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What happened in history on this day: September 6?
On September 6 in ...
- 1954 - ABC begins airing the Kukla, Fran, and Ollie puppet children's TV show.
- 1958 - CBS-TV begins airing series Wanted: Dead or Alive, starring Steve McQueen.
- 1959 - NBC airs the last (until 1967) Dragnet TV show.
- 1965 - NBC airs the last Hazel TV show.
- 1967 - The CBS TV network airs the first He and She 30-minute comedy TV show in the USA.
- 1969 - The NBC TV network airs the last The Ghost and Mrs. Muir TV show in the USA.
- 1975 - The CBS TV network airs the last The Dick Cavett Show in the USA.
- 1986 - CBS airs its last show of The Wuzzles.
Births on September 6
- 1881 - Birth of Leo Carrillo in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Pancho - Cisco Kid).
- 1885 - Birth of Otto Kruger in Toledo, Ohio, USA; actor (Lux Video Theater, High Noon).
- 1934 - Birth of Jody McCrea in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Ben Matheson - Wichita Town).
- 1937 - Birth of Jo Anne Worley in Lowell, Indiana, USA; comedienne (Laugh-in).
- 1944 - Birth of Linda Kaye in Henning, California, USA; actress (Betty Joe - Petticoat Junction).
- 1944 - Birth of Swoosie Kurtz in Omaha, Nebraska, USA; actress (Slap Shot, Garp).
- 1947 - Birth of Jane Curtin in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Saturday Night Live, Allie Lowell - Kate and Allie).
- 1953 - Birth of Katherine Cannon in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; actress (Father Murphy, The Survivors).
- 1960 - Birth of Michael Winslow; actor/comedian (Police Academy).
- 1974 - Birth of Justin Whalin in Louisiana, USA; actor (Charles in Charge).
Deaths on September 6
- 1974 - Otto Kruger, actor (Lux Video Theater), dies on 89th birthday.
- 1984 - E.J. Andre, actor (Eugene Bullock - Dallas), dies at age 74.
- 1985 - Death of Jane Frazee at age 67 of pneumonia; singer (Alice - Beulah), actress.
- 1985 - Death of Johnny Desmond at age 64 of cancer; singer (Breakfast Club radio and TV, Your Hit Parade TV show, Face the Music, Songs for Sale).
- 2006 - Death of Frank Middlemass at age 87; actor (Heartbeat, Rocky Hardcastle - As Time Goes By).
- 2008 - Death of Anita Page, American actress (Our Dancing Daughters, While the City Sleeps, The Broadway Melody), at age 98.
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