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What happened in history on this day: September 8?
On September 8 in ...
- 1963 - The 30-minute comedy TV show Car 54, Where Are You? premieres in syndication.
- 1963 - ABC premieres the Discovery 30-minute educational TV show.
- 1966 - NBC-TV airs the first episode of TV show Star Trek, starring William Shatner. First episode is entitled The Man Trap.
- 1966 - ABC-TV debuts the That Girl TV show, starring Marlo Thomas.
- 1967 - The ABC TV network airs the first Judd, For the Defense 60-minute drama TV show in the USA.
- 1971 - The NBC TV network airs the last The Kraft Music Hall TV show in the USA.
- 1989 - The TV show The Nutt House, produced by Mel Brooks for Disney, first airs on NBC.
- 1990 - NBC begins airing the Disney TV series The Fanelli Boys.
- 1990 - The ABC TV network debuts the animated series New Kids on the Block.
- 1991 - The Fox TV network begins airing the Herman's Head series.
- 1995 - The Buena Vista Television - Syndication TV series Disney's Sing Me A Story: With Belle premieres.
- 1995 - The animated TV series The Lion King's Timon & Pumbaa premieres, part of The Disney Afternoon.
- 1997 - Fox airs the first episode of YB show Ally McBeal, starring Calista Flockhart.
- 1998 - The first episode of TV show Pokémon airs in the US.
- 2004 - In the "Rathergate" affair, the first Internet posts appear pointing out that documents claimed by CBS News to be typewritten memos from the early 1970s appear instead to have been produced using modern word processing systems.
Births on September 8
- 1898 - Birth of Queenie Smith in New York City, New York, USA; actress/dancer (Funny Side).
- 1907 - Birth of Gavin Muir in Chicago, Illinois, USA; actor (Hollister - Betty Hutton Show).
- 1907 - Birth of Leon Askin in Vienna, Austria; actor (Pierre - Charlie Farrell Show).
- 1910 - Birth of Jean-Louis Barrault in France; actor (Les Enfants du Paradis).
- 1921 - Birth of Harry Secombe in Wales; actor (Down Among the "Z" Men).
- 1925 - Birth of Denise Darcel in Paris, France; actress (Dangerous When Wet).
- 1925 - Birth of Peter Sellers in England; actor (Bobo, Pink Panther).
- 1929 - Birth of Severn Darden; actor (Popesco - Mary Hartman).
- 1937 - Birth of Virna Lisi in Italy; actress (Assault on a Queen, Bluebeard).
- 1941 - Birth of Alan Feinstein in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Max - Berrengers, Family Tree).
- 1954 - Birth of Clayton Norcross; actor (The Bold and the Beautiful, The Colbys, Santa Barbara).
- 1957 - Birth of Heather Thomas in Greenwich, Connecticut, USA; actress (Jody - Fall Guy, Coed Fever).
- 1961 - Birth of Franny Michel in Brooklyn, New York, USA; actress (Patricia - Apple's Way).
Deaths on September 8
- 1969 - Bud Collyer, TV emcee (Beat the Clock, To Tell the Truth), dies at age 61.
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