What happened in history on this day: September 9?
On September 9 in ...
- 1965 - CBS airs the last The Defenders TV show. A total of 132 episodes aired.
- 1966 - The CBS TV network airs the last The Smothers Brothers TV show in the USA.
- 1968 - NBC airs the last I Spy TV show. A total of 82 episodes aired.
- 1969 - The ABC TV network airs the last It Takes a Thief TV show in the USA. 65 episodes aired.
- 1972 - ABC begins airing The Monkees 30-minute comedy TV show.
- 1975 - ABC airs the first episode of TV show Welcome Back, Kotter.
- 1979 - The NBC TV network begins airing the TV show Disney's Wonderful World.
- 1987 - CBS TV airs the last episode of Mickey Spillane.
- 1989 - The ABC TV network begins airing Disney's Gummi Bears / Winnie the Pooh Hour.
- 2004 - NBC debuts the TV series Joey, a spinoff of the show Friends.
Births on September 9
- 1880 - Birth of Viking Eggeling in Sweden; artist/film maker (Diagonal Symphony).
- 1899 - Birth of Neil Hamilton in Lynn, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Commissioner Gordon - Batman).
- 1907 - Birth of Pinky Tomlin in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, USA; singer/actor (Tip - Waterfront).
- 1919 - Birth of Jacques Marin in Paris, France; actor (Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo).
- 1920 - Birth of Wally Boag in Portland, Oregon, USA; performer at Disneyland's Golden Horseshoe Revue about 40,000 times from 1955 to 1982, actor in The Absent-Minded Professor, The Love Bug, voice of Jose parrot in Enchanted Tiki Room, named a Disney Legend in 1995.
- 1924 - Birth of Jane Greer in Washington DC, USA; actress (Prisoner of Zenda, Clown).
- 1925 - Birth of Cliff Robertson in La Jolla, California, USA; actor (Charly)/spokesman for AT&T.
- 1932 - Birth of Sylvia Miles in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Midnight Cowboy, Farewell My Lovely).
- 1935 - Birth of Chaim Topol in Tel Aviv, Israel; actor (Fiddler on the Roof).
- 1950 - Birth of Tom Wopat in Lodi, Wisconsin, USA; actor (Luke Duke - The Dukes of Hazzard).
- 1951 - Birth of Robert Desiderio in the Bronx, New York, USA; actor (Detective Kennedy - Heart of the City).
- 1952 - Birth of Angela Cartwright in England; actress (Make Room for Daddy, Lost in Space).
- 1966 - Birth of Brenda Epperson; actress (Ashley - The Young and the Restless).
- 1966 - Birth of David Bennent in Lausanne, Switzerland; actor (Tin Drum, Legend).
- 1969 - Birth of Scott DeFreitas in Newton, Massachusetts, USA; actor (Andy Dixon - As the World Turns).
- 1980 - Birth of Michelle Williams; American actress (Dawson's Creek, Brokeback Mountain).
Deaths on September 9
- 1971 - Billy Gilbert, actor (Great Dictator, His Gal Friday), dies at age 76.
- 1975 - John McGiver, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show), dies at age 61.
- 2005 - Death of Louis Nye of lung cancer at age 83; comic actor (Men on the Street, Happy Days, Curb Your Enthusiasm).
- 2022 - Death of Mark Miller at age 97 of natural causes in Santa Monica, California, USA; actor (Please Don't Eat the Daisies TV show (1965-1967)).
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