies in New York City, New York at age 45.
- 1958 - Death of Bill Goodwin of a heart attack at age 47; announcer (The Burns and Allen Show radio show, The Bob Hope Radio Show), spokesman (Swan Soap, Maxwell House Coffee, Carnation Evaporated Milk).
- 1968 - Death of Marion Lorne at age 81 of a heart attack; actress (Mr. Peepers, Aunt Clara - Bewitched).
- 1968 - Phil Arnold, actor (Skidoo, Errand Boy, Damn Yankees), dies at age 58.
- 1973 - Death of Jack E. Leonard AKA Leonard Lebitsky at age 62 of complications from diabetes following heart surgery; insult comedian (Ed Sullivan Show, Hollywood Palace).
- 1985 - Edmond O'Brien, American actor (Sam Benedict, Johnny Midnight), dies at age 69 of Alzheimer's disease (born 1915).
- 1986 - Death of Herschel Bernardi at age 62; actor (Arnie TV show, Lieutenant Jacoby - Peter Gunn, The Jetsons, Hail to the Chief, the voice on the Charlie the Tuna commercials).
- 1989 - Paul J Steenbergen, actor (Ciske de Rat), dies at age 82.
- 1990 - Death of Pauline Frederick at age 84; NBC news correspondent.
- 1991 - Ronnie Brody, British actor (Superman III, What's Up Nurse), dies at age 72.
- 1998 - Death of Alice Faye at age 83 of stomach cancer; actress/singer (20th Century Fox musicals in the 1930s, Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show radio show, The Dean Martin Show TV show, Hollywood Palace TV show).
- 2004 - Death of Alan King AKA Irwin Kniberg at age 76 from lung cancer; standup comedian and actor (33 times on Ed Sullivan Show TV show, co-hosted Tony Awards and the Oscar Awards).
- 2010 - Death of Lena Horne at age 92; American nightclub singer, actress ("Stormy Weather", "Cabin in the Sky").
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