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What happened in history on this day: June 7?
On June 7 in ...
- 1955 - CBS debuts 30-minute game show The $64,000 Question, with host Hal March.
- 1967 - CBS airs the last The Danny Kaye Show TV show. A total of 96 episodes aired.
- 1976 - NBC debuts the NBC Nightly News program, with John Chancellor and David Brinkley.
- 1996 - Buena Vista releases the film The Rock to theaters.
Births on June 7
- 1896 - Birth of Vivien Kellems; TV hostess (The Power of Women).
- 1909 - Birth of Jessica Tandy in London, England; actress (The Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included).
- 1917 - Birth of Dean Martin; singer/comedian (partner for Jerry Lewis).
- 1922 - Birth of Rocky Graziano; boxer/entertainer (Pantomime Quiz, Martha Raye Show).
- 1924 - Birth of Dolores Gray in Chicago, Illinois, USA; singer/actress (Designing Woman, Kismet).
- 1931 - Birth of Lang Jeffries in Ontario, Canada; actor (Skip - Rescue 8).
- 1943 - Birth of Ken Osmond; actor (Eddie Haskel - Leave it To Beaver).
- 1958 - Birth of Christopher Marcantel in Smithtown, New York, USA; actor (Chip - Nurse, Loving).
- 1958 - Birth of Prince [Rodgers Nelson]; rocker/actor ("1999", "Purple Rain").
- 1978 - Birth of Bill Hader; American actor (Saturday Night Live).
Deaths on June 7
- 1961 - Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game, dies.
- 1963 - Death of Zasu Pitts at age 65 of cancer; character actress (Fibber McGee radio show, supporting role on TV's Gale Storm Show, Wedding March, Life With Father).
- 1965 - Death of Judy Holliday AKA Judith Tuvim of breast cancer at age 43; actress ("dumb" blonde in many movies, Ed Sullivan Show Goodyear Playhouse, Ford Theatre Hour, The Arthur Murray Party, The Perry Como Show, Person to Person, The Name's the Same, The Steve Allen Show, What's My Line).
- 1968 - Dan Duryea, actor (Pride of the Yankees), dies at age 60.
- 1984 - George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville), dies at age 81.
- 1990 - Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae), dies at age 63 of a heart attack.
- 1992 - Death of Bob Sweeney at age 73 from cancer; comic actor (Our Miss Brooks, Fibber McGee and Molly, The Brothers), director (The Andy Griffith Show, Doris Day Show, The Love Boat).
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